I'm not really an apple fanboy. Do I own appple products? Yes... I do... I also own sony, LG, and a myriad of other companies produdts as well. Do I use operating systems other than Lion and iOS? Yes, I use Solaris (Unix), Win 7, and various flavors of Linux. I'm a system admin by trade. The point is... look at the pictures of the two phones. It's a blatent rip off, and one of the reasons why they're in huge patent wars with each other. Aside from the obvious toned article... it's hard to deny the key point. Sumsung in this case did not use it's own innovation. They straight xeroxed. Yes, I also know the main reason behind the patent wars are part of the main battle to own "the stack". If you don't know what I'm refering to by "the stack" you should probably not be a slashdot reader and go watch Fox News instead.

as some one with asthma, the new inhalers suck sorry... there is a big differance. and to the person that mentioned "primatine mist". The only time I ever use primatine is if for some reason I'm in a pinch and the only way to get releaf is to go to a wallgreens which sells primatine... primatine sucks even more... While I'm a big fan of eliminating sources of CFC's... when it comes to a health issue like this there needs to be a viable replacement first.

Very little UAV surveying is done on U.S. soil as it's against FAA regulations to have Drones in most of our airspace due to aviodance regulations. That doesn't mean that border patrols don't use them however... or there aren't any Active ROZ areas for training purposes, but for what your stating ( like watching vehicles and traffic enforcement) it's just not currently being done becauses of the regulations. That being said... I think it would save the tax payer a lot of money if some of these regulations were deconflicted so lets say... something like a scaneagle could linger over a stretch of highway like I-5 for half a day as opposed to other traffic enforcement which costs more and is less effective. We've learned many lessons from Iraq and Afghanistan on highway patrolling with UAV's and I think we should apply them to home.

If your chief concern as you posted is smart phone portability for phone connectivity... the current smart phones DO fit in your pocket. I'm pretty sure my iphone 4 fits in all styles of my pockets on all my pants. Smart phones aren't the bulky crackberries of last decade... you should check out your local phone store. If you currently have an ipod touch you should already know this... as an ipod touch is basically the same size as an iphone save for a little depth... and it should fit in your pocket.

As a security professional myself: The fact that EA/Bioware were running a 10 year old server, means that they don't take Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability, of their systems seriously and handled their security rather negligently.

Western Washington University and University of Washington are TWO different Universities! This post speaks as if they are 1 and can lead to some serious confusion and mismanagement of the information.

This was such a poorly written article I don't know where to begin. The sources are not properly quoted. The grammar and spelling is worse than my own ( which is amazing)... I don't think I can trust the journalistic integrity of the source article due to it's own neglegence.

Pro: It seems google is setting its self up to potentially take a huge portion of the bussiness computing market. If this model is successful companies would not need as robust of an IT department and it drives hardware budget expenditures WAY down for enterprise solutions. Microsoft could be in trouble unless there are some "drastic" changes with windows 8 ( they assure us there are... namely supposely it can run on ARM archetecture which means it may be even more lightweight than chrome as it could even potentially run on your cellular device).
Con: Information Assurance and security. The ability for a company to manage thier own information and security is huge. There hasn't been a great proof of concept to show that google can do so more safely, or ensure that they themselves would not fall prey to attacks, or thier own users mishandling information. Also depending on the permission model (MAC[Mandatory Access Controls] /DAC[Discretionary/ etc...) it could be problematic handling shared resources depending on the overhead needed. If RSA can be hacked and PII stolen, Google can easily be. And a company with PII on thier information structure could find themselves with a lawsuit.