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You can fax legal documents and keep the fax header as proof of service.

A quick search shows that the state of Utah allows alternate service by email or social media. A judge allowed the FTC to serve notice via facebook. New York allowed email service in 2006, and Australia allows it, and anther New York case of service via facebook was discussed on slashdot last month.

The old ways are dying. Requiring someone to buy a laser device to burn "stamps" onto envelopes and packages won't work.

But I'm not sure they're really talking about trolling. The mainstream media and politicians have a habit of confusing trolling with online bullying, harassment, particularly vicious racist attacks (for instance on memorial pages), etc.

A current iPhone will go a lot longer than a week without a charge.

Cognitive dissonance or RDF? You decide...

But...that battery life. I use my iPhone as a hub. It pairs with tons of wearables and fitness trackers. It connects to my car. I stream music nearly constantly. I'm web-browsing, tweeting, emailing, taking notes. I take photos. I make the occasional phone call, too.

This morning, the iPhone 6 is already down to 84 percent at 10 a.m. Not bad. Not great. It'll reach a point by mid-day where I consider a quick recharge. I want to get past that point.

To be clear: the iPhone 6 battery isn't bad. It's disappointing. There are other phones that do better. If you're an iPhone user already, you know what to expect.

http://www.cnet.com/au/news/my...

Pebble won that race. unfortunately lacks the marketing power of Apple and thus, they will become moot in not so long.

Assuming that was actually true (big assumption), whose fault is it that Apple is so much better at marketing? Is it Apple's fault? A vast right-wing conspiracy? Don't you think that if Pebble had come out with something really spectacular, rather than a black and white screen with graphics almost as good as Intellivision, they would have gotten a huge amount of publicity for truly beating Apple to the punch? Instead, they put out an embarrassment.

Late to the party? Microsoft released a smart watch back in 2004!

http://www.cnet.com/news/time-...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...

It's failed over and over again for Microsoft, so why would anyone want to repeat that mistake?

On the contrary the Surface Pro 3 has been reviewed very favorably:
CNet
Engadget
TechRadar
TrustedReviews

You can argue all you want about how it may not fit your workflow but they have produced and undeniably good device. Macs still lack a touchscreen despite iOS apps easily being able to be compiled to x86 and run under OSX which results in you having to carry both a Macbook and an iPad even though technically it could be all done on one if the laptop had a touchscreen. Better for Apple if you have to buy 2 devices though I suppose.

This is my first reply here because I can easily clarify the question of why, when and how disclosures were made and address some misconceptions.

The "court order" mentioned above came down in August 2012, see e.g. http://www.cnet.com/news/judge-to-oracle-google-did-you-pay-off-bloggers/, approximately four months after a voluntary, proactive disclosure I had made in April 2012, see http://www.fosspatents.com/2012/04/oracle-v-google-trial-evidence-of.html#oracledisclosure. Oracle attached that previous disclosure to its response to the court order:

Oracle has retained Florian Mueller, author of the blog FOSS Patents, www.fosspatents.com, as a consultant on competition-related matters, especially relating to standards-essential patents. Oracle notes that Mr. Mueller fully disclosed his relationship with Oracle in a blog posting dated April 18, 2012; that Oracle retained him after he had begun writing about this case; and that he was not retained to write about the case. Mr. Mueller is a frequent critic of Oracle and was a leading advocate against Oracle's acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Inc., which led to Oracle's ownership of Sun's Java IP portfolio. A copy of Mr. Mueller's disclosure is attached as Exhibit A at 5.

I disclosed consulting work for Microsoft in October 2011, see http://www.fosspatents.com/2011/10/study-on-worldwide-use-of-frand.html. At that point, no judge had asked for a disclosure, nor has this happened to date. I did it because it was the right thing to do.

At the end of last month I shut down my consulting firm in order to focus on my (Android and iOS) app development project. I'm still blogging, but less than before.

My consulting business had served numerous clients, not just Microsoft and Oracle. There were dozens of investment banks and funds who paid me to answer questions or participate in conference calls. I also did research for a couple of law firms and a German car manufacturer (that company allows me to refer to them like this but not to disclose the name, just industry and country).

I wish all others commenting on these types of issues were equally transparent.

FBI quietly forms secretive Net-surveillance unit (May 22, 2012)
http://www.cnet.com/news/fbi-q...
Somewhere between a tame telco, tame hardware, tame software and the "Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
an average users gps, voice, text, images, voice print and all other cell related data will be as easy to get as always.
An average user might be sold on the idea that some user data is protected from wider outside network man in the middle efforts but that will not help with CALEA and a tame brand having to sell compliant telco products in the USA over generations.
Staff often then move into the private sector and then contract methods and skill sets back at a city and state level. Thats a lot of people with the keys to consumer grade telco standards.

For the record, Yahoo, running FreeBSD, was compromised via Shellshock.

When stating for the record, you should probably get it right. Yahoo's systems were _not_ compromised via the bash bug; they were compromised via some poorly written script that either was written in part as a shell script, or passed an unquoted header or query value to a subprocess, a la system(3) or popen(3). For the Record, FreeBSD does not use bash for /bin/sh.

Apple's Darwin kernel, which both OSX and iOS run on top of, was forked from the very same kernel Yahoo's servers run

Apple's Darwin kernel was not forked from FreeBSD. A quick web search could have told you that.

I'm not disagreeing with your point; only with the misinformation supplied as given in your validating arguments.

AC? Meet download.cnet.com. All the crap you could ever want, nicely bundled with more spyware than you care to imagine. If you're ever in the market for some free software, and dumb enough to use Google to find it, chances are you'll be presented with a forest of hits all directing you there.

Quality has nothing to do with it. These guys have made a business out of bundling mediocre with bad or downright malicious, and have put in a lot of effort to appear high enough on search engines to catch eyes. Malware authors don't need to produce anything useful at all.

This isn't the first time Belkin has implemented a hare-brained feature, only to have it cause backlash when it induces catastrophic failures across the world. I stopped buying anything with their name on it (except the occasional cable) over a decade ago, over this little feature.

Apparently the Nobel Prize in Physics also goes to inventions. See this comment: 'Nobel Prizes in physics often go to fundamental discoveries such as the Higgs Boson. But when the committee makes an award for an invention, "we really emphasize the usefulness of the invention," said Anne L'Huillier, an atomic physics professor at Lund University in Sweden, also speaking at the press conference. And the blue LED is nothing if not useful.' (From here.)

The Nobel Prize in Physics was previously awarded for the inventions of the transistor and integrated circuits.

April 28, 2003 12:16 PM PDT
Apple unveils music store
...
The songs cost 99 cents each to download, with no subscription fee, and include the most liberal copying rights of any online service to date. Jobs has been an outspoken opponent of so-called digital rights management (DRM) in the past, arguing that limitations on digital music will undermine the market for legitimate content.

I hadn't realized this was an option in Now. Thanks for the tip.

http://www.cnet.com/how-to/qui...

http://www.cnet.com/uk/news/ap...

His precise words were: "The absence of event horizons mean that there are no black holes -- in the sense of regimes from which light can't escape to infinity."

It seems clear. There are no forever and ever holes of blackness. There is always the chance that light might emerge.

Hawking continued, however: "There are however apparent horizons which persist for a period of time. This suggests that black holes should be redefined as metastable bound states of the gravitational field."

I could then use sloppy security most of the time , ( 4 digit pin) ,but I could easily turn it off in my pocket before handing it over to a malicious actor ( law enforcement / theif) .

Just get an iPhone 6.

By the time you get it out of your pocket, it'll be bent in half and unusable.

It's been on shelves for a matter of days, but some iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus users are complaining of a major design flaw that sees the smartphone body bend under pressure.

Photos have begun appearing online showing distinctly bent aluminium devices, with complaints that the new iterations of the iPhone, which feature a thinner and larger aluminium body, are unable to stand up to the wear and tear of staying in a pocket.

http://www.cnet.com/news/will-...

Except when they are copying Braun and others?

Braun: http://visual.ly/braun-or-appl...
Swiss transit clock: http://www.cnet.com/news/time-...

The clock sure looks like the one from the swiss transit, except it is missing the trademark logos. I guess Apple didnt think about Braun and the Swiss having access to time machines and going back into the past after stealing apple designs?

(this sound like the great shareware days of the 90s - and we moved on for a reason (tucows et al.))

Millions of people still flock to "shareware" sites like Tucows and Downloads.com (Now a part of the c|net family). If you mean by moving on Tucows main business is now an ISP wholesaler to resellers who need a web presence but don't want to hire an entire web team and running a wildly popular MVNO (Mobile Virtual Network Operator) Ting as well as domain registration and services to help a business build an online presence then yes they've moved on.

To keep this post on topic how is this different than Bluestacks? I've been using it forever to run Android apps on my PC. I've heard people pan it for being buggy but I've never had any problems with it.

Is it legally possible... Not everywhere certainly.
http://www.cnet.com/uk/news/in...
Is he required to lie about this?

Apparently there already is a Minecraft Movie in the works. I'm not sure if a Minecraft Cartoon series (or the movie for that matter) could compete with the many people that churn out thousands of videos of Minecraft on Youtube.

CNET also covers this well, noting SapphireGlass costs $30 per unit versus $3 for Gorilla Glass. From the CNET article...

Corning, which has repeatedly criticized the use of sapphire as a mobile-device display, says its testing found that though sapphire is harder to scratch than its Gorilla Glass, daily use of a sapphire display will produce tiny cracks in the material. Those cracks can easily proliferate and cause the display to break more easily over time than Gorilla Glass. As a major manufacturer of industrial crystals, Corning should know a thing or two about sapphire. It used to make tubes of it for high-temperature lighting during the 1960s and 1970s, according to Jeffrey Evenson, Corning's operations chief of staff.

"As material guys, we think Gorilla has a lot more potential," Evenson said, who added that glass is much easier to manipulate into different forms, such as with the rounded Gorilla Glass display of the new Samsung Note Edge smartphone.

http://www.cnet.com/news/why-t...

As for hurting alternative search engines ... just bookmark the one you prefer to use. Same with web maps. Same with email, calendaring, etc. And if that's not enough, the dev tools are free, no annual license, so if you can't find what you want, what's stopping you from making your own apps, including apps that use alternative search engines? Or having those search engines create their own apps? Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, and a whole bunch of other search engine apps are available for free directly from Google Play.

OK, perhaps not a "warrant" but surely the US has some sort of "production order" where the court says "give us the records you have" http://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/c... ? Perhaps they don't, or maybe that is only in civil cases during discovery.

As it stands, to my knowledge, one only has to turn over any physical records / devices.

However, if those records are encrypted, and the password committed to memory, the witness can invoke the 5th amendment, and exercise their right to remain silent, and refuse to disclose the password. Of course, its not settled, and orders to decrypt data have been issued by the courts and are being appealed... for example.

http://www.cnet.com/news/doj-w...

As for Canada - a production order is typically issued to a 3rd party custodian of documents -- e.g. bank records, phone records, etc. And if they are encrypted the 3rd party is required to decrypt them as part of producing them. But the 3rd party isn't the subject of the invetigation, production orders aren't aren't issued against the defendant directly, that I can tell.

That is, the police cannot hand ME an order demanding that I actively produce my own phone records for them. Nor do i think a production order would compel me to disclose the password to my own phone or laptop.

Logging capabilities may be ubiquitous, but logs that would be useful in a criminal case, much less so.

There is another article on slashdot today about compelling parolees to wear bracelets that can determine if they fired a gun by using accelerometers and analyzing that information.

I can imagine all manner of prosthesis that might contain accelerometers where analyzing the diagnostic logs could be used to as evidence that you were moving or at rest, what sort of activity you were engaged in (walking, running, shooting, climbing, jumping, whether you got into a fight, or fell into a pool, got knocked down, picked up something heavy, swung it, or threw it...)

I understand that these are major polluters.. I've seen pictures in a Britannica "Science and the future" book of bulk transport ships using large servo driven metal sails. I wonder to what extent this technology has been explored. When doing a google search, I found this http://www.cnet.com/news/cargo... ..But it doesn't look like it was actually built.

I've heard anecdotal evidence that a transport ship is equivalent to 50,000 cars.. And this site http://www.viewzone.com/sixtee... claims that it's much higher. I'd be interested in in a reliable source for this. I understand that they use different fuel depending on how close they are to a human settlement, and the cheap stuff is a really big polluter. It's a solid a room temperature and has to be heated up to flow into the engine. At the very least, I'd like to see electrostatic percipitators on the smoke-stacks.

We once had world trade based on sail. Much/ most of that cargo does not need to get to it's destination quickly..

Worst case, you can always side load an app. http://www.cnet.com/how-to/how... I had hoped the fire phones would work like those advertisement subsidized cars. That is, the phone would have all kinds of ways for Amazon to learn things about me and with it market stuff to me. And in return, it would be the cheapest phone service, say 20 bucks a month for some reasonable usage cap. But no.... the damn thing came out with a $200 price tag and the same rip off service from at&t (go t-mobile!) I could care less about the 3d crap. I stopped paying attention from that point. So, now with this news, it's competing with last gen phone pricing. same service. So now, do i go for a last gen iphone or an s3 or this fire phone. it's compelling but then i have to ask my self, do i want to suffer through amazon's app store, and the customized features that will probably have sub par experience (compared to a nexus) for a nominal hardware upside? If I was bezos, I would have dumped all that money on creating more and better amazon apps. hell, if you want to do something ground breaking, go work on creating an e-ink display that performs like an LED display.

There is major issue with the truth of the claim of being underage. Almost all of the pics in question actually show that they were taken after the subjects were 18. Can that info be faked? Don't know. Also, if they were under 18, then they have to be prosecuted for child pornography themselves. Yep, in a lot of states, if a minor takes a nude picture and sends it to the cloud that is considered distribution. If they sent that picture to ANYONE (boyfriend, etc.) even if that person doesn't forward it, that is still distribution of child pornography. http://www.isba.org/ibj/2010/0... http://news.cnet.com/Police-bl...

The thing we really need here is public justice. If the world does not know how these ultra rich are conspiring against them, then there is no justice. They need to unseal all of the evidence, no exceptions.

Also I think it's important to note one of the plaintiffs (Michael Devine) who pushed the judge into ruling against this, the lawyers wanted to walk away with their check.

From a May 2014 CNET article

Plaintiff fights Apple, Google settlement in wage-fixing suit

A programmer who is part of the class action lawsuit against several tech giants says $324 million isn't enough.
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"As an analogy," Devine wrote to Koh, according to the Times, "if a shoplifter is caught on video stealing a $400 iPad from the Apple Store, would a fair and just resolution be for the shoplifter to pay Apple $40, keep the iPad, and walk away with no record or admission of wrongdoing? Of course not."

Had the case gone to trial as planned at the end of May, court filings indicate, the tech employees would have sought $3 billion. Lucasfilm, Pixar, and Intuit agreed to settle last year for a combined $20 million, covering 8 percent of the employees named in the suit.

Yea, in his alternative history of computing, Microsoft actually contributed original technology and didn't rip-off everybody else. See for example where Bill Gates personally 'welcomes` Netscape into the Industry?

1996: Bill Gates 'welcomes` Netscape into the Industry.

"As Netscape comes into the industry, we hope they adopt a PC mentality [of documenting changes to standards],. They've been making lots of changes to JavaScript. We think they should document that."
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ref: by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 06, 2014 @08:44AM (#47840421)

The first computers in the world were invented by Microsoft in 1981 to run the revolutionary MS-DOS operating system, before which humanity had no computers at all. In 1985 Microsoft invented the graphical user interface and the mouse. Microsoft Windows was the most secure operating system in the world, and also the easiest to use with the introduction of the revolutionary Microsoft Bob.

Microsoft would go on to invent the Internet, graciously allowing rival companies to establish a presence on Microsoft's new network. Microsoft created the most loved user interface in the world with the exciting new Windows 8 Aero.

You can purchase exciting new Microsoft products at the following participating retailers near you!

Here comes the parade of Samsung fanboys to make up memes that downplay the significance of the patents in question, because clearly Samsung has never violated laws in order to take over a market...

Here comes the parade of Samsung fanboys to make up memes that downplay the significance of the patents in question, because clearly Samsung has never violated laws in order to take over a market...

Theres no one source for the information, but below are a few links to some of it. They have apparently made about $6 Billion in revenue since their inception and in 2010 at least they made $700 Million in licensing fees. I did include their "investments" along with what I could call "licensing fees" because they seem to be effectively the same thing. A good chunk of their revenue is via "Patent Funds" where they offer companies a chance to join in to buy a block of patents, apparently with a thinly veiled threat that if they don't buy in IV will sue them if any of the patents in the block apply to prospective investors.

http://www.businessinsider.com...
http://www.businessweek.com/ar...
http://www.cnet.com/news/insid...
https://news.yahoo.com/exclusi...

but the fact remains... Windows/Microsoft has been playing catch-up in security where Linux has been leading over the last decade.

So where are those facts?

Because they way I look at it there has been several embarrasing, high-profile successful attacks on Linux servers over the past few years:

Debian server compromised: http://www.zdnet.com/debian-se...
Ubuntu servers compromised: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...
kernel.org compromised: http://lwn.net/Articles/457142... (we're still waiting for the post morten on that)
linuxfoundation.org and linux.com compromised: http://thehackernews.com/2011/...
red hat and fedora servers compromised: http://www.cnet.com/news/red-h...

(and we do not even mention the OpenSSL fiasco)

So where are the widespread Windows Server compromises?

To be frank, I don't think anyone bothers reporting on them anymore. For a journalist "Linux server compromised" sounds far more sexy than "windows server compromised." These guys, after all, have to get readers in order to put food on the table.

but the fact remains... Windows/Microsoft has been playing catch-up in security where Linux has been leading over the last decade.

So where are those facts?

Because they way I look at it there has been several embarrasing, high-profile successful attacks on Linux servers over the past few years:

Debian server compromised: http://www.zdnet.com/debian-se...
Ubuntu servers compromised: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...
kernel.org compromised: http://lwn.net/Articles/457142... (we're still waiting for the post morten on that)
linuxfoundation.org and linux.com compromised: http://thehackernews.com/2011/...
red hat and fedora servers compromised: http://www.cnet.com/news/red-h...

(and we do not even mention the OpenSSL fiasco)

So where are the widespread Windows Server compromises?

AC the news is full of 'hints' like "FBI, Telecoms Teamed to Breach Wiretap Laws" ( 01.21.10)
http://www.wired.com/2010/01/f...
FBI Seeking to Pay Telecoms to Store Records for Years and Provide Instant Access (07.18.07)
http://www.wired.com/2007/07/f...
FBI pressures Internet providers to install surveillance software (August 2, 2013)
http://www.cnet.com/news/fbi-p...
Also recall Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...
".... requiring that telecommunications carriers and manufacturers of telecommunications equipment modify and design their equipment, facilities, and services to ensure that they have built-in surveillance capabilities, allowing federal agencies to monitor all telephone, broadband internet, and VoIP traffic."
Its the local laws where the handsets are to be sold that matters. If you want to sell in say the USA, your "designed" aspect will have to be US wiretapping law friendly.

It wasn't on Wikipedia but on CNet. When I read the article summary, I thought, "If the author were speaking of a guy, there's no way he would have written, "man or woman". http://www.cnet.com/news/googl...

http://www.cnet.com/uk/news/ap...

This proposition from the mind of Matt Asay has me puzzled. Since when is any one company expected to produce everything. Red Hat does best what Red Hat does, which is produce a world-class industrial strength platform - good enough for Oracle to steal outright. To try and cover all these other solutions would be to spread their effort a little too thinly. There may be as yet, a business oppertunity for some down-stream company to do just as Asay suggests.

"Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Delivered and supported by Red Hat. CIOs like that story", Matt Asay March 2009

And no government official would every request a kill switch option.

Coming to a cell phone near you next year and in your car just a few years from now. lol

According to this, it is already a "feature" of OnStar, just like the LEO ability to SILENTLY turn on the cabin microphone, which was (supposedly) outlawed by a Court decision, NOT because of privacy concerns, of course, (afterall, why should there be an "expectation of privacy" when having a conversation in your car with the windows up and the doors locked?), but because the designers of OnStar were so stupid they couldn't make the system do a manual override by the occupants in an emergency...

I predict it will be less than a year before law enforcement decides to shut down all cell phones of people they disagree with (like protesters).

They'd have to go through all of the trouble of identifying the individuals and gaining cooperation of the carriers/vendors. When they're close enough to identify individuals by name, why go to the trouble of locking phones? They'll just do what they do now and arrest them.

I predict it will be less than a year before hackers figure out how to brick or otherwise damage cell phones.

This depends on how the lock is implemented. iOS and Android already have some remote lock/wipe features that haven't been heavily hit by hackers. Mass phone wipes haven't been a thing yet. I'm sure people will try and I'm sure some will succeed (likely in controlled circumstances), but identity establishment and crypto are both well-known in the industry.

Because, as usual, when you try to pass a legal solution to a technical problem, you will introduce new technical problems, and if law enforcement can abuse something they will.

This is hardly a technical problem, as it's been solved and implemented in various forms for years (e.g., iOS7). This is a policy problem, and a legal solution is quite appropriate. For example, carriers have blocked Samsung from including an activation lock. This kind of thing is what the legal solution solves by taking the decision out of the vendors' (who care about products and reputation) and carriers' (who care about profits) hands. The decision seems pretty reasonable, as existing legislation/policy has resulted in measurable drop in device theft for those devices.

This will be misused, it's only a matter of time. And, since manufacturers will decide to make the phone the same for everywhere, we're all fucked because of a decision in California. And I don't trust that the carriers won't brick a phone you own if your bill is late, instead of just cancelling your service they'll kill your phone.

Existing lock options are done through the phone vendors, not the carriers. If the carriers did this to your personally-owned device, it is property damage. And if the government wanted to deny an individual cell service, they can do it now (and have been able to for all of cellular history) with a warrant through the carrier. The government/carrier has always been able to shut off your service.

See subject-line, & yet more examples (Even more than ever before & FAR from a total) - & adbanners ROB THE SPEED/BANDWIDTH WE PAY TO BE ONLINE as well:

2013 - Google settles rogue drug ad claims for $500 million: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023...

Pertinent quote/excerpt: "The Web giant pays out one of the largest forfeitures ever in a settlement with the Justice Department over claims that it accepted ads from rogue online pharmacies."

(Thus, they aren't even CHECKING who or what is putting up those ads, ripping folks off &/or possibly worse, injecting them with malicious code for enslaving their systems into botnets + ripping off their personal information such as bank account numbers & what-not...)

2013 - NBC website hacked and distributes malware - here's what happened:

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.co...

More dangerous to click on an online advertisement than an adult content site these days, Cisco said:

http://www.securityweek.com/ea...

APK

P.S.=> Still TONS more coming, raymorris...

So much for YOUR 'b.s.' since the strong websites that aren't ONLY in it for profits would survive (vs. the greed driven ones & malware laden ones DUE TO advertiser negligence)... apk

See subject-line, & yet even MORE examples (Even more than ever before & FAR from the total) - & adbanners ROB THE SPEED/BANDWIDTH WE PAY TO BE ONLINE as well:

2013 - Google settles rogue drug ad claims for $500 million: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023...

Pertinent quote/excerpt: "The Web giant pays out one of the largest forfeitures ever in a settlement with the Justice Department over claims that it accepted ads from rogue online pharmacies."

(Thus, they aren't even CHECKING who or what is putting up those ads, ripping folks off &/or possibly worse, injecting them with malicious code for enslaving their systems into botnets + ripping off their personal information such as bank account numbers & what-not...)

2013 - NBC website hacked and distributes malware - here's what happened:

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.co...

More dangerous to click on an online advertisement than an adult content site these days, Cisco said:

http://www.securityweek.com/ea...

APK

P.S.=> Still LOTS more coming, raymorris...

So much for YOUR 'b.s.' since the strong websites that aren't ONLY in it for profits would survive (vs. the greed driven ones & malware laden ones DUE TO advertiser negligence)... apk

I agree. Lets start with An Open Letter to Hobbyists by our good ol pal, William Henry Gates III from the date of Feb, 3 1976. Thirty eight years later and the mentality at Microsoft hasn't really changed much. Let's not forget the Halloween Documents back from 1998. How can we forget the Initiave for Software Choice led by our friends at Microsoft back in 2002. Dare anyone to forget the Microsoft Get the Facts campaign? Or how about Microsoft messing with OLPC. How about the recent attempt at making us think ODF is bad? I think I am going to have to pull the BS card on this article as well.

Me Bloomberg, me make up story. http://www.cnet.com/news/apple...

And FireTV too. And if Amazon can't get it to sell, with all the extra stuff the FireTV can do, I doubt Nintendo can.

It also probably doesn't help that Nintendo has acquired a reputation in the 21st century of being the company that's always technologically behind the times and only does kids' games.

Samsung would sue if someone sold their displays with their logos on them without their consent. In this case Samsung is providing the displays for the device as part of a partnership as referenced in the fine article and even links to said partnership.

A common part is a huge deal when the common part is the logo for the company. That's typically a counterfeit product.

CSS/JavaScript/HTML5 is plainly obvious. Everything from Microsoft to mobile hybrid development relies on this these days.

C# is the standard language of the Microsoft stack --- in fact, the bulk of MS-stack training is in C#, with only a smattering in VB.NET.

Java is the COBOL of the early 21st Century. It isn't sexy anymore but it will always be around.

PHP is used in a lot of web applications. I wish it weren't. In fact, I'd really rather see Ruby on Rails take over this space.

If you're going to program native code, you could learn Swift, sure. You could also learn Rust (Mozilla's systems-level language with significant buy-in from Samsung) for device programming. If your goal is to write native apps, your best bet for Android is actually Java. By the way, one can also design native apps in Java (the code is Swing-like) and compile them to native apps for iOS or Android using Codename One, and I imagine a few shops will pick up that practice.

I like Erlang as an honorable mention. I'd also add two others: Python (especially for data analysis) and PowerShell (which will set the grown-up Microsoft sysadmins from the point-and-click kids).

http://www.cnet.com/products/t...

I'm curious as to where you read that. My understanding is that book prices rose, by 30-50%.

Lets not forget that you don't even need charges.

http://www.cnet.com/news/pirac...

Something like that could seriously place job promotions or prospects in jeopardy. If could ruin a legitimate business just with the controversy hanging out there associated with the name even though he was vindicated in the end.