Verizon and app tethering — will they remove iOS blocks?

Link. “During a ten-month investigation, the FCC discovered Verizon requested that Google remove 11 apps from its Android Marketplace which allowed users to bypass the carrier’s own built-in tethering functionality that carries a $20 charge. The nation’s largest wireless carrier by subscribership apparently promised the FCC it would allow the use of any software on its network, thus asking Google to remove the apps constitutes an unlawful act.”

So doesn’t this impact iOS and AT&T as well?

Microsoft thought Tiger was amazing?

Link. I don’t get it. Tiger was 10.4. OS X 10.3 (panther) was the amazing one.

“E-mails flew around Microsoft, expressing dismay about the quality of Tiger. To executives’ disbelief, it contained functional equivalents of Avalon and WinFS.

“It was fucking amazing,” wrote Lenn Pryor, part of the Longhorn team. “It is like I just got a free pass to Longhorn land today.””

Mlner prize.

Link. “The $3 million has already appeared in Dr. Guth’s bank account, one that had had a balance of $200. “Suddenly, it said, $3,000,200,” he said. “The bank charged a $12 wire transfer fee, but that was easily affordable.”

Hong Kong still gives China indigestion.

Link. Residents who cannot afford foreign education object to China’s patriotic curriculum “brainwashing”. However … “A brain needs washing if there is a problem, just as clothes need washing if they’re dirty, and a kidney needs washing if it’s sick”.