In response to concerns about its exploding car engines, a major car manufacturer has added additional cup holders to its vehicles.

And just to clarify, I believe people should be allowed to run third-party applications on their iPhone without having to go through the App Store (or jailbreaking). I'm just saying that the inconsistency is what really bugs me. If they want to sell a G-rated phone, that's fine with me. Advertise it as such and enforce that policy consistently, but don't blame me when I take my business elsewhere. As a matter of fact, I'm switching to an Android-based phone on Thursday.

The problem is not that Apple is making moral decisions about which applications to allow in the App Store. The problem is their ever-changing, wildly inconsistent approval guidelines. This application might get approved while other seemingly identical applications might get rejected. That's the real problem: developers simply have no way to know which way the App Store approval process wind is blowing on a given day. I wouldn't have such a bone to pick with Apple if they just picked a position and stuck with it consistently.

Don't Talk to the Police

The think the IRS would disagree with you ;-)

I think it's more about whether you're making profit from the picture...

This is the US Post Office we're talking about here, so we don't have to worry about any profits being made...

Self-taught programmers might not know design patterns by name, but they will likely stumble upon the more common ones on their own. When they finally learn about design patterns, they will understand the topic better because they "invented" some of the design patterns themselves. That's how it was for me at least. One day I was explaining something to another programmer, and after my long explanation he just looked at me and said "Oh, so you're using the visitor pattern." I tilted my head, went online, and learned a new name for something I had been using for years.

8Gb seems a bit small. Photos, music, and applications will fill up 1GB pretty quickly. /nitpick

Not true. The secure connection is established before the HTTP request (containing the URL) is transmitted.

For added irony, I'll refer you to Google.cn for an explanation.

Be careful about checking your credit too often though. When you check your credit too often, it dings your credit score.

Not true. Applying for new lines of credit will lower your score, but checking it yourself will not. See http://www.privacyrights.org/fs/fs6c-CreditScores.htm#5