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Things to do on an Elevator: 1) CRACK open your briefcase or handbag, peer Inside and ask “Got enough air in there?” 2) STAND silent and motionless in the corner facing the wall without getting off. 3) WHEN arriving at your floor, grunt and strain to yank the doors open, then act as if you’re embarrassed when they open themselves. 4) GREET everyone with a warm handshake and ask him or her to call you Admiral. 5) MEOW occasionally. 6) STARE At another passenger for a while. Then announce in horror: “You’re one of THEM” - and back away slowly 7) SAY -DING at each floor. 8) SAY “I wonder what all these do?” And push all the red buttons. 9) MAKE explosion noises when anyone presses a button. 10) STARE, grinning at another passenger for a while, then announce: “I have new socks on.” 11) WHEN the elevator is silent, look around and ask: “Is that your beeper?” 12) TRY to make personal calls on the emergency phone. 13) DRAW a little square on the floor with chalk and announce to the other passengers: “This is my personal space.” 14) WHEN there’s only one other person in the elevator, tap them on the shoulder, then pretend it wasn’t you. 15) PUSH the buttons and pretend they give you a shock. Smile, and go back for more. 16) ASK if you can push the button for other people but push the wrong ones. 17) HOLD the doors open and say you’re waiting for your friend. After a while, let the doors close and say “Hi Greg, How’s your day been?” 18) DROP a pen and wail until someone reaches to help pick it up, then scream: “That’s mine!” 19) BRING a camera and take pictures of everyone in the lift. 20) PRETEND you’re a flight attendant and review emergency procedures and exits with the Passengers. 21) SWAT at flies that don’t exist. 22) CALL out “Group hug” then enforce it.

A man had just settled into his seat next to the window on the plane when another man sat down in the aisle seat and put his black Labrador Retriever in the middle seat next to the man. The first man looks very quizzically at the dog and asks why the dog is allowed on the plane. The second man explained that he is a DEA agent and that the dog is a "sniffing dog". "His name is Sniffer and he's the best there is. I'll show you once we get airborne, when I put him to work." The plane takes off, and once it has leveled out, the agent says: "Watch this." He tells Sniffer to "search". Sniffer jumps down, walks along the aisle, and finally sits very purposefully next to a woman for several seconds. Sniffer then returns to its seat and puts one paw on the agent's arm. The agent says, "Good boy", and he turns to the man and says: "That woman is in possession of marijuana, so I'm making a note of her seat number and the authorities will apprehend her when we land." "Say, that's pretty neat" replies the first man. Once again, the agent sends Sniffer to search the aisles. The Lab sniffs about, sits down beside a man for a few seconds, returns to its seat, and this time, he places TWO paws on the agent's arm. The agent says, "That man is carrying cocaine, so again, I'm making a note of his seat number for the police." "I like it!" says his seat mate. The agent then told Sniffer to "search" again. Sniffer walked up and down the aisles for a little while, sat down for a moment, and then came racing back to the agent, jumped into the middle seat and proceeded to poop all over the seat. The first man is really grossed out by this behavior and can't figure out how or why a well-trained dog would act like that, so he asks the agent, "What's going on?" The agent nervously replied, "He just found a bomb!"

Two fellas are fishing in a boat under a bridge. One looks up and sees a funeral procession starting across the bridge. He stands up, takes off his cap, and bows his head. The procession crosses the bridge and the man puts on his cap, picks up his rod and reel, and continues fishing. The other guy says, "That was touching. I didn't know you had it in you." The first guy responds, "Well, I guess it was the thing to do - after all, I was married to her for 40 years."

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Microsoft will likely release an 8 inch Surface RT 2 tablet after the larger models are released. Paul Thurrott's SuperSite for Windows has put together a list of Windows 8.1 and Windows RT 8.1 tablets that are slated to arrive sometime during this half of 2013. Several of these have already been verified like the cool Transformer Book Trio from Asus, but the list also reveals that Microsoft is working on three next-generation tablets, one of which is a "mini" that appears to compete directly with Google, Amazon and Apple. Thurrott admits that he has little information to go on regarding the Surface "mini" tablet, but the device will reportedly arrive a bit later than the Surface Pro 2 and Surface RT 2 tablets. The device will reportedly sport an 8 inch screen and a Qualcomm processor, meaning Microsoft will ultimately release two branded Windows RT 8.1 tablets and one Windows 8.1 model. As for the Surface RT 2 tablet, this 10.6 inch device will supposedly be based on Nvidia's Tegra 4 chip (he says "next-gen" Tegra) and sport a Full HD ClearType screen. The tablet will also have a new white color, VaporMg casing, front and rear-facing cameras, an integrated two-position kickstand, Bluetooth 4.0, presumably Wireless AC connectivity, a full-sized USB 3.0 port, a microSD card slot for up to 64 GB of expanded storage, HDMI output and the included Office Home & Student 2013 RT suite. He also noted that Microsoft has removed the "RT" branding. This is likely to shake off all the negativity surrounding this ARM-based build of Windows 8 that's built up since the platform's debut last year (the $900M write off didn't help either). Microsoft blamed customer confusion for the lack of sales, but removing the RT label could cause even more chaos for customers who don't know the difference between an ARM-based chip and an x86-based chip. With the "RT" label, there's at least some hope that consumers understand that their desktop programs won't install and execute on ARM-based architecture. As for the Surface Pro 2, the tablet will obviously be a bit meatier, cramming a fourth-generation Intel Core i5 processor behind a 10.6 inch ClearType Full HD screen. This model will supposedly have front and rear-facing cameras (720p LifeCam was mentioned), a digital Pro Pen, Bluetooth 4.0, Wireless AC connectivity, various RAM options and the same ports found on the RT tablet. This model will supposedly measure 0.53 inches thick, whereas the RT model will be around 0.37 inches thin. The Power Cover featuring a keyboard and external battery will supposedly launch sometime after the two tablets. Naturally, everything seen here regarding the Microsoft-branded tablets is unofficial chatter. The Redmond company actually won't come clean with its next-generation Surface plans until September 23. That makes sense given Windows 8.1 and Windows RT 8.1 won't officially launch until October 18, a date Microsoft will likely make for its 10 inch Surface 2 tablets as well. Read more @ http://www.tomshardware.com/news/microsoft-surface-2-surface-mini-tegra-4-windows-8.1,24242.html

French newspaper L'Express has published a memo it says comes from Christophe Chantepy, chief of staff to French prime minister Jean-Marc Ayrault, and which recommends French cabinet ministers stop using smartphones for phone calls because they are not secure. The paper's report includes three images of the memo, one for each of its pages. Native French speaker Elodie Quievre, who works in the office where Vulture South camps, was kind enough to translate all three and we rammed L'Express' report through Google and Bing to help out. Dated August 19th, the memo opens by referring obliquely to recent Snowden-related events and suggesting the make now an ideal time for to “remind elementary rules which must be applied within the administration.” Those rules state the following: BYOD is forbidden Mobile phones are a bad idea: landline phones secured by Thales' TEOREM technology for voice calls are far better idea Smartphones should be secured by French spook house ANSSI before being used for anything ANSSI will make sure you encrypt everything TXT? Fuggedaboutit! Intranet-based secure email is mandatory for even low-level secrets Computers and phones should be in the same room as ministers when overseas, and beware snooping when abroad Twelve-character passwords please, using letters and numbers, changed every six months and use different passwords for personal and work devices please! Are you sure that attachment is safe to click on? Don't unless you are. Cabinet ministers are busy folks who may not encounter basic infosec advice often, so the suggestions in the document don't look like evidence France has been caught with its pants down. The mere fact the memo was issued, and the fact it says it will be backed up by an official ANSSI edict, does however show that Edward Snowden's revelations have made at least one nation feel it is time to get the basics right among a user population that represents an obvious target. Read more @ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/09/13/french_ministers_told_to_use_only_secure_comms_postprism/

Marissa Mayer, that I like very much in her CEO role @ Yahoo, was really honest and perhaps hers was the first declaration of this kind that we have ever heard in an official contest. She was on stage on Wednesday at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference when Michael Arrington asked her about NSA snooping. He wanted to know what would happen if Yahoo just didn't cooperate. He wanted to know what would happen if she were to simply talk about what was happening, even though the government had forbidden it. "Releasing classified information is treason. It generally lands you incarcerated," she said, clearly uncomfortable with the turn of the conversation. She also explained that when the government comes calling wanting information on Yahoo users, the company scrutinizes each request and "we push back a lot on requests." But "we can't talk about those things because they're classified," she said. This has been going on long before her reign, too, she said: "I'm proud to be part of an organization that from the very beginning in 2007, with the NSA and FISA and PRISM, has been skeptical and has scrutinized those requests. In 2007 Yahoo filed a lawsuit against the new Patriot Act, parts of PRISM and FISA, we were the key plaintiff. A lot of people have wondered about that case and who it was. It was us ... we lost. The thing is, we lost and if you don't comply it's treason." Read more @ http://www.businessinsider.com/marissa-mayer-its-treason-to-ignore-the-nsa-2013-9

We're usually quite skeptical when it comes to leaked phone parts, especially those that just show a new color, but this one seems fairly reliable. Courtesy of the same Sina Weibo user who previously showed us a blue HTC One (which has since been announced along with its mini counterpart), we're now looking at what appears to be the front-half of a gold-colored One. Call it impeccable timing, but given the August 12th date stamp on the part, chances are HTC also had this planned some time ago. In fact, a 24-Carat gold One already exists. In addition to the leakster's track record, the hand-written marks on the parts lend credence to their authenticity. The One series' designer Justin Huang (who's sadly in a bit of trouble right now) previously told us that the letters grade the form of the front-side frame, in order to help pick matching parts. It's also worth pointing out that we've yet to come across any fake custom HTC One parts in the Huaqiangbei market, which is likely because of the difficult manufacturing and disassembly process. That said, the phone's relatively lower demand than, say, the iPhones and Samsung devices may be a bigger deterrent for those part makers. Let's see if this new color option will change HTC's course. Read more @ http://www.engadget.com/2013/09/13/gold-htc-one-part-leaked-in-china/

Promotion aimed at selling Surface RT units ahead of upgrade In addition to slashing the price by $150 -- making the entry-level model available for as little as $350 -- Microsoft is again attempting to persuade buyers to convert to its troubled Surface RT tablet in a new promotion, this time offering iPad users a $200 Microsoft Store gift card to trade-in their Apple tablets. The card can be used for any MS Store product, including the far-more-popular Xbox One, and the promotion ends on October 27 -- shortly after the company plans to release an upgraded version of the RT. The offer gives traders a flat $200 for qualifying "gently used" iPad 2, third- or fourth-generation iPads. If applied to a base-model Surface RT, it would drop the price after trade-in to as little as $150. The company has also been trying to dump the tablets to schools in an unrelated promotion. The offer comes as Microsoft continues a TV ad campaign that pokes fun at the iPad for the lack of a kickstand, and for not having USB ports. The entire Surface line, however, including the Windows 8-running Surface Pro, has failed to catch on with the public. Microsoft recently had to swallow a $900 million write-off on the products, and analysts are expecting more losses on it in the next quarterly report. Microsoft is even being sued by investors over the Surface RT debacle, with accusations that executives made "materially false and misleading statements" about its success and lack thereof. The company has lost some $34 billion in market valuation over the fiasco. It plans to address some of the criticisms of its Surface tablets with an upcoming new version, expected to be revealed later this month or early next month -- sometime near the rumored announcement date of the next iPad models. The next Surface is said to sport a 1080p (1920x1080) display, a redesigned kickstand, longer battery life and a Tegra 4 processor among other changes. Significantly, rumors say the company plans to remove the term "RT" from the next Surface, even though the consumer model will continue to use Windows RT for its operating system. Read more @ http://www.electronista.com/articles/13/09/12/promotion.aimed.at.selling.surface.rt.units.ahead.of.upgrade/

One of the biggest features that Apple announced on new iPhone 5S during its event earlier this week was the Touch ID system. Apple has now offered more details on Touch ID that may help some that are concerned about privacy feel better. Apple says that the scanner doesn't store actual images of the user's fingerprint on the device. Instead, the ID system stores "fingerprint data" which remains encrypted inside the iPhone’s 64-bit A7 processor. The Wall Street Journal reports that even if someone cracked the encryption chip, it would be highly unlikely that they could reverse engineer someone's fingerprint from the digital signature. Apple also says that it won't allow third-party applications to use the fingerprint scanner for the time being, and people who use Touch ID also have to create a passcode as a backup. One important aspect of the Touch ID system is that the passcode must be used to unlock the phone if the device is rebooted or hasn't been unlocked and 48 hours. With all that said, the iPhone fingerprint scanner doesn't work perfectly. For instance, testers have said that the device doesn't work well if your fingers are damp from sweat, water, or lotion. Apple even went so far as to point out that if a criminal hacked off your finger, they would be unable to unlock your phone. Apple says the Touch ID sensor searches for vitality signs to ensure that the finger is attached to the hand of a living person. Read the full article @ http://www.dailytech.com/iPhone+5S+Fingerprint+Scanner+Details+Surface+Sweaty+Fingers+Not+Allowed/article33365.htm

The iPhone 5S announcement this week was punctuated with a lot of specs and buzzwords. Much of it centered around the new Touch ID fingerprint scanner and the 64-bit processor. But the most intriguing to me was the camera advancements. Apple has been putting a major focus on the camera in the iPhone for a couple of years now. A recent Apple ad touted that more people take pictures with the iPhone than any other camera. And a while back the iPhone became the number one camera on the photo sharing site Flickr and it has never lost its crown. Despite the proliferation of point-and-shoot cameras with impressive technology and ever-cheaper DSLRs, the smartphone is and will probably remain the primary camera for a lot of people. Unfortunately, cameras from many other phone companies like Samsung and Motorola simply don’t match up to the quality of images coming out of the iPhone. I’ve tried many, many different Android devices over the years which promised better images but none have delivered. The only real smartphone contender in the camera space is Nokia, which is doing some great stuff with the Lumia line. But where Nokia is pushing the pixel-count boundaries with the 41 megapixel Lumia 1020, Apple has chosen to go in a different direction. The sensor The sensor in the iPhone 5S remains at 8 megapixels, which is a bold choice given that competitors like Nokia are shooting for the moon as far as pixel count is concerned. But, as with many things, the sheer number of pixels is not as important as the quality of those pixels, and that’s what Apple has focused on here. The individual photo receptors that correspond to a ‘pixel’ in your image have been enlarged to 1.5 microns to present more surface area for photons to strike. The iPhone 5, like many other smartphones of its generation, featured a 1.4-micron pixel size. Think of this as holding a thimble in a rain storm to try to catch water. The bigger your thimble, the easier it is to catch more drops in a shorter amount of time. This will also aid light gathering and should improve both color saturation and noise (or grain) levels in images. Notably, the competing HTC One bests these specs with 2.0-micron pixels and an f2 aperture, but features a sensor with half the resolution at 4 megapixels and an odd 16:9 ratio for still images. But in shootouts, the iPhone 5 still won out in most situations with subtler and more accurate color. That’s likely due to the fact that Apple also designs its own ISP (image signal processor) and fine tunes it to work with its hardware. In order to accommodate the larger pixel size, the ‘active surface area’ of the sensor has been increased 15%. More surface area but no more pixels means bigger and more light-sensitive pixels. Apple says that this adds up to a 33% increase in overall light sensitivity. The iPhone 5S features a 5-element lens which Apple describes as ‘new’ for this device. That’s likely because of the increase in sensor size, as it will have to project a larger light circle onto the sensor itself. The lens has an f2.2 aperture, which is a 1/4 stop improvement over the iPhone 5’s f2.4 aperture. That should result in a .5 factor gain in light gathering ability for the lens, adding to the iPhone’s low-light abilities. Apple says that the new sensor has better dynamic range and less noise, with more detail in highlight and shadow. That fits with the specs, but we’ll have to reserve judgement until we’ve had time to play with the camera. What the A7 does for you With the iPhone 4S, Apple introduced its own ISP or image signal processor. This is a common component typically referred to as a digital signal processor in digital cameras. It’s the thing that color corrects your image, converts formats, applies color and tone adjustments and a bunch more. Think of it as a brain that only thinks about images. Apple has continued to evolve that ISP, though it didn’t refer to it directly in this weeks presentation. Instead, Phil Schiller continuously referred to the A7 as doing those things for you. That’s technically true as the A7 SoC is where the ISP is housed. In the iPhone 5S, we get a bunch of cool new tricks being performed by the ISP. Some of them have been standards on high-end DSLRs for a while now, and some are really bleeding edge. Though the new ISP still does stuff like white balance and auto-exposure, which is pretty standard. But it also now does dynamic tone mapping. Tone mapping is a technology that allows an image to be adjusted independently in various areas for brightness, contrast and color — or ‘tone’. It’s a similar procedure to the one used to make High Dynamic Range (HDR) images. In this case, Apple is using it to improve detail in the light and dark areas of the image. It should map the contrast levels of the various areas in the image and make pre-capture readings that help your post-capture image. Apple also touts the new iPhone 5S’ as having autofocus matrix metering with 15 focus zones. This is a common feature on decent DLSR cameras and some high-end compacts. It allows the camera to split the scene into various zones, determining what the subject of focus is and adjusting metering according to where it focuses. This typically increases the speed and accuracy of focus and helps to reduce errors in auto-exposure. Where a face turns out really dark or a sunset is blown out, for instance. This should mean less manual tapping around on the image to get the right focus and exposure, if it works as advertised. The speed of the ISP in the A7 is also shown off by the new multi-shot feature, which takes several exposures and then picks the sharpest one. This happens, in typical Apple fashion, in the background without your input. What’s happening here (though I’ll go into detail more in a bit) is that you typically move around a bit even as you press a shutter button, causing a slight blur. Having a couple of shots to pick from can result in finding a frame where your shake stopped, giving you a sharper image. Realistically, this should take a very small fraction of a second, so it won’t ‘feel’ any different, you’ll just have a sharper image. True Tone Flash This thing is the crown jewel of the new iPhone’s camera capabilities, in my opinion. Yes, many people will probably still avoid using a flash, but the sheer engineering prowess here is insane. The dual-LED flash in the iPhone 5S is not about providing more light, instead, it’s about providing light of a more accurate color. The flash in your pocket camera or DSLR, or in the current iPhone, is calibrated to a single color that approximates sunlight. This is fine in the sun as a fill light, but goes all wrong when you try to shoot an image with it indoors or under artificial light. Where daylight is very cool and ‘blue’, indoor light is often very warm and ‘orange’. That goes for your tungsten (think typical light bulbs) lights, sodium bulbs and others in your home. This means that flash images pop blue light onto your subject’s face while orange light bathes the background. The camera’s ISP tries to balance the two and fails miserably on both counts. The True Tone flash has both an amber and a white LED to produce two tones of light that can balance the foreground ‘faces’ with the background ambient light. If the two tones of the image are the same, then the iPhone’s ISP can color-correct the image and produce something decent. But it even goes further than that. A flash with an orange color-correcting gel Professional photographers have been balancing flash and ambient indoor light for a long time. Typically this was done with gels — clear pieces of orange plastic that are placed over the front of a flash in order to simulate the light that comes out of regular bulbs. Then the camera’s white balance is set to tungsten and the image looks good. In the film days, you would use a special tungsten-balanced film. Either method is annoying and, in the end, you could never get the temperature exactly right. The iPhone 5S doesn’t just pop the amber flash if it’s in tungsten lighting. Instead, it reads the scene and fires off both LEDs in varying intensities to create up to 1,000 different color temperatures. This should allow it to match the foreground flash exposure color up perfectly with the background color. The long and short of it is that indoor images should be much more balanced in their color, with more natural skin tones and a balanced foreground and background. You might even like to use your flash again. This probably won’t help all that much in fluorescent light, as that’s much more ‘green’ in spectrum, but there’s a chance that it could. Couldn’t be worse than the iPhone 5’s flash indoors anyway. One thing that this new innovation won’t do, however, is increase the range of your flash much. Just because there are two LEDs doesn’t mean that they’re both going to be firing at full power. It’s likely that one or the other will be much lower power with any given image. So you might get a bit more range but don’t count on the extra bulb for extra brightness. Auto Image Stabilization Both the burst mode and image stabilization are probably only going to be useful in bright light. Both require that multiple shots be taken and quick shots mean less light makes it to the sensor. Still, both are nice to have. The stabilization system especially is interesting. Instead of just taking multiple shots and picking a sharp one, the system appears to use technology similar to the current HDR feature. It takes multiple images and then uses the best bits of each picture based on exposure and sharpness to composite together a final image. Theoretically, we’re looking at something that could replace a blurry face, for instance, with a sharp one from just a second later. Typically, shooting a sharp picture in really low light requires two things: a steady hand and a steady subject. Stabilizing only the lens solves only one of those problems. It doesn’t matter how steady your lens is if your subject is fidgety. Utilizing a compositing method for ‘stabilization’ allows Apple to tackle both your movement and subject movement at the same time, which is pretty clever. The burst mode is a pretty standard 10 frames per second, a speed that can be matched by some third-party apps on the App Store already. The fact that Apple says you can capture ‘hundreds’ of images in a row without stopping is something worth noting, though. That’s normally related to how fast your ISP can process those images on the fly. But the post-shooting procedure is the really interesting bit. Firing off a burst of a hundred images is nice but potentially extremely difficult to weed through to find the best images. So, says Schiller, the iPhone 5S’ ISP will weed through those based on a bunch of factors in real-time: exposure sharpness face detection subject smiling subject blinking Then it picks the best one to display you to take action on. If it’s an action shot, you’ll get a couple of representative options to choose from. All of the images that you shoot remain in the roll. The bursting stuff is cool but nothing new for DSLR shooters. It’s long been one of the strengths of the mirrored or even high-end mirrorless cameras. The image processing to choose the best image for you has even been dabbled in by some companies. but the sheer number of signals checked on in each image and the seemingly pleasant UI for shooting and picking should set this apart from stuff we’ve seen from camera makers. Slo-mo Slow motion video takes a lot of light. When you’re capturing 120 images per second, you need to fire your shutter off quickly to move on to the next one (1/120th of a second or faster, to be exact). So I wouldn’t expect to see this work well in anything but broad daylight. But it’s a testament to the light-gathering capability of the new sensor and the sheer brute strength of Apple’s ISP that it’s able to do up to 120fps at 720p at all. That’s beyond the capabilities of most DSLRs, which top out at 60fps. Once you’ve shot the video you can specify the segment that you’d like to be slow motion. That segment can even be changed later, indicating that this is locally processed. Apple’s Schiller did note that you can share these segments with friends, though, indicating that some processing to create a final shareable clip will take place at some point. Perhaps after you choose to share it. It’s not clear exactly how the slow motion system works. Does it shoot 120fps every time, all the time? Or do you enable it first? We’ll have to wait to get a bit more info on this. Brian Klug of AnandTech got a look at the slo-mo feature of the iPhone 5S and it’s a separate mode like pano or video mode. Here’s an image he shot of the mode in action: As a bonus, panoramic images also get a boost from the new A7 ISP, capturing images 50% faster at 30fps, making for faster sweeps. What does it all mean? So, we’ve got a bunch of improvements here that cross over from hardware to software and touch on user experience. All three Apple’s strong suits when it comes to integrated devices like the iPhone. If you peer more closely though, the biggest differences between an iPhone shooting experience and that of a traditional camera comes down to one thing: the image signal processor in the A7 chip. The aperture isn’t that much bigger than competitors and the pixel pitch is actually smaller than the HTC One, for instance. And the sensor, though increased in size, is very tiny when compared to even point-and-shoot cameras. The differences, then, come largely in how Apple’s ISP hardware and its front-end software mesh to make life easier for photographers. There’s a quote on Apple’s iPhone page which I think is nicely phrased: “It just makes more sense to teach iPhone how to take a great picture rather than teach people how to be expert photographers.” If you’re a photographer, you might actually rankle a bit at first, because you know as well as I that most of a good photograph happens at the photographer, not the camera. But, remember, most people are not trained photographers. They’re interested in getting the best picture possible but lack the formal training to compensate for the vagaries of poor sensors and lenses. Note that Apple says ‘teach people how to be expert photographers’. That’s key because everyone with a smartphone is now — whether they see themselves that way or not — a photographer. Apple just sees the value in taking the burden of having to be an expert off of their shoulders. And it has the software and hardware prowess to (maybe) pull it off. Image Credit: Apple, The Ewan Flickr/CC Read the full article @ http://techcrunch.com/2013/09/12/a-photographers-take-on-the-iphone-5s-camera/

Yag synthetic diamond made of yttrium aluminum garnet

Say delicate woolen fabric

Kakorrhaphiophobia fear of failure

Pachyglossal thick-tongued...that's a odd problem

Bookmarked. I don't own an android, but there's juicy info in this article. Thanks

Sad, reeeeally sad, but thrue

...I only hope that they will not waste all of their 'small', nowadays, amount of money taken from MS to sue competitors hoping to obtain a bit of their long lost pride. I want the good ol' Nokia back, the one that was giving phones to The Matrix!

The problem is that's a gov agency that's taking the fire when the real privacy concern is the private companies practices and the 'personal advertisements' wave. Let me know, without your consent, your habits, your preferences and your location, and I'll give you what you MUST crave for. All of this commotion it's only to distract from the real privacy problem. You may argue that's private companies that fuels gov agencies, and I'll answer that's for this reason that they are taking the fire alone, and again the herd it's misled in the wrong direction... and apart from 'easy to ignore when national security calls' regulations, there will be no other result from all of this fuss. Halas... Great and very informative article as always, HM. Cheers

Always on the wave! Many thanks, I was waiting for this

Welcome back and keep up your warm spirit to let CyberPhoenix grow brighter and full of content than ever! Cheers

Very nice tutorial! Thanks for the info. Cheers

Gosh!...I'm without words.... No, I've found them! After one night without sleep, I can affirm that the video it's the best anti-Apple advertisement I've ever seen!