Actually there is evidence now that Bell lied and visited a patent office to view Greys patent application before Bell filed his own, In fact if Bell offered the same evidence today in a modern court he would have not been awarded the patent. Bell also avoided any recognition that he invented the telephone in his future years, maybe guilt was on his conscious,

Chief Wigim " The thieves are said to look like hippies and smell like a fast food restaurant....dam now I am hungry"

I have a tablet and a netbook and right now I hardly use the netbook unless I am at home. I think the issue is a tablet doesn't replace a laptop at home but if you are catching a bus/train to work it is an ideal compromise. The logic behind owning a tablet is really dependent on the owner having the time to use it and if they only use the tablet at home and they have a laptop then it is a waste of money in opinion.

Im betting sales in new zealand of proxy services with encrypted tunneling with exit points in Russia and Serbia are having a spike in sales. When I was a teenager with limited funds we used to swap blank tapes, today I am seeing gamers swapping files in bulk at lan parties thus totally bypassing all the *IAA on-line security. To subvert a star wars byline, the more you tighten your grip the more information flows through the gaps in your fingers.

If you want a great example of poor customer support within the android community take my HTC Desire, within 8 months of purchasing said handset brand new HTC decided to cease releasing any updates. Meanwhile my co-worker has a Nokia N series handset that is three years old that is still getting updates.

If he was a magical disabled unicorn who wanted an iphone inserted in to it's horn they would have done it

One can't help but imagine Irans space program consists of a monkey sitting in a huge slingshot thinking WTF!!

Add 2 x Microsoft Kinnects and you can not only scan the subject/item in 3D but make a copy of it and you can do all this with FOSS software.

Imagine in 10 years you break your car wing mirror, no worries scan it in and print a new one for $2 using recycled bottles with no shipping fees.

Sounds bogus to me especially the hardisk part of the claim. Any tech could tell you a good/cheap place to find rare earth magnets is in a used hardisk. If a highly magnetized rare earth magnet can't delete data that is sitting right next to the platters how the hell can a joist do the same that is meters/feet away.

If you want to have fun with a random facebook user visit an Apple store and it wont take long to find a machine with a facebook account still logged in. Some of the results can be very amusing

One small problem, the Australian research organisation know as the CSIRO owns the patents covering most of the functionality of WiFI

http://en.swpat.org/wiki/CSIRO_wifi_patent

Seems a fitting time to roll out the old Microsoft joke but with a twist

How many DHS analysts does it take to change a light bulb ?
None, because DHS defines darkness as the new standard

Under Australian law it is illegal to infer in any contract or license agreement that said agreement overrides "legislative law" , To do so allows said company to be fines up to $10,000 "per offence". Consumer law is very well defined in Australia and extremely complex, when I was working in the high court I was surprised by how many companies had their contracts/licenses thrown out and then have to face a huge volley of fines.

Err, you do realise last year Samsung was third when it came to the total quantity of patents awarded. FYI Apple isn't even in the top 10.

Looks pretty close.. http://www.suasnews.com/2010/07/421/afrl-bird-sized-uav-project/