Here’s the AFL-CIO’s Paul Almeida, on why SOPA doesn’t represent a massive and disastrous abridgment of our rights to free speech: There is no inconsistency between protecting an open Internet and safeguarding intellectual property. Protecting intellectual property is not the same as censorship; the First Amendment does not protect stealing goods off trucks. This isn’t [...]
There’s been a bit of of tempest in a teapot recently in the Apple community, around an incident where some poor guy stopped a performance of the New York Philharmonic with an ill-timed iPhone alarm. He’d put the phone on mute, but the iOS alarm app ignores the mute button, so it went off anyway. [...]
Here’s Ron Paul making sense at the latest gathering of clowns: Well, waterboarding is torture. It’s illegal under international law and under our law. It’s also immoral. And it’s also very impractical. There’s no evidence that you really get reliable evidence. Why would you accept the position of torturing 100 people because you know one [...]
I don’t think I ever really understood the word “bourgeois”, as an epithet, until I read this paragraph: When you realize your home’s look hasn’t evolved much since its post-college phase, you put the Ikea bookshelves on Craigslist, start searching for a contractor who won’t drive you crazy, scrutinize endless tile samples and stop considering [...]
Heard in church today: “The problem with most Christians is that they are educated beyond their obedience.” — John Maxwell My first reaction was to recoil in disgust. My second was to look around the room and marvel that everybody else wasn’t retching in their seats. For the record: ignorance is never the solution. It [...]
An iPad developer recently had what appears to be a very civil run-in with Apple. He hit a bug in the iOS SDK that forced him to use a private API to get the keyboard working correctly — but the App Store gatekeepers rejected his application, because iOS developers aren’t allowed to use private APIs. [...]
From the chutzpah files: BP has resisted entreaties from scientists that they be allowed to use sophisticated instruments at the ocean floor that would give a far more accurate picture of how much oil is really gushing from the well. “The answer is no to that,” a BP spokesman, Tom Mueller, said on Saturday. “We’re [...]
From the TidBITS iPad review: In contrast, the iPad becomes the app you’re using. That’s part of the magic. The hardware is so understated – it’s just a screen, really – and because you manipulate objects and interface elements so smoothly and directly on the screen, the fact that you’re using an iPad falls away. [...]
Lately, some Apple enthusiasts have been citing recent improvements in the App Store’s approval process as proof that the state of affairs in iPhone OS development has been getting better — and that people need to stop complaining about it. Marco makes that point in this otherwise excellent post: But the problems keep getting fixed, [...]
Just ran across an infuriating column1 from David Pogue, whose stuff I usually love. It’s a review of Dragon Dictation for the iPhone, an amazing app that transcribes speech into text with genuinely impressive fidelity. Unfortunately, Pogue devotes half of the column to a rant about the “paranoid” people who are complaining about the app’s [...]
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