Or, you kill civilization: "An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy" -- Chief Justice John Marshall

.. especially Franken, Schumer, Kyl, Hatch, and Feinstein.

... a Senator with a clue and some balls. What a rare combination these days.

... of why Apple is correct in keeping this steaming pile of insecurity off of their devices.

... and the marketeers are going to have a field day.

... by The Onion. They might also win an Ig Nobel.

... would laugh hysterically when presented with the copy for the web site. So, they had to go with someone who had heard of "FrontPage" sometime during the last decade.

I think most of us would agree that, in this case, the 9th Circuit has an immediate need for a sound Dope-Slap from SCOTUS.

... he still hits a hole-in-one every day!

Ah, so you think you can dictate terms to those you do business with, and renege on terms that you already agreed to. And that some slick lawyer can save you from your poor judgment.

Do let us know when your ivory tower crumbles. And since you declared your intent to violate contract terms here, your violation of the contract terms may be seen as willful, and will create a bigger penalty for you.

You accepted the iPad/iPhone/iPod restrictions (which are no secret, by the way) when you bought the device, and again when you accepted the license agreement. If you don't want to honor your contractual commitment, buy something else.

Where was the much-vaunted Security Development Lifecycle process (http://blogs.msdn.com/sdl/)? I guess the threat model consisted of a six month old baby pounding on a keyboard. The responsible engineer(s), PMs, and VP should be fired.

You've got to be kidding me -- Google collected "private" data that was being _broadcast_ by people's Wireless Access Points, and it's Google's fault? Any idiot within ~100m or so could do the same thing.

If Europeans really "take privacy seriously", they would configure their equipment correctly.

If you develop for xbox, you must use the Microsoft tool chain; if you develop for the playstation 3, you must use the Sony tool chain.

There's nothing new here, save a bit of Apple-hater rambling, and government cluelessness.

Nope. This is the same clueless management team who couldn't compete on the desktop with Microsoft (while, of course, Firefox does, and commands ~30% market share), and whined to the EU to give them an undeserved placement on the desktop. Given their poor performance, I predict they'll screw up fastmail.