Is that a problem with the iPhone or is it the US Carriers being greedy?

Backwards in humans, but an improved design in cephalopods.

Praise Cthulhu

If you think humans were badly engineered then spare a thought for the birds. God gave them a cloaca.

In the standard A and B plugs the data pins are recessed compared to the power pins. Grab any standard cable and you can slide it in until the power makes contact, giving you charging without any data connection.

I've been doing this for years to charge a MP3 device without it being mounted by the host computer.

There's no shortage of people willing to spend more than $400 for an iPad.

The convenience of a tablet device should not be underrated, though at that price you can get an ultra-light netbook or a fully fledged ultra-portable laptop.

This extension is really just a API to communicate with DRM plugins. Whilst it would be good to standardise on a single API, it still requires having closed source plugins to do the actual decoding.

Kinda like what Flash does now.

The Coalition policy appears to be keeping the same crusty old ADSL over copper and maybe adding some FttN in major metro areas.

I'd sure like to see some evidence behind the claim that onboard laser pointers can interfere with electronic flight systems.

Three times is poetry.

Not going to happen. Read about how the "restoration" literally replaced the original film. The Theatrical versions only exist in memories now.

I could've sworn Avengers was another Michael Bay film.

Forward Error Correction makes IPTV streams watchable over congested networks or fragile wireless connections.

Calling for commercial organisations to stop profiling their customers is about as worthwhile as asking a four year old not to eat that marshmallow you just placed in front of them.

The problem is Joe Average is just too willing to give up their information for the smallest of perks, be it filling out a personal survey to win an iProduct, or swiping their supermarket member card at every transaction to save a few percent.

Redundant, Customs and Border Protection already does Deep Packet Inspection.

I'd be almost certain that HDD manufacturers are "holding back" on new technologies to milk their current product line as long as possible, but this is not pricefixing nor is it abnormal behaviour unless the different manufactures are colluding.