You don't have to have USB debugging (a.k.a. ADB) enabled at all. Simply leaving it disables mitigates that concern.

Mounting the phone as a USB mass storage device also doesn't allow you to access the application data unless they store it on the shared SD card storage.

I think this point is missed every once in a while. People tend to look at an MD/DDS as being able to do no wrong, but, like everyone else, half of doctors are below average. You can use what little signal you have to determine if a doctor is good: what school they attended, how many years they've worked, how many times they've done a certain procedure, etc.

Those signals are well and good, but there are other signals that aren't expressed in any other way that these review sites: when you're leaning back in the dentist chair, will you be looking up at cobwebs? How does that reflect on the general hygiene of the tools going into your mouth? Is the office staff friendly to children or is it staffed with anti-breeders? Those subjective measurements aren't reflected in a simple list of facts.

For the doctors out there, if a someone is dumb enough not to be able to see past some random idiot posting a inflammatory or untrue review, maybe you don't want them as a patient.

Oracle contributed Xen to Linux? The boys in Cambridge are going to be scratching their heads at that one. Also, Novell is probably going to be alarmed that Oracle put their setup tool, YaST, into the kernel.

Cool project. Unfortunately the use of AGPL will guarantee no one ever uses it. Too bad. Imagine having a base station where you have to require a partition for the source. Or people with broken cell phones saying you're not providing an equal opportunity to download the software source. Ugh.

Er, except that picture shows that it's filtered on "AT&T smart phones" and not smart phones in general. That certainly cuts down the competition. I bet the iPhone 4 is also the best iPhone 4!

Once my shoe starts to go, I'll start to get intense pain in my hips and knees. Changes the shoe, and the pain goes away. It's a form issue in my case which the shoe helps to correct. I'm guessing those people who run barefoot have really good form.

I don't know how old you are, but it might be a matter of age for some people. My father-in-law, a 62 year-old former police officer, has been running every day since he joined the police academy and still runs several miles a day up and down the mountainous roads near his flat.

I mentioned Nike Free to him when those first came out and he laughed and said he would be in agony if he ran without the support that his shoes offer him. Maybe it would have worked when he was younger, but it definitely won't now. For now he says just stick with $10 running shoes from Michaels that he has to replace every month!

And he once was convinced he found a security breach in my code because he composed a GET request, making a pistol gesture and a "pow" sound.

Being able to compose an HTTP GET request just by making a pistol gesture and a "pow" sound definitely requires some serious "skillz." No matter how much I tried, I couldn't replicate this on my PC. I tried every conceivable pistol gesture and permutation of "pow," "ka-blooey," "Muad-dib," etc. It wasn't happening for me.

In the language of the eligibility requirements for the DTV coupons, it has language that strictly limits the feature set of the DTV tuner boxes. I believe there aren't any hidden features put in by manufacturers for fear of running afoul of the rules and being disqualified from being eligible for the coupons. Of course, risking disqualification from the program means significant revenue impact.

If you really want to examine a country for taxes, then take a look at Hong Kong. There are 4 tax tiers starting at 2% and the highest is 20%. I think most would fit into the 8% and 14% tier though. However, despite these low taxes there is public health care. Go figure.

Also there is no sales tax in Hong Kong either.

Okay, I just convinced myself; I'm packing my bags.