Seems the DOJ has gotten tons of their internal e-mails... they make for fascinating reading in the indignment from around page 40.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204616504577171180266957116.html

You sir, are on to something. This researcher is showing a clear lack of imagination.

"Open" API's are the new include files to proprietary libraries.

At least in the good old bad days the library (usually) didn't stop working after the you compiled & distributed your program.

These days.. no such guarantees.

New Horizons was launched on January 19, 2006, directly into an Earth-and-solar-escape trajectory with an Earth-relative velocity of about 16.26 km/s (58,536 km/h; 36,373 mph) after its last engine shut down. Thus, the spacecraft left Earth at the greatest ever launch speed for a man-made object. It flew by Jupiter on February 28, 2007, the orbit of Saturn on June 8, 2008; and the orbit of Uranus on March 18, 2011. (Source: Wikipedia)

Nice!

> The day Fikri drives to Orlando, he gets a speeding ticket,

Speeding ticket information is hard to get for the USA as a whole, but in 2011 the NYPD alone has issued:

As for individual Boroughs, Brooklyn saw the most traffic tickets issued (141,971), followed by Queens (128,098), Manhattan (115,428), Bronx (71,786), and Staten Island (27,388). (source

So the chances of an analyst checking this particular drivers information are.... close to zero probably. Another useless system.

You only need very few pixels to make a working digital clock.

So first application: digital eye watch.

>> which are often confiscated by troops in war zones

Translation: confiscated by the IRS when visiting your office.

Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action.

Can be found on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/American-Atlas-Expanded-5th/dp/0935127380

Note the various negative comments on the Atlas regarding this case, maybe mod those up a little.

There will be a very big opportunity for something that ties all these platforms together in the near future.

My iPhone has its own development platform
My wife's Android phone the same
My LG TV has its own App API
My Philips Blue ray player has its own App API
Samsung just announced its going to develop yet another OS for mobile phones...

The market is fragmenting so fast its with all these "App" platforms, that there will be a great incentive for the first to create the "write once" , "run everywhere" tool chain. This will of course take a few years, but so many different platforms cannot be sustained.