At the time, Apple claimed it needed better microphone/audio hardware than the iPhone 4 had, but that was just bullshit [as it worked fine with jailbroken iPhone 4 and with bluetooth headsets]. They just wanted to keep it for the premium model that year, the iPhone 4S.

not mentioned in the story...how did he get a fraudulent US passport that fooled US officials for so long. It is literally their job to detect fraudulent passports.

"Diplomatic Security Service, which protects U.S. embassies and checks the validity of U.S. visas and passports"

Real reporters and the jury actually noticed that the accused had an iPhone 4 at the time, which DOES NOT support accessing Siri [unless jailbroken, of which there was no evidence supplied to indicate it was], AND that all the prosecution introduced was a screen-shot of the Siri request.

You know, the ones that were popular when Siri first was released and Siri would respond with something cute/weird/disturbing to cute/weird/disturbing questions....

So, I guess he drove to the woods, then fired up his web browser and put in 'Siri, I need to hide my roommate.", then saw the screen shot, saved it to his camera roll, then proceed to ignore the advice in the image with a "Fuck this, I'll just dump him here".

if that happened, IPv6 would be made illegal in the US, with an exception for law enforcement and gov't officials.

alternately, it will soon be time for the pendulum to swing back to "we've got to have everything in-house, these security breaches are killing us" and "dumb terminals and having everything in the 'cloud' is killing productivity when the cloud is down, we need real apps so users can work even when the cloud doesn't"

they need to recalibrate the sensor so it catches the traces of cocaine on most used bills.

yes, evidently you have longer arms than a normal person and are able to circle-jerk yourself, hence your desire to date yourself. You have to, because you won't put out without getting a decent meal first.

I believe the primary obstacle is that the gov't [particularly the federal gov't] loathes actually hiring people. they want to outsource everything, because of the mantra "private industry steals the best". and then to make sure only the crappiest companies bid on the project, make everyone submit hundreds of pages of mostly useless paperwork, and then pick the lowest bidder, regardless of ability to actually perform the work. Then, when the lowest bidder fails, award the contract to a close friend's company, and whatever price they suggest, because "it has to get done by yesterday".

Just start over and use "AAA".

No "may" about it....

it's both. the new molecule is similar enough that they argue that you can't make the generic without infringing the new patent and of course they stop making the old drug because the new improved version only costs 10% more for only a small decrease in effectiveness.

except big pharma games the system, where they release a drug under patent protection, then shortly before the patent ends, they re-patent the drug to cover some other condition, then say that generics can't make the drug for the first condition because they can't prevent it from being used for the second.

and in Canada, we are helpfully extending our patent time limits under the still secret Canada-EU trade agreement that Harper just signed. The Canadian people are too stupid to understand it, so we can't find out what he agreed to.

why does it have to continue on after the creator dies?
why not just a straight up fixed term, like 10 years?

certainly most stuff now makes their money fairly quickly, and the only thing long copyright length does [for the majority of things covered by it] is basically a lottery hit [way down the road, something randomly becomes super-popular for no particular reason, like the rick-roll].

does anybody believe any band of the last 100 years went "man, there's no point to writing this song if we don't get paid royalties from it for at least 25 years after we die"

movies make the vast majority of their money in the first couple of years, between the movie theatre release, then DVD/online movie sales.

yes, it needs a 4k display so you can transfer the porn vid to it so you don't miss anything getting another beer.

I believe they have accepted the "if you want the cable to be able to actually connect to anything in the US, you need to let us splice this box into the cable" proposition by the NSA.