In regards to #7, what is the SU dialog? My app got a few comments about requesting SU or trying to get root access, but it doesn't. Nor do the permissions allow anything like that. I'm really interested to know what exactly they are talking about, so I can track down the source of the problem. I suspect that it only applies to rooted devices, but I'd like to verify.

The order is designed to protect users from themselves. Many phone owners will try to do harm to themselves and the phone through stupidity, ignorance, or impatience. Those same people will complain and cause the handset manufacturer and carrier lots of problems when the expected outcome of dangerous activities is achieved. What people think they want doesn't always jive with how much they like the outcome.

While there is a place for advanced tools for advanced users, the majority of users aren't advanced. Perhaps a hard-to-enable unlock mode would be appropriate to retain freedoms but not make it easy for people to make themselves unhappy.

Directories as tags were my first thought when reading the parent post. The only way I'll every be able to convert to a tag-based system is if the existing work I've done to organize my files is leveraged into tags.

That, and some analog needs to be available for linking to a static set of data in a simple manner. "Just search for it" doesn't have the same level of simplicity as clicking on a shortcut to where I put an exact set of files for a particular task.

Please try testing in IE next time. It doesn't work for me, which makes this more of a downgrade, than an upgrade. I know nobody likes IE, but remember where many people read /.

I would just get a toolkit that turns a language I already know into something that will run on the iPhone. We call that lazy and smart.

Sorry, I think they nixed the BASIC interpreter from the app store.

Seriously though, that is often a kludge that's great for rapid prototyping and awful for production code. Slow, buggy, and difficult to maintain aren't really fun. On the other hand, if the iPhone app is going to be a flash in the pan anyway maybe a rapid prototype is the right answer.

I would say not being on AT&T already counts as a win. I wonder how many what percentage of the business will be new iPhone users and what will be existing iPhone users who are finally able to jump ship (without jailbreaking).

This isn't the Pirate Bay. The point isn't piracy, which is what your suggestion amounts to for US citizens accessing such material hosted offshore. The purpose of PG is to help people excercise their rights to public domain works, as well as to preserve access to them. Proper checks as to the legal status of a work before bringing it in would resolve this problem without resorting to going rogue.

I think both sides should be worked - FF should prevent this kind of thing, and ALL reputable companies should be held to a moral standard to not try shady actions like that. Perhaps if that was the case, any company/individual that tries to circumvent security measures (and that arms race will always have temporary imbalances) should be considered malicious and be flagged by malware software.

I call prior art.

I thought they screwed Peter Jackson out of his pay with that creative accounting too, so it surprises me that he'd want to be involved in this affair.

I figured out what step 2 is!

Sell underpants to passengers who freak out when they can see the ground 30,000 feet directly below them.

Apples to apples - a phone conversation is not equivalent to a web page.

Telcos have terms of service that will get you kicked as well. If you were running a call center out of your basement and war dialing people I would appreciate them cancelling your service as well.

It's also far easier to find another ISP than another telco.

Well, at least the bullies will only have to beat up the other kids once, instead of chasing them down for their lunch money every day. I'm sure they can think of other reasons, though.

Not getting credit for a course is the same as failing it, which is exactly why anything below a C is now an F. If you continue to give out Ds there will be parents who don't understand why their child is held back afte "passing" all of their classes - why waste the time keeping an ineffectual grade that would require reeducating the public?

But what if their "professional camera" is an iPhone?