Actually, if I remember correctly, part of the SDK aggreement addresses this specifically. Apple allows the use of these icons only when used in the original UI elements supplied by Apple. Once they are extracted/modified for other purposes, it is no longer allowed.

Not agreeing with this, because disallowing this type of use really doesn't help anyone (and arguably hurts Apple), but that's how they've got it set up at the moment.

Eh... just one more nail in the abandoning-the-iphone-SDK coffin for me. Not quite there yet, but each one of these fiascos is bringing me closer to it...

Nice! Now my online avatar can momentarily be relevant again!

Holy crap you could buy a freakin' smartphone for less than that.

Wow, it looks like smear campaigns are no longer limited to political candidates. Usually unsolicited smears like this are an act of desperation when promoting positives isn't yielding results.

While I'm not a fan of any iteration of Fox News, even when business-oriented, I also think competition is extremely important. To me this is a sign that Fox Business is having trouble competing and that's bad news for CNBC and Fox viewers alike.

@camille

Considering we are now experiencing the results of 8 years of conservative leadership in the executive branch, that's going to be a tough argument to sell.

Speculating that a pro-regulatory administration will bankrupt this country while a more conservative leadership is proving that it has been driving us in that direction by leaps and bounds is certainly not a platform I'd want to stand on.

I'm not saying you're right or wrong, just that you have your work cut out for you ;-)

This isn't any different than when someone buys a used computer or hard drive. Recovering personal data off a hard drive is just as easy with the proper software. Unless you specifically reformat a hard drive or NAND flash drive and zero-out the entire disk, the data isn't actually deleted. It's just marked as not needed and free for the filesystem to write over.

As soon as a new user fills it up with their own personal info, music, and pictures - all that recoverable data you couldn't wipe is overwritten. So the easiest thing to do would be to delete everything, and fill it up with random crap to overwrite everything, and wipe it again (at least until a utility is released to do a full-on format).

What would be really cool is if the accordion part expanded/retracted proportional to the amount of space used. So the more it was filled up with files, the further out it would extend. Just something that popped into my head when I saw it ...

Don't forget the "File > New Airplane" option in Google Docs! I think we surpassed the year's paper budget in less than an hour today ;-)

A side note: anyone know what game that is displayed on the lappy? It's probably just a stock photo, but just out of curiosity . . .