It gives immediate results and not only shows an idealized programming space, but one that game and sim developers actually use. It allows you to program in JavaScript also, which is the new intro programming language in CS 101.

Wait, so if they haven't found any breach, but some "unnamed intelligence official" told the press that they have, and the press is reporting that they have... well, where did the story come from and how did it get so much traction if iBahn doesn't even know about it?

Wait, could this be just another piece of anti-Chinese, anti-communist propaganda being floated by the American press? Of course not! We don't have propaganda and psy-ops here in the USA!

Brazil, well they have the bigger problem that the majority of their population has Toxoplasmosis, and this is adversely affecting their brains. Maybe it's related to the slavery behavior. Studies should be done.

It is excruciatingly naïve to think that the reason people buy things is because of intrinsic value. People buy mostly junk, watered down processed foods, and far fewer durable goods than ever. The highest profits are made by getting people hooked through addictive qualities, not by providing the best quality items with te greatest benefit. And today we've gotten so good at refining foods that we can sell people stuff that makes them sick, THEN sell them the medications to relieve the symptoms of their disease whe they get diabetes II or cirrhosis.

No system that I know of - maybe Burma - has any laws in place to protect the bodies and minds of its citizens from addictive poisons. Maybe. In the interest of health the US could ... Ah never mind, the US is a moron asylum. Let's all drink beer and watch sports and call it culture.

Cocoa is pretty special, TTYTT. Good set of APIs.

It's a very good OS, and so is iOS. So is Linux. Windows is finally pretty good too. I like OSs and I admire the engineers who make them better all the time. Good stuff, impressive.

I believe the MBTA matter-of-fact male voice is also synthetic.

I hope you're joking. Of course helium doesn't 'float' -resist gravity- but it does rise (get pushed) to a point of lower density when mixed into an atmosphere. Like bubbles in water...

Volume! Older iPad 1 is $350 used or refurb. Lots of these thangs around. And apple gets 30% on all apps sold.

AP News is now reporting 9 casualties.

Apple has a brand to protect, in a similar manner to Disney, which sounds weird, but then you go to Times Square in 2011 and nothing will ever seem that weird again.

Well it could be seen as a slanted and prejudicial kind of slander, to imply that Apple and others like them are predatory creatures playing on Human weakness. It could be say to be unrealistically insulting to Apple, its ilk, and to consumers as well in calling them unconscious dupes. If the app presented the alternative view as well, that some of us consumers may actually willingly and with awareness take part in the sharing of products with the caveats of advertisements, exploitation of workers, mining of rare minerals and all the other attendant issues, and in spite of it are still good-spirited individuals, merely having fun within this echelon... Well, Apple is fulfilling a dream of mankind, so why not at least give them the benefit of the doubt? It's a hard position for Apple to be in, having to acknowledge this product as plainly mean-spirited. But I suspect other mean-spirited apps have also been blocked - Dartboards with the faces of politicians and things like that... It's a fine line and a hard call, and maybe there's some flak deserved for coming down on a sketchy line. The app could be seen as kind of satirical, but it's possible the detailed content has a nastier spirit than the plain idea we have so far discussed.

VERY mean-spirited towards Evil. Whole cities destroyed. But perhaps this falls under the Parody Rule.

Possibly the same guy who decided commas should separate the thousands, millions, billions...

No, it actually makes it look more like an accident.