the fact that the phone doesn't do the work and what they said is transmitted to Apple doesn't seem to register with most people.

Do you realise that everything you say in a phone call is transmitted to AT&T, Sprint or whatever?

There are privacy issues with phones, and Siri isn't the biggest.

You completely fail to understand how torrents work. No copyrighted material is available for downloading at The Pirate Bay. None.

You completely fail to understand how the law works. Copyright material is available for downloading at The Pirate Bay. Plenty.

Reference Case number B 4041-09 [2010-11-26] Svea hovrätt (Court of Appeals)

Having worked in IT for 15 years, I can tell you that most people don't listen to Angry Nerds either.

True nerds do not harbour emotions, as they are most illogical.

You laugh, but I've heard more than once that VMware is actively pursuing virtualization for smartphones.

VMware is. Mobile phone vendors aren't. Myself I am actively pursuing getting filthy stinkin rich and pregnant.

With the licensing fees VMware are getting they are org*sming from the thought of getting revenues from 10M+ devices. It will never happend because mobile phone vendors are passionately pursuing lower licensing costs, not higher.

It's good vapor though.

it is not a matter of Apple having developed anything original at all.

The wheel is invented, but it damn better should't stop people from making better tires.

Classic PR tick to fake scarcity to make a bad deal appear better than it is. 99% of customers would only buy 1 anyway.
It means that they've changed from hi-tech marketing to commodity marketing like your grocery store always uses.

I have never been to google+ and i don't see a need to go to it. All of my friends (wife) use facebook, why go?

Facebook CEO calling users 'dumb fucks' is a compelling reason.

Somehow I am not bothered by this, I mean other than the fact it will be prohibitively expensive and for that reason wont happen, it will also be trivial to circumvent for those who really want to.

I'm flabbergasted by your statement. You seem to be saying that you're not bothered that the government may log everything a citizen reads online, because criminals who really want to can circumvent the child pornography log device if they really want to.

I am very bothered by this device because no government should have access to a list of everything it's citizens read. We can be certain that at some point in the future, the contents will be used maliciously. The only way to prevent this is not to compile the list at all.

Wouldn't it still be possible to encrypt the data before it's sent anywhere?

You're completely missing the target.

An unjust law should not be tolerated by citizens because there might be technological means to circumvent the law.

It's also quite easy to simply outlaw encryption.