"This isn't a stylus to write on a device. This is a stylus to write for example on a sheet of paper and having the results transmitted to your computer."
In other words; it's an ordinary computer mouse in a different form factor.
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"...whoever it is who is currently their head of IT will soon be looking for a job, I reckon."
Or verry quietly about to get a big raise and promotion to keep him from going public with the emails of his own system:
Application for Disaster recovery plan:
DENIED! Too costly.
Funds to ensure server redundancy:
DENIED! Too costly.
Funds to update backups and ensure they're viable:
DENIED! Too costly.
Funds and personnel to do security checks/hardening:
DENIED! Too costly.
"Just about any biometric other than DNA can be faked"
Problem is, modern DNA testing isn't that reliable:
http://www.marymeetsdolly.com/blog/index.php?/archives/925-Unreliable-evidence-A-look-at-DNA-forensics.html
Tl:dr: 10 to 13 points is the normally accepted baseline for identity, but that has been called into question.
IRL: it's often impossible to use DNA found at the scene to get more than 9 matching points.
So most courts say 'Good enough.', even though it's only narrowed the match to dozens, even hundreds of individuals.
(Just get an 'expert' to testify, "Totally Accurate!", and the jury accepts that.)
Still Tl;dr: DNA evidence that is used as infallible, actually doesn't prove the accused did it.
"Maybe, just maybe, real crime is not the agenda?"
Of course they're after 'real' criminals!
It's just that, in the US at least, there's been enough laws passed to make everything you do a potential felony!
http://www.threefeloniesaday.com/Youtoo/tabid/86/Default.aspx
Therefore, monitor everyone, because they're all felons!
"What tablet computers have they been building for about fifteen years?"
Maxwell Smart voice "Wouldja believe Twenty three years, chief?" /Maxwell Smart voice
http://readwrite.com/2012/10/25/meet-microsofts-first-surface-tablet-from-21-years-ago (two year old article)
And they've tried (and failed) with every version since.
"The odd thing is that many motorists seem to have difficulty seeing cyclists who do have lights, even though they can spot hundreds without lights."
It's the way the brain interprets things.
You see the road the bike's headlight is illuminating, you see the twinkly tail light/reflector on the rear.
What the brain tends to completely ignore is the bike and rider sitting in the dark right between them!
I knew a guy that came up with a solution that I've tried and it works: Put a second headlight on the back of the bike, facing forward, so it illuminates the bike and rider.
Sounds stupid, but you'd be amazed at much more visible you are as a bike rider at night!
Well, 'cracker' is a racial epithet in the US, that's why the press avoids it.
I'd propose calling them 'diddlers' instead, but that has gained sexual connotations as well as its older meanings of time wasting, fraud and tinkering with things.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/diddle
"Everything is exactly as it should be. Not a single surprise! Not a single bone thrown at us!!"
DESPONDENCY!
Nah, that'll just mean they're on the right track, and have to work harder to learn more, instead of throwing out current theory and starting over.
(Boffins are people too, and some people hate the thought of hard work just keeping the same old-same old going.)
Ah, but you're not looking at it from a marketeer's angle! (Lucky you!)
Ten pages of comments? Who cares if they hate it, they're interacting with our new interface! Page hits up! More eyeballs to sell to advertisers! Success!
Now, if nobody'd posted a word about it, and hits on the site dropped off like an elephant's arse, the new look would've been history within 12 hours or less.
"the only safe copy is a paper copy"
You mock it, but Sony Media'd be SOL right now without paper, wouldn't they? (Or have they got the system back up yet? Press has been quiet on that.)
And I seem to recall Russian spooks have turned back to paper for security.
Face it, online, or 'The cloud' as they call it these days for fiscal gain, is Murphy's natural habitat.
Here's a simple little experiment that'll give you an idea of why wind's a problem to rocket launches.
Get a broom, and balance it on your finger vertically, brush end up. This is similar to how a rocket balances on its thrust.
Now try this outside on a breezy day... much harder!
" OK, how about it harpoons your leg, and avoids bounceage that way. I'm sure none of us would mind a small leg wound, in order to save our precious mobiles."
Um, how about a simple lanyard connecting the phone to your pocket?
Then if you drop it, it just ends up slapping your knees.
Most people already seem to use it like a pocketwatch, might as well dress it like one, eh?
I apologize for adding a serious comment to your query, but I value mt epidermal integrity highly, since I'm allergic to harpoons.
(They HURT!)
"In as much as the accused witch has writ knowledge most profane and occult.
Then entrusted said knowledge to a poppet that willfully resists the Church and wit of the magistrate to examine such.
The poppet shall be consumed in pyre, and the witch shall be pilloried for not less than three days.
Then should said witch refuse to recant the evil ways and confess. The witch shall be hanged by the grace of God Most Merciful. AMEN."
But there's worse to fear.
This is Disney.
They have another blockbusting franchise right now.
Think... crossovers.
They're probably planning to have Wolverine in it... With lightsabre claws!
(Nobody knows his true origin or how old he really is... )