You do realize that this is a battery operated device, and that such 'tweaking' dramatically impacts that battery life. Couple that with them not reporting the actual battery life while running the GPU/CPU coverclocked, and you are essentially lying out of you eye teeth.

Sniffing for junk isn't the same as reading for ads. As was mentioned above, simply scanning an email for pre-matched content doesn't require that you extract that data, and store it offline for an ad profile. This is NOT the same thing.

When it comes to ads, Google is extracting that info and storing it to build a marketing profile. A virus scanner or junk mail scanner just looks for keywords, and if it finds them, it rejects them or performs whatever action it's designed to take.

The Anandtech link that rsborg posted alone is worth it's own /. article. A VERY interesting read.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7335/the-iphone-5s-review

Head, meat tinfoil. Tinfoil, head...

They already keep a fingerprint database. Passport? Fingerprinted. There are also 4 states that require fingerprinting for a drivers license (California, Colorado, Georgia, and Texas). Those 4 states make up about 1/4 of the entire U.S. population. People getting general assistance (GA) have also been required to give fingerprints since 1996. The same is true for many criminal history checks. Work in a government job? Fingerprinted. Teachers, Food Service workers? Fingerprinted. Foster parents? Ditto. Law enforcement, Judicial positions, handgun permits, etc. The list goes on and on.

Chances are good that you are already in a database somewhere. The same hysteria surrounded video surveillance, which is widespread. The fact that you leave your fingerprints everywhere would tend to make them less of a illegal search issue, and more of a gray area as they are often used as a simple means of identification these days.

Technically it's all of Season 5. The last season is not considered part of Season 5, but rather it's called the Final Season.

Amazon, Google, Apple, are all selling it this way, as defined by AMC. Just because you think that 'Season 5' should include 16 episodes means nothing. AMC defines what a season of the show is compiled and sold as, and they have two seasons: "Season 5" and "The Final Season".

Since Apple does not define what is in a season of the show, they have met their obligation with the season pass. It gave this person access to the entire Season 5, which AMC defined as 8 episodes, and Apple delivered.

I'm betting this lawsuit will go no where.

To be fair, anyone willing to take advice from a geek, who lives in his basement in a bathrobe, probably deserves the end result.

It does nothing but serve his ego (and yes I know I will get flamed for this). There are valid reasons to keep things civil on the surface. Claiming we should just 'let it all out' in a professional environment is obviously not the way that the rest of the professional world has gone, with good reason. It's called acting like an adult, and most professionals learned to do so at an early age.

Linus should not be held to some different standard.

A good example of cooperation between intelligence communities:

http://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-nsas-high-tech-surveillance-helped-europeans-catch-terrorists

Does this mean everything they do is great? Of course not. Does it mean it doesn't require higher scrutiny. Of course not, but it has proven to be effective. There is no reason they can't find a happy middle ground.

The type of information Snowden is leaking just makes this type of cooperation more difficult to achieve. Political realities will make this type of communication much more difficult to even approach for a politician.

How has this undermined restrictions on domestic spying? Your complaints sound like vague speaking points with no meat in them. How specifically has this information sharing harmed you?

I also disagree about Europe being a client state. They have never been any sort of client state of the U.S.. I think you mistake common interests and goals for subjugation. In many ways I see the type of controls in Europe as profoundly more invasive than those in the U.S., but also more in the open. I can't speak to which I would prefer as I haven't spent enough time in Europe to make a judgement however.

Ugh...mobile spell check :\

That should be "even among each countries intelligence communities" and "could certainly become a taboo subject post revelation"

Any time you foster communication it's a good thing. The result of this will be suspicion, and politicians will be less willing to share information, even amend each countries intelligence communities. Something that may have been considered acceptable prior to these leaks, could certainly become a taboo subject post relegation.

Not all information sharing is evil, or to the detriment of it's citizens. Surely the open source community can understand that very basic premise?

Unfortunate, yes, but something I feel strongly about. I do think his original disclosure was a good thing. It brought the patriot act back into public debate, which is a good thing, but he's since started releasing information that just isn't all that useful. It's no great disclosure that communications into and out of the U.S. are monitored. I still recall the flame wars on /. when it was disclosed a few years ago. I'm also not naive enough to think that any embassy on foreign soil probably isn't bugged to the hilt. It's silly that these countries have to go through these motions, feigning shock when they are all undoubtedly doing the exact same thing.

Now he's just hemorrhaging information that will simply force a political response from whoever it affects, regardless of the realities. it would be political poison if they didn't respond.

Part of the troll rating me be simply 'loyalty' to a fellow geek. I get that. Another part to possibly due to the civil liberty types. I get that too. I am not however, about to think that everything a government does should be out in the open. In a perfect world, fine, but we don't live in a perfect world. It's a dangerous place, and some state secrets were not mean to be put on blast.

Snowden went far beyond being a 'patriot'. When he leaked evidence of spying on other countries (something ALL countries do), it forced a response where before it was generally understood 'business as usual'.

Leaking this data just increases global tensions and serves no purpose. Anyone foolish enough to believe any developed country is not doing this is a fool.

I was initially in support of his original ideal of shedding light on programs that the patriot act spawned, but he's gone far beyond that. The discussions around the patriot act were needed and healthy. That said, did he expect to be greeted as a hero for embarrassing the U.S. and leaking classified information?

I think his original ideals turned bitter and he turned petty and careless in what he released as things escalated.

Technically, they could come from either. There is no guarantee that something from the Play store is clean. I also have to wonder what will happen to the millions of phones that simply don't get updates from the handset vendors. Granted the geek crowd can probably update most, but there will be literally millions upon millions that will have this vulnerability until they die or are replaced.

What page in the bible can I find this traditional definition of marriage? Is that the one where they sell the daughter for a goat and some gold, or the one where they marry her to her husbands brother, or the one where she's one of 20 wives. I can never tell.

With few local exceptions, until 1545, Catholic marriages in Europe were by mutual consent, declaration of intention to marry and upon the subsequent physical union of the parties.[14][15] The couple would promise verbally to each other that they would be married to each other; the presence of a priest or witnesses was not required.

[ Ref - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage_(Catholic_Church) ]

(14)^ a b upenn.edu Excerpt from Marriage, Sex, and Civic Culture in Late Medieval London "the sacramental bond of marriage could be made only through the freely given consent of both parties"
(15)^ "marriage.about.com" . marriage.about.com. 2010-06-16. Retrieved 2010-08-27.

I'm not sure why you think marriage tradition in ancient Asian cultures is significant to Judeo Christian origins of marriage here in the U.S. The two religions have no common root other than 'religion'. Many parts of the world have no religion, and such are performed by the local leader. Religion in Europe however, IS relevant, and even there, the Church largely considered marriage a private civil matter and one that they didn't involve themselves in until the 1500's.