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    Video of police brutality can only do so much: NYPD chokehold cop not indicted

    Not only that, but also the mentally ill and other unfortunates that have been killed by the police... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Kelly_Thomas - Kelly Thomas was a homeless man diagnosed with schizophrenia and called out to his father to help him repeatedly as the police crushed him...
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    FBI seizes 20 boxes of documents on LAUSD iPad program

    Really, recent data indicates otherwise - http://www.forbes.com/sites/anthonykosn ... eat-ipads/
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    FBI seizes 20 boxes of documents on LAUSD iPad program

    The LAUSD iPad program was bizarre and investors may have been defrauded in the bond offering used to fund the program. A BILLION+ dollars of long term bond money until recently being spent by a nut claiming iPads are a civil rights issue for a device that will be long gone and buried while the...
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    Apple on trial: Were iTunes updates really an anti-consumer scheme?

    Your thesis that is just not true - see evidence to the contrary below. You can drag and drop media files from Windows or OS X on to most smartphones because they appear as a USB drive and do not need to use iTunes to sync at all. Additionally there are other media clients available besides...
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    Apple now facing a jury over claims it competed unfairly with DRM

    Didn't Family Sharing in iOS 8 make points 1 and 2 above non-issues?
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    Apple now facing a jury over claims it competed unfairly with DRM

    Don't forget that the RIAA used Amazon going DRM free to extract variable pricing (bye, bye $0.99/song) out of Apple. http://www.techhive.com/article/162732/ ... aning.html
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    Apple now facing a jury over claims it competed unfairly with DRM

    Unfortunately Congress at the paid insistence of their corporate overlords have already locked things down with the DMCA and the Sonny Bono Act and the outrageous penalties for infringement (even for non mass duplication which should be limited to actual damages not $250,000 and 5 years in...
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    Apple now facing a jury over claims it competed unfairly with DRM

    Interesting that the juror used present tense "as an" to describe Mr. Jobs - maybe he did not hear that Mr. Jobs passed away in 2011 from cancer. Regardless of whether Mr. Jobs is an "a--hole" or not he did achieve excellent results for Apple, Inc. prior to his passing. Apple went from almost...
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    Apple now facing a jury over claims it competed unfairly with DRM

    Many tools are available to strip out FairPlay DRM... one free example: http://www.tuneskit.com/reviews/best-it ... eware.html
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    Feds want Apple’s help to defeat encrypted phones, new legal case shows

    Regarding your "person C" we just had one in Neel Kashkari (he ran the TARP program - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troubled_A ... ef_Program ) who ran for Govenor of the State of California. Neel had no real money, but he had an actual plan as to what he would do if he became Governor. Neel...
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    Feds want Apple’s help to defeat encrypted phones, new legal case shows

    Yes, exactly like when the President recently said that "he heard" the two-thirds of people who DID NOT vote in the election last month. The citizens need to demand that the 114th Congress revoke the Patriot Act next year, amongst other things.
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    Feds want Apple’s help to defeat encrypted phones, new legal case shows

    Wow that law is very general in nature. "Agreeable to the usages and principles of law" implies that there is a mountain of case law precedent that weighs in on the agreeableness of the application of the All Writs Act. This goes to show how desperate the Government is becoming, imposing an...
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    Facebook’s auto-playing videos in an ISIS era

    I never have had a Facebook account and most likely never will. I would rather have my own website and direct people I know to that then be on Facebook or others of its ilk!
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    Craigslist DNS hijacked, redirected at infamous “prank” site for hours

    I wonder how many lives were saved from people who did not meet in person via craigslist while it was down? How many people have been murdered after connecting through craigslist? http://ktla.com/2014/10/20/beck-homicid ... n-student/
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    iOS 8.1.1, iPhone 4S, and iPad 2: A little faster, kind of, sometimes

    Is that what really happened - skimping? Or was it a design tradeoff because the fabrication process at 45 and then 32 nm for the A5 chip would have caused battery life to suffer with 1 GB of RAM in the device? The A8 is on a 20 nm process and evidently that process allows 1 GB RAM or greater...
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    iOS 8.1.1, iPhone 4S, and iPad 2: A little faster, kind of, sometimes

    Andrew, Thanks for all of your work on this and for checking with Apple to make sure your reporting was correct. I currently have iOS 7.1.2 on the iPad2 and iPhone 4S. I think I am going to skip iOS 8 on the iPad 2 and upgrade the iPhone to an iPhone 6 later this year or early next year. Man...
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    Beefed up iPhone crypto will lead to a child dying, DOJ warned Apple execs

    Hmmm, I wonder who the chief idiot is,,, let's see Mr. Cole was nominated by the current President... hmmm....
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    Beefed up iPhone crypto will lead to a child dying, DOJ warned Apple execs

    A Virginia court has ruled that the police can force you to unlock your phone with your fingerprint - http://meincmagazine.com/tech-policy/2014 ... ngerprint/ . Until this is appealed to SCOTUS and a ruling that fingerprints for this purpose are protected under the Fifth Amendment right against...
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    Beefed up iPhone crypto will lead to a child dying, DOJ warned Apple execs

    This would make a good book and movie. Smartphone crypto-software that becomes self-aware and starts off on a killing spree. Title the book "DOE - Department of Extirpation" Of course DOE starts with everyone in the DOJ and Congress that is trying to change the law to have it eliminated.
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    Beefed up iPhone crypto will lead to a child dying, DOJ warned Apple execs

    And the blow back to any proposed law along these lines will be massive. Unless secretly inserted into a "midnight bill" that is passed and then signed by the President. If that happens then I predict all of those who voted for such a bill will be voted out on their ass the next election cycle...