Why bother with tthe phone

Alternatively the people that buy these "revolutionary ideas " could simply walk around with a pair of underwear on their own heads.

Alternative solution

Rather than spray these robots with bullets it might make more sense to spray them with "paint" or drape a towel overs their eyes ( webcam).....

Blinding a robot renders it ll but useless **.

**( Unless they are also equiped with volumetric, heat detection or vibration detection sensors, then you would have to push them over or short circuit them)

A vetted security system - Facebook

Since when did Facebook authentication posses any weight ?.....

As far as I remember you only need an email address, active on that day, in order to create a FB account....

The scenarios are probably already in the creation :

1 : Purchase a multitude of cheap domain address......

2 : Create thousands of FB accounts using newly created email addresses which are managed on a "dodgy" server within an obscure country.

3 : Enter stolen credit card details into aformentioned FB accounts.

4 : Start buying a plenty or whenever required.

5 : Suppression of email server and email accounts.

6 : Goto step 1 or 2 according to stock.

Facebook is by no means a gauge of security or of existance....... it's just another middle man who will eventually want/require to be paid...

Run for the hills

Our societes are based upon financial transactions which involve no human interaction. (B)(M)illions of transactions per second which have the possibility of creating disasterous results for many of use should one of the algorithms fail.

Traders require faster and faster connexions and an increasing amount of transactions in order to obtain micro-centime profits on illusonary sales. Tha'ts just so sad and also frightening.....

I very much doubt that even traders understand how things really work today. They are basically playing the largest MMORPG in existence and they are using our money to do it......

Apples and Pears

This article is comparing front end applications to back end services, strange logic indeed.

Who the hell wants to hack streams of social networking chatter?

Obviously the SQL Servers and Server protocols are going to get attacked, this is after-all where the really interesting data lies.

<--- Fail, because this article did.

Question for the *nix crowd

Is MacOS on the same level of security as the major Linux distros ?

Phone numbers

The idea of providing Google with your phone number is not very appealing.

Business Plan

Will Jack White please also provide us with the details of the business plan that will allow for the "comeback" of said wonderfull life.

Big Business couldn't give shit about where there money comes from. They would be happy that everyone sat in caves.

Jack has forgotten that it is big business that pays his salary.

Being a rock star ( ex Rock star) does not entitle one to becoming the next philosophical guru. ( Dear Bono ,please take note)

Who actually buys office anyway ?

Serious question :

Obviously most people on El Reg will have Enterprise, MSDN copies.( Ok, the Windows crowd will)

Employees machines use Enterprise licences.

Student get it "free" from their university ( or LO or alternative).

Linux folks use LO or alternatives.

Pirates download it in torrents.

Grannies and Grandpas dont really need it ( well not many of them).

Teenagers have got more interesting things to do.

The unemployed wont buy such an expensive piece of software when notepad is usually OK.

So who is actually left and what actual percentage of the userbase does this relate to ?

Small clubs and associations ?

A very minor percentage of the working population ?

Obviously someone outside of the above list is buying it but is is very difficult to imagine who exactly.

Anyone have any stats or actual figures ?

<--- Paris doesn't need it, she once tried to classify her nail polish collection with Excel but it left coloured marks on the screen.....

Tizen are not alone

Samsung have become the heavyweight of the mobile market and as such can sway the balance.

If they backed a system with good hardware, cheaper phones, no spy ware or lock in, an App market that had few but serious apps then personally I would be happy to shift.

I only use a few common apps, standard telephony functions and Gps. I imagine that I am quite a typical user. My needs do not require a particular OS but they do require a stable OS.

If they would also include a 'garauntee' for updates then they might stand a chance of making some market penetration.

But like everything today this could end up being just another pipe dream.

I would like to see them suceed just for the sake of reducing the Google monopoly.

Skull and crossbones

With a cleverly designed logo they could call it the "AyePad".

What say ye Captain..,.

Salary increases in China ?

Would it not make more sense for the Chinese to outsource to India ?

Billion dollar profit ?

A Billion dollars of profit equates to 20 Million per week.

Obiously there are the usual overheads : salaries, services, providers, equipment etc.

Lets say just for argument that FB are making a 50% profit, which is probably vastly exagerated.

That means that this company, that sells nothing but your information and personal details has a "weekly" revenue of 40 Mllions Dollars.

Why does this make me feel so ill ?

Social Engineering, Company Laptops and Governments

I can imagine that attacking Facebook through its public interfaces is not a great idea.

However, targeting company laptops of specific employees is probably a far better idea, most notably for Governments and other Industrial Spies. It's just a matter of selecting the appropriate employees.

Proceed with caution

Apparetly there is also a womens versions, it display a ruler on the screen and a flashing band which reads "please insert"........

The accuracy of the app depends on the phone's form factor...

Please stop moaning about transat differences

Why does the subject of cost difference enter into every subject similar to this one.

The cost of living in the States is not on par with Europe.

Items are sold by manufacturers in relation to many things, the cost of living is one of them and it has to be taken into account in order that the local Apple workforce can also survive , locally.....

I am only using Apple as an example the same applies to many other companies.

There are probably a hundred other forums far more suited to this than an IT forum.....

Internet memes !!!!!

Are their not already enough illiterate people without adding crap like this.

If nothing else I suppose that it will allow the Chavs to communicate on their own level.

Planned maintenance

We have Avaya telephony platforms and I would say that they retain these figures. Outside of human error or telephony provider/operator problems I have never seen the systems go down. The systems do have problems but they can be taken care of without losing uptime.

It is important that the correct maintenance procedures are carried out and that "maintenance" downtime is not included in the 99.9%.

You must also remove "human error" for which the manufacturer cannot be held reponsable, unless of course it was one of their staff that made the error ( but that's another problem).

What I am trying to say is that in a few cases, albeit very few, these figures are actually achievable. Avaya's larger systems, just like larger IBM AS400s etc can have parts replaced in real-time ( hotplugging of almost anything) without having to shut the system down/reboot.. No downtime.....