Net neutrality has been debated for a decade, but the Federal Communications Commissions historic vote on Thursday signals only the beginning of further battles and likely lawsuits.FEATURED RESOURCEPRESENTED BY SCRIBE SOFTWARE10 Best Practices for Integrating DataData integration is often underestimated and poorly implemented, taking time and resources. Yet itLEARN MOREAt issue is how best to keep the Internet open and neutral to all while still giving Internet service providers sufficient incentive to expand their networks to serve more customers and to support an exploding array of data-hungry applications as futuristic as holographic videoconferencing used for home-based medical exams.The FCC voted 3-to-2 to create a series of sweeping changes, including three open Internet conduct rules that block broadband providers, both wired and wireless, from blocking or throttling Internet traffic. The rules also ban broadband providers from taking payments to prioritize content and services over their networks.

via What it means: The FCCs net neutrality vote | Computerworld.

Apple can be an incredibly demanding company to work for, but just getting in the door is nearly impossible.

The hiring process for Apple retail is fairly lengthy, but according to UX Designer Luis Abreu, landing a job at the mothership in Cupertino is an even longer, more grueling process which the he just suffered through first hand.

The UK based designer revealed the steps for Apple’s hiring process in a recent blog post that explains how unrelenting Apple is in its process to screen potential employees. Abreu says Apple reached out to him last year to help improve their developer documentation after seeing an iOS 8 privacy article he published.

via Want to work for Apple? Here’s the grueling hiring process | Cult of Mac.

The company’s biggest (free) product placement coup since Phil Dunphy’s pre-release iPad.

In case you missed last week’s publicity, tonight’s episode of Modern Family takes place on the screen of an Apple computer — Claire Dunphy’s MacBook — and was shot almost entirely on iPhones and iPads.

via Modern Family’s all-Apple episode airs tonight – Fortune.

Philip K Dick on Disneyland, reality and science fiction (1978) – Boing Boing.

Here’s an excellent, rambling PKD riff on the relationship of Disneyland to science fiction (and Episcopalianism) and what is, and is not, real.

It was always my hope, in writing novels and stories which asked the question “What is reality?”, to someday get an answer. This was the hope of most of my readers, too. Years passed. I wrote over thirty novels and over a hundred stories, and still I could not figure out what was real. One day a girl college student in Canada asked me to define reality for her, for a paper she was writing for her philosophy class. She wanted a one-sentence answer. I thought about it and finally said, “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.” That’s all I could come up with. That was back in 1972. Since then I haven’t been able to define reality any more lucidly.