whoosh..

or are you trolling the troll/grammar police and it's a whoosh for me? I feel like I don't know anything anymore..

How much should we really trust an organization that doesn't even use SSL for their login page or secure report delivery. If you go to http://www2.uthscsa.edu/nnsis/ and try to get a secure report, you'll get redirected to a login page (http://www2.uthscsa.edu/nnsis/logon.cfm?target=enterdata) that isn't secure. I mean that is like the bare minimum to securing data. How much you want to bet that they have the kids personally identifiable information sitting on some easy to access table? Also isn't this a violation of HIPAA? I know that not using SSL is a violation, also encryption of the personally identifiable information has to be encrypted on disk as well..

It's better to use the native tethering inside the iPhone.
The steps are:
1) Jailbreak your phone: http://www.redmondpie.com/jailbreak-iphone-3.1.2-firmware-with-blackra1n-zni327/
2) Enable native tethering: http://www.redmondpie.com/enable-tethering-on-iphone-3g-3gs-3.1.2-firmware-eqw846/
3) Make sure you have the correct mobileconfig (not the benm.at one): http://www.redmondpie.com/fix-iphone-3.1.2-tethering-and-visual-voicemail-vvm-ows754/

Here's the script snopes uses:

var omitformtags=["input", "textarea", "select"]
omitformtags=omitformtags.join("|")

function disableselect(e){
if (omitformtags.indexOf(e.target.tagName.toLowerCase())==-1)
return false
}

function reEnable(){
return true
}
if (typeof document.onselectstart!="undefined")
document.onselectstart=new Function ("return false")
else{
document.onmousedown=disableselect
document.onmouseup=reEnable
}

So you can see that with the exception of select input and textareas, they disable selection when the mouse is pressed and re-enable it when the mouse is released.

I have a 3G laptop card and an iPhone. The laptop card works great in less dense areas. When I even get near downtown Chicago I have full bars of signal strength and really slow page loading. This same thing happens with the iPhone. My point is that it isn't the devices that are the problem; it's the network. Anecdotally, I started to notice the degradation on my laptop card in the Summer of '08.

Java web start is the first thing that I thought of when I saw the "The Best of Both Worlds" chart in the article. I guess the difference is the programming language used to implement the application.