Saying "people do love operating systems" is like saying people love water. People need an operating to run applications like they need water to continue living. How else are they going to live/interact with their data most of the time?

Though MS-DOS is thankfully antiquated these days, it did show us the true value in COPY RIGHTING your stuff!

Not to by any means demote the sheer awesomeness of playing a FPS on your iPhone, but what is next? We are already reliving the classics on handhelds with today's technology for the games of yesteryear. (Well, not all of the classics as this article seems to remind some of us.)

How about playing against other phones on your network? In that case, when does Star Craft come out on the iPhone??

You're right. There wouldn't be any indication of velocity to represent the circumstances of traffic violations per case.

I would be under the impression that they would take a series of photos of the intersection during the red light to more accurately assess a traffic violation. Of course the de facto of jurisprudence never quite accounts for everything in such a way.

I highly doubt that some of the largest website giants are going to provide active discourse to boycott all of this invasion of privacy of traffic logging and email snooping. Look at how these large internet conglomerates get their money: from ads specifically tracking where you click your mouse on their website.

But anyway. Gee, look at the time! 1984 all ready.