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Qualified services may achieve a precision of down to 50 meters in urban areas where mobile traffic and density of antenna towers (base stations) is sufficiently high. Rural and desolate areas may see miles between base stations and therefore determine locations less precisely.

>"Wallaby" is the codename for an experimental technology that converts the artwork and animation contained in Adobe® Flash® Professional (FLA) files into HTML.

Not quite as exciting as a SWF -> HTML5 converter. I wonder about the feasability of that.

It makes good sense for Apple - an iPad owner is a customer for maybe 3 years, but get the same user locked into iTunes, and that's a multi-decade revenue stream. Media distribution is the real game for Apple.

Whatever about the law on what he was doing, they was clearly wrong to be harassing the videographer, and DHS appear to have paid out $5000 in settlement. http://blogofbile.com/2010/10/18/settlement-with-department-...

I'm not sure its a good idea that they can hand out tax-payer money to avoid judgement against them for their illegal acts.

It might be moot point though - Ironically, I have read that he is not likely to get a jury for his trial.

The purpose of the hospital visits is to perform what is euphemistically referred to as extraordinary rendition. In each incident, the hospitals, ambulance personnel and the police knew that I had no medical problem. The hospitals are in collusion with the police to perform torture. At the hospitals, I have been sodomized, had a plug driven up my left nostril (extremely painful), had my corneas “dusted” with a brush, beaten black and blue on my chest, and forcefully injected with thorazine on two occasions against my expressed wishes. Two days after one of these hospital visits, I saw my physician, who looked at my chest and exclaimed: “Did the police do that to you?” I answered: “No, it was not the police. It was the hospital personnel.”

It feels like Monopoly could be a better game if only it had better rules. There should definitely be a trading and negotiation phase in there, and some way for players to stop a player who's getting too far ahead.

Maybe a decent, well-known, alternate set of rules for Monopoly would make all of those monopoly sets out there less useless.

You've got to factor in the margin of the insurance company, but also the time and expense of claiming, keeping records, reading insurance terms, the potential for the claim not to be honoured etc. Better to self-insure - put that money aside into a fund and use that fund to cover your loses for small amounts.

For large losses that you may not have the capacity to cover, it is usually sensible. Where to draw the line depends on how deep your pockets are.

Also the bus was already in the ditch at that point - that decision helped make matter worse, but there was no soft landing possible at that point.

One of the few complaints I hear about the Apple experience is the requirement to install iTunes on a computer in order to 'activate' their hardware products. That's very telling. Why does a company famous for perfecting the user experience create this roadblock for its users?

It is to convert iX(Phone/Pod/Pad) users into iTunes users. You have a revenue stream from iX user for maybe 2 or 3 years . . but you've captured an iTunes user potentially for decades.

It's been a long term plan. I remember nearly a decade ago when Apple broke their iPod so that MP3 files couldn't be transferred onto it using the standard USB mechanism. It was no longer an MP3 player - it was a portable iTunes player.

The goal is no less than to acquire 30% of the price of every movie, TV show, book, game or any other digital product sold and to make them profitable long after they've stopped innovating.