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Hmmm. Officially, or not, it's always worked on this, and a couple other machines. Whatever trickle of a charge that's getting through, it's not enough to use the iPad during that time.

I agree, I've been doing it that way for a long time. I didn't like what they did forcing a version of Explorer with an update once, and it was unusable. I also had to manually remove one update a couple of times that kept breaking my VPN. I skipped over something yesterday about a "fix" for that...haven't tried it yet. http://www.itproportal.com/201...
http://dailynewsgeek.com/tech-...

We're not even over the NSA hard drive hacks and now this?

Next you're gonna tell me Americans shove food up people's ass for freedom. Oh wait they do.

HUGE SPY PROGRAM EXPOSED: NSA has hidden software in hard drives around the world
Is the NSA Hiding in Your Hard Drive?
NSA Has Ability To Hide Spying Software Deep Within Hard Drives: Cyber Researchers
Is Your Hard Drive Hiding NSA Spyware?
The NSA hides surveillance software in hard drives
'Breakthrough' NSA spyware shows deep grasp of makers' hard drives
NSA planted surveillance software on hard drives, report says
NSA secret spying software discovered by Russian researchers
NSA Hackers Infected Hard Drives With Impossible-To-Remove Spyware
NSA Has Planted Surveillance Software Deep Within Hard Drives Since 2001: Kaspersky
NSA program is embedding secret spying software in hard drives in Russia, China, Middle East, allowing agency to eavesdrop on most of worldâ(TM)s computers: report
Destroying your hard drive is the only way to stop this super-advanced malware
Hard drives beware, the NSA is coming for you
Kaspersky fingers NSA-style Equation Group for hard drive backdoor epidemic
There's no way of knowing if the NSA's spyware is on your hard drive
The NSA's Undetectable Hard Drive Hack Was First Demonstrated a Year Ago

"hard drive" isn't even mentioned in the summary. You idiots got misdirected.

The focus should be on the fact that all hard drives from major brands can be fucked with by the NSA and there are no solutions, the focus shouldn't be on some fucking hacking group:

HUGE SPY PROGRAM EXPOSED: NSA has hidden software in hard drives around the world
Is the NSA Hiding in Your Hard Drive?
NSA Has Ability To Hide Spying Software Deep Within Hard Drives: Cyber Researchers
Is Your Hard Drive Hiding NSA Spyware?
The NSA hides surveillance software in hard drives
'Breakthrough' NSA spyware shows deep grasp of makers' hard drives
NSA planted surveillance software on hard drives, report says
NSA secret spying software discovered by Russian researchers
NSA Hackers Infected Hard Drives With Impossible-To-Remove Spyware
NSA Has Planted Surveillance Software Deep Within Hard Drives Since 2001: Kaspersky
NSA program is embedding secret spying software in hard drives in Russia, China, Middle East, allowing agency to eavesdrop on most of worldâ(TM)s computers: report
Destroying your hard drive is the only way to stop this super-advanced malware
Hard drives beware, the NSA is coming for you
Kaspersky fingers NSA-style Equation Group for hard drive backdoor epidemic
There's no way of knowing if the NSA's spyware is on your hard drive
The NSA's Undetectable Hard Drive Hack Was First Demonstrated a Year Ago

Why don't you stupid American fucks sue the NSA and all the American corporations exposed by Snowden.

You Americans idiots bitch and moan about little adware from others while ignoring the biggest exploits developed by your own people.

Fuck off.

HUGE SPY PROGRAM EXPOSED: NSA has hidden software in hard drives around the world
Is the NSA Hiding in Your Hard Drive?
NSA Has Ability To Hide Spying Software Deep Within Hard Drives: Cyber Researchers
Is Your Hard Drive Hiding NSA Spyware?
The NSA hides surveillance software in hard drives
'Breakthrough' NSA spyware shows deep grasp of makers' hard drives
NSA planted surveillance software on hard drives, report says
NSA secret spying software discovered by Russian researchers
NSA Hackers Infected Hard Drives With Impossible-To-Remove Spyware
NSA Has Planted Surveillance Software Deep Within Hard Drives Since 2001: Kaspersky
NSA program is embedding secret spying software in hard drives in Russia, China, Middle East, allowing agency to eavesdrop on most of world’s computers: report
Destroying your hard drive is the only way to stop this super-advanced malware
Hard drives beware, the NSA is coming for you
Kaspersky fingers NSA-style Equation Group for hard drive backdoor epidemic
There's no way of knowing if the NSA's spyware is on your hard drive
The NSA's Undetectable Hard Drive Hack Was First Demonstrated a Year Ago

The NSA bugs all hard drives, there are your END USERS.

Slashdot kept burying the story, while minor Chinese related news gets double exposure.

Obvious NSA American dumb down operation at work.

HUGE SPY PROGRAM EXPOSED: NSA has hidden software in hard drives around the world
Is the NSA Hiding in Your Hard Drive?
NSA Has Ability To Hide Spying Software Deep Within Hard Drives: Cyber Researchers
Is Your Hard Drive Hiding NSA Spyware?
The NSA hides surveillance software in hard drives
'Breakthrough' NSA spyware shows deep grasp of makers' hard drives
NSA planted surveillance software on hard drives, report says
NSA secret spying software discovered by Russian researchers
NSA Hackers Infected Hard Drives With Impossible-To-Remove Spyware
NSA Has Planted Surveillance Software Deep Within Hard Drives Since 2001: Kaspersky
NSA program is embedding secret spying software in hard drives in Russia, China, Middle East, allowing agency to eavesdrop on most of world’s computers: report
Destroying your hard drive is the only way to stop this super-advanced malware
Hard drives beware, the NSA is coming for you
Kaspersky fingers NSA-style Equation Group for hard drive backdoor epidemic
There's no way of knowing if the NSA's spyware is on your hard drive
The NSA's Undetectable Hard Drive Hack Was First Demonstrated a Year Ago

It's already all over the net, even non geek sites are all over it.

You call slashdot a geek site? "News for nerds, stuff that matters" my ass.

HUGE SPY PROGRAM EXPOSED: NSA has hidden software in hard drives around the world
Is the NSA Hiding in Your Hard Drive?
NSA Has Ability To Hide Spying Software Deep Within Hard Drives: Cyber Researchers
Is Your Hard Drive Hiding NSA Spyware?
The NSA hides surveillance software in hard drives
'Breakthrough' NSA spyware shows deep grasp of makers' hard drives
NSA planted surveillance software on hard drives, report says
NSA secret spying software discovered by Russian researchers
NSA Hackers Infected Hard Drives With Impossible-To-Remove Spyware
NSA Has Planted Surveillance Software Deep Within Hard Drives Since 2001: Kaspersky
NSA program is embedding secret spying software in hard drives in Russia, China, Middle East, allowing agency to eavesdrop on most of world’s computers: report
Destroying your hard drive is the only way to stop this super-advanced malware
Hard drives beware, the NSA is coming for you
Kaspersky fingers NSA-style Equation Group for hard drive backdoor epidemic
There's no way of knowing if the NSA's spyware is on your hard drive
The NSA's Undetectable Hard Drive Hack Was First Demonstrated a Year Ago

It's already all over the net, even non geek sites are all over it.

You call slashdot a geek site? "News for nerds, stuff that matters" my ass.

HUGE SPY PROGRAM EXPOSED: NSA has hidden software in hard drives around the world
Is the NSA Hiding in Your Hard Drive?
NSA Has Ability To Hide Spying Software Deep Within Hard Drives: Cyber Researchers
Is Your Hard Drive Hiding NSA Spyware?
The NSA hides surveillance software in hard drives
'Breakthrough' NSA spyware shows deep grasp of makers' hard drives
NSA planted surveillance software on hard drives, report says
NSA secret spying software discovered by Russian researchers
NSA Hackers Infected Hard Drives With Impossible-To-Remove Spyware
NSA Has Planted Surveillance Software Deep Within Hard Drives Since 2001: Kaspersky
NSA program is embedding secret spying software in hard drives in Russia, China, Middle East, allowing agency to eavesdrop on most of world’s computers: report
Destroying your hard drive is the only way to stop this super-advanced malware
Hard drives beware, the NSA is coming for you
Kaspersky fingers NSA-style Equation Group for hard drive backdoor epidemic
There's no way of knowing if the NSA's spyware is on your hard drive
The NSA's Undetectable Hard Drive Hack Was First Demonstrated a Year Ago

It's already all over the net, even non geek sites are all over it.

You call slashdot a geek site? "News for nerds, stuff that matters" my ass.

HUGE SPY PROGRAM EXPOSED: NSA has hidden software in hard drives around the world
Is the NSA Hiding in Your Hard Drive?
NSA Has Ability To Hide Spying Software Deep Within Hard Drives: Cyber Researchers
Is Your Hard Drive Hiding NSA Spyware?
The NSA hides surveillance software in hard drives
'Breakthrough' NSA spyware shows deep grasp of makers' hard drives
NSA planted surveillance software on hard drives, report says
NSA secret spying software discovered by Russian researchers
NSA Hackers Infected Hard Drives With Impossible-To-Remove Spyware
NSA Has Planted Surveillance Software Deep Within Hard Drives Since 2001: Kaspersky
NSA program is embedding secret spying software in hard drives in Russia, China, Middle East, allowing agency to eavesdrop on most of world’s computers: report
Destroying your hard drive is the only way to stop this super-advanced malware
Hard drives beware, the NSA is coming for you
Kaspersky fingers NSA-style Equation Group for hard drive backdoor epidemic
There's no way of knowing if the NSA's spyware is on your hard drive
The NSA's Undetectable Hard Drive Hack Was First Demonstrated a Year Ago

Come on slashdot, stop deleting the NSA hard drive backdoor news submissions, it's already all over the net, even non geek sites are all over it.

You call this a geek site? Stuff that matters my ass.

HUGE SPY PROGRAM EXPOSED: NSA has hidden software in hard drives around the world
Is the NSA Hiding in Your Hard Drive?
NSA Has Ability To Hide Spying Software Deep Within Hard Drives: Cyber Researchers
Is Your Hard Drive Hiding NSA Spyware?
The NSA hides surveillance software in hard drives
'Breakthrough' NSA spyware shows deep grasp of makers' hard drives
NSA planted surveillance software on hard drives, report says
NSA secret spying software discovered by Russian researchers
NSA Hackers Infected Hard Drives With Impossible-To-Remove Spyware
NSA Has Planted Surveillance Software Deep Within Hard Drives Since 2001: Kaspersky
NSA program is embedding secret spying software in hard drives in Russia, China, Middle East, allowing agency to eavesdrop on most of world’s computers: report
Destroying your hard drive is the only way to stop this super-advanced malware
Hard drives beware, the NSA is coming for you
Kaspersky fingers NSA-style Equation Group for hard drive backdoor epidemic
There's no way of knowing if the NSA's spyware is on your hard drive
The NSA's Undetectable Hard Drive Hack Was First Demonstrated a Year Ago

Those that don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

> it's been a while since we've seen any decent rise in processor Ghz.

That's because silicon doesn't scale past 5 GHz at room temperature.

> I remember IBM talking about functioning reasonably cool 10 Ghz processors (ref needed) in the early 2000s, but no one has them in the shops yet!

There have been 100 GHz CPUs for ages but the supply/demand isn't financially viable yet.

* http://www.itproportal.com/201...

There were claims, and then there was a POC, but I don't recall (I could be wrong!) the original claim being independently verified.

no, the reason they changed the name was because a large German company already used it and had trademarks on it.

This is relevant as well:

Anonymous claims link between iPhone 5S TouchID and US gov biometric database

http://www.itproportal.com/2013/10/01/anonymous-claims-link-between-iphone-5s-touchid-and-us-gov-biometric-database/

anonymous PasteBin with details:

http://pastebin.com/cmHs2VBn

In a nutshell:

3. It may be immaterial whether or not Apple's scanner is easily hackable and whether or not the NSA will have direct access to fingerprints granted to it by Apple and the FISA Court. Multiple industry leaders indicate that the real reason why the Intelligence Community was so keen on Apple launching AuthenTec’s biometric technology is because anything Apple touches automatically becomes über cool. Other biometric corporations are wetting themselves with delight.

Shortly on the heels of this news suddenly we see this Mastercard/FIDO article.

I know one person who didn't downgrade to Windows 7 Pro.

You're smoking crack if you think RT spurred Intel to do anything. Intel wants the ARM marketplace. They could care less about Surface.

You're smoking crack about Nokia, too

A billion dollars at $100 a license is only 1,000,000 licenses. Compare that to 2010, when Office sold 30 million copies.

Clearly you're a delusional fanboi.

Ummm... Apple devices are made in sweatshops in China and elsewhere. Samsung phones are made in Korea. South Korea had an average wage in 2011 of 31,051 USD (disposable income). The US was $42,050.

So... what????

http://www.itproportal.com/2012/11/27/china-labor-watch-hits-out-at-samsung-over-poor-working-conditions/ - what indeed.

Apple's patents are on design, silly things like rounded corners and page bounce.

Demonstrably not true with even a casual investigation.

I had the same requirements as 'timothy' and there really is very little on the market that meets them. I suspect all the sufficiently small HD screens are being snapped up by tablet manufacturers. It's a shame Apple seems to have banished USB pass-through apps, or the iPad + AirDisplay would make a nice choice. I looked at the AOC E2251Fwu, a "semi portable" product. Bit large for me, and the build quality and design don't suit me. This HP-U160 seemed cute, but is not HD, so I ruled it out. I eventually settled on the Wacom Cintiq 13HD It is actually designed for pen input, and is rather expensive because of this. Since I have also the occasional need to use a graphics tablet, it works okay for me. The only issue is that there's no decent portrait-mode stand for it yet. Makes coding less pleasant. Over all I'm satisfied with it though.

as the shoppers walk on it they squeeze these tubes and the air gets compressed and it turns a turbine that produces electricity.

Unfortunately truth is stranger than fiction. This is the first linked I picked off google. The technology has been around for a while.
 
  Power-generating tiles to light Olympic walkway using footsteps

Samsung shipped a lot of S3s to retailers but they aren't actually saying how many of them sold. I have only seen three in the wild, approximately one for every seven hundred iPhones I have seen.

Ah yes, the old shipped but not sold bullshit, here:

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2203312/samsung-brags-that-it-has-sold-20-million-galaxy-s3-handsets

Also, their sales are increasing, not decreasing:

http://www.itproportal.com/2012/10/04/iphone-5-launch-and-apple-patent-trial-boosted-galaxy-s3-sales/

ORLY?

According to what I've heard, the purple lens flare thingie is worst in iPhone 5 than in iPhone 4 or 4S (and, yes, worst in iPhone 5 than in smartphones of competing brands).

http://www.itproportal.com/2012/10/01/purple-flare-test-iphone-5-vs-samsung-galaxy-s-iii-vs-htc-one-s/

But, hey... let's just ignore that. It's obvious that this is not a flaw, as everything else in the universe has the exact same flaw, right?

http://www.itproportal.com/2012/10/01/purple-flare-test-iphone-5-vs-samsung-galaxy-s-iii-vs-htc-one-s/

It's far more often bright light sources near the edge, or just outside the edge, of view that causes these issues. And yes, it'll happen on any camera - even with $2000 lenses. It'll just happen a heck of a lot less often and be far less pronounced.

"Too much of FOSS is based on emulating existing desktop software"

And that's why Microsoft is licensing Android to Googles OEMs.

"Where FOSS shines is in areas of technical interest that are not driven by the needs of the consumer"

Ubuntu 12.04 vs. Windows 8:

Xbmc + adalight + cinema experience

Duke Nukem 3D - Gameplay (Linux)

Yes, because he did so without their permission and violated the ToS. That hardly means they hate him. Only a moron would think that someone is just going to welcome you with open arms when you do stuff they explicitly didn't approve.

Gasp! He violated the sacred ToS and revealed to the world that apple's walled garden isn't going to keep out all malware?!? NO!!!! It was perfect before, he obviously broke it! BURN HIM!!!

Only a moronic company would punish someone for pointing out a security problem to them. The lesson Apple appears to have been trying to teach Charlie is that the next time he discovers a security hole in the app store, he should sell that information to criminals.

Sure, 1B$ looks nice on the surface. But some victories are too costly (sow the seeds of final defeat) if they create and rally your opponents. HTC is one sign.

Thanks to activist shareholders, Apple cannot even settle for something reasonable (~100 M$ & xlicence) and will have the full slog ahead; including most likely losing supply of their high-res (RetinaTM) displays from Samsung. Do they have a second-source? From my PoV hi-res is the only Apple advantage -- software is fungible (but maybe not for the mass-market).

Yeah Samsung is going to risk billions in annual revenue and investments. Where do you people come up with this stuff ?

"Apple is said to increase its spend with its partner and archrival Samsung from the estimated current value of $9.7 billion to a staggering $11 billion in 2012 alone."
source

"Samsung announced on Tuesday that it plans to spend about $4 billion to renovate its existing chip plant in Austin, Tex., where the company builds Apple's custom processors for the iPhone and iPad
[...]
The South Korean electronics maker already announced in June that it plans to build a new logic chip plant in its home country to better serve customers like Apple. That project is projected to cost 2.25 trillion won, or $1.98 billion."
source

Let's see how much parts Samsung sell Apple :

"Apple is said to increase its spend with its partner and archrival Samsung from the estimated current value of $9.7 billion to a staggering $11 billion in 2012 alone."

An then there's the investment made to produce these parts :

"Samsung announced on Tuesday that it plans to spend about $4 billion to renovate its existing chip plant in Austin, Tex., where the company builds Apple's custom processors for the iPhone and iPad
[...]
The South Korean electronics maker already announced in June that it plans to build a new logic chip plant in its home country to better serve customers like Apple. That project is projected to cost 2.25 trillion won, or $1.98 billion."

But you think they're going to give all that up because they're in a huff over a court case ? Nerds and their revenge fantasies.

Apple users are broke after maxing out their credit on iThings.

[A team from the One Laptop Per Child Project] left boxed tablets in a village and within three hours the children had opened the boxes and worked out how to turn the tablets on. After just a couple of weeks of unassisted use, the children were seen competing with each when reciting the alphabet, which they learned from one of the many pre-installed apps.

The US government has already shown they really don't give a shit about him. He is not worth the bother.

Except that the CIA set up its Information Review Task Force (aka Wikileaks Task Force, WTF) solely to deal with Wikileaks: 80 defence analysts working 24 hours a day (later increased to 120 analysts) in their self-styled "Wikileaks War Room". Why would the CIA assign 120 full-time defence analysts to deal with someone who "they don't give a shit about"?

>Which means, unless Apple purchases a 3rd party which made office suite for iOS, it may have to settle with an office suite that is owned by Google

There are strong rumors suggesting that Microsoft will be releasing Office for iOS in the fall. In fact, this story was posted only 3 hours ago.

http://www.itproportal.com/2012/06/06/office-ipad-launching-november/

Indeed. I hope Apple makes it even more closed. And while they're at it, Apple should squeeze even more money out of its overextended customers. Then maybe some of them will get the idea.

Cut the FUD. No money was donated, only software. The same software they give to every other non profit organization. Microsoft has a pro-science stance on the issue.

Whaddaya mean "screwed us with Linux"? OtherOS works just as fine as it always has. Excellent craftsmanship - thanks Geoff Levand et. al!
True, Sony did removed the online gaming, and forward compatibility of games with FW 3.21 (new games are annoyingly & confusingly still labeled with the same "for PS3", eventhough they clearly don't work with my PS3).
But the option for Sony to force updates didn't come untill FW 3.30 ( http://www.itproportal.com/2010/04/22/sony-can-update-ps3-firmware-without-asking/ ). So before that the choice was yours.
Anyways - who plays games on their console? (that is like sooo 1990's!!). If I want to play - I start up my 6-core Phenom with dual video cards. Now, what can this new PS4 do?

>Standards that MS forced onto the industry, like Fat32, ExFat, MTP. The list goes on and on.

Microsoft did not promise patent immunity over Fat32, which became a defacto standard.

Careful what you wish for, it may be granted.

This will open a Pandora's box on technology used to implement standards.

Nokia has the most patents on LTE which are deemed standards essential.

http://www.itproportal.com/2012/02/22/nokia-samsung-qualcomm-hold-most-lte-patents-claims-study/

What if they sue Apple, Motorola for $50 per device based on Motorola getting away with this?

Will they roll out their own towers with their own 4G technology around the world?

The third is when the customer is dumb enough to buy an Ubisoft game

Me thinks their numbers are...skewed. http://www.itproportal.com/2012/01/30/apple-iphone-reaches-8-3-global-mobile-phone-market/

No, but crime lord types probably will be smart enough.

When I wrote the original post, I was picturing a TrueCrypt volume in a file rather than full disk encryption. You create the file volume, say 2 GB in size, and fill half of it with grandma's recipes. Then you create a shadow volume within the 1GB blank space of that file, and put the incriminating data in there. They'll find the TrueCrypt volume/file on your computer and order you to provide the passphrase, so you decrypt the recipes. File access/modification dates won't be an issue -- it's been a few months since you last baked grandma's chocolate chip cookies, that's all!

By "inconvenience" do you mean getting sent to a "re-education" camp? I will have respect for the Chinese space program when they let the Free World's media in on the launches, flights, and pre-launch activities. Until then it is propaganda stunt at best and militarization of space at worse. As far as China developing space technology, it would appear they did what they do best: they stole it: http://seclists.org/isn/2008/Feb/53 http://www.vancouverite.com/2009/07/17/chinese-spy-who-stole-b-1-bomber-space-shuttle-secrets-is-convicted/ and cyber attacks on satellites: http://www.itproportal.com/2011/10/31/us-accuses-china-cyber-attacks-nasa-satellites-china-denies-allegations/

Sorry to be a downer but lets face it, once Samsung or another hardware manufacturer collects your money, you're on your own.

That's a big reason why iOS device owners have ALWAYS ranked their satisfaction much higher than Droid users.

Sorry but that's the truth.

You're right.

Galaxy S is just barely a year old, came out September 2010 in the US

iPhone 3GS came out June 2009 but supports iOS 5 that was released last month

The most recent iOS device to not receive software updates from Apple is the iPhone 3G, released June 2008, which received it's last update to 4.2.1 on November 22, 2010, over 2 years after the iPhone 3G was released.

Say what you will about Apple, but they support their devices a long time.

Why, at a technical level, is this so bad?

Ok, for starters it's another innovation killer. By Apple bolstering it's control of the platform, in yet another authoritarian way, it raises the frustration level for the developer and many would-be developers. "Code. Build. Innovate.". Yeah, riiiight.

Secondly, if I'm a developer doing something new and cool, maybe I don't *want* to reveal how I'm doing it. Maybe I don't want to make it easy for anyone, including Apple, to copy my application. It's my code, not Apple's and there are several incidents where this has happened*.

Thirdly, when an entity controls the production, the platform and the software distribution, what you end up with is just monopoly. I'm sure Apple would love to be the only name in the game and that's exactly what they are shooting for. They want to be the Microsoft of the mobile world. If that happens you will have no choice but whatever choice is made by Apple for you. Obviously, some people really like being led around by a nose-ring or Apple wouldn't be so popular.

[0] - http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-06-10/tech/30007890_1_app-store-ios-idevices
[1] - http://www.itproportal.com/2011/06/11/apple-rips-off-developer-brands-app-as-its-own/

The iPad CAN be produced for less than $500, and it is. Don't forget that Apple has made long-term commitments with the memory manufacturers, so they've even got better deals than that...

iPad
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/apr2010/tc2010046_788280.htm

iPad 2
http://www.itproportal.com/2011/03/14/apple-ipad-2-faces-severe-component-price-inflation/

MHz myth in full force.

Except that ARM already confirmed it's 40% faster, core for core, clock for clock. I'm pointing out not only is it a newer and higher performing micro-arch, it's _ALSO_ a clock speed increase. The A15 will blow the A9 out of the water.

The iPad doesn't run Mac OS, RHEL, or Windows.

And why do you assume that an ARM based desktop should run the same software as traditional x86 desktops?

“he believes in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and Linux on the desktop.” ... "and even Windows Phone 7 will achieve more than 1% market share"

maybe "without announcement" as it seems impossible to "quietly" upgrade something when it results in a changed UI...

but at least we have a person to blame: he wrote it.

Blackberry OS6 is only a placeholder until they port QNX to their smartphones. Blackberry bought QNX last April and there are rumours that the new storm 3 will run on QNX. Blackberry already has QNX running on the Playbook. Full multitasking with flash support on a dual core processor. It will be an interesting year but RIM is not preparing to fade away.

They will start selling as soon as they don't require glasses.

You're joking right? Apple just patched the iPhone against almost 70 publicly reported security vulnerabilities that were up to a year old. The list included a huge range of code execution, origin bypass, and privacy disclosure bugs in Safari alone. And any moron watching the WebKit commit logs in the last year had a PoC and exploit roadmap for those particular vulnerabilities. Why do you think the iPhone got hacked at pwn2own this year, and why do you think so many large corporations refuse to support the iPhone in their enterprise?

So, I'm not getting your smug superiority here when we're talking about intentionally installing a malicious extension in Chrome versus getting owned just for using an iPhone.

"All this means is that scientists are in fact humans and make small errors just like everyone else."

Small errors? Really?

Funny, I didn't see any small errors, only GINOURMOUS ones.

Like the glaciers are retreating off the Himalayas and will be gone very soon.

Categorically incorrect.

If they were just small errors, why did the leader (Phil Jones) of the whole kabal have to resign his post if it was just small errors?

http://www.itproportal.com/portal/news/article/2009/12/2/climate-research-chief-resigns-his-post-amidst-probe-over-leaked-emails/

Oh and then there is this LITTLE issue of dozens of researchers working together in private world wide suppressing information, threatening colleagues and individuals who do not tow the line on _man made_ _climate_ _change_ outlined in the leaked Emails under the UN report sponsored by Mr. Jones?

I guess that is a really leeeetle inconvenient truth too eh?

Yeah that is a small issue I suppose.

I suppose it is just a coincidence that Al Gore and his Peace Prize buddies that do all that touring around telling everyone they have to "buy into carbon credits" as quickly as possible using the same Madoff like ripoff assured plan modeled after CDO's and other crap that have robbed the masses of trillions, is partner in one of these scams.

http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=40445

I could sit here and type for hours about how F'ed up this whole climate research crapola, and that is exactly what it is, CRAPOLA.

But I can assure you all, it has _nothing_ to do with climate change. These people have no intentions of doing anything about the climate unless of course they can make a huge amount of money.

When are people going to wake up and see that the real scientists who are actually doing the foot work to understand how our planet endures climate change now, and in the past are the very ones not being listened to and are on Phil Jones and Co Sh*t List in those Emails.

-Hack

Received - other sites have reported this one rather better.
http://www.itproportal.com/portal/news/article/2010/6/16/420000-scam-e-mails-sent-britons-each-hour/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/7831633/Britons-receive-more-than-420000-scam-emails-every-hour.html/

Yeah, all told, worldwide, there were more iPhones, iPod Touches, and iPads sold than Android phones. However, when you compare oranges and oranges.... Apple skews the numbers by including the non-phone variants in with the phones.

But how about this: Apple iPad Catching Up On Android In OS Market? If true then iPhone OS is ahead of Android, iPads use the same OS.

iPhone is still selling better, but that's probably got something to do with being in the market longer.

Being the New Hot Thing[TM] Androids should be selling fast.

Give it another year and see what the picture looks like, especially with all the cheap tablets coming out. Who needs a Kindle or Nook when you can get an Android tablet for less than $200?

If Android tablets are anything like iPads, ie running a crippled OS, then I don't care. When Apple announced the iPad I was hoping for a tablet more like the Modbook Pro, with the LCD of MacBooks/MacBook Pros being replaced by a tablet. Axiotron replaces the LCDs with a Wacom Penabled® digitizer. Any software that runs on Macs will run on it too.

Falcon