TheGateKeeper

So let me get this straight. A single app on iOS, which doesn't live up to expectations or desires AND is still in BETA (re: unfinished, unready) and this makes you consider buying an entirely new phone?

You sound like those soccer moms I make house calls for who just think it's easier to throw away a working system and buy something else.

I'm laughing my head off at all of those Apple haters and conspiracy theorists right now over the collective brain explosions when facts come out that Apple wasn't colluding with the government.

I guess people don't know how to use google:

http://osxdaily.com/2012/02/21/add-color-to-the-terminal-in-...

This is why you use macports ;)

That or whoever the poster is, is inadequate at understanding technical level management and their requirements. I had the same problem once.

I remember a day when cable tv had no commercials. You paid, as opposed to programs coming in over the air, and therefor didn't need to see commercials.

I wish it were still this way.

Neither do I. Ncurses and mc work just fine in OS X Terminal.app. Even under 10.8.1

So does Facebook, and Myspace.

Being obvious doesn't make it prior art alone. If that were the case, Shazam would owe me millions.

I remove DRM from everything I purchase.

Who inherits my iTunes library (or kindle library etc etc)? My estate does.

Get out.

Thank you for this post. I'm constantly amazed, dumbfounded, and outraged that people don't know the BASICS OF REAL FREEDOM in this country.

It's not what the government allows you to do.

It's what we allow and not allow the government to do.

You can't get "signatures" with the 'like' button by using facebook or gmail connect.

I still use a self-customized BlackboxWM for my graphical mode needs. It's great on debian. =]

How is this not obvious? It's right there on the iTunes page.

It not only ignores them but people purposely place these restrictions on them for greedy reasons.

Frankly, in my experience it doesn't take a lot to enable multicast and doing it internet wide _shouldn't_ be that big of a deal so we can handle all the streaming of live events with little worry - but the "powers that be" want to restrict everything online and it's frustrating, angering and downright dangerous attitude to have as a defacto "standard".

> Customer may not redistribute any work based on those files

Well it's a good thing I'm not a customer!

WSJ should be embarrassed and fire that writer.

Getting basic tenets of history wrong and misleading millions? What a sham.

Don't you dare give them ideas!

You're right, it had nothing to do with it. It was a side effect that was predominant in male fashion before it came to women's fashion.

This isn't a popular sentiment but the way I solve this is not to let anyone borrow or touch my devices.

It is laughable, isn't it? If they're needing wifi to triangulate you chances are they already know where you are anyways.

Android devs really need to step up their game and give these non-childish names. Jellybean? where am I, disney.com?

And why wouldn't you go that far? There's no reason for a third party THAT I PAY SERVICE FEES TO to save my conversation. Transmission of the material until it reaches its client is the limit. ONLY WHEN any agency gets a warrant from a judge should they be given LIMITED ACCESS to the CURRENT messages being transmitted. Not have the ability to peruse the history of.

My question is: why are they storing the data anyways? Pass it along and don't keep it on the servers! Ignore all requests not authorized by a Warrant issued by a Judge.

I remember back in the 90s time warner's news servers were only nntp://news-server/ and we could see our neighbor's computers via Windos 95/98's "Network Neighborhood".

Good times.

That's how you should view all software, frankly. As a utility to get the job done.

There's nothing inherently wrong with that. I say the best tool for the job at hand is what wins, especially over ideologies.

Or the less popular option is to forcibly remove them from the planet.

I hope they have a CLI only version available for simpler server management on both local and remote systems. Having it as a desktop UI for gaming would be absolutely fantastic.