So it's your position that the shorts that happen rarely and when plugging in/out are the reason why axial plugs cannot be used? We couldn't use axial plugs that would initiate connections only at low voltage and then ramp up after negotiation? It's too hard to construct a minor variant that detects when the plug is being unconnected and cuts the juice? It's also too hard to design an axial plug that only initiates digital signals once the plug is fully inserted?

It's NOT that the USB geeks are too steeped in NIH to take a look at anything other than what they designed?

No. Lightning has no central post. Again, I have personally broken the center post off of a blackberry phone -- a professional phone if ever there was one. It isn't just me either, it happens regularly given the drawer full of them we have at work.

It's not that some substandard connectors suck, it's that the micro-USB norm itself sucks. Micro-usb is just an inferior standard to Lightning, that tiny central post is a critical failure just waiting to happen.

Not having a fragile central post inside the connector helps

So why doesn't the EU mandate a single electric cord socket then? This would clearly eliminate tons of waste, I've tossed hundreds of US & UK cables over the years.

Centronix printer cables! People NEED those wire clips on each end to make sure that the phone doesn't unplug itself when charging...

Yup, when that central post in the micro USB connector snaps off, the micro-USB3 is just as useless as a micro-usb.

Note to mr condescending. I've snapped the central post off a blackberry micro-USB employing no particular force. Yeah, I'm sure blackberry uses crappy micro-USB connectors, how could they not when it's such a crappy standard.

I've snapped the central post off a micro-USB rendering the phone useless. Supposedly, this should never happen but does. Your assurances that inferior non reversible ports are a good solution sound false.

Well good for you then. I'm on my third work blackberry in as many years because the central post in the micro-USB snapped off and the second's connector became worn enough to no longer reliably charge. Three cheers for the EU choosing an inferior standard, almost as bad as apple' sold dock connector!

You have pocket lint that's "nearly impossible to get out" from a lightning connector that isn't even harder to get out of a micro-USB connector with it's central post and more complicated shape? Suuurrreeee you do...

Well, I HAVE had problems with micro-USB and I am no anonymous coward. It may have been "designed" to have the wear on the connector, but I've seen connectors wear out to the point where the connection is very unreliable and even some where the post inside the female side of the connector snapped off. As for the abortion called micro-usb3 that is wider than USB type A...

See my comment to the same prejudiced twit: sometimes it isn't even with the length of the skirt but just conditions.

Where I live, many young tourists like to sit on the steps of the monuments. Guess what is in plain sight to anyone in front and below them? Are we all criminals because they were too thoughtless to consider the consequences and so prudish as to consider it a crime? No.

Are all the men and women who work below the grates in sidewalks criminals? Again, no.

Listen you brainless prejudiced twit, your not being comfortable with how much skin you show in public is your problem. As I have said elsewhere in this thread I respect all women who dress how they are comfortable with in public.

You see those grates in the sidewalk? I have worked below some of them. To the women who walked above me and realized that they had shown more than they thought:
- and laughed: my thanks and respect
- and scurried off: sorry, wear something you're more comfortable with so you don't embarrass yourself next time
- and yelled at us because in their opinion (like yours) we were somehow villainous for appreciating the occasional glances: go home woman & put on some pants. I'm not the problem, you are.
- and came back, this time without panties: uh thanks, but we're trying to work down here.

No. I respect those who dress according to their beliefs (through religion, morality, whatever). If you're not comfortable with showing it, whether it's accidentally or on purpose, then don't. Full stop.

I don't care whether it's wearing a skirt & no panties or not wearing a headscarf, stop complaining when people look at what you reveal, thats just being hypocrical. Assume yourself.

On the other end of the spectrum I also uphold the rights of those who want to dress differently -- not being forced to wear a burqua or headscarf or pants or long skirts or whatever.

It seems to me that you want to force your dress codes on everyone else through some sens of "this is right", because somone other than the wearer doesn't like it. When you get down to it, you use the same reasonning as the mullahs.

I know women who are very tightly buttened up & show nothing more than face, neck & hands. I also know women who are comfortable on nude beaches. I respect all of these women & all those between thes two extremes who dress according to what they are comfortable with.

Those I have little respect for are the hypocritical people who dress so that people will look at them then complain that they are looked at.

Oh but it's special because they're girls? That's sexist bullshit.

Now crawl back into your hole coward.