I'm not sure that the parent was particularly insightful...

They are a company who manufactures proprietary products. I can't think of a single proprietary company who does not have an aspect of vendor lock-in. And I'm not even sure what element of Apple's offering would be considered lock-in (unless you're talking about the App Store).

I think you'll find more-often-than-not that Apple takes features from jailbreak apps rather than those sold in the App Store. Fair game.

I'll admit this is some pretty poor form. I do, though, think it's fairly obvious if you look at the smartphone industry before the iPhone vs after the iPhone you'll see how many other brands have copied Apple's look and feel. Not that look and feel should be patentable, but the entire industry was sitting on their hands selling mediocre products and then as soon as Apple releases their product they all rush to sell the same thing. Where's the innovation? Things like this are pathetic.

At least iOS asked you if you wanted to opt-in for tracking (CarrierIQ). Other OS'es did not. I think you'll also find that Android had a similar 'bug' where a user's GPS location was tracked along with wifi data.

I own 7 Apple devices with all bar one (iPhone 4S) out of warranty. None of mine have failed, but I suppose YYMV (especially 11 years ago).

Actually, it's a feature of the iPhone 4S and iOS 5. Transferring 'voice data' as you put it has been around since Bell's days, the gimmick that Siri offers is the promoted ability to understand natural language and not the transfer of data. Siri is a feature of the phone, no matter which way you look at it.

If they only sell 32" and 37" sets who is going to buy them? 32" is too small for even a bedroom, let alone watching the 'HD' media one would expect to be able to stream to one of these televisions. Also, if the rumours are true this television must have some significant features other than what can be achieved with an AppleTV + LCD. My guess is they will include an EPG and storage to record television shows to in addition to the AppleTV functionality. Then Apple will call it revolutionary and pretend like they came up with the idea to record to HDD. Not saying I don't like the idea of an Apple tv, just saying.

So what I'm saying is... these guys have potentially got the password databases. What's changing your master password going to do? It'll ensure that they can't get into your password safe as it stands, online. But if they brute force your database then all of your passwords are compromised. No?

This might be a lack of understanding of the LastPass system on my part, but I'm not understanding why they are/were suggesting customers reset their master password. Surely, if this password decrypts a password safe then it is as, if not more, important to reset all passwords which were stored in the database.

The solution to your problem is simple, either a) use a static IP configured with reverse DNS, as many people have indicated, or; b) use your ISP's SMTP as a smart host to forward all outgoing email to. Simple, really.

USCYBERCOM plans, coordinates, integrates, synchronizes and conducts activities to: direct the operations and defense of specified Department of Defense information networks and; prepare to, and when directed, conduct full spectrum military cyberspace operations in order to enable actions in all domains, ensure US/Allied freedom of action in cyberspace and deny the same to our adversaries.

That's purely speculative. Also one would assume that setting Location Services to 'off' will infact turn off location services.

Settings > General > Location Services

Now you can choose which apps are able to access your location information, or disable this feature altogether. Was that really so hard?

...research that will be presented (PDF)...

I wish that I had Hypersafe installed so I could open Acrobat on a virtual machine instead.