Apparently they refuse to carry anything that would identify them with the "mark of the beast".

The family objects to any ID that has a number on it for religious reasons. They were offered a school ID without RFID and they turned it down.

A few months ago my wife started using my old iPad 2 more and more. Pretty soon it was all she was using and the kids were using her MacBook. For Christmas I got her a new iPad 4 and she was thrilled.

She mainly uses the web and email, with some rare Excel and Word document reviewing with iWork. For light photo touch up iPhoto has been fine too.

For a moment I thought you meant Highway 101 in California. Wheels are often useless there as well.

They are soldiers! As far as I know the "warfighters" term came around during the 2nd Bush presidency, but I may be wrong.

I remember doing some work in the Pentagon at the time and everywhere there were signs about "warfighters". It's an asinine political terminology created to make everyone feel included when discussing the military. It would be like calling a programmer a "keyboardtyper".

When this headline came across my RSS feed I at first thought this was going to be some crazy Heroin-related story.

At university the joke was always that the H stood for Hitler. That was a long time ago now though.

The music on an iPod isn't encrypted at all, you just use iTunes to manage the files.

a sticky situation.

Apple disables the on the fly defrag if you are using an SSD

http://opensource.apple.com/source/xnu/xnu-2050.7.9/bsd/hfs/hfs_readwrite.c

No, no... It's because we've now given the Martians what they need to make PU-238 space modulators.

There is a LOT more to Siri than just a bundled app. The Siri technology is deeply integrated into the OS now.

The innovation with Siri isn't the voice recognition, it's the personal contextualization that it's applied with.

How is Apple stealing from the open source world for OS X and iOS?

So how were they planning on playing video on a Kindle touch?

I also turn on the service that gives me a "New Terminal tab at folder" contextual menu in the Finder.