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• Commented on Amazon and Macmillan go to war: readers and writers are the civilian casualties
  Any idea yet if the situation will be any better on the iPad? I know they said they will use the ePub format, so I'm hoping there will be a chance for independents to publish through the iBooks Store without...
• Commented on TSA bans snowglobes. TSA, meet Archimedes.
  How long do we have to wait before the Obama Administration puts someone with a brain in charge of the TSA. You would think that it would even count toward their 'jobs saved or created' totals if they could make...
• Commented on Mob of Britons blocks Google-cam
  I can't understand this either. The UK is becoming a bizzaro place I no longer recognize after 10 years in the US. I cannot understand why everyone is so upset about Street View. It's a static, one time picture. Are...
• Commented on Is the Shuffle headphone Chip a MEMS microphone?
  Sigh... 0 for 2 Rob. When are you going to give it up with the shuffle chip stories? Funny how there's not "RAMPANT AND IGNORANT SPECULATION" as part of the headline, just one of those clever question marks you like...
• Commented on Analyst: Carriers turned nose up at Dellphone
  "Who is the customer again?" In the US cellphone model, the carriers *are* the customer of the handset makers. That's how each network has their exclusive hardware. If you want an iPhone, you have to go to AT&T.; The G1?...
• Commented on Dell Adamo
  "At $2,000 to start, it makes the MacBook Air look cheap." It also makes the MacBook Air look well spec'd in the procesor, graphics and storage departments and light too......
• Commented on Apple whips America into frenzy by fixing iPhone's most glaring omissions
  @ Nelson C. That's not going to happen. They'd have to ban Rob Beschizza who wrote the article. BB's anti-Apple bias is really starting to show....
• Commented on Manufacturer confirms chip: iPod headphones now have the Apple Tax; Update: Apple confirms no DRM, authentication, just licensing
  Is this where I say "I told you so"..? From your first story comments: "Even if this chip is some kind of encryption, and not just debouce which seems much more likely, it's not even new. Heck, for the longest...
• Commented on We found the chip inside the new iPod headphones...but is it DRM? (Update: It is not!)
  Did you all watch Jon Stewart and Jim Cramer the other day..? Remember the clip where Cramer said how important and easy it was to start rumors about AAPL because they were so tight lipped and the "people who write...
• Commented on We found the chip inside the new iPod headphones...but is it DRM? (Update: It is not!)
  Rob, are your #4 & #31 comments really by you, or has your account been hacked? What difference does it make how the chip is formed? The laser comment must be a joke, but how does that help move the...
• Commented on Review: iPod Shuffle (Third Generation)
  @FERRY, Form would certainly suffer if the objective is to make it as small as possible. Look at the iFixit take apart. Anything added would make it bigger. Apple said that the headphone clicker opened up the possibility of no...
• Commented on Review: iPod Shuffle (Third Generation)
  @LEGO7 - I just don't see how this is a "bizarrely stupid interface". It's something that's been used on other iPods and no-one was complaining then... @FIVE - I'm not saying all I ever do is one click and that's...
• Commented on Review: iPod Shuffle (Third Generation)
  "Apple's worst product in years" - really? Just because of the click to play interface?? Have you used a recent generation iPod, or the iPhone? I regularly plug my iPhone headset into the phone and just click the button /...
• Commented on Will third-party gear fix the new iPod Shuffle?
  I really don't see why this is such an issue. The 1/2/3 click thing is not hard to figure out, it's the same as the latest generation iPods and the iPhone. Apple designs for the mass market. I'd be interested...
• Commented on New Mac Mini with .... O.K., now we're just getting silly
  They'd only make that if it had more display port options too. I mean, people want the regular d-sub 15 and composite video, and HDMI, and an RF connector would make it really useful too....
• Commented on When is a free credit report not a free credit report? When it's from freecreditreport.com
  BoingBoing has just gone down in my estimation. I mean there's the public service aspect of posting this warning - that's one thing, but the fact that someone who writes for BB fell for it really disappoints me. How did...
• Commented on Video: 30-foot midair near hit by RAF jet pilot
  I guess that's called training. Keep calm in any situation. Mind you, the humming seems to be a diversion from what he's really thinking..!...
• Commented on VIDEO: Foxes on a trampoline
  I will deliberately link to the BB version and not Ms Pissy's YouTube version. What an idiot - post something on YT and then get mad when it gets popular....
• Commented on Lamboghini Gallardo Stilettoes: your girlfriend's feet as a mech robot
  If you thought these were a good idea, you probably don't have a girlfriend to buy them for anyway....
• Commented on House of Lords damns British surveillance society
  Too. Late. And weren't the Tories in charge when CCTV became widespread..? Didn't people make these arguments then, but were told to trust the benevolent state..? Kind of hypocritical for them to be arfuing against it now. The UK has...
• Commented on A human lifetime in Rolex Time Sand
  If you need it explaining, you can't understand....
• Commented on Post-Mortem of a failed Genius Bar warranty repair
  John, You know what you did wrong, so I'm sure most of the comments are going to be kind of obvious. Looking back would you rather have had a walk in the snow and $200 in your pocket? Just because...
• Commented on For once, news about why we're safer than we used to be
  And still the outgoing President says the biggest risk for the incoming President is 'an attack on the homeland' - a phrase deliberately chosen to evoke memories of 9/11......
• Commented on A product only my cleaning girl will love: Bird Diapers
  Why is there no penalty for violation of the Flag Code...? There should be a level of decency that means no-one with any connection to the USA would ever buy a stars & stripes bird diaper....
• Commented on Apple netbook announcement imminent, analyst predicts
  Was it really presented as a definite like that "... Apple WILL ". Isn't that a lie if it turns out that they don't? Surely analysis usually use terms like "might" and "may" rather than "will"......
• Commented on Just where the heck are Apple's premium in-ear headphones? (Update: Oops. They're now for sale.)
  John, if you'd have jumped on this bandwagon yesterday like most of the other Mac press, you'd at least have got more than 15 min out of the story. ;) And we're all just waiting to see if they really...
• Commented on Teacher forced into computer-porn plea deal despite proof prosecutor, IT manager misled court
  Can't Amero or someone (EFF maybe?) sue Hartz and the cops for perjury? They have obviously submitted false evidence. The fact that the computer was not isolated on the date they said it was and the fact that a different...
• Commented on Metal plates send messages to airport x-ray screeners
  @snackcake, you're right. @enginehere, they've won because; A)the security theater is here to stay B)even thinking about doing something to point out the futility of the security theater makes us scared. Thoughtcrime is here......
• Commented on Heathrow Terminal 5 to fingerprint domestic passengers
  What does that LSE guy mean "There will also be a suspicion that this is the thin end of the wedge"..??!! The UK is already so far down the wedge it's unreal. As a UK ex-pat it scares me to...