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The core problem, in which Obama has been complicit, is that government wishes to have a black box in which they can operate without legal or public scrutiny, and to have unchallengeable power to decide how much of government operates outside the bl…
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The people who think privacy doesn't matter are saying, whether they realize it or not, that they believe in conformity to a degree that they will do nothing interesting in their lives, they will not innovate, they will lead no one, and they will ch…
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But stealing is wrong. The pain experienced through empathy when people cause harm to others should prevent this sort of thing.
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Family Guy did it five years ago:
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I guess "voice communications" are whatever a flight attendant sees that looks like someone making a phone call, and a cell phone is whatever device being used in that case. Trying to do FaceTime Voice with an iPod touch or iPad and a headset is pr…
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What if we changed the law so a patent was protected like a trademark: use it or lose it. Trademarks lose legal protection if they aren't actively used in commerce. There would have to be a trade-off with this change, however. Patents currently …
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Apple could ask to verify the location of the device the appointment is made from. If it's nowhere near the store, or if a bunch of appointments for different stores at overlapping times are being made by one entity, then Apple could allow overbooki…
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Government wants one-way transparency: they see everything you do, you see nothing they do.
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It's not necessary to put a black or white label on this guy. He did this the wrong way, so therefore he should be treated the same as a malicious criminal? No. There are shades of gray. He may be a non-malicious hacker, and he found a real flaw t…
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Quote: Originally Posted by antkm1 and the Mac Pro isn't fundamentally new? The iPad is a tablet computer, no? those have been around for nearly 20 years. iPhone wasn't a new idea, just a better one. All I'm saying …
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The problem is, this is in the category of "image advertising," the sort of campaigning done by unpopular oil, chemical, aerospace, and pharmaceutical companies to make people think they're humanitarians. There is a risk of cynical reaction to su…
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It's relevant for a global corporation to want each country it does business in to have laws that will not negatively effect the family life of anyone they want to hire. DOMA denied federal benefits to same-sex married couples.
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That's over double the net population growth of the planet. Probably neither growth rate is sustainable.
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A national security letter or similar, one-sided gag order is constitutionally dubious. It's an involuntary NDA, without the A (you don't agree to anything). The existence of such authority is incompatible with "Congress shall make no law... abridgi…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Victory2013 Imagine you own a store and you buy a widget from XYB company, they sell you the widget for 7.50 each, you decided that you will charge 8.25 each in your store. But wait the company also sells t…
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Is Apple going to engage in a useless specs race? What's the point of developing resolution too fine too see? This is as dumb as 4K TVs. (A 1080p TV is a "retina display" unless you're sitting too close or have super-vision.)
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This case is unbelievably dumb. It's so dumb, apparently the only way for the DOJ to save face is to hope they win it, which would make it officially not dumb even if it is actually dumb.
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Rather than test the actual phones, a testing device could be constructed that can be tuned to broadcast anywhere in the spectrum used by phones, at the upper limit of allowed power for such devices. The device should simulate the worst-case inter…
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The S is honest, and there's no choice but to be honest because the S model has the same form factor as the previous year. The S product doesn't LOOK new. Remember most people have two-year contracts. Knowing the next year's model is not "all that"…
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Quote: So-called "patent trolls" can earn millions of dollars by being a costly thorn in the side of companies like Apple. "earn"?