Comment Re:Voluntarily? (Score 3, Interesting) 255
Perhaps making Google look bad isn't their #1 goal. Righteous indignation is cool and all but they're a business.
Comment Re: If it is off (Score 1) 472
If you're gonna argue from zero evidence, just claim that the CPU itself is pre-rooted and be done with it.
Comment Re: If it is off (Score 1) 472
That's not even remotely what a TPM does.
Comment Re:And Android 4.5 will be named... (Score 1) 247
iOS 7-UP?
Comment Re:SocMints? (Score 1) 76
SocMint: Plusfresh post-eat. Holeful. Buy.
Comment Dubious. (Score 1) 327
Despite moves by government to get Google, Amazon and Apple to admit they make sales in the UK and US, and therefore should pay tax on these earnings [...]
Tim Cook seems to claim the opposite:
I can tell you unequivocally Apple does not funnel its domestic profits overseas. We don't do that. We pay taxes on all the products we sell in the U.S., and we pay every dollar that we owe.
So is he a bare-faced liar, or is the article summary bollocks? Sources please.
Comment JIMMYYYYYY! JIMMMYYYYYY! (Score 2, Funny) 144
YOU SONOFABITCH!
Comment Re:Few things (Score 4, Interesting) 260
The point is, apple's profit isn't actual quality - it's just a surcharge for people dumb enough to buy
At this point there are quite a few counterexamples out there - Apple users who are clearly not dumb, nor suckers, nor computer-illiterate.
Seriously dude, it's time to let it go.
Comment Dumb (Score 1) 260
1. The OS and online infrastructure costs $0?
2. Selling a product at a profit equates to "premium" now?
Comment Re:Neat but expected (Score 1) 159
Second. The article makes it sound like the guy discovered the Mandelbrot set hiding in the tube map.
Should Snatching an iPhone Be a Felony? 607
theodp writes "English comedian Russell Brand could be facing a felony conviction for snatching an iPhone from a would-be paparazzi and tossing it through a window. Singer/parolee Chris Brown also found himself in iPhone hot water after being charged with 'robbery by snatching' in a similar DIY-paparazzi-thwarting incident, which could be a misdemeanor or felony depending on the value placed on an iPhone. But in the world-of-crazy-pricing created by phone makers and wireless providers ($899 Nokia Windows Phone, anyone?), where the quoted price of an iPhone varies by a factor of 376 from the same company, should one really be charged with a felony for snatching an iPhone, especially when an iPad 2 can be had for $399 retail?"
Comment Re:"Money sucking leech"? (Score 1) 438
Nope, not new; I just never felt the need as pressingly as I do right now.
Comment Re:I`m tellin ya...Apple is circling the drain. (Score 1) 438
Make some concrete, testable predictions - say, market share, profit share, stock-price or something of that nature - and I'll see you on 8th Feb 2013.
Comment "Money sucking leech"? (Score 1) 438
"from the greed-begets-greed dept."?
Ugh.
Is there a way to block stories by editor?
Comment Re:So how do they know if they actually wrote it (Score 2) 148
Was the magnetic write head ever the main bottleneck?
Maybe not the 'main' bottleneck, but it depends on the application, no? Seems to me there are at least a few firehose situations where you can never have enough write bandwidth (say, uncompressed video-capture).
Maybe normal workloads on normal filesystems wouldn't see much improvement, but I bet you could find ways to capitalise on the extra bandwidth and space. Log-structured filesystems spring to mind for one.
