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That reason makes Apple look worse. The example of PGP is silly. PGP is an open protocol. The user can control their own encryption. Apple like Adobe wants to take an open protocol…

Yes. All lot of judges are complicit in patent trolling. They are not like Posner. The Eastern District of Texas is one example. Patent trolls have to shop around for venues becaus…

Agreed. I simply wanted to point out that the car manufacturer does not actively try to prevent the car owner or the installation shop from installing a stereo. However Apple does …

What hoops? If the purchaser wants to install a stereo he can choose to do it himself or take the car to a shop that installs stereos. What's happening in this case is, roughly, by…

Is the warranty the issue here? Isn't it the right to add some functionality to the device? I could see your point if there was an argument between Amoeba and Apple about voiding w…

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This is going to backfire on Apple. It is absurd the lengths they are going to. Imagine if when you bought a car the manufacturer tried to control what stereo you could install. "W…

Actually you can test two at a time by using an alias in /etc/hosts. In /etc/hosts: 1.2.3.4 site1.com site2.com Then you have to edit /etc/hosts to try two more sites. The idea tha…

Users told us they would rather have tactile buttons as on a PC keyboard or Blackberry. We're working on a small "smartphone keyboard" for fast "two thumbs" typing like on a Blackb…

"OK, kids, time to stop squabbling in the sandbox and go home." The problem is that these kids have weekly allowances in the hundreds of thousands. And most lawyers do not discrimi…

Hallelujah. "I also disagree that it is not believable that the vast majority of programmers have been boneheaded for 40 years." http://paulgraham.com/icadmore.html The "success" o…