A practical job writing code all day probably gains little benefit from a CS degree if you can learn the fundamentals another way.

If you want to do research and design then you probably should go down the CS degree path.

Ahem http://vietnam.craigslist.org/...

You can now choose if you want the auto-reopen behavior from 10.7 or not. The built in versioning has been great for working on documents in my experience.

Typically Apple continues to release security patches for n-2 where n is the current OS. I think they are still patching their old Java runtime for 10.6.8 Macs as well.

It doesn't require an iTunes login, it requires an AppleID. You can make one just to use on your Mac if you want. Security and OS updates aren't restricted to being logged into the store either, just updates for apps that you got from the Mac App Store.

All of the AppleID functionality is optional as well. You can use 10.9 with no AppleID plugged in at all, but you give up the benefits of the iCloud services.

Why don't you want to login to a service? You logged into /. didn't you?

Sophos says that the security updates have stopped for anything older than Mavericks, but the article they link to has updates for 10.7, 10,8, and 10.9 in it that are less than 30 days old.

So I'm not sure how they are reading this that Apple isn't releasing updates.

I feel fairly sure that the $10,000 app guarantee had something to do with this. With 47K apps the odds that more than a few will cross the $1,000 threshold are pretty good.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17926037

Apparently they refuse to carry anything that would identify them with the "mark of the beast".

The family objects to any ID that has a number on it for religious reasons. They were offered a school ID without RFID and they turned it down.

A few months ago my wife started using my old iPad 2 more and more. Pretty soon it was all she was using and the kids were using her MacBook. For Christmas I got her a new iPad 4 and she was thrilled.

She mainly uses the web and email, with some rare Excel and Word document reviewing with iWork. For light photo touch up iPhoto has been fine too.

For a moment I thought you meant Highway 101 in California. Wheels are often useless there as well.

They are soldiers! As far as I know the "warfighters" term came around during the 2nd Bush presidency, but I may be wrong.

I remember doing some work in the Pentagon at the time and everywhere there were signs about "warfighters". It's an asinine political terminology created to make everyone feel included when discussing the military. It would be like calling a programmer a "keyboardtyper".

When this headline came across my RSS feed I at first thought this was going to be some crazy Heroin-related story.

At university the joke was always that the H stood for Hitler. That was a long time ago now though.

The music on an iPod isn't encrypted at all, you just use iTunes to manage the files.