joebananas

So basically: "We totally think your policies are right and groovy, but please make an exception for us"?

> but they don't really understand how it acts as a backup system too.

Maybe your parents are just more sophisticated than you and know the difference between redundancy and backups.

Well, I wonder how much Samsung actually cares. There are no high-tech devices that already isn't chock-a-block full of their components, and they're crazy profitable.

I cannot think of a more surefire way to make your smartphone fail than to have it use a desktop UI.

People keep saying that... And meanwhile, you can barely make a call in New York City during peak hours.

So they will ship in 2025 with the hottest in 2010 design as their look then, if he's the lead?

You know, I bet a good year for Nokia would mean a bonus worth way more than his MS stock.

Do you wear bloomers as well?

Right, because those are the only options. Either fill the top half of your site with ads or go bust.

Adding sound didn't mean we had to start listening in an entirely new way hereto unknown to humans.

I on the other hand find that self-proclaimedly "creative" people most of the time aren't.

When you really wasn't one in the first place, I guess it's pretty easy. Regular media prefixes any computer dude that ends up in their pages with the word, it's not like it means anything in the context.

They're basically saying they have exclusive rights to people disclosing biographical information about themselves in an online community.

Surely this patent would run into 1st amendment issues were it ever to go to court?

If you wanna know how likely a no-home-button iphone is, try doing a 4 or 5 finger swipe using only one hand.

Jebus H. I was trying to make a general point, not run a statistical survey.

> iOS 3 brought the universally derided striped icons, which sounds like a minor point, but is actually the sort of attention to detail Jobs brings.

Well, under Jobs, every damned official Apple icon is either a blue rectangle on iOS or a blue circle on Mac OS. Maybe Apple just suck at icons.

So I guess 3G iPad sales are about to drop?

You post is dumb as hell.

Not interested. My original post was not about your completely-missing-the-point simile, but about the fact the the US government demonstrably sucked at IT security when they let the great unwashed have the kind of access they had to State Department cables.

You don't give some random army grunt access to your on/off switch.

OTOH, $800K/month gross is probably less than what your grocery store does.

> Governments take IT security very seriously, I don't see where you've seen they don't.

The very fact that this whole cablegate debacle even exists clearly demonstrates that parts of the US government do not.

On the other hand, the pagans whose rituals were plagiarized as christmas by the inventors of christianity were not above sacrificing money and other valuables, so I guess it's back to the old school.

I'll lay 10 to 1 that he hasn't.

Well, do they turn a profit? Being one of the most visited sites on the net does not equal making money.

Makes you wonder how long before Joe Lieberman condemns the FOI act as treasonous.

Yeah, I don't see how 66 is ever gonna work as long as it's done by humans.

You know, people storing their passwords on a /free/ service always seemed a wee bit icky to me. What happens when the service goes bust? Will all their passwords be lost, like tears in the rain?

Remote? It's located in (under) Stockholm.