USB 2.0 allows for 400mbits data rate.

Please tell me what supplier Apple will be getting flash memory from that can be written to at even one fifth of this speed.

At the end it says "Produced by Bard Canning". Brad or Bard? I presume he's less likely to mistype his name than the Slashdot editors.

They have conclusively been quantified at 50.

Retina displays aren't, weren't and probably never will be manufactured by Apple themselves.
Multitouch predates the iPhone by decades.
The idea of centralized software installation is not new. Debian springs to mind immeidately. Apple just was the first to charge for it.

But please, do try again.

Even the wheel isn't safe. I mean, when it comes down to it, the wheel is just a tablet with sufficiently rounded corners. Those patent infringing messopotamian motherfuckers!

You know, I always wondered if people with your opinions actually existed, or if they were just used as hypothetical examples of the most extreme form of patriotic idiocy imaginable.
Turns out they do actually exist. Who'da thought?

Not for long I'll bet. The only thing we can be sure about is that the crown prosecutor will be a little more careful in selecting scapegoats from now on. The War on Terror is an ongoing exercise in balancing what the executive arm and its organs can get away with and maximising the state of fear created in the public mind.

Lisa, I would like to buy your rock...

Stop poo-pooing his efforts.

I don't have to see the colour of your skin to know that you're a total asshole.

If you are unable to see that aesthetics actually has functional value, then I'm surprised you're actually capable of the emotion of "sadness".

It's OK. They'll declare war against botnets, and then implement a bunch of laws to combat them, all of which will result in a further slide into tyranny. Eventually we'll have government agents from the to-be established Department of Home Computer Security come into our homes once a week to inspect all of our computing devices. For our own protection, of course.

Indeed, but his sample size of 1 is just as statistically insignificant as GGP's.

Not if they work hand-in-glove with legislation granting them immunity.

Ok, so then what are your actions? Youre saying that you can use your judgement to justify foreign aggression? If so, then you can't begrudge them the right to fight back. If not, then you're bound to admit the injustice of your own nation's policy.
Your line of reasoning highlights the problem with public perceptions and why they can so easily be manipulated.