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Respectfully, I don't know why this was modded up. There's a lot of bad information in here.

On the one hand, you're right that NVIDIA can't get into the x86 CPU market. Intel controls that lock and key. Though NVIDIA does have things to share (they have a lot of important graphics IP), but it wouldn't be enough to get Intel to part with an x86 license (NVIDIA has tried that before).

However you're completely off base on the rest. Cost has nothing to do with why NVIDIA is out of the Intel chipset business. NVIDIA's chipset business was profitable to the very end. The problem was that on the Intel side of things NVIDIA only had a license for the AGTL+ front side bus, but not the newer DMI or QPI buses that Intel started using with the Nehalem generation of CPUs. Without a license for those buses, NVIDIA couldn't make chipsets for newer Intel CPUs, and that effectively ended their chipset business (AMD's meager x86 sales were not enough to sustain a 3rd party business).

NVIDIA and Intel actually went to court over that and more; Intel eventually settled by giving NVIDIA over a billion dollars. You are right though that there's not much to chipsets these days, and if NVIDIA was still in the business they likely would have exited it with Sandy Bridge.

As for Stacked DRAM. That is very, very different from PoP RAM. PoP uses traditional BGA balls to connect DRAM to a controller, with the contacts for the RAM being along the outside rim of the organic substrate that holds the controller proper. Stacked DRAM uses through silicon vias: they're literally going straight down/up through layer of silicon to make the connection. The difference besides the massive gulf in manufacturing difficulty is that PoP doesn't lend itself to wide memory buses (you have all those solder balls and need space on the rim of the controller for them) while stacked DRAM will allow for wide memory buses since you can connect directly to the controller. The end result in both cases is that the RAM is on the same package as the controller, but their respective complexity and performance is massively different.

SimCity is a really bad game and I certainly hope that heads will roll for ramming an unfinished, needlessly server dependent game into the fans eager hands just to try and make some numbers for the quarter... but is Riccitiello really leaving directly as a result of it? Yeah, there's the timing of it, but the reason EA gives for the departure is they're going to be about $100 million lower on their guidance than they expected. Could they really be $100 million short this quarter from SimCity?

So what are the numbers... SimCity sold 1.1 million copies at launch. For comparison the super-popular Skyrim had a $450 million dollar launch at 3.3 million copies. From that perspective, it certainly looks like SimCity really did make that dent... And considering SimCity 4 is still selling 10 years later, the money they're missing out on over the next 5 to 10 years could be ridiculous.

Three,four or six months is not a lengthy jail sentence.

It's his actions after breaking in that are being punished. They knew what they were doing was wrong, and could've easily alerted AT&T and the press without harvesting thousands of records.

Wow, I didn't think Slashdot could go lower but it just managed to do that.

Next headline: MS to abandon Windows, because Windows XP support Ends April 8, 2014?

Microsoft will make Windows Phone 9, in fact they even have people working on testing it.

http://msftkitchen.com/windows-phone-9-testing-begins-also-windows-9-gets-a-mention-from-microsoft

And Windows Phone 8 phones will be upgradeable.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2416002,00.asp

And Windows Phone is growing marketshare:

http://wmpoweruser.com/italy-shows-their-windows-phone-strength-already-15-of-windows-phone-market/
http://wmpoweruser.com/windows-phone-has-a-16-3-market-share-in-poland-one-of-the-highest-in-the-world/
http://www.fiercewireless.com/europe/story/analyst-windows-phone-sees-strong-growth-uk-and-italy/2013-01-23
http://www.wpcentral.com/long-queues-china-nokia-lumia-920-sells-out-two-hours [And yes, that's actually picture of people queuing for Windows Phone)

Picking up some loyal users who seem to like it :
http://wmpoweruser.com/pcmag-readers-choice-awards-2013-windows-phone-wins-mobile-os-category/
http://www.ubergizmo.com/2013/01/customer-satisfaction-of-windows-phone-on-the-rise-according-to-survey/

And winning some awards
http://www.wpcentral.com/nokia-lumia-920-struts-its-stuff-and-takes-prestigious-innovative-handset-award-2013
http://wmpoweruser.com/nokia-lumia-920-wins-engadget-smartphone-of-2012-user-vote/

And yet we have this bullshit FUD summary, headline and article? No wonder Slashdot is losing readership fast, with barely a few comments for stories compared to earlier.

The partyline biased moderation, calling people with alternate viewpoints shills and chasing them away into karma hell can only last so long before the echo chamber gets tired of listening to itself and packs it up.

Reminds me of this story http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/02/16/2259257/draconian-drm-revealed-in-windows-7

Even the mainstream tech media noticed that. Interesting read: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2009/02/oh-the-humanity-windows-7s-draconian-drm/

I doubt any one would care now, with most people having written off Slashdot as the hiding place of anti-Microsoft trolls and zealots living in their alternate reality. Posters like bmo, symbolset, tuple666, Zero__Kelvin, LordLimeCat, Jeremiah Cornelius, UnknowingFool, rtfa-troll, binarylarry, MightyMartian, drinkypoo, pieroxy and a whole bunch of others have ruined Slashdot beyond repair and seem to suffer from this affliction: http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/07/25/1757253/linus-calls-microsoft-hatred-a-disease

Wow, I didn't think Slashdot could go lower but it just managed to do that.

Next headline: MS to abandon Windows, because Windows XP support Ends April 8, 2014?

Microsoft will make Windows Phone 9, in fact they even have people working on testing it.

http://msftkitchen.com/windows-phone-9-testing-begins-also-windows-9-gets-a-mention-from-microsoft

And Windows Phone 8 phones will be upgradeable.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2416002,00.asp

And Windows Phone is growing marketshare:

http://wmpoweruser.com/italy-shows-their-windows-phone-strength-already-15-of-windows-phone-market/
http://wmpoweruser.com/windows-phone-has-a-16-3-market-share-in-poland-one-of-the-highest-in-the-world/
http://www.fiercewireless.com/europe/story/analyst-windows-phone-sees-strong-growth-uk-and-italy/2013-01-23
http://www.wpcentral.com/long-queues-china-nokia-lumia-920-sells-out-two-hours [And yes, that's actually picture of people queuing for Windows Phone)

And yet we have this bullshit FUD summary, headline and article? No wonder Slashdot is losing readership fast, with barely a few comments for stories compared to earlier.

The partyline biased moderation, calling people with alternate viewpoints shills and chasing them away into karma hell can only last so long before the echo chamber gets tired of listening to itself and packs it up.

Reminds me of this story http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/02/16/2259257/draconian-drm-revealed-in-windows-7

Even the mainstream tech media noticed that. Interesting read: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2009/02/oh-the-humanity-windows-7s-draconian-drm/

I doubt any one would care now, with most people having written off Slashdot as the hiding place of anti-Microsoft trolls and zealots living in their alternate reality. Posters like bmo, symbolset, tuple666, Zero__Kelvin, LordLimeCat, Jeremiah Cornelius, UnknowingFool, rtfa-troll, binarylarry, MightyMartian, drinkypoo, pieroxy and a whole bunch of others have ruined Slashdot beyond repair and seem to suffer from this affliction: http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/07/25/1757253/linus-calls-microsoft-hatred-a-disease

This place was always anti-MS but reasonable and informative comments used to get modded up a few years ago, not anymore.There are enough things to bash Microsoft with, why make up lies and spread FUD?

Of course, the real blame is on moderators for modding up these kind of posts and marking others rebutting replies to them as troll and flamebait.

Last one out, switch off lights.

You are 100% correct. There's nothing there I'd disagree with.

However, lots and lots and LOTS of folks feel that "privacy" == "let my ID come out to PLAY!"

Humans don't seem able to behave without boundaries and rules.

In any case, alea jacta est. For a LONG time, internet trolls and really sociopathic folks have been using the same tools that we are screeching about in the hands of governments to do truly despicable things.

Exhibit A

It's only when folks who can track them down and punish them get the tools that the caterwauling starts.

Here's an interesting book (How To Disappear). It tells how skip tracers work. They use a lot of old-school techniques, and have been using these same techniques long before the Interwebs.

True anonymity has always been a myth. People who rebel; either legitimately or not, always take a risk. The old Internet fostered a myth of "risk free rebellion."

Like unicorns and high sidhe, risk-free rebellion doesn't exist. If you truly believe in what you are doing, you will find a way to fight. It is a lot more difficult, these days, but, as the Al Queda folks in Yemen (who, unfortunately, truly believe in what they are doing) are showing, good old human ingenuity still tends to come out on top.

Sure, go on over to Reddit. You'll be totally safe from this story over there.

(For the record, all of those links are on Reddit right now. I thought /. was bad at dupes, all of those are 100+, 4 of them are from the last 2 weeks, 3 from the last week....)

BTW, see today's news as a further example of why Apple is having difficult moving away from Samsung.

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2013/03/apple-hit-with-class-action-lawsuit-over-defective-retina-displays/

I expect the two to continue to partner for some time.

Or innovations like GPS navigation and maps? http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/28/tim-cook-maps/

Or innovations like a free, standards-based web-browser financed by a non-profit organization? http://arstechnica.com/apple/2013/03/firefox-is-out-of-the-ios-game-until-apple-changes-its-ways/

Is Adobe Flash innovative? I'm not sure, but for some it certainly might be, and worth having.

Personally I enjoyed my A2DP bluetooth headsets in the office, both for calls and hi-fi music, for several years before iPhone users could use something other than wired earphones. (Nokia N95)

Between you and me, I dig on how nice and easy it is to 3g-tether between my Nokia N9 and Ubuntu 12.04/ Gnome3 notebooks, wirelessly via bluetooth. Very low power and battery drain when doing so, much lower than otherwise using the included Nokia N9 802.11 wifi hotspot tool. Not sure if this qualifies as innovative or not, but it sure is mighty nice on a phone released in 2009. That team got it right.

ksplice?

PC games can't be returned if they're opened and the only way to realize you might have been fucked by a game is to install and start playing it.

Not the point I was arguing against, but I'll bite anyway. This again depends on the manager and style of the company. You can tout "company policy" all you want, but if the customer is loud and persistent enough, they will more often then not get a refund. The whole "squeaky wheel gets the oil" concept. You may have also missed that Amazon was reportedly allowing returns of SimCity, open box or not.
First link I found, but there are others.

It appears that Simcity has been a special case, and instead of risking the ire of it's customers for selling what was worthless garbage at the time, Amazon bent the rules, as you will find many retailers will do to "keep the customer". Why you may ask? Here's my guess: EA doesn't care about keeping the customer because their next large game release won't be for many months, and the customer will likely have forgotten by then. Amazon (or your local retailer) is counting on you still wanting to buy things tomorrow or next week. Pissing off customers is often a surefire way to send them (and their money) to another retailer.

I didn't know that was her, but you're right

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2007/06/talking-with-rhianna-pratchett-writer-and-co-story-designer-of-overlord/2/

Personally, in my role as the writer, I also tried to have a little fun with the characters by making them into various manifestations of evil. For example, Rose (one of your possible Mistresses) is the practical face of evil; her role in an evil empire would be organizing things - making sure everything gets done - right down to checking the temperature of the lava pool and sweeping up the entrails after a torture session. She's a bit like a twisted Mary Poppins. Mistress Velvet, on the other hand, understands how evil should look. She is all about style. Given half a chance she'd be cracking a whip and shouting "More black lace, more black lace!"

You can see it here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGVktFkrDN4

The game was certainly a lot more memorable with someone to make the plot a parody of The Hobbit from Sauron's point of view.

However also from TFA this new site is meant as a revenue generating source - most likely for himself ("a guys gotta eat") so I am more inclined to believe that he is on more of an egotistical/screw you stance than flowers and cute ponies [wielding AK-47's].

Which gets interesting because DMCA takedowns have already occurred.

Since he's selling affiliate links to people who can make it for you or other things, things would get murky very fast.

Forget guns - they'll quickly become just a tiny part of the site - it's the other stuff that people upload that'll become popular and mainstream. For every person who'll want to download some AK-47 part, there'll be dozens of others who want the plans to make some Bieber bobble head or something.

For those who don't know the first fucking thing about what this summary means (hint to summary writers, if you're going to use jargon, please explain it to those of us who don't follow bitcoin or whatever-the-fuck), here is a much better article on the subject (written in plain English):

Major Glitch in Bitcoin

Why achieve 'consensus' when we could let the fork fester, and have two virtual currencies floating wildly against one another as well as USD?

In fact, why not introduce Bitcoin-0 through Bitcoint-Aleph and let them fight it out? I'll bring popcorn!

BitCoin Bailey: No, no, no, everybody remain calm. We'll get through this together. You're thinking of this virtual currency all wrong. As if I had the BitCoins back in a safe. The money's not here. Your money's on Bill's computer, and Fred's computer ...
Angry BitCoin User: Hey Fred, what the hell you doin' with my BitCoins?!
*a run on MtGox ensues*

--- from the 3rd paragraph of arstechnica article from March 12th, 2013.

Moreover, they're late to the party. There's been stories running at Arstechnica for months on how people associated with Prenda have been making asses of themselves in court, and downplaying their ties to the firm (By the way, if you have ten minutes to spare and enjoy reading these lawyer stories, you could do worst than to read this one.). Funny how nobody appears to ever have been in Prenda's payroll, doing charity work for them or something. So yes, I'm not sure how much help these bloggers really need from the EFF as Prenda will probably have ran itself into the ground on its own pretty soon anyways.

They're having a bad day in court while the judge questions them as to why a witness they offered to testify about the company apparently knows absolutely nothing about who owns it or calls the shots. When two people have accused the firm of identity theft (both of whom actually managed to show up in the courtroom, unlike the Prenda folks, who complained it was too hard), things are NOT looking good for them.

Also they may have failed to notify someone of a stay in discovery. At this point, I can only hope that the judge elects to use some Federal Marshals to put a stop to their shenanigans. Right now, my First-Amendment-protected opinion is that they resemble Orly Taitz in all the wrong ways. But they're free to sue me for saying that if they want to provide me with a free front row seat to their Waterloo.

It is. But since Apple don't have an overwhelming share of the mobile space, that's allowed:

This may be changing - in terms of usage, Android market share seems to be progressively taking more and more Apple market share (correct me if I'm wrong). However, in terms of developer mindshare, I would think Apple is still beating out Android, particularly in tablet space (source: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/07/divine-intervention-googles-nexus-7-is-a-fantastic-200-tablet/3/-lasttwoparagraphs).

customers got other options.

It's not inconceivable that someone would be in a position where they have to buy an Apple product. I know of schools that have forced students to buy them. So no, customers don't always have other options.

This is all bullshit.

On Feb 10th, ArsTechnia released the following story: http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/02/at-facebook-zero-day-exploits-backdoor-code-bring-war-games-drill-to-life/

On Feb 19th, The Register released this: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/02/19/apple_hacked/

On Feb 20th, CNN released this: http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/20/tech/web/hacked-apple-facebook-twitter

On the 10th I said they got pwned for real in #misec on freenode, and 9 days later I was proven right. This is nothing more than a publically traded company trying to save face.... or something. But the "wargame" and actual hacking are NOT coincidences.

- ShadowHatesYou

Looks like the precautions taken are along the lines taken Inside Symantecâ(TM)s SSL certificate vault via http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/11/inside-symantecs-ssl-certificate-vault/

Yep. This is what happens when you attack Surface.

Not all the reviews: http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/03/simcity-impressions-we-waited-ten-years-for-this/

I wouldn't say exactly

Well I had already skipped over buying this over the DRM, Origin, DLC crap and the price but reading this really opens some eyes in that they really seemed to have built SimFarmVille http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/03/simcity-impressions-we-waited-ten-years-for-this/

Sim-Autism ("Sim-Auti") does not suffer with these social need predicaments. http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/03/auti-sim-lets-you-experience-the-horror-of-sensory-overload/

Ars Technica says it's not true. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/03/fake-headline-of-the-day-the-pirate-bay-moves-to-north-korea/

Glitched memory usually isn't a problem. Other spacecraft have had similar memory problems. Usually it's temporary. If it's permanent, the computers are programmed to map around the glitched memory or (back in the tape drive days) not use that segment of tape..

The real danger is that such a glitch will first manifest itself by altering control or orientation instructions, breaking the spacecraft's contact with Earth. Most spacecraft are designed with a "safe mode" when this happens. If there's been no communication with Earth for x days, the main computer switches to a rudimentary instruction set or a second computer takes over, and tries to re-establish communications.

No kidding. He is a programmer, right? Which typically means he has a combination of books he could use to get to the appropriate height he wants. I did this for quite a while. Now however, at home, I am happy with one monitor. Which conveniently is height adjustable. This guy could do the same if he put the laptop off to the side or in a laptop hammoc on the side of the desk. A 27" at 2560x1440 is pretty comfy. Google/duckduckgo for ars or some other guide... If it was sitting on the desk to the side, when connected, the laptop could become the secondary monitor for GUI debugging, etc, if that helps with his work. But yea this is a rather lame ask /. question. The guy might as well waste his day looking at battlestations or something.

timemachine isn't some magical and new thing. It's called a GUI over the top of rsync.

What? No, it's not. It's not even remotely something like that.

Here's a pretty good discussion of the issue.

Selfishly, I hope Mozilla never adopts WebKit because both the Gecko and WebKit teams tend to stagnate when nobody is out-classing them, but they both have strong competitive instincts and everybody benefits from that.

And, frankly, I think the aesthetics of Gecko are much nicer on Linux than Webkit. I use Chromium for Google Apps because I pretty much have to, but the text layout and rendering really has room for improvement. I do too much work in a browser all day to use that as a primary tool until the necessary work is completed on my platform.

Google's Kansas City project is mostly hype. They only have 300 homes connected as of November 2012. Only 7000 people per-registered for the service. Also, you're not allowed to run servers, so having big uplink bandwidth isn't helpful.

Verizon has several million FIOS customers, but they're winding down deployment of that offering.

No.

http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/01/microsoft-mandating-secure-boot-on-arm-making-linux-installs-difficult.ars

More facets of the Stuxnet story are slowly being unearthed and it now appears the thing was already under intense development in 2005. It makes one wonder how widespread this kind of thing really is and how early the various intelligence services started doing it... Post 9/11? In the early 90s?

Possibly earlier than that - it's a pretty well established idea that all the cool tech we see coming out today, was being designed and implemented by secretive government organizations for at least a decade prior. The SR-71, the internet, Stuxnet, and uncountable other technologies were used to wage war against the enemies of the US government long before the public even knew such things existed.

About time. And preemptive my ass. China has been making state-orchestrated cyber attacks for years now. There's a war in cyberspace, did they just think the U.S. wouldn't show up?

So has the USA. More facets of the Stuxnet story are slowly being unearthed and it now appears the thing was already under intense development in 2005. It makes one wonder how widespread this kind of thing really is and how early the various intelligence services started doing it... Post 9/11? In the early 90s?

Yes, of course. The US and any other country has been doing this since the capability was realized. The fact that people get all bothered about the Chinese while seeming to think other countries, including the US, don't do the same thing, indicates to me that a lot of people don't really understand how the world works.

About time. And preemptive my ass. China has been making state-orchestrated cyber attacks for years now. There's a war in cyberspace, did they just think the U.S. wouldn't show up?

So has the USA. More facets of the Stuxnet story are slowly being unearthed and it now appears the thing was already under intense development in 2005. It makes one wonder how widespread this kind of thing really is and how early the various intelligence services started doing it... Post 9/11? In the early 90s? Stuxnet was a pretty sophisticated piece of kit, especially in 2005. It makes these Chinese hack and snatch attacks look a bit crude. Stuxnet was only discovered when the spooks tried to make it 'more aggressive' to increase the infection rate and found out that it's really easy to make it too aggressive and when that happens and your spyware starts infecting civilian computers in large numbers you also blow the lid off the operation.

How does that matter to end users? The OEMs/Carriers install shitty skins, apps and services that destroy battery life and slow down the phone by taking up RAM.

This does not happen with Windows Phone or iOS.

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/02/two-year-old-phone-receives-15-month-old-software-update/

No shortage, eh? Then what can be said about Zynga: Zynga Announces More Job Cuts

you're thinking of some other service

gmail launched in april 04.

Here's a post from the same month:
http://www.errorik.com/archive/2004-04.htm

Here's July 04:
http://itsmygmail.blogspot.com/2004/07/gmail-address-variations.html

and Jan 06:
http://arstechnica.com/uncategorized/2006/01/6022-2/

That's actually false. A cuniversity professor was able to use a spoof GPS attack on a military drone with nothing too expensive - all you have to do is make the drone think it's 3 feet higher than it should be and you can make it dive into the ground: "It’s not as if DHS is unaware of the issue. Todd Humphreys, an assistant professor at the University of Texas’ Cockrell School of Engineering Radionavigation Laboratory and a group of UT researchers demonstrated the impact of GPS "spoofing" on drones at a DHS-organized test in June. Humphreys, who presented earlier this year at a conference at the UK’s National Physical Laboratory on GPS vulnerabilities to cell phone systems, used UT’s GPS spoofing gear to fool a helicopter drone’s GPS with data that showed it was rising, resulting in it attempting to correct the fake climb; a safety pilot took over to prevent the drone from crashing." from: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/07/fear-of-drone-gps-hacking-raised-by-congress-as-faa-deadline-looms/

Yeah. Apple is ramping up releases in order to screw over jailbreakers.

Or, there was a bug with Exchange calendaring that caused iOS devices to fill up Exchange server drives by interpreting a meeting series with no end date quite literally. I sure can't figure out why they would want to push that out as fast as possible...

That only happens with companies that are failing anyway. Its in nobody's interest to destroy a thriving business, or at least one that is worth more alive than dead.

It happens to everyone. Wall Street hedge fund managers feel that they're immune to things like the economy - they want their 8/10/15+% ROI damn the recession. Hell, at a time when most people would be just happy to have their investments be stable (as opposed to disappear), they still want their share of the blood.

Hell, Einhorn is trying to "unlock" the Apple's cash with a really convoluted scheme involving stock swaps and guaranteed dividends. So convoluted that the PR session he held to promote his idea that he had to explain his concept several times to various Wall Street bankers.

If it was simple, he wouldn't need to explain a thing. Yes, Wall Street plays by different rules, economic depressions included.

If by "sideloading from who-knows-where and installs themselves" you mean "downloading from approved app channels (Google Play Store)"... http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/07/more-malware-found-hosted-in-google-android-market/

Google won't even stick up for Android developers who are being sued by a patent troll for using a Google-provided authentication API. Most of those developers are small and have buckled under and paid the extortion fee. The developer of X-Plane was hit with one of these suits, but is refusing to pay, deciding to fight it instead. They estimate it will cost $1.5 million to defend. And no guarantee they'll win either.

Apple at least stepped up to defend iOS developers against a different troll, Lodsys. Maybe not monetarily (yet), but at least they threw their weight into the courtroom, even fighting off Lodsys' attempt to deny Apple's motion.

For all the /. comments in that article assuring others that Google would step up, the developer has contact Google for help, but they have and not will offer any assistance. Not even a token defence to X-Plane or other developers using a Google-provided API, which is presumably still available to unwitting Android developers.

"The bottom line is that, while WPS was designed for simple security, there is no such thing as simple security. The only way to be absolutely sure that someone can't gain access to your wireless network with the WPS hack is to make sure you use a router that doesn't support the protocol." Retreived from: http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/01/hands-on-hacking-wifi-protected-setup-with-reaver/

The ninth circuit is not the supreme court. In fact, the supreme court overturned the ninth circuit's ruling: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/01/supreme-court-holds-warrantless-gps-tracking-unconstitutional/

Here you go AC, but next time do your own homework. Or at least have Google do it for you,
http://netsecurity.about.com/od/secureyourwifinetwork/a/WPA2-Crack.htm
http://www.aircrack-ng.org/doku.php?id=cracking_wpa
http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/08/wireless-password-easily-cracked/

Doesn't apply with software, software is governed by the EULA which has been tested and upheld in court, see Vernor V Autodesk.

Nevermind. http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/02/ubuntu-for-tablets-arriving-on-nexus-7-nexus-10-this-week/ I guess it is real.