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Or it's a quixotic move inspired by Steve Jobs's desire to turn every computer into a locked-down appliance that only runs Apple-sanctioned apps downloaded through its forthcoming App Store for Mac (which doesn't include plugins).

Apple stops bundling Adobe Flash player on Macs 'for security' Charles Arthur 2010

Don't go anywhere without a locked-down business plan that everyone has bought into.

Franchising: Lessons from Europe 2011

The visceral British import Dead Set (airing over five midnights, with a Halloween marathon next Sunday at 7: 30/6: 30c) extends the bloody metaphor to a wickedly profane satire of reality TV, as the last safe haven against a zombie outbreak appears to be a locked-down Big Brother house.

Roush Review: Zombie Terror Alert! 2010

And she was gone, away through the milling crowds near the locked-down Interior Ministry spewing its pick-ups full of black-clad riot police.

Iran Election Live-Blogging (Sunday June 14) The Huffington Post News Team 2009

As an alternative to dedicating a single-use PC, use only a locked-down browser from Authentium, or the Ubuntu open-source browser, launched from a CD or USB memory stick.

Cybercrooks stalk small businesses that bank online 2009

The locked-down nature of the device is a price that most people are more that happy to accept.

Cory Doctorow Shouldn’t Buy an iPad, but Maybe You Should « Steve Wildstrom on Tech 2010

One fear that has been expressed in the wake of the iPad announcement is that our computers will follow the iPhone and iPad to locked-down land.

The iPad Manifesto: Time To Move Beyond the PC « Steve Wildstrom on Tech 2010

Take all this together and it's clearly time for organizations to start thinking outside the locked-down corporate-technology box.

Should Employees Be Allowed to Use Their Own Devices for Work? 2011

I also think the fears of Doctorow and others, such as Jonathan Zittrain of Harvard's Berkman Center, that locked-down devices will kill creativity and innovation, are misplaced.

Cory Doctorow Shouldn’t Buy an iPad, but Maybe You Should « Steve Wildstrom on Tech 2010

But Malick's wispy, gossamer qualities, his organic, handheld imagery – always seeking wonder in harmony and balance – seem in total opposition to Kubrick's head-on, locked-down fish-eye compositions, his fanatically precise tracking-shots, sudden upsurges of brutal violence and abiding pessimism.

Is Terrence Malick assuming Stanley Kubrick's mantle? 2011