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Quote: Originally Posted by ElectroTech Pitiful! Why not extend it to every person in the world who is, or thinks they have financial problems? If you can't afford the luxuries of life, do without them. This is a great lesson for Greece and eve…

in Apple gives Greek iCloud users 30 days free service in light of financial crisis Comment by lightknight July 2015

Quote: Originally Posted by singularity http://www.fastcodesign.com/3032807/why-england-has-the-best-wall-sockets-on-earth Well, that's one convincing argument, for sure

in Apple patent adds magnetic drive actuation to UK-style folding pin USB adapter Comment by lightknight July 2015

Quote: Originally Posted by Crowley Given that many other countries also use the Biritsh standard, I hardly think they're all laughing. Also, how does a switched outlet betray engineering ineptness, a lack of common sense, or ridiculousness? …

in Apple patent adds magnetic drive actuation to UK-style folding pin USB adapter Comment by lightknight July 2015

aaplfanboy wrote: » For the benefit of all the Americans out there, the UK plug is the safest in the world. Our earth pin (the big one) keeps us safe, and our switched mains sockets also avoid any nasty 'flashes' you can get when plugging into a l…

in Apple patent adds magnetic drive actuation to UK-style folding pin USB adapter Comment by lightknight July 2015

Quote: Originally Posted by NasserAE Flash has more holes than a sieve. They should just kill it. I feel sad for the developers who want it dead, but have to keep patching the codebase because Upper Management decided to keep it alive. Al…

in Flash Player update closes vulnerability identified by Hacking Team Comment by lightknight July 2015

@freerange Checking the last two patents reported by AppleInsider, which in all honesty sound totally "obvious answer to simple problem" to me, and therefore unworthy of a patent under the US patent system (theoretically....), I'd say that the probl…

in Judge tosses Smartflash's $533M victory against Apple, damages to be retried Comment by lightknight July 2015

Quote: Originally Posted by PotatoLeekSoup How does this happen? You're misplacing your trusted devices for large swaths of time? Talking of "misplaced trusted devices", I've had a bad surprise with Blizzard. I had an authenticator thing ins…

in Apple to remove Recovery Key from iOS 9, OS X 10.11 two-factor authentication process Comment by lightknight July 2015

This is useless to me, but I can't deny it is cool. Apple designers are awesome!

in Apple patent adds magnetic drive actuation to UK-style folding pin USB adapter Comment by lightknight July 2015

Quote: Originally Posted by Elijahg Exactly, and huge pensions for the retirees at the state retirement age of late 40s, and borrowing endlessly with seemingly no intention of paying it back. Not sure it's going to really put a "squeeze" o…

in Greek capital controls put squeeze on iCloud, iTunes, App Store subscriptions Comment by lightknight July 2015

Quote: Originally Posted by libertyforall The Greeks were screwed by derivatives, something that is also trying to be foistered upon the American people! http://moneymorning.com/2011/10/12/derivatives-the-600-trillion-time-bomb-thats-set-to…

in Greek capital controls put squeeze on iCloud, iTunes, App Store subscriptions Comment by lightknight July 2015

normm wrote: » Never? So a few years from now, when competing phones all have 16GB of RAM, Apple's low end will still have only 16GB of Flash?? I doubt 16GB is there to stay long, now. Just photos and mails are such space hogs that it makes …

in Buyers opting for higher capacity iPhones, likely boosting Apple profits, RBC survey finds Comment by lightknight June 2015

SpamSandwich wrote: » Yeah, I'm considering finally selling all my AAPL too. No matter what steps forward Apple takes, there seems to be an endless barrage of attacks, bad news, lies and political pressures that drag the stock back down. I figure …

in Buyers opting for higher capacity iPhones, likely boosting Apple profits, RBC survey finds Comment by lightknight June 2015

Well, that's more like it. Kudos to Apple for not being insane (everyone can make a mistake, only idiots persist...). Kudos to the developer for standing their ground even though it hurt their baseline way more than Apple's

in Apple reinstates select games with Confederate flag art to iOS App Store Comment by lightknight June 2015

Quote: Originally Posted by jungmark Not to add more politics to this thread... Women have control? Perhaps some of these women should have had control of their bodies prior to getting pregnant. Perhaps, but since they did not... It's simil…

in Apple confirms Confederate flag ban in App Store, says war games have to change art Comment by lightknight June 2015

Quote: Originally Posted by Zapf Brannigan Obviously the irony that flags do not discriminate flew right over your head (I didn't need sophomoric "" tags to state the obvious, either). I do not believe Apple has (or would) actively pursue rev…