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You've obviously not been looking hard enough. The Ars Technica article sums up the science behind it pretty well (basically, they did a test run of the terrestrial base-stations and it interfered with ~75% of GPS devises, after LightSquared reduced the stations power to try to fix the problem). There is a ton of proof that they actually interfere with GPS signals, namely, actual experiments.

Or maybe not: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/02/fbi-turns-off-3000-gps-trackers-after-supreme-court-ruling.ars

Google, Amazon, and Salesforce have been FISMA certified for government use: http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2011/09/amazon-cloud-earns-fisma-government-security-accreditation.ars http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/government/trust.html http://www.businesscloud9.com/content/salesforcecom-goes-washington/5527

Using RHCP records as a basis for comparison is a terrible example; everything they've brought out since One Hot Minute has been overcompressed to death at multiple stages in production (Californication is even cited as a specific example of a crappily mastered record in the Wiki article).

Shortly after reading this article on ars I went to check it out for myself. Yes, technically they are still "just" 256k VBR AAC files just like other stuff in the iTunes Store. But if the engineer doing the mastering has busted his/her ass to play the cat & mouse cycle of re-tweaking the dynamics after listening to the encoded result a few times, the results are extremely surprising.

If you've got a good stereo or a nice pair of headphones, go listen to a normal CD version of Jimmy Smith's "The Cat" ripped at 256k VBR AAC, and then listen to the "mastered for iTunes" version. I had no idea lossily compressed audio from 40+ year old analog master tapes could sound that good.

I'm not an iTunes fan at all, nor an audiophile, but I believe the idea of remastering for itunes is not to put back lost data, but for account for it.

This is me making it up: "Oh, it looks like AAC will reduce sounds in the 18 KHz range, but that makes the bass too powerful and affects the voice. I can reduce the bass a bit and up the voice frequencies to compensate and now it sounds better than pure AAC applied blindly."

(This is what I understood from my reading here: http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2012/02/mastered-for-itunes-how-audio-engineers-tweak-tunes-for-the-ipod-age.ars

I make no claim as to its accuracy - just that its background information relevant to the article at hand.

not on Windows Phone it doesn't.

Skype calls can be made and received when it's running in the foreground, but as soon as you switch away - even mid-conversation - the application goes offline. Want to check a detail in an e-mail so you can tell the person you're calling? You'll have to hang up first.

$8.5bn for Skype, shame they couldn't chuck a few dollars at getting multitasking for the phone working.

On December 8, 2011, U.S. District Judge Richard Seeborg dismissed the last remaining count of the class action lawsuit, stating: "As a legal matter, [..] plaintiffs have failed to allege facts or articulate a theory on which Sony may be held liable."

Digging a little deeper:

Seeborg found the plaintiffs could not prove that they had a right to expect the OS feature beyond Sony's warranty period or continued access to the Playstation Network.

Sony Tosses PlayStation 3 Upgrade Claims Aside

"The dismay and frustration at least some PS3 owners likely experienced when Sony made the decision to limit access to the PSN service to those who were [un]willing to disable the Other OS feature on their machines was no doubt genuine and understandable," Judge Seeborg wrote. "As a matter of providing customer satisfaction and building loyalty, it may have been questionable."

The problem is that the plaintiffs could not prove that they were entitled to an ongoing relationship with Sony after the date of purchase, and they had the option of turning down the update and continuing their use of their Linux installations. "As a legal matter... plaintiffs have failed to allege facts or articulate a theory on which Sony may be held liable," Judge Seeborg wrote.

Judge dismisses "Other OS" class-action suit against Sony

The choice may have been a difficult one for those who valued both the Other OS feature and access to the PSN, but it was still a choice.

[For] Sony's conduct to have been in any manner wrongful, it is not enough for plaintiffs to show that they have a right to expect continued availability of the Other OS feature beyond the warranty period, but also a right to continued access to the PSN. Nothing in plaintiffs' factual allegations or their arguments is sufficient to support a conclusion that Sony has any obligation to maintain the PSN in operation indefinitely.

In short, even assuming it would be wrongful under one or more of plaintiffs' legal theories for Sony unilaterally to disable the Other OS feature after expiration of the warranty period but during the reasonably expected lifetime of machines that were otherwise still working properly, the facts show that Sony did not do so, except with the consent of owners who exercised an affirmative choice to install Firmware Update 3.21. For some, that choice may not have been made without regret, but absent some legal entitlement to continued access to the PSN, it was still a choice.

IN RE SONY PS3 OTHER OS LITIGATIONI [Full text]

If you mean windows starter edition you can run as many programs at once as you want. check your facts before posting.

I did:
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/04/21/1356245/windows-7-starter-edition-3-apps-only

No, you didn't. You're just spreading FUD. See here.

The case you cited.

That is a very early draft proposal, and there is a lot of strong opposition to it, even from people within the companies that proposed it! And to top that off, the content providers don't think it is strong enough.

So the chances that it is adopted by the browsers are slim, and the chances that the media companies embrace it is even slimmer.

That "ballot" was self-imposed and no punishment. It still left their browser installed by default, and that was the heart of the matter: illegal bundling and undermining web standards. And even though the ballot let them get away with the illegal bundling, it still wasn't done right.

I've come to the conclusion that desktop, ad-free software is essentially worth $0 thanks to the infinite replication potential of the internet.
Doesn't matter if its an expensive specialty app, Windows, or some cute little dollarware app.

Software as a Service seems to be the future of software to make money on it.
Or $1.00 phone apps (example: Angry Birds).

The sorta off topic post starts below as it dealt with the ACTA copyright issue.

from an article about ACTA

voidchalice | a day ago | permalink
+Griz wrote:
“When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living in society, they create for themselves, in the course of time, a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.”

right. just like those who glorify piracy, indiscriminate hacking and infringement now legalize and justify these as being in the name of "freedom"...

you're just as bad as the "empire" you're trying to fight, i'd vote for more control...

Quote:
I've heard it said before by a very wise person...

"...The more you tighten your grip, Lord RIAA, the moar stah systems will slip through your fingahs..."

from someone sacrificed their own world for the sake of the 'rebellion,' she's as bad as the emperor... (emphasis mine for relevance to following remarks)

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In-world, in-context, Leia was cool as a cucumber even under EXTREME duress.

I'm sure, deep down inside of her, she knew Alderaan was toast and lied to Tarkin anyway to buy the Rebellion more time.

That scene occured after she was tortured by the pain droid...with her FATHER overseeing the process no less!!!

She realized the sky was the limit for atrocity with the Empire.

Her reaction to Tarkin giving the order to fire the Death Star's superlaser was a shining moment in Carrie Fisher's acting career--You could palpably FEEL the fear and dread Leia faced watching her homeworld being destroyed on a whim by a Complete Monster superbly acted by the late Peter Cushing

(from memory from relavent--TVTropes page can't find it anymore or it got changed/deleted.... :( )
Tarkin is a complete monster...When Tarkin told Vader to stop choking one of his men [in ANH] Vader stopped.

FUN FACT: When ANH was being filmed, Cushing found the boots his character, Govenor Tarkin, wore hurt his feet. So he did his part in comfortable slippers when he wasn't seen head to toe on screen.

CAPTCHA: monotony [Tarkin's atrocities were monstrous and delivered with a sense of banality due to the 'softspoken, even-toned menace' Cushing brought to the role.]

60 hours a week can sadly almost be considered light for game development. 100+ hours per week is not uncommon enough to be considered a statistical anomaly.

The original: http://ea-spouse.livejournal.com/274.html
More recent: http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/117/1179020p1.html and http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/05/the-death-march-the-problem-of-crunch-time-in-game-development.ars

Many companies have been pushing back on crunch (particularly death march style crunch), but it still happens entirely too often, and usually for known and predictable causes. Worse, despite claims to the contrary, many companies hand you a pink slip instead of a bonus check once you finish. No OT pay, no bonuses or royalties even if your product is successful, not even a new project. Thanks for all that extra time you put in without extra pay, now go find a new job.

There are some great companies to work at, but I'd say they're still in the minority. Most major developers -- the ones you know the names of already -- have horrible work-life balance issues because they can replace anyone that cares and complains immediately with a dozen people the next day. I cringe every time I hear the acceptance speeches for the game industry awards that include (sometimes literally) "...and thanks to all our spouses and loved ones who dealt with us missing vacations, holidays, and special events for the last few years. This statue totally shows that it was worth it!"

MS refuses to support a standard that opens their users to Kernel level security holes. This is their claim anyway.

http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2011/06/microsoft-no-way-to-support-webgl-and-meet-our-security-needs.ars

Some people claim Silverlight has the same security issues as WebGL. The difference is Silverlight is a plugin, WebGL is part of the HTML spec. Even IE10-Metro won't support any plugins, which means no Silverlight.

I would assume WebGL can be supported via a plugin? This means it won't work on Windows Phone/Arm/Metro.

When the FCC first got involved they gave them a provisional approval which required LightSquared to prove that it would not affect GPS devices. LightSquared was unable to prove it. Ars Technica explains it pretty well here: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/02/why-lightsquared-failed.ars

They bought a license to transmit a candle's worth of power on a sattelite based band, and are sad that the FCC won't let them send an arclight's worth of signal out from ground based stations. Ars link.

Do you need to? Are normal computers radiation hardened?

Exactly, I have no idea. I though all modern CPUs relied on some form of ECC correction. Certainly for the L1 and L2 cache at least. It's also why server memory uses ECC too. IMHO, I think all computers and handheld units should employ error correction well.

Google performed a 2 and half year study of this topic. Worth reading as I'm sure it can be applied to CPUs if not transistor technology overall.

I would seem that the Heartland institute is a truly corrupt entity. The Heartland institute cannot expect to stifle discussion of their seemingly corrupt behaviour. The Heartland institute must not have heard of the Streisand Effect. Maybe the Heartland institute should get a a clue and stop trying to squelch discussion. Its funny that the Heartland institute is trying to squelch speech yet the Heartland institute claims to be for free speech. The Heartland institutewere at the front of the line waving internal documents of climate scientists. Yet The Heartland institute is now threatening to sue anyone who discusses their internal Documents. Such pathetic doublestandards highlight the hypocrisy of the Heartland institute A poster child for corruption.

I would seem that the Heartland institute is a truly corrupt entity. The Heartland institute cannot expect to stifle discussion of their seemingly corrupt behaviour. The Heartland institute must not have heard of the Streisand Effect. Maybe the Heartland institute should get a a clue and stop trying to squelch discussion. Its funny that the Heartland institute is trying to squelch speech yet the Heartland institute claims to be for free speech. The Heartland institutewere at the front of the line waving internal documents of climate scientists. Yet The Heartland institute is now threatening to sue anyone who discusses their internal Documents. Such pathetic doublestandards highlight the hypocrisy of the Heartland institute A poster child for corruption.

I would seem that the Heartland institute is a truly corrupt entity. The Heartland institute cannot expect to stifle discussion of their seemingly corrupt behaviour. The Heartland institute must not have heard of the Streisand Effect. Maybe the Heartland institute should get a a clue and stop trying to squelch discussion. Its funny that the Heartland institute is trying to squelch speech yet the Heartland institute claims to be for free speech. The Heartland institutewere at the front of the line waving internal documents of climate scientists. Yet The Heartland institute is now threatening to sue anyone who discusses their internal Documents. Such pathetic doublestandards highlight the hypocrisy of the Heartland institute A poster child for corruption.

I would seem that the Heartland institute is a truly corrupt entity. The Heartland institute cannot expect to stifle discussion of their seemingly corrupt behaviour. The Heartland institute must not have heard of the Streisand Effect. Maybe the Heartland institute should get a a clue and stop trying to squelch discussion. Its funny that the Heartland institute is trying to squelch speech yet the Heartland institute claims to be for free speech. The Heartland institutewere at the front of the line waving internal documents of climate scientists. Yet The Heartland institute is now threatening to sue anyone who discusses their internal Documents. Such pathetic doublestandards highlight the hypocrisy of the Heartland institute A poster child for corruption.

I would seem that the Heartland institute is a truly corrupt entity. The Heartland institute cannot expect to stifle discussion of their seemingly corrupt behaviour. The Heartland institute must not have heard of the Streisand Effect. Maybe the Heartland institute should get a a clue and stop trying to squelch discussion. Its funny that the Heartland institute is trying to squelch speech yet the Heartland institute claims to be for free speech. The Heartland institutewere at the front of the line waving internal documents of climate scientists. Yet The Heartland institute is now threatening to sue anyone who discusses their internal Documents. Such pathetic doublestandards highlight the hypocrisy of the Heartland institute A poster child for corruption.

I would seem that the Heartland institute is a truly corrupt entity. The Heartland institute cannot expect to stifle discussion of their seemingly corrupt behaviour. The Heartland institute must not have heard of the Streisand Effect. Maybe the Heartland institute should get a a clue and stop trying to squelch discussion. Its funny that the Heartland institute is trying to squelch speech yet the Heartland institute claims to be for free speech. The Heartland institutewere at the front of the line waving internal documents of climate scientists. Yet The Heartland institute is now threatening to sue anyone who discusses their internal Documents. Such pathetic doublestandards highlight the hypocrisy of the Heartland institute A poster child for corruption.

I would seem that the Heartland institute is a truly corrupt entity. The Heartland institute cannot expect to stifle discussion of their seemingly corrupt behaviour. The Heartland institute must not have heard of the Streisand Effect. Maybe the Heartland institute should get a a clue and stop trying to squelch discussion. Its funny that the Heartland institute is trying to squelch speech yet the Heartland institute claims to be for free speech. The Heartland institutewere at the front of the line waving internal documents of climate scientists. Yet The Heartland institute is now threatening to sue anyone who discusses their internal Documents. Such pathetic doublestandards highlight the hypocrisy of the Heartland institute A poster child for corruption.

I would seem that the Heartland institute is a truly corrupt entity. The Heartland institute cannot expect to stifle discussion of their seemingly corrupt behaviour. The Heartland institute must not have heard of the Streisand Effect. Maybe the Heartland institute should get a a clue and stop trying to squelch discussion. Its funny that the Heartland institute is trying to squelch speech yet the Heartland institute claims to be for free speech. The Heartland institutewere at the front of the line waving internal documents of climate scientists. Yet The Heartland institute is now threatening to sue anyone who discusses their internal Documents. Such pathetic doublestandards highlight the hypocrisy of the Heartland institute A poster child for corruption.

I would seem that the Heartland institute is a truly corrupt entity. The Heartland institute cannot expect to stifle discussion of their seemingly corrupt behaviour. The Heartland institute must not have heard of the Streisand Effect. Maybe the Heartland institute should get a a clue and stop trying to squelch discussion. Its funny that the Heartland institute is trying to squelch speech yet the Heartland institute claims to be for free speech. The Heartland institutewere at the front of the line waving internal documents of climate scientists. Yet The Heartland institute is now threatening to sue anyone who discusses their internal Documents. Such pathetic doublestandards highlight the hypocrisy of the Heartland institute A poster child for corruption.

The ars technica article has some useful background: arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/02/secret-service-asks-for-shutdown-of-legit-website-over-user-content-godaddy-complies.ars

Sounds like a good reason to leave GoDaddy, IMO.

Looks like not.

Neither story covering it mentions a court order or a subpoena; one of them says that "it may have been done without a court order."

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/02/secret-service-asks-for-shutdown-of-legit-website-over-user-content-godaddy-complies.ars

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/02/16/successful-online-startup-kicked-off-domain-without-stated-reason/

Considering how often they seem to be extending copyright, you can probably expect to see that in the next few years when we find ourselves dealing with perpetual copyrights.

Although, given that Congress can copyright works in the public domain, we might not need to wait that long before things like Project Gutenberg become a thing of the past.

If I may refer you to this article: http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/08/users-treat-criticism-of-favorite-brands-as-threat-to-self-image.ars

Ah my bad
I misinterpreted this
http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2012/02/windows-8-on-arm-the-desktop-is-there-sos-office-but-not-much-more.ars
"but there was always the possibility that existing desktop applications could be recompiled. That option is now unambiguously eliminated, with Microsoft saying "WOA does not support running, emulating, or porting existing x86/64 desktop apps." Office is a special, unique case. All third-party applications for WOA will be Metro applications delivered via the Windows Store, and must meet the restrictions imposed on those applications."
Maybe the article isn't the best

One definition of madness is doing again and again and again what failed first and hoping that the results will be different "this time"
One definition of evil is doing something, seeing that it is bad for people, and doing it again and again and again...

Having a "public authority" asking the shareholder to vote on what would be in effect an element of "self regulation" is either mad or evil, probably both.

It is worth while to read: ( http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/reviews/2010/12/ars-book-review-the-master-switch-by-tim-wu.ars ) The master switch
to learn about how again, and again the government supported the creation of private monopolies, and stronger business control on public expression and opinion.

The only justification for this would be if there would be some way to make the shareholder liable for the crimes of the management.
If the SEC would seriously think that the FCC might for a nationalisation or a breakup of the operators if they do not garanty network neutrality, then asking the Shareholder about their opinion would be somehow justified.
By the way this should not be an issue since the operators are supposedly liable for defaulting on their "common carrier" responsibilities, so asking the shareholder is basically: do you want us to comit a crime to make a lot of cash for you ? or would you prefer us to be honest.
(not that the PR agency would let them ask the question that way of course...)

I hate doing other people's work for them...

http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/10/climate-skeptics-perform-independent-analysis-finally-convinced-earth-is-getting-warmer.ars

He may have been armed, but one thing that stuck with me was this quote from New Zealand Detective Inspector Grant Wormald (source here):

"Police arrived in two marked Police helicopters ... Despite our staff clearly identifying themselves..."

Reading between the lines, and from observing pictures released to the Press of the raid, the vehicles and officers on the ground were clad in black. For all Kim Dotcom knew, he was under attack by terrorists pretending to be police. He had to look away from the vehicles, people, and guns, just to find one marked vehicle which indicated a Police operation. And that vehicle was high above him.

Here's what's going through their heads.

It looks like a bunch of bureaucrats, their lawyers, and the judges were a big pedantic clusterfuck.

That's how freedom dies, it wimpers and dies under bureaucratic pedantry and government mendacity.

> "[E]vidence to sustain such dire warnings is conspicuously absent."
Guess the Wired.com authors live in a different world than I do:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-02-nortel-penetrated-hackers-decade.html
http://articles.latimes.com/2008/aug/17/opinion/ed-cyberwar17
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_cyberattacks_on_Estonia
http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2011/10/rsa-details-march-cyber-attack-blames-nation-state-for-securid-breach.ars
http://www.commandfive.com/research.html
http://www.darkreading.com/database-security/167901020/security/attacks-breaches/229700229/targeted-attacks-on-u-s-defense-contractors-fallout-from-rsa-breach.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet

I'm concerned about the response, but the threat is real.

Yes, defensive.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/02/regulators-to-google-you-can-buy-motorola-but-we-still-dont-trust-you.ars

FTA:

But regulators on both sides of the pond went out of their way to warn Google not to abuse the patents, with the Justice Department comparing Google's patent statements unfavorably with what Justice views as more responsible statements made by Apple and Microsoft.

The fuck are they smoking? Am I missing something gigantic staring at me in the face?

Yes you are missing something gigantic. Microsoft and Apple have pledged to not use FRAND patents to sue someone out of existence. Google has basically said that if you use one of their FRAND patents in a $2. part on a BMW , then they are owed about 2% of the value of the BMW. Have you been ignoring news for the last month?

A modern iMac is painful to use. Your choice: place every app in the upper-left corner of the screen, or move the mouse over a thousand pixels each way.

Don't ignore Fitts' Law-- the menu bar at the top of the screen has an effectively infinite height, so even though you have to move your mouse farther, you can just slam it to the top of the screen and only have to aim horizontally. This is actually more important with higher-resolution screens, as the UI elements are smaller (at least until we finally get a resolution-independent UI, any decade now...).

Besides, the idea is to use keyboard shortcuts for menu items you use frequently. Much better than having to aim for a tiny rectangle on the screen, wherever it's located.

The OSX dock is unusable too. The fact that an app is running is indicated by a tiny dot under the icon.

For better or worse, Apple is trying to do away with making users know or care about whether an app is running, much like how things work on iOS. For example, there's a new API in Lion called Automatic Termination that allows apps to let the system automatically terminate them when the system needs to free up resources. See John Siracusa's Lion review for more details.

The fact that a second instance is running (rather difficult to do BTW) is indicated by a second icon located nowhere near the normal dock icon. You don't get a second dot. Seriously, WTF?

Oh, come on. How common do you think it is for users to want a second instance of an application, rather than just another window? I mean, I've only wanted to do it maybe once or twice in the five or so years I've had this Mac, and I'm very much a power user.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/02/regulators-to-google-you-can-buy-motorola-but-we-still-dont-trust-you.ars

FTA:

But regulators on both sides of the pond went out of their way to warn Google not to abuse the patents, with the Justice Department comparing Google's patent statements unfavorably with what Justice views as more responsible statements made by Apple and Microsoft.

The fuck are they smoking? Am I missing something gigantic staring at me in the face? How is Google's record of 'patent statements' remotely close to being worse than those of Apple and Microsoft? Does the US DOJ actually look favorably down on Apple continuous patent 'I'll sue you out of business' hissy-fits? When has Google ever abused a patent? Has Google ever even attacked another company with patents?

In any case, what I'd love to see is for Google to create a pool with these patents (haven't they done this already?) where anyone who enters the pool consents to agree not to sue others in the same pool. It wouldn't do much to stop patent trolls though, unless they find a way to kick out members who support them. Am I dreaming? Or should a legitimately don't-be-evil company do this?

Ars technica reported, "All told, Microsoft spent a little over $151 million to acquire 18.2 million shares of Apple stock, for roughly $8.31 per share. Microsoft confirmed that it sold all of its AAPL holdings some time ago, and likely did so at a healthy profitâ"after all, AAPL has traded significantly higher than $8 for many years. But what if Microsoft had held on to that investment just a little longer?"
http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/05/apples-stock-rise-could-have-meant-5-billion-for-microsoft.ars

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2012/02/apple-launching-sidelong-attacks-against-google-with-new-lawsuits-in-us.ars

Including a breakdown on FOSS Patents blog:

http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2012/02/apple-requests-us-preliminary.html

In the case we're talking about here, I'd guess it's the CDN that still has the photos and such. The service no long links to the image from your profile, but the image is still out on the outside service.

Facebook has the same problem. Deleted photos can be available via direct link for years after it has been "deleted". That system is currently being replaced.

http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/02/nearly-3-years-later-deleted-facebook-photos-are-still-online.ars

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2012/01/new-kde-tablet-to-liberate-linux-enthusiasts-from-walled-garden.ars

Suddenly one of these is looking tempting for my tablet needs.

I did have an ASUS transformer for a few months but I sold it to a friend as I was unhappy with the way Android does things.

As the owner of an Asus Transformer currently running Kubuntu, I find this somewhat ironic.

BTW here is some proof and note this is only a single run with a single benchmark software, they didn't investigate further. other sites have run both games and other benchmarks and found the same or worse. Pay particular attention to the memory subsystem test, when it is changed from 'Centaur Hauls' to "Genuine Intel' the test suddenly gives the Via chip a 48% increase in score!

I just wish i could find the site again where a programmer took apart the code and saw what it was doing (maybe somebody can find me a link please?) and here is what he found: If CPUID = Genuine Intel then have full SSE support, if CPUID = Authentic AMD then force code to run in X87 mode. since X87 has been depreciated since the late 90s we are talking about tying a fricking boat anchor to anything that uses ICC and runs on AMD or Via!

To me this is the smoking gun that proves beyond a shadow of a doubt, and for those that say "But but..maybe they are afraid that AMD doesn't have full SSE support!" riddle me this...why does it do the SAME TRICK to a Pentium 3? I can answer that, because in 2002 the Pentium 3 would score more than 30% higher than the first generation P4 Netburst because naturally those long pipes made cache misses a serious problem. After the ICC was rigged guess what happened? in ALL the benchmarks suddenly the P4 scored more than 40% HIGHER than the P3! Now nobody noticed at the time because that was when the new P4 was released and everyone figured they got the bugs out, but that programmer that took the code apart ran a benchmark on the same second gen P4 alongside a last gen P3 and found with the cripple code disabled the P3 again stomped the second gen P4. this leaves NO doubt, the ICC cripple code was designed to rig benchmarks and make the Athlon and any chip Intel wasn't pushing look worse than the P4 which we all know now to be false. When the OEMs started using Athlon they simply paid the OEMs bribes not to sell AMD chips, again how can anyone not call it what it is? This is even more blatant than MSFT charging for Windows based on how many machines they sold with competitor's OSes!

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2012/01/new-kde-tablet-to-liberate-linux-enthusiasts-from-walled-garden.ars

Suddenly one of these is looking tempting for my tablet needs.

"needs" is an odd word to apply to a tablet. Why do you need it? What critical problem do you have that it solves?

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2012/01/new-kde-tablet-to-liberate-linux-enthusiasts-from-walled-garden.ars

Suddenly one of these is looking tempting for my tablet needs.

I did have an ASUS transformer for a few months but I sold it to a friend as I was unhappy with the way Android does things. I have an iPhone and whilst I think iOS is very clever I'm not convinced I would want it in a larger form factor. I want to be able to write code, play with software and be the master of my own system to a level that Android and iOS does not seem to happy with. I was wondering is an ARM Win8 tablet was the way forward - but this seems to rule of that option :(

I admit some Linux bias as I only use it at home and coding on it (armel linux) forms a large part of my job as well.

Check out the screenshotshere. There is another part of the program that is a lot more lucrative, based on a router.

The title of this article is wrong. Everything I read shows no decision has been made yet. The Judge ruled that there is no need for a prelimenary injunction.

I followed the link in the meaningless drivel that claims to be a submission. The link points to a blog full of meaningless drivel with another link. That link points to another blog full of meaningless drivel which contains a link to an Ars Technica article. And if you follow that link, you find that a submitter has quoted a clueless twat who copied an article from a clueless twat who read an Ars Technica article and didn't understand a word of it.

Quote from Ars Technica here http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/02/judge-denies-record-labels-request-to-shutter-used-mp3-store.ars : "Sullivanâ(TM)s decision means that the case is still headed to trial, where Capitol will attempt to prove its allegations that ReDigi facilitates wanton copyright infringement and is not protected by the first-sale doctrine."

No, selling used mp3s has not been found legal. If you trace the link's back to the original source you get this article at Ars:

**Judge denies record label's request to shutter "used" MP3 store**

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/02/judge-denies-record-labels-request-to-shutter-used-mp3-store.ars

The judge still thinks ReDigi's arguments are likely to fail and that Capitol Records will prevail. The only thing that is significant is that ReDigi's case isn't over yet at the motion stage.