Read the patent and then you'll know. Apple considers it a feature that would allow you a temporal overview of where you were and when, which I for one would find a cool feature for people who are hiking or other long-distance journeys where such data could be interesting and useful. The puzzling question is why they're using the relatively unreliable cell phone tower triangulation rather than the perfectly good GPS data.

Apple's only mistake was in not encrypting this, and even that's debatable, as you need physical access and quite a bit of technical savvy to access it, at which point you already have the physical device in your hands and all the other data it includes (photos, emails, addresses, etc., which nobody else expects to be encrypted, either). Every cell phone company on the planet also collects this data as a matter of course, and they are more than happy to hand it over to the authorities in exchange for a subpoena and/or a small fee. This is a whole lotta fuss from the tin-foil hat department over something relatively obscure and non-exploitable (again, you have to have the physical device before you can actually do something about it, and that particular security flaw covers every computer in existence).

Considering that the judgement is only an opinion and doesn't have the force of law. TFA says that the court would consider the board's opinion in a case, but this is nothing like a done deal.

I agree that Adobe is overpriced, but $19.99 is pretty weak justification for your piracy. If you do free stuff that is hampered by the Gimp's limitations but can only justify twenty dollars for Adobe, I seriously doubt that what you're doing is important enough to justify the excuses. There is a broad spectrum of shareware out there for your price range; I suggest you give it a look. Googling, by the way, is free.

If you're on the last month of a four-year project with a deadline and you upgrade vital software, you're an idiot either way. The software was good enough to get you this far; if you thought you needed those new features in order to finish then you were taking a ridiculous gamble in the first place.

I live in Japan and I can tell you that China did not immediately send support; they sent a handful of people after several days, and finally ramped things up when it became the media circus it is now and people started commenting that China wasn't really participating much.

The Chinese government's radiation scare is just that; with the exception of Japanese TEPCO (Tokyo Electric Power Company) workers, nobody's been allowed close enough to suffer any significant exposure. If they were exposed, then they voluntarily traveled inside the 20-km evacuation radius and it's their own damn fault. The cases of contamination were mostly due to radiation detected on ships, which was most likely on the ships' hulls themselves, picked up from trace amounts in the ocean.

The Chinese themselves say it's trace amounts. However, they also don't usually use radiation detectors at the airport, either, and they don't disclose their definition of abnormally high levels.

This is business as usual for relations between Japan and China. Google last year's scuffle when a Chinese trawler rammed a Japanese coast guard ship and see what you get.

They've had that since the beginning: http://www.maclife.com/article/feature/seven_hidden_features_ipad_camera_connection_kit

I agree. If you really need a control panel to allow you to tweak your system to that low a level, it sounds like the system itself is too dumb to take care of itself. If you really need that kind of control, you're probably capable of hacking the necessary software together yourself.

Keep in mind that the comment was made by a Japanese representative of Panasonic. They already have print club photo sticker machines that automatically enhance and enlarge the subjects' eyes so that they'll look "cuter". This camera is designed for people who are happy with head-on flash photography at parties and really don't care about composition or carrying around large light boxes just in case.

Yeah, that one had me scratching my head for a second. I think the author meant "dyeing". Yes, it may look wrong, but it's spelled right for obvious reasons.

The new OS is version 4.3, only a point release different than the current version. All it does is give Safari a new, faster JavaScript engine and add some new wireless sharing features. The reason why the 3G struggled so hard under iOS 4 was because of the addition of multitasking, among other things. I don't think you have anything to worry about.

XOOM: doesn't actually have flash yet. Malware isn't a feature. Costs more.

I agree. Why not just do wireless syncing of the relevant information? It's a software update to enable a cloud service or a dynamic P2P connection over wi-fi, not a proprietary hardware Frankenstein. This is so 1997.

How do you differentiate between "I feel fully alert" and "I am fully alert"?

If it can be proved that the natural condition of a full bladder actually leads to a physiological change, i.e. increased adrenaline and heightened awareness, then that would make it a useful trick. Comparing it to alcohol, which is an outside agent that always has the reverse effect of depressing the body's responses, is a fallacious analogy.

Most laptops with a MacBook Pro's feature set also cost about the same amount of money. Compared to those around me, I'd say you get a sexy, sturdy exterior and a high-quality screen.

Tell me about it. The clock is ticking and the cast isn't getting any younger, or more available. Fear the juggernaut of incompetence that is Fox!