Re: I live in Northern Ireland.
Thinking fast, the driver says, "Actually, I'm Jewish."
Is that Protestant Jewish or Catholic Jewish?
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> Were these patents found down the back of a filing cabinet during an office clear out? Why the timing?
They were in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign outside the door saying "Beware of Mac OSX 10.5". Had they ever thought of going into advertising?
> It may be time to remember that NSA's actiities were authorized under democratically passed laws and subject to a variety of judicial and internal controls intended to limit their scope.
It may also be time to remember that their actions have always been ultra vires.
Accuse Apple of piracy???
If Apple has "pirated" something, it's only something that the accusers have pirated from something that Apple hasn't produced yet. Once the Reality Distortion Field has been reconciled, we will see that Apple was truly the creator of the work, and the predecessor was the copy.
> the moon affects the menstrual cycle
"Menstrual" = of the moon. The moon affects the cycle of the moon.
(That the term "menstrual" is used to refer to another cycle that has close to the same period (pun intended) as the moon is a coinkidink - or possibly an evolutionary trait due to available light pre-artificial lighting.)
> In a just world one freely sells to the highest bidder. It works on eBay.
[emphasis mine]
If you offer the same items in multiple auctions, you sell at the final bid, you don't tell the purchaser "you can't buy because 'sjobs' bought another one of the same in a previous auction for more than your bid and now I can't accept any auction results less than that".
Correct, and it's because Apple does shenanigans like this that there's such a hatred of Apple.
> A reasonable design goal given the state of play half a decade ago when essentially no one had a touch keyboard.
The Sony Ericsson P800 came out a decade ago (2003), and its on-screen keyboard flipped case, and even keyboard character set depending on language. The outlined shift key to indicate case isn't so good because they're covered by thumbs!
I should have also added above, particularly with the London buses, that cameras have replaced the driver's periscope to the upper floor of the bus. Also in Dublin on the Luas trams, instead of having huge wing mirrors to see down the length of the tram, they're using wide-angle cameras instead, with a screen in the driver's cab placed about where the view from the mirrors would be. Reduces land acquisition costs by about 1.5-2 metres of width. And it's recordable, unlike the bus driver's periscope or the tram driver's wing mirrors.
"More cameras per city than anywhere else on the planet"? I can believe it. London has a lot of camera-intensive systems. Does any other city even come close to this level of surveillance?
Cameras inside every London bus (how many), and on the outside for bus lane infractions - and London has a LOT of buses. Cameras inside every tube/overground/DLR/Tramlink train and station. Cameras above every lane on (nearly) every gantry on the M25 (or have they covered the M4-M40 gap?). Cameras at the perimeter of the congestion charge zone. This all in addition to the town centre cameras, and all the private CCTV cameras, including the one in the pub where the editor (supposedly) is.