I guess the primary difference is that when a Dell catches fire there are no corporate sycophant's falling over themselves to point out that other laptops also catch fire.

I'm a bit confused by what you are trying to achieve here.. Are you claiming that I'm unfairly singling out Apple for criticism? Read my comment history.. I call them like I see them, and my last comment about Apple was actually a complement about how much more secure Apple's app ecosystem and permission model is compared to Android.

I suggest that you reconsider your evangelism of Apple products... You've crossed the threshold from Apple fan to apologist for Apple laptop fires.

Should we do independent testing of the batteries in our new MacBooks?

Let's check with the accountants.

No, we need to maximize shareholder value by cutting costs. We are sitting on one of the largest piles of cash in corporate America, but we could always have more...

Besides... what's the worst that could happen?

The Mueller Report details hundreds of pages of Trump and his campaign colluding with Russia's attack on America and the Inspector General can only comment on the fact that a whistle-blower told the truth..

Trump's campaign manager is in prison for crimes committed with and on behalf of Trump. Trump's campaign manager is in prison, having been found to be a secret foreign agent.

And then just as we got our first glimps into the stunning criminality of the Trump administration, Trump's AG shut down all of the investigations into Trump's many treasonous crimes.

It's time to lock him up... and by him I mean the treasonous president who colluded with Russia's attack on America and continues to do Putin's bidding as a public quid pro quo.

RED was pushing the limits of technology with this phone, like with a 'holographic screen', but they seem to have viewed this as an exercise in offshore manufacturing and design.

If you have to push the limits of technology you have to do something more than simply instructing your low cost Chinese supplier to do the impossible.

Let's not forget, they actually built and sold this ridiculous contraption whose only 3-D effect was a total destruction of image quality...

Sometimes I feel strange when I think about just how many people have access to my location data, messages, phone logs, and probably even screen captures.

That's one thing Apple did really well from the beginning.. they didn't turn your phone into a voyeuristic spying device.

I just wish I could pay for apps with cash instead of data, but many apps, especially games will require tons of permissions to 'play for free' and won't have a version available for purchase which doesn't spy on your most intimate phone conversations.

Too bad... I hardly ever install apps on my phone these days, just form the shear creep factor...

Looks like Boeing's decision to change FAA regulations to allow for self-certification didn't work out well combined with their decisions to produce and sell unsafe airplanes.

It's nice to see a physical manifestation of the consequences or unbridled greed and corruption every once in a while.

Meanwhile Airbus is producing airplanes under European regulations and they don't have to ground the entire fleet of their newest plane. Interesting....

Gizmodo has a nice video explaining time's role in navigation and GPS.

Watch it here

Russia successfully hacked into voting systems in Florida and other key swing states to help elect Trump.

It's time for us to protect our country from Russia, and from Trump.

There is a reason that Moscow Donald has refused to let the US improve our election security. Russian hacking and election interference is his re-election strategy.

You are free to create a website which contains any content you choose, and excludes content you don't want.

For example you can create a website that includes vacation pictures and excludes neo-Nazi propaganda.

"those saying the FAA have lost credibility are just going by gut and feelings. The FAA did the right thing here. They based their decision on facts as they came to light."

Uh... no... that's ridiculous. The FAA was essentially saying that they weren't going to crash 737s because they didn't know why the airplanes kept flying into the ground.

The airplanes were pulling up briefly, then diving back into the ground again and again until impact. The two 737 MAX crashes flight paths were almost identical, as anyone with radar data could plainly see. No need to wait for the black box on this one.

So when you say the FAA was waiting for data, the data they were waiting for is specifically which aircraft system on airplanes of this model were forcing the airplane into the ground. And of course they already knew about the MCAS flaw that had already caused a plane crash, and updated the still incomplete documentation.

This is why all regulators already had all the information they needed to ground the 737 MAX fleet in their jurisdictions. Only a regulator controlled by the industry it's supposed to be regulating would be so stupid as to let an airplane model continue to fly despite frequent crashes because people don't know which specific flaw is nosediving the plane into the ground.

I'm amazed that Boeing's CEO is so eager to proclaim that their corporate culture and safety practices don't face significant flaws.

Every once in a while we all mess up. Companies let short term profits erode their commitment to safety, and in the worst case people die. When Blue Bell ice cream killed less then 10 people in the hospital, they learned a lesson beyond the initial incident and made a change to their safety culture.

What Boeing is telling us is that the same flawed and unsafe corporate culture that killed 300 people is still making the same mistakes, and will continue trying to sneak defective airplanes past the FAA, whom they have long since turned into a corporate lapdog.

Boeing has lost all credibility. The FAA has lost all credibility, as foreign countries turn to European and Chinese regulators now that the former gold standard has disgraced itself.

I don't see how any prospective plane purchaser can ignore the culture of slapdash design and workmanship that let Boeing transition from a safe airplane manufacturer to the leading producer of planes that fly themselves into the ground at high speed while the pilots rush through incomplete documentation while frantically pulling up on the controls.

I am your King!

I didn't know we had a king...

I thought we were an autonomous collective..

The worst thing you can say about Beto is that he had a car accident while drunk decades ago, and that his life long nickname would imply that he speaks Spanish fluently, which he and his family do.

Sounds pretty go good to me, if the worst thing you can say about him is minor petty bullshit.

But then I know, you aren't able to distinguish between a drunk car crash and treasonous collusion with a hostile foreign adversary's attack on our country. They're all bad, amirite?

I'm sure the rest of your criticism are equally petty and minor so I'll leave you to wallow your pit of gullible bothsiderism...