I've said nothing about the tech I buy, which for professional reasons is far more platform-diverse than most people here. My opinions are broad enough that you could also accuse me of being an MS or Android fanboy too, I suppose. But, yes, it does include some Apple stuff.

@Mirri Maz

Sounds like you're the one turning consumer electronics purchases into a matter of faith and philosophy. Apple? They're just running a business.

Mystery mom? I think his mother's identity has been fairly clear for a while. Now who was his father again?

Oh, heavens! She doesn't look like a child anymore.

I'm pretty sure that the Swedish state has decided that a lot of problems can be averted by providing the homeless with places to live. Part of the rationale behind a welfare state is that punishing people harshly for things like petty theft and drug problems is actually much more expensive than providing people with…

Not sure which "we" you are referring to.

Um...you've basically exposed private info about someone here. The general public may not be able to identify him from this post, but his friends and colleagues certainly can, and it isn't hard to conceive of situations where the posted info could get him in trouble. You could have made the same point with more…

Proving that a specific individual is or isn't culpable can be difficult, but linking an IP address to a node is not. The MAC ID of the user's gateway would show in the DHCP server's logs, linking it with the IP address at that time. Who is doing what behind NAT, however, is much more difficult to ascertain.

A semantic distinction without much difference as far as they are concerned. They derive value from collecting information about you. Whether they sell that actual data or merely sell target access to you based on collected information largely amounts to the same thing from Google's side. Obviously, the results are…

I stand corrected. Still, they want $25 extra for it and, having just read up on it, it doesn't seem especially satisfying to customers.

I think this is a good point, but how much does any of it matter? What influence do the actual shows have on the market? Most of the publicity comes through outfits like Kotaku at this point, and I really hope that Totilo & Co. aren't so easily swayed by a pair of breasts that it affects coverage.

So the most disgusting, frightening thing in this article hasn't actually been true for a while. That means the story here is really just "McDonald's changes beef supplier" which is probably a big deal in the food-service contracting world, but not electrifying news for consumers.

The Premiere is arguably worse than the Series 3. The interface update was the biggest selling point and it is painfully slow and not even applied everywhere in the system. They built in Flash, for God's sake!

No love for TW here, but the broadcast flag is there because content distributors wanted it. The cable companies don't have much of a dog in that particular fight.

While this seems distasteful, I'm not sure what's actually wrong with it. Using trimmings reduces wastage, getting the most out of every cow that is put down. Would it be better to let that meat be thrown out? The ammonium hydroxide bath sounds disgusting, but then so is a lot of food processing. It is an FDA…

They don't share it freely with other companies. They sell it to them.

You are absolutely right, but the whole thing speaks to a tone-deafness on the part of Google. They are so drunk on their Kool-aid, convinced of their own awesomeness, that they don't consider that this policy change is going to alert people to the privacy that they already surrendered to Google long ago. Google…

I just about shit a brick when I read this article.

It's a real shame that I have to hide my pretty phone, but it's an important work tool for me and I can't afford the downtime or hassle of replacing it. I don't care at all about tiny scratches and I've never had a problem getting my asking price for an iPhone because it's worn. My thick, ugly iPhone cases have…