I suspect it's going to be the amount of people turned away from voting because of all these daft ID voter rules. Turn away more than a dozen people within 5 minutes and I can see riots, especially in Florida, that'll be like dominoes. All these events keep building up to create unhappy people, and the Student Loan Bubble is going to be nasty, but it'll take that sharp focused event that'll be the camel back breaker and I really think it'll be the mass disenfranchisement of a huge % of the US citizens at the next big election. And when the UN tries to send in election monitors... Fox News will be the funniest channel to watch ever.

Got them running a lot of apps on a lot of hardware quickly though. Now things are settling, I'd imagine this new ART core will be improved on to keep trimming performance up and reducing battery drain. It's done the job it was designed for pretty well so far.

All that extra hardware to spy on US citizens, that cost has to be passed on to consumers. Probably why it's hard to get fast speeds too, you have to wait till the gov upgrades their backend to handle the extra workload of everyone on faster links; when they get their new spy gear in, you get another 5mb.

I smiled outside an Apple Store once and was told my grin was too rounded.

!Can't be that, everyone said that was a terrible way to be professional and get things done.

I've found it great. To launch VirtualBox and XP machines on. Apart from that, it's still... just terrible. I hear screams of frustration from the main office far too often still.

"after some practice able to land a cessna." Aye! And good weather/good visitibility, this guy did it as it was mostly dark, and Humberside Airport is notorious for having nasty bumpy air around it. It's very hilly around there, with just the runway the flat bit. For a long time the only reason the airport remained open was to support the North Sea Rigs, and it mostly handled helicopters. Occasional flying sheds from HUY to Amsterdam to get to somewhere useful, wasn't much going on. When it did expand and get the larger planes/holiday makers, it got well known as being bumpy on the last minute of descent, and winds coming in from the NW appeared to catch a few new pilots out, never saw so many aborted landings for the first few weeks of the bigger planes landing. That's commercial pilots being caught off-guard with the winds. No doubt about it, guy was lucky, kept his head on, did a good job not to make a mess of it.

A single request of information can include a LOT of people/time frame.

Amazing how they thought the Scroogled attack ads were a good idea when they're handing nearly everything over too.

The 'winners' are about to learn some valuable lesson in winning a million dollars.

They're going to end up owing some lawyers 1.2million.

Judge Lucy Koh involved again? Reeks of Apple (though I'm sure MS is throwing money at someone somewhere)

It's cases like this that make me miss Groklaw even more. They'd have someone there in the court to report on all this, and explain the legal shenanigans going on, with links to prior cases of the people involved trying the same thing, and probably how Microsoft is funding them!

Not just the spying to put people off, but I seriously wonder if the delay in rolling out really fast connections is related to the NSA's ability to scoop up that data. "can you hold off providing 1gb asymetric links to all your subscribers until we upgrade our data center please? Cheers, the offshore bonus to the CEO is in the usual account".

If it's something that doesn't reduce the machine to a crawl, maybe it'll have a chance. I want a small player, maybe even a plugin to winamp, that once authenticated, just plays in the background. Use a webpage to manage playlists if need be.
Anything but the monstrosity of iTunes.

In cases like this, they kinda have to, or else no-one will buy Cisco again, or the customer who just had to settle will then sue Cisco for all their losses.