@smackswell: You leave my Grammar out of this! She's a sweet old lady......
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@Pyroponce: Whenever I hear "Al-OOO-minnum" it makes me smile!
@BlueJ: More soup for you! +1
@edhe [on xbl]: Good points, but remember IBM don't make all of the world's PCs......
@FriedPeeps: If any of them went down it would be bad, but why would Google be going down be worse than Micro$0ft? The PCs running the world would still run, search would find alternatives quickly, and mapping/street view whilst important would not grind the world to a halt in it's absence. A lot of data would be…
@edhe [on xbl]: *splutter* yep!
@FriedPeeps: I think that's exactly what he was saying! I don't think Apple is not important (it is) but I don't think it's more important than Microsoft; if they went down most of everyone's life would get much worse - Microsoft running PCs are in the vast majority, after all. If Apple went down, well, I could live…
@RainyDayInterns: I won't argue with you there ;-)
Cheques... aaaah, how quaint!
WTF? These sort of graphs prove that anaylsts/bankers should not be left to their own devices - they can demonstrate everything and nothing in one lousy diagram.......
"back when Microsoft were the most important technology company on the planet"
a BACS transfer pwns this..... no iPhone (or anything) required, just your wages straight into your account.....
@triplecheeseburger: Of course, they don't need Flash! :-)
@Dan Del Rio: If the teenagers in question use a decent passphrase with reputable encryption software, it is not crackable by brute force methods, at least not within human timescales (50 characters certainly is good enough.) So it's not the Police's fault, they have pretty good software to attempt decryption by all…
@seanism: It doesn't matter what you use to encrypt the data in the UK, if it requires a password, then you have to tell the police if requested, by law. However, it would be possible to use plausible deniability techniques to create an encrypted zone within the encrypted file, so giving a password would only unlock a…
@Absent Blue: You sure can get jail for not revealing your passwords. It's a horrible, ill thought-through piece of snooping legislation introduced here in the UK a few years back. Not as horrible as paedophiles, though!
@teflon shepherd: And now it's called stpdty.... ;-)
@triplecheeseburger: You know Uncle Steve does not approve of any of his Magical Revolutionary Products being used near a toilet, right? After all, you don't see THAT on the ads.....! I wish they would show that, though - much more realistic! ;-)
@Settings: Chances are, assuming the toilet is cleaned regularly, that there are much more bacteria on a laptop/iPad than on your toilet seat. Unless Uncle Steve has impregnated his Magical Plastics with Unicorn AntiBacterial Dust......