Not sure what that has to do with the article. Those devices are not malfunctioning. They are just reporting a MAC address different from that burned into the hardware.

If that crashes your network, it's your network that is malfunctioning.

Absolutely! Oh, wait, you didn't talk about your statement ...

Great. I just hate fact based reasoning anyway.

You mean, together with Google, Microsoft and the rest of the US IT industry?

They actually do care. Which does not mean they will necessarily be able to protect us from the NSA.

So, I guess you don't lock your front door?

Because, you know, that's just crappy security.

First, *every* US company is suspected to work together with the NSA. So Apple isn't worse off in that regard.

Second, this feature is not about avoiding the NSA. The spooks can just utilize the cell network to track you. This feature is about *everyone else* trying to track you. Because, you know, not everyone is able to spoof a cell tower. But everyone *is* able to put up a WiFi hotspot.

Third, *of course* this is about selling more devices. And what's wrong with trying to make money by offering something actually useful?

Source please. Otherwise this is just FUD.

iOS devices determine your location if you agreed to at least one app using that information. The device also doesn't transmit this information. An app might if you opted in to location tracking. For something like "find my friends" that's kind of the point, you know.

(Of course, *every* active cell phone can be tracked by the cell phone network. But I don't think that's what you were referring to.)

Exactly! And the black helicopters could be invisible and inaudible and circling above us right now!

What's an iBeacon ID? The iBeacon is the device that is installed in the store. iBeacons send data. iPhones receive that data. Never is anything sent from an iPhone to an iBeacon. And while the app on the phone is able to process the data from the beacon, that is completely opt-in. As in you need to use the app in the first place.

(Sorry for disturbing your completely irrational Apple hate. You may now continue.)

On OS X auto save is combined with versioning. So, yes, you can undo changes. Even after reboots.

Of course it could be. It just seems very unlikely.

I've read a bit about the topic before and everything you said has already been considered; there should have been conditions favorable to life billions of years ago.

We could be the first. The question is still: why?

That doesn't matter. Even if you don't have FTL you could still build Von Neumann probes which would be able to colonize the galaxy - even with fractions of the speed of light.

http://www.nickbostrom.com/ext...

"If a probe were capable of travelling at onetenth of the speed of light, every planet in the galaxy could thus be colonized within a couple of million years [...]. If travel speed were limited to 1% of light speed, colonization might take twenty million years instead. The exact numbers do not matter much because they are at any rate very short compared to the astronomical time scales involved in the evolution of intelligent life from scratch (billions of years)."

That's not a valid explanation because there are many planets that were able to harbor life millions of years ago. If intelligent life emerged as fast as possible, life from those planets would already have colonized the galaxy.

It can't be something like a supernova. That would be random and some civilization wouldn't have encountered any and would be ruling the galaxy right now.

No, the Great Filter must have something to do with biological or technical progress itself. Either it's very unlikely that intelligent life evolves at all or it is very unlikely that a civilization reaches the level where they would be able to colonize the galaxy.

So if we find life elsewhere, that would make it less likely that the Great Filter is located in the earlier stages.

What is that supposed to mean? A lot of artwork comes in bitmap format. But there are also quite a few PDFs and the OS doesn't really care either way.
The graphics system is point based. Where a standard display features one pixel per point and a high dpi display has two (by two) pixels per point.
Apple tried to make the UI scale arbitrarily, (the feature was available for development purposes for years) but it didn't really work all that great, because there are too many cases where you get off-by-one errors that look quite bad. They eventually decided that it wasn't worth the effort and instead opted simply for displays with a 'high enough' resolution (i.e 'retina' displays) and integer scale factors.

Yes it is. Because you can't taste every bottle of Cola before you buy it.

Actually, that would worry me less, since I can't think of anything the Chinese would want to do with that information. The US on the other hand has already proven, that they think they are the world police.