That was my immediate reaction as well. I saw some snippet of her on TV once and she seemed to be the canonical blond airhead. What next, people clustering to Professor Pamela Anderson to hear about global warming being a scam?

There may have been a small number of third-party apps, but nothing like what made the iPad and later Android successful. What's worse, there never would be too many more either. I've programmed for EPOC, alongside a large number of other embedded OSes, and it is by far the most alien, difficult-to-work-with OS I've ever used. I've found it easier to move code to MVS (IBM 1960's mainframe OS) than EPOC. Unless they'd completely rewritten the OS in something useful (Linux was mentioned), the market would have been severely restricted no matter how cool the hardware was.

Exactly. The headline should have read "LG and Samsung follow Philips in adding pointless expensive gimmicks to lightbulbs in order to part consumers from their money".

Well, it's got some rat in it. And get rid of that damn dead bishop on the landing, I've got three of 'em down by the bin, and the dustmen won't touch 'em.

You put Jif on your bread? While it's probably a less.. intrusive way of cleaning you out than a colonic irrigation, it still seems like a bit much.

Just a illustrate how blatant a knock-off it is, here's the Typo keyboard from the linked news story, and here's what Typo copied to create it.

I'm assuming from your comment that you've probably never dealt with any sociopaths/psychopaths (technically, people with ASPD, antisocial personality disorder) or similar disorders like NPD before, because if you had you'd realise that critical thinking isn't going to help you. Firstly, in order to apply critical thinking you need to know that you're being manipulated, which you'll generally only realise that once it's too late. Secondly, until you've actually experienced what an ASPD person is capable of, you'll have no idea of the near-superhuman capabilities of these people to deceive and manipulate. The literature is full of stories of trained psychologists interviewing psychopaths who they know have killed a dozen children and eaten their livers, and coming away thinking what a charming person they've just dealt with. One somewhat nasty (but highly educational) trick that gets played on psych students is sending them into prisons to assess psychopaths. They invariably report them to be charming, friendly, and the sort of person they'd want to have around for dinner. In some cases even after they've read the reports of them keeping the various body parts in bags in the basement.

If you're targeted by someone with NPD/ASPD, you won't realise it until it's too late.

[Citation needed].

(For those who can't see the problem with this claim, consider the following: I wear a unicorn-repellent shirt. I know it works because while wearing it I've never been attacked by a unicorn).

Saved me from writing the same thing. The GPS code I've seen, written by engineers and not programmers, was an incredibly hacked-together, barely-functional set of kludges to implement a lot of very elegant mathematics.

Another example that's at least as elegant as gcc is OpenSSL.

Exactly! It's time to bring the Sudetenrussians heim in's Reich. Coming up next: Anschluss for the rest of the Ukraine.

I hear that USB 4.0 will go all the way up to 11.