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Comment Re:Stupid! (Score 1) 577

I not 100% certain, since I don't have an iOS device to hand, but that was the impression that I got from talking to Apple engineers. If it's not, then it's something else providing exactly the same programatic interface and fulfilling the same function, and I'd be very surprised if Apple did that, although it's possible that they moved the code into the running GUI process for efficiency, since every app runs full-screen. In that case, the windowserver binary would just be a dylib that everything linked to, rather than a separate app (but would still be the same code).

The window server is a completely different binary (it's the PurpleEventServer), but it's still Quartz and CoreGraphics backed.

Comment Re:Wow... (Score 1) 128

That's the entire point: It has always been in the realm of the courts to decide things: Is a law constitutional/fair/etc? Is this information going to do more harm or more good if public? (ever hear of a gag order on a case? Happens all the time.)

Actually, the right of judicial review wasn't established until 1803 in Marbury v. Madison. If it weren't for chief justice John Marshall and his court, the precedent as we know it would never have been set. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marbury_v._Madison

Some people are still upset that the judicial branch has so much power, particularly because they are unelected officials. (I'm not one of them; I think the Supreme Court's power of judicial review is probably one of the most critical parts of our government). Regardless, the process of judicial review wasn't established until the Supreme Court interpreted (i.e. judicially reviewed) the Constitution to give them that power. Laws have no effect without meaning.

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