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Precisely - it's the user experience that puts Apple out ahead not cutting edge technology.

In fact their technology is and always has been (when did Mac-0S get real multi-tasking?) rather conservative.

What matters though is what the person signing the editors pay check thinks about myspace!

Thats the danger with print journalism. If you see a Fox news story that Obama easts babies you can pretty much guess the impartiality of the source.

If you read a tech story about Blue-ray not being very good do you know if the paper's parent company owns a study that is backing HD-DVD?

Technologies in their spring?

A BSD kernel, a gui from Next and a object orientated version of C from before C++ !

Technology-wise Apple basically takes a steam train, wraps a Bang+Olufson case around it and makes it emit the scent of roses!

Nice toys, very well made, but cutting edge technology doesn't underpin Apple's success.

That's what we need to make airline travel safer. The two pilots both fly with loaded handguns pointed at the head of the other pilot in case they turn out to be a crazy commie/terrorist/(delete as appropriate).

Except that in the US (unless you are at the airline's home base) the checkin+gate staff are probably on contract from some staffing agency or rented from the airport.

The 'Delta connection' flight you are on is sub-contracted out to a 2 man outfit with a single regional jet.

Pay and conditions are so poor that staff turnover is huge and the number of staff is reduced so that people barely have time to glance at the person.

It's one of the hidden costs of replacing the company security guard with the cheap outside agency.

Taken to extreme it would be like the Secret Service checking the president for a swiss army knife before letting him into the big red button room.

Typical - there's no contact info in the God's .sig

Suppose I want to serve him a writ?

So who does check the ID?

If it's not the super trained government appointed guardians of our safety - the clerk at the departure gate ?

Surely there should also be a TSA agent standing behind each pilot throughout the flight if they can't be sure of the pilots identity?

Then the recipient would have to first agree that storing the ino about this 'message being confidential' on a 3rd party website was accpetable - you would have to have click through EULAs on each email and make them different depending on the jurisdiction of the recipient.

Then how does he get on the fligth deck? If his ID isn't sufficient to avoid screening - but it is sufficient to allow him to sit in the front seats ?

So now the interests of the ISP are aligned with torrent downloaders - that should make things interesting.

When your ISP is doing the torrent anonymizing for you and caching the download on their servers.

Although you could patent a step in the manufacturing process or an improvement in the formula. That was the classic Edison stratergy for movie film, there were too many people with a claim to having invented film - so he patented the sprocket holes.

Although in the US you could patent the concept of a particular type of clothing being made from polartec, or even a method of selling it.