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Apple Removes Game Critical Of iPhone Production Process From App Store

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vruz: dissent will not be tolerated.

Phone Story, an iOS game designed to highlight workers rights issues in the supply chain and production of Apple’s iPhone, has been removed from the App Store due to a violation of Apple’s review guidelines.

The game, from Every Day The Same Dream team MolleIndustria, consists of a series of four mini-games “that make the player symbolically complicit in coltan extraction in Congo, outsourced labor in China, e-waste in Pakistan and gadget consumerism in the West,” according to the official web site.

But shortly after the game was announced and made available for purchase on the App Store earlier this morning, MolleIndustria tweeted that it had been removed for violating four separate app store review guidelines (as noticed by sister site IndieGames.com).

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vruz: on a different note, I never really belonged, but I know some friends did. fortunately hackintosh, vmware, virtualbox and other tools have made some ethical conundrums a lot less painful than they used to be.

—via thesmithian:[fresh]

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NASA using Android in Space

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On September 1st, the Official Google Blog reported that two Android-based Nexus phones have been transported to the ISS in the last manned Space Shuttle mission ST-135. Researchers want to investigate how robots can help humans experiment and live in space more efficiently.

The phones enable the robots respectively satellites called SPHERES to add services& that otherwise astronauts would have to provide such as gathering sensor data or capturing video. This is remarkable, because commodity software and hardware are beginning to become building blocks of system architectures formerly comprising only proprietary constituents….

What began more than two decades ago is still in the focus of NASA. In particular, Terry Fong, Director of the Intelligent Robotics Group, is investigating the use of cutting-edge technologies in robots which support men in space. For this reason, the group has equipped the three SPHERES on the ISS with Samsung’s Android-based Nexus S handsets. Each SPHERE satellite comprises functionality for power, propulsion, computing, and navigation. Using an extension port the Android phones have been attached to the SPHERE in order to extend this functionality.

PJ sez: So I guess Apple and Microsoft should probably sue NASA or something. Snort.

vruz: it’ll be cool if they try to issue a search warrant in space.

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After repeatedly and pointedly telling the media that there was no SFPD investigation into a missing iPhone protoype, police change their story.

—via ryking:

So the San Francisco Police Department lied last week several times to multiple news outlets. And why the hell is SFPD assisting Apple security in barging into people’s homes without a warrant to search the premises? There needs to be an investigation of this police department.

vruz:  hey, they iCops think different again.

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Collusion between actual police and Apple's ersatz hardware police

The Plot (Sauce) Thickens

by Josh Marshall, TPM

Earlier we brought you the news that a group of Apple ‘investigators’ apparently posing as San Francisco PD officers had tossed a young San Franciscan’s house looking for a missing or purloined prototype of the next iPhone. But now after initially denying involvement, the SFPD has admitted that they were involved in the search, now saying that SFPD officers stood outside the man’s house as Apple ‘investigators’ riffled through the house looking for the fugitive iPhone.

So it seems the charge of impersonating police officers may have been wrong. But it opens the door on what strikes me as an even more disturbing story of collusion between actual police and Apple’s ersatz hardware police is searching someone’s home — apparently without any legal rationale.

The fugitive iPhone prototype was reportedly lost last month by an Apple employee at a bar in San Francisco.

vruz: yay!  iPolice! now I can safely call them fascists, right?  now you can have iCops in your own house, isn’t that great?

how much lawlessness and fascism is the apple fanboy willing to tolerate?

hey, at least nobody got killed here.

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