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And no American ones? Yet the Euros are the first to scream about how great they are for the environment and how bad the US is. Looks like they just proved to be hypocrites.

Oh, and there was General Motors too.

Federal Judge Upholds Emissions-Cheating Claims Against GM and Bosch in Duramax Class-Action Lawsuit

DETROIT--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today a U.S. District judge in Michigan upheld consumers’ claims alleging that General Motors (NYSE: GM) and Bosch installed an emissions-cheating system in at least 705,000 2011-2016 Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra trucks, allowing them to emit harmful pollutants at illegally high levels, according to Hagens Berman.

  The emissions-cheating system at the crux of the class action includes three total defeat devices.

More efficient? That's a lie. Flat out. They are not even as efficient. Even your own numbers say so.

Then cite them. Prove your assertion with evidence. At this point you're committing the fallacy of "proof by assertion". IE that you'll prove your argument right if you merely say it enough times.

Meanwhile, well:
https://www.energy.gov/eere/vi...
https://www.sciencedirect.com/...
https://insideevs.com/momentum...
https://www.businesswire.com/n...

And I don't think you realize that the losses of the inductive charging portion is in addition to the losses of the charger in the first place. It's an additional loss...

Prove it. Everything I've seen shows that they're looking at "wall to battery" efficiency. Wired chargers have losses as well. It could very well be that inductie chargers are covering up, efficiency wise, by being substantially more expensive, but I've done the research.

Inductive chargers are integrated. It isn't charger + inductive coil, it's an inductive charger. It's a complete integrated charging system(assuming it is efficiently designed).

Though it is good that we've identified where the difference in thought comes from. Problem is, I believe you're wrong because you haven't actually cited any evidence.

Let me guess, you're not an electrical engineer, are you?

Back to ad hominem attacks are we?

Let me guess, you're not an electrical engineer either, and as you apparently aren't willing to do research, like what I actually DID, I may not be an electrical engineer, but I've taken classes in electronics and I'm perfectly able to read and interpret studies and technical documents, you're talking out of your ass?

Stop and think: what is more efficient - power via high-tension line, or power via broadcast energy?

Red herring fallacy. What is efficient for transporting electricity over hundreds of miles in the hundreds of kV isn't necessarily efficient for transporting electricity over something like 6".

In addition, because we are looking at chargers, which have to alter and maintain specific voltages, amperages, not to mention converting AC into DC, there's quite a bit of electronics involved. That is where the savings are seen.

Plus, consider, the inductive element is like 6" of travel. How many feet of power power cord are we typically looking at? Probably 9 feet or more?

Finally, consider that I'm showing citations of 90% or more efficiency. The difference between 90% and 92% isn't all that great, and can be justified through things like system convenience and life. If you end up having to replace the power cable more often than the inductive unit, whether due to wear, weathering, accident, theft*, or vandalism**, you may find yourself having to do a cost analysis to determine which is more economical. Well, you need to do that anyways, but that comes down to having to bust out the spreadsheets on specific proposals that are deeper than we're going here anyways.

TLDR: Stop attempting argumentative fallacies on me and debate properly and we might get somewhere.

*Damn copper thieves feeding their meth habits....
**A properly buried inductive unit should experience less vandalism than an open air cable.

Basically you're switching from a 100% efficient cable to 80% efficient wireless.

Problem:
1. As LynnwoodRooster identified, cables aren't 100% efficient themselves.
2. The 80% efficiency is for the entire charging circuit, and is a false number. I'm seeing numerous examples around 90%.

Of course, the ideal isn't to just look at the "wireless link" and assume all other parts are still present and the same loss. It's better to look at the loss from the input on the charging 'station' to what the vehicle receives. Most charging stations have extensive electronics, after all. Inductive chargers allow some of the loss to be "shifted" to the inductive link, as the link itself remains ~90% efficient.

Amazon customers disagree: https://www.businesswire.com/n...

North Korans love their dear leader.

Despots all over Africa get 110% of the vote. Some people love their oppressor so much they voted for him twice!

Amazon customers disagree: https://www.businesswire.com/n...

"If borne out in clinical testing, COR388 could represent a wholly new approach to addressing a disease estimated to affect more than 5.4 million people in the United States." - Business Wire article

I really hope this turns out to be a breakthrough. But as the debunked Buzzfeed story showed us, something prefixed with "if true" isn't necessarily true.

Why are the U.S. taxpayers subsidizing these failing industries? Look at Comcast. They only had $4.3 billion in free cash flow in the second quarter of 2018. Why should we pour more of our hard earned money down the drain for a company which can't survive without its corporate welfare payments?

And what about Verizon? They've only had $26.2 billion in free cash flow so far this year. What a travesty that such a failing company has to beg for money from the taxpayers.

Intel, circa 2017: "We cannot figure out how to successfully engineer 10nm wafers. Our tick-tock strategy is stalled, and we cannot design chips that are any faster. What should we do?"
Intel Solution: "MORE CORES!"

Intel, circa 2018: "AMD just released Ryzen, and it's destroying us in benchmarks. Anyone figure out that 10nm thingie yet?"
Intel Solution: "Nope. But we did add MORE CORES!"

Now must be a great time to be an Intel engineer.

It is at least 800 this year

A few things.

1) US Steel planning to add. Planning. Believe it when you see it. This isn't your grandad's blast furnace, today the steel industry is highly automated. And how many times must you endure this Trump promise charade before you recognize the pattern?

2) What is the chance that somebody from Trump's administration did not "make a deal" to elicit that US Steel press release? (I'll help you here: exactly zero.)

3) The Tax Foundation estimates that the Trump tariffs will immediately result in the loss of 48,585 jobs and that job losses could number as high as 250,000 Subtract from your 800 (I'll be charitable) then multiply by your precious 3.6 additional jobs. Reality.

4) Everybody knows these things except Trump's "Q pack".

5) Here's another one for you. It's a wave all right, these are not promises, these are things that actually happened.

6) The value of iron and steel produced in 2014 was $113 billion.

7) Software Industry Growth Far Outpaces US Economy, Hits $1.14 Trillion.

8) Go to lake Erie, get some lungfuls of that rust belt air. Yum yum, really miss that rust belt.

Disney doesn't need Hulu, they already have a platform for their streaming service,

Disney Acquires Majority Ownership of BAMTech

The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS) today announced that it has agreed to acquire majority ownership of BAMTech, LLC and will launch its ESPN-branded multi-sport video streaming service in early 2018, followed by a new Disney-branded direct-to-consumer streaming service in 2019.

Samsung OLED operating margins are 12% to 22%, which would put the profit on $22 billion at around 2.5 to 5 billion dollars.

Exactly. They will "make" something less than $5 billion assuming there aren't further issues waiting in the wings as these screens age. They will not make $22 billion. But that is the way most are reading these headlines and articles. The comments and follow-on analyses present on virtually every article that has reported this show that the readers are being successfully misled into believing that Samsung is pocketing $22 billion profit.

There also seems to be a lot of confusion on the actual gross amount Samsung is getting paid for the OLED displays. Contracts reported in the April timeframe worked out to $71 per display. The whole display assembly was reported as $110 as recently as November 8th but includes components such as the touch panel and glass that come from other vendors. The Samsung component is just a piece of that. Many articles, including the WSJ article that started this latest media storm on an old subject have played very loose with the numbers and terms in an apparent attempt to hype Samsung whose stock has been moved by this.

There was also some fast and loose comparison with the Samsung's profit on this versus the Galaxy 8. They limited the comparison to component sales, leaving out the profit that Samsung makes on the phones themselves. Just as Apple makes more profit than the total production cost on each iPhone, Samsung's big profit is on the phones, not the components.

Samsung is making more money on iPhone X than on their Galaxy phones.

[citation needed]

Both Samsung and Apple sell high end devices for at least 100% markup. E.g.

http://news.ihsmarkit.com/pres...

After $5.90 in basic manufacturing costs are added, Samsung's total cost to make the Galaxy S8 rises to $307.50; the unsubsidized price for a 64GB Galaxy S8 starts at around $720. The preliminary estimated total at this point is $43.34 higher than that of the Galaxy S7 previously performed by IHS Markit, and is $36.29 higher than the total build cost of the Galaxy S7 Edge, considered a better comparison to the Galaxy S8. IHS Markit has not yet performed a teardown analysis on the larger Galaxy S8 Plus.

So Samsung spends $307 BOM cost and the device sells for $720, i.e. they make about $413.

Now IHS reckon for an iPhone X

http://www.businesswire.com/ne...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Teardown engineers at IHS Markit (Nasdaq: INFO) have completed their preliminary physical dissection of the new Apple iPhone X and found that the model A1865 version of the smartphone with 64 gigabytes (GB) of NAND memory carries a bill of materials (BOM) of $370.25.

With a starting price of $999, the iPhone X is $50 more than the previous most expensive iPhone, the 8 Plus 256 GB. As another point of comparison, Samsung's Galaxy S8 with 64 GB of NAND memory has a BOM of $302 and retails at around $720.

We don't know what Samsung charges for a display. IHS estimates it costs Apple $110 for the display assembly "which includes the cover glass, AMOLED panel and Force Touch sensor". And we don't know at all what AMOLEDs cost Samsung to make.

Still it's hard to see how they could make more money selling displays to Apple - who bargain hard on price - than it could selling them in its own handsets.

Maybe you could argue that selling more high end displays in Apple devices is better for Samsung than selling low end ones in mid market phones like the J7/A7 etc.

I'm not convinced though.

Of course for a megacorp like Samsung it makes sense if all the bits of the corporation try to maximize their profitability individually. I.e. the display part should sell to Apple if it makes money doing it even if the phone part would rather it did not. The alternative - where the phone part can stop the display part selling to Apple by appealing to its sense of patriotism - is very bad. But not uncommon among megacorps.

You see this failure mode in Samsung phones with an OLED display. And the iPhone X uses a Samsung display.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Seems like it is a bad vertical line driver looking at this.

https://us.community.samsung.c...

One of the vertical line drivers is stuck 'on'. So you get a line mostly in one of the primary colours - R, G or B. Or, less common, a combination of the two.

My S5 is still fine, but for some reason I've seen a few people with battered looking S7s and S8s with the vertical line. Not sure if the battering causes the failure or if some display panels just fail spontaneously.

Incidentally, there's an amusing bit of Apple overcharging for glass

https://www.theverge.com/circu...

The iPhone X went on sale today, and with it, Apple released some information about the phoneâ(TM)s repair pricing â" and like the phone itself, it gets expensive. If you donâ(TM)t have the extended warranty, a screen replacement will cost $279. Thatâ(TM)s more than twice the price of an iPhone 6 screen replacement ($129) and about 65 percent higher than a new iPhone 8 screen ($169). The pricing was first spotted by MacRumors.

If that sounds high, you should be careful not to damage an iPhone X in any other way: all other out-of-warranty repairs will cost $549. Again, thatâ(TM)s a lot more than what other recent iPhones cost to repair. iPhone 8 repairs cost $349 and 8 Plus repairs cost $399. That means if you crack the glass back of the iPhone X (or the iPhone 8), you might just want to live with it.

Appleâ(TM)s extended warranty, AppleCare+, often looks like a pricey upsell. But for iPhone X buyers, it seems like it might be a necessary safety net. Appleâ(TM)s warranty costs $199 for the iPhone X (up from $129 for the iPhone 8 and $149 for the 8 Plus); but while the warranty itself is more expensive, warranty service fees (which apply only when Apple is repairing something with âoeaccidental damageâ) donâ(TM)t go up at all. So an iPhone X can still get a $29 screen repair if itâ(TM)s under warranty, and it can still get a $99 repair for anything else under AppleCare+, too.

So it's $279 for a replacement display out of warranty. Or $29 with warranty. And the warranty costs $199. And all other repairs are a whopping $549.

So if you're the sort of person who cracks the display on your phone, you're going to be paying through the nose for it.

IHS reckons the display assembly is

http://www.businesswire.com/ne...

IHS Markit estimates the cost of the display module, which includes the cover glass, AMOLED panel and Force Touch sensor, at $110.

I.e. Apple make a fair bit of profit out of people dropping their phones. Arguably the reason Apple and Samsung have moved to glass front and back is that glass breaks and repairs are profitable. Also, especially in the Samsung case, it's hard to take the phone apart without damaging expensive bits if you look at the iFixit videos.

I reckon I could get a whole new, or at least 'pre-owned' S5 for less than $279 if I looked around a bit.

Alibaba info here: http://alibaba.newshq.business... under Full Fiscal Year 2016 Operational and Financial Results
Amazon info here: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/e...

did some quick googling (but haven't really investigated the links in depth yet)

amazon official press release (non-multimedia version): Introducing the Newest Prime Benefit – Audible Channels for Prime

amazon official press release: multimedia version

https://www.amazon.com/audiblechannels

http://www.audible.com/channels/

I seem to recall reading something about that, involving Narus, before they got bought by Boeing. . .

Example of the Saudis doing it:

http://www.businesswire.com/ne...

http://www.businesswire.com/ne...

It's popular on Slashdot to loudly pronounce that strong AI is impossible. This is different from years past. I take the change to mean that it's coming very soon. As it seems more inevitable people who don't want change (whether out of fear, distrust, or sour grapes) will decry AI more.

Now weak AI isn't just coming. It has arrived. And Moore's law was supposed to have stopped years ago but supercomputers and video cards are still on a logarithmic slope for performance and price. The human brain is estimated to calculate between 100 petaflops and 1 exaflop. I know that's not a good metric but for this purpose it suffices. But as performance keeps doubling and doubling it becomes more evident that even the highest estimates are a question of a few more doubling periods. And the highest estimates assume direct one-to-one simulation of each neuron. Consider how many neurons are used for breathing, processing vision, and other things that either aren't needed in a machine or have already been done at a much lower computational cost on silicon.

It's true we don't know everything about how the human brain works. But recent progress is undeniable in terms of success stories. Jeopardy. Go. Commodity trading. Corporate resource balancing. Piloting. To keep shouting that strong AI is impossible is to only betray one's own insecurity. You are not special. Your brain doesn't run on quantum magic. You have no soul. Fucking deal with it.

... expect to see promoted tweets ...

I'm adding peach and eggplant emojis to all my communiques.

In many ways, Congress created this mess, and it's frustrating that it's not getting more reporting. Back in 2013, TSA had 47,000 screening agents. Today, it has 42,000, a reduction in about 5,000 screeners. This reduction is a very large part of why TSA lines have gotten worse this year - fewer agents despite a trend of steadily increasing passenger traffic year-over-year. Why did they cut the number of screeners? Because since 2013, Congress diverted $13B of the 9/11 fee on airline tickets to spend on unrelated budget items. So it's no surprise that TSA screening times and quality have dropped: if you cut funding, which leads to 10% headcount reductions, it's not a big surprise that screening times increase.

NIST isn't the standards body retailers care about. That would be PCI, the organization that determines who can take credit cards. And their deadline was not in 2013. http://www.businesswire.com/ne...

The Weather Company is the parent company of The Weather Channel. They are 70% owned by the Rothchilds.

I just knew it! It's a Zionist conspiracy to control the weather!

The Weather Company is the parent company of The Weather Channel. They are 70% owned by the Rothchilds.

Or Displayport + VGA

That's still a 20 cent royalty payable to a pool including Sony and four other companies, plus the cost of the DP physical connector and the circuitry needed for the DP sink.

There is HDMI monitors without speakers.

Through what output do such monitors pass the received audio signal?

Are DVI and DisplayPort patented with royalties?

DisplayPort has a 1 USD royalty per 5 devices. My search couldn't pull up info one way or the other for DVI.

Unfortunately, they have the backing of this guy who is on some sort of crusade to protect humans and wildlife from those oh so dangerous invisible EMF rays.

Even more unfortunately, he appears to be a bright guy with fairly well established credentials.

The problem is (and this is sometimes overlooked by judges) smart people can be:
a) wrong
b) crazy
c) lying

In this case I think it's (a) with a healthy dose of (b) mixed in.

Hopefully the judge takes stock of the numerous double blind studies where it has been shown that EMF "sufferers" symptoms disappeared when they were unaware of the presence of EMF radiation

In other news, Anthem is going to acquire Cigna. Now all those Cigna customers can get the same high-quality data protection and HIPPA compliance that all Anthem customers enjoy. Of course Anthem will only pay a paltry fine for not protecting customer information and will in return provide one year of "credit monitoring" to those affected by their stupidity.

Why can't she decide for herself?

Let's look at a recent survey:

* More than half of girls (53 percent) ages 16 to 24 feel they lacked the confidence to do whatever they wanted to do after puberty.
* Almost all girls (89 percent) feel there is pressure to conform to the way they're supposed to feel and act.
* Sixty percent of girls believe that society's expectations have a negative impact on their life.
* Girls are almost twice as likely as boys to say they did not feel comfortable doing an activity in school because of their gender.

Why can't she decide for herself? Because society is filled with arrogant assholes who insist that women must conform to the traditional roles that women have always been confined to. Any woman who dares to stand up and make a different choice is harassed, abused, derided and shoved back down.

This is about trying to remove the social pressures that force women to conform to traditional roles, not forcing them to become engineers. You don't like that idea, so you're trying very hard to make a straw man work, but it's just making you sound like an arrogant asshole who wants to keep the status quo in place.

Here is the list of stores

http://staples.newshq.business...

The iPad has lost momentum already, even though the tablet market continues to grow. IDC's Latest figures http://www.businesswire.com/ne...

Isn't it odd that Amazon doesn't even show up in that list? Looks like it's time for a Fire Sale. Oh, and drop the DRM already Amazon.

I find it astonishing especially considering the clunkyness of the iPad, that it has any book sales at all. It is not good for books(pdf textbooks is a dream and Jobsy pushed a new standard based on fixed sized for obvious lock-in). The iPad mini is a lot better for books, but unlike its big brother is unattractive compared to the opposition (Android on Small tablets...Large Phones and ebooks), and it has nothing in the Phablet form factor.

The iPad has lost momentum already, even though the tablet market continues to grow. IDC's Latest figures http://www.businesswire.com/ne... How about you focusing on competing considering content seems to be a massive market as massive mark-ups don't work when they are not hidden in long term expensive contracts.

Really though we(here on slashdot...and the backrooms of Apple) should be talking about DRM free...Open format books, anything else is stupid for the underdog. It is what we want.

Its already been decided by the industry that its going to be ACPI.

And Canonical helped desgin it... with ACPI in it

http://www.businesswire.com/ne...

So I don't understand why Mark is suddenly against it. Sudden change of heart leading Ubuntu to be non compatible with other linux operating systems? Again? I don't get it.

There's a data link between the ISS and docking vehicles. A new version of that was developed recently. Here's the presentation on that. But it doesn't seem to be operational yet. NASA has been talking about the new C2V2 system for years, and commercial spacecraft were supposed to be designed to use it. But it's not ready yet.

So Space-X and Orbital Sciences had to also develop a temporary capability to use the old automated docking system, which, I think, is derived from the Soviet-era Kursk system.

If Google won, full-stop, then why have they felt it necessary to license the MPEG-LA patents, and why is this license restricted to VP8 and one successor generation? Your spin on it is interesting, especially as it comes from reading the announcement by WebM which isn't exactly without interest.

Here is the press release http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20130307006192/en/Google-MPEG-LA-Announce-Agreement-Covering-VP8.

Far from the rosy picture you are painting this seems to say that Google have recognised that VP8 was patent encumbered all along. Google will be paying substantially for this licensing deal and its nothing to do with a battle for the FOSS movement and everything to do with Google positioning itself for the future. In effect this is a loss for Google and they've had to stump up to get themselves out of a hole that they managed to dig themselves into.

There is a different between, maintaining share price over 10 years ...and losing 35% of its value in 3 months. Those profits are already accounted for in its current share price. The reality is Apple is slowing http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20130214005415/en/Android-iOS-Combinid. And Timmy the highest paid CEO in the world, and has done *nothing*.

The reality is your arguing Apple is just another electronics company now...and I agree wholeheartedly.

Oct 2011 - Dec 2011, sold 37 mil iphones.
Oct 2012 - Dec 2012, sold 48 mil iphones.

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20130214005415/en/Android-iOS-Combinid

Compared to Androids

Oct 2011 - Dec 2011, sold 85 mil smartphones.
Oct 2012 - Dec 2012, sold 160 mil smartphones.

Thats ignoring Apple are now selling more lower marking 4* Phones Apples market share.

From the statement "iOS posted yet another quarter and year of double-digit growth with strong demand for the iPhone. But what also stands out is how iOS's year-over-year growth has slowed compared to the overall market." your right its better than losing all there customers...not good though.

There certainly have been excesses in the recording industry's past, but these days the record industry -- record labels, recording studios, and most importantly music artists -- are just struggling to survive.

I guess that's why Nielsen Soundscan is reporting that overall music sales were up 4% in first half of 2012 compared to same time last year. And the 2011 report said overall music sales were up 6.9% and: "For the first time, total music purchases reached the 1.6 Billion mark for the year." And there's still more than 75000 albums released per year so there's no mass death of artists, the rumors of the impending doom of the music industry are wildly exaggerated.

As reported:
Samsung Galaxy S3 — 18.0 million units
Apple iPhone 4S — 16.2 million units
Apple iPhone 5 — 6.0 million units

Now let's look at it in an actually meaningful way:
Apple iPhone 4S & 5 — 22.2 million units
Samsung Galaxy S3 — 18.0 million units

Source: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20121108005702/en/Strategy-Analytics-Samsung-Galaxy-S3-Worlds-Best-Selling

Why are you comparing one model of Samsung phone too all models released by Apple?

All Apple smartphones = 22.2 million units.
All Samsung smartphones = 157 million units.

Source

But nice try to fudge the numbers.

Not even close. Samsung doubled up Apple last quarter, 56 million phones to 27 million.

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20121025007003/en/Smartphones-Drive-Quarter-Growth-Worldwide-Mobile-Phone

As reported:
Samsung Galaxy S3 — 18.0 million units
Apple iPhone 4S — 16.2 million units
Apple iPhone 5 — 6.0 million units

Now let's look at it in an actually meaningful way:
Apple iPhone 4S & 5 — 22.2 million units
Samsung Galaxy S3 — 18.0 million units

Source: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20121108005702/en/Strategy-Analytics-Samsung-Galaxy-S3-Worlds-Best-Selling

Nokia sells patents to a patent troll: suicide by M$ almost complete.

  http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20120809005600/en/Vringo-Nokia-Execute-Patent-Purchase-Agreement

That's it for Nokia....all the talent has left, and now they sold the last real assets to a troll. M$'s trail of destruction continues.

- credit to phands on IV for pointing this out.

--
BMO

Last real assets? Get real.
Those are just a miniscule 500 of the tens of thousands of patents that Nokia holds. Barely a drop in the bucket.

Phands? Is that the same phands who frequents Yahoo Message Boards and trolls them with foul mouthed language? I am not surprised you're hooking up with him/it.

On the other hand, I should've just stopped reading at 'M$'. Usually what follows is juvenile junk, and your post did not fail to disappoint. As usual, no references to back your outlandish claims based on headlines or stock prices.

'..suicide by M$'? Maybe you mean homicide. Your English is as bad as your comprehension skills.

Nokia sells patents to a patent troll: suicide by M$ almost complete.

  http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20120809005600/en/Vringo-Nokia-Execute-Patent-Purchase-Agreement

That's it for Nokia....all the talent has left, and now they sold the last real assets to a troll. M$'s trail of destruction continues.

- credit to phands on IV for pointing this out.

--
BMO

B&N is not trying to get out of the e-reader business. B&N is looking to spin that business off so that they can raise more money to invest in that business. They believe that they could raise more money to invest in the e-reader business by spinning it off than by keeping it in house. I think that would prove to be a strategic mistake, but I understand the logic behind it.

I'm not sure I'm following you. Are you saying B&N would sell the Nook division, then take the money it receives from the sale of the Nook division and give it back to the buyer as an investment? That doesn't make much sense to me. At any rate, B&N has only issued one press release that has mentioned the possibility of spinning off the Nook business, to wit:

In order to capitalize on the rapid growth of the NOOK digital business, and its favorable leadership position in the expanding market for digital content, the Company has decided to pursue strategic exploratory work to separate the NOOK business.

“We see substantial value in what we’ve built with our NOOK business in only two years, and we believe it’s the right time to investigate our options to unlock that value,” said William Lynch, Chief Executive Officer of Barnes & Noble.

"Unlock that value" would seem to be to be a euphemism for "liquidate that value," which would be a logical move given that the e-reader business seems rather at odds with the retail bookselling business. If B&N planned to get out of retail and restructure its bookselling business model to look more like Amazon's, investing heavily in Nook might make more sense. (In fact, the whole strategy might make more sense.) But if B&N is committed to retail then it's probably better off splitting in two. The Nook division might even take the ebook business with it and sell ebooks through B&N as a wholesaler.

The Android operating system doesn't just lack an integrated IPsec VPN client

someone should actually do come fact checking before posting these stories. http://en.flossmanuals.net/basic-internet-security/ch050_vpn-on-android/

But wouldn't fact checking drive away the shills and their sock puppets? Besides - despite all the evidence to the contrary - it must be true. Surely SoulFree wouldn't publish bullshit media releases disguised as "stories".

After all the referenced author author has modestly announced his company are front-runners for the 2012 (my how time flies) Security Products Global Bullshit, sorry I mean, Excellence Award.

Though I'm betting McAffee and Windows 95 might beat them (like a rented mule).

See? They say SALES.

Strategy Analytics did NOT say sales, here's what they said, in it's entirety:
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20111027007124/en/Strategy-Analytics-Samsung-Worlds-Number-Smartphone-Vendor
The word sales doesn't appear anywhere in it.

Sorry, but you have your facts wrong. Completely the wrong way around. And that's on top of your initial lack of understanding of the difference between shipped and sold.

...and instead have to claim they are saying something they aren't?

How ironic.

NVIC Vaccine Risk Report Reveals More Serious Reaction Reports After Gardasil

Comparing serious adverse event reports to the federal Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) following Gardasil (HPV) and another vaccine for meningococcal (Menactra), the National Vaccine Information Center found that there are three to 30 times more serious health problems and deaths reported to VAERS after Gardasil vaccination.

And more information on when Perry tried this:

Perry: "I didn't do my research" on mandate for HPV vaccine

When Perry became the only governor in the U.S. to order all girls between 11 and 12 be injected with Gardasil -- a three-shot regiment at $360 total -- his administrationâ(TM)s ties to Merck immediately came under scrutiny.

It soon became public knowledge that Mike Toomy, Perry's former chief of staff, had gone to work for Merck as a lobbyist. Rep. Dianne White Delisi, then head of the House public health committee, also led a group called Women in Government, which Merck used to generate support for Gardasil among lawmakers -- and her son-in-law was a high-ranking Perry aide. Merck also donated about $6,000 to Perry's reelection campaign.

Nothing you buy can compete with the high tech equipment and experienced personnel of a lab.
If you are really worried, just take a sample to a lab and have them analyze it.

This company [1] for example started doing radiation tests for manufacturers after the Fukushima incident.
I don't know if they would do it for a private individual as well, but it doesn't hurt to ask. If they don't, just look for another one.

[1] http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20110522005028/en/TUV-Rheinland-Japan-Introduces-Radiation-Protection-Measurements

There are plenty of "unrelated groups" that call themselves "Tea Party", since it became popular, most of them establishment Republican douchebags, PACs, and also-rans looking to make a buck. Check your dates. "Never grassroots" presupposes dates long AFTER the start of the grassroots Tea Parties.

What the article doesn't point out is that is that there is a strong possibility of a class-action lawsuit on the payouts of shares, as the Board of Directors of NETL did not properly hold the sales process and shop it out.

It seems that $50 for what was a $30 share a few days ago is quite generous, but there's a rather long legal history of boards that breach their fiduciary duties getting into serious legal trouble.

The fact that something like a dozen law firms are already trying to get involved the second this happened shows something is quite fishy about it. Some snippets from google news:

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/harwood-feffer-llp-announces-investigation-of-netlogic-microsystems-inc-2011-09-12
http://www.pr-inside.com/netlogic-microsystems-inc-takeover-under-r2806236.htm
http://eon.businesswire.com/news/eon/20110912006442/en/netlogic/NASDAQ%3A-NETL/netl

I see nowhere in it that they are "considering exiting the PC hardware business."

HP says:

"HP also reported that it plans to announce that its board of directors has authorized the exploration of strategic alternatives for its Personal Systems Group (PSG). HP will consider a broad range of options that may include, among others, a full or partial separation of PSG from HP through a spin-off or other transaction."

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20110818006301/en/HP-Confirms-Discussions-Autonomy-Corporation-plc-Business