Um, what? Apparently you don't remember what passed for a smartphone in 2006. Apple completely revolutionized phones and deserves all the credit, everyone else just copied what Apple did, and Apple got tired of them copying. We were suffering in 2006, now we are living great with technology straight from Star Trek.

Couldn't have said it better myself. US govt seems to doing all it can to make it more difficult for the middle class

How do you decide if someone did a "bad job" or not? That's like arguing over if a game or movie is bad or not, what you think is fine I might think is bad and I might even leave a negative review, would I be sued then for not liking something?

I read the lawsuit. They have no basis for the $750,000. Doesn't explain how they came to that number at all. Damn attorney for ripping off this developer because he just wasted a lot of money filing this and going to court.

Yes but it's so wide open it would be very difficult to prove she's lying. She says they damaged her house, he says they didn't. Good luck proving they did zero damage. Unless they have a signed affidavit from her stating everything was perfect and there was no damage then she can say there was damage. Only way they could possibly win against her is if they've never heard of her and they never did work on her house at all.

if this lawsuit worked then car manufactures could sue eveytime someone wrote a review saying a car interior felt "cheap". And how are they going to prove $750,000 in loss sales are directly because of her review? If she counter-sues they're screwed because she'll likely win

Why is this sarcastic comment marked insightful?? Chu setup the impossible goals of 5x more energy AND 5x cheaper in 5 years! Clearly has no clue how batteries work and thinks by requesting magic to happen it will! That's +1 Funny! What's next, 5x more efficient cars for 5x cheaper in 5 years? ROFLMAO

5x more energy is possible. 5x cheaper is possible. 5x more energy AND 5x cheaper in only 5 years is so impossible that it is funny, but damn politicians like to make statements that rhyme or sound good together and idiots believe them: "it's my 555 plan!! 5x more for 5x less in 5 years!! VOTE ME!!"

Then you'll be happy to know that Seagate bought Samsungs hard drive division in 2011, not the other way around, so I don't see how he could be biased AGAINST Samsung when Samsung lost their hard drive division to Seagate. If he hates Seagate, then he should feel sorry for Samsung for losing their hard drive division to Seagate, right? Maybe Apple should sue because the foreman was biased for Samsung and a billion isn't enough LOL.

Also isn't it the job of Samsungs lawyers to ask the jury members questions during jury selection to make sure they're not biased? Samsung should be suing their lawyers for missing this, it's not apple's fault.

I started 98 or 99, you must have started early 98 since according to Wikipedia slashdot started sept 97

So how did this get posted? Obvious fake is obvious, but whoever created the site could now change it to some spammy malware site and nothing can be done, it's already been linked to by /. and probably dozens of other sites, the fake site is probably top ranked on google now for dozens of search terms. This is not good /., things like this is why after 15 years I don't visit /. as much as I use to, and it's sad a site like reddit has better editors than /.

That's the first thing I thought too, that if we just discovered this in Samsung printers is there a hardcoded backdoor in Samsung galaxy s3 phones too?

No one is watching them use the bathroom, you're being ridiculous. They know if a student is in a bathroom or not, which is no different than if a teacher watched a student enter the bathroom.

Badges like these have huge benefits: access to computer labs or other secure areas, instant login to computers, evening and weekend access to school property, reduce theft, vandalism and bullying, etc. These badges are so full of win i wish i had them when i was in high school. She's very fortunate to be going to a school that offers such nice stuff and her parents want to fight it on religious grounds?? What's next, sue the school for offering free wifi?

Judge is probably just doing it to clear the air, so a legal ruling can come out saying "Yes, the school has the right to know where every student is at all times while they are on school property." That seems so obvious I don't know how anyone can argue against it. Who wants the school to say "We don't know where your child is. They are not in class and we called over the intercom and they didn't come. Sorry"

Badges like these could have huge benefits: Access to computer labs or other secure areas, instant login to computers, evening and weekend access to school property, reduce theft, vandalism and bullying, etc. These badges are so full of win i wish i had them when i was in high school

She's very fortunate to be going to a school that offers such nice stuff and her parents want to fight it on religious grounds?? What's next, sue the school for offering free wifi?

yeah because no one has ever accidentally left their badge in their pocket and washed the clothes.

but she might want to hang on to that badge, if they actually use the badges for security they could have certain rooms that might require the badge to gain access like computer labs, etc.

it's funny to watch people fight the progression of technology though, 20 yrs from now we'll look back and think "wtf how did schools function without smart security badges?"

Like political parties? Or.... pretty much any organized group, tries to tell other people how to live? Every group has an agenda, and encourages their members to follow that agenda

that could be said of almost ANY organized group, that it is a means of control