Comment Re:Makes me glad I use an iPhone... (Score 3, Insightful) 153
other than stuff befalling jailbroken devices
This is the important part. Walled gardens are inherently more secure, it has nothing to do with Apple's competence.
Comment Re:ATTENTION!!! (Score 2) 308
anyone been able to crack the admin pwd yet?
Comment What advertising? (Score 1) 132
Adblock+Ghostery+Downloading all my movies/tv. I don't get any advertising, let alone that which "follows" me.
Comment Re:Feature/Bug in Outlook (Score 2) 248
Other advantage of gmail is it actually groups "conversations" so you don't end up with 100 emails for a long running converstation. Email becomes like a thread that you are subscribed to (with reply all) instead of a cluster fuck of messages all over the place. If people are smart about it you can easily take people in and out of the thread (we usually start emails with -Somebody or +Somebody when we do that).
Comment Re:Hardware level adblocking is the future. (Score 1) 686
I believe cyanogenmod allows you to fine-tune application permissions.
How Free Speech Died On Campus 530
theodp writes "The WSJ catches up with FIRE's Greg Lukianoff and his crusade to expose how universities have become the most authoritarian institutions in America. In Unlearning Liberty, Lukianoff notes that baby-boom Americans who remember the student protests of the 1960s tend to assume that U.S. colleges are still some of the freest places on earth. But that idealized university no longer exists. Today, university bureaucrats suppress debate with anti-harassment policies that function as de facto speech codes. FIRE maintains a database of such policies on its website. What they share, lifelong Democrat Lukianoff says, is a view of 'harassment' so broad and so removed from its legal definition that 'literally every student on campus is already guilty.'"
Comment Re:What about LibreOffice (Score 1) 480
Actually the web/html is the analogy of English. Sending doc files around is antiquated, and if someone wants to send me one they better send it in a standard format.
Comment Re:GO UNIONS! (Score 1) 674
AND they were pillaged by a pair of VC firms to the tune of somewhere around $700 Million
Can you provide a citation for this? I would like to rebut a friend of mine who is blaming this all on the union.
Comment Re:What about LibreOffice (Score 1) 480
I see it as someone sending me a garbage document. If you want to communicate with me, communicate in a known and accepted way. ie if you and Microsoft make up your own version of English, don't expect the rest of the world to cow-tow to you.
Comment Hurray for full CORS support (Score 1) 187
Its about time... we might actually be able to start using it.
Comment Re:Windows is no longer relevant (Score 1) 112
Windows is no longer the 800 lb gorilla - Apple iOS is.
iOS is 2nd in market share in mobile just like Apple is 2nd in market share on desktop. How does coming in 2nd in every market they touch make them the "800 lb gorilla"?
Comment Re:Produce one then (Score 1) 582
It's called ad hominem. The fact that it is Florian writing this does not necessarily make the facts wrong, but it makes it such that you must use a different source.
Comment Re:Not a journalist (Score 1) 770
For the purposes of photography the law treats shopping malls as public space - ie you have no privacy. The owner can still have rules regarding photography, but the only way to enforce them is to ask the person to leave - which this teen was attempting to do when the guard assaulted him.
Comment Re:I'm sorry but.. (Score 2) 770
Maybe you didn't read the story, but the teen was attempting to leave when the guard assaulted him.
