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Prevent fragmentation...a bit late for that isn't it ?
http://www.businessinsider.com...

Oreo (v 8) is on 0.3% of devices vs gingerbread (v 2.3) 20.6%

each successive version has fewer and fewer users, what version 9 going to be called " Android 9 "Who gives a toss"

If this were Windows, over 20% of people would still be running MS-DOS 6.

Ah but you've proved his point -- since so many more Californians are wealthy than before, a record number of wealthy Californians are doing all sorts of things including breathing and leaving the state.

Mississipians, meanwhile, have one of the lowest migration rates of any state (source map). This is a resounding popular endorsement of Mississippi government, everyone loves the state so much they refuse to leave! I mean, it couldn't possibly have anything to do with Mississippians being too poor to move and Californians being rich enough to go wherever the heck they feel like and retire to a poor state with a consequentially lower cost of living.

http://www.businessinsider.com...

Ford Exec: 'We Know Everyone Who Breaks The Law' Thanks To Our GPS In Your Car

I got "1981" from Wikipedia. Re-reading, it doesn't specifically say that the actual Windows 1.0 codebase started in 1981, just that Microsoft "began developing a graphical user interface (GUI) in 1981."

I'll agree that what Microsoft was working on in 1981 probably got thrown away and didn't become part of Windows 1.0. However, I think my larger point stands, that Microsoft was working on a GUI long before the Mac came out, and didn't need to steal the Mac OS source code for their own project.

it wasn't fear, but greed that motivated Bill Gates in 1982

"Greed" is an emotionally-charged word but I basically agree. Gates wanted Microsoft to make a GUI, and he did want to make money by doing it.

without Microsoft working on software development for the new MacOS, they might not have developed Windows, in the above article Jeff Raikes attributes Bill Gates' conversion to believing in GUIs specifically to exposure to the MacOS.

Here's the relevant quote: "...I think at that point in time, you know, it really clicked with Bill that, you know, graphic user interface was going to be the way, the way of the future." I'm not sure what you think this proves. One guy says that in his opinion, "it really clicked" for Bill Gates that GUIs would be important. But at least if we believe Wikipedia, Microsoft was already working on a GUI. And according to Bill Gates he was a believer in GUI ever since he saw the computers at Xerox PARC.

What if Apple had done what Bill Gates asked and built and released a MacOS for PCs in 1985? Would there be no Windows?

In 1985, Windows was still a joke. If MacOS had been widely released, Microsoft would have given up on Windows and just accepted MacOS as the new standard. Microsoft made a lot of money selling Mac applications.

When the customers voted against OS/2 and for Windows, Microsoft accepted this reality; they walked away from OS/2 and started pushing Windows. If mass release of MacOS had happened, Microsoft would have accepted this reality, and focused on selling apps and making money that way.

Here's a Quora answer I wrote that includes my thoughts on a mass release of MacOS. My opinion hasn't changed since I wrote that.

Now that Windows is huge and important, Microsoft won't walk away from it. But back in the day when Windows was a joke, if MacOS had seen a mass release as a new standard, Microsoft would not have had any reason to keep trying to turn Windows into something good.

the point wasn't that they stole the entire code base and ran it as is.

Please provide some kind of evidence to support your theory that Microsoft stole and used actual code from Apple. Frankly when Apple was suing Microsoft, if Microsoft had actually stolen code, Apple would have added that to the lawsuit. But the Apple suit was over this nebulous concept of "look and feel", not over code theft.

Microsoft pre-empted the lawsuit, they told then CEO John Scully if he tried to sue they would stop development of Word and Excel for the Mac. Apple needed both of those applications because they were losing market share already. Then, to permanently stop any lawsuits over it, Microsoft offered to licence some of the Mac technologies.

And, after agreeing not to sue, Apple sued. And in that lawsuit they didn't say anything about code theft. Evidence or it didn't happen.

About "sabotaging OS/2"... I assumed that what you meant by "sabotage" was deliberately inserting malicious code while Microsoft was working on OS/2. Your link is an example of Microsoft people trash-talking OS/2, including a demo that a user-mode application could take

... because everyone and their dog have mobile phones nowadays.

My dog has two mobile phones you insensitive clod. On a side note, remember the story of the "Chinese billionaire who bought two Apple Watch Editions for his dog. http://uk.businessinsider.com/...

It's always interesting, when you're deliberately doing everything you can to ignore the facts in front of you (there's no need to unmask names like Kislyak's, because the NSA provides that in clear text for their audience - it's the US citizens associated with political rivals that Rice was gunning for) that your first reaction is to start obsessing about homosexuality. What an odd reaction on your part. I understand that you can't trouble yourself to deal with the facts, because you don't like where those facts point. But what's with your fetish, here? Have you considered getting some help with how to communicate about unrelated matters while keeping your sexual fantasies out of the conversation?

Rice has already testified about why she unmasked those people who turned out to be Trump associates. Before they were unmasked she wouldn't have known who they were, and unmasking isn't the same as publishing their identities. They were unmasked because they met with an important foreign dignitary who had chosen not to notify the American government that he was travelling to New York. The U.S. Government does have a legitimate interest in knowing what a foreign dignitary who is making an unannounced visit is up to. But you don't have to take my word for that, you can take reported words of the Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee:

"I didn't hear anything to believe that she did anything illegal," Republican Florida Rep. Tom Rooney told CNN of Rice's testimony.

South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy, who is one of the lawmakers spearheading the House investigation, told the Daily Caller "nothing that came up in her interview that led me to conclude" that she made inappropriate unmasking requests.

"She was a good witness, answered all our questions," Rep. Mike Conaway, the Texas Republican who took over leading the House Russia investigation after Nunes stepped down, told CNN. "I'm not aware of any reason to bring her back."

That's three Republicans, who are in a better position than you to judge the matter, who seem to think their is nothing to your accusations.

Governor. I've found your post it note.

Your password is
warningpoint2

Happy to help!

Elites, mainstream media, ...

Fox News IS the mainstream media. They are the #1 Cable news network.

Elites? WTF are the elites?

Fox News makes people uninformed; NPR informs them. I know, I know, Forbes is a Liberal rag.

Or how Fox News makes folks less informed than those that don't even watch the news! Again, NPR for the best informed.

And I don't know about you, but I consider Rupert Murdoch to be an elite himself - you know, a billionaire who has huge amounts of political power.

The media pushed the 17 number because they're mostly credulous fools, as Ben Rhodes pointed out.

And because Democrats like Hillary Clinton kept repeating it. Like the lie that Saddam planned 911, this one will never go away.

If your beef is with the credibility of the IC, would you have been convinced if the Treasury Department's Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence signed on?

You mean the same sort of people who told lies about Saddam having WMD's and planning 911? At this point, the burden of proof on the entire "intelligence community" is so high that if they claim water is wet, you'd better check for yourself. And consult a chemist just to be sure. Anyone who doesn't after the USG legalized domestic propaganda should send me their life savings before they lose it to a Nigerian prince.

Paul Preston and Tom Reed are two cranks who have been at this game since the early 90s. If you go to their "movement's" website you will find that their various "regional committees" are almost completely made up of Paul Preston and Tom Reed. Their previous efforts consisted entirely of raising money.

The funny part of this story is that Russian bots were pushing the story on Twitter and Facebook that this "New California" officially seceded from the rest of the state. Scamsters selling swag quickly got in on the fun:

https://twitter.com/GrantJKidn...

State secession has long been a favorite trope of the Russian bots. I'm sure you remember this story about how they pushed for Texas to secede. Turns out their Facebook page was run by the "Internet Research Agency" run out of St Petersburg, Russia.

https://extranewsfeed.com/how-...

https://washingtonmonthly.com/...

No collusion...

http://www.businessinsider.com...

Wow. The shills are out in full force. Let's summarize this thread so far:

1) But Hillary!

2) Witch Hunts!

3) No evidence!

so far, four people connected to the trump campaign, including its chairman, are under indictment

If you replace any one of the indicted names with the name of a member of the boogeyman "Clinton Global Criminal Organization", the right-wing would be frothing and apoplectic.

"Where's the evidence???"' my dudes read the fricking news.

What utter salacious propaganda.

It's also utterly true. Trump lawyer Michael Cohen created a special L.L.C. just to make the hush money payments to Stormy Daniels. And now, a total of three different porn stars have stepped up to corroborate the story.

http://www.businessinsider.com...

To acquaint someone with Einstein, start with some of his thought experiments which break Newtonian physics.

Exactly what I was going to say, but with a link!

"Einstein figured out how energy, mass and gravity work and are related to each other. "

That would be Newton. Einstein tweaked Newton to cover the extremes.

To acquaint someone with Einstein, start with some of his thought experiments which break Newtonian physics.

This is just speculation, but considering Amazon was paid $600 to setup a cloud system for our government(CIA, etc. )-- link below and owns the Washington Post -- which is an establishment mouth piece -- my guess is that they do give over our info. Anyways, like any corporation I don't hold my breath when it comes to my privacy, so I take steps to hopefully limit what I share.

A few top links about Amazon's $600 million deal with our goverment:
http://www.businessinsider.com...
https://www.theatlantic.com/te...

An early article from the Washington Post talking about the sell of it to Jeff Bezo:
https://www.washingtonpost.com...

Of course you could cite credible sources and prove your case.

Credile source #1

Among that group of employees, only those who have worked for Walmart for 20 years or more will get the full $1,000, Walmart told Business Insider.

Credible source #2

The bonuses will be determined by an employee's length of service. Those workers with more than 20 years of experience will qualify to receive the full $1,000. However, workers with less than two years of experience will receive $200, a Walmart spokesman told CNBC.

Credible source #3

A one-time bonus benefiting all eligible full and part-time hourly associates in the U.S. The amount of the bonus will be based on length of service, with associates with at least 20 years qualifying for $1,000. A discrete one-time charge will be taken in the fourth quarter of the current year to account for the bonus; qualification will be determined before the end of the month and payments will be paid as quickly as practical thereafter.

As to the difference between the income of those laid off and the bonuses, this article cites the bonuses will cost $400 million. This article says 9,400 people are being let go during the layoffs. Simple math shows $400 million/9,400 = 42,553. If we assume those being laid off made that much in salary and benefits, then after one year, the amount of money saved by laying off those people will dwarf the one-time bonus amount.

Of course you could cite credible sources and prove your case.

Credile source #1

Among that group of employees, only those who have worked for Walmart for 20 years or more will get the full $1,000, Walmart told Business Insider.

Credible source #2

The bonuses will be determined by an employee's length of service. Those workers with more than 20 years of experience will qualify to receive the full $1,000. However, workers with less than two years of experience will receive $200, a Walmart spokesman told CNBC.

Credible source #3

A one-time bonus benefiting all eligible full and part-time hourly associates in the U.S. The amount of the bonus will be based on length of service, with associates with at least 20 years qualifying for $1,000. A discrete one-time charge will be taken in the fourth quarter of the current year to account for the bonus; qualification will be determined before the end of the month and payments will be paid as quickly as practical thereafter.

As to the difference between the income of those laid off and the bonuses, this article cites the bonuses will cost $400 million. This article says 9,400 people are being let go during the layoffs. Simple math shows $400 million/9,400 = 42,553. If we assume those being laid off made that much in salary and benefits, then after one year, the amount of money saved by laying off those people will dwarf the one-time bonus amount.

When they say the money was kept "overseas" and now they're "bringing it to the US", that doesn't mean what you think it does. In fact that "overseas" money was being kept in bank accounts in New York and managed by an Apple subsidiary in Reno. It's only "overseas" in a completely fictional sense invented by accountants. No new money is going to be entering the US. There won't be any investment boom. The money's already here and they've already been investing it. Now congress has given them a huge tax cut, so to say thank you they're pretending it will magically create jobs. They have to pretend it will somehow help regular people, not just their shareholders.

http://www.businessinsider.com...

At the end of the article.

I suspect George Soros, after all, currency manipulation is his shtick. That guy has truly harmed millions of people over his evil money destroying schemes as he made himself and his investors rich.

Remember when he screwed over the British pound: https://priceonomics.com/the-t...

Or when he screwed over Thailand: http://www.businessinsider.com...

Or when he was caught illegally insider trading: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12...

A small price to pay for annoying the alt-right, as I'm sure you'll agree.

I suspect George Soros, after all, currency manipulation is his shtick. That guy has truly harmed millions of people over his evil money destroying schemes as he made himself and his investors rich.

Remember when he screwed over the British pound: https://priceonomics.com/the-t...

Or when he screwed over Thailand: http://www.businessinsider.com...

Or when he was caught illegally insider trading: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12...

Then there's this:
http://www.businessinsider.com...

It is? 97% of all bitcoins are held by just 4% of all addresses. With about 600,000 unique addresses, that means that 24,000 addresses control 97% of Bitcoin. It does take a small fraction of the total value of the currency to break it; witness George Soros doing it to the UK in 1992 (Black Wednesday) with $1 billion - against ~$300 in currency. That means about 0.3% of all Bitcoin would be all you need to break it, in terms of value. With so few controlling so much, there are bound to be many, many people with enough value to break the currency via shorts.

the second paragraph yet somehow infers during the first paragraph that bitcoin is a highly manipulated market subject to the whims of 1 or 2 individuals. ... i don't believe that's the case in 2017. the market is completely different in 2017 vs 2013

Maybe not 1 or 2 individuals, but didn't we just have this the other day? 97% of all bitcoins are held by 4% of addresses .

Germany's economy is larger than CA but using renewables they have more energy than they can use.

Nope.

During brief times of year, that MAY be true, as with the headline you are thinking of where German power pricing was negative on Christmas day in December.

However most of the time Germans are importing power because they shut down all nuclear plants - they are currently producing about 35% of their power from renewables

But all that importing and expensive renewable power facilities means that Germans pay some of the highest power rates in the world. Even if on Christmas you do get a break because the office buildings are shut down...
 

Norway is rehabilitative, not destructive, to those who commit crimes. Michael Moore's film, Where to Invade Next explored the system in Norway, and prompted articles like this one: Why Norway's prison system is so successful. Quote from that article: "... when criminals in Norway leave prison, they stay out. It has one of the lowest recidivism rates in the world at 20%. The US has one of the highest: 76.6% of prisoners are re-arrested within five years."

At one time, The US was not so bad at the rehab concept. Folsom Prison is an example.Back in the day, they had a low recidivism rate, then the "get tough on crime" crowd took over, and now it is an overcrowded shithole with a nice high recidivism rate.

It is obvious that the get tough on crime ideal has worked about as well as the War on Drugs.

So you end up wondering why so many people still believe in an obviously failed paradigm.

Here's why - a fair percentage of the American people have deathlust. They not only don't want criminals rehabilitated, they want them killed, and preferably as early as possible, in order to save the expense of a trial. And they want them killed for any crime, as long as it isn't their family.

But we haven't reached that point, and probably won't. so there is a big dynamic tension going on. The deathlust crowd wants some things that are contradictory in nature, like more people convicted of crimes, and much longer sentences, but do not want to pay for prison expansion. That one starts to make sense when you apply the fact that they desire a lot of summary executions.

In addition, "get tough on crime" is a pretty easy sell. O the surface it almost makes sense - "If we punish harder and harder, people will eventually stop committing crimes!"

Again, that almost makes sense, until we see that at some point, people become unafraid to die. Witness the number of crimes when the perpetrator does their crime, then kills themselves. While the tough on crime crowd at first cheers the lack of a trial, and their deathlust is temporarily sated, even they must admit that they have no other tools to prevent crime. An innocent is harmed or killed, and they cannot stop it. Being destructive to those who commit crimes is another crime, a crime committed by the government. The United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime lists other issues.

You mentioned several important issues: 1) Police are sometimes "trigger happy troops". 2) Police are "under immense pressure". Yes! Difficult job. 3) "Kansas police ... training of ... SWAT teams ... is far too militaristic." 4) "... the bulk of the burden ... falls squarely upon the guy who made the false report..."

There are other issues. Putting someone in prison for years: 1) Damages that person mentally and increases the mental disturbance they have when they enter prison. 2) Costs taxpayers HUGE amounts of money. The government should be required to post on a web site the cost to taxpayers of keeping each prisoner in prison. 3) When the prisoner is released, he or she is usually less likely to be able to lead a healthy life.

Norway is rehabilitative, not destructive, to those who commit crimes. Michael Moore's film, Where to Invade Next explored the system in Norway, and prompted articles like this one: Why Norway's prison system is so successful. Quote from that article: "... when criminals in Norway leave prison, they stay out. It has one of the lowest recidivism rates in the world at 20%. The US has one of the highest: 76.6% of prisoners are re-arrested within five years."

Being destructive to those who commit crimes is another crime, a crime committed by the government.

The United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime lists other issues.

NPR to be informed.

I don't get why folks have a problem with NPR. It's the only news source that I can actually hear both sides without the yelling and other bullshit - they do have many conservatives and Republicans on and let them say what they have to say. As a matter of fact, it's the only source where I can actually hear and understand the conservative side because the NPR folks actually ask decent questions.

And NPR is the news source that keeps me a centrist and not drinking the Leftist Kool-Aid because I can hear the rational versions of the conservative side - unlike Fox News.

I also can hear the rational side of the liberal side.

So, you propose we counter the ascent of the increasingly-Capitalist rival by becoming more Socialist ourselves?

I'd love to see one shred of objective evidence to support that -- if you have one.

See the current cases against Yale and Harvard. Or one of the dozens of articles on it, this isn't new or unknown. That's not even touching on the "affirmative action" bullshit with SAT scores, where blacks and mexicans are give massive point boosts simply because they're black or mexican. While asians and whites are punished and have points removed.

Basically if you're asian or white, you need to do twice to four times better then anyone else to land a position. Seriously, there's real racism going on here. But it's sure not in whites or asians favor.

Most importantly, the tendency is that unemployment in Europe is higher where wages are lower.

If you include Eastern Europe, you have to admit there is still a hangover from decades of under-investment during the time behind the iron curtain.

It's not only those countries, and it's not as if even they would suffer from high unemployment rates simply or primarily because they used to be "behind the iron curtain" long ago, either. There's Southern Europe, too; Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece. (And just as a side note, if you were thinking of the Balkan states: former Yugoslavia was never "behind the iron curtain".)

I didn't think it was controversial to point out that higher employment costs correlates to higher unemployment.

It is, and it doesn't, and it gets even worse when causality is implied in the assumption of correlation.

As we're already looking at Europe: Germany is one recent example of a country where unemployment drops since the introduction of minimum wages 2015 and a general increase in actual wages. And Britain has doubled its minimum wage since 2000, with no observable effect on unemployment (the linked article elaborates further on the subject, too).

Well except they had a whole issue dedicated to Never Trump

http://uk.businessinsider.com/...

And if you listen to NR podcasts they still think he's a disaster and run articles by people like the egregious Glenn Beck denouncing him as a threat to conservatism

http://www.nationalreview.com/...

Also when Buckley was editor he famously used the NR to 'define the limits of conservatism', i.e. by expelling the Birchers, Wallace supporters, anti semites and white nationalists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Buckley and Meyer promoted the idea of enlarging the boundaries of conservatism through fusionism, whereby different schools of conservatives, including libertarians, would work together to combat what were seen as their common opponents.[3]

Buckley and his editors used his magazine to define the boundaries of conservatism-and to exclude people or ideas or groups they considered unworthy of the conservative title. Therefore, they attacked the John Birch Society, George Wallace, and anti-Semites.[3][18]

Buckley's goal was to increase the respectability of the conservative movement; as Rich Lowry noted: "Mr. Buckley's first great achievement was to purge the American right of its kooks. He marginalized the anti-Semites, the John Birchers, the nativists and their sort."[19]

In 1957, the National Review editorialized in favor of white leadership in the South, arguing that "the central question that emerges... is whether the White community in the South is entitled to take such measures as are necessary to prevail, politically and culturally, in areas where it does not predominate numerically? The sobering answer is Yes - the White community is so entitled because, for the time being, it is the advanced race."[20][21] By the 1970s the National Review advocated colorblind policies and the end of affirmative action.[22]

In the late 1960s, the magazine denounced segregationist George Wallace, who ran in Democratic primaries in 1964 and 1972 and made an independent run for president in 1968. During the 1950s, Buckley had worked to remove anti-Semitism from the conservative movement and barred holders of those views from working for National Review.[23] In 1962 Buckley denounced Robert W. Welch, Jr. and the John Birch Society as "far removed from common sense" and urged the G.O.P. to purge itself of Welch's influence.[24]

So the National Review is essentially dedicated to keeping the far right out the GOP. Also populists like Trump and anyone not acceptable to elite New York opinion.

Earlier in the day I saw an a US ad for Huawei. It was the first time I've ever seen such a thing. It was also very strange. I am going to walk out on a limb and sound racist. Slashdot can make of it what it will. It was a very American ad in terms of dramatizing how super cool their tech is and the general way it was scripted and shot. It was also presented as a "here we come" kind of commercial. It was also very Asian as all the actors had were Chinese (or looked kinda like it) had heavy Asian accents, and was obviously shot in China, yet they were acting like Americans. It was about the Mate 10 being the end all be all. I think perhaps I saw it on YouTube which is strange as I only saw it the one time. I wish I had a link. Did anyone else see it? Dissect this as you wish. I could have given a better commentary but I've been drinking. It was rather striking and unusual though.

Foreign companies sometimes have to walk a fine line that can be difficult to follow. Many American chains in Japan have failed. Some didn't offer enough "Japanized" menu options (Wendy's). Others went in the other direction and failed because they catered 100% to Japanese tastes, and didn't offer any American menu items for customers who were seeking American-style food (Krispy Kreme).

Marketing and branding are also very important. The foreign company has to find some niche or market that domestic companies fail to deliver on. As example, KFC has somehow convinced many Japanese people that Christmas = Fried Chicken. This was probably helped by the fact that Christmas in Japan is not the huge tradition it is in the USA, and turkey is very uncommon in Japan. KFC manufactured a tradition where none existed.

Here you go (1st link from 2012):
https://www.cnet.com/news/its-...
http://www.businessinsider.com...

You're right. It didn't go on quite long enough to be a manifesto. It was more of an uninformed rant.

You're a liar, because his "uninformed rant" was sourced.

You're an idiot, just like James Damore, who did not understand the papers he was citing, and therefore got the science wrong. You don't get any points for misusing science. The authors of some of the papers he cited felt strongly enough about it that they came out and said that he got it wrong, so we know beyond a shadow of a doubt that he is mis-citing papers. You are ignoring this to make your hero seem intelligent and correct, when he is neither.

We don't know. The text of the orders hasn't been published. However, there are some details on the White House website:

The first of these two orders instructs the Department of Interior to dedicate a portion of its assets for rural broadband installation. The second order will streamline the installation process by requiring agencies to use standardized forms and contracts for installing antennas on federal buildings, thus improving process efficiency.

According to the White House, it certainly sounds positive. However, there is still room for speculation, and certainly cause to be concerned.

The first order could be anything, from allocating funding for connection projects to forcing the DoI to sell off chunks of land for corporate use. There's so little detail in the descriptions I've seen that it's very difficult to determine exactly what the President is doing.

The second order seems benign enough as described, but the devil's usually in the details. Standardized forms that are too detailed actually become a barrier for those without dedicated resources to handle them. A small ISP may not be able to afford the manpower to fill out every detail of the request form, effectively shutting them out of the opportunity presented to larger companies. On the other hand, documents that are not specific enough can hide uncertainty in a design, which leads to increased costs as problems arise.

As amazed as I am at Slashdot's timely reporting, we seem to have jumped the gun to actually have an insightful conversation.

There are a number of different lists but a pretty good example of why James Damore has a decent chance at legal victory is here.

If he Google were anywhere else but California he probably would not be able to win. But then again, if Google were any place other than California he would not have been fired...

Do as you will, but I'm looking at the data and it's inherently obvious to the most casual observer that "unstable," is accurate.

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Microsoft Is Filled With Abusive Managers And Overworked Employees, Says Tell-All Book

Embrace, extend, and extinguish "... a phrase that the U.S. Department of Justice found was used internally by Microsoft to describe its strategy for entering product categories involving widely used standards, extending those standards with proprietary capabilities, and then using those differences to disadvantage its competitors."

Microsoft no longer sells a usable operating system. Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made.

Windows 10 shows you ads while you are trying to work. But, at least at present, you may be able to stop at least some of the advertising: 7 ways Windows 10 pushes ads at you, and how to stop them.

You can just buy the device outright and get yourself a pay as you go data SIM which you charge up when you're in the country

In the US I always used the T Mobile Walmart $30 a month package, now sadly discontinued

http://uk.businessinsider.com/...

In the UK I use Tesco mobile where you can get 1GB £7.50 or 2GB for £10

https://www.tescomobile.com/he...

You might be able to do better than this now - there are loads of MVNOs and the market is fairly competitive.

Most countries have mobile operators which offer cheap data packages for pay as you go. In fact in Taiwan it's cheaper to get pay as you go data than it is to get prepaid data. Which is handy if you have a dual SIM phone - have one SIM for the phone number but another for cheap data. Or of course if you have a phone for calls and some other device for data.

Apple suppliers fall in Asia following local news report of weak iPhone X demand

Chinese companies just put in backdoors for the Chinese government, organised crime, your Chinese competitors and so on.

https://thehackernews.com/2015...

http://www.zdnet.com/article/f...

http://www.securityweek.com/ap...

http://www.businessinsider.com...

https://tvnewswatch.blogspot.c...

The author of the explosive new book about Donald Trump's presidency acknowledged in an author's note that he wasn't certain all of its content was true.

Michael Wolff, the author of "Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House," included a note at the start that casts significant doubt on the reliability of the specifics contained in the rest of its pages.

Several of his sources, he says, were definitely lying to him, while some offered accounts that flatly contradicted those of others.

http://www.businessinsider.com...
 

Maybe I'll get to it, after I read Von Daniken's latest best seller.

Links about Trump

Trump's lies:

In 298 days, President Trump has made 1,628 false and misleading claims (Nov. 13, 2017, Washington Post)

In a 30-minute interview, President Trump made 24 false or misleading claims. (Dec. 29, 2017, Washington Post)

President Trump's Lies, the Definitive List (Dec. 14, 2017, The New York Times)

10 Falsehoods From Trump's Interview With The Times (Dec. 29, 2017, New York Times)

Trump takes credit for zero aviation deaths worldwide. (Jan. 2, 2018, Trump's Twitter account)
Replies:
"I'm gonna take credit for puppies being cute..."
"Guess who's responsible for designing the cute kangaroo pouches that keep little Joeys safe? That right, it was Me. ME. ME!"
"That's a job well done, thank you, but don't forget I gave dolphins their blowholes! Without me, they would've drowned!"

Sexual abuse:

The 19 Women Who Accused President Trump of Sexual Misconduct (Dec. 7, 2017, The Atlantic.com)

Mental instability:

Incoherent, authoritarian, uninformed: Trump's New York Times interview is a scary read. (Dec. 30, CNBC) Quotes:
"President Donald Trump tells a string of falsehoods in his recent New York Times interview that make it difficult to tell whether he is lying or delusional."
"Trump appears to suffer from the Dunning-Kruger effect, which holds that the least competent people often believe they are the most competent."
"Trump's comments are, by turns, incoherent, incorrect, conspiratorial, delusional, self-aggrandizing, and underinformed."

Lawyers 'Telling Trump What He Wants To Hear' So He Won't Fire Mueller (Dec. 31, 2017, Huffingtonpost.com) Quote:
"The president of the United States, in their view, is out of control a good deal of the time..." People who work for Trump have to adjust to his instability.

8 of the Sleaziest Things Donald Trump Has Said (June 16, 2015, 2 1/2 years ago, RollingStone.com)

Choosing weak people to be leaders:

Trump's FCC Chairman pick Ajit Pai heralds a weaker, meeker Commission (Jan. 23, 2017, TechCrunch.com, almost one year ago)
Ajit Pai's FCC is still editing the net neutrality repeal order (Jan 2, 2018, ArsTechnica.com)

Trump picks ghost hunter to be federal judge (Nov. 15 2017, BBC News) Quote:
"The appointment of Brett Talley, 36, for a lifetime post as an Alabama federal judge is raising eyebrows because he has never tried a case."

Profiting personally:

Trump has now spen

You need to pay more attention then.

Arizona woman victim of swatting

The most egregious case involved an Arizona woman who withdrew from the University of Arizona after the hacker threatened her and her parents. The hacker called the Tucson police, claiming he had shot his parents with an AR15 rifle, had bombs, and would kill police officers on sight.

This prompted a SWAT team to raid the woman's home. He pulled the same prank five days later while the woman's mother was visiting and then again on her parents' house, where her father and brother were dragged out at gunpoint.

His harassment didn't end there. He posted the woman's parents' credit-card information online, sent his victim 218 simultaneous text messages, and hacked into her email and Twitter accounts.

If I wanted to be unkind I'd say you never heard of things like this because you probably dismiss women as whiners and oversensitive snowflakes. But I'll give you the benefit of the doubt of just being horribly naive about what male internet trolls are willing to subject women to.

Fucking God Dammit shitel shill, the article is using Shitels PR statement as reference, and you keep posting the same FUCKING incorrect information. So fuck off, I will say it again just stop fucking shilling , here is exactly what AMD said https://www.amd.com/en/corpora... , and what Linus Tovalds said about the god dam PR statement you linked to http://www.businessinsider.com...

Links about Trump

Trump's lies:

In 298 days, President Trump has made 1,628 false and misleading claims (Nov. 13, 2017, Washington Post)

In a 30-minute interview, President Trump made 24 false or misleading claims. (Dec. 29, 2017, Washington Post)

President Trump's Lies, the Definitive List (Dec. 14, 2017, The New York Times)

10 Falsehoods From Trump's Interview With The Times (Dec. 29, 2017, New York Times)

Trump takes credit for zero aviation deaths worldwide. (Jan. 2, 2018, Trump's Twitter account)
Replies:
"I'm gonna take credit for puppies being cute..."
"Guess who's responsible for designing the cute kangaroo pouches that keep little Joeys safe? That right, it was Me. ME. ME!"
"That's a job well done, thank you, but don't forget I gave dolphins their blowholes! Without me, they would've drowned!"

Sexual abuse:

The 19 Women Who Accused President Trump of Sexual Misconduct (Dec. 7, 2017, The Atlantic.com)

Mental instability:

Incoherent, authoritarian, uninformed: Trump's New York Times interview is a scary read. (Dec. 30, CNBC) Quotes:
"President Donald Trump tells a string of falsehoods in his recent New York Times interview that make it difficult to tell whether he is lying or delusional."
"Trump appears to suffer from the Dunning-Kruger effect, which holds that the least competent people often believe they are the most competent."
"Trump's comments are, by turns, incoherent, incorrect, conspiratorial, delusional, self-aggrandizing, and underinformed."

Lawyers 'Telling Trump What He Wants To Hear' So He Won't Fire Mueller (Dec. 31, 2017, Huffingtonpost.com) Quote:
"The president of the United States, in their view, is out of control a good deal of the time..." People who work for Trump have to adjust to his instability.

8 of the Sleaziest Things Donald Trump Has Said (June 16, 2015, 2 1/2 years ago, RollingStone.com)

Choosing weak people to be leaders:

Trump's FCC Chairman pick Ajit Pai heralds a weaker, meeker Commission (Jan. 23, 2017, TechCrunch.com, almost one year ago)
Ajit Pai's FCC is still editing the net neutrality repeal order (Jan 2, 2018, ArsTechnica.com)

Trump picks ghost hunter to be federal judge (Nov. 15 2017, BBC News) Quote:
"The appointment of Brett Talley, 36, for a lifetime post as an Alabama federal judge is raising eyebrows because he has never tried a case."

Profiting personally:

Trump has now spe

According to the best information I have:

when exactly did Intel learn of the problem?

June 1st, 2017 (Google's Disclosure)

When exactly did Mr. Krzanich learn of the problem?

Unknown

When exactly did Mr. Krzanich file the pre-arranged stock sale plan (10b5-1)?

October 30th, 2017. (Business Insider)

Google and Amazon both say its negligible.

http://www.businessinsider.com...

To avoid the appearance of impropriety, executives often are required to schedule stock sales months ahead of time. That's what happened here.

Yes, but how many months ahead of time in this particular case? From some of the released information so far, we know that Google contacted Intel about their discovery of this issue on June 1, 2017.

According to the link below (warning...anti-adblock popup), the sales were arranged in October, LONG after Intel was aware of it. Between June and October, it's almost certain information about the magnitude of this vulnerability and the impact of fixing it had made it all the way up to to the CEO.
http://www.businessinsider.com...