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Well snap. Sorry man. It was more of a function of not knowing versus trying to be rude. I actually went out of my way to shorten it to be (what I thought was) courteous, but you make a valid point and I can see how that is actually quite sketchy. I can see how that would be taboo.

Thanks for bringing that to my attention.
Dyson? You're so far off ... it's clearly Darth Vader.

I can't believe no one has recognized the classic Lucas handiwork. The helmet descending on the tangled mass of circuits. The signature triangular mouth piece is so clearly evident in the heat exchanger. I can just hear it cooling ...

Amazing retro-future design cues aside, it might be user-serviceable for all components - will wait for the teardown. It's gorgeous enough to be on the desktop and may be quieter because of the chimney. And it's finally a really powerful Mac.

If you need something more powerful than this, it seems maybe a server is more appropriate.
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Especially if he "checked out" of his hotel. That suggests it's a lot more purposeful than the maid coming to his room and finding him "gone."
Where is it recorded that he worked directly under an intelligence agency? (Honest question; i've not found that.)
Hey, ya never know, once you take the plunge, you might find that you like it here on the dark-side. :-)

Libertarians are mostly pretty nice once you get to know them. Some of us are downright friendly at times.
The OP made the point that it was a commodity app. He didn't claim earthshaking originality.

He was proud of his superior execution and baffled at rejection.
I use those two very often. Also:

- "Remind me when I get home/to work to ___"
- "Add ___ to my shopping list"

Annoyingly, it interprets "Add" as "And" about 50% of the time, and gets confused. Have manually corrected that about 1000 times...
On the other hand, America would have shown no regard for the citizenship of the enemy in the equivalent situation of a German-American serving in the Nazi armies.

Congress has told the President to use military force to eradicate Al Qaeda, al-Awlaki was in AQ, so even that isn't what you make it seem.
It's totally tubular.

The new OS is called mavericks (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mavericks_(location) ).

Did apple suddenly become a bunch of surfers?
Today was the first day of WWDC 2013 which announced iOS 7, Mac Pro, OS X Mavericks, and iTunes Radio. Strenuous traffic load is expected this time of year.
"Months before"? If your weather app is only a few months old, then you are far from the first person to do what you're describing. I had an app on my iPad that provided exactly the experience you're describing, and that was I think at least 2 years old (I don't remember the name anymore).
What about powering all those Thunderbolt devices which have been daisy chained? The extra cables and power supplies are going to be an absolute mess compared to the old Mac Pro.
Can we see a working example of the app or at least screenshots? Because the execution of the concept can be bad and this is why apple rejected your app?
This does suck, I wish it was a true free market. But it still is more open than say console markets or even Steam. I am not sure why they don't fully trust the market to produce and choose the apps.

But in the end we are sharecroppers in a kingdom, they built the platform and have the last say. Diversify to other platforms (I am sure android or windows market would like to see this) but don't stop developing. Every once in a while they let you know with a rejection who's platform it is. In the future maybe it will be fully open, it is what drove Android markets in the early days. I am still surprised one of the competing markets hasn't been more open or taken less than 30%. They just line up behind Apple following suit.

Personally from a game developer perspective, Apple is the most open viable market that has been created for game developers and remade handheld gaming. From a web developer perspective it is more closed.
I'm fairly sure I've seen people run OS X as a vmWare guest on either Windows or Linux.
Are you honestly calling Apple evil because they updated the built-in weather app to include realistic weather effects?

That sure sets a low bar for what it means to be evil.
By that logic, every company has a monopoly on the products they produce + sell.
That's why I said 'found their way'. It would just be a matter of training and infrastructure to make the process efficient.

Example: an internal 'is this one of the coolest apps you have ever seen?' option given to all app reviewers. One guy whose job it is to review all apps where that box was checked. If he agrees, he sends them on to somebody on Jony Ives team. If they agree, they send it on to Jony.
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I disagree, but I gave you an upvote because your mindless rhetoric is as equally valuable and informative to this conversation as the other mindless rhetoric posts that do nothing more than agree with TFA and yet have not been marked down as far as your post.
There's nothing stopping Apple from using pretty standard point release nomenclature and calling the next version 10.10 and then 10.11 after that.
To be fair, the app review team is not the iOS development team, and they are not informed about the developments from the iOS team.
Seriously, that was a little absurd. Why exactly does Apple want to limit its audience by only allowing people using Safari on OSX to watch it? I doubt all the markets are so saturated that every potential iPhone, Macbook, and Mac Pro customer is already on OS X.

If I didn't happen to have a Macbook as a work PC for the summer, I'd have missed the Macbook Air announcement. But god, do I want one.
It could also be added in the firmware, either during manufacture, or via zero-day exploits in the firmware. The largest entries in /lib/firmware are all for network cards. Since the NIC has DMA access and can interrupt the CPU, the NIC firmware could be used to attack the OS.

There's still the question of packet sniffing by an intermediate device. The attacker would need to control (the network interfaces of) every device in the chain, use the ability very rarely to avoid detection, or hide data in packet metadata that is later decoded by interception equipment. This third option is probably fairly straightforward on any NIC with TCP checksum offloading.
Someone do the same for Google Now. I use it all the time, and is indispensable for me :). And I know Siri is useless, especially for people having non-American accent.
No, it really isn't. Facebook offered something that users want that MySpace didn't. Diaspora offers nothing that users--not privacy advocates, users--want.
The fact that these people might use disposable phones is actually one of the reasons USG supporters give in favor of hoovering all the telephony "metadata".
Really? That's what you understood from the whole article?
"The public reacts viscerally to terrorism and crime, out of proportion with natural causes that cause the same amount of damage. Accounting for that in public policy is keeping things in perspective."

My argument was very much not "there are more deaths by X than terrorism, ergo we need to deal more with X". However, I think most people are not at all aware of the staggering difference in the levels of risk they bear from various sources, and pointing out the radical differences helps to keep things in perspective. A narrow counting of the dead is absolutely not the only correct perspective. At the same time, telling people they need to worry more because other people will be worried is only making matters worse. Better that they refuse to be terrorized (http://www.schneier.com/essay-124.html); that they recognize that by bearing in mind the actual relative threats they can legitimately feel safer.

"Also, if you want to be hyper-rational about this: the NSA program probably has incredible bang-for-buck. If it costs $500 million a year, it only has to prevent a 9/11-scale event once or twice a century to justify itself."

That is not what rational means.

"Also, if we're "keeping things in perspective" why do you compare lives as if each one has equal value? One WTC worker was probably worth several times as much, in terms of GDP, as the average person who dies of heart disease. 3,000 people dying in Manhattan's financial district == 15,000 people dying in a Kansas City tornado... Obviously I'm being glib with this line of argument. You can't callously compare the two situations in the interest of "keeping things in perspective." So to can you not compare people dying in a terrorist attack to people dying of heart disease."

There are so many things wrong with this.

First, you pick a metric that is most emphatically not just counting lives, find it ick, and conclude that you can't just count lives. Which isn't really here nor there - my intent with number of lives was never to be precise but to give a sense of scale; adjust according to whatever perceived value you place on the respective lives.

More importantly, you're making an emotional appeal that is frankly absurd: yes, comparing certain things can seem crass, but resources we're spending on "fighting terrorism" aren't being put to other use and liberties we're giving up for "fighting terrorism" are enabling abuses (now or down the line), and we need to make comparisons if we're going to make any decisions. Making decisions anyway is implicitly making those same comparisons, just with less care, and people's lives are at stake!
Have you ever had to comply with a secret government request?
Have you ever had to comply with a secret government request? I worked for a place with a large user base but I've never had to turn over anything to the government and they never had any back doors into our systems.
If you think the NSA is going to sprout (say) a drug enforcement arm, why are you so worried about telephony metadata? Clearly, there's no law constraining NSA at all; were I you, I'd be more concerned about them disappearing me for making public arguments against them.
I was fist told about this backdoor by an ex employee of Cisco in 1997.
I think a better solution to say hello to NSA would be by sending a letter to your local senator (and other representatives) that you are not going to vote for them in future unless they raise their voice in the concerned house.
The main issue I had in the US K-12 system was both a lack of obvious applicability (there are no math labs), and a complete lack of teaching to my particular learning style (visual-tactile, i.e. watch then do hands on).

There's a boring lecture, some numbers on the board, then drills. This method works, but only when there's a huge pressure on the student to drill...something that the U.S. system just isn't structurally built to supply in the ways that East Asian systems are.

My wife grew up in South Korea and came out of High School knowing the level of calculus I wouldn't even touch until the last semester of my Sophomore year in College in a STEM program. Her 10th grade math textbook looked like an advanced version of my University Calculus course.

The problem I had, and the original question has is that there's just no connection made for the student in the U.S. system from math class to anything remotely useful. Abstract statements like "engineers need math" just simply doesn't mean anything to a bored out of their mind 7th grader. They have to actually use math to solve something they could solve with basic arithmetic and a calculator. Something with a reward at the end other than yet more notebooks full of drilled exercises: some flashing lights on a digital circuit, winning the pot at blackjack, launching a water balloon at a target, whatever.

But modern math education doesn't just fail in making it boring, it makes math scary. Calculus becomes this "special" course only the tip-top AP students take...if your High School even offers it (those special students might even have to go take it at a local college). Basic calculus isn't really all that hard to learn the mechanics of. It shouldn't be treated as special. Just "yet more rules for algebra". Even Math teachers would talk about trigonometry in hushed tones.

Modern Math education doesn't even show student how to apply math to critical reasoning skills. Something even students who go on to the most liberal of liberal arts can benefit from.

Importantly, I don't think anything I could have learned in K-12 mathematics remotely prepared me for the kinds of upper-level mathematics I eventually became exposed to at University. K-12 math prepared me to be a carpenter or a cashier, but it should have left me at a jump off point to be a scientist, or a philosopher, an engineer or a physicist, or at the very least given me a small glimpse into those worlds, because I sure as heck got a glimpse into 17th Century Japanese poetry styles, Shakespearean Theater, Classical Orchestra performance, being a member of Congress, and other career paths I wasn't interested in pursuing.

I made some suggestions here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5858652
The start of a more consistent iOS design
I think it would be enormously enlightening to calculate the estimated cost-per-life-saved of various elements of the anti-terrorism budget, and compare it to alternative programs that could have used the money.

When it comes out to be in the billions-per-life-saved range for anti-terrorism while alternatives like cancer and heart disease research and treatment come in at thousands-per-life-saved, maybe people will get the message.
I highly doubt that app reviewers had information on what was coming in iOS 7 and to bias reviews based on that.
"This is a logical place for some regulation designed to protect and promote a free market."

The government forcing me to carry your product =/= free market. Let's say I have a platform for kids. Now I can't disapprove adult apps? Are you effing kidding me?
> One thought is this: how about making it a felony not to disclose information that an agency is clearly violating the constitution.

The obligation to whistle blow is usually an explicit part of "honor codes," such as "I will not lie, cheat, or steal, nor tolerate those who do."

The US military uses this honor code in various contexts, see for example
US Navy's Bootcamp http://www.bootcamp.navy.mil/recruits.asp and Officer Candidate Guide, US Army National Guard http://dmna.ny.gov/arng/ocs/forms/ocs_guide.pdf

In practice however, I believe authority usually interprets these honor codes as "snitch on your compatriots when they compromise authority", not "snitch on authority when they compromise your compatriots."
> But there are lots of open platforms to develop apps for.

No, there aren't, because a critical part of "platform to develop apps for" is a user base. Specifically, a user base willing to pay money for things. On mobile, that means iOS and to a much lesser extent Android and Windows Phone.

"Develop for an open platform" is like telling somebody to grow a third leg. There are no relevant open platforms. Nor will there be, because consumers do not value openness and no other developers are going to damage themselves by only providing products on niche systems.
That was my reaction as well. We are using Go in production here and I'm very much a Go fan, but I'd be surprised if Go caught up to Java in so little time.
It's disturbing to see so many people drooling over this hardware. Granted, it's tasty-looking, but:

- http://www.defectivebydesign.org/apple

- http://www.ifixit.com/blog/2011/01/20/apples-diabolical-plan...

- http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2337939,00.asp

Give some thought to the above before buying an Apple device, please.
repressive in some ways, yes speak out against the gov't and you're screwed, corruption is also significant. On the flip side, China's infrastructure sucks so much that you can get away with a lot that you can't in the U.S. . First thought was illegal parking, open defecation and prostitution. I'm not putting any judgements, I'm just saying in practice it is easier in China to do the aforementioned than I find it is to do the same in the U.S.!
... and the reason he checked out might be that the BBC (along with other media and governments) knew where he was.
This works unless the Inspector General is in cahoots with the Man. It's quite clear that Congress is, at least on this subject.

It's easy to see why Snowden would want to try to get outside the system.
iOS 7's Design is Confused
An even more detailed timeline from EFF:

https://www.eff.org/nsa-spying/timeline
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Until you piss off the wrong local constable and he sentences you to 1 year in a "reeducation through labor" camp without the benefit of a trial except for an appeals process deliberately designed to take longer than the 1 year maximum sentence.
Don't get me wrong-- I like change, and the direction Apple is headed in with some of the UI changes (the calendar) look fine, but there are still a few problems with iOS 7 that make it look a little bit amateurish in some areas.
It's odd, isn't it? -- Considering we have this perfectly good noun "revelation", whose connotations are, to my mind, more than apt. Oh well.
Unless you've heavily modified your rooted android then yes. Otherwise, at least for me, iOS7 is so much more elegance and eye pleasing.
Why do they need to justify the attacks to you? You understand that even our closest allies spy on us, right?
IOS App Store will update apps automatically, offer location and age categories
One thing I never understood with Aero -- which has been repeated here -- is the frosted glass effect.

I don't see the purpose or how it's useful. You can't see what's behind it. You don't even get an impression. So it's just squinty-visual noise.
Anwar-alAlaqui was a lot closer to being an Alex Jones, or Glenn Beck type of figure than being some terrorist mastermind; he was basically killed for calling for spiritual struggle against the United States Government. There's not much in the way of evidence that he was more than a loudmouth with a youtube channel. And while I wouldn't feel to broken up if Glenn Beck's RV were taken out in the parking lot of the Preakness; I would still object on principle if it were the US Government doing it, rather than one of his creditors.
I may be looking too much into it, but I'll post my thoughts anyway for the sake of discussion...

"There is a deep intellectual rigor to the design of iOS 7"

...sounds like he's validating his own intelligence by noticing how intelligent the design is. Only time can validate great design, and it's very early days.

It's almost like this article is preparing us for the inevitable(?) "I told you so" moment that we also faced with the iPad in 2012. I'm just as sure this time that we misunderstand iOS 7 in the same way we misunderstood the iPad.
On the desktop it is fine. On the iPhone, it's slow to play songs that aren't local yet, and doesn't really work as seamlessly as I want. I know which songs are downloaded and which are not, because they act differently.
Commenters at http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/63056/reveal-vs-r... say it appears in the 1973 OED, possibly originally from cinema.
Weather+ is somewhat like this. It uses HD video clips, not vector art, but it accomplishes a similar task. It has been around for a couple of years at least.
I don't think Firefox saves logins in the OS X keychain, and mapping which credentials go with which urls is something that Firefox is responsible for, not Apple.
Appears from cursory video vs. hotel website that he was using the less expensive room types at this hotel: 'club rooms' or 'mira suites'. http://www.themirahotel.com/en/rooms/room-choices.aspx

There's some really good food around there. Seems such a shame to limit yourself to room service when you're facing jail!

(Edit: What kind of warped mind would downvote such witty and perceptive analysis? Hahaha.)
"... If someone is attending speeches from someone who is promoting the violent overthrow of our government, that’s really an offense that we should be going after — they should be deported or put in prison."

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/05/31/232182/rand-pau...
I was referring to FireFox OS competing with iOS or Android. It's a long shot. I don't know anything about Diaspora -- Facebook will probably do a FF OS version.
Apple should maintain full editorial control. It's their App Store, and they should be able to have it contain whatever they want.

However, it is not their iPhone in my pocket anymore. The ownership changed when they got my money. They should not have any control over what it runs, and yet it only runs those things which Apple puts in their store. This is the real problem.
Could just as easily be Edward Snowden 'hiding' in Hong Kong. In his position, I wouldn't exactly be checking in on foursquare right now either.
There are all kinds of intellectual arguments against the "I have nothing to hide" excuse, but the argument itself is emotional - "I am a good person, bad things do not happen to good people."

We need examples, emotional heart-string tugging examples of good people who had something to hide and suffered because it was exposed. I don't have any off the top of my head, but perhaps someone has already realized this and started collecting them somewhere on the web?
Even looking at their site, the mail icon drives me nuts. Personally, I don't like the cyan-to-blue because it looks odd that the gradient shifts so dramatically in hue. The Twitter icon, on the other hand, is fine because it's not really a shift in hue but in lightness.
If he was a systems admin, there were undoubtedly other system admins around to keep an eye on each other. If he got data out, he likely walked out with it physically in some way, or there was a severe breakdown in the network security.
In other words, NSA is approximately as capable as your typical plugged-in "black hat" hacker.
This is a pet peeve of mine as well. Another common one is when people cast "addict" as a verb and inflect it to create "addicting", seemingly unaware of the perfectly adequate "addictive".

According to the dictionary, these are all valid forms but I just find them irksome for some reason.
The point is you can't ask a judge to prolong it in the US. You ask a judge for your right to be charged or released. That is why I say I don't think the six month renewals have any effect.
I agree with you, but apps for games consoles (Wii/PS4/Xbox) are at least as controlled than the iTunes monopoly store.

Heck, Google can cripple or even kill small businesses by excluding them from its search index, and like Apple, it can do exactly what it likes to further its own interests.

There's no penalty for monopolistic behavior unless you are actually found to be a monopoly, in which case stuff you may have thought was legal suddenly becomes illegal and you get dinged for it.
I chose the words in my comment somewhat carefully. I don't know how much clearer I can make the comment I wrote upthread for you.
I wouldn't say it is the same. It would only be the same if all the governments shared everything they know, and I doubt that is the case.
Is there actually a way to properly debug LINQ expressions? I haven't figured out how to get Visual Studio to step through lambdas or break halfway through the chain (eg break after the filter call has completed and before reduce runs in the above example).

But I'm not sure if I'm missing some blindingly obvious.