Remember, with Google, you - and what you do online - are their product. That information, and your "eyeballs" are what they sell. Expect them to behave accordingly.

It is not related to Heartbleed.

The man just has no balls. If he did, he'd make a call, one way or the other. If he believes one choice or the other is the "right thing" to do, for the environment or for the country, he should make the call regardless of the political risk.

This thing is much more than a connection. With CarPlay, the phone essentially takes over the display on your car. Makes it display the phone icons and such. Through a proprietary protocol, btw.

I think you're making my original point for me. I was trying to say that one should not allow a group of "Christians" to define Christianity. I think we can agree on that.

Kinda reminds me of Apple...

And people like you will lump us all together, too. :) Good heavens (no pun intended), if it weren't for opinions, what fun would religion BE?

I guess it depends on what you think Christianity means. I think it means following the teachings of Christ. I do not think it means whatever a bunch of folks that call them Christians think it means.

I suppose we're arguing semantics here a bit. I'm just trying to make a distinction between what is taught in the New Testament and the way certain "christians" behave. It is not correct to allow those groups to define Christianity. You may rightly dislike those groups and their behavior, but please don't mistake their bad behavior for the teachings of Christ.

Peope tend to confuse the way some so-called Christians behave with Christianity itself. There are countless examples where people have done things in the name of Christ that were not in accordance with the teachings of Jesus. That doesn't make Jesus wrong, it makes those people wrong. One should not interpret the behavior of such people as Christianity.

A small point: there is a lot of violence and brutal killing in the Old Testament (the Jewish Bible), but you won't find them in the New Testament (by definition, the Christian part). Basically, Jesus taught us to love our enemies and turn the other cheek. The violence in the New Testament is all being done TO Christians, not BY Christians. Jesus taught peace and love. Muhammed taught violence as a tool of his religion.

Get an iPhone. Use "Find My iPhone" free feature. Demand that other phone makers provide that, too, if they don't already.

Doesn't the existing Apple passcode with fingerprint solution solve this problem (I think Samsung is doing something like this, too)? It appears to me that the device is useless to anyone except the original owner, since it can't be unlocked, even after a wipe and a re-flash. The fingerprint makes the passcode not a burden to the owner.

Isn't that sufficient?

What's really going on here is that Comcast (and the other cable companies) realize that some/most/all of their current subscriber base is eventually going to "cut the cable" and go with internet-based TV and free broadcast TV. It's easier than you think if you have an Apple TV or Roku or some such.

What Comcast is doing is trying to find a way to keep their revenue up when they're not hauling in boatloads on the Cable TV side of the ledger. When content providers are paying for bits, then Comcast has a revenue stream to replace the revenue lost when someone cuts their cable.

Exactly which monopoly position is Apple leveraging in an illegal way? You mean using their boatload of cash? That is certainly not illegal. They do not have a monopoly position in any business whatsoever, except possibly the iPod, which no longer matters and has nothing to do with TV, anyway.

You do know that the OS back then is a completely different base than OSX? That OSX is FreeBSD based and OS9 (the one back in the late 90's) was based on the original Mac OS from 1984? That there's no relationship AT ALL between the OS's? And so there is no relationship between what viruses may have occurred on Macs in the 90's and Macs of today?