FTFY

DRM? Like how they took all the DRM off all the iTMS downloads? Or are you talking about how they insist on approving apps to make sure there isn't scamware in their store, unlike Android, which has ALREADY had problems.

I don't care if you hate Steve and his turtlenecks, or if you hate every hipster with a trust fund whos daddy bought him a Macbook. it's time to face it: Apple makes good shit that works well, and people like it.

While I'd agree with you in general on your attitude about 'innocent until proven guilty' and I personally have never ran across this situation once IRL. However, I'd consider some life changes if I kept running across personal stories of such type, like you seem to have had.

Using a tech analogy to explain a car issue just doesn't have the same feeling as it does the other way around. Good try though.

The question is "Do you feel vindicated or victimized by the +5Insightful rating for your post?". As you must realize that your completely common place observation has been 'agreed to' as being 'Insightful'. Congratulations man, you're part of the 'problem' :)

Well, it's only 'insightful' in the meaning of 'I was thinking the same thing', which kinda works, but only in the absence of a proper choice.

The only reason why people are even distributing such foolery is that right wing commentators have been filling the gullible with tales of Death Panels, Socialistic take over, etc. in a seemingly desperate effort to confuse people enough to vote for them again.

Reactionaries always whine about 'those dirty damn liberals' as an effort to distract from real policy discussions. Troll like, they are often spit out comments about how 'their liberal friends' are 'so stupid'.

Imagine a beowulf cluster of those?

Or post it to 4chan, so we can at least get epic pics back...

I was under the impression that cell towers where far enough apart that measuring not only signal strength but also phase and timing was used to trilaterate the signal for further accuracy. If we didn't have equipment that could do this, how would laser speed guns work?

...or am I way off?

Someone patent an animation that looks like a real life action of turning a book page via a touch screen gesture...over the internet!!!!

I'm pretty sure YouTube (and any other site) doesn't HAVE to do shit about infringing materials unless a takedown is issued. That's the way it works.

The RIAA and MPAA are not in the business of producing content, they're in the business of copyright ownership. Everytime I read stories like this, I simply want to pirate more and more content, in the hopes that they'll just die. And so what? Someone else will come along and do it the right way.

Only 144 Comments? Why isn't everyone losing their shit over thisOH I see, it's not about Apple. I stand corrected. Please move to the next Apple thread and begin your irrational bashing there. Thanks!

This isn't being forced. This isn't stopping ads from loading. All this does is hilight the article content in an easy to read way, through the user's own actions.

What we might see as a result is that the content providers might not use the <article> tags (bad), or simply insert a premium-price ad image within the article text on each page, so the article is divided into sections by advertisements when Reader is used (better, still not technically standards-compliant). Initial page loads still view the ads, and reader will still load images IIRC, so AdBlock/NoScript is still a bigger problem. Nothing to see here.