You can set it up so that "clicking" with one finger at either of the bottom corner while dragging another over the trackpad does the right-click drag. While you can claim that such a multi-touch gesture is far from being ergonomic, you are exposed to the same kind of interface with a regular touchpad. In any conceivable case, Apple's trackpads surpass everyone else's.

Can you eat with a clean conscience? Living beings are being killed (or prevented from being born) just so you can enjoy a meal! Can you breathe with a clean conscience? Your breathe is polluting the air!

Be rational and don't stress over things beyond your control. If you wish to change the world, seek the power to actually control those things from the top and prove your worth, otherwise just enjoy the convenience of what you have today, because you're only harming yourself by not doing it.

Your post makes no sense. The only reason why they make any money from Apple at all is because Safari defaults to Google for search, nothing else; the interface doesn't change the slightest if you choose Yahoo or Bing instead. They aren't redefining anything, or influencing Apple in any way that's positive to them. As a matter of fact, they are actually antagonizing Apple, to the point that Siri has been implemented with Wolfram Alpha as its backend and Google Maps is slowly getting ditched in favor of both OpenStreetMaps and Apple's own maps, because Google's licensing is making it impossible for Apple to implement a decent Maps app.

Even indirectly, they profit more from iOS, a platform that they don't even waste resources developing. As far as business is concerned, Android is nonsense, they could be doing much better by partnering with Apple rather than antagonizing them.

Find My iPhone can be easily disabled if the phone itself is not locked. Being off is not an issue, because it'll signal its location as soon as it's connected when the option is enabled, but if you just disable the service in iCloud's preferences, or log off from iCloud entirely, then it won't be tracked. Find My iPhone is nowhere close to being the privacy threat that everyone who never actually used it makes it out to be.

No, you couldn't say that, how playerhost.dll got onto your home directory was you saved it there. And even if it was a Linux executable you would still have to perform a numbr of steps to get it to run, as well as supply the root password.

No, I did not save it there, notice the name "c:\playerhost.dll", it was clearly saved by an exploit to the browser or a plugin running on it (most likely Flash). Also, where the hell does your idea that root is needed in order to run executables come from?

Regarding Flash losing support on Linux, I may have been misconceived as I might have gotten it confused with Adobe AIR.

Your train of thought crashed as soon as you failed to realize the difference between research and production. It is perfectly OK to research one platform while using another, there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. I have developed the Linux kernel in the past and that hasn't stopped me from turning into an Apple fag. My understanding of how operating systems work does not make me want to tinker them all, quite the opposite. I am perfectly fine when things just work, that is my goal as an engineer.

Haven't been using Linux for long, have you? I've had such things happen to me in the past, they were just targeted at Windows, but that didn't stop files named like c:\playerhost.dll from ending up in my home directory, on Linux. I guess you can say that I was saved by Linux's lack of popularity on the desktop, nothing else.

You can claim that many of those vulnerabilities are gone now that Adobe has stopped developing Flash for Linux (as well as for mobile platforms), that address spaces are randomized, that compilers have evolved to generate hardened code by default, and that x86 now supports non-executable pages within code segments, but that's not always been the case, and if you're going to judge Windows for what it was, what it did, and what it does, then at least be unbiased in your judgement.

Aerodynamics. A model T with a modern engine would lack adherence and potentially lift off at higher speeds. Beyond safety, aerodynamics also improve fuel efficiency, which is why these designs continue to be tweaked. There is obviously room for esthetics, but the main motivation for today's car designs are aerodynamics..

As I understand it, it was Microsoft that pushed for ActiveSync support on the iPhone, in order to keep themselves relevant against RIM's threat at the time. Don't take my word for it, though.