Receiving a Golden Handshake still better...
...than receiving a Golden Shower
(unless you're into that sort of thing)
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I think a lot of people find the thought of human-like aliens more re-assuring, rather than looking like the alien in Alien!
However suddenly coming across beings that look like you doesn't always work out too well, just ask the peoples of Africa, North/South America, sub-indian continent, Australasia and so on...
Be careful what you wish for
Easy way that most people can compare an iPad and a Galaxy Tab (powered off)
Take your widescreen monitor / TV as it currently sits/fixed to wall - that orientation is how you [typically] hold a Galaxy Tab
Now rotate it through 90 degree's - That's how you [typically] hold an iPad
Still look the same now?
"Forcing myself to look further than Lewis' traditional Light Blue/Dark Blue rant I found myself asking the question "Will the US Marines even bother to order off the initial production run of F-35s?"..."
No - they'll probably get obama to get cameron to buy the intial, very expensive, run so they can buy them cheaper in the 2020's...
(not that I disagree with your FUD title but you've not read it properly)
"In 40 per cent of the ...... risk of social unrest has increased /significantly/ since 2010"
This could mean that in the other 60% it's increased marginally since 2010 or dropped in 25% and risen slightly in 35% or <you get the drift>
It would have been better to provide details on the other 60% but that would likely fail the FUD test and that wouldn't do for them.
FAIL for the failure to explain the other 60% (not El Reg fault obvioulsy :) )
"Why do you think companies of all sorts are falling over themselves inventing spurious reasons for you to visit them on Facebook?"
That and the NSA / MI5 / MI6 / CIA etc have been dreaming of having this kind of "database" for years and now people are willingly putting any and all info about themselves online for them to search/profile etc.
"Ask the most prominent scientists about the origins of the big bang and then tell me believing in a God is any different."
I've always been an athiest but do enjoy this one.
Ask a person this "Would you say a good description of the big bang could be 'Let there be light'"
I'm just throwing it out there :)
It's not really an issue of if you use Spamhaus, it's the fact that other people do.
If you get put on a Spamhaus BL then you can find your company/customers not being able to send/receive email from large parts of the Internet.
I have always been against spammers but blocking an entire subnet (at a mimum a /24 but could have been a /21 or even a /16) due to ONE IP address is WAY over the top. It's the classic using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.
In this instance A2B did nothing wrong, they blocked the offending IP address. However this did not appease Spamhaus who did, effectively, blackmail them into blocking the entire subnet. A totally disproportionate response.
A2B BLOCKED the IP address (note SINGLE) that was identified by Spamhaus as sending the offending spam emails.
Spamhaus decided that wasn't good enough (who the fuck are they to judge) and demanded that the entire subnet be removed even thought there was NO EVIDENCE that any other IP within the range was being used to send spam.
That is outrageous and is certainly smacks of blackmail and it would seem Spamhaus (whether knowingly or not is unknown) are being used to stop TPB through "back door" methods.
Icon for John and Spamhaus
in the article you say "Really, that's all the iPhone 5 or iPhone 4S argument is about: form-factor. Had Apple announced a skinnier, aluminium-backed, bigger-screened iPhone, it would still have had the same internals as the 4S. Performance would be the same. Network connectivity would be the same."
Yes it would *but* all those now pissed-off journalists and analysts would be saying the most wonderful things about Apple because Apple would have stroked their ego's.
They [Apple] didn't and they [Journo's] aren't
Very reasonable point you made - How many people in this country get less than 1mb/s or even 512kb/s - gettings these people onto 2+mb/s should be the priority.
(I have no axe to grind on this as I get 20mb/s but I know of another family member who is on an exchange which only has ISDN available (128k bonded !)
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Failure is a relative word on this.
I don't know if Apple are already paying FRAND for these Samsung patents but lets assume they are not.
Whilst FRAND ensures a reasonable fee, there is likely wiggle room for Samsung to ask for the maximum permissable under these terms and if you apply this to every infringing Apple product ever sold (previously and in the future) it could add up to a very tidy sum (in the several billions perhaps). Given that it maybe that Apple decide to drop their other lawsuits around the world.
I and I'm pretty sure Samsung would not consider that outcome a failure