Wait, are you seriously saying Bitcoin is basically the same as the US dollar?

That's kinda batshit. I'm not sure what angle you're going for with the Federal Reserve comments either.

That's a good point. I'd add also that PC gaming itself is a subset of gaming in general, so VR is essentially a niche of a niche.

I honestly kicked around the idea of getting a Vive when I got a new desktop earlier this year but then I realized I had nowhere to really use it. You need a fair amount of space to set it up and I'm not keeping a high end PC in the living room for the sake of messing around with VR.

iMessage just sends regular text messages to non-Apple things. I've never had an issue with texting people with Android phones from my iPhone.

um, so the most popular OS's in the world had the most reported vulnerabilities?

duh?

Except this is the recovery key for an Apple account, not an encryption key. Apple explicitly has access to information about your account. For example, they know which songs you've purchased from iTunes and which iPhone apps you've downloaded.

This has nothing to do with encryption. This information is already available to the government if they have a warrant. The recovery key in question here is to authenticate, not to decrypt.

That is a very fair point. The article does explicitly state that there isn't a set date for shipping or that the product will ever ship.

I seriously felt that way until just a couple days ago, too. Wired had this piece about Satya Nadella and what's going on in Microsoft, specifically about the HoloLens project. It was the first time in a long time that I read something about Microsoft and thought "Oh wow, that is really cool," instead of "LOL."

Then today I decided to check out the Windows 10 Technical Preview and I have to say I was impressed. It is very solid.

I'm not a Microsoft person, either. I'm typing this on a MacBook Pro and I've been running Slackware on my desktop for 10+ years. Disclaimer: I use Win7 extensively for Steam but for little else.

This "study" is mostly bullshit. This article sums it up nicely:

http://www.slate.com/articles/...

The LastSession.plist file stores way, way more data than just URL's.

When I log into my bank account, my username and password are not in the URL and certainly not passed unencrypted over the wire. They are happily stored in the LastSession.plist file though.

I'm using Safari 7 on Mavericks, so it clearly isn't fixed in the latest version.

There are some details here: http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2013/09/11/apple-new-iphone-not-storing-fingerprints-doesnt-like-sweat/

Basically if something goes wrong with the fingerprint scanner it will always fall back to the passcode and in some cases it will require the passcode instead of a fingerprint.

Also, you need a passcode to unlock the phone after it has been powered off and if it hasn't been unlocked for 48 hours.

There are probably some other special circumstances but that is the gist of it

LOL!

Way to show you're just an outspoken Apple hater who literally has no idea what they are talking about.

What exactly does Apple have to do with shoddy 3rd party software?

Neither Parallels or VMWare Fusion are in Apple's App store. So if grandma is going to the store to buy virtualization software, I would hope she has some idea of what she is doing.

Also, if grandma happens to hose the Ubuntu machine you gave her and she has to look at this:

~#:_

Does that mean Linux is shit and just for freetard lusers?

You don't need an Amazon device to read Amazon ebooks.

I do own a Kindle touch, but I have the Kindle app on my iPhone, iPad, and Macbook. I frequently read various things on every one of those devices depending on the situation.

The sync up nicely too so that each device will pick where I stopped reading on any other device.

This is probably the single best explanation about why mobile web doesn't work:

http://sealedabstract.com/rants/why-mobile-web-apps-are-slow/

When did Sarah Palin become powerful?