According to TFA they are using off the shelf parts, with one that has an Apple logo slapped on it but isn't made by them. There is nothing special about it.

Also, Dell announced a 5k monitor before the iMac was announced, which probably uses the same panel. We should be able to compare the two soon. In the past Apple displays have proven to be exactly the same as other displays with the same panel and similar glass, so I wouldn't expect any surprises.

I borrowed a friend's Bose QC3s and compared them to my own Audio Technica and Sony noise cancelling headphones. They were on a par with the Sonys and slightly better than the ATs, but not by much. The Sony cans where more comfortable as well, especially in terms of the feeling of pressure in your ears you get from noise cancelling.

Having said that I use some fairly cheap Sennheiser in-ear monitors on aircraft now. The isolation is better than any noise cancelling headphones can ever hope to achieve and they are easier to sleep in too.

Japan has been putting up satellites to enhance and eventually provide an alternative to GPS over its territory too.

Bottom line is, something that valuable to your military can't be shared with potentially hostile or uncooperative countries.

AdAway for Android helps but you still see lots of ads, e.g. on YouTube. You can't block that sort of stuff with the hosts file as it is served from the same domains as the normal content.

The problem is they only know the URLs being removed, not the search terms associated with the removal. The removal only affects results for a search of the individual's name, and other searches will still show those articles. Without knowing who requested the removal (in the first case they were notified of it was someone who wrote a comment, not the subject of the article) the list isn't that helpful.

How exactly did the hydro station built into the dam cause it to fail? You need to explain that to establish causation.

In the case of a reactor containment building failing, the majority of the damage is due to stuff leaking from the reactor itself. Again, can you show that some component of the hydro generation system caused all that damage, or was it the dam and the water it was holding back?

Just to be absolutely clear, the dam was not built to generate electricity. That was just a nice side benefit.

That's like blaming FM radio for all car deaths. Just because cars have radios doesn't mean radios are responsible for car accidents. Correlation is not causation etc.

There have been deaths and damage attributable to hydro, but not much.

They were suffering from price competition, and then Snowden exposed the NSA bugging their hardware. Now they are floundering.

Sounds like a good way to ensure mediocrity and low skill levels in your workforce. Successful companies value employees and try to keep them happy and developing, to get the best from them.

Car analogy: You can get a cheap, generic, replaceable Ford or you can get a high performance model that needs a little more maintenance and care. The Ford isn't going to win any races, but you can drive it into the ground and then dispose of it for an identical replacement any time you like.

So kinda like iOS 7 or Windows 7 then.

Actually the SDK has been pretty stable for years, and the OS itself has been pretty stable since 4.0 a few years back.

Depends where you are. Many places have enough geothermal or hydro to meet their needs, e.g. parts of Africa.

The other thing you have to realize is that even if it isn't possible today, that doesn't mean people will be willing to fund the developments that FTA wants. Tens of billions of Euros and tens of years to get it off the ground, at a time when other technologies are developing rapidly and in Germany even new coal plants are looking like they will never turn a profit.

With energy you have to look at the long term. Most developed nations trying to reduce their energy consumption, and long term it's likely that provision of base load will become a lot less profitable, or even unprofitable. It's really looking likely that large scale energy production won't be a big money maker in future, due to distributed production by individual users driving prices down at the most profitable times of day. Improvements in renewables and battery technology will only make the situation better/worse, depending on your point of view.

Malware apps require you to side load and then agree to let the app rape you with permissions. Even if you are that monumentally stupid the app can still only act within the bounds of the sandbox and allowed permissions, unless you also root your device and then grant that app root permissions.

What on earth are you on about? Android apps have sandboxing and are just as safe as iOS ones, in that they can't access anything they don't have permission to, or other process' memory, or random parts of the filesystem etc. The freedom Android brings does not compromise application security.

Apple hardware is uneven too. The first generation products are kind of notorious, but even more mature ones regularly have issues. Overheating CPUs, ghosting on LCDs, failing logic boards, failing charger boards, failing optical drives, failing nVidia chipsets, failing batteries etc. Not that Apple is particularly bad or anything, other high end manufacturers have the same issues.

I'd say proper Thinkpads (not the Lenovo consumer stuff) and Panasonic Let's Note (Toughbook in some markets) are just as reliable, and definitely more repairable. I have found NEC business laptops to be extremely robust too.

HP are awful, not least because they were one of nVidia's biggest customers so were hit the hardest by chipset failures that happened around the 18 month mark. Fortunately in the EU that's still in warranty.

iPay already seems to be trademarked in many countries. Apple has probably realized that existing trademarks will be a big problem in the future as everyone from wannabe western companies to far eastern manufacturers of low quality crap is calling their stuff iStuff now, so did what most companies do and used their company name + generic verb. Generic verbs have the advantage of not being trademarkable on their own.