Looks like Jan 26th 2013 - http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/01/25/144204/unlocking-new-mobile-phones-becomes-illegal-in-the-us-tomorrow The /. article summery says "While this doesn't apply to phones purchased before the window closes, this means that after 1/26/13, for any new mobile phone you purchase, you'll have to fulfill your contract, or break the law to unlock it."

I feel the same way you do, if and when I get a new phone I'll be rooting it, it's a security thing. One of the sites I use is still going strong http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org./ You just can't get say a firewall for you phone from Google Play store anymore.

Yet it's got that one line that explains everything so nicely "or, as the analogy goes, some reactions did not occur as often as their mirror image."

And I was going to answer; are you nuts it's bloody cold.
WA is the abbreviation for Washington State (U.S.), only going to Google Earth (I really did) to see where in Washington Perth was did I find resolution.

To a recent post of mine on /. were replies of "only in the U.S. was it true", not the rest of the world as I had implied...sigh...

And to think they waste good fish scraps for chum.

For Windows, Chrome has a service to keep Chrome updated, I've always disabled the ability for it to phone home and install anything at anytime and don't run Chrome anymore because of it.

FireFox has started the same thing, the service is called "Mozilla Maintenance Service" which I've disabled. I use FireFox for BattleField 3 only, Opera is my browser of choice.

As a rule I disable the updating of any program, flash tells me when an update is available, Java updates I catch as they are mentioned, and Windows updates I wait to see how many computers are taken down first.

Google is still my search engine, http://www.dogpile.com/ used to have a neat page called SearchSpy where you could watch what people were searching for in real time, you learn a lot watching that and more aware.

Very nice program.

XPrivacy Android 4.0+
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2320783
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=biz.bokhorst.xprivacy

Requires Xposed to be installed first.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1574401

I'll see (how / if) this works on my U.S. Motorola Xoom

But you have to be rooted.

After it became illegal to root a device, Google store remove anything that interfered
with another programs ability to do what it does, firewalls, adblockers, HOSTS files, permission changers...

From the AdAway site:
AdAway is not available on Google Play! It was removed by Google due to Violation of section 4.4 of the Developer Distribution Agreement.
Please install it from F-Droid. https://code.google.com/p/ad-away/

My XOOM tablet is rooted (jailbroken / mine) I have the old "permissions" from Google play
that does change permissions of a program, as well as having a firewall and a HOSTS file installed.

Can't vouch for it as it's a very quick search but http://code.google.com/p/android-permissions/ claims to be able to do this as well.

To see what information an Android program can send, goto www.Rovio.com and read the Tos and Privacy Policy
it's a fav site of mine showing what's collected. Rovio.com is Angry Birds for one, ASTRO file manager reads
the same way both very popular programs.

Well not till you mentioned it, so I checked out of idle curiosity. Using carefully selected words for the search:
how many people have blue eyes

Blue eyes are indeed becoming less common in the world. One study showed that about 100 years ago,
half of U.S. residents had blue eyes. Nowadays only 1 in 6 does. http://genetics.thetech.org/ask/ask355

2% of the population has green eyes. It's the rarest eye color. 8% has blue, or a variation of blue like violet or grey.I guess the rest has brown or hazel. http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_people_in_the_world_have_blue_eyes

Approximately 8% of the world's population has blue eyes http://www.funtrivia.com/askft/Question79523.html
which references http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_color#Blue that makes no such claim.

8% is the answer most often given.

As for the mutation for blue eyes.
According to a team of researchers from Copenhagen University, a single mutation which arose as recently
as 6-10,000 years ago was responsible for all the blue-eyed people alive on Earth today.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-511473/All-blue-eyed-people-traced-ancestor-lived-10-000-years-ago-near-Black-Sea.html

Camping that weekend, breakfast heard an explosion and I joked Mount St. Helens blew. Packed up
and left the valley about 5:00pm when we saw the sky. Living in Texas I've seen tornado clouds and what it looked like.

Stopping in for more beer I asked whats with the weather, and told it was Mount St. Helens.

No emergency devices, no radio alerts nada thus the first part of the sentence
"When Mount St. Helens blew nothing happened announcement wise,"

Now build up, and afterwards there's lots of stats and stuff; but it was the evening news on T.V. we learned anything of the event itself.

Second part of the first sentence "and there were a lot of complains about it." brought about this radio alert of something that
mattered little to anybody outside of a very small radius.

When Mount St. Helens blew nothing happened announcement wise, and there were a lot of complains about it.

A few days (week?) later Mount St. Helens burped, the local radio advised everybody about it, giving all sorts of
useless information. then the emergency broadcast was set off, it was the same lines word for word of
the news alert yet not a recording. Local station didn't want to be scooped, and the ones that activate the alert.

I was on my back repairing the car yet still floored over it.

And the burp? Didn't do anything or bother anyone not on the mountain itself.