They removed the sync for contacts and calendar, the rest is still locally synced. You can sync those 2 to any cloud provider, including rolling your own caldav server, not just Apple's, it just defaults to Apple's. It was an annoying move, but ascribing a motive beyond "we really would like people to use iCloud more because it ties them to continuing to use Apple products" isn't really supported by the facts (especially since the framework, SyncServices, had been declared deprecated since 10.7, so it wasn't exactly unexpected)

The GP most likely mixed up "Sent up the river" and "sold downriver"

I have an external iSight from way back, it actually does have a close-able lens

Nothing is ever that simple and any attempt to boil something so vast down to a single word, no matter how far reaching, is naive. Religions exists because of various human needs, and people believe because of various needs. It can enrich lives or impoverish them. It can motivate, or demotivate. It can create and destroy. Help and Harm. Like anything manmade it can be used for peace, and for war.

Terrible acts done in the name of religion are symptoms of deeper, more intertwined problems in how we relate to one another, terrible teachings symptomatic of human needs for order, control, and normalcy. Absence of religion would not simply make the world a better place on it's own, something else would take the place, both good and bad, that religion serves . "If god did not exist it would be necessary to invent him"

Fortran and learn some how to implement MPI and CUDA code is your work is parallelizable.

This is on the top of the NYTimes homepage as I write this comment (though I will admit it was the only major US news agency I found that had anything on their homepage about it)

They can only do it now because of the auth chip in lightning cables, old style 30 pins cables have no method of checking for authenticity. You may have had old cables that charged via firewire, which wouldn't work with newer devices though. There were plenty of third party cables you could buy for dirt cheap (seriously, shipping is and was more then the cables!), and the firewire variety weren't common after the first ipods got usb charging capability.

and now this fake piece of trash. What the hell's going on with the slashdot editors in the last couple days? I don't usually gripe about articles, but this is a little sad...

the GP is talking about base :p

What part of "unlicensed" do you not understand? The bands in question would be used as the current chunks of 2.4ghz and 5ghz spectrum are used for, say, 802.11a/b/g/n, bluetooth, etc if GOOG/MS have their way... This opens up new spectrum for many cool uses you could go buy a device that uses without having it run on someone's network, just like your current wifi router and BT mouse.

How would keeping it unlicensed for new wireless tech pay google/MS (I suppose you could argue indirectly in that their devices would be using the spectrum, but that's true of any cellular uses it could be used for too)

So that people don't have to rewire their house to use them.

I mean, I'm not buying them, but that's a pretty obvious answer

Or the sites will just move domains/set up alternate domains, as has happened with thepiratebay, eztv, and demonoid just off the top of my head

Last year I moved to my grandmother's place to house sit for a few months while she was away. She has no internet, I was entirely reliant on my phone. My workstation stayed at my home, accessible remotely as needed via laptop+LTE from my cell (or starbucks), but I did haul my gaming machine out with me. It had no internet access for quite a while and steam offline worked just fine...

The OP was addressing the case in the summary about medical software in a docs office, not poor people. I know this is /. and we don't read TFA, but the TFS isn't too much to ask, yes?