[MyAppleMenu] Mar 24, 2013

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**** Apple Acquires Indoor Location Company WifiSLAM ****
<http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2013/03/23/apple-acquires-indoor-location-company-wifislam/>
Jessica E. Lessin, Wall Street Journal


> Apple has acquired indoor-GPS company WifiSLAM, a sign that the war over indoor mobile location services is heating up.



**** Anatomy Of The Apple ID Password Reset Exploit ****
<http://www.imore.com/anatomy-apple-id-password-reset-exploit>
Nick Arnott, IMore


> What should happen in a process like this is that each step can only be performed once all of the steps before it have successfully been completed. The security hole was a result of this not being properly enforced in Apple’s password reset process.






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**** Bonnet Rippers: The Rise of the Amish Romance Novel ****
<http://lareviewofbooks.org/article.php?id=1516&fulltext=1>
Valerie Weaver-Zercher, Los Angeles Review Of Books


> I do not know what books these boxes hold, but as I step inside the door, a shelf to my left offers a clue: Amish romance novels, all with covers depicting lovely Amish-clad <i>Mädchen</i> hovering over pastoral landscapes, line the shelves. A handwritten note on neon green paper taped to one shelf says, “New! <i>Lydia’s Charm</i>.” Published by Barbour Books, the novel tells the gentle story of a widow who moves to Charm, Ohio, and is pursued by two Amish suitors, one a widower with three unruly boys and the other a shy bachelor. <i>Lydia’s Charm</i> is joined by Amish novels published by Thomas Nelson, Zondervan, Bethany House, Revell, Harvest House, and other evangelical houses.



**** Kate Atkinson’s ‘Groundhog Day’ Fiction ****
<http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/24/magazine/kate-atkinsons-groundhog-day-fiction.html?ref=magazine&_r=0>
Sarah Lyall, New York Times


> Imagine having the gift (or the curse) of continually dying and being reborn, so that you relive segments of your life again and again, differently each time, going down various paths and smoothing out rough areas until you get it right and can move on. Imagine, too, that you are not conscious that this is happening, but experience it as intermittent déjà vu, a sometimes-inchoate dread, an inexplicable compulsion at sudden moments to do one thing rather than another.

> This is not an original artistic conceit, obviously. A century ago, the book “Strange Life of Ivan Osokin” depicted a young man who is given a chance to relive his life and correct his mistakes in 1902 Moscow. And in “Groundhog Day,” Bill Murray is forced to repeat the same wretched day, and listen to the same wretched Sonny and Cher song, in Punxsutawney, Pa., until he becomes a better person and wins over Andie MacDowell. But in “Life After Life,” her eighth and latest novel, the British writer Kate Atkinson has taken these notions — what if practice really did make perfect, and what if we really could play out multiple alternate futures — and put them through the Magimix, pumped them full of helium, added some degrees of difficulty and produced an audacious, ambitious book that challenges notions of time, fate and free will, not to mention narrative plausibility.



**** Religion Without God ****
<http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/apr/04/religion-without-god/>
Ronald Dworkin, The New York Review Of Books


> The familiar stark divide between people of religion and without religion is too crude.