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jungmark said: ... Meanwhile identify theft keeps occurring because of data breaches on unencrypted data. Plus phone calls can be retrieved via the service provider. Law enforcement needs to adapt to new technology. How did they solv…
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Think this debate through to its logical conclusion, with unconstrained use of strong encryption in every aspect of communication. Every packet of data and every financial transaction is unbreakably encrypted and goes through anonymising routers, an…
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A "sophisticated" scheme? All they did was skim credit cards in a restaurant or somewhere, make a copy of the magnetic strip, and purchase some high value goods. Triviially easy to do in the USA. The only unusual thing was the size of the operation.…
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Quote: Originally Posted by bwik I support Amazon's argument. Legal weenies might say Apple has a trademark. Indeed they might. Speech of generic terms strongly supercedes any trademark. Absolutely, but that's the point. Nobody used the ter…
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Quote: Originally Posted by ejtttje So if these get certified to use in the cockpit during flight, does that mean we'll be able to use them in coach during take-off and landing? That would be nice. Maybe a first step for finally dropping those …
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross You can often run older OS's on machines a generation or two later. That should last several years of upgrades, as most people keep their machines for at least two years. That should give you another two or th…
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross Jeesh! This is simple. I've already responded to it. Get another HDD, either external or internal, and put SL on that, and use it as a startup drive with all your old apps. It's not as simple as that. In…
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Quote: Originally Posted by darwiniandude Java? Who cares. Lots of people. You're probably thinking of consumer applications, such as Java applets, to run a few annoying web widgets, or crappy Java mobile phone games. I agree Java is pretty po…
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Why do companies feel the need to invent their own marketing names for standard technologies? Airport vs WiFi or 802.11, iLink vs FireWire vs IEE1394, Thunderbolt vs Lightning or Lightfoot or Light Peak or whatever. It's confusing, unnecessary, and …
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Quote: Originally Posted by rain YouTube: Lets people create their own content and share it. Flickr: Lets people create their own content and share it. Facebook: Lets people create their own content and share it. Apple App store: Lets people c…
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Quote: Originally Posted by ghostface147 Excellent to hear that Apple isn't going to abandon or block Java on OS X for the time being. While on the decline, it's still useful for many things. This is excellent news indeed, but was more or les…
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Quote: Originally Posted by PG4G So apple should promote bloat in their system to support devs on other systems? Apple has a responsibility to it's users with performance, not just to developers. What bloat? 100MB in your system folder, compar…
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Thank you thank you thank you! That's exactly what I've been waiting for for my lounge Mac Mini for the last two years, a bluetooth trackpad. Trust me, using a mouse on your knee sucks big time :-) The only thing that could improve it is physi…
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Live bloggers are going to want to post come what may, so why not just provide a free public WiFi access point in the auditorium rather than having everyone set up their own using a MiFi device? Short of installing metal detectors at the doors an…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Doxxic My thoughts exactly. Except when you are sitting on a couch and the screen is your tv... That's exactly why I've been desperately waiting for such a device for the last 18 months. Mac Mini connected to a l…
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Quote: Originally Posted by DJRumpy What would you suggest they do? Just send it to them certified mail? They contacted Apple, and Apple wasn't interested. Hmm, difficult one. What would you do if you found something that obviously didn't belo…
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Quote: Originally Posted by dfiler Wow, there is a surprising number of self-righteous but misinformed people posting about what constitutes "theft". Can you imagine if every found item were turned over to the police? The police department wou…
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This seems like a very bad move to me. I have no objection to restricting shovelware apps that have little or no value from the app store, but preventing developers using preprocessing tools that help them write the apps the way they want to is a bi…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Josh.B. What about the points made in the referenced article? Why just insult the author? His main complaints are: it's not widescreen, it's too big and heavy, and the default wallpaper is ugly. Aspect ratio is …
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The choices given in the survey show that they're thinking of it in terms of the things people currently do with mobile devices. I don't see myself using an iPad much for serious work but for all those situations round the home and elsewhere where y…