"How about - AT ALL TIMES when I'm home, fucker."

The law is already established that you do not have a reasonable expectation of privacy simply because you are home. The lawyer is correct, you are not.

"The correct thing to do isn't as clear as you might suppose. Morally, it may be more correct to pirate their content then buy a t-shirt or something from them, because they'll see most of that money."

Morally it's quite clear, you simply don't consume the content. Justifying theft because of (supposed) shady business practices is not remotely moral.

"I'm not saying what to do, what not to do, or what I do - I just want you to think about it a bit before tossing out moral absolutes."

His "moral absolutes" are a lot more absolute than yours. Did your mom ever tell you that two wrongs don't make a right?

"You have to either disable it on the command line (a bad idea IMHO)..."

A great idea IMHO. Why do you think anyone cares what your "humble opinion" is on this topic?

"You just can't (easily) set it to the default.. which is a good thing."

I see no reason why this is a good thing.

"Easy peasy."

Not really. Certainly not "intuitive", definitely not "it just works".

Once upon a time computers could be used to run the software of your choice. This is yet another step away from that. Not a good thing.

Always love these tone-deaf comments. Since rape is inevitable, you might as well enjoy it.

No,
The difference between sucrose and HFCS is negligible. HFCS is manufactured specifically for its similarity to sucrose.

Yes, there's a lot of fructose that can only be broken down in the liver. That is also true of sucrose.

"Also wondering if Apple is moving toward at least a dual-CPU (x86 + A10, say) design for the next generation of Macintosh."

No. How would that be useful? If Apple could produce an ARM design that could outrun x86 then MAYBE they could consider a transition. That seems unlikely.

Apple would be more likely to be "moving toward" NO next generation MacIntosh.

LOL You have a grave misunderstanding of the Oracle vs Google issue.

Andoid doesn't use "Java" because the licensing agreement for "Java" was unacceptable and Java itself was open source. Google complied with the requirements in using the source while also respecting the requirement NOT to call the product "Java". Android uses Java technology in bulk (and does so legally), it's just not a Java product capable of running Java apps directly.

Regardless of the name, the comment you replied to is dead-on accurate. Android requires more hardware to run because it uses a virtual machine rather than a native application environment. It gets this because it is based on Java. Whether it is good or bad is a matter of perspective, but time will favor the Android approach.

...but RAM size isn't an important differentiation in phones.

You can buy an 8GB memory module for far less than either phone. So what?

"See, this would impress Android users because they care about this stuff."

You say that like it's a virtue. iPhone users don't care about it because iPhone performance has always been adequate. Android has a history of performance issues and Android users, as a group, tend toward genital measurements driving their purchase decisions. Android has never been about engineering a whole product, iPhone has been.

Meanwhile, most users in both camps are how you describe iPhone users. Nerds constitute little of the population yet most everyone has a phone.

"The processor benchmarks are pointless...Having a dual core CPU probably doesn't help either."

That really sets the tone.

"...what matters is how fast stuff actually happens and Android is generally faster at opening the same app etc."

Considering how much more Android has to do, that seems unlikely. It is also historically never been the case.

"Probably because Samsung flash memory is quicker or something,..."

Yeah that's probably it. No one has access to fast flash except Android.

"...or maybe it's just the massive amount of RAM in high end models....The 3GB of RAM is welcome, but I wonder if iOS can make optimal use of it."

Yes, perhaps Android is faster because it has more memory, but if iPhone gets more memory it can't make "optimal use of it".

"My GF has an iPhone 6 with a rather pathetic 1GB of RAM, and she is constantly "cleaning" by closing apps manually to avoid it getting slow."

No she's not. This does not benefit phone performance in any way.

"Considering everyone else's flagships are moving to 4GB and 6GB now, 3GB is still rather low for such an expensive device."

iOS requires less memory than Android because its applications are native. iPhones have always had less processor and memory but outrun Andoid anyway.

"It's going to be hard not to laugh the first time I see someone with that setup."

You won't because such setups aren't needed. First off, iPhone users will migrate away from headphones that require dongles and, second, phones don't commonly need to be plugged in to listen to music. When they need charging you stop listening.

You are a moron with an agenda.

This is an embarrassingly wrong perspective.

Architecturally, it's better for the amp to be closer to the load so that they can be matched and equalization can be applied. Having the external battery preserves battery life in the phone itself and it IS "theoretically" possible for Bluetooth headphones to "make better sound". Apparently you made quite a living talking about things in which you are poorly informed, Bruce Perens.

Perfectly acceptable to whom? The english word is what it is, its ancient origins don't entitle anyone to misspell it.

Language is only as useful as understanding allows it to be. When you deliberately break it and people misunderstand then you have failed.

"Essentially most people will now have to carry two items around with them - a phone and a dongle - rather than just the one, or else not be able to hook the phone up to a standard audio system."

But most people don't "carry around" a phone to hook up to "a standard audio system". It's not typical usage even though it is something you can do.

Most people use the headphone jack for headphones and, in that case, you carry around two items already and the adapter can be left permanently attached to one of them. Likewise, people often connect their phone to the car (for example) and the adapter can stay with the car. It's no big deal for many use cases.

People really reach to complain about petty things. A year from now it won't even be news. The headphone jack will go away from everything and no one will care.

The extra battery life comes from the architecture of the A10 processor, not extra battery capacity. The A10 has two low power cores in addition to the main cores.