Apple Censors Lawrence Lessig's Comment on iOS 7 Wi-Fi Glitch; Coding Just for 'Exceptionally Dull Weirdos,' Says Telegraph Blogger

To view a web version of this message, click here Send this message to a friend Apple Censors Lawrence Lessig's Comment on iOS 7 Wi-Fi Glitch Leak: Samsung Smartwatches Stung by 30% Return Rate Why Can't Big Government Launch a Website? Coding Just for 'Exceptionally Dull Weirdos,' Says Telegraph Blogger Why Does Broadband Cost More in the U.S.? Hot Comment: "America is fundamentally punitive and violent. Same reason gun massacres..." From the Vault: What's Keeping You On Windows? Watch It: Industrial-Scale Exhibits at Ft. Wayne Regional Maker Faire Poll Booth: Do You Need Headphones While Working? Apple Censors Lawrence Lessig's Comment on iOS 7 Wi-Fi Glitch A glitch in iOS 7 has cost a number of Apple users their Wi-Fi access and Apple has censored posts in its "Apple Support Communities" forums where users suggest possible responses to the problem. One of the victims of the "comments slaughter" was Creative Commons co-founder Lawrence Lessig. Sound Off>> Leak: Samsung Smartwatches Stung by 30% Return Rate According to a leaked document, over 30 percent of Samsung's wrist gadgets are being returned after sale at Best Buy locations in the U.S. Could it be that the embarrassingly high return rate could be due to the realization that the smartwatch isn't everything it's cracked up to be? Sound Off>> Why Can't Big Government Launch a Website? The healthcare.gov site doesn't work, despite having more than three years to work on it. As Glenn Reynolds points out, "In about the same about of time after John F. Kennedy's 'we choose to go to the moon' speech, we'd already put people into orbit and brought them safely to earth." What does that tell us? Sound Off>> Coding Just for 'Exceptionally Dull Weirdos,' Says Telegraph Blogger In attacking the UK government's effort to teach all children to code software, Telegraph contributor Willard Foxton wrote that "Coding is a niche, mechanical skill, a bit like plumbing or car repair." He added that most developers are "exceptionally dull weirdos." Sound Off>> Why Does Broadband Cost More in the U.S.? The BBC reports that home broadband in the U.S. costs nearly three times as much as in the UK and France and more than five times as much as in South Korea. Why? "Americans pay so much because they don't have a choice," said a former special assistant to President Obama on science, technology and innovation policy. Sound Off>>    Re: As good a time as any "America is fundamentally punitive and violent. Same reason gun massacres every couple weeks make no impact, the highest proportion of people in prison for any country in the world makes no impact, military expenditures equal to the rest of the world combined makes no impact. Perhaps all empires come to be like that." --by dcollins Read More>>   What's Keeping You on Windows? Two years ago, tearmeapart decided it was time for another discussion/flamewar on the reasons why a lot of us are (still) using Microsoft. The last big discussion on Slashdot about a decade before, and a lot has changed since then. So... why are a lot of us still using Windows? What would it take for us to switch? Read More>> Industrial-Scale Exhibits at Ft. Wayne Regional Maker Faire SlashTV: Slashdot visited Fort Wayne, Indiana, during its 2013 Maker Faire and brought back videos of R2D2 model makers in all their bleeping glory, Mad Sasquatch Rocketry launching rockets, and functioning home-made jet engines, which no Maker Faire should be without. Watch the Video>> Do You Need Headphones While Working? I get nothing done without headphones I do better work with headphones, but can survive without them I use them only in certain circumstances Nope. They tend to hurt more than they help I can't stand working with headphones on Would trade them for an eject button on my officemate's chair Cast Your Vote>>   Follow Slashdot on Twitter and Facebook. To unsubscribe, click here or send an email to: unsubscribe-213087@elabs10.com To ensure delivery of this newsletter to your inbox and to enable images, please add slashdot@newsletters.slashdot.org to your e-mail address book or safe senders list. Slashdot | 594 Howard Street, Suite 300 | San Francisco, CA 94105 To view our Privacy Policy click here.