Awwwww, snap!!!

Hmmmm...that sounds somewhat, dare I say it, enlightened...

Ridiculous, I'd like to see an environmental toxic screening at the Chinese production facilities for Apple's computers. Aren't there likely to be many "toxic" substances inherent in these devices? Making a political statement through your company's warranty policy seems a little hypocritical and just...silly.

When "smart phones" rival wristwatches in battery life, we'll talk

Solid business acumen, or wildly inappropriate, juvenile dementia? It is sometimes hard to tell with telecom executives.

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"Should I fashion my company's products to serve the deserving customer, who has allowed us our current level of success (including my own egregious salary), or painfully bend their very minds to my will and ruefully punish those who do not fall immediately into line?"

-- excerpt, The Dark Lord of The Sith School of Business: Markets 101

How about no exposure?

It seems that cybersecurity is only as good as who is administering it. If we take the object lesson of British Hacker Gary McKinnon, who is actually now in the process of being extradited to the U.S. to face prosecution for hacking various Pentagon and other miltary computers, he claims that various "highly sensitive" systems (running Windows operatin systems at the time) where on the network with the then default password "Admin".

In fact Mr. McKinnon doesn't really consider himself to be a very accomplished hacker at all, but that the systems he infiltrated were simply easy to break into. Not only was he able to easily gain access, but while on these networks logged IPs from numerous other individuals from various other countries who were after the same "free candy". Having the capability to be totally secure and doing the proper "housekeeping" necessary to be and remain secure are often two different things.

It seems as though U.S. Cybersecurity may be mistaking the obvious fear of punishment for breaching sensitive systems, for a lack of ingenuity and skill on the part of potential troublemakers on its networks, which is a pretty big mistake. That is how it seems at least

At what point has there been postulated to have been volcanism on the moon in it's past, or would that be a hold over from the theory that The Moon is actually a former piece of The Earth that was ejected from it's mass by some super duper early on catastrophe? Which would, I suppose, explain it.

Or, if there that theory isn't the going favorite, how would "lava tubes" have formed on the moon without, you know, molten core volcanism, etc.? Might we not be looking at some other mechanism? Anyone know anything about that? That supposition just struck me as kind of odd.

I see why a look at a lot of popular indicators would bring him to that conclusion, but really, I think that the personal "workstation" will always have a place in the hearts of the independent computing crowd.

"this is my (somewhat) custom software, running on my custom rack".

Not that ubiquitous and convenient interfaces and solutions won't continue to crop up and, indeed, become very useful, but I like my box...

The operative word there being yet ...

We can neither confirm nor deny whether this research is taking place at a secure undisclosed location, such as said remote island on which there may or may not be a menacing volcano in the shape of a demonic humanoid skull... -DARPA

I guess three lefts do make a right then, apples being money and all...

I think maybe that you are trying to make a "literalist" remark concerning this proverb (which, in fairness, you might see as trite) and that if I actually did use my time and creative energy to draw you, literally, a picture that was "worth a thousand words" (which I actually do believe is possible, I mean what is that? In the publishing world 4 standard pages, even less on a "letter" sheet?), that your response, after a common "literalist" fashion would be something like:

"You're so full of shit, I knew you couldn't do it"

Because you can not perceive meaning, does not mean it is not there

But maybe that proverb really is meaningless to you and that pictures are just light, shade and various colors, which are indeed, in "your world" meaningless. I don't know...

What would you say the Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel was, like...what? 6 maybe 7 words?

I did not suppose that we had "picked up parts" of Japanese or Chinese, merely that they were examples of iconography.

I was hinting at the idea of a "novel" and as yet unseen iconography and not Chinese or Japanese.

A new iconography that might imbue future communication with both, and maybe a compromise between, brevity and meaning; as a substitute for very long strings of alphanumeric characters.

I'm actually rather comfortable with the perspective I currently hold, thank you for the "research" though...

That is a funny and in a way, prescient thought. I for one believe that not only is cursive on the outs, but our current form of expression of text as well; though on a somewhat longer time scale. We may be headed full circle back towards some form of iconographic means of communication, indeed like a system of hieroglyphics.

Hasn't the internet seen a proliferation of images and video and a transition from long texts to bloggable and twitterable "bits" of text? Are we headed in the "Western World" toward a different symbology? Consider Chinese Script or Japanese or some of the other Asian scripts which are, after a fashion, more wholly iconographic.

"A 'picture' is worth a thousand words"

Is it feasible that we are heading toward a new style of the consolidation of information? When was the last time you read a 1000 page book? Are Universities graduating more Literature majors or more Graphic Designers? Just a thought...

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Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only at night.

-Edgar Allen Poe