Great article. I don't use Facebook and I do not suffer a lower quality of life due to this.
I keep in touch with my friends using Skype, email and forums. Why do I need a service like Facebook?
It was obvious that Facebook, as a data mining business, would oppose privacy, so I never touched it from the beginning.
And I have the same approach towards other businesses and services. I share only the minimum of information possible.
Nice, but they seriously need to plant some trees over there. They have the money.
By all means, content providers have the right to charge any price they like for their content.
It's a clever ploy on the part of content providers: here we have a new delivery platform (the iPad) and so they start by charging 300-400% more for the digital version of their content.
Later they can cut that by half, disguised as a "great offer" and they would still be about 200-300% above print price.
I, however, will be one of those users who will wait for the price to go down. While I understand that in the digital iPad version they might offer more content, I don't think this price hike is justified.
Plus, I don't want to spend a combined €100 a month so I can read magazines on the iPad.
@zwer: you think it is okay to allow young children to watch pornography just because people are naked during porno acts?
The issue is not with nakedness, but with sexual and pornographic acts that kids under a certain age do not yet understand.
wow not bad
No one told them about Halo 3?
Last I head, Chuck Norris is using it as a tooth pick.
I used to joke with my friends about texting home devices.
Soon I will actually be able to interrupt a meeting with "Sorry, my fridge is calling".
Wohoo we're leaving in se future!
Sounds like very alpha German idea and design.
Many soldiers would either die or be injured when landing with all this non stabilized weight above and below them.
Interesting, but having an on-screen keyboard is not an intuitive method for input.
I am sure the system can support identifying letters that are "drawn" in the air.
Some people have questioned why someone would want to work for a company like Apple.
When you are working on the bleeding edge of technology, when intellectual property and timing are the core building blocks of your trade, and above all, when the company has informed you (as an employee) about the security and NDA measures, then why would you not want to work there?
Is it too much to ask employees to cherish volatile information about upcoming products and services?
Aren't you slapping the hand that feeds you when you intentionally disclose information about your company secrets?
Judging from the article, Apple has no sympathy when you intentionally disclose information that is deemed secret. I have no problem with that. After all, it makes perfect sense.
On the other hand, concerning employees who accidentally disclose information, it would seem that Apple has so far shown humanity, and that can only be commended.
What happens when he sneezes?
Last Friday, after my flight from Frankfurt to Vienna had been canceled due to the Lyskrodjdhasjdhaskhdajkshdaksjhda volcano, I traveled by train (7 hours).
Two seats next to me, a guy had an iPhone with a very similar case and I remember glancing over a few times trying to get a better view.
Maybe he reads Gizmodo, he was watching South Park on his MacBook Pro :)
Nice peace, but anatomically impossible.
You can't turn your arms behind your back like that.
@Martian Yeti: I find the entire fiasco rather pathetic. The school should have made it known and public that they had installed such software on the laptops.
But, the only way they could know that the laptops were not stolen was by using this software in the first place.
So IMO, the execution of the the whole issue was done badly, but the idea in itself is not to be condemned.
I am not a vegetarian, but this is a cool application as I have always wanted a handy way of knowing what all these food additives mean.
Will definitely check it out.
LOL I don't think I would be able to eat after a path like that. My stomach would be the size of a pebble, and my nerves would be dead.
Why is my 3G being left out in the cold? Are we at the brink of extinction already? So fast?
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I feel stupid, could someone please explain what this was exactly about? I watched it twice and I still don't get it. They converted an old hair drier into a phone booth?
That's it?
