There was even no need for that. The higher end 15'' models were already using the technology by the time he bought his machine. It was expected to trickle down, as Apple usually launches the new technologies in the higher end models to boost sales.

I have no idea why this comment was modded down. It is very relevant to the discussion...please do not mod on opinion. As for the answer to lounge boy. I was planning in buying a new one in a huge black friday promotion, but hold out because the high end models already were using this technology, and it was a given it was a matter of time for it to trickle down. Next time, you should do better your research.

What about the concept of pricing iTunes movies and songs more fairly and to a point where people won't bother to pirate them. The prices of music and films are distorted, too expensive upon a perceived reality distortion film of the medias conglomerates and the market is maintained by customer intimidation and political pressure instead of the law of the offer and demand...things have to change. Thing is with prices by the cents of music and movies, iTunes and the likes could dominate the landscape of entertainment and be almost the sole exclusive providers. Going to the movies, and buying physical media for entertainment is an obsolete and dead concept, certainly not ecological and a big waste of natural resources and money.

They do not need to travel. Our government handles us as criminals when registering for our identity cards and sold our biometric data to the USA without telling anybody.

Why such a radical change? I was educated in industrial schools, choose not to join the work force and continue my studies (actually was also very immature), and again joined a special program for IT work...however it was never only geared through that, they were specialist educational mixed with regular education. Granted, we had more hours of schooling than our counterparts, but then we also had a more rounded preparation for life AND the workforce.

For them to do something about it and save face. Sweet.

Oh yes it happens. I have "nothing to hide" but wont travel to parts of the world that do not respect my rights to privacy. What I alone? I sincerely doubt it.

Vote with your feet and your wallet.

I can definitively corroborate all the effort it took to master the grammar of the second language helped me being more conscious of what I say in my native language.

the card is placed in a mechanical imprint device along with a carbon-copy receipt, and the merchant then slides a roller across it to imprint the face of the card directly on the receipt

hah.. yes, I am actualy old enough to have paid that way a few times myself when I was younger. I was always taught to ask for the carbons and rip them up in such cases too.

Also had them whip it out at Fry's once when the computers crashed (and the cashier was a complete idiot that had no idea how to fill out the form, add numbers together and compute tax) but thankfully the computers came back just before I simply walked away due to annoyance.

My latest replacement Capital One card (2nd in a year due to hacks) has a chip.. and no numbers on the front. Now the numbers are just printed on the back, with the cvv right below. So one pic and the info is all there.

No PIN to go with chip.

My suggestion to the owner of the "Smart" TV was to get a Roku, Amazon Fire or some other stand alone device and ignore the TV's smart features.

Hah.. that's exactly what I've done. I have an AppleTV just because I've already got a pretty large iTunes library. When I wanted my current TV, I got a Samsung "Smart" one, only because it was the one of the size, quality and price I wanted. I played with the "smart" stuff for a few minutes, then basically never touched it again.

Damn good as a TV... beyond useless "Smart" features.

It's also go a camera with an attempted xbox kinect-like control features that (just like the rest of the "smart" stuff) was buggy at best. Thankfully said camera is a small module on the back that pops up and can be kept down so that it isn't on nor can actually see anything even if it were. I haven't popped it back up since the first days after I got the TV over a year ago.

The local Apple representative here has been selling the "iWatchz" for months now...€100. I should complain to Apple, actually.

Translated into layman terms, the tool gives you the output, the real knowledge is to contextualise it into the current ecosystem and knowing when it does not makes sense/is a false positive. Any monkey can run the tool.

I always cringe when I read in an advert "startup mentality"