Yeah, but remember that you've got to pony up just over a grand before you can even use Mac OS.

And who said you had to use the binaries that are provided? If you've got access to the source and happen to be paranoid as hell, compile it yourself.

One would hope that any company relying on cloud services would also be smart enough to use either A) encrypted storage like Dropbox or B) pre-encrypt their sensitive and confidential information before putting it into the cloud. All said and done, more companies need to read Mitnick's 'Art of Deception' anyway.

Consoles are using AMD because the parts are cheap, not because the performance/watt is fantastic. AMD hasn't been able to produce a CPU with amazing performance, decent thermals, and high power efficiency for years now. Why do you think gaming PCs and nearly all laptops use Intel? Because Intel offers all three with ease.

Intel is going to have something on the market that runs more efficiently and with better performance. Try as they might, AMD just can't seem to get their act together for producing a decently performing product since the Athlon II.

It's not that the phone has the sole copy of a piece of information. It's that the phone is a very easy method to get at said information.

Perhaps people wouldn't HAVE to confront the scumbag that stole the phone if the police actually did shit about it. They don't even have to do any detective work, as the victim has already done it by using 'Find my iPhone' or Android Device Manager. All they need to do is get a search warrant from based on the victim's evidence, arrest the perp, collect the phone. Everybody wins except for the thieving scumbag.

Then do us all a favor and kindly disconnect your XP system from the internet. We don't need any more idiots harboring digital herpes on thier antiquated systems trying to infect the rest of us with real operating systems.

True. but most people with older Macs don't have to spend 100+ dollars just to upgrade their system to the most recent build of Mac OS. You can run Mavericks on 7 year old iMacs and MacBooks with few issues, while trying to run Win7/8 on a 7 year or older machine is nothing but issues.

How is this any different than MS stating in the past that updates required a certain Service Pack in order to be installed. It's worded very poorly, since everyone is going to assume the worst when you say 'Windows 8.1'. Mainly because they're not calling them service packs anymore or incrementing the updates. Windows 8.1 Update 1 would make more sense to people if they simply called it Windows 8.2.

Because with the exception of Win8, there have been core elements and behaviors of the OS that have been carried over all the way from 3.11 and Win95.

There's also the fact that Fluorinert is potentially toxic, but it's also a greenhouse hazard. One would hope that 3M learned their lessons in the development of Novec and it's not an environmental hazard.

Newtonian Physics 101: For every action, there's an equal and opposite reaction. So you want to launch a slug of metal at Mach 7, there's going to be an equivelant force pushing back on the gun and whatever it's mounted on. A plane just isn't going to survive those forces yet.

Considering the logistical nightmare it is to intercept, duplicate, re-seal, and store dead-tree comms? Pretty damned good.

With an iPhone? It's only 1,000 possible PINs for that lock. If you've got the hardware, take your time fingerhacking the pin. For Android, depending on ROM, the pin can get insanely long and you're pretty much boned.