Apple says "We don't like it so you can't use it!"
Google says "We don't like it so we will not distribute it. You're of course free to get it elsewhere."
Big difference. Huge actually.

It's funny to see the windows people taking such satisfaction in Linux bugs and completely disregard the time it takes from disclosure to a fix is available. Usually I've already installed the fixed version before I read about it on slashdot. It's just a matter of subscribing to my distro's security announcement mailinglist and upgrade if I run the affected software.
So in most cases, when i read about bad bugs in Linux it's 'old news'.

(Blatantly ignoring the six years it took to actually get the fix into the kernel this time)

I had such a site on Geocities. Flashing gifs, blink tags, a horrible MIDI playing in the background with no way of turning it of. Blue text on pink background and, naturally, CometCursor.
And of course no meaningful content what so ever.

Innocent times...

Just undoing an accidental trollmod :)

This is just sad. An article about a group actually called Goatse and this is the FP you manage to come up with? Tsk tsk...

Don't they ever get tired of throwing these numbers around? And do anyone believe them?

If those numbers were even close to be real they would have managed to stop piracy long ago. I mean, who in their right mind will sit and idly watching billion after billion trickling out of their wallet and all they manage to come up with is some bizarre DRM schemes that never works. One would think that with such amount of money involved investing more in stopping piracy should be well worth it. Say a billion dollars or so.

It's all BS. We know it and they know it.

Click the "Print this" link. A nice, clean, single page.

Except that we must rethink our expectations of privacy. Nobody has ever expected everything they do to be private, but a lot of people are surprised to learn that some aspect of their life which is not public may be revealed by seemingly unimportant aspects that are public. The well known example of determining sexual orientation from a person's "friend list" on Facebook is a good example -- public information can be used to reveal information that a person may be actively trying to keep private.

Yes, in a technical sense, this data is all public. It used to be the case that we knew we could separate our public lives from our private lives, but efforts like this undermine our ability to assume such a separation.

And I also know that these guys are assholes who will look for any excuse to claim victory. I am wondering how many of them were actually confused, and how many of them were claiming standard procedure, while clinging to the numbers that gave them the outcome they wanted.

But Google isn't "prying", that's my point. They're collecting information that you have chosen to make available publicly, whether it's by placing it on the public Internet, or broadcasting it over EM waves where anyone nearby can pick it up. If you want privacy, don't announce your information in a public manner, and you will be off Google's radar. Google got blasted for Buzz (and deservedly so) because information that people thought they had selected as "private" was being made available, but that's not the issue here. If you're concerned with your MAC address being recorded, you need to learn how wireless networking works.

This is why I prefer my subway commute to any of my driving commutes; spending a half hour driving is a half hour wasted, but I can read on the subway. I liked my walking commute best of all, but I can't always live within two miles of work. I don't have a problem with cell phones (Note to NYC: Never let anyone wire your subways for cell phones), only morons who need to play their music so loud that even using headphones, it is clearly audible to people at the other end of the car.

Of course, in both cases the problem can be partially solved with earplugs. And for Amtrak, as well as a few other train lines, there is usually a quiet car where cell phone use is prohibited. Man I love those cars.

Even easier that than. Try this:

Hold down the CTRL key and scroll the mouse wheel.

A whole helluvalot of applications seem to support dynamic font resizing this way..

...until someone forms something like an "ESRB for learning games" and bothers to employ some cognitive scientists full time to assess these claims.

Or we could just let which company has the best marketing team decide which products we use for this sort of thing... that'll get good results. Not.