What makes you think Cold Fjord is for small government? He's the NSA's most prolific /. shill.

It sounds like you are thinking the drawings encourage pedophilia when perhaps, allowing drawings protects real children. There is probably a genetic predisposition or sometimes, organic brain diseases that in most cases, won't be "cured" ( http://articles.latimes.com/20... ). So, if instead we look toward harm reduction, using drawings is a perfect solution because it gives an outlet that harms absolutely nobody and may well serve as an alternative to actually hurting kids for those infected with this disease.

There is a distinction in how you interact with a browser, and the actual content of your searches. Blurring this line is pretty ugly. Apple needs to know stuff like: The user clicked in the search field, typed stuff, and then because of a 60s delay in executing the search, probably couldn't see or understand the search icon, and clearly didn't know to press return (or the phone rang). To get this, Apple doesn't need to know what the person typed. But if that is the claim -- the need to know what is typed -- why not just enable the video camera and microphone too -- that would make it easier to figure out if the person is having problems with the Safari interface, or just answering a text on his phone. I'm guessing people would be sort of grossed out by that, but it fits right in with what you say they need, so why not go total surveillance?

Are you joking? Why not have the local program test the server itself with the usual prefixes for mail servers? Then the local app can try the usual ports for SSL. Then it can tell the user the results. After a failure, it could even say, "hey, that server isn't responding to the usual requests, would you like me to check with Apple to see if there is something special about it and Apple knows that secret sauce?"

Do you want to tell me with a straight face that this interaction could not be programmed into a local application that sends nothing to Apple (except by express request on the user's part)? That this interaction is so amazingly hard, it has to be done remotely on a bank Apple's servers?

In TFA, the author claims he did turn stuff off. Have you run a network sniffer to watch your computer's behavior, or are you trusting that "off" means off.

I think I understand -- you are saying the software operates as designed, so no problems here.

I think what you aren't getting is that the way the software is designed is what ticks off people who care about their privacy.

Seriously, why should mail.app inform apple that I set up an account randomMailHost.com? That the software does leads you to write [closed: behaves correctly]. This is not at all "correct" from many users' points of view -- you should use a phrase that is more factual and uses words with less judgment involved, for example: [closed: behaves as _designed_ (and if you don't like the design, suck it)].

From TFA:

Having read DuckDuckGo's privacy statements, you might decide to switch Safari's default search to DuckDuckGo. If we enter a new search in Safari, we can then search the logged data to see who the search terms are actually sent to.

The logs show that a copy of your Safari searches are still sent to Apple, even when selecting DuckDuckGo as your search provider, and 'Spotlight Suggestions' are disabled in System Preferences > Spotlight.

Or why when setting up an email account does the mail app send the domain name you enter to apple?

I say all this as a person who has been using mac laptops for the last 9 or 10 years. I'm obviously not an apple hater but this seriously makes me question whether I'll buy another one. It's a pretty astounding intrusion demonstrating some rather staggering hubris.

Yeah, it should be opt-in. At the very least, opt-out.

The pre-dominant literature in the field ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L... ) suggests that 30 is the age at which people should be recycled.

As an aside, I have one of those logitech Bluetooth keyboards with the solar panel and the ability to store connection info for three devices and then switch between them by pushing one of the three physical select buttons. Was awesome -- for 9 months. Now it won't turn on at all.

Fair enough... And I agree with you, until the loan is actually delinquent, the car should be yours to use peacefully.

So if they are taking action before it is legally delinquent, then that would be wrong.

The point I was trying to make is that 5 minutes AFTER it becomes delinquent, you can take the car. You CANNOT do that with a house. There are all sorts of notices you must send, you have to file with the court, provide time to the owner to catch up, etc. Then you have to file for foreclosure and that is something that the legal system does. If the owner doesn't take care of it, the house will be auctioned on the court house steps.

And they really do it that way, I've been to such auctions, right outside the front doors to the courthouse.

What they CANNOT do is just show up at your door and throw you out of the house.

While that is all true, it still puts out a bunch of pollution, a bunch of CO2, and doesn't really address the core problem, which is to stop burning dead dinos.

If I'm going to spend more money on transportation, deal with range issues, etc. then it needs to be on more than just moving from burning oil to burning coal. If my power was nuclear supplied, I'd be much more inclined to do it.

I would rather a nuclear plant was built 10 miles away from my home than a coal plant 100 miles away. Nuclear, run properly, is safe.

Of course, the words "run properly" are key there, that is another conversation to be had. That is why I'd want to talk about having the Navy run them, they have done very well over the past 50 years and don't have a "profit" incentive the way private companies do. Sometimes "max profit" and "nuclear reactor" shouldn't be in the same sentence. :)

IMHO...

If I was in the market for something like a Nissan Leaf, I would give it a serious look. After the tax credits and considering the deals on them, it might well be something to consider.

The irony is that standard cars today are just as nice, if not nicer, than many luxury cars of years gone by. But I'm spoiled (yea, I know that is what it is), so I wouldn't look at such a car.

The issue I'm having with the Tesla is that for what you pay, you're not getting a whole lot. It is missing a lot of things that I now consider "standard equipment" in the $70-80k price range.

Electrics perhaps just don't have the juice to provide everything yet, but I know it will come.

Range isn't the biggest concern, I'll have a gas vehicle for awhile to cover that, one of my two vehicles can be electric. The bigger issue is that none of the electrics really offers what I'm looking for.

I either need a full size truck, or perhaps an electric Corvette. :) I don't ever see myself buying a sedan ever again.

What benefit does AMD or nVidia get from doing that?

Considering the desktop market of Linux is about 1%, give or take... Frankly I think you should be happy they do ANYTHING at all...

Poke at them enough and they might decide to not bother.

Of course smog is an issue, there really isn't anything "good" that comes out of the back of a ICE engine...

The problem is, getting an electric truck doesn't help much when the power from the wall is produced from a coal fired power plant...

You're just moving the pollution from one place to another, not removing it...