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Source: https://twitter.com/moxie/status/534757705466908673

http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/view?id=60000979857

edit: added a link to the PDF of slides

The linked article suggests it's a method to save space in the hardware design so the SIM is not user serviceable. However, it also forces you to only buy data service from Apple approved carriers. Notice in the screen shot from the OP's article that Cricket or any of the more affordable MVNO's are not available as options.

This change is just as much about control over where you spend your carrier dollars (and, possibly, Apple getting a kickback) as it is about saving space.

We released our game for iOS earlier this year and easily 80% of our users had pirated copies of the game.

The whole UI feels very snappy, and videos load very quickly.

The game pad feels great in my hands. No complaints there.

The selection of games on Google Play isn't huge (yet?). I currently see 16 games listed on it for download/purchase. My favorite so far is Leo's Fortune. I enjoyed it on my Nexus 5 when it came out, but after playing it on Android TV, I won't even play it on the phone anymore because I've experienced how much better the game is with a controller. I suspect that's going to be the case with a lot of games that come out for Android in the future. Touch interface only games have a lot of limitations.

Besides Netflix, you can also use Plex (PlexPass subscribers only right now) and that works pretty flawlessly as well.

I've been very happy with the whole setup and I'll be recommending it to all who are in the market for a set top box.

They are unnecessary on Android. If you want to give your app to someone, you send them an email with a link to an APK and they install it directly.

Extending that logic, it means the NSA is an even more worthwhile target for attackers, because they have far more private financial data about individuals in the USA and people abroad. But you can bet that when (not if) a breach of the NSA happens, it will never be reported to the public.

The only solution here is to do away with these centralized stores of all our private and financial information, so the incentive for these attacks no longer exist. There's no amount of technological hardening that will prevent a determined attacker (state sponsored or otherwise) to give up, when the reward for a successful attack is so high. Until then, reports of massive data breaches are going to be more and more common.

It was a very informative episode, and did a great job highlighting the financial difficulties faced by car dealerships. It made me sympathetic to their plight, but it's an old business model and I still prefer the direct sales method being championed by Tesla.

Communication is fundamental to what humans do, and if you want secure communications, the USER needs access to the source for auditing purposes. The GPL gives that freedom & protection to the user. BSD et al. only gives freedom to developers, and when building a platform that purports to be secure, the code must be visible to everyone that uses it. That's what the GPL provides.

In a world of IP connected devices, the need to tether your self to the telecom cartel for an identifier is outdated. It would be ideal if future versions of TextSecure let you log in with just your email and then you could run the app on your tablet, desktop or any other devices without a SIM.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE

I sent an email last week to join, but haven't heard back yet.

Following this line of reasoning, as technology advances, there is no limit to what data can be gathered in to stop "terrorism."

This ruling highlights the fact that there can be no political solution to ending the U.S. surveillance state as long as those in power believe this or at least find it profitable. The remedy has to be technological. Citizens need to be encrypting all their communications to make mass surveillance prohibitively expensive.

and mobile applications on other platforms

Not that I necessarily agree or disagree with the expansion of these TLDs, but Google is hardly the kind of bad actor I would worry about.

The news feed is mostly light red (3x overdraw): http://ara.sh/private/facebook_news_feed_overdraw.png

The side bar is simple enough that it shouldn't be overdrawn 2x (green) all over either: http://ara.sh/private/facebook_sidebar_overdraw.png

Compare this to the Google+ feed view which has significantly less overdraw (and scrolls a lot better): http://ara.sh/private/google_plus_news_feed_overdraw.png