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    Samsung Gear S2 hands-on: Svelte design and a brilliant rotating bezel

    While I don't fault Apple for going with the square shape, I do wonder if they would have used a rotating bezel as it pretty much is a transfer from the circle wheel in concept. However if it become central to the design, then there's little room to manoeuvre and are stuck with a rather big...
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    Microsoft clarification kinda clears up free Windows 10 license confusion

    Does it matter what license you have for windows 8 for example? If you have a Volume License, I assume it remains a Volume License when it upgrades to Windows 10?
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    New Snowden documents reveal secret memos expanding spying

    I think a few sculptor's took affront at the suggestion that it would be overly difficult to accomplish.
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    EU court rules “Skype” is too similar to “Sky,” blocks trademark application

    Don't people already pretend to see all sorts of things in clouds? Omg Sky could be confused with anything. DUN DUN DUN
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    Gold Apple Watch Edition comes with a buying experience worthy of the 1%

    But it doesn't...you're making a false equivalency and then saying you would laugh...except there isn't one. You're clearly not paying for just a recoloring as evidenced by the above article so again...what's so worthy of derision here? The pampering is 101 retail.
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    Gold Apple Watch Edition comes with a buying experience worthy of the 1%

    It's so weird to observe some of the comments on here. There is nothing exceptional here in the context of retail experience. Do ppl still snicker when someone buys a ticket first class and is attend to the entire flight by a hostess? I may not like it and there might even be a better way of...
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    Apple’s golden year gallery: Apple Watch and the new Macbook

    ...which they did. If I claim I will be gone all day and then specify that means till around 6 pm given traffic conditions, I haven't omitted anything relevant or been deliberately imprecise. The statement simply reflects general use of the term and two, I have no idea how bad traffic might be...
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    Apple’s golden year gallery: Apple Watch and the new Macbook

    Is language that opaque to you? Day if it has escaped you, has multiple layered meanings. Day can mean the technical 24 hours compromising a day. It can also mean the period of the day when the sun is out and people are typically active. Its not rocket science to decipher the meaning when...
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    You have the right to bear arms, not “electrical” arms, court declares

    So continues to long march of law lagging determinately behind technology. Not a single person from the time the constitution could have envisioned the present times we lived in. To constantly resort to trying to interpret the document as though we still lived in the 1700s gives us such...
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    State-sponsored or not, Sony Pictures malware “bomb” used slapdash code

    There is very little evidence at all that links North Korea to the attacks and all proffered thus far are flimsy and hard to substantiate without further proof. The insinuations in the article simply feed off the narrative that is currently in the news cycle. Even Wired did a better write up...
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    OneDrive getting worse to get better in Windows 10

    How do you send a message to the team if not in the tech beta? The answer to poor design isn't scraping the whole idea - its better design.
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    Rosetta to launch comet lander late tonight

    How fast was it moving when it landed. It doesn't appear to have boosters to slow landing or am I wrong?
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    Halo: The Master Chief Collection review: Chief concern

    I've never owned any iteration of an xbox but even I know Halo 2 doesn't have health packs.
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    Understanding the Ebola virus

    We escaped eons ago; it was merely a protocol to limit contamination beyond the lab that failed.
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    Hands- and eyes-on with the new iPads and the iMac’s big 5K display

    I don't share or frankly understand this sentiment. Why are you mad that you aren't the target customer? Clearly you would avoid such a device. But for some customers the absolute bottom line is price - that gives them a functioning tablet connected to the app store - that's the value for...
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    Apple asks court to let it privately object to sapphire partner’s bankruptcy

    How can there be so much fud in the comments on fairly rote business concepts? GT voluntarily entered into the agreement - the terms weren't hidden in a footnote that their lawyers missed. Folks you've got to drop the pretence that anyone involved got snookered in the deal. Why would GT take...
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    Comcast: treatment of upset former customer “completely unacceptable”

    While this doesn't completely rule out an ethics situation, I think its safe to put on the back burner theories that he had to have abused his position at PWC.
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    Apple knew of iCloud API weakness months before celeb photo leak broke

    I'm suggesting that part of the confusion stems from things like the title not lending to that line of comprehension. This is the opposite of clarity.
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    Apple knew of iCloud API weakness months before celeb photo leak broke

    I am actually getting frustrated with the reporting on this story and especially so on Ars which I would have hoped to set the record right. Instead I keep gleaming more information from the comment section and spending time trying to reconcile conflicting reports. Brute force, phishing, hack...
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    Samsung licenses HERE maps, still trying to escape the Google ecosystem

    Every year Samsung waits to do the conversion just makes it all the more painful if they then do. They a lot of leverage during the galaxy 3 - 4 timeline. Now while still a big player, other smaller Android players are getting into positions to out compete Samsung in certain markets...