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yeah and this and this among others.

I think what the OP is talking about is the fact that Apple claims to own the tablet form factor. Anyone that makes a tablet that is rectangle with rounded corners are liable to get sued. Apple did not create that form-factor. This form-factor has existed in concept for at least 17years. They did not create multi-touch. That was university research. They did not create capacitive touch screen displays. They did not invent slide to unlock, A Dutch court cited prior art. They did not invent thin form factors either. But they are trying to take the sole credit for all those technologies that they did not invent. All apple did was combine this tech to make products and are trying to stop competitors from doing the same thing. Not much different from me taking a bunch of components and building a computer then trying to sue world+dog over doing the same thing I did. That is anticompetitive. The bottom line is if one go on a litigation campaign against world+dog and then whine when the blowback hits the fan at high speed then that would make one a massive hypocrite. Apple is showing its true colors IMO.

Just a side note, a common preservative Sodium(Natrium) Benzoate (NaC6H5CO2) used in most foodstuff is long known to cause alterations in human DNA. For example, almost all brands of ketchups use this preservative.

Wikipedia: Sodium Benzoate: Safety & Health

Diet Coke to drop additive in DNA damage fear

Here you go. More precisely, they've banned anyone from going within 20 km of the plant. Using area=pi*r*r gives an area of 1256 square km.

Too bad I can't dance....

Explain to me how it is moral for the government to do what would be immoral for you individually to do. If we have a government of delegated powers, then how can you delegate a power you yourself do not have?

Every government in history has used the threat of jail and violence to do things which advance the common good in violation of individual's wishes. Police, military, IRS, etc. It sounds like you're unsure about that basic principle. And specifically with regard to progressive taxation:

The necessaries of life occasion the great expense of the poor. They find it difficult to get food, and the greater part of their little revenue is spent in getting it. The luxuries and vanities of life occasion the principal expense of the rich, and a magnificent house embellishes and sets off to the best advantage all the other luxuries and vanities which they possess. A tax upon house-rents, therefore, would in general fall heaviest upon the rich; and in this sort of inequality there would not, perhaps, be anything very unreasonable. It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion

That's a quote from Adam Smith, often called the father of modern capitalism. If you don't accept that argument, you're so far ideologically from myself or voters in our democracy that your best move is probably to move to this floating city and talk with its other inhabitant about Atlas Shrugged all day.

"Investing in the poor" has been the rallying cry for ever expanding government and ever expanding pubic debt for the last 100 years. How has that worked out for us? Have the poor been raised up? Surely after 100 years of social programs, welfare, public education the poor are now well off, right? Oh, they aren't? More people are on public assistance than every before and there are no signs of that changing?

You started with a pretty reasonable question, but I think you're oversimplifying the answer...

Thanks for the explanation, it really makes sense. As for fever and cancer, just found this article from Sep 2010:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1313773/Can-fever-cure-cancer-Jordan-baffled-doctors-leukaemia-vanished-new-evidence-suggests-remarkable-explanation-.html

"Now, scientists believe they understand how this might work. There are two theories: the first is that an infection serious enough to provoke a fever response can push the body's immune system into a high-powered, hypersensitive state.

This helps the patient's immune system detect the fact that cancer cells are subtly different from normal healthy cells. It then attacks the tumour cells as though they are infectious invaders.

In everyday life, our immune systems may wipe out many cancer cells unobtrusively, so we never know we were at risk. But, too often, such tumour cells can be sufficiently similar to normal ones that they sneak under the radar of a normally-running immune system and develop into serious cancers.

The other theory is that the high temperature itself attacks and destroys the cancer. "

Where did it all go wrong for the beer they call 'wife beater'? (The Daily Fail had a win for a change)

Meanwhile, another one of your liberal messiahs has destroyed a young woman's chance at a normal life: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2034697/Lonely-Monica-Lewinsky-trying-play-Bill-Clinton-affair.html

No, we're just trying to catch up to China. We need to have ghettos ready for the Newcomers when they arrive. I mean, you wouldn't want to live next to some noisy, smelly foreigner, would you?

I've read about plenty of them in a "chick or the egg" situation: commercants don't want to settle because there are no clients. Residents aren't drawn because there is no commerce running and there is nobody else.

Perfect setting for an apocalyptic scenario..

You mean the design that Apple copied? So in your world its OK for Apple to steal the concepts of others but if anyone makes a design that looks like the concept that Apple stole that's not OK? Wow just WOW.

You are of course right - being the first to actually making something work imagined as a mock-up 15 years before is chicken shit. As is all of computing. Including the Knight Riddler tablet - which is just a rip-off of the Dynabook.

And still, if you look closely you'll see soome differences - and I'm not even talking about the stupid stylus, but rather that the front isn't one flat surface.

Extra bonus for the guy using an Apple Duo. And an Apple Newton.

You mean the design that Apple copied? So in your world its OK for Apple to steal the concepts of others but if anyone makes a design that looks like the concept that Apple stole that's not OK? Wow just WOW.

Android devices before and after the iPhone/iPad

To deny the obvious design cloning is to reach an extreme level of Apple-hating that even I can't understand.

You want to know why people are pissed about this and seemingly Apple-hating?. Its primarily because of people like you. You are claiming that the design is unique to Apple and that tablets looked different until the iPad came along. But you fail to acknowledge the obvious prior art What I want to know from you is how is it that its OK for Apple to steal the ideas of others yet no one else can make anything that looks remotely close the the design that Apple stole. Where is the outrage from you about Apple stealing design concepts from others? It is this hypocrisy that gets people bent out of shape leaving you to conclude that people are Apple-haters for not drinking the Apple Koolaid. Its very Scientology like.

I'm interested to hear your thoughts on this thanks.

Asia is in general much nicer looking than western world. They put a lot of thought on how things look, even to the finest detail, and have done so for centuries. This is visible in the old temples and buildings, but also in modern view - like Marina Bay Sands in Singapore. As someone who likes to travel and live there I can say it's much nicer than being around the concrete blocks western world has. We have really let ourselves go and forget what's nice in life, and just have shit like wal-marts.

So the next question is: How would someone go about mining a star?

Why that's easy -- Woman claims ownership of Sun.

And just to throw more wood on the fire, James Cameron is planning to go to the bottom of the see as well. Now, if it were just some random bloke, I might say yeah right, but seeing as he actually done things like going to the Titanic to look around, I'm a bit more inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt than some random national propaganda piece with credentials as impeccable as having fantastic designs that worked but where never used.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1312406/Into-deadly-deep-How-James-Cameron-plans-film-Avatar-sequel-7-miles-seas-surface.html

From what I've seen and heard, there are actually surprisingly large number of R/C hobbyists in the military. Sometimes those toys find their way into the line of fire.

This is just a non-issue.

If anything, it is a red-herring that draws attention away from the illegal and morally bankrupt behaviour of G and the gang of monsters he called family and friends. These companies sold equipment and technology within legal boundaries, practices and processes. Absolutely everything we consume today is tied to a moral issue at some degree of separation. Techno-morality cherry picking.

Haul G's ass up onto the docket for prosecution. And reserve a special cell for Hannibal G and his twisted, obscene troll of a wife. Shine the spotlight on Algeria for propping up G with weapons, supplies and mercenaries, and in the final act for providing refuge for the clan.

Go to
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2031390/Aline-Skaf-Gaddafis-daughter-law-threw-boiling-water-nanny-Shweyga-Mullah.html
to see what Aline Skaf (Hannibal's wife) did to their nanny.

There is so much real, solid, evil to latch onto in this conflict, I find this story to be laughable.

I would feel different if the foreign tech companies acted directly in immoral acts. Providing a country with monitoring capability is not even close to being immoral.

If this issue turns your crank, then let's look at some other activities in Libya:

Want a techno issue? How about the hosting providers who give voice to G propaganda outlets like mathaba.net and algathafi.org? Or other sites that the regime used to communicate with terrorist orgs?

There are companies which drilled for oil to feed money into the regime. How did G get $50B / yr to keep Saif, Mutassim, Hannibal etc in their positions of power?

Bankers gave safe harbour for billions embezzled from the country's coffers.

What about the tanks and guns used by G to suppress the population? Where did they come from?

Everybody and his malamute sold them arms. Want a morally corrupt issue? Talk to the Russians about the more than 20,000 SA7s (shoulder launched surface to air) missiles they sold G. Obsolete, next to useless against military aircraft even back when new, and useful mainly against civilian airliners. The CIA provided only 1500 Stingers to the mujahadin in Afghanistan. Expenditure on this one weapon system alone was over $100 million. Frick. Libyans are walking around with diseases caused primarily by neglect and malnutrition while the government is spending huge dollars on weapons useful only to terrorists.

Huawei built the cellular infrastructure and then refused to help the TNC get the system going again in the Eastern part of the country after G chopped off coverage.

How about the GMR and the unknown effect on water resources in Africa. Better haul Brown and Root to the table for a grilling along with Thyssen Krupp, and dozens of other companies.

The list goes on and on, but so what?

They are working on it http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1343470/Have-scientists-discovered-create-downpours-desert.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/01/110118-abu-dhabi-desert-rain-cloud-seeding-controversy/

You could just, you know, drill for more oil instead but that wouldn't achieve the real goal of pushing people onto public transport.

And we all know that there is a secret elf workshop deep below the earth marketing new oil all the time. So all that "finite" stuff is nonsense.

The thing about climate change that bothers me is that people think humans cause it, when we all know that it is God angry about the US administration spending too much money on social programs. Ask Michele Bachmann: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2031442/Hurricane-Irene-message-God-says-Michele-Bachmann.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1215188/Chris-Packham-Let-giant-pandas-die-out.html

Pandas need to die... nature is screaming at us that they need to die. Why are we ignoring the obvious?

Although, thank goodness they were around long enough to give us some high-quality poo.

After 9/11, emergency flood gates were supposed to be installed in the NYC subway system. Water from fire hoses alone was enough to eventually completely flood the PATH tunnels to New Jersey. If the cement box that kept the Hudson River from pouring into the site had cracked open, the subway system would have flooded up to midtown. As of late 2010, some flood gates were being installed.

The Pennsylvania Railroad tunnels to New Jersey already had flood gates (the PRR built to last), but they'd been neglected and weren't working. Amtrak has since fixed them.

My Tab10.1 is just a severely under-powered laptop/tablet-pc. In very short order we'll have 10hour batteries and 1.5 pound weight in an x86 machine just like we have with tablets. And then everyone will just go back to using full computers again.

When that happens Apple will just load OSX with all the iPad-like features they are putting in there now and tell app developers to flip a switch to make their apps a universal ARM/x86 binary. That's the advantage they have from keeping tight control over how the API is used. They have explored different scenari's to cover this from a tablet that slides into a pc-like docking enclosure, to an iMac that switches between touch and normal modes. The tablet will evolve.

"Can someone explain to me, why the USA is so violent?"

It's hard to understand, isn't it?

"Can someone explain to me, why the USA is so violent?"

It's hard to understand, isn't it?

I would appreciate that you keep quiet if you don't have anything constructive to offer. Your smart ass attitude of "let me think that straight for you" is what makes Slashdot such a painful place to hang out. If you are knowledgeable, you could still make educated assumptions to these supposedly key details and provide helpful answer. You inability to do so should not be blamed on the person asking the question. Besides, I think most of the detail you ask for are irrelevant....

Your ignorance is astounding this has to be a troll oh well here goes.

What the previous poster is trying to do is get a picture of what the install site is like and with this info they can provide some suggestions.

This is not a small setup that you would have for your home.
This really needs to be given some thought or else if you make assumptions the network will not work and the job will have been done all over again .
This being an example of what could go wrong.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2028085/Blind-man-accused-illegally-downloading-porn.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
The problem really is that the story poster is being very vague and has not given enough information.

Fine, what about this. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1381528/Knight-Ridder-tablet-looks-just-like-iPad-17-YEARS-OLD.html Another good example of Apple "innovation".

Er. NIce try. But if you care to know the truth you can see that the idea that Apple invented that look is false.

Here is what Apple copied. What I don't understand is why is it that Apple followers wont admit it in the face of actual evidence. Seems irrational.

You have any proof that the Ipad is an original idea because I have proof that its not. Who did Apple copy is the real question. So its ok for Apple to steal the idea from the originators of the idea? This hypocrisy from Apple followers is astounding. We know the real reason for all this recent Google hate. Anyone with a brain can see right through this charade. The massive amounts of negative comments started right around the time when Apple and Google parted ways. its obviously because the Apple fanatics along with paid astroturfers have started to attack Google, lobbing accusations that Google is copying Apple. The Apple fanatics and mad that Google has threatened Apple's stint at world domination.

The notion that if somebody makes a box shape with 4 wheels and anyone else that does the same is copying is ludicrous. The same thing with sillyness applies to Apple and their followers. The notion that if you make a tablet that is rectangle with rounded corners and a bezel with an operating system is copying Apple is laughable if it wasn't so serious. What gets me is that the Apple fanatics would rather see a world where no one competes with Apple. They want to see a world without choice. Because Apple can do no wrong. If Apple copies other people's ideas then thats OK. Its getting a bit old. Your Dear Leader Steve Jobs does not walk on water. Get over it.

I realise you're just trolling, but still, here's another source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1381517/Royal-Wedding-security-Police-swoop-masked-anarchists-London.html

"Ten of the suspects were arrested at Charing Cross railway station carrying climbing equipment and anti-monarchy placards, police revealed."

The placards were in a bag and the "climbing equipment" was a bicycle helmet.

I find it a little hard to believe that there are more violent crimes per capita in the UK, but almost four times less murders.

Couldn't be bothered to do a little research, eh?

Try this:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1196941/The-violent-country-Europe-Britain-worse-South-Africa-U-S.html

Or just google violent crime rates by country.

Might be hard to believe... but it's true.

Speaking of commentard.

hmmmmm I would say the ipad looks like this at a glance

Or maybe they're just spoiled brats?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2024284/UK-riots-2011-Liberal-dogma-spawned-generation-brutalised-youths.html

I don't see anybody on those pictures who isn't wearing good enough clothing, without some corporate logo on them. However I do see that the guys, who tried to protect their properties were murdered. This speaks volumes:

First: the thugs are pieces of shit, never new real poverty, taken care of by the state, regardless if their flats are tiny. Fuck them. Why aren't they living in the woods in rat holes? That's where they actually belong.

Second: the individuals who were killed couldn't protect themselves, and what they needed were guns and enough ammo to shoot at the attacking crowd. The law abiding individuals are the ones who are suffering: paying taxes to support the thugs and then paying with their lives because when the thugs come to get them, they don't have any protection thanks to the government.

Time to make some money on guns.

See pics of woman leaping from first floor window

This made me cry, at work.

"I was told there were fires in the Church Street area, near Surrey Street Market.
"By the time I drove towards it, I could already see the fires from my windscreen,"
"There were six or seven people screaming and crying outside, and they looked like they lived at the flats that were burning. The flats were above small independent shops. A man in a white shirt was screaming that a girl was at the window and that she was ready to jump. He ran towards her but riot police had appeared and pulled him back, and they went to her instead.

"As soon as she dropped, the crowds pushed back and there was no way to see what happened to her."

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/08/08/article-2023874-0D5B629200000578-550_964x639.jpg

I'm about to have to go out into Salford, where trouble's already kicked off tonight, so that I can escort a young lady home. Already had a bloody close call on the drive home. Could get interesting..

Yes, opinion varies, but it is alleged that Mark Duggan both owned a handgun (an offense under the Firearms Act 1997) and used it to shoot at Police, injuring one: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2022670/Gangster-Mark-Duggan-shot-police-London-cab-shootout.html

It was also alleged that a man who looked a bit muslim wearing a thick overcoat in the middle of summer jumped over the barriers at an underground station when challenged by armed police and then ran onto a train where said police shot him dead to avoid a suicide bombing.

Of course that all turned out to be nonsense and he was just an electrician who the police decided to kill because it seemed like a good idea at the time. And in this case, while Duggan was probably worth shooting, the British media is already saying that the policeman was probably shot by another policeman.

Yes, opinion varies, but it is alleged that Mark Duggan both owned a handgun (an offense under the Firearms Act 1997) and used it to shoot at Police, injuring one: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2022670/Gangster-Mark-Duggan-shot-police-London-cab-shootout.html

Incidentally, for those fans of history, what happened last time there was a riot in this area, is documented in history as the Broadwater Farm riot: http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/from-the-archive-blog/2011/aug/08/anger-tottenham-broadwater-riots-1985. Given that then an innocent, unarmed policeman was brutally hacked to death, by person or persons unknown, I would not blame the Police for going in hard and fast with all means at their disposal, including asking RIM for some messages.

Don't get me wrong, I am just as much of an advocate for free speech and privacy as the next man, but there are considerations that outweigh this. I shall quote you Mr Spock, from the 1982 classic STII: The Wrath of Kahn - logic clearly dictates that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.

In this case, the vast majority of people don't believe that rioting is a proportionate response. It is their property that is being destroyed, and I bet they don't care one iota if their BBM messages are read as a by-product of the search to catch the opportunistic thugs who are doing this.

The conspiracy theories I've heard are that estrogen-related compounds get into the water, are difficult to get out, and may be having an effect on men. A google search came up with a daily mail report and something from the pope, so I have no idea how seriously to take that notion, but it would be entertaining if Texas became more liberal.

I think it's positive they're proposing this, rather than a desalination plant on the coast and pumping the water long distances. Although drinking purified water from the ocean doesn't have the ick factor of drinking pee, it requires a lot of energy and causes much more environmental damage compared to water recycling.

"paranoid side of the bed this morning"?
Well lets see http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1041011/MI5-launch-spy-sky-UK-manhunt-British-Taliban-fought-Afghanistan.html for the interest in voice prints.
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/features/363802/wired-coppers-the-new-technology-behind-old-bill/3 Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR)/CCTV.
and the http://www.independent.co.uk/news/facerecognition-cctv-launched-1178300.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4035285.stm for the joys of tracking your face...
Mix in ideas of the Data Retention Directive, the past skills of the GCHQ, MI5 funding .... you would only need to be seen near one access point.
A laptop user would have to be lucky all the time. A CCTV network only has to be lucky for a few frames...

Well I was going to say, looking at this picture:

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/08/01/article-2021174-0D41B1E600000578-124_468x286.jpg

Fuck the round UFO, what the hell is the big white thing next to it! However, you've answered my question:

"They've even mentioned "theories" that there could be underwater bases for these USOs/UFOs."

Obviously this is somewhere we should send believers in alien visitors, I think they'd be in their element there, they could find the cure for AIDs, faster than light travel and so forth for us.

Well, that's what we could tell them, and then fuck off with the boat so they're stuck there so that we don't have to listen to them scream UFO! each time some random shape is spotted somewhere, even though it always ends up being something much more boring when we take a closer look.

The fact that he also broke all traces of the image now kinda makes it suspicious to me. (Not to mention that its prolly copyright infringement too, but that's unrelated).

What about an ancient Greek vase depicting a naked, aroused, male youth? I'm pretty sure they exist (try Wikipedia, I'm not willing to look at work). Some countries would consider that child pornography.

What about a 6 year old girl wearing a padded bra? There were news stories here recently criticising this kind of thing (e.g. here). Wearing something equivalent but flat (e.g. swimming wear) is fine, and there are plenty of pictures on clothes store sites. But is the padded bra sexualisation, and does (should?) that make a photograph CP?

UK political corruption is minute compared to US corruption

I don't know the comparative numbers but in the UK we hardly have spotless record.

"Of course if Unions were the problem then the EU where unions are far more powerful would have far worse problems... they don't..."

Many European countries are open to privately run, publicly funded schools (such as Swedish Freeschools or Dutch independent schools).

Also some European governments are working on ways to sack bad teachers faster.

"When will we have the first "He took my Facebook pics and created a sex doll out of me" lawsuits?"

Probably awhile, since you could print out a girl's photo and paste it to a sex doll now, only difference would be the level of realism... although Kim Kardashian is already suing someone because they naturally look like her (brunette with dark eyes) so I might be wrong.

The religion of peace has struck again.

Turns out the killer is a right-wing Christian who hates Muslims: "On his Facebook profile, Breivik describes himself as a Christian and a conservative."

So I guess you were right - the religion of peace has indeed struck again.

"Operation Fast and Furious"

(Reuters) - U.S. firearms agents told lawmakers on Wednesday they were instructed to only watch as hundreds of guns were bought, illegally resold and sent to Mexico where drug-related violence has raged for years.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/15/us-usa-mexico-guns-idUSTRE75E49N20110615

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms has been accused of allowing guns to slip across the border and fall into the hands of Mexican drug cartels.

The allegations made by senior agent John Dodson came after it was discovered that the gun used to kill a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Mexico was first bought in a Dallas, Texas store.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1363293/U-S-Justice-Department-ordered-ATF-allow-guns-cross-border-Mexico-used-kill-American-agents.html

The investigation into a federal operation that allowed Mexican drug cartels to acquire U.S. weapons escalated Thursday with new revelations that an Arizona gun dealer repeatedly expressed fears that his guns were falling into the "hands of the bad guys" but was encouraged by federal agents to continue the sales.
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/apr/15/nation/la-na-guns-20110415

The US has a special class of victim, called a 'citizen'.