FTFY. Why would Apple want to hand a free phone to thieves to make legitimate customers buy another one?

You can remote locate, lock and wipe iOS devices. If the thief connects to the internet, that is.

I tried this once, and it didn't work.

My guess is, there are different revisions, then are several batches, and the odds of getting exactly the right controller are pretty slim. In addition, how do you know that the controller isn't somehow "linked" to the specific platters?

I don't have mod points, but this.

plus analog audio/video.

Of course USB is "capable" of sending video and audio. But for manufacturers of accessoires, it is 100x easier to implement analog connections than figuring out some data protocols.

One word: Accessoires.

Simple as that.

It's not "act of God" vs. man-made, but more like evitable vs. inevitable.

In this case, dismissing the technological aspects and blaming it on human error is intended to let the technology shine as inherently safe, so the japanese power companies can spin up their nuclear reactors again. Nothing to see here, move along please...

Both of these announcements remind me why I covet local storage for documents and the ability to set my own GUI prefs.

So using online storage negates the use of local storage? What?

Well, I'm sorry to point this out, but you won't win any science awards by kicking critical thinking out of the classroom.

Just sayin'.

Luckily, this doesn't mean shit in Germany. You can't make people who want to buy something from a store surf to a website before purchase. For this to work, internet connections would have be a given right (they are not) or the retailers would have to put up internet booths were you can surf (or at least look at the EULA's) for free (there are none).

And even then, I doubt German courts would allow that. Effectively, this makes EULAs mostly null and void, as proven in this recent verdict. I'm pretty sure 90%+ of EULAs contain provisions to prohibit resale of software licenses.

Anyway, YAY for EU.

In Europe, or at least in Germany, this never was really the case. Simple reason: You can only read the license agreement AFTER you open the box, which makes everything in the EULA null and void. Common sense if you ask me.

So how do you convert electric energy into fossil fuels?

All we need is a reliable, compact, and cheap way to store a week's electric energy for a typical household.