skidooer

They are only required to provide the source upon request. If they are rejecting those requests, that is another matter, but that doesn't seem to be the case here.

I'm not certain education ever had financial value. Certainly the experience itself is valuable for personal growth, and should not be discounted for that reason, but there was never much reason to be there just for future job prospects alone.

Generally speaking, the qualities in someone that lead to success in business are the same qualities that leads one to succeed in their educational pursuits. It stands to reason that historically those who have higher education will do better in business. However, those qualities do not come from the education itself and any connection is merely correlation, not causation.

I'm not entirely familiar with the protocols in use, but I assume the cell towers publish their GPS coordinates.

When my carrier installed a new tower in my area, Google Maps would start with my location hundreds of miles away until the GPS locked on. It eventually corrected itself, but I assumed at the time that they had the wrong GPS coordinates entered for that cell location.

There are dots on my map for places I have never been, so I don't think it is coming from the on-board GPS receiver.

The iPhone 3G and later have real GPS.

They use an A-GPS chip. The "A" in A-GPS stands for assisted, which means it can be assisted by the cell towers to help find the GPS satellites more quickly. Because of the connection with the cell network, some confuse its capabilities with plain triangulation. It will continue to function as a plain GPS device in the absence of cell service, however.

Most of the points on my map correspond exactly with known locations of my carrier's towers, so the explanation makes sense. However, there are dots in locations where there are no towers. I don't think it is WiFi locations because I do not see any of the places I commonly use WiFi.

Scripts with interpreters expose a race condition vulnerability whereby an attacker can quickly replace the script with their own before the interpreter, running with higher level privileges, finishes loading.

It is not really a script vs. binary issue so much as protecting against how scripts are loaded.

That is actually something I have been thinking about recently. People spend hours upon hours playing games that resemble, to some degree, real jobs. (Think FarmVille, CafeWorld, etc.)

If you could craft the game in such a way to provide the control to the robots for things that are not easily automated, people's entertainment would provide the labour required to control the operation for free. A capitalistic dream.

I do software development by day and have a cash crop farming operation on the side, so I have familiarity with both industries. I think an agricultural-based software startup would be mighty interesting.

However, the bulk of my problems on the farm are related to interfacing with third-party businesses. They have no incentive to improve their processes because the average farmer is 55 years old and would rather bang a hammer than bang a keyboard, and I cannot improve my processes without direct access to their data.

Your advice is sound, but personally I have found it to be not a very inspiring place for a startup yet. The low hanging fruit, at least as far as my operation is concerned, I find is already solved well enough. As some of the older farmers who fear computers move into retirement, however, I think the landscape will quickly change and some big opportunities will rapidly appear. I am looking forward to it.