Do you have proof of that? Is chanting F*ck the police illegal? Spoiler: no it isn't. Removing them is fine; using excessive force is not.

Just, no. I do not call not-a-phones tablets. This is untrue, and it completely ignores display size issues for the convenience of making your argument. Trolly-troll poster is trolly.

It shows all the story we need. Are you implying there was violence by the protestors? Why didn't the cops respond to that?

You've twisted my words. My argument was that the form factor is the same for Touch and iPhone, and the touch doesn't run iPad apps, so no, it isn't a small tablet. Unless you consider smartphones small tablets, but it still puts them in a separate class because the apps are designed for that size.

Screen size and resolution. You can fit a lot more information at a readable size on a tablet. It's not just that it is higher rez, it's that you can see a lot more all at once. 5" enters a middle ground where you can't really scale down from the tablet apps, and scaling up to 5" doesn't provide much benefit. Most…

It's about to happen whether they like it or not... in 2013 when defense spending is hit by the super committees failure to reach a deal.

Sarcasm aside, this response works equally well to your second message.

Maybe the police shouldn't use improper force on people exercising their rights.

I'm saying what the author is saying; there is a form factor for phones, and a form factor for tablets. And 5" seems to small for a tablet, and too large for a phone. I don't feel that supports your assertion at all.

Did you even read the article?

No, it's not available in the app store any longer. You can still download it if you previously purchased it, but it does not show up in the app store search results.

Correction, YOU'RE here for gadgets, and your welcome to ignore any articles that don't interest you, or go start your own blog. To say it another way,

It's too bad Apple had to be-dicks-about-it and ban iDOS from the app store. Oh well, I have it on my iPad and iPhone, and at least I can still do an install since I purchased.

Come on, at least TRY to give people a chance to go the legal route. [www.gog.com]

The world changed on November 18th, 2011.

You basically proved my point. Congress filled the panel with corps that wanted this bill, and kept out any potential dissent. How much can they learn from that? I stand by my point. This is a corporatocracy.

Google was, unfortunately, the only company allowed to speak at the hearing in opposition to SOPA. No EFF, no computer scientists, no privacy advocates; just a bunch of lawyers and politicians.

When I say apps wouldn't be removed, I mean that I did an iOS 5 update on my iPad 2, and immediately following that, a restore, and I had all my apps. I did not have to go back and re-add my apps by hand.

Just a guess, but you probably just jump over to the other section of track (the part you would have ended up on anyway if you had gone upside down)

You're right; it doesn't. But it's possible your device went bad around that time, or something went wrong with your update and got corrupted. Especially since you didn't get your apps back after the restore; sounds like something definitely went wrong with your install. Could be a library or code stored on flash that…