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Really? Really? Are you really that shortsighted? XBox is huge. It's becoming the media center for an American Consumer household. That means paying $60/year just for the "privileg…

Uh, yes, Microsoft DOES charge you a fee...it's called "paying out the ass for your tools". What did Visual Studio Enterprise cost last time I looked for a small company (like a st…

You must be new to the internet, then: http://www.amazon.com/Game-Thrones-Song-Fire-Book/dp/0553386...

>bumrushing congress in much the same way that the tea party has done. Let's hope not. The Teaparty congress started going to work on things that didn't serve the tea party, but ra…

I wouldn't be at liberty to comment either way. Talk to your friendly, neighborhood defense contractor.

And all the FOIA request simply states is that something like A) We are investigating Carrier IQ. B) We have physically recovered phones as evidence and extracted Carrier IQ data. …

>Again, you are making choices for them. You don't see anything wrong with this? Nobody is guaranteed a living. However, you should be given a chance. You are taking away that chan…

Yes. Any briefing involving a secure area will mention that phones can be triggered this way, and that your customer (military, intel, DoD, or DOE) forbids their access for the ver…

Wired broke the stories about the NSA monitoring something like 25% of all domestic cell phone traffic. The fact that all investigations into it have been stopped citing "National …

>Without a way to make money, we will see less music. Why? Because artists will be forced to get day jobs. As it is, there is a small chance you will make a full living as an artis…

All of these reasons could apply to iTunes and Amazon's music store? So why are they posting profits?

Wait, you're just figuring out now that anything that travels through a cell phone network could be monitored?

Unknown. However, the FBI can send a remote message to ANY phone to turn on its microphone and essentially use it as a wiretap. That's been built into every phone in the USA for so…

Don't know why I'm being downvoted. Did you all want to discuss facts regarding Smartphones today and how that might impact law enforcement or did you all want to have a "police st…

Carrier IQ is in iOS 5. It is, however, disabled by default. It is also buried in the second or third level down in Preferences, so its very unlikely a user will enable it by accid…

It acts as a keylogger on some android phones, when Carrier IQ is put into a "debug state". The researcher apparently triggered that by accident without knowing. It's not the defau…

Carrier IQ isn't used by all carriers (Verizon opts out, I believe) and the data transmitted is anonymous. I admit there is a risk with the data profiles being assembled, and being…

Where did the article indicate that Law Enforcement didn't need a warrant to access the Carrier IQ data?

However, the only documented case of the abuse is on the "most open" hardware stack. Jailbreakers saw no keylogging on the iPhone. (In fact, it's disabled by default on the iPhone)…

This is not the case with all state schools. Mine, for example, was contrary to that. Different colleges in the University had different tuition. Obviously Art, Theater, Music, and…

I'm now following you so I can read it later.

Keep in mind that Siri was a wholly stand alone product for all smart phones before it was bought by Apple. Apple has improved the product to a degree, but really, nothing has been…

This rant goes beyond "I have a realistic view of what people expect from Apple because I'm a tech journalist" to "I am a three year old who was promised the world, and my expectat…

Maybe Siri is the first A.I. to take part in a general strike?

Well, this is just a guess, but you would probably get a bigger, meaner, more accurate V2 missile. But that could be because the place for rocket scientists before NASA was the Naz…