When you would constantly curse... BLOODY MOUSE!

Personally I try to keep my casual online name(s) and real name separate. And Facebook private. I don't mind a prospective employer viewing my LinkedIn profile and seeing who I am professionally, but who I am in private is my business apart from the official responses given in the interview and LinkedIn etc.

I don't need my interviewer knowing that I spend a lot of free time on a my little pony fan site. I'm not that stupid.

I'm surprised this it's a surprise. It seems reasonable to assume that if you're detected in any way using Tor someone is capturing every packet and saving it away somewhere until it can be easily decrypted using future technology (imagine how powerful computers will be in another 30 years) and they can see what you were up to.

Yep, keep it in a cold dark place. England!

I gave up Windows a long time ago, apart from occasionally booting into it for gaming. It's too much of a chore manually unticking boxes on every bit of software to stop it doing annoying spammy stuff (usually to do with systray icons) and even if I'm good at avoiding it there's always the looming malware threat. Plus having to support it and having unpicked people's home computers over the years has put a bad taste in my mouth. All in all I'd rather avoid it at home.

That leaves OS X and Linux. (No "I use AmigaOS you insensitive clod"?)

Usually I get curious about how Linux is doing and go and have a play with that for a bit, as I do love its philosophy. Then something will come up that "should be simple" and isn't, and I get annoyed. I'll grant that for everyday web browsing and printing etc Linux on the desktop is in a much better position these days, and has significant advantages such as built-in drivers for most things and centralised updates so you don't get every bit of software under the sun pestering you to install an update. I love this, it's a godsend and almost worth it on its own.

But there is always something that strays slightly from the mainstream stuff but that "going by all the other OS'es should still be a simple matter" and it never is. That's where you often end up with a number of different pieces of software being involved in different ways (whether they're dependencies for a package or for compiling one) and having to sit and read the man pages for each of them and you're thinking "I don't have time for this, okay I wouldn't have known libfoo2 like the back of my hand but ultimately I could've had it going in 10 seconds on OS X" even if it means paying someone $1.99 on the app store. And so I end up switching back so I can get stuff done.

It basically follows my "interested in hacking around" vs "interested in freeing up my time for other things" phases.

Also, even with handsfree talking it's probably best to pull over. Watch anyone in charge of a supermarket trolley while talking on a phone. They can't even control that. Why are they in charge of a car?

Seriously the chaos over this reminds me of in our town. Everyone is trying to squeeze onto the double-yellows (parking at the side of the road on areas where it's actually been marked as not permitted, which is typically a £60 fine if anyone ever checks) after 6pm on an evening when at that time it's well publicised that the car park a ~20 second walk away is FREE. Everyone is far too lazy and impatient. I get that things can be a bit of effort sometimes and that life can be a bit of a rush. But it's not a gargantuan effort. Either case takes like 20 seconds. Pull over and then text!

According to everyone who manufactures tablets.

We totally don't need that fast upgradeable storage, or that high end graphics card that takes up 3 slots, or a proper keyboard, or a mouse, or that nice 23" desktop monitor. Nope. "We don't need them so you don't need them"".

From the Wiki

Stephen Fry has recounted asking Steve Jobs whether the design was intentional, saying that Jobs' response was, "God, we wish it were."[120]

Presumably meaning as a homage, but this latest story gives the exchange a much more chilling possible meaning.

Exactly this. Samsung user now!

I tolerated them for a while because they made the best technology in its class (IMO) a few years ago. When it came to Jobs' holier-than-thou blanket banning of porn on iPhones I tolerated that along with their other restrictions because they weren't exactly difficult to jailbreak and they were either turning a blind eye to keep their technical user base (an agreeable approach - "protect" the dumb masses but turn a blind eye to techies), or pretty incompetent at stopping it.

But the increasing arrogance of it all and the tightening squeeze against jailbreakers (it's now far from a blind eye - it takes a year just to get the first tethered jailbreak, and take something like the 3rd gen AppleTV which is outright unjailbreakable) drove me to look elsewhere and as of the Android 4 devices there is far better stuff out there than iPhones, iPads and iOS. Apple thought they were invincible because of the iDevice success and so rested on their laurels and stagnated. When combined with this kind of behaviour the result is people leaving them in droves.

In the history books the decline of Apple will be put down to the death of Steve Jobs, but I think the rot set in before then and it's largely the legacy of his arrogance that is continuing to reverberate through Cupertino.

Kirk, or the Caretaker?

Keep it DRM free, maybe a basic serial number registration system.

Add on your site and in the app "please be honest, I'm just trying to put food on the table"

Those who want to crack it will crack it. You cannot stop that, so there's no point in even trying to encrypt the registration key to the nth degree. Anything more than a basic registration system will just
a) take more effort on your part
b) inconvenience legitimate customers of your software

I trust this doesn't mean they'll be bringing Flash back though *shudder*

It's one of those interesting points with Steve Jobs. At the time, the decision seemed awful and a lot of people were cheering on alternatives such as Android for including it. But a couple of years on it would seem that many share my view of: hey, he was right! Flash IS an awful resource drain, and because of him banning it from iOS there's been great progress towards HTML5 and the drive for efficiency. I seem to recall even Adobe have agreed it's the correct move at this point. Android has had Flash for a while but the latest versions have dropped it. It'd be so ironic if (unlikely) iOS gained Flash and everyone flocked to Android to get away from it this time.

In the process of reading this , and especially when responding, I'm already in a public venue exposing a camera lens at an angle where I could have an app running in the background taking regular stills or videos without you suspecting anything. I'd mostly be capturing your feet and your dog, but could easily be recording your small children.

As it happens I'm already conscious of this and if there are kids running around or something I'll casually rest my finger over the camera or move slightly to reassure anyone wise enough to watch and wonder that no, I'm not filming them.

But I would bet that no, it doesn't cross anyone's minds.

I think it's that secret kind of recording people need to be concerned about, not something strapped to someone's face in plain view with a red light telling you when it's recording. And you wouldn't even know about the secret one

The important bit is "if they ask", so there's no jamming of anything down any throats.

I'll grant that "teach" can seem a bit arrogant, it's just the way of those who believe though, if someone has a really solid faith they'll believe it as the absolute truth. I'm more of the opinion that we should be fully open-minded on both sides of the coin, but again, opinions.