No, but I can say that the principles of construction and agency apply. Because it applies to all laws.

The Constitution says the government can't gather that information without a warrant. So yeah, if the government can hire someone who already has a warrant that would be fine.

It's only a security hole because of sophists in the judiciary bending over backwards to avoid the obvious finding.

Yeah, that explains why Symbian and NextSTEP are all over the place! Android works well for phones and tablets, but I don't think it's really what we want on the desktop. OSX is fine for OSX, but I've never seen it anywhere else.

There's a few different they and respective alternatives. All ended up the same way.

I'm not opposed to a superior solution coming along, especially if it can at least be shimmed to interoperate. I just haven't seen such a solution yet. I have seen a lot that said they were right up to the day they were scrapped.

Did a cuckoo actually pop out of your forehead just now? I addressed your impractical scheme that near as I can tell would require all bus powered devices to have a battery in order to be able to connect in full.

I get it, USB left it's socks on your table, killed your cat and attempted to exterminate the Jews back in the mid 20th century. Good thing Lightning was there to stop it!

As I said, show me a decent and workable connector and it might be worth considering. Do not show me some crazy Rube Goldberg system owned by a single entity and protected by a crypto chip. Those are non-starters.

What makes you think the connectors on the Blackberry were top of the line? Apparently not their durability.

As for the clone lightning cables, you mean like this? Just waiting for Apple to nuke it with an update to the OS?

Like I said, strip the crap out and don't let a company like Apple control it and it might be worth discussing.

So in other words, they tried an alternative, and found it inferior. In fact, many tried alternatives that they found inferior to X. But this time they're REALLY going to kick that football!

Actually I hadn't considered that.

Your helpful suggestion will result in up to 12 used hard drives going to best buy!

Grats! You made a difference!

That's a remote desktop. I don't want a window that contains the app's window. I want the app's window sitting on my desktop. I don't particularly want to run a compositor on the server, just the app itself.

So lie down here and I'll get the paddles. :-)

The U.S. DOES spend billions on statins. That wasn't a guess. You fave to factor in my other complaint, prescribing the latest and greatest expensive drugs when the generic would do.

You're the only one talking about blocking drugs from the market. I'm talking about using them appropriately based on evidence and preferring drugs with a longer track record for prudent risk management. I have never suggested blocking any drug from the market in this conversation.

Note that whiskey also helps cholesterol. A few shots a week should do the trick and be much cheaper. Statins should be second line for people who cannot take alcohol.

I went to college for 11 years.

And actually I graduated in 1993 (didn't feeling like posting to correct that) so the drive was pre 1993- and probably pre 1991.

I don't clearly recall events that happened over 20 years ago (tho I can still see the house I bought the drive at- it was on a corner with a bayou behind it).

I was a teetotalar back then but I had cancer in 91-92 and the chemo noticeably affected my brain. These days I'm a social drinker.

But for the nitpickers...

The oldest drive I remember was a 5MB for the apple 2 a friend bought for several hundred dollars. Capacity rapidly doubled after (while price dropped) that so 5-10-20-40-80-used 80 was probably about 6 years after the invention of mass market hard drives.

Per the WIKI
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F...

Hard drives had the capacity I remember around 1988 to 1990 so that fits.

See what the failure rate looks like when there's a few dozen no-name manufacturers of lightning. Micro-USB built to spec don't have the center post breaking problem. Lightning cables built off spec would likely have problems.

Linux is ACTUALLY more usable to me than either Windows or OSX (if Linux isn't an option, OSX is second choice). Windows feels like trying to build a ship in a bottle while wearing boxing gloves. It's just plain clunky. OSX replaces the boxing gloves with mittens.

I plug/unplug my phone more often during the day than I use my house key. That is likely true for many people.

Hmm. I wonder how polite the romans were for 700 years of conquering.

700 years is a pretty good run.

I wonder how polite the old west and the gold rush area were?

I think Mr. Heinlein had on some thick rose colored glasses with regard to government and how people actually behave.

Wouldn't they make some sort of distress call while the cockpit door is being smashed open? They could even do it silently with a transponder code.

I suspect one day all commercial craft will have that telemetry. For now, there's only a limited number of planes (growing fast) fitted with internet connectivity. Once that is nearly ubiquitous, someone will decide to use that connection to send a few packets every 5 minutes. Then that will spread to the rest of the fleet and problem solved. That second step will probably be delayed for fear that some bureaucrat will decide that that makes the internet connection a critical system and ups the ante on it's maintenance and reliability.

I have seen lightning. Reinforce the tab, strip the circuitry that permits detection of non-apple cables, and make a version that Apple doesn't own, and I would consider it. Otherwise, replace center post in your complaints with flimsy tab, because once anyone can make one, you'll see shoddy ones on the market and complaints about how the tab broke off in the socket and such. In other words, like micro-USB, your experience will be directly related to the quality of the construction.

If the micro-usb socket and plug are made to spec, the center posts do not make contact at all unless plugged in in the correct orientation. No contact, no break.

Because all of your questions come down to "but it will be so simple if we just add two orders of magnitude more complexity". Also you forgot that the USB device is inert until it gets power from the USB host. How's it going to negotiate power and connection if it has no power?