You are more likely to be shot by a policeman while you are unarmed than you are to be killed as a result of an earthquake in the US [removing the special case of cops killing you because they think you are looting food because of an earthquake].

A red light is a request to accelerate.

Unless said corporation decides to get into the market of automatic caning machines....

"Earlier this year the House Judiciary Subcommittee had a hearing on the DMCA takedown issue, and both copyright holders, Internet service providers, and other parties are examining what they can do to optimize the process."

Note who wasn't present. Anybody representing the public.

you know what they would do before smartphones gained this 'bricking' capability?

the gov't would phone up the telephone company and say "turn off all access by the cell phone with this number XXX-XXX-XXXX"
phone company "ok, done. is there anything else?"

Yes, that's exactly why nobody buys iPhones [all models]. The technical specs are inferior to competing devices.

Anyway, your 2005 HTC Universal dimensions (from http://www.jawal123.com/-1108609633/en-us/htc-universal)
128mm × 81mm × 25 mm = 259 cubic centimeters

2007 iPhone dimensions (from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone)
115x61x11.6mm = 81.3 cubic centimeters

less than 1/3 the volume of your HTC Universal

that's why RIM's engineers couldn't believe. Stuffing that much stuff in that small a package, nevermind the software.

back then it wasn't. other phones at the time might have had better specs on specific items, nobody was making a similar item, particularly with those physical dimensions.

http://appleinsider.com/articles/10/12/27/rim_thought_apple_was_lying_about_original_iphone_in_2007.html

or google for other articles.

they also were way behind on basic research into components. When the iPhone was first announced, RIM's engineers actually thought Apple was lying about the specs, that Apple couldn't get a touch screen at that resolution, with that much RAM and storage and CPU and GPU and radios, in that physical size, with a battery that would last as long as Apple claimed.

what stick?

RIM's been trying to peddle these patents for licensing money for ages. anybody who thinks they might be of use probably already has a license quite cheap, because RIM has been desperate for any cash for quite some time.

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.