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Comment Re:2GB fine for living room computer (Score 1) 638

Sound like they're using their monopoly possition to their advantage over the competition... If this were the other way around you'd be crying for government action against MS.

Have you ever used Microsoft Office for Mac? It's just as bad and you actually have to pay for it.


Note: I do think that Apple really needs to improve iTunes on Windows.

Comment Re:Huh? (Score 1) 214

Hard-drives are usually refered to as "storage" as opposed to "memory". The reason I used both of them in my example was to point out that hard-drives are measured in Base 10 multiples of bytes while RAM is measured in Base 2 multiples of bytes.

Sorry about the 10^5 mistake. It definitely is 10^9, though my value for a gibibyte was correct.
Privacy

Submission + - Israeli court protects online identities (jpost.com)

ygslash writes: The Israeli Supreme Court refused to force an ISP to reveal the identity of an anonymous talkback poster, thereby preventing a libel suit for labeling an alternative medicine practitioner a "charlatan". In the 70 page decision (to be published online, in Hebrew, within 72 hours), the court weighed the rights of freedom of speech and confidentiality against the right to protect one's reputation, and discussed the procedural complexities of allowing civil suits against anonymous parties while protecting the rights of all involved. The majority opinion of the court was that legislation would be required to allow any legal action in this case. Business Ethics researcher Asher Meir commented: 'If talkbacks were strictly subject to the laws of libel, then people would give them more credence. [The majority opinion of the court] is correct from a judicial point of view, but if we are weighing legislation a basic question would be: How much credibility do we in fact want talkbacks to have?'
Iphone

Submission + - iPhone 3GS goes down at Pwn2Own (zdnet.com)

TwiztidK writes: A pair of European researchers used the spotlight of the CanSecWest Pwn2Own hacking contest here to break into a fully patched iPhone and hijack the entire SMS database, including text messages that had already been deleted.

Using an exploit against a previously unknown vulnerability, the duo — Vincenzo Iozzo and Ralf Philipp Weinmann — lured the target iPhone to a rigged Web site and exfiltrated the SMS database in about 20 seconds.

Science

Solar-Powered Augmented Reality Contact Lenses 213

ByronScott writes "Want eyesight that could put your neighborhood cyborg to shame? Well, University of Washington professor Babak Amir Parviz and his students are working on solar-powered contact lenses embedded with hundreds of semitransparent LEDs, letting wearers experience augmented reality right through their eyes. If their research proves successful, the applications — from health monitoring to gameplay to just plain bionic sight — could be endless."

Comment Needed competition (Score 0) 584

I think that if there really are as many iPad competitors as the article suggests that it could possibly do a lot to improve the iPad. If most consumers really want an open application marketplace and they show it with their wallets, Apple may be forced to loosen up their control over the App Store.

Comment Re:Suicide? (Score 0) 1343

Being careless with a car and making a dangerous object accessable are two different things. Driving while reading, resulting in someone's death, is comparable to shooting a gun with your eyes closed. Leaving a gun on a table is the same as leaving your car unlocked with the keys in the ignition. Vehicular manslughter and leaving a gun on a table, even with the safety off, are not even close to being the same thing.

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