"tested dozens of sleepers" ... "for a period of two weeks"

IIRC there's two different screens where it tells you permissions. One with general categories, and one with sublistings under the categories detailing the permissions more granularly. Don't quote me on that though.

Genius. Thanks guys.

@Alan Henry

I'm no lawyer, but it doesn't really seem like extortion when you're owed the money in the first place (or in this case, owed the work).

The great thing about the situation in the article is that the guy who bought the domain name wouldn't have had to lie about the programmer's business practice at all. He could have simply put "This person has bad business practices and didn't finish a job for me." and it would have been completely truthful.

Depends on what you're coding. Would be fairly easy to emulate with some PHP, but the problem is web-code is not compiled. SQLGuru can send a compiled executable to the client, and, short of decompiling it (not worth the effort), there's no way the client could get around the limitation.

@hal.hockersmith

@Pär Larsson

@cmdtacos I'm right there with you. And then it really sucks when you see that train about to beat you to the crossing X(

@geekgirlbarbie

I can't seem to find anywhere on the site whether you can use "used" gift cards. They do say that they only redeem gift cards with a minimum of $25 on them, and that they do cards with odd balances (such as with store credits). But, for example, I have a Best Buy card that's worth around $60, which was originally…

> Best 4 dollars I ever lost.

I couldn't help but notice, the words "Best of all" appear twice in the ooVoo blurb. But hey, if science can be a verb, who says that "best" has to be singularly exclusive?

I'm a filet guy, and every time I make my dad a hamburger on the grill (since I have less experience with burgers) it ends up being a ball of meat. Am I forming the burger too thick? Not pressing it hard enough? Will that dimple trick work?

I went into reading this article already having taken a big grain of salt, knowing there would be people throwing app names and workarounds in Whitson's face. But I think the real lesson to take away here, as other's have commented, is that there is JUST SO MUCH RESISTANCE to any of it straight from the manufacturer.

+1 for app permissions transparency.

Apple's refusal to allow flash may make sense as per their officially stated reasons. It's their prerogative. But it definitely embodies my biggest complaint about all software models; that being, give the user a choice. Apple, nor any other software dev knows what's "best" for the user. And by that I mean they don't…

I once put together a nice big pot of varied cacti. Was an awesome little collection. That was probably about two years ago. Only one is left.

I hate fake plants. They have a natural rage-inducing effect on me.