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Comment · 12 years ago
What about cyclists buzzing pedestrians?

I see cyclists constantly breaking traffic rules, speeding through red lights, mounting onto the pavement, and they never get punished.

If cyclists want to be treated as a road vehicle, perhaps they should be registered like one with a license plate?

Comment · 12 years ago
Comment · 12 years ago
The marketing hype is ridiculous and the fanboys are going to be unbearable:

Ion strengthened glass.

18K Gold developed to be twice as hard as standard gold.

Comment · 12 years ago
The damage has been done, surely?

Headlines around the world are "iCloud hacked", "Apple hacking scandal", "Are your photos safe on iCloud?" etc.

Meanwhile celebrities like Kirsten Dunst have described iCloud as a "piece of shit" (a tweet with emoticons).

Timing is not great for Apple since they are supposed to be launching health and payment related features for iOS in the next few days.

Question is, would Apple have responded so quickly if celebrities weren't involved?

Comment · 12 years ago
I'm sorry, all of this material would be thrown out of court. We really need hard evidence that would stand up in a war crimes trial in the Hague. One guy blogging about pictures he found on the internet is not good enough!
Comment · 12 years ago
Here's an air-strike on a civilian area, and a probable war crime committed by the Ukrainian government. It's gory, it's sickening. How many reporters from the Free Press covered this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=I91...

All sides must be held to account for any crimes committed. However, it's hard to have any kind of rational discussion when so many people have a Pavlovian reaction to the word "Russia" (and "China").

I have no dog in this fight, but it seems like even normally rational and logic-minded programmers and hackers are not immune to conditioning over a period of time.

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