At 16, he can drive......

Child endangerment? But at 16, he's legal to drive? And vote. And die for his country.

But Bulgarian Airbags are forbidden?

WTF?!

This is why we went Good

Apple has done some good things with OTA iOS updates but you're still (as posted earlier) confined to running an OS with weaknesses baked into them.

In a way, at least you can guarantee that an iOS device has the same flaws as all of the other ones. Apart from, that is, the ones no longer getting updates.

Your personal data is mostly your problem, we're protecting corporate data in a way we're happy with. And I guess now we'll have to strike off the chance for someone to use an iPhone 3GS as it's orphaned from this week on....

Relax, have a beer. It isn't going to get any better. You're always relying on someone else.

And I'm surprised that this article hasn't managed to get the trolls out, it seems that might have been part of the motivation in writing it....

Has WinRT been released...!?

Blimey, suing over something that does not exist yet, excellent.

Anyone touched this crap outside a devkit?

Kevin Rose

I'd say he is important to what Google brings to Social.

The question is will it be Digg 1.0 or Digg 4.0? I know Kevin was more hands-off towards the end of his time with Digg and mi.lk was well-received but who knows what the future holds.

I spend more time on G+ but would consider short-selling some FB stock....

It's laptops all the way for me

Yes, sometimes there is some compromise to make - but let's look at what I've had recently....

Personal: Dell M1330 XPS - nice design, form factor and only had the mobo replaced once under warranty.....! Copper mod in place, 4 years old and still running. Couple that my HP Touchpad running ICS and I'm good to go anywhere............I do have a pair of Dell Mini 9s that I don't use anymore....!

Work: Lenovo x220. At last Lenovo are delivering top quality again - I'd been through some T61/x61 paths to where I am now and I love the thing - I'd almost get one to replace my XPS but there is something on the horizon.....

Coming soon.....Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga. I just like what it can do - I want to go from 5 hours battery life on the x220 to 10 or more.

Whatever the drawbacks, I want to compute where I want. Cables optional. With 18 hours of commuting every week, I could not be without the x220 for work and the Touchpad for relaxing on the way home.

A beer for the throwback article. I do remember touching a Compaq Portable PC once: http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/pc/h/cppc.jpg

why limit territories

I had to friggin' sideload. FFS Google, just flip the switch all the way on....

Dear Media Industry - meet 21st Century

Honestly, I can remember the early days of DVD when I bought a region-free DVD and, over about 6 years, bought 800 DVDs.

Many in the early days were played on my DVD player before they were finished in the movie theatres where I live. Over the years, this improved as I am sure the studios sat up and noticed that regional sales were higher in certain regions (which would ironically also charge less than local markets). I think releases on DVD and BD are actually quite close together now so there is no need to have region-free any more.

The refusal to move to a 21st century model and deliver content quickly and cheaply to people in a manner in which they want to consume it. We are the decision makers, not them. We are saving them money in the long run with fewer factories needed, fewer delivery trucks, fewer overheads......as long as they embrace it not try to fight it. #occupyhollywood

Two more things:

1. If you treat the world as segmented and make your consumer feel 2nd rate, they will use the globalisation of the Internet against you. So.......stop.

2. If piracy gets J-Lo off my TV screen due to those Fiat ads, I'm off to TPB to download everything she's every mad and encourage you to do so too.

She looks pretty good for 40

I wonder if she'd fancy a 42-year-old toyboy ;-)

Animals would behave better

How is it that there are more and more incidents like this which feature supposedly intelligent people?

I can be an idiot but you'd never see me do anything like this, drunk or not. The most action you'd see from me during a flight where I was drunk would be to offload fluid in the toilet.

Maybe it's just that I know how to behave and can handle my sherry.

My personal viewpoint is that this should not reflect on RIM no matter what. These people don't need managing or telling how to behave (or they shouldn't) so how can we hold the falling messaging manufacturer responsible? The people are. Period.

Still too expensive

HP Touchpads had to be priced at least 30% cheaper to shift.

But my goodness, it's a milestone that the Playbook could become useful!!

What it fails to state is this

The Swiss market would gladly pay for a modern, flexible system of distribution. It's a multi-cultural society with 3 (4) main languages across the country and many, many foreigners (I'm one of them).

If those providing content moved to a modern distribution system matching what the consumer wants (not what the cable and other companies want) then the 33% would largely begin paying for what they consume. We're talking about getting the latest Dexter episode on the same day around the globe - for something like 99 cents per episode.

I've effectively replaced my DVR with downloaded shows. I'd be happy to not have to download them but stream them and pay as I consume. But, alas, I'm somewhere in the 3rd tier of consumer bands and frankly this means waiting (not acceptable in today's age) and paying lots for one or two things. Hell, I want to build my own channel - it's what I was doing for years with Sky.

I actually rarely watch live TV now. Kids' shows, mainly (no, not for me) and football. And I'm fairly typical of my expat friends and colleagues.

This does not mean that the Swiss law system supports a perceived "theft" but rather tolerates it if the offender is not making money from doing so. If I started burning out DVDs of things I downloaded and sold them, their stance would change. It's not the lawless society some think (looking at posts) nor is it a haven for evil dictators and their billions. For example, September 12th 2001 saw the whole bin Laden family no longer able to bank with Swiss banks - before then, they were fine.....until you're proven guilty of a crime, you're considered innocent.....does that happen anymore in the UK?

can't the make it Kinect-friendly?

Double word score if it can get my gestures when using Lotus Notes and IE too!

This should be compulsory for all stories

Do you need international Playmobile variations to support your "collection"? Let me know, I'll email you some :)

This would be like the TSA for the Internet

Bad guys don't play to our rules. So here's what'll happen:

1. The majority of Internet users will be penalised

2. The bad guys will continue to get away with their crimes

3. If it becomes reality, trade in such "IDs" will be great. Stolen or just sold by the "owner"

4. Let's face it, the web of trust in something "simple" like TLS is crumbling. If we can't make HTTPS work perfectly, how in buggary are we going to get hundreds of jurisdictions to mandate the uptake of such a scheme? How would it be protected from abuse?

Fail, whale.

The Touchpad issue, in short

You can't charge iPad prices for something that's not an iPad. It is the brand and class leader. Does it do pretty much the same thing? Yes for my use-case - videos, read files and news, surf. Hey, it was $149! I got 4 for the price of one iPad :-)

I like webOS a lot bar the fact that nobody will permit me to buy apps as I'm not in an officially-supplied territory. There's always Preware and some other sources to help, though.

My message to HP is this: spec it right, price it right (i.e. below iPad) and monetise elsewhere too. Mobile usage is going to soar, are you going to miss the boat? Win8 might help you too as you'll not be last to the party anymore with your OS (not that I think webOS is bad at all).

Congratulations to raising awareness

I never knew about this site. So a heartfelt THANK YOU to those wanting to block it.

Am I alone? Doubt it! Oh and there are lots of tunnelling sites on the Internet, ctunnel, vtunnel....and that's beyond what seems to be happening elsewhere.

Fail and move to China?

It's not a big issue

Honestly, it's a consumer device with ease of use first and security some way behind. It's a single user environment so security is never going to be that hot.

It's a double-edged sword

If an IP address is personally-identifiable data then getting it to prosecute someone should be difficult (i.e. it must be protected).

If an IP address is not considered personally-identifiable data then it cannot, should not and must not be used to try and identify a person.

Sounds like a win-win to me. I'm off to reboot my cable modem (aka turn it off for a few hours and cross my fingers :D)

A Legend in his Lifetime - and more

Steve was annoying, aloof and obnoxious. He was also clever, charming and revolutionary.

If you take that last word, "revolutionary", we have to say he's repeatedly been that. From the early days forming Apple with Woz to today, he's been an influencer and he's changed the way we computer many times over.

He has been so driven that he threatens the dumbest computer component we all use today - the keyboard. Bravo.

For what it's worth, I have a couple of Apple products but, maybe due to the success of the Apple consumer products, I avoid them. But that's me trying to be an individual and not one of the sheeple (not saying that's wrong, by the way).

We would not be where we are today without Steve. He's been THE influencer of our generation.

I have, in my mind's eye, an image of Steve somewhere....sitting with his iPhone5 thanking the Lord for not having to suffer AT&T coverage anymore...!

RIP, Steve, I raise a beer to you; you will _never_ be forgotten.

This patent bullshit is bullshit

Rule 1. If you make a patent, you must make the product that uses the thing you patented.

Rule 2. People can have the same idea at the same or different times. Just because you patented having a shit in 1920 doesn't mean I have to pay to go potty in 2011.

Patents are going to kill developments. They simply should not be permitted to be sold without the product being still produced by the purchaser.

Lodsys and the rest of you patent mungers - GFY. I mean......in-app purchases are like the wheel - my 2-year-old could invent the wheel :-p

Activations?

I tried 4 different ROMs in my first two weeks of Androidness - do each count?

Also, I fully expect RIM to move to a software solution within 6-12 months. If not, they will marginalise themselves.....and there is no security with a corporate-connected single-user device that is not a BlackBerry right now.

Climb aboard or perish, I say.

I only got the "if you got spam" message from them

which frankly, in the absence of any spam which I could detect claiming to be Travelodge, was spam.

Oh, irony.......

Looking at their released torrents.......

.......it really is low-hanging fruit that has largely been plucked by them. If, for example, you find your IP address in their "Silly routers.txt", you can clearly understand that you're sillier than they are.

And the first thing I did when downloading their torrent is to scan the files with more than one AV engine - I must not have gotten the version with the malware.....plus I'm very careful about what I'm opening - my scope to look at this stuff is very limited and has as yet resulted in no concerns for me or my company....

Either scale it and run it properly or outsource it

Even my home win2k8 environment is all on UPS.....! And I don't have SBS2011 on it yet but shortly......

With a proper backup solution and proper DR Readiness, you're sorted.

If I was running this at work and something bad happened, I'd go from scratch and promise as much back over 4 weeks as possible. Oh and the PO for the investment would be signed before then.

It's either business critical or it is not.

Why the fcuk indeed

TrueCrypt is free if they're really worried.

Why oh why does any business (or individual) with a laptop not encrypt the contents. Completely.

At least there's some security by obscurity - Mrs Moggin's corrective procedure for arse grapes will take a while to find.... :-o

RSA - do you still want business?

Allegedly, for multi-factor authentication with VMware, I'm forced to use your compromised technology.

Hello Cryptocard, I say.

Shame on RSA for keeping us in the dark and feeding us bullshit (or nothing, actually).

I love it

"It's alright, some people have duplicate accounts so it's not really 78 million people affected"

I'll remember that for my next security incident.....oh hang on, joke alert icon. So do these people really believe the crap coming from their mouths?

It would be much more credible if they were simply contrite and admitted that this should never have happened. Don't they do VM and web app scanning?

Don't speak too soon

I for one am glad I used fake name, address (even country) and DoB. Oh and no credit card.

Anyone else happy 'bout that?

That's my wife.....

It's 10% off, I've saved you money!

I suppose 10% of a lot is ....... a lot that she's saved me. I'm so lucky.... ;-)

Was he charged with "going equipped"?

Maybe someone stole his backpack and contents and planted them at the scene?

It's probably much less hassle inside....ergo his desire to be there.

A book for many not to read......

The World According to Clarkson

I'm sure plenty of national stereotypes are not in the book..... ;-)

The abuse doled out to the ex-convicts in the same episode was received in the spirit it was meant. It's the spirit of Top Gear......the face on Hamster as he took off in the Tranny was hilarious.

It's like the opposite of IDGAS - more like I Give Too Much Of A Shit.

I enjoy TG for what it is - an entertainment show with well-positioned cute chicks in the audience.