And Jobs did say the the company wasn't about technology anymore and was just being run by a bunch of suits. Your comment was right on the spot.

I don't know about you, but if you look real close about what Chrome is doing, even if you have that instant search feature turned off, the browser will redirect even full urls that you type down like www.something.com to google.com with some unique user id belonging to whatever cookie you have and then finally showing you the website. If that isn't a case to get paranoid I don't know what is.

This goes right to the point. I was raised with the notion that communist countries indoctrinated their people in any way possible, then I went to study in the US, and ranging from subjects like international relations to history in general, it was amazing to find out that there was always this attitude of USA number 1, or that the angle was somehow worked out, or if you watch history channel for instance, even something as remote as the Russian Japanese war of 1904, there is always some US reference embedded to it. It is a very subtle form of propaganda and very hard to detect it. It's like Apple marketing in a refined way :).

But all in all, I believe all governments try to push their agenda. The US is no different and even with that, to all my American friends, you still live in a great country. Live long enough somewhere else and you will realize how cool it still is, even if everybody keeps talking bs about it.

It's not a right-wing mindset. The guy does have a point. There is some weird stuff going on right now where people were trying to ban WiFi in schools because of health concerns. The same people were still happy to use cellphones it seems. There is a bunch of goofs pushing agendas over there without real scientific evidence and the problem is that sometimes they are making a lot of people believe in that crap. Kind of like that "aliens kidnapped me" mindset and a lot of people actually believing it.

Omg, I totally agree with you. A Canadian friend forwarded me some of the "fact sheets" about the whole WiFi issue that almost felt like you were dealing with the writings of an LSD junkie. It seems that superstition is taking a lot of people for a ride, at least in small towns in the British Columbia area.

Good to see good scientists speaking out against that crap.

Call it whatever you want, but we just got the first major malware outbreak in OS X recently after so many years. On the iPhone that is unheard of. Much as in the Windows world and the much hated Vista security system that kept asking you, do you want to do this, or allow that?, that security model is fail since regular users will start saying yes to everything and then end up with a problem. Call Apple what it is, an overpriced hardware/software company that likes to keep the lid closed, but as far as their products running trouble free in general, I will have to agree with the article. But hey, everybody is free to think whatever they want.

So in that sense we should also forbid the free flow of capital, natural resources, telecommunications and just live in our own separate tribes. Then war can make things better when said tribes have an issue because whoever loses gets assimilated or becomes slave labor. Yeah, it definitely is a better system.

He's aiming to secure the vote of the extreme right since he's in a bad shape for elections. Even the French Communist Party ranks rose from 7% to 15%, so the left in the form of the Front Gauche is poised to sweep the idiot out of power. This latest comment from him is just but a continuation of his crazy remarks that shows his desperation. The other infamous one is the "there are too many foreigners in France", especially ironic when his father immigrated to France himself from Turkey.

He did gain some points for handling the gunman crisis well, but not so much to overcome either Hollande or Melanchon on a second round of voting.

Just because you and a bunch of English/American people hate France doesn't mean everybody hates France. The guy who carried the attacks was pretty much targeting the Western world in any case, and in the case of Sarkozy, he's very afraid of losing the elections since the leftist candidate is going to win so he has started making crazy and racist comments.