Comment Re:Steve Jobs (Score 1) 420
which he then promptly attempted to make proprietary and whose licenses he attempted to violate.
Citation needed.
Submission + - Apple Makes Two Factor Authentication Available for Apple IDs (securityweek.com)
wiredmikey writes: In an effort to increase security for user accounts, Apple on Thursday introduced a two-step verification option for Apple IDs. As the “epic hacking” of Wired journalist Mat Honan proved, an Apple ID often carries much more power than the ability to buy songs and apps through Apple’s App store.
An Apple ID can essentially be the keys to the Kingdom when it comes to Apple devices and user maintained data, and as Apple explains, is the “ key to many important things you do with Apple, such as purchasing from the iTunes and App Stores, keeping personal information up-to-date across your devices with iCloud, and locating, locking, or wiping your devices.”
“After you turn [Two-step verification] on, there will be no way for anyone to access and manage your account at My Apple ID other than by using your password, verification codes sent your trusted devices, or your Recovery Key,” a announcing the new service explained.
An Apple ID can essentially be the keys to the Kingdom when it comes to Apple devices and user maintained data, and as Apple explains, is the “ key to many important things you do with Apple, such as purchasing from the iTunes and App Stores, keeping personal information up-to-date across your devices with iCloud, and locating, locking, or wiping your devices.”
“After you turn [Two-step verification] on, there will be no way for anyone to access and manage your account at My Apple ID other than by using your password, verification codes sent your trusted devices, or your Recovery Key,” a announcing the new service explained.
Submission + - Apple: 75% of our world wide power needs now come from renewable power sources (apple.com)
skade88 writes: Wow! Color me green on this one! I am normally very critical of Apple's business practices, but this one is just perfect all around! Apple now owns and runs enough renewable energy power plants that 75% of their world wide power needs come from renewable sources such as wind, solar, geothermal and hydro.
From the Apple Blog Post: 'Our investments are paying off. We’ve already achieved 100 percent renewable energy at all of our data centers, at our facilities in Austin, Elk Grove, Cork, and Munich, and at our Infinite Loop campus in Cupertino. And for all of Apple’s corporate facilities worldwide, we’re at 75 percent, and we expect that number to grow as the amount of renewable energy available to us increases. We won’t stop working until we achieve 100 percent throughout Apple.'
Any other big power hungry data centers want to step up and join Apple on this one? Im looking at you Google and Rackspace!
From the Apple Blog Post: 'Our investments are paying off. We’ve already achieved 100 percent renewable energy at all of our data centers, at our facilities in Austin, Elk Grove, Cork, and Munich, and at our Infinite Loop campus in Cupertino. And for all of Apple’s corporate facilities worldwide, we’re at 75 percent, and we expect that number to grow as the amount of renewable energy available to us increases. We won’t stop working until we achieve 100 percent throughout Apple.'
Any other big power hungry data centers want to step up and join Apple on this one? Im looking at you Google and Rackspace!
Comment 6-3? (Score 1, Insightful) 648
6-3? What did the 3 think? This is mind boggling. And kind of frightening.
Comment Re:US Law (Score 1) 229
That sentimental statue that the mugger smashed? The one your great-great-grandmother carved while on a ship coming over from Europe? In the eyes of the inquisitorial court, it's just a trinket, and is of no consequence.
Not true. That would be mental or, non-material harm and can be recognized by an inquisitorial court as well.
Comment Re:US Law (Score 2) 229
only a handful actually use an inquisitorial system.
My country, Germany, is not in the list, although it uses an inquisitorial system. Maybe Wikipedia is not a very good source
Submission + - Blackberry sells 1 million units to a single buyer (androidanalyse.com) 3
Gumbercules!! writes: At the end of each quarter, investors eagerly await the sales figures for the last three months and probably no company (with the possible exception of Nokia) will be so closely watched this quarter as Blackberry. This quarter has seen the release of what many consider to be their last throw of the dice – the Blackberry 10 range introductory range of handsets and poor sales figures could portent a very difficult time ahead.
So with that in mind, it’s “odd”, in the least, that suddenly someone would suddenly step forward and buy a full and exact million handsets – and Blackberry won’t tell us who. Blackberry is touting this as a huge vote of confidence in their brand – however if someone is so amazingly confident in Blackberry, why do they need to remain secret?
So with that in mind, it’s “odd”, in the least, that suddenly someone would suddenly step forward and buy a full and exact million handsets – and Blackberry won’t tell us who. Blackberry is touting this as a huge vote of confidence in their brand – however if someone is so amazingly confident in Blackberry, why do they need to remain secret?
Comment Re:Been There (Score 1) 965
During that period, you are completely unable to access the System menu or start another app to find the proc that is chewing resources so that it can be killed.
Bullshit.
Comment Re:Context please? (Score 1) 337
I hope they had the same reasons that most intelligent engineers have; X Sucks.
Quote from book: Steve Jobs told the USENIX audience in Phoenix, in June 1987, "that x was brain-damaged"
Comment Well, /. has to get better at it :) (Score 1) 72
Comment Re:Looks bad for SBB (Score 1) 274
Except it is a clock in the phone,
Yeah, trademark law doesn't work like that.
and if you watch the shadow on the second hand, it's clearly in three dimensions.
Ceci n'est pas une horloge. The SBB could have applied for more classes, but they didn't. [shrug]
And it's not copyright,
The SBB refers to "trademark-" and "copy-rights": "Die SBB seien die alleinige Besitzerin der Marken- und Urheberrechte der Bahnhofsuhr, sagte Ginsig." Source: http://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/digital/mobil/Apple-kopiert-die-beruehmte-SBBUhr/story/26209939
Hence my remark to copyright.
it's trade dress,
trade dress is part of trademark law.
exactly what Apple sued Samsung for, with the difference being that Samsung's designs weren't nearly as exact a copy as this is.
The jury decided otherwise, because Samsung copied too many elements at once.
Comment Looks bad for SBB (Score 1, Informative) 274
Here's the registration for the trademark:
https://www.swissreg.ch/srclient/faces/jsp/trademark/sr300.jsp?language=de§ion=tm&id=512830
It's a three dimensional trademark, only for clocks/watches so the two dimensional picture in a phone should be in the clear. And they forgot to put a color photograph in their application, so I guess the color of the second hand may not be protected. And copyright? On a clock? Good luck with that.
Comment 80s (Score 1) 230
Isn't this done since the 80s?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_immersion_cooling#Liquid_submersion_cooling
Comment Re:You left out Microsoft (Score 4, Informative) 157
I would love to see some sources on this that would confirm M$ helped SCO out.
Comment The bullshit myth that won't die (Score 2) 544
http://news.cnet.com/2100-1001-202143.html
“Apple, which ended its third quarter with $1.2 billion in cash, will use the additional $150 million to invest in its core markets of education and creative content, Anderson said.”
http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/RDM.Tech.Q1.07/592FE887-5CA1-4F30-BD62-407362B533B9.html
http://lightbox.time.com/2011/10/06/in-a-private-light-diana-walkers-photos-of-steve-jobs/#10
“Less than 12 hours before his big announcement, nobody here knows yet about the bombshell to come. In fact, Jobs is still negotiating it here at the Castle--on a cell phone. "Hi, Bill," you hear him say in the echo chamber of the old hall. Then his voice drops, and for nearly an hour he paces the stage, running through last-minute details with Gates. All the while, he leans over his computer, paces, lies down on the stage, paces, lurks in dark corners, paces and talks, paces and talks.
This is the fateful call for the boy titans of the personal-computer revolution, meant to settle the war. At one point, talking about Apple, Jobs says, "There are a lot of good things, happily--and a lot of screwed-up things." Then, to his crew, he yells, "Have we got satellite contact with the other side?" Assured this has been taken care of, he answers a question from Gates about what to wear on the morrow ("I'm just going to wear a white shirt," he assures him), and he finally ends the conversation with a heartfelt "Thank you for your support of this company. I think the world's a better place for it." And so that's how Apple and Microsoft, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, finally seal it--on a cell-phone call.
The deal is vintage Jobs. Amelio began the process of repairing relations between the two longtime rivals. But once he was out the door at Apple, Jobs contacted Gates to try to get talks started again. Gates dispatched his CFO, Gregory Maffei, who met Jobs at his home. Jobs suggested they go for a walk. Grabbing a couple of bottles of mineral water from the fridge, the two took off for a stroll around Palo Alto. Jobs was barefoot. "It was an interesting scene," Maffei recalls. "It was a pretty radical change for the relations between the two companies." The two walked for nearly an hour, through Palo Alto's green university area, as they pounded out the details of a potential deal. Jobs, Maffei says, was "expansive and charming. He said, 'These are things that we care about and that matter.' And that let us cut down the list. We had spent a lot of time with Amelio, and they had a lot of ideas that were nonstarters. Jobs had a lot more ability. He didn't ask for 23,000 terms. He looked at the whole picture, figured about what he needed. And we figured he had the credibility to bring the Apple people around and sell the deal."”
