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I ran across this article on Daring Fireball while checking out the non-Apple kernel extensions in the /System/Library/Extensions/ folder on my Mac. The article is ancient history …

The entry-level 16GB model is still practical if you rely on cloud services for the storage and retrieval of media files. 16GB is still enough room for iOS, bundled apps, and a moderate number of thir…

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Long-term investors who bought stocks after the 1987 crash did very well. It took a few years, but the market fully recovered.

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This link worked for me: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c... …

> It’s too hard to find the right people to follow for your detailed interests. I love to follow people who post creative, well-written, ironic, humorous tweets. It almost doesn't matter what …

The author is to blame for this unfortunate headline. "Humans engage in a kind of tug-of-war with the food we eat, a battle in which we are measuring the spoils--calories--all wrong."

If I set this option, I wonder if OS X third-party app installers will be affected? They often ask for the admin password, presumably to install software in directories owned by the system.

As I understand it, Little Snitch is a process-level network firewall that uses a kernel extension to monitor and report all outgoing traffic. I have used it for about a week on a Mac running OS X 10.…

Are you offering a rockstar salary? I understand true rockstars earn at least seven figures.

A video of this wonderful Google tech talk is available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8 …

I don't own a gun, but I have had fantasies about doing exactly the same thing. Vigilante justice is an American tradition. A better course of action probably would have been to photograph the dr…

I'm not a lawyer, but here's how I think it should work: 1. DA asks court for a search warrant because a crime may have been committed. 2. If the evidence looks convincing, court issues warr…

I'm not a lawyer, but I guess I don't understand the problem: 1. DA asks court for an iPhone search warrant because a crime may have been committed. 2. If the evidence looks strong, court is…

Off topic, but the term "layoff" seems like a euphemism for "fired". I always thought that a true layoff meant the employer intended to re-hire the workers after the company's…

> The IOC could solve the problem of where to stage its increasingly costly Games (and provide a helping hand to Greece) by putting the Games permanently in Athens. Not a great article, but I total…

Agreed, it's way too early to say anything intelligent about the success of the Apple Watch. As Neil Cybart wrote recently, the iPhone's gravitational pull is simply too strong for any new A…

I wonder if habitual smoking always turns people into anti-social slobs, especially when they are outdoors? Social scientists, please get to work on this problem.

I was eager to watch this video but I found it disappointing. The presentation was disorganized and unfocused, although Bourne did have some interesting war stories about Bell Labs. A specialist in wr…

I'm not qualified to judge whether Piketty is correct but I can offer this analogy. In the past, when I have loaned money to friends and family, my attitude was "kiss the money goodbye"…

This is chapter 8 from Capability-Based Computer Systems, a book by Henry Levy published by Digital Press. Here's the TOC: http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~levy/capabook/…

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> Members of Congress are immune from prosecution for insider trading. This is a strong claim. Are you referring to trading in global equity markets?