Um no. They are arguing over the rights to let other developers use only their service to serve ads to you and get a fair share of the ad revenue for themselves.

Wow, that confused even me. The point is, Apple doesn't put ads on your device (I think, ... correct me if I'm wrong). They just want to capitalize on what app developers are already doing, which is putting ads (currently most likely Google Ads) in their own applications. Understandable, but still annoying, I agree.

Still, it probably will be done some day. As soon as the risk (and associated cost) of sending rockets/satellites etc. into orbit becomes too great due to floating around space junk, they need to address the problem.

A lot of intranet applications require proprietary ActiveX / OCX controls, which only work in IE (I think). I've also seen quite a few intranet applications that run with VBScript, which also requires IE (again, I think).

Advertising will probably be the very first thing we will find on fruits once the FDA approves this new technique. Can't wait for my laser etched Chiquita banana!

Yes, that is what they do and that is what i said they do. I just looked up what Volkswagen has to say about this: "To allow for possible differences in overall tire diameter with different tire manufacturers and wheel sizes, a factor is designed into the speedometer function that increases the displayed speed. "

In my car, the speedometer is not a gear driven system at all. It uses magnetic pulses so once you have the pulses/sec, adjusting it is a matter of modifying the ECU. 500 pulses per second means I'm travelling 88 ft/sec or 60 mph.

As a matter of fact (at least on my GTI) the odometer uses the data reported via the CANBUS. The ECU processes this data and then sends it to the computer that displays your current mph. The distance impulse number used to calculate your speed can be changed in the ECU!

Actually that too is illegally here (Europe). I even had to get my speedometer and odometer verified by a professional when I changed my 15" rims to the new 19" ones.

The odometer isn't tied to the speedometer, at least not on my VW GTI. I actually re-calibrated the speedometer to show 3mph less (a tedious process by the way) so it now nearly always matches the speed shown by the GPS. I think parent is correct, auto manufacturers just want you to drive slower and saver. Also it's pretty safe to say you won't get a ticket if your speedometer says you're going 52/53 in a 50 zone.

True. I didn't really see it that way. Thanks for pointing it out.

Still, it's kind of obvious that once someone gains physical access to your device, they can do anything with it. You could swap the keyboard with one that records all keystrokes or simply install a physical key logger device or do whatever you want with it.

Slow news day?

That article is actually like saying that there is no point to install a very expensive and secure door lock on your front door because it doesn't help you when you go get groceries and leave your door open. Duh. I'm sure most people realize that the point of disc encryption is not to protect your data while it's unencrypted in memory.

Is this a failed attempt at trolling?

It's a PLUGIN, not an ADD-ON. There is no way to uninstall ANY Plugins in Firefox. You can disable Add-Ons, you can uninstall Add-Ons and you can disable Plugins. But you cannot uninstall Plugins from within Firefox. Firefox simply loads all files in a specific Internet Plugins folder (not a Firefox-only plugin folder) and if it detects a plugin, it uses it.

Delete the file and you're good to go.

We use circular polarization lenses for photography. The ones used for stereoscopic 3d are linear polarization lenses.

Clever thought but that wouldn't work. An App like that wouldn't get approved and would hang in the queue for maybe 2-4 weeks, after which it will get rejected. Rejected App names are cleared out of the system, as far as I know. That's why TFA is talking about a "quirk".

The solution is actually even simpler than flushing the DB: Simply register an app name only AFTER a binary has been submitted. I think that's the way it should have worked...

That was my assumption too. And actually, that's not too bad... If they shut down the accounts on Monday morning, that's as prompt as it gets. To my knowledge, Google email support doesn't work on sundays.

As I said in another comment, my provider's contract in my country allows tethering and tethering still works, even after the 3.1 update. I still don't think this is a necessary move on Apple's side. You can tether with almost any phone that has bluetooth.

Also, I'm paying EUR 2 (US $ 3) a month for tethering with my current contract, which I wouldn't have to, if I had a different phone.

So yes, this sucks.

You're right, the lock occurs in the phone's baseband. That's why the next *sn0w unlock by the iphone dev team will probably modify the .ipsw file so that you can update your phone to 3.1 WITHOUT updating the baseband, thus allowing both tethering AND downgrades to 3.0. TFA is WRONG. I have a contract in my country which allows tethering and while it's true that tethering stopped working immediately after the 3.1 update, my provider unlocked tethering a few days later.

Wait... so we would get free Microsoft products that look cool and only do one thing, but they do it well? Can we please lock those guys up in a room already until they come up with that idea?