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Senators To Apple: Pull iPhone DUI-Check Alerts

Posted by timothy on from the tell-us-senator-your-opinion-on-net-neutrality dept.

CWmike writes "Four US senators on Tuesday called on Apple to yank iPhone and iPad apps that help drunken drivers evade police, saying the programs are 'harmful to public safety.' The CEO of the company that makes one such app said the senators' demand was 'a knee-jerk reaction.'" Hugh Pickens points out that "Similar apps are available for the iPhone and RIM. Apple released a set of App Store guidelines in September that spells out what apps are and are not allowed to do. Included on that list of 'don'ts' are 'apps that encourage excessive consumption of alcohol or illegal substances, or encourage minors to consume alcohol or smoke cigarettes.'"

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  1. Re:Multitaksking by Moryath · · Score: 1, Troll

    Irregardless

    People without the brainpower to realize that this is not a word, annoy me.

    I think the "system" is designed to swallow all money you throw at it and beg for more, regardless of quantities. It's a bottomless pit. Saying you will fill it with more people doesn't stop it from being bottomless.

    You've been hanging around the Tea Party/Ree Tardy crowd too much. "The System" works more-or-less as it is intended to work: to try to balance the schizophrenic, contradictory desires of the population.

    Seriously, look at the aggregate set of various polls. Here's a good article that helps sum it up.
    The problem is not "too much government." The problem is that everyone wants certain things but can't agree how to pay for it.

    And in a country where just 400 people control over 50% of the wealth, we have a major oligarchy problem as it stands.