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To keep me from advocating an unpopular, but entirely rational, position – all while other people freely misrepresent the First Amendment in response to my comments.

To keep me from advocating an unpopular, but entirely rational, position – all while other people freely misrepresent the First Amendment in response to my comments.

IAAL, and I think you should make up your own mind about what the agreement means. Personally, I think you're over-thinking it, but you shouldn't take my advice, because I don't re…

@cooldeal: Nope, I'm dead serious. There's no fundamental human right that entitles you to tell Apple (or any other device maker) what it can and can't sell you.

@recoiledsnake: (for whatever reason, I'm not allowed to reply directly to you) You're comparing Apple's ecosystem to Earth's. Apple is a private company that makes products that a…

Yes, and never mind that just about everything you take for granted about personal computers was "given" by Apple, too. I find this notion that users are entitled to complete devic…

Right, because I can't think of any reason why Apple wouldn't support Flash on a mobile device...

Not to mention that once you've seen one 60 Minutes episode, you've seen them all. It's a legendary formula, but tired as hell.

And the "security" that they desired lost them tablet users on the dominant tablet platform...brilliant!

Are you taking the position that only auto-generated passwords can be secure? I'm trying to understand what conclusion to draw from your comment. My point was that imposing length …

Probably a draw, as you say, since someone could get ahold of an authenticated link in your email, too.

Only if you (admin user) ask it to. Still a bad practice. Also, the premise is that Google trusts itself as an email provider.

"email isn't that easy to intercept and properly nobody is hacking your users physical (or wireless) network". If you actually believe this, then we will never be in agreement.

A. They don't need to remember any password. They're creating it for the first time. B. Minimum password length/complexity. It's not hard to do. I can't believe you're actually arg…

And what percentage would – like me – delete their account as soon as you send them a plaintext temp password? You're living in the past if you think this is an acceptable practice…

I wish more apps would get out of their own way and employ standard UIKit. I'm all for experimenting with UI on a new-ish platform like iOS, but the amount of parallel energy expen…

It's better, in that you now at least know who to contact – someone who showed enough interest to provide an email address.

"... tell them their password is waiting for them in their inbox." Nope. That email should contain a link to password creation .

Actually, it has nothing to do with ruby. The problem here is that some people use minification tools that rely on semicolons. If that weren't the case, this would be a total non-i…

Am I the only person who considers use of the word "smart" as a leading indicator of the absence of intelligence? The term is so vague as to be utterly meaningless, and is usually …

True, but in some cases, data integrity concerns outweigh the desire for total obfuscation.

Section 506 says distribution means: "...by making it available on a computer network accessible to members of the public..." Oddly enough, that would seem to capture broadcasting …

For the record, I think criminal penalties for copyright infringement is bad policy. Whatever public interest there was in copyright protection has long since been overwhelmed by p…

Sounds like an issue for the judge/jury. That's what trials are for. The standard is willful infringement, and that would need to be proved for any criminal defendants. There are a…

There is a whole bunch of legal jurisprudence in just about every country that deals with intentional infringement of copyrights. In the US: Operation Gridlock, Operation D-Elite, …