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...is they didn't want Santa to die going the wrong way
or accidentally flying over a major airport Google does not show.

If I were Apple, I would push out a patch today that scraps Apple Maps and replaces it with Google.

Why would Apple want to degrade search results or lead people the wrong way down dangerous roads?

At this point iOS *AND* Android users are worse served by Apple going back to Google maps. If you think about it the whole world is better off with Google finally having real competition in mapping, that can best Google at times and cause Google to have to start correcting map errors in a timely fashion. For years Google was unable to find a simple Arby's in Elko, NV - just months after Apple Maps was released, Google fixed that error and it now returns the correct results.

If you run Android, you should thank Apple because they are driving Google to improve maps also. As people find humorous and dangerous errors in either mapping app, they will report it and both maps will improve rapidly.

As for an Office 365 replacement - well actually Pages and Numbers work quite well even on an iPhone. Although it would not be my first choice I've edited spreadsheets on a train before using my iPhone thanks to Numbers...

Since Google Maps are leading people the wrong way down a narrow road, if public safety were a factor they would have sent it back for further work.

Google Maps Leads Australian Drivers Down Dangerous One Way Road

Based on how widely stories of dangerously erroneous Australian data in other, unnamed mapping applications were reported, I expect this story will be widely publicized soon.

There was speculation because the police immediately announced it was bath salts before any toxicology report could be compled. And guess what? They didn't find any bath salts. It's just pure zombism.

And perhaps some day companies will learn that. http://www.inquisitr.com/283632/cisco-firing-1300-employees-2-of-global-workforce/

But, but... Cisco demonstrated again and again its loyalty to the employees. Want a citation? Here's one:

I want you to remember that Cisco puts the groceries on your table every two weeks, ...

What more a human being would want? (stop that subversive BS, will yea?)

</sarcasm>

And perhaps some day companies will learn that. http://www.inquisitr.com/283632/cisco-firing-1300-employees-2-of-global-workforce/

Countries allow this sort of abuse because the right people (or entities) have been bribed. Of that, you can be sure. The real question is, is it legal bribery (AKA "foreign aid," or other forms of government money), quasi-legal bribery ($13,000 sex parties paid for by lobbyists, anyone?), or the good, old-fashioned, illegal sort ?

So I guess this action would also fall under the "your kidding" option or how does one drive a horse. Perhaps they should change the law to just OUI (easy to suss out).

Actually rail lines aren't a problem -- they are stretched when installed so that when the air temperature is ~100 degrees there's no stress on the line.

Until you get outside of the design parameters:

http://www.inquisitr.com/271960/d-c-metro-derailment-caused-by-heat-kink/

Given the fundamentals here there is no reason to be concerned about the safety of terahertz radiation. It is certainly far safer than the alternatives which have large known risks.

Unless you have an insulin pump.

http://www.inquisitr.com/233195/tsa-breaks-teens-insulin-pump-during-forced-full-body-scanner-examination/

Then it's pretty damn dangerous, particularly if it happens to be on when the scanner kills the control circuitry for the pump.

http://www.inquisitr.com/25753/seven-actresses-you-might-not-know-are-australian/

The last time California made a labeling law, the soda vendors changed their formulation. I see no reason why the reaction to this proposal would be any different.

Besides, knowing California, the law will probably require a prominent label that says, "Warning: This product contains genetically modified food. Some genetically modified food is known to the State of California to cause cancer, birth defects, or other reproductive harm."

Some think it's too much CO2:

http://www.inquisitr.com/206123/high-co2-levels-are-making-people-fat-says-new-study/

First, they have you on camera? So? Only a problem if you do something illegal.

Eh? Did you really just make the "if you aren't doing anything wrong, you have nothing to be worried about" argument?

Second, if people wear masks they're going to feel like they can get away with things. It encourages violence and mob behavior.

And if people are allowed to own handguns, it will just encourage violence and mob behavior. Sorry, but this seems to be a bit of a tautology.

Third, you see people wearing masks at protests in third world countries where they worry about a secret police tracking them. This is not a reasonable concern in the first world.

The first world that has FBI files on nonviolent actresses and civil rights activists?
The first world where undercover agents go so far as to impregnate the nonviolent activists they are spying on?
The first world that constantly uses entrapment to prosecute "terror" cases?
The first world which has recently passed both laws allowing military detentions of citizens and criminalizing "disrupting events" where someone is under Secret Service protection?

Lets say you decide to protest a Bank of America shareholder meeting at a convention center. You're peacefully protesting in the street and the parking lot, but totally unknown to you, Jill Biden was quietly on her way to meet some Democratic donors in another room at the convention center.

But she was a few minutes late getting past the crowd, so you and your fellow protesters "disrupted an event" where the Secret Service was protecting someone. That spiffy new spy center in Nevada runs CCTV footage through their facial recognition software, and not only picks you out of a crowd, but is able to cross-reverence your location with a warrantless wiretap on your cell phone. Presto, you receive a summons in the mail a few weeks later.

It'll be the new speed camera fine-by-mail.

The FBI and the TSA are part of the same department You tried to insinuate they are unconnected, but they both fall under the Department of Homeland Security with the same overall boss (Big Brother Janet Napolitano).

>>>>>example: forcing a breast-feeding mom to stand in a glass jail for an hour...
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>>What the hell? Citation?

Well Mr. Doubting Thomas who fails to keep himself informed about the world (probably too busy watching Faux News or DNC-NBC), here is your citation. And before you say something stupid... moms ARE allowed to carry breastmilk and pumping equipment on planes. She showed the papers to the SS goons but the rotten fuckers still threw her in that glass jail for an hour, making her lose her flight, and equipment, and forcing her to dump the food for her newbown baby. So Mr. Collaborator, take your stupid defense of the DHS and shove it up your cunt. Defending the tyrannical state means you AGREE with the tyrannical state. You are an ememy of the Bill of Rights and the People.

VIDEO
- Mother Kept In Glass Cage For Almost An Hour By TSA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKWTzQhiX7M

Mom forced to breastfeed by the SA nazis
VIDEO www.youtube.com/watch?v=6v0g3TdJmKo
ARTICLE:
  http://mybrownbaby.com/2012/03/tsa-forces-breastfeeding-mom-to-pump-in-airport-bathroom-do-you-know-the-rules/

ARTICLE
4-year-old accosted by the SA:
"She started to cry, saying `No I donâ(TM)t want to,â(TM) and when we tried talking to her she ran. They yelled, `We are going to shut down the airport if you donâ(TM)t grab her." Read more at http://www.inquisitr.com/226208/crying-4-year-old-forced-to-go-through-pat-down-after-hugging-grandmother-by-tsa/#XWIWvjxG7GxWhYKu.99

For the record, I build systems both for highend gamers and for desktop task intensive net surfers

As a system builder, you have a very desktop-oriented view of the world. But look at what Intel is facing. 110v power and a big enclosure for lots of discrete components are luxuries that a diminishing minority of "computers" have going into the future.

They don't have a fundamentalist attitude of "all DRM is evil". As long as it doesn't actually inconveniance them they're fine with it.

Meaning that if it does not inconvenience them now they have no opposition to it and will hand over their money now. This is short-sighted. How many DRM-encumbered products (be they games, music, or even OSes) have worked fine for a long time until some server somewhere goes down?

All DRM-ed products are booby-trapped, plain and simple. Sure the trap might not go off, and won't go off anytime soon, but the trap is still there. It might go off by accident (think Windows wanting you to re-activate it over and over). It is a feature of the software which can break, yet is totally unnecessary and unwanted by the buyer (me). Is it really "fundamentalist" for me to not want that, ever, or is it just good sense?

he signed it a few months ago.

Your 90% market figure is dated. The reality is that it's more like 67% which is still dominant but still a far cry from the 98% a year or so ago. We don't have an iPad in my home, but we do have a nook and a cheap-o knockoff.

I mean seriously. There is a real reason why congress is less popular than things like Paris Hilton and Nixon. These guys are so far into the pockets of big business that they don't even have a minor inkling of what is best for the majority of America.

> Not sure how to do this with a laptop though.

"He stole my laptop. I stole his dignity" :-D
http://www.inquisitr.com/101482/mark-bao-laptop-stolen-revenge/

"Pwn3d by owner" http://www.gadgetsdna.com/defcon-zoz-got-his-stolen-computer-back/7640/

The moral of the story: if your personal entertainment is more valuable than your data or hardware, don't lock the OS down too tightly. Just give yourself remote access to the system, a way to sync files back to your server, some kind of DDNS app, and give the thief every incentive to not bother reinstalling Windows so you can have fun with him remotely and make him regret having ever messed with you.

Also keep in mind that lawyers do have the right to screen jurors. If they feel a juror won't be impartial, they *can* dismiss him or her, even without stating a cause. So your scenario will likely never come to pass, as the prosecution would likely discount the majority of those jurors.

The defense also has this right.

The result is a jury that BOTH sides can feel confident will reach a fair and impartial decision.

Good fucking luck keeping misogynistic Muslims off the jury of a wife-killer in today's PC white-European-males-are-evil environment, where even acts of terrorist murder are whitewashed as "workplace violence".

Yep - communicate with an Al Qaeda cleric, attack and murder 13 people, and get the "workplace violence" label because we can't call Islamic-inspired acts of murder what they are.

Well, then stop ranting and read the summary of her work? How stupid can one be? Knowing that others "did the same", citing them, pointing to the wikipedia article ... and being unable to read at the same time?

Her particles are not ment to CURE. They are ment to TRANSPORT the poison that is used to kill the cancer cells.

And to put it even more bluntly (sorry to rant but I can not get it): she got $ 100k as REWARD. Do you think the "guy" who gave it her is a "complete idiot"? Did you even notice who "the guy" is? Hint: Siemens. That is a small company in germany ... actually it has some minor irrelevant brach offices in a few countries in the world (190)

They barely have the money to operate this:
http://www.siemens-foundation.org/en/competition.htm

Oki, end of ranting. The linekd article in this story and a few others (copied from each other) are very missleading. Not the nanoparticle but the drug it transports (salinomycin) performs the killing: http://www.inquisitr.com/165679/angela-zhang-cancer-research-siemens-competition-in-math-science-technology/

You quoted a blog which has figures pulled from some guys arse, seriously he excludes many potential deaths including mining deaths for nuclear, I'll bet yellow-cake isn't mined safely everywhere.

Estimates of Chernobyl deaths vary widely, according to who is counting; WHO estimated 47-212 immediate deaths, and 4000-9000 excess cancers. Greenpeace estimated 270,000 excess cancers, of which 93,000 would be fatal. IPPNW expects 50,000 cancers , 10,000 deformities, and 5,000 infant deaths. The Ukranian health minister estimates that 2.4 million Ukrainians have health problems of some kind as a result of Chernobyl.

Wind power does not cause more deaths than nuclear and if you include the psychological harm done to the victims of cancer and those victims families it is far far worse.

See:
http://www.inquisitr.com/18588/wind-power-causes-more-deaths-than-nuclear-power/

and

http://environmentalchemistry.com/yogi/hazmat/articles/chernobyl1.html

And read my other posts, it's not just about money and it's not just about numbers of people dying. It's about not having millions of people have to worry about the nasty shit that is nuclear power and the waste from it. Humans have shown time and time again they can't handle this stuff responsibly, Italian crooks were recently found to have been dumping nuclear waste illegally since the 1980s.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_waste_dumping_by_the_'Ndrangheta

Stop. Regardless of what you or I think about copyright infringement, this is wrong. He's being extradited for something that he did in another country. If it's illegal under UK law, he should be tried in the UK, because that's where the offence took place. Not in the US. Think about the implications here - if the US had something similar to Australia's small breast pornography law, then by the same process here they would be able to extradite someone on child pornography charges.

No, let's include all deaths directly linked to radiation exposure from nuclear generation *in all of history*.

Let's add the total death toll for ALL nuclear accidents EVER. Well that would be ... 86 (64 from chernobyl, which was mostly the result of politicians not telling workers what they were doing at the site, resulting in people walking into a uranium cloud which was still chain-reacting. Granted the accident was bad, but a lot of these deaths were perfectly preventable with minimal precautions). This includes all deaths worldwide that have been proven to have something to do with radiation from nuclear power plants. Obviously there is no shortage of statistically unverified (or outright falsified) "studies".

Let's take the number of people dying in oil production alone THIS year (it's only June, so ...) : 800

Even wind power does far worse than nuclear

Well we live in the age of reason, the age of enlightenment, so we let policy be decided by the scaremongering of popular celebrities. Isn't that what the 21st century is all about ? If we truly cared about loss of human life, we'd only have nuclear power.

Same reason governments don't negotiate with terrorists (or at least not in public)

"That's a bingo!" (Not to mention funding some "terrorists".) Sony is no stranger to that game either, having previously offered a plum job to a hacker, who, as it happens, promptly turned them down because of their treatment of a fellow hacker.

Well, a guy in the UK got a 84 pounds return because of the OtherOS removing update.

*gasp* no! thieves are not stupid at all! they're the smartest on the planet!

(and I weep for the planet)....

Yes, noone has ever been tried for harrassing a normal person over the internet, much less threatening them.

The casino will "keep the bet" if they are winning, but will cancel a payout if they can show it exceeded the pre-programmed win-loss ratio for the machine or was due in any way to a machine "malfunction." (They may refund the single bet that preceded the payout, but that doesn't count for much.)

This one: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/31/fortune-valley-casino-say_n_520182.html

This one: http://www.freeslotmachinescasino.com/news/jan07/pennyslots.html

and this one: http://www.inquisitr.com/46188/casino-denies-man-166m-jackpot-after-slot-malfunction/

The reasons for the payout cancelations vary, but no where is there any mention of the casino giving money back to all of the people who were betting and losing money on the malfunctioning machines prior to the "incorrect payout".... if the machine was broken the entire time, all bets should be canceled and the money returned, or else the payout should be allowed to stand.

If I were king, my rule would be that if the player is allowed to bet, the casino must pay out if the player wins, no matter what the cause of the win (except for fraud). Casinos might take a little more care in the acceptance of machines, promoting better development processes, etc. As long as they can simply cancel wins due to what they claim is a malfunction, while keeping all losses, there is no incentive to improve the state of function in the code that drives the machines.

I believe that gambling is fundamentally stupid, but if the state is going to allow it, the state should allow it on terms that are equally favorable to the plebes and the casinos.

All these posts and not one mention of her picture?

Here's a link to her photo, and yes she's beautiful

If that article gets /.ed here's a second photo of her

I think she needs more than a $250 fine and a essay. I've paid more than $250 for a traffic violation but what she did was pretty serious, I think a week in jail and the fine would be more appropriate. Our courts have gone very soft.

http://www.inquisitr.com/29390/jk-rowling-a-potential-pedophile-uk-laws-strike-again/
forgot about this one

URL Shorteners - the herpes of the web

Well, this isn't quite as serious as Bank Trojans, but Storm8 is infamous for stealing phone numbers from their customers. And this is with the all-mighty App Store in place.

Try here, Cardboard brown is the new green for computers
Yeah a case review with no pics ( 2 miniscule images ). Sure.

Good points, but I think this is where things get really muddled. Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Religion are together in the first amendment. And, from what I hear the "authorities" in several religious organizations declaring openly, I'd say certain types of lies get special protection... and by categorically protecting such lies due to the speakers' conviction of their truth, such sorts of declarations based on ones' convictions, rational or not, true or not, fall into an odd category here in the US.

Funny enough, any subscriber to any of those religions will think the declarations made by followers of the other religions are false, much like atheists, agnostics, and others will consider most such claims from anyone.

Freedom of Speech isn't just Freedom of Rational Speech, but I believe this is a good thing. Stupidity and irrational thought *need* to see the light of day so that they can be shot down, exposed, etc... I'm glad KKK members and the like can go on Jerry Springer to share their viewpoints. In places where such talk is flat out banned, that kind of talk is "subversive," "suppressed," "underground," and thereby romanticized. I think the major problem is when, in democratic systems, mob rule shuts down rational speech because the masses find it unpalletable. I saw this example today: http://www.inquisitr.com/28336/florida-christians-protest-atheist-billboard-wait-till-you-see-the-sign/

Actually, that is the one that scares me as a possibility. Maybe it is part of a mandate from the secret ACTA (sp?) international copyright treaty that is being worked on?

http://inquisitr.com/extra/wp-content/2009/01/grammarnazi.jpg

Ask the person who wrote this review

I've seen that Scarlette/Cloning rant somewhere before...
maybe here
and here
among the numerous other places. Thanks for posting your spam.