To be honest, the spec is a large jump in CPU, memory and graphics power. The camera's much better, it's double the download/upload speed and Siri is quite a significant new feature.

The only problem is it's labelled as 4S not 5, when everyone was expecting it to be a 5. That makes them feel its an updated phone when actually it is a significant update. If they'd just launched it as the iPhone5 no-one would have been describing it as a let-down. Well, except anyone complaining that it still looked the same.

Possibly. It has 2 antennas and switches between whichever has the best signal... that might be enough so that if the death grip is blocking signal to one, the other will still be working fine.

Of course they've not advertised it as such a fix, because they've never admitted there's been that problem (at least no more so than any other phone). Just said that it "improves signal strength".

And of course now they're still around, using helium which is far safer. It's only the speed that's made planes the preferred option.

And from U.S.C. 47 S151...
For the purpose of regulating interstate and foreign commerce in communication by wire and radio so as to make available

Actually, their current charter is to "make available so far as possible, to all the people of the United States, without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, or sex, rapid, efficient, Nation-wide, and world-wide wire and radio communication services with adequate facilities at reasonable charges."

So yes, it is within their jurisdiction.

Not true... with salted encrypted passwords you're trying to find a password that the application will think is the correct one. It concatenates the salt with the password and checks whether the hashes match (simplified explanation, but that is what many implementations such as crypt do). That means you're trying to find a collision where the salt is at the start of the input that causes the collision. That's a small subset of the inputs that generate the same hash so it does make finding collisions harder.

The guy's completely ignored context though.

What about school/college university terms breaking up? They all break up for spring break and christmas.

I expect more people round those times were blogging things like 'I can't wait until we break up for christmas'' than were saying they were dumped. Which makes the entire chart meaningless.

I think he means the USB 3.0 trident logo:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:USB_3.0_Icon.svg