Yes, yes it does sound like the Apple approach. Which is largely disapproved of on /.

Don't buy it is fantastic advice. I wasn't going to buy it in any case, but now thanks to this article, I have it in the back of my head to be sure to recommend that others do not buy it either.

So, to paraphrase...

"You don't like this article? Well then don't fucking comment on it then."

Seriously. This complaint is so tired.

Excel? PowerPoint? Even "Word" isn't all that informative. Flash, Acrobat, Java, etc, etc. And these are the ones that everyone's mother might have heard of.

If someone cares enough to try an application they aren't familiar with, they'll probably hear about these alternatives and add them to their vocabulary. I've never once overheard someone actually complain or become confused by a name that wasn't in the form of "[Application Domain] [Verb]", *except* on forums.

Next up, lets complain about KDE, Gnome and Apple all putting K, G, or an 'i' in front of all their apps (and conveniently ignore the ones that don't use that convention to appear to make an insightful point.

Um, actually, I'd like that.... slashfood.com^Whuffpost.com/food is boring :o(

Really? You don't think that a company the size and shape of Google might have a slightly more complex network than a shop of, say, 100 people?

This is a case where a "Score:5" isn't high enough :o(

Would love to hear more about this. Any chance there's a write up of your setup anywhere? Cost, location, that sort of thing? Did you have to contact the utility to set it up in the first place?

The cartels are already dealing in these things. My thinking is that there is far less of a demand for these things than recreational narcotics. Your typical pothead isn't going to say "gee, pot is legal now, I guess I'll spend my money on automatic weapons and child prostitutes instead".

Legalize pot, subsidize it for two years, and then run an ad campaign to encourage people to buy it local ("Buy American!"), if they're going to buy it. I think the cartels would be hurting pretty bad from that, at least in the short term.

Of course, none of this will happen, so its sort of a moot point. Americans are too conservative, on the average to pass these sorts of policies.

I could be wrong about all of this, but I don't really see many other people offering better suggestions.

Hmm. Seems to me the smugglers exist because there's a demand for their goods on the US side of the border. If those goods were legal here, the violence wouldn't be as much of an issue, and the smuggling business would become a more normal business. If there was no demand for narcotics on the US side, you'd be right about it not being our fault that smugglers exist. But there is, and they do, and so we are partially to blame.

Legalizing marijuana would be a pretty big blow to the drug cartels. The human trafficking comparison is just a logical fallacy, as narcotics and human trafficking are (as you note) different things.

There would be no need to bribe anyone - they could do whatever they wanted anyway. The ability to 'grant favors' is intrinsically tied to the capability to punish or prevent.

See also, Somalia.

Does it email you when it dies?

Just chiming in to confirm a sibling post: Yes, in the Bay Area.

You're a fucking moron.

Here are the reasons:

1) If it could have been done once, it could be done again. Maybe you liked Bush as a president, but if someone opposite your political views used the same trick, you might feel different.
2) It's still illegal, even if it happened 'back in time'. We don't just let crimes go because it happened 'back in time'
3) It's highly unethical, to say the least. This would (should?) have fairly far-reaching implications on corporations involved with politics and government contractors.

Please, please, please never breed or speak to anyone ever again. Or at least take some ethics classes. Consult your local community college. If you're old enough?

Thanks.

The iCloud makes all of this possible. The data is persistent and secure forever, for all present and future devices.

Simply: Wow.

What color is the fucking sky on your world? How long do you measure forever? Five Years? How about twenty? Thirty? If Apple in 50 years even resembles Apple today, I'll eat my fucking flying car. Nevermind actually keeping this service running forever.

I won't even go into "persistent and secure" or "all present and future devices". You apparently don't read the news enough to realize that both of those statements aren't even possible, let alone likely.

The seals went in, took him unarmed, knelt him down in front of his family and shot him execution style in the head.
The reports from both the administration and the family members after the fact pretty much confirm this but the press have gone so far out of their way to dilute the facts it's almost silly.

I haven't read this anywhere. Citation? I'm not saying you're making it up, or that I'd even doubt it, but you're claiming that 'reports' are saying one thing and 'press' have said another, which seems a bit contradictory. Especially since plenty of press has no issue making the US look bad...