Comment Re:What is the basis for the suit? (Score 1) 172
They're telling a Chinese manufacturer to obey California Civil Code? Good luck with that.
Comment Re:Apple getting desperate? (Score 1) 574
The problem is with Apple trying to assert control over how people use their product after they've sold it.
This is the problem that Apple (Steve) sees with open platforms. When something is open, people will be stupid enough to screw up all the work they put in to make the device perfect. He doesn't want that happening.
Comment Re:Hmm (Score 1) 351
you better bring them something they can't resist.
Hookers? Yes.. Every Windows Phone 7 should come with a free hooker.
Comment Re:Jobs (Score 1) 153
There's lots of large cities and several great colleges in the southeast that will produce plenty of people who want to work there. Some people like the small town feel.
Comment Re:How is this news? (Score 1) 272
Not idiots, but ignorant. You can't blame them for that.
You've got that the wrong way around. You can't blame someone for being mentally impaired, but you can blame someone for not using their perfectly good brain.
Comment Re:Permanently modified? (Score 1) 426
Larry Boucher intended SCSI to be an acronym all along. Pronounced "sexy." That didn't quite happen. I still think you're sexy, Larry.
Did he spend all night mating cables, too?
Comment Re:Politically connected (Score 1) 160
Something did get done. Look at the graph of BP stock. Zoom to 1 year and notice the huge dip following april 20th. They (and their stockholders) did lose money over this...
So what? Money is meaningless. Take away something that matters: life, liberty, or happiness.
Comment Never (Score 1) 233
Isn't that the whole point of a password? Instead of each user having to identify themselves by an arbitrary means on each login, the password provides a standardization of login protocol.
Sex Drugs and Texting 287
statesman writes "The Associated Press reports that teens who text frequently are three and a half times more likely to have sex. A survey of 4,200 public high school students in the Cleveland area found that one in five students sent more than 120 text messages a day or spent more than 3 hours a day on Facebook. Students in this group were much more likely to have sex. Alcohol and drug use also correlate with frequent texting and heavy Facebook use."
Submission + - How Hollywood Generally Gets Tech Wrong
adeelarshad82 writes: For tech fans, feature films and TV shows are replete with laughable, forehead-smacking misrepresentations and misunderstandings of technology that we use every day. Some of these mistakes are so common that they have become conventions that filmmakers likely think they must include so the audience will understand what's going on, for instance the cell phone dial tones. In truth, conventions similar to CSI's famous infinite image zoom only serve to reinforce the bizarro rules of an alternate on-screen tech universe that is similar to our own, but oddly different.
Comment Re:sweet !! (Score 1) 314
Don't do it! It will void your warranty!
Comment !Epic (Score 1) 559
When I read the title, I thought CliffyB would be taking on the Airports with his chainsaw-wielding crazyness.
Comment But... (Score 1) 478
Where's the fun in that?
Comment Re:I don't think this will compete directly with i (Score 1) 246
This is going to go straight for Microsoft's jugular.
Apple has pretty well innoculated themselves with a strong tablet (touch) and ultralight notebook (full OS) offerings.
If this comes with net access it will pretty much eat up the remaining netbook fervor.
You say that like those are the only kinds of devices people want.
Comment Re:Real bug: changing the time (Score 1) 487
So why not just leave it that way if you can save resources?
Because humans aren't interested in saving resources until they run out.
