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analog··on Apple reports $9.5 billion second quarter profit

Subsidized plans are common enough in Europe as far as I'm aware. It's just that you've also generally had the option of buying the iPhone outright.

Fwiw I think the 'cheap iPhone' option has been the iPod touch.

analog··on Connecting an iPad retina LCD to a PC

A few results pop up on Ebay for 'pcb manufacture'.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_odkw=pcb&_osacat=0&...

analog··on CipherCloud Responds to the Crypto StackExchange Controversy

The damage to their reputation should be quite a good example. Nowhere near so many would have heard of this if they hadn't issued the takedown.

analog··on EBay recruits users in push against sales tax legislation

Of course that's standard operating procedure, but after being treated like that why should sellers campaign on behalf of Ebay?

Sellers will be responsible for paying this tax, not buyers.

analog··on EBay recruits users in push against sales tax legislation

Absolutely. Ebay's policy has been to steadily increase fees until they reach a point where too many sellers quit.

The net effect on sellers will be zero in the long term. They will either pay a sales tax or they will pay Ebay's increased fees.

analog··on You do not need a DSLR to take nice looking photos, your phone will suffice

I actually think they will make your photos better. Better glassware = better image. Now that's not to say that you can't take an OK, or even a great image on a phone, but you will definitely start to run up against technical limitations sooner. Low light, fast movement, anything where you need a quick reaction time to capture a moment. Any of these conditions and you'll get average images from a camera phone.

analog··on TSA Accepting Public Comments On Whole Body Airport Screening

Right, anyone who disagrees with you must hate America.

analog··on TSA Accepting Public Comments On Whole Body Airport Screening

"Nobody I know feels the danger of a police state, therefore there is no danger of a police state"

analog··on TSA Accepting Public Comments On Whole Body Airport Screening

An article in the Guardian last year by a journalist who lives in Connecticut. Headline - "The TSA's mission creep is making the US a police state"

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2012/apr/...

analog··on TSA Accepting Public Comments On Whole Body Airport Screening

Let me guess, you're American?

analog··on Why Should I Care That No One’s Reading Dzhokhar Tsarnaev His Miranda Rights?

Actually the Spanish Inquisition used similar methods, including waterboarding [1]. Certainly some of the US prisoners have been tortured to death [2].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Inquisition#Torture

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilawar_(torture_victim)

analog··on Why Should I Care That No One’s Reading Dzhokhar Tsarnaev His Miranda Rights?

Well sure, you'd have to actually be seriously planning to commit the crime to be prosecuted for it.

analog··on Why Should I Care That No One’s Reading Dzhokhar Tsarnaev His Miranda Rights?

Yup, conspiracy was just the first example that came to mind. The actual class of crimes is inchoate offences (found after some brief googling).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inchoate_offense

analog··on CipherCloud used DMCA Takedown on StackExchange discussion of their cryptography

Oh I don't have a solution, was just pointing out how the penalties for DMCA abuses end up not being enforced. I actually agree that DMCA takedown notices are surprisingly efficient.

analog··on CipherCloud used DMCA Takedown on StackExchange discussion of their cryptography

But what are the 'actual damages' in this case, it would be hard to argue a monetary damage to Stack Exchange. So the most you could 'win' from CipherCloud for their abuse would be your legal costs. Hard to justify taking that action.

analog··on Why Should I Care That No One’s Reading Dzhokhar Tsarnaev His Miranda Rights?

Lucky for people planning crimes I guess, unlucky for the rest of us.

Edit: Your claim that this is limited to mainly English speaking countries is not even true.

"Most nations prosecute inchoate acts (such as conspiracy and incitation) in their domestic criminal law."

https://www.law.upenn.edu/journals/jil/jilp/articles/1-1_Ste...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inchoate_offense

analog··on Why Should I Care That No One’s Reading Dzhokhar Tsarnaev His Miranda Rights?

Conspiracy is already a crime. Your cucumber example wouldn't attract a response because nobody actually cares enough to prosecute it. For example if your cucumber was made of solid goal then you would become a target of preventive action.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_(crime)

analog··on Danny Sullivan's Twitter list about Watertown

There are current reports that the suspects are Chechyan, not the missing guy. Way too early to know who they are, even for the police.

http://globalgrind.com/news/411-sunil-tripathi-missing-brown...

analog··on Teen: I Am Not the Boston Marathon Bomber

For accuracy, it looks like they did receive threats. Apparently from a friend of his on Reddit.

"the 2 guys been getting shit of calls, and they are scared like hell"

http://www.reddit.com/r/findbostonbombers/comments/1cjghc/4c...

analog··on A Comparison of Angular, Backbone, CanJS and Ember

There's a list of Backbone examples at http://backbonejs.org/#examples

analog··on What happens when you give 4chan images of the Boston Marathon?

There have been a few of these cases, but they all (iirc) have been started by traditional media rather than the internet mob.

In fact the mob in this case seems to be showing a lot of common sense with top voted comments like the parent here urging caution.

analog··on A Better Development Workflow with Vagrant

Yup, this works with Rubymine and Vagrant. Set this up today for myself. Took a bit of fiddling to get it to work, Ruby 2.0 seems a bit flaky to debug, 1.9.3 works well.

analog··on Linode hacked, CCs and passwords leaked

Very true. If your bank gives you a separate savings account you can transfer the bulk of your money there and just use the card from the current account to limit your exposure.

analog··on Rape Case Solved By Anonymous in Less Than 2 Hours Despite "No Evidence"

She was vomiting in the photo, that's pretty good evidence of that level of intoxication. The accused was also clearly recognisable[1] in the photo so it beggars belief that they could think there wasn't sufficient evidence.

[1] “because he is easily recognizable in a photograph showing him raping the victim while she is visibly ill… why the RCMP decided these photographs aren’t evidence of rape is beyond us.” http://www.salon.com/2013/04/12/anonymous_on_rehtaeh_parsons...

analog··on Rape Case Solved By Anonymous in Less Than 2 Hours Despite "No Evidence"

"I'm proud to say that 15-17 years old girls can be hot, and I can feel attracted to them."

throwawayG9 is stating that they are proud to be a paedophile. Personally I'd feel a little wrong about dating an 18 year old girl, but a 15 year old girl is most definitely a child.

analog··on How Parents Around the World Describe Their Children, in Charts

I don't have a list, and I'm not seeing this as a competition. If you want to see where the GII data comes from I'm sure it's on their website.

analog··on Rape Case Solved By Anonymous in Less Than 2 Hours Despite "No Evidence"

"refuses to acknoledge the possibility that we might view sex irrationally"

Yes, I think it's wrong to have sex with children. And to be 'proud' of wanting to.

analog··on How Parents Around the World Describe Their Children, in Charts

Well sure, but you could back that up with data[1]. With the innovation index the data apparently disputes your gut feeling. So which do you trust?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_freedom_indices

analog··on Rape Case Solved By Anonymous in Less Than 2 Hours Despite "No Evidence"

What an upstanding member of society you must be.

analog··on Rape Case Solved By Anonymous in Less Than 2 Hours Despite "No Evidence"

Maybe it's different in Canada but in the UK being that drunk would be very strong evidence that you were in no state to give consent. If you have sex with someone who's so drunk they don't know what they're doing that's rape.

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