Cliff Mass, a University of Washington professor of meteorology, talks about the predictions around hurricane Sandy. He said:

That's sweet - thanks. And since Apple is ignoring the 3G, the risk of jailbreaking it is much lower. Apple's not going to patch the 3G flaws that allow jailbreaking.

OK, so Apple's warranty is for only one year. As far as I know, they haven't violated any of the terms of their 25 page contract I never read. As far as I can tell, their support is as good as any cell phone company. (Not a high bar to get over.) So you're justified in calling me a whiner.

Still, after paying more for that phone than I've paid for some computers, I'm pretty unhappy with Apple. I've been using Apple computers continuously (but not exclusively) since 1985. I guess I'm pining for the days when a computer was still pretty useful and still getting updates 5 years after you bought it.

I really don't want to start another 2 year commitment on a smartphone. And the iPad I'm considering looks like less of a bargain if it is going to be made intentionally obsolete in 2 years.

If you bought your iPhone between Jul 11, 2008 and Jun 7, 2009 (and perhaps after that date) you have an iPhone 3G and you're going to have this bug as long you own the phone. As of March 11, 2011, Apple stopped updating the iPhone 3G.

It look like after 2 years, you're no longer an Apple customer. You're a former customer until you prove otherwise with your wallet.

Disclaimer: I can't find any official statement from Apple about their current 3G support policy. But they did exclude th 3G from this update.

Science illiteracy is strongly rooted in math illiteracy. Cliff Mass, a Seattle area Professor of Meteorology, gives his incoming freshman students a math test. This is a test of basic math skills that should be mastered before high school. Yet the average score for college freshman science students is only 58%.

You can find the answers to the above test in his blog article.

According to a study commissioned by Microsoft "Nineteen percent have dropped their mobile phone in the toilet while using the phone in a restroom."

I was wondering why Microsoft would ask about that. Now I know.

If I could, I'd mod the parent funny. I shoulda said CGI, not picture.

The article has a picture of a galaxy with no caption. A casual reader will assume the picture is of our own galaxy, but it is actually a picture of M101.

As someone else pointed out, the monkey sent random mouse events to the program to make sure nothing could crash it. When the monkey was alive, the code would keep the monkey from quitting the program or doing anything else that would stop it. The monkey made MacPaint a virtually crash proof program.

Ummm... The Unicode Code Charts show many more than 5 country's currency symbols. And the currency code section has room for 23 more currency symbols.

No, that's a shell feature. KDE and GNOME have had the same flaw. You name something .desktop and it will be executed/interpreted by the KDE/GNOME shell. The NT kernel uses the same mechanism as Unix for permissions.