I wonder if that's why my credit card was flagged by the bank. I got the email (which said cards weren't accessed) when it was known, but my card was only flagged last week or so. Frustrating if so.
Posts by ZeroP
32 publicly visible posts • joined 30 Jul 2012
Three million Adobe accounts hacked? Sorry, make that 38 MILLION
NSA gets burned by a sysadmin, decides to burn 90% of its sysadmins
Australian Parliament issues summons to Apple, Microsoft, Adobe
Samsung mobes pwned by ANY APP, thanks to chip code hole

The troll(s) are out in force today, like anyone convinced by a "coward" hadn't already made up their mind.
It's these sort of mistakes that make devices cooler in some ways, like when the PS3 first spilled its guts and had me all interested, until Sony wrecked it by pulling features that they couldn't maintain. Someone interested in pillaged features with a shiny bow on it like what Apple puts out would never understand. Obviously dangerous in the wrong hands, but then if you're dumb enough to install whatever goes on a smartphone, you're probably in the wrong market.
Apple's new 'Assembled in USA' iMac a bear to upgrade, repair
German city dumping OpenOffice for Microsoft
Blizzard blasts 'frivolous' security lawsuit
French cops cuff man over €500K Android Trojan scam
A lesser-known new feature in iOS 6: It's tracking you everywhere
Woz labels Apple 'arrogant' over iPhone size inadequacy
Steve Jobs is STILL DEAD
Re: What about...
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=pancreatic-cancer-type-jobs
"Jobs had a rare form of the cancer, known as neuroendocrine cancer, which grows more slowly and is easier to treat, explains Leonard Saltz, acting chief of the gastrointestinal oncology service at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. "Survival for many years or even decades with endocrine cancer is not surprising." For that type, the sort that Jobs had, "survival is measured in years, as opposed to pancreatic cancer, which is measured in months."
"When you have a pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor, that is substantially different from pancreatic cancer," Saltz says."
"One form of treatment that is not recommended for most pancreatic cancer is a liver transplant. Media observers surmised that the transplant Jobs received in 2009 had been necessary because the cancer had spread to his liver. And although liver failure is a common cause of death for pancreatic cancer patients, because the liver is close to the pancreas and often gets invaded by the spreading cancer, getting a new one "is not an accepted standard form of treatment," he says, citing a lack of evidence to show that it works."
You can not seriously be suggesting that alternative medicine in any way helped his condition, I'm not saying he would necessarily live to park in another handicap space, but not only did he ignore rational advice, he prevented someone else receiving a replacement organ. I have less reason to think that man was even half a decent person.
Tim Cook: 'So sorry for Apple's crap maps app - try Bing or Nokia'
Google axes YouTube attack vid after Brazilian fuzz uncuff chief
iOS 6 maps can't find Sydney Apple Store
Microsoft bod dreams up 'Star Trek holodeck' games console

Re: Madness.....
Not to nitpick, but the holodeck uses similar technology to the ship's shields to simulate matter and build a world around the user, the user doesn't move very far physically, but the world is moved around them. Evidently, the ship's computer is able to determine what would injure or kill a person and not let it do the intended damage, based on the settings the user has entered.
Apple threatens to ruin peace worldwide with voice-controlled iMacs

Re: Strawman
From the same source (apparently, you should have mentioned, by the way:
http://www.iusmentis.com/patents/obviousness/
"The second way to attack a claim is on the basis of inventive step. This requires a combination of documents which describes all elements from a claim. The next step is to argue why a skilled person would (not merely could) combine those documents so as to arrive at the claimed invention. In this argumentation it is not permitted to apply hindsight. You must base the reasoning on the situation the day before the date of filing of the patent application and the knowledge a skilled person had on that day."
Voice control has been around for ages, getting it to take that next step seems like an obvious next step to me.
Now Apple wants Samsung S III, Galaxy Notes off the shelves too
Apple's patent insanity infects Silicon Valley
Apple, Samsung blast away in patent case closing arguments
Nokia CEO: No shift from Windows Phone
Apple 'offered Samsung $30-per-mobe' patent licence truce

Re: I see the resident Fandroids wouldn't recognise a negotiating position
The only information I saw of Samsung "admitting" they copied the iPhone were just slides sizing up against the iPhone. If they admitted to outright copying (and I still don't see the resemblance beyond basic shape...), why bother fighting it?
Apple, Samsung whip out mobe sales in patent trial showdown
Oz regulator tells telly-makers to mind their language
Judge rejects Apple's calls for Samsung censure

@MrXavia Re: Of course...
I concur, having sold both iPhones and Samsung Galaxy Models S-S3, as well as Galaxy Tabs, I don't see the likeness beyond the general shape. The Nexus lines even less so. Vocal Apple fans still have loads of evidence to actually cite (for once) before parroting the "wholesale copying" angle they keep parading about.
I HAVE had people mix the generic name of tablet with iPad, but I make sure to clarify where there is any doubt. If that's Apple's version of losing sales, they're not doing too great a job of being distinctive over generic design.
Still waiting for Apple to sue Intel as another one of their suppliers for promoting a similar rival to their Macbooks...