the wind was already taken out of the second hand market by having an anti-theft lock turned on by default. if you went to craigslist to buy a phone, you need to know if there is an antitheft lock on, because if you try to reset and install your own stuff, you could have bought a phone that you can't use. There are more structured options like amazon (buying direct, not from a marketplace person) or gazelle, but they get their markups.

Right now I'm still using my two-year-old iphone 5. Once I got out of my att contract I took it to an mvno for prepaid service. I chose rok mobile for the best balance of low cost and high data cap.

Apple has been leading on this front with several initiatives to protect users from malicious ads. One of them was a setting in Safari to only accept cookies from the first-party site, so when you go to cnn.com the browser accepts a cookie from cnn.com but not from malvertiser.com, who has a banner ad on the site.

This upset google because it cut into their business model of selling effective ad space. So google inserted malicious code into webpages to hack the safari browser and override security settings so it could download unwanted and potentially malicious files onto users computers. Because of this, google received the biggest fine in FTC history and is being sued for privacy violations in the UK.

Think about this for a second, and what it means. A website overriding browser security settings to serve unwanted and possibly malicious files. This is outrageous and unethical, and if it were Microsoft then the entire internet community would be enraged. Also think about it in light of this article on malvertisements, which google was actively propagating.

Apple has since taken the cat and mouse game further, so the setting is "allow from current website only". I expect malvertisers to scramble to overcome this block, but I hope that legitimate respected top tier internet companies act a little more ethically.

can I use HOSTS for this????

if it were my summary I would definitely attribute it to somebody else, because it makes absolutely no sense. what does this mean? "But what about when Yahoo, CNN.com, TMZ and other busy destination sites heave disaster upon visitors?" what does the rest of the summary mean?

I agree. apple users are snobs who define their identities by showing off their gadgets. I don't go near that, this is why I have a nexus one and moto360 writs watch along with a galaxy tab and chromebook on which I'm running Linux.

Very insightful. It would seem that you could build a simple processing facility to distill out propane from the hydrocarbon muck. Yeah would need a similar facility for purified methane anyway, so what's the diff? Not much.

Loool those would be awesome flame wars

half hour if you're lucky. theres a lot of black men to beat first!

the key differentiator isn't smart people. it's people of conscience. people of conscience couldn't tie themselves into the mental knots required to say things like the tea party: "keep government hands off our social security!"

It's the pandering that's the hardest part for a person of conscience to accept.

Lol I totally responded to the wrong post so my message above seems unrelated...

exactly. the criminals get them anyway but the innocent civilians cant protect themselves. do away with the gun laws and let people arm up to protect themselves and their families.

fun fact I did not do a poop for all of 8th grade. true story bro.

I found the mighty mouse/magic mouse really hard to use, but I really enjoy using the new trackpads, especially when enabling multitouch gestures.

whats wrong with the xbox controller? I think it fits really good and the finger triggers are in a good place. my ownly gripe is that there aren't more dpads.

does anybody use dual mice or track balls or track pads? that would be pretty awesome.