That is a blatant lie. Take as evidence iOS jailbreakers who do it so they can download $0.99 apps for free. There are plenty of people who are never going to pay anything if they can get away with it. I don't care what you do, but don't tell us that nonsense about stuff being too expensive.

If you think for example that a computer game is too expensive and you pirate it, surely you should put the amount that you think is correct in an envelope and send it to the producer of the game? How many people are doing that? Everyone else is just lying.

Reality check: Apple just gained a major number of new customers with the iPhone 6. At the same time, Samsung Mobile has been losing dramatically, having to give up most of its profits to keep prices down to prevent even higher loss of customers.

And here I was thinking that what Cook does gets him the respect of all good citizens. You see, Cook isn't using the Apple name to endorse his own political views. He is endorsing Apple's political views.

You are ridiculous. In every country in the world you have plenty of teenagers working. Nobody in China is doing 16 hour shifts. Nobody in China works for pennies an hour. Very few people in China handle dangerous chemicals, just the same as in other countries. If you want to be taken seriously, try to describe the situation of workers in China as it is.

Well, actually, I would expect that to happen if the lawsuit was justified. Let's say there is building work at my company and my car gets damaged, and I think it's the fault of my company. Sorting that out should have no effect on my career. It's different if you file a lawsuit and it turns out it is all based on lies.

for every single case where Amazon tries to enforce this against a warehouse worker. This is absolutely f***ing disgusting.

WTF? Almost every programmer that I know is in a stable and good relationship with a woman. Except for one female programmer, who is in a stable and good relationship with a man.

An NDA wouldn't help if the idea was nothing special. You have a trade secret if you have a secret that gives you a competitive advantage because you know the secret and others don't. But if others have the same idea and therefore the same knowledge about the idea, then you don't have a trade secret.

If I divulge something that I received under an NDA, then you can sue me in a civil court for a breach of the NDA. For example if you hired me to organize your kid's birthday party and want it kept secret. That would be a secret, but not a trade secret.

If what I divulge is a trade secret, then you can make criminal charges for breach of a trade secret. Because that's what it is.

That's what an NDA is for. If I have a trade secret, you sign an NDA and I tell you the trade secret because of the NDA, then (1) it stays a trade secret, and (2) if you breach the NDA I can get you for breach of contract _and_ with criminal charges for violation of a trade secret.

My bloody bank required 8-12 characters, and required uppercase, lowercase, digits and special characters.

Obviously the lovely scheme that is suggested here isn't going to work with that. On the other hand, when you are using an iPad, a 30 character all lowercase password is quicker and easier to type and more likely to get right than 8 uppercase/lowercase/digits/special characters. Now imagine if they allow space characters in the password and turn the spelling checker on as well.

Swift does exactly that. Every instruction is checked for overflow. Not sure how clever the compiler is in proving that certain instructions cannot overflow.

That is obviously wrong. Minimising total damage should always triumph. If you intentionally drive into a pedestrian, you should and will go to jail.

That is of course a possibility. But how often has it happened that someone had a stroke while still breathing, triggering the descent mechanism by accident and _not_ locking the door from the inside? It seems that it is hard to lock the door by accident, so not locking it is 100 times more likely than locking it. Do we have any reported case of that? Where the pilot went into the cockpit just in time to save the airplane? I don't think so.

It may have more effect on relatives. The effect on the person dying is the same. And there have been times not so far away when a huge percentage of children didn't ever make it to adulthood.