Posts by rbryanh

Like certain sex acts, I read this thinking I might like it if it were done very, very well, despite only ever having experienced it being done very, very badly. The only thing worse than a computer that make no attempt to correctly...

Privacy? We might as well discuss the rights of the passenger pigeon. It's sad they're all dead, but we didn't give a damn about them while it was still possible to save them, and now that they're gone nothing we can do will bring them...

Quote: Originally Posted by AppleInsider A new report claiming to have pieced together several components for the third-generation iPad appears to show that Apple has planned few changes to the design of its popular tablet. One sure...

Will more staff help make iCloud good for something beyond consuming what passes for art during the trashy end of the nasty American empire? I need more ways to consume (note I do not say "listen to") what we now call...

If the previews are representative of the film, only the fact that Mr. Jobs is dead and beyond all pain leaves us free to laugh rather than cry. Then again, he'd surely appreciate the irony of being associated with a film genre that...

Am I the only one who finds something fetishistic about the quality of attention paid to these products? Go to any rubber, leather, corset, bondage, or other sexual fetish site and note the resemblances. I'd like to see AppleInsider...

Quote: Originally Posted by I am a Zither Zather Zuzz Apple should tell them to go pound sand. And if they sue Apple, BURY THEM. Not just yet… Apple is still working on acquiring patents for the shovel, digging, sweating, memorials,...

Quote: Originally Posted by charlituna You can patent a gesture, if the gesture and reaction are specific. Here in America, you can patent someone else's genes and sue them for their children's unauthorized use of same, provided...

Quote: Originally Posted by realitycheck69 How about giving people the freedom to do what they want with their devices? How about personal responsibility instead of relying on big brother? Remind me to ask you about your personal...

Here's yet another example of our misguided and utterly useless focus on the quaint notion of "privacy." Privacy, always of questionable value, is now as obsolete as whale-boned corsets, and like such lingerie, is at this late...