OK before you even start kicking the cloud.

Talk about the idea of storing your information in a propitiatory format using a subscription based software that you do not own.

"Oh your millions of documents are all in our closed source format now? It would be a shame of our subscription service quadrupled in price... Then again the stand alone versions are even more expensive... That's OK however, you will only have to pay us monthly... for forever."

Once you get by that stupid part, then you can go on to the stupid part about cloud based services... Also note that 99.99% of all those services are hosted in the USA where the NSA and every other government agency will be helping themselves to all your private data for whatever purposes they deem fit,

SO yeah, very quickly 3 good reasons never to use, and that is before you even look at the actual price, software features, etc...

Flash is still in use at 80% of the sites I visit.

Apple's management are jack-asses. Let the consumer harass them instead of whining to the websites that their iShiny's don't work.

Android already supports WebM (http://developer.android.com/guide/appendix/media-formats.html). I'm thinking this is more of a "should we care about the people with iPhones?"

My answer would be "no." That'll add more pressure on Apple to not be jackasses w/ their mobile OS.

First, there's no question that this is an example of a horrible design, and a security flaw that should be fixed.

But the article is way over-the-top. It talks about "credit card numbers", pretty much implying that they are in clear text (TFA, not the actual report). Credit card numbers are not stored in clear text, nor would the clear text credentials give you access to the credit card numbers.

Also, this is really an article about bypassing the lock code, and nothing else. Physical access to a computer (phone) can eventually get you more sensitive stuff than a cup of coffee.

When food is so readily available we can afford to set aside a small amount of it for trim and decoration, it's just not that tough out there.

Think how many present countries and/or past civilizations would stand mouth agape at our excesses.

Good times.

Surely this means that all world hunger and nutrition issues across the globe have been solved, now that corporations are pouring millions into 3D cocktail garnish R&D, right?

Root DNS is not involved here at all unless its a TLD.

There is a man, lets call him Keith. Keith thinks that repair men and contractors are overpriced, and decides he can do it himself. He does this, and it works...for now.

I have a friend who's an electrician and from the stories he tells many/most places he visits have something wrong with them. Even calls he gets to go out and install something new and there's no reported issues seem to have at least 1 thing he can point to that doesn't meet "code". If Tesla's design doesn't account for this then personally I'd count that as a flaw, but go ahead, keep thinking it's not Tesla's problem to fix...

Ahh. So with Google safe-browsing in Firefox and Chrome, and MS whateverthefuck filter, clearly there are no successful phishing attacks involving websites.

No, I've reported phishing domains that stayed up for over 48 hours. Google (stopbadware, opendns anti-phishing) and Netcraft respond pretty quickly to phishing reports but people still end up at the sites trying their damnest to log in.

Maybe hosting providers should be the same way when you report one of their servers as hacked and being used for a botnet check-in or malware hoster. Do nothing until a court order. That should work well!

Because the tablet is slow and clunky and Google (and possibly Apple) are tracking your every move? I left my laptop at home last time I traveled and took the tablet instead, but I went back to the laptop (and the desktop for anything CPU or graphics intensive) as soon as I returned home.

You can do word processing on a tablet, but it's god-awfully painful compared to a desktop or laptop. Even emails are clunky if you're sending more than two lines.

my prediction for 2014 to 2016
apple comes out with a somewhat cheap A7 powered laptop in the $300 to $500 range sort of like a chromebook

most of the cost of a computer goes to intel and MS. once you trade those out for cheaper parts you can make yourself it fairly easy to make a nice profit

as long as it has a 500GB hard drive, its enough for close to 90% of the people out there

It wasn't that Google hired the buses. It was that Google's buses were using the public-transit bus stops, interfering with the regular buses. That's an entirely reasonable objection, if Google wants to run buses then let them arrange all the infrastructure needed themselves or pay the transit system for using public bus stops.