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Comment Re:I would be more worried... (Score 5, Informative) 277

I think it illustrates limitations in the technology more than human incompetence. The service can't find your phone. It can tell you that your phone is near 55th and San Pedro, but it's not going to tell you which house and room the thing is sitting in, or whose pocket it has been put in. I bet I can stash a phone "near" any intersection in the country and you wouldn't be able to find it with only that information.

Notice that I'm not suggesting a solution... the service does what it does, but it's not a panacea for finding lost things.

I bet I can find the stolen iPhone. I would do what every other LE officer would do. He would walk up to the location and then call the lost iPhone's cell number. Then with probable cause he could seize any phone that rang and was answered matching the audio he heard with his observation of the suspects lips.

This happens nearly every day in the USA. I think it is hilarious when the cops seize guns and a large drug stash at the same time from the perp and his urban buddies. My favorite form of instant justice is hearing there were panicked perps who jumped out of a second floor or higher window injuring themselves only to be caught by more backup cops waiting below.

Comment iPad plus Notability (Score 2, Interesting) 300

Apple has been equipping their own employees with Notability.

That simple fact caught my attention so I bought a copy for myself.

This app is on a roll with impressive updates.

It features just about everything you can think of for a note taking app. It includes a recorder with time stamps linked to your notes so tap on part of your note and hear what was being said when you created that part. It has support for drawing, neat handwriting, and typed input.

You can add photos on the fly along with web pages, PDFs and other resources.

Export/Import is to BOX or Dropbox among various cloud storage options.

I use it for one to three day conferences and it works like a champ lasting all day long if you turn down the brightness somewhat.

Often the iPad is all I bother to carry while everyone else is totting regular notebooks or paper solutions.

Notability has new support for retina graphics on the 2012 iPad. The ink used for handwriting is very attractive on the new iPad.

I can also let Notability record while I use four fingers to swipe to other apps to look up private data which I can insert after a screen shot or in most cases via a simple copy and paste.

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I have tried many other iOS apps to see it they were better but I just keep coming back to Notability.

It just works.

Comment Re:Boggles mind to think about how they squandered (Score 1) 440

They had the money, but could they have enticed the brilliant graduates of top American schools to move to Ontario? And I don't mean to say that Canadian engineers aren't good, but that Apple and Google have access to a global talent pool - did/does RIM? (Fascinating question: How much does snow and ice have to do with the fortunes of a mobile phone developer?)

Doesn't Finland, home of Nokia's world class mobile technology, have snow and ice too?

Comment Mining Jello on The Moon (Score 0) 408

There is no such thing as wasting money on research.

Google should join with there new friends at the NSA to investigate how we can mine jello on the moon.

With the unlimited resources of the US government and Google great strides can be made in our discovery of the steps needed for industrializing the moon and a profitable new market can be established that the West can dominate.

Comment Re:What a surprise (Score 3, Interesting) 308

It basically sounds like Perfect Dark, but with manual initial per-finding and weaker security (if you always have the same web of friends, you can likely be tracked by this web).

Now all of a sudden Google's new March first privacy policies make a lot of sense. If they can connect all the dots to reveal the connections things like DarkNet, Google would be of great value to the government and no one else need be any wiser.

Comment Rumor: iPad 2 to be discontinued next Wed (Score 3, Interesting) 67

THe best rumor I've heard so far is that the ipad2 will see a price drop to make it more cost competitive with kindle fire. We'll see in a few days.

It is rumored today Monday Feb 27 that...

Apple is dropping all models of the iPad 2 next Wednesday except for a single 16 GB iPad 2 WiFi model. That will be the low ball to bring people into Best Buys, Target, Wal-Mart, Sams etc. It may even be for sale in educational channels as part of Apple's new iTextBook agenda.

Think of this as the 16GB iPad with a huge ten inch iron spike in it to prevent too many from walking out the door. The retail sales people are supposed to 'step' the customer up to a real iPad, the iPad3 in HD, which by the way is going to be significantly more expensive then previous iPad models.

I think the price jump is seventy or eighty dollars on the low end in todays iPad 3 rumors.

I think the new price increase will go a long way to give Android tablets some breathing room in the 2012 market. The only problem I have seen is that most of the Android Tablets are still undesirable compared to the iPad ecosystem. Even Amazon is seeing returns of between 25% to 33%.

Realistically competing tablets still have to sell for less, sometimes a lot less, to move the product in 2012.

That is simply Google's fault and they appear to be trying to remedy the situation the best they can.

Comment Is Google taking over Linux with Android/Chrome? (Score 0) 404

Google seems to be quietly trying to subvert Linux by locking developer interest into Android and Chrome only. This move by Adobe to support only Google seems to be a continuation of a disturbing pattern of unfairness incited by that advertising giant as it moves to cement its dominance of the Internet.

Crime

Submission + - Boston police laugh in face of Anonymous hackers (networkworld.com)

An anonymous reader writes: The Boston Police Department, whose news site was hit recently by the Anonymous hacking group in retaliation for the police force's treatment of Occupy Boston protesters, has issued a video that essentially has the department laughing in the hackers' faces. The hack, which involved replacing the news site with an Anonymous message and a KRS-One rap video about police brutality, took down the police site for a week.

Submission + - Ask Slashdot: How to become paperless? 3

THE_WELL_HUNG_OYSTER writes: I've had numerous ADF scanners over the years, and all of them jam or grab multiple pages at a time (thereby missing pages). Like you, I've got years of tax returns and legal documents to scan, but with these kinds of barriers, it would take months to scan everything. Enterprise-grade machines cost 5 figures. How do Slashdotters become paper-free?

Comment Re:Which was always obvious. (Score 1) 144

Apple doesn't want to provide a free tool to be used for producing ebooks on competing platforms. I fail to see how that's being a "jerk". It's called running a business.

"Jerk" doesn't quite cover it. I believe terms such as "evil" and "monopolistic" should also be applied.

Now can you begin to have insight on how the European union views Google's change to their 'user agreement' for all Google products. The EU flatly told Google that it isn't going to happen with out a review by all the governments in Europe who may completely reject Google's new terms as evil and monopolistic.

It is easy to say but can they prove it?

If they can, Android and Google are in a world of trouble, far more than the simple problem just solved by Apple over the Apple freeware iBooks Author. It is one thing to have a handful of Geeks mad at you but to have the all the governments turn on you in mass is another issue that is very serious.

Even the USA is getting involved since US laws have serious issues like the HIPPA violations that will occur on and after March 1 from a simple Google medical search tied to a user's ID
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/technologylive/post/2012/02/rep-bono-mack-reports-on-closed-door-google-briefing-/1

Google stepped into some very deep dung without thinking through that announcement of new mandatory user agreements beginning March 1.

Comment Re:Thermonuclear War... (Score 1) 184

"I will spend every penny of Apple’s $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong" - Steve Jobs

$100 million down, $39.9 billion to go.

Wrong, $100 million down over $99.9 billion to go.

Apple just picked up a lot more cash in the last quarter. They have almost a hundred billion in cash right now.
Awesome sales and profits!

Comment Re:True Evil - Apple (Score 1) 184

This article caught me at a good (or bad depending on how you look at it) time. I am so sick of Apple fanatics and how they are willing destroying the personal computer industry. They hold their limp wrists high (no intent to offend gays, but it is such a fitting description) in celebration of their superior operating system, with no clue as to how they are being brainwashed into supporting abandonment of all personal rights

F--- Apple, please let them burn in hell.

I wonder if you have the courage to feel as strongly about Google's move today limiting all your online privacy rights if you use any Google product including Android?

You as well as the rest of us have only until March 1, 2012 to think it through.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/jan/25/google-merge-user-data-privacy?newsfeed=true

Comment Re:Bubble? (Score 1) 761

And the number of "fanboys" appear to grow exponentially each quarter, judging by the financial results. How exactly do you imagine that Apple manages to keep on getting all these new fans?

WARNING: This question actually requires you to think.

Be careful.

Do some warm ups first.

You definitely have a future in writing for the best of the comedians if your tech job fails.

Comment Re:What are they after? (Score 1) 171

What exactly is Google trying to accomplish with their "real name" policy, anyway? I don't see what they hope to gain that's even worth the trouble of enforcing it, not even considering the ill will they're piling up.

i am surprised no one has seen the news BOMB Google dropped a few hours ago.

By March 1, 2012 all users of any Google product (over sixty different Google properties) must agree to a new limited privacy agreement. Google is going to combine all users individual online Google identities into one real identity that Google will track in real time.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/google-moves-to-integrate-user-data-across-services/2012/01/24/gIQAmv8GOQ_gallery.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/jan/25/google-merge-user-data-privacy?newsfeed=true

Will this enable Google to have the power to launch an instant attack on any group or business that Google disagrees with ideologically or socially?

Would this threaten the freedom of free expression during political or religious debate?

Could Google be used to topple the heads of governments who threaten their interests?

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