Remains of the Day: Crime doesn't pay

17.12.2010
Apple aims to simplify the process of buying a Mac, one kid learns the hard way that stealing is bad, and we're shocked----to find that there's insider trading going on here. The remainders for Thursday, December 16, 2010 are treading the straight and narrow."

(TUAW)

Looking to buy a new Mac, but confused with all this RAM, gigabyte, and RPM jibber-jabber? Apple's taken steps to simplify its offerings by creating popular configurations with descriptions in plain English. So now you can opt for builds like a "MacBook Pro 15-inch with faster hard drive," a "MacBook with Microsoft Office 2011 - Home and Student Edition pre-installed," or a "MacBook Air with a totally raging 13-inch display and a sweet motherlode of RAM."

(The Age)

When a 16-year-old kid in a Melbourne suburb stole a woman's iPhone, he probably didn't expect to have the full force of the law come down on him. Using the phone's built-in GPS, police tracked him down, descending on him with a . Man, that guy's going to be looking over his shoulder for the rest of his life.

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Among those swept up in a federal insider-trading bust on Thursday was an executive at Flextronics, a firm that supplied components to Apple. Walter Shimoon is said to have broken his nondisclosure agreement and given information about forthcoming Apple products--including the iPad and iPhone 4--to hedge fund consultants. Whoa, whoa, whoa--there's something crooked going on in the ? Consider my mind blown.