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Quote: Originally Posted by popnfresh Clearly you hate America because you accept it as a foregone conclusion that Snowden is incapable of getting a fair trial here or even be heard by a jury. You have no basis in fact to make those assertion…
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If iOS starts supporting a stylus officially, Apple should bring back its Newton handwriting recognition technology as an alternative to covering a large portion of the screen with a keyboard. As the few people who were still using Newton in 1998 wi…
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Quote: Originally Posted by popnfresh The irony here is so thick you could cut it with a knife. There's a glaring disconnect between his sanctimonious concerns about being spied on and the fact that he happens to be living in Russia, a country …
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No, no, no. Where there should be Apple Pay is on the parking meter. And once it has your payment information it should indefinitely buy you more time until you move your car, so you just pay the rent for the space as long as you're there and never …
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Quote: Originally Posted by bsenka Dre is skilled at hiring people who are musicians, at producing their products, and at talking while that music is playing. But a musician himself? Really? What instrument does he play? What octave range does h…
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Interesting choice. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_(typeface)
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Combine it with a Roomba.
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Obviously, the stupid part of this is the contract requiring merchants not to accept anything else. One would think a merchant would want to take as many forms of payment as they can, for the convenience of the customer.
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Since we haven't see a part leak, I'd guess there isn't much to this. Either it doesn't look like anything noteworthy, or it's a new design that's not yet in production where it could leak. A new iMac being announced and not in production yet would …
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Quote: Originally Posted by sog35 This would have never happen if Steve Jobs was alive
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Quote: Originally Posted by macinthe408 The incentive to giving up your secure code already exists: Disobeying a subpoena will keep you in jail until you oblige. The Fifth Amendment protects you from disclosing your knowledge of the code. Ca…
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Quote: There is a very simple solution to this. Get a court order compelling the suspect to unlock the device, then access it using their finger in the same way the obtain finger prints during a booking. This is a weakness in Touch ID compa…
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The Fifth Amendment puts the contents of a person's mind "beyond the law". An encrypted data storage device whose key is only within a person's mind is effectively an extension of the person's mind. This is where technology has taken us and there's …
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Apple can do technology, but can it do jewelry? How is the device going to be perceived in value?
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Delayed availability is the only reason we've seen no leaks of the design. If it was in manufacturing leaks would be everywhere.
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If you really want laptops but get tablets because they're cheaper, you're going to be unhappy because you have the wrong tool for the job you wanted to do. I think that's the real story here.
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Is Brazil also confiscating writing implements?
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It's been 15 years since the rainbow Apple logo was retired and Apple seems to be teasing a comeback. A lot of people might like that, but consider that nostalgia may not be exactly the right emotion for a technology company. A cautionary exampl…
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And you'll see why 1984 won't be like "1984."
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The off switch we should be looking for is not on the iPhone but on the Chinese's government's ludicrously broad and arbitrary definition of state secrets.