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...transcripted to text and compressed. even better.

This is called a 'fait accompli'. it's a distraction technique employed to keep someone from arguing an issue.

and.....BOOM! Obama just played the bin laden card.

Get an Android phone. problem solved.

They do. People just wants to bitch and whine about iOS 7. :)

exactly.

"Why Warren Buffett Keeps Buying IBM"

http://www.forbes.com/sites/gurufocus/2013/01/08/why-warren-...

decline and fall of IBM? IBM transformed itself from a manufacturing company to one of the largest services company in the world. HP, Dell, everyone is getting out of the hardware business (low margin, etc.) and following IBM's lead (HP bought EDS and is trying to get rid of their hardware business. Dell bought Perot Systems 4 years ago and is in the process of going private so it can transform itself into a mini-IBM).

IBM's return on invested capital grew from 14.92 (2003) to 31.39 (2012).

HP from 9.98 (2006) ROIC to 14.97 (2012)

DELL from 43.33 (2003) to 11.32 (2012)

GOOG from 30.56 (2003) to 15.29 (2012) <=== going into the hardware business (MOTOROLA) is a bad idea for GOOG

MSFT from 17.66 (2003) to 22.66 (2012)

AAPL from 1.55 (2003) to 42.84 (2012)

If you noticed, IBM's ROIC is higher than other tech companies except Apple.

Atlas Shrugged sales up 400%

your comment would've been a lot funnier if the company who built the g4 cube wasn't the most valuable company in the world.

Everyone made fun of the i"Pad" 3 years ago. Now everyone owns one.

These are the same people who bitched and whined about the iPad and the iPhone. :D

This is how Android looked like, before and after the iPhone was introduced.

http://www.designer-daily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/iph...

Let's get the timeline right:

2002 - Steve Jobs started thinking about working on a Phone

2004 - Apple Engineers started working on touchscreen technology for a tablet PC and had convinced Steve Jobs that they could build a similar interface for a phone.

2005 - Partnership with Cingular(AT&T)

Early 2006 - Work on the iPhone started.

Dec 2006 - LG Prada was released. <===============

Steve Jobs Announced the iPhone Jan 2007.

June 2007 - iPhone released

http://www.wired.com/gadgets/wireless/magazine/16-02/ff_ipho...

>The Mobile Safari tab switcher looks like a clone of Chrome of iOS/Android. Control Center? Christ, that's been in Android for ages.

You mentioned 2 features out of 1,000 Apple showed this morning. Google copied the entire concept and design of the iPhone. Big difference.

Free iTunes Radio. No subscription. I'm in.

Edit:

Without iTunes Match = Free iTunes Radio (with ads).

With iTunes Match = Free iTunes Radio (without ads).

This may not be PRISM, but wtf is this???

"A US government-mandated backdoor allowed China to hack into Gmail"

"In order to comply with government search warrants on user data, Google created a backdoor access system into Gmail accounts. This feature is what the Chinese hackers exploited to gain access."

http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/01/23/schneier.google.hackin...

Or he's just going to plead ignorance and maintain plausible deniability.

Not surprise this is happening at all.

"Obama administration spied on Fox News reporter James Rosen"

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/obama-admin-spied-fox-new...

Nothing new here.

Anyone remember this? This was 3 years ago.

"A US government-mandated backdoor allowed China to hack into Gmail"

"In order to comply with government search warrants on user data, Google created a backdoor access system into Gmail accounts. This feature is what the Chinese hackers exploited to gain access."

http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/01/23/schneier.google.hackin...

My brother bought a 6000 sq. ft. house in Frisco, TX (an hour from Dallas/Fort Worth) for $650k last year. That kind of house in SF/LA would probably cost around $2-3M.

So? You guys wrote an article about it...

http://www.matasano.com/articles/javascript-cryptography/

"SJCL is great work, but you can't use it securely in a browser for all the reasons we've given in this document.

SJCL is also practically the only example of a trustworthy crypto library written in Javascript, and it's extremely young.

The authors of SJCL themselves say, "Unfortunately, this is not as great as in desktop applications because it is not feasible to completely protect against code injection, malicious servers and side-channel attacks." That last example is a killer: what they're really saying is, "we don't know enough about Javascript runtimes to know whether we can securely host cryptography on them". Again, that's painful-but-tolerable in a server-side application, where you can always call out to native code as a workaround. It's death to a browser."

calm down and let them have some fun mr. security expert.

Bruce Schneier is not God. stop kissing his butt. ;)

By the way....

"3. Contest Prizes are rarely good incentives..."

meanwhile...

"Our Twofish cryptanalysis contest offers a $10K prize..."

"2. The analysis is not controlled..."

meanwhile....

"..There are no arbitrary definitions of what a winning analysis is...We are simply rewarding the most successful cryptanalysis research result, whatever it may be and however successful it is..."

LMAO...this is from the same article!

"The above three reasons are generalizations. There are exceptions, but they are few and far between. The RSA challenges, both their factoring challenges and their symmetric brute-force challenges, are fair and good contests. These contests are successful not because the prize money is an incentive to factor numbers or build brute-force cracking machines, but because researchers are already interested in factoring and brute-force cracking. The contests simply provide a spotlight for what was already an interesting endeavor. The AES contest, although more a competition than a cryptanalysis contest, is also fair.

Our Twofish cryptanalysis contest offers a $10K prize for the best negative comments on Twofish that aren't written by the authors. There are no arbitrary definitions of what a winning analysis is. There is no ciphertext to break or keys to recover. We are simply rewarding the most successful cryptanalysis research result, whatever it may be and however successful it is (or is not). Again, the contest is fair because 1) the algorithm is completely specified, 2) there are no arbitrary definition of what winning means, and 3) the algorithm is public domain."

> As Bruce says, the real issue now is not surveillance or even information, but power. Who gets to watch whom, and (of course) who watches the watchers?

I couldn't agree more.

"Fox News Reporter James Rosen’s Private Emails Given To Justice Dept. By Google"

http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/page/local/affidavit-for-se...

right. let's not start pointing fingers.

Google, Microsoft, GE, etc.

"General Electric Paid No Federal Taxes in 2010"

http://abcnews.go.com/m/story?id=13224558

"GE's CEO, Jeff Immelt Heads Obama's Council On Jobs And Competitiveness"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mobileweb/2011/01/21/jeffrey-i...

"Former Google Exec Turns Whistleblower On Company’s Tax Avoidance Machinations In The UK"

http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/19/former-google-exec-turns-wh....

"Although Google disclosed an intrusion by Chinese hackers in 2010, it made no reference to the breach of the database with information on court orders. That breach prompted deep concerns in Washington and led to a heated, months-long dispute between Google and the FBI and Justice Department over whether the FBI could access technical logs and other information about the breach, according to the officials.

Google declined to comment for this article, as did the FBI."

Google, Microsoft, GE, etc.

"General Electric Paid No Federal Taxes in 2010"

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/general-electric-paid-federal...

"GE's CEO, Jeff Immelt Heads Obama's Council On Jobs And Competitiveness"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/21/jeffrey-immelt-coun...

"Former Google Exec Turns Whistleblower On Company’s Tax Avoidance Machinations In The UK"

http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/19/former-google-exec-turns-wh...

How about a GMAIL backdoor? oh no!! NOT GOOGLE!

Anyone remember this?

"A US government-mandated backdoor allowed China to hack into Gmail"

"In order to comply with government search warrants on user data, Google created a backdoor access system into Gmail accounts. This feature is what the Chinese hackers exploited to gain access."

http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/01/23/schneier.google.hackin...

Obama on the record just a couple of days ago:

"I can assure you that I certainly did not know anything about the [inspector general] report before the I.G. report had been leaked"

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57584849/obama-i-didnt-k...

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/05/16/obama-i-didn...

Not as bad as this

"Android malware attack spreads via e-mail"

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2013/03/28/android-malwar...

http://securitywatch.pcmag.com/mobile-security/311417-window...

Larry shouldn't complain about being pitted against other companies when Google is the one copying successful products/services so they can put ads all over them and release them for free.

How can you forget to include Alex Van Halen and Ginger Baker?