I've found that withholding the a full bug list, while allowing customer to directly submit bugs to engineers (e.g. limiting customers visibility on Bugzilla to only the bugs they submit) is a very powerful approach. This allows some level of verification without leading the witness, and a better understanding of what is important to customers on the whole. I always advocate for making it as easy for the customers to submit bugs. You want the marketing people to filter information from engineers to customers, not the other way around.

As for submitting whole bug list, with the exception of certain situations (obvious impact on large pct of user base, open source, safety/security) I really don't see the point. I ask myself - in developing proprietary software is there benefit to publishing minor bugs that don't impact a large percentage of the user base? Does it help me sleep better? Am I somehow magically off the hook for bugs that have been published? In my experience the answers to these questions is "No", and advocacy to submitting all bugs to the customers is generally rooted in the ego of the engineer. It is marketing/sale's job to manage the customer expectations, not the engineer's - we have to live with this fact.

"What concerns me about this is companies marketing something expressly to allow people to place themselves beyond the law."

I've yet to see any of these devices marketed as allowing people to place themselves beyond the law. Law enforcement are the only ones pushing the idea that the only purpose is to circumvent the law. Of course, the lapdog media has no problem reprinting the "encryption is for criminals" message.

The Supreme Court does say that money is free speech. Free as in a $1500 beer.

Reading this, you would think that Apple is the only large company making tech.

This is what all large companies do. For instance, Windows was built on hundreds of companies that Microsoft went out and bought because they needed the tech. Samsung builds shit from scratch all the time, and probably has more CNC machines at its disposal than Apple.

This is nothing more than an Apple puff piece. To remove the marketing content, one would have to replace Apple with "large corporation", then the article's title would just be "No, You Can't Manufacture Like a Large Corporation". Then you can replace the author's name with "Duh".

The fossils running content providers, and some ISPs still can't figure out how to monitize the internet for their existing models of the world. This problem is so 1990's, still so applicable. Rather than realize the internet for what it is, they need to apply boarders and geoblocking because, well... because otherwise Johnny Rotten would be able to sell butter outside of Britain?

The BBC are morons. People aren't going to stop using VPNs, the genie is way too far out of the bottle for that. If they really want to control content for profit, perhaps they should look at all of the folks make money on subscriptions services?

It does kind of read like Chinese propaganda.

Only a matter of time before the Chinese government takes over Alibaba, or sues because of "antitrust" or whatever other reason it can think of to get its cut. Either way, how can owning part of a Chinese business be a good investment, unless you are former/current PLA or a wig wearer in the Communist party?

I wouldn't waste my money.

Yep. This is all Obama's fault.... The misinformation coming from American wing nuts is nearly as silly as the stuff coming out of Russia.

The US isn't the world's policeman. This isn't the US' conflict. And, most importantly, the Ukraine has no oil for the US. The US is much better off having the EU try to purchase Gas from an antagonized Russia embroiled in a dispute in the region a majority of its pipelines run through. It makes it far easier for the US to start selling LNG to Europe.

The US has far more to gain by doing nothing but stoking outrage. No sane US president would get seriously involved with Russia over Ukraine. If you are saying Romney is crazy, then you may have a point. But Romney never really struck me as crazy. Your typical two-faced, corporate back, US politician - yes. But not crazy.

Putin is just nostalgic for Chernobyl.

You mean this: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/ear... ?

Timely,

Google, Facebook, and the NSA government are nothing more than competing Panopticons. They all want as much of your personal information as they can collect, and they all want to keep it as long as they can.

If one of these organizations is legally battling the other, then you can be sure it is because they feel they should more of your data than the other, not because of a moral imperative.

This is about people who don't like using computers. Many non-technical people see computers as a hindrance to performing their job. Complaints go to what is simplistic to grasp. This is usually the OS. When Munich switch over to Microsoft many of the same users will then complain about Microsoft.

This isn't about complaints, it is about Microsoft lobbying Munich to make those complaints an issue.

Only a matter of time before Rightscorp gets sued. No one will get their $20, but the lawyers will win and Rightscorp will end up with a nice bill.

Diversity quotas, affirmative action, is about opportunity, not entitlement.

Apple doesn't give two shits about the color of the skin or gender of who it hires. Like every other tech company, Apple is looking to hire educated, motivated, and intelligent people. Unfortunately, there tends to be a racial bias on the "education" part of the equation... Blame our society for this, not Apple.

Pastafarianism is readily historically verifiable as being deliberately conceived of as a fake religion for the express purpose of satirizing other religious beliefs,

All that readily "historically verifiable" evidence, just like these fossils, was staged.