You better not let her read this post, otherwise it's the red-fuming-mad Emoji, closely followed by silent-treatment Emoji, and you're-sleeping-on-the-couch Emoji.

And Chrome Emoji support only works on OS X, whatever that means.

I assume that the unlucky Windows users and the unlucky Linux users will be left without the ability to express emotions on the internet anymore. That's the real tragedy here. The fact that all Windows and Linux users will be left emotionless if they can't afford to switch to OS X. As a Linux user, this makes me cry inside, but the best I can manage is this poor looking emoticon instead. :,-(

Oh damn you Linux! Damn you!! Why do you have to be so late at copying the big core features from everybody? If only Linux had come up with Emoji support a couple of years before everybody else, Desktop Linux would now be reaching 90% of the desktop market at the very least.

That is just wishful thinking.

Ahmed Wali Karzai for instance, the brother of Hamid Karzai, was the largest warlord and drug trafficker in Afghanistan during his brother's presidency. It's not because someone is on our side, that they're suddenly saints. In fact, Saddam was described in glowing terms by some of our politicians, to defend him against claims of genocide made by the Europeans, long before his relationship even went sideways with the US.

Also, I can assure you that many world leaders have people in the US, that can procure things for them in the US for the right fee. So even if an Ebay auction is purposefully limited to the US, it doesn't mean you're bidding against just US residents. In any case, that's probably a moot point anyway. The probability that the bidding is driven by fraudulent accounts, like someone else said already, is probably even higher still.

Ooops: I should have said TG people, not TD people.

Yes, I can see a possible rational for bullying them into compliance. That being said, does that really work? And is the fact that some people are disgusted with TD people really a major problem to begin with? Won't the stance of Putin just lead to more suicides -- like it currently happens in US high schools for young gay males? And won't this kind of policy just prevent TD people from contacting the police when they really need it for fear of being bullied even more by the police itself? This is essentially a short-sighted policy for what is essentially a taboo.

Once a government authority implicitly gives the silent nod to start punishing a group of people, then things can quickly escalate when bullies think they're acting on the wishes of their government. This new official discrimination policy is going to have far reaching consequences, many of which won't have anything to do with the driver license itself.

Actually, those people killed were the last people in the world that wanted a government with more snooping powers. Warning: Some of these drawings may not be work safe. http://www.le-livre.fr/photos/... http://www.le-livre.fr/photos/... http://www.iconovox.com/blog/w...

That head of MI5 is just an idiot opportunist with a very poor sense of taste and timing. Of course, MI5 can't guarantee that it can stop a muslim extremist terrorist attack. No one can guarantee that, except may be North Korea.

Yes, just wait until some of them get beaten up or killed on the streets as a result of this policy.

Then, they'll probably also be barred from taking public transportation or using the sidewalks, to avoid the poor other citizens from beating up on them.

The problem with online casinos (the ones that are not regulated) is that if the online casino decides you're winning too much, they can just decide to make you lose when you're betting the most (this has actually happened a lot).

It's just like three card Monte, it looks like it's an easy game to beat when other people are playing it, but unbeknownst to you, those other people are friends of the dealer, and the game becomes rigged for you to lose when you start playing it.

Assuming what the OP is implying is true, that EFF's only underlying to purpose is to spam you.

And yes, it's certainly true that users couldn't care less about having an app from the EFF, I personally wouldn't care for it. And yes, while it's certainly true that this agreement mostly applies to app developers, and not users, and that only developers have to agree to it, not users.

This is actually what the EFF is complaining about (the emphasis in bold is mine):

So I don't know about you guys, but as an app developer, this agreement would scare the hell out of me.

Thankfully, I'm not an iOS developer, so my livelihood does not depend on the personal approval and whims of Apple, but then again, I'm not an iOS developer, that also means that if there were any serious issues with Apple's OS or SDKs, or any good tools that iOS developers needed, my opinion wouldn't be worth much more than just a random fart in the wind.

And by the way, before bashing Apple too much about this. There is another large 500 lbs gorilla that has an equally bad agreement for Android app developers. And before anyone blames EFF for missing it. I would say it's very easy to miss since no one actually publishes their app to their particular app store (everyone just publishes their Android app on Google Play instead). It's actually Samsung's app store.

Samsung has a very peculiar app developer agreement. Perhaps, it's not peculiar at all for a country like South Korea, but in the US at least, where 1st amendment rights are more sacred than anything else, it kind of boggles the mind, and that is:

And before anyone says that this clause only applies to the Samsung TV apps (which is bad enough), and not the Samsung mobile apps.

If pressed on this issue, I can actually find video evidence that this clause also applies to their mobile app store, which was called Kies at the time. The Samsung executive clearly said so himself, he even used the example of the app that allowed you to throw shoes at George Bush. George Bush, or Bill Clinton, it doesn't matter. We don't want our app store to be used for political satires.

And yes, he said "political satires". In a way, his statement was much tamer than what is written in Samsung's own TV developer agreement: "Any type of overtly political communication". In any case, I don't think that this statement will impact many US developers. If Samsung's TV app store was any good, or may be, if Samsung stopped allowing Google Play to be installed on its Android devices, then that might actually be an issue for US developers.

Don't be slut. You're almost giving it away for free at that price.

If Apple is holding out for 40% of the retail price for each unit, you should at least be holding out for 35%.

Technically, it's not theft if he wrote all those articles himself.

This kind of thing actually happens quite often. When a journalist is about to miss a deadline, he goes to a PR dept or an advocacy group. The PR department, which is staffed by former professional journalists (except that they're being paid far better than their counterpart), effectively write a unique article for the struggling journalist, and with a nudge and wink tell him or her, that he can just use the article in its entirety and take full credit for tit.

Of course, the struggling journalist is free to edit such an article if wishes, but if the PR department is lucky enough, or if the writers on staff at that PR dept are skillful enough, the struggling journalist may just take the lazy way out and just republish the entire story as is - without changing a single word. And when that happens, the PR person just feels like has won the jackpot, and then goes up and down the corporation telling every executive he may find, that someone from a reputable news outlet has copied his article verbatim and published it under his own name.

And no, before someone says it, that kind of article can't look like it's just another press release with too many buzzwords. That's actually the point of it. it must look enough like a real original article for a struggling journalist to actually want to plagiarize it.

It's not wiretapping. The FBI says so. Apparently, the FBI is saying that any private citizen can just set up their own "stingrays" to intercept phone calls as long as they're in public places, and the FBI won't prosecute (at least, not with wiretapping laws). This makes sense.

This makes as much sense as waterboarding without consent not being a crime.

Come on? A child is a device now! May be if the authors had been using some kind of artificial intelligence for their bot, but from the article, it does sound like they deliberately picked a gray marketplace just so they could generate some kind of contrived moral dilemma, or some social media publicity for themselves.

In any case, $100 isn't much. Imagine if the budget had been $10,000, that could easily get you a freshly cut human head for that price.

You mean, this story is a re-run from Gilligan's island, except now George is the professor, not the skipper. And the characters have been switched around to avoid getting sued over copyright infringement.

I couldn't agree more.

Give me a gadget that can tell me when my washer/dryer is finished. It can be wireless/bluetooth-like, because washers and dryers are usually just far enough, that you can't really hear their buzzer when they're done, but connect that same gadget to the cloud, and you've lost me permanently as a potential customer. Don't give me what I don't need. Do not give me what I don't want. For instance, I already have a smart meter, but this is certainly not because I was given a choice. If I wasn't such a helpless sheep, I would have destroyed that smart meter as soon as I noticed it.

Also, do not build that gadget into the washer/dryer itself and do not embed a tablet or anything too complex like an OS into an appliance. Just like I do not trust Ford to make good and cost-effective built-in gps units with free regular updates, I do not trust a washer/dryer manufacturer to make a good reliable gadget that's easy to fix, or easy/cheap to replace, or can even be easily kept up-to-date, compared to my own dedicated phone, or my own dedicated tablet, which I tend to replace much more frequently.

Also please take into account, that when I move apartments, I usually don't take the washer and dryer with me, nor the fridge. The same goes with some people who actually own homes and move from house to house. Some people do, but not everyone moves in/out with their large appliances. Do not limit the market for your goods to such a small subset of people.

If you want to do something useful, just get out of my way, or make room for my things. It would be nice if my tablet could hang on top of my stove, or on top my fridge. It would be nice if it could be protected from potential splashes, or from heat or smoke, or smudges. It would be nice if my tablet could easily be charged from its stand. And it would be nicer if the form factor of the fridge/stove was flexible enough that it could adapt to a wide range of devices, from my small old recycled re-purposed android phone to the latest and greatest tablet out there, whether it be my device, or the device of a family member/friend visiting me for a day.