the next story on slashdot—on iCloud nude pics leakage—collected more comments. ..i'm sorry to disappoint you but it really is not more complex than that..

this is probably the biggest takeaway there.

we can still fight for some degree of privacy. but any meaningful anonymity is not available to the average folk.

doesnt help nor hurt. not going to register in any meaningful way. news cycle is 24 minutes. it will have been forgotten by the time next post goes up on /.

the knowledge that "noodies" are out there will linger for a few days for its intrinsic value..

are her b**bs any different than bajillion of others in all shapes and sizes freely available on the internets?

there have been many pearl harbor level events, apple being nowhere near the worst offender. in fact one can easily argue that apple has done pretty well with respect to protecting user's privacy. and we don't strictly speaking know that this particular breach was caused by apple.

seriously, what am i missing?

since neither black or white are actually colors, there can be no colorblindness of black-white variety. except for total blindness that is.

presence of ads does no more to user's control of the device than tv ads do with regard to control of the television set.

what you're talking about is circumventing app owners' revenue source.

whether you choose to think of that as shoplifting or "fighting the power" is your personal choice but at least don't confuse it with control.

don't like ads? vote with your feet, buy ad-free apps. that _is_ control, btw.

for vast majority of people jailbreak, in fact, constitutes loss of control.

terrific. we agree.

i think you have causality exactly backwards here. i doubt we'll agree on this point though, so lets move on.

do you think too much fish can be a factor in demotivating people from learning to use the fish pole?

agreed.

would you then agree that its important to help folks both with fish _and_ fish poles?

indeed it would be if the minimum wage was enough to subsist at a level they've been conditioned to think was sufficient.

you get no argument from me about messed up education system. but minimum wage is no way to deal with the fallout of it.

also, in all honesty, how hard would it be for someone with an ounce of personal responsibility to take few classes from a local community college and get a more gainful employment than minimum wage? or, spend few weeks in a library?

its the proverbial "fish vs fish pole" thing.

you'd have to subsidize much more than just health if $400/wk was to provide for 4 people.

allow me to propose an alternative.

how about spending 6-18 months to develops marketable skills before starting a family? too much to ask?

so.. what you're saying is, as long as one has a job, skilled or not, they should be able to afford to live comfortably and support up to four people?

thats a great utopia if you can find it, but i'm not sure it exists on this planet..