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Either you know full-well that there exist a nontrivial number of people who can't wrap their head around what to do when their iPad tells them an OS update is available, if you're so socially inept that you live in a fantasy world where everyone else is just like you.

No, you simply have an over-inflated opinion of yourself and those you deem "technically capable" because the numbers don't lie, those who aren't capable of updating are the extreme minority.

You don't need to perpetuate the idiotic falsehood that only socially awkward people know what to do when their device says an update is available, if you need to feel superior in that manner to justify your social awkwardness that's your problem but that perception is not reality, there was 25-35% adoption of iOS7 in one day for god sake.

Samsung's dominance in the Android market is legendary - it's what, 90% of all Android phones?

It's not that high. A C|net article from a few months ago puts them at slightly more than 30% of the global share, which is still pretty damned impressive. What's been impressive is that Samsung has been one of the only companies actually making money. HTC just posted that they were back in the black for the first time in a while and neither LG, Sony, or any of the other big players have done much better than break even. Motorola bled like stuck pig both before and after Google acquired them. Blackberry and Nokia all but disappeared.

In the first quarter of 2014, Apple and Samsung together had 106% of industry profits. That number only makes sense because all of the other companies (China wasn't included) lost money. That's what has been most incredible with the company.

This. I have been saying this for years.

Apple is, and day by day, more and more - a boutique brand.

http://www.cnet.com/news/samsung-adds-swarovski-bling-and-bedazzle-to-its-galaxy-s5/ - Samsung is the boutique-meister.

Wiki is a steaming pile of shit filled with inaccurate, biased, Face Painting Homer protected garbage.

Actually, according to Wiki, it is quite accurate! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Or, joking aside, according to CNET Wiki is more accurate than the Encyclopedia Britannica! http://news.cnet.com/Study-Wik...

As plain text on a US branded OS at the end of the fancy new encryption.
With all the legal obligations in the telco sector all products have to be wiretap-friendly.
CALEA obligations should be very clear to the rest of the world by now. The options presented under CISPA should have been noted too.
Your email, video chat, text, chat will end up as a neat industry standard format for law enforcement use. There will be no going dark on any US product shipped.
"FBI: We need wiretap-ready Web sites - now" (5 May 2012)
http://www.cnet.com/au/news/fb...

The FBI has been able to listen to any cell phone mic, even when off (as long as it has battery power) for quite some time now.

put it another way, has any evidence been uncovered of a backdoor of this type? Or is the absence of evidence just more confirmation of secret backdoors?

Depends on your definition of backdoor and malware.

A couple of years ago, security researchers found that Apple kept a log of every place you went and uploaded the entire data to their servers. Apple dismissed it as a bug in the code they wrote but was it really a bug or did they just get caught?

Also, there are companies that are selling iPhone cracking to the LEOs using "undisclosed vulnerabilities". And of course, Apple will do that by itself.

Electrical power steering is much more common than you assume, especially in the last few years. I know that at least my 8 year old smallish European car has an electrical one.

Taking a deeper dive into the malware, Kaspersky and Citizen Lab learned that the iOS version of the RCS Trojans hits only jailbroken devices. Pristine iPhones are also vulnerable if an attacker can remotely run a jailbreaking tool such as Evasi0n and then load the malware implant.

So I know there will be a lot of shouts here of 'see! iOS is vulnerable just like android!" this only works for people who have chosen to expose themselves to malware. also raises a lot of questions about who are the secret teams behind these jailbreaking kits. Especially with the new news of the new jailbreaking kit out of china.

don't jailbreak, don't get pwned.

Do you have a citation? Otherwise, it's just, like, your opinion, man.

Another way to look at it: the $800 iPhone 5S 64GB contains $210 of parts and cost $8 to assemble, with giving an almost 300% mark-up. Laptop margins are usually 10% or less, Apple's laptop mark-ups are greater, around 30%. 300% is really remarkable.

Way more than 2,000,000 man-hours of highly paid engineers' design time (if you include time to design every single component, including bought-in CPU, graphics, etc- remember to descend recurssively into the design of every single bit of logic, power disttribution, analog bits). Of course most has been amortized over the past 50 years, Apple only pays for the top layer.

...

I guess we should count all of the hours spent in metallurgic and mechanical development since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution when considering the cost of car then?

Interestingly, a federal court just rules that the coppers need a warrant to get cellphone location data as it is assumed to be confidential and falls within the 4th amendment scope.

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

Bre Pettis is bad human.

MakerBot went closed source after taking community ideas
http://www.cnet.com/uk/news/pu...

They patent community ideas
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/...

Do NOT use them or their services.

P.S what the best thingiverse replacement?

Richard Stallman is full of crap if he is claiming that Windows is endemically, technically less secure. Anyone remember the Pwn2Own games? Anyone remember what OS fell first every time? Thats right, fully patched OSX (think that changed ~2012). This could turn into a debate lasting days, but suffice it to say that from a technical level Windows is pretty secure.

You totally misunderstand Stallman's point. Stallman is not arguing that open source leads to better quality software. That would be Eric Raymond. Stallman is arguing that you can't trust Microsoft. More of an Auguste Kirchhoffs interpretation. And I don't see what OSX has to do with free software.

Stallman objects to closed source philosophically, and Windows especially. In addition to being proprietary, Stallman is arguing that Windows has features to report your use of Microsoft software and potentially lock you out (Windows Activation), to add or delete software without warning (Windows Update), to track you across any device around the world (Microsoft Account), and to keep you from using the computer in inappropriate ways (Protected Media Path, Driver Signing, Secure Boot). I don't see how he's wrong.

Somebody in the Chinese government seems to have noticed, and is now trying to get Windows banned there.

My hope is that all who take this like will grow up and abandon their zealotry before they enter the workforce.

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." - George Bernard Shaw

Do people using it know that their messages are encrypted? Probably not.

Are their messages encrypted? Probably not.

Easy enough your grandma can't do it.

Collateral damage. Both Cogent and Level-3 have accused Comcast of degrading service to coerce content providers, CDNs and backbone providers into giving them more money.

http://www.cnet.com/news/cogen...
http://www.cnet.com/news/level...

Collateral damage. Both Cogent and Level-3 have accused Comcast of degrading service to coerce content providers, CDNs and backbone providers into giving them more money.

http://www.cnet.com/news/cogen...
http://www.cnet.com/news/level...

This article doesn't mention specific bands, but it says "Vertu reckons it'll work on most 4G bands around the world." http://www.cnet.com/news/rich-...

the market is simply leaving Apple behind, who aren't even maintaining growth in a hyper-growth market.

Wrong. Tablet sales are down overall, not just Apple's (though a few minor brands are up a little).

... and probably elsewhere. I'm guessing there's a window between when TrueCrypt.org posted 7.2 and when the various mirrors will pick up on it.

For now: http://download.cnet.com/TrueC...

Study: Wikipedia as accurate as Britannica - published by Nature, not Anonymous Coward.

You're absolutely correct but to be pedantic "high end" is not quite telling the whole story !

Note: I have the Panny 60" VT60 and love it. (Along with an older 42" panny plasma.)

Panasonic's highest end was the ZT60, followed by the VT60. I say 'was' because Panasonic exited the plasma business last year.[1] In March 2014 they were no longer selling plasma TVs (for both consumers and commercial use), so "high end" is becoming "relative". Many videophiles would agree the ZT60 is the Pioneer Kuro Elite "killer", but if plasma is no longer even available ... well, "high end" must be judged on what IS actually available.

PQ (Picture Quality) ranked from best to worst is:

1. OLED -- true blacks
2. CRT
3. Plasma
4. LED / LCD -- horrible viewing angles

Note: ALL of the displays have "problems": price, PQ, scalability, etc. Large OLED won't be affordable for at least another 10+ years due to crappy yields.

[1] http://www.cnet.com/news/rip-p...

I don't recall ever paying for Netscape.

Here from a news report of them dropping prices:

Now that Netscape Communications (NSCP) no longer charges for its flagship browser, it has decided to cut prices on its retail products and compensate retailers for any losses incurred.

That was in 1998.

Netscape Navigator cost $49. Look at this article from 1996: http://www.fastcompany.com/277.... Back when Netscape had as dominant a marketshare as IE later had. Note how the author seemed to just assume that a browser than didn't cost any money couldn't be any good.

Nowadays, Netscape Navigator has been forked a couple times and the surviving branch is called Firefox, and at $0 its price went down significantly.

The original IE did not come bundled with the OS, it was a free add-on. There was a version for Windows and a version for Mac at this point.

Fast forward to 1998: http://news.cnet.com/2100-1001.... January 1998, you will note. Windows 98, which was the first Windows that bundled IE in it, wouldn't be released until May 1998. So it would be difficult to argue that bundling had anything to do with it.

Later, Opera would follow suit, going from a price of $39 to also offering an ad-supported version in 2000: http://archive.today/201205291.... It only went ad-free 5 years later. At this time, people were getting sick of IE6, since it once was a decent browser (seriously!) but it had been stagnant far too long. However Firefox was starting to rise and it was taking all the people Opera could have gotten.

Is CNET good enough for you?

Similar to the Roadster, the Model S battery pack is filled with cylindrical lithium ion cells dubbed 18650s. Tesla does extensive testing of these cells at its headquarters, cycling them at different temperatures, trying different discharge rates, and even crushing them. The data Tesla collects gets used to refine the specifications sent to its suppliers, among them Panasonic and Samsung.

How about SAE International?

Despite Tesla Motors’ proven success with 18650-type Li-ion cells in its Model S, the industry’s best-known EV battery analyst isn’t betting that other automakers will adopt that form factor, which describes the cylindrical battery case’s 18 x 65 mm dimensions.

It's not a 'zillion cylinders', it's just over 7k, and 'wasted space' is instead used for the liquid coolant used to keep the batteries under temperature.

Around 7000 individual cells, coded NCR18650A by their supplier Panasonic, are used in each Model S pack. Rated at 3100 mAh, the cells are based on lithium nickel-cobalt aluminum (NCA) chemistry and feature a proprietary cathode geometry developed by Panasonic and Tesla. Last October the two companies announced a battery-cell supply agreement through December 2017 (Panasonic also owns shares of Tesla Motors) which will cover the launch of the Model X in late 2014 and subsequent Model E vehicles.

The best part is that this is happening on the eve of Adobe canceling sales of perpetual licensing to Adobe Creative Suite products

I attached a comment to this article before it was posted, but it looks like timothy nuked it before he made it live.

This "sniff test" for this is: hack. Not maintenance. I say that because the authentication system went down, as best I can tell, around 1700EST Wednesday. Afternoon maintenance is not unheard of, but it seems like a silly and unlikely thing to do.

Hope I'm wrong about that.

The best part is that this is happening on the eve of Adobe canceling sales of perpetual licensing to Adobe Creative Suite products. If you are a volume license customer, you will no longer be able to buy ANYTHING BUT Creative Cloud as of June 1; and you get to pay Adobe every month whether they update anything or not as expense rather than capital purchase.

Hooray for not having competition?

No, Firewire was killed by retailers and other penny pinchers. Consumers did not care about $2 on a $1000 computer, or $2 on a $100 scanner.

This is misleading, there were never anywhere close to just $2 difference on a FW vs USB scanner, from anyone - regardless of sales channel (direct, online, wholesale, B2B). The part and production cost difference added up to more than this, and you will have your add-on on top of the extra cost too, and on top of this Apple required $1 per port in license fees. At a minimum you would have 10+% difference on a $100 class scanner. And if you don't think consumers care about that, you haven't worked much sales and marketing of this type. The retailers care because they know the customers do care (even when they in research say they are willing to pay more, their actual buying actions often prove otherwise).

You should learn how to read. There was never a "no selling of used games policy" and there was never an "always-on internet requirement". The Xbox One would check in with servers once a day to verify software licenses. If you wanted to sell used games, you'd have to use a mechanism to de-list the game from your Xbox One to make that license available for the person who bought it.

If read past the headlines you'd know this. I can't blame you for being confused, having never read the actual articles.

You might want to actually read it yourself: http://www.cnet.com/news/micro...

Parse the words all you like, but MSFT actually wanted to inactivate your console if it didn't phone home every 24 hours - despite the craziness of this idea, the practicality of it was insane - if I took it with me to another state and the trip took > 24h then I couldn't play it. If my internet died for 24+h I couldn't play it. Stupid.

Whoever is heading the Xbox division recently (or is pulling their strings on-high) is a complete moron, or they think you're the product that they're selling to the game manufacturers (or spy agencies).

I need only point to child pornography materials to show that this is already happening

And we need only point out that it's being incompetently ran, has tons of false positives (and therefore false negatives), and frequently leads to stupid scenarios like sex education and other legitimate stuff being blocked while the stuff it's supposed to block still gets through.

These kinds of filters simply don't work at a technical level without blocking legitimate stuff.

Hell, at a company I used to work for their internet filter (Blue Coat or Blue Goat or something like that) routinely blocked things like yoga studios as varying degrees of totally stupid things. Because the people who run these things have terrible source data, don't check anything, and don't give a damn when they're wrong.

You would have to demonstrate that these things actually work 100% of the time to convince anybody that just because someone passes a law that the technology actually delivers as promised. Because, the reality is, the track records of these things is pretty lousy.

It gives the illusion of doing something, but it certainly isn't effective.

Well, I do use Netflix, and have had their service non-stop for nearly a decade. I used to have 8 discs at a time, but for the past few years have only used their streaming service. I am outraged at both companies for even considering the peering arrangement. (If your not familiar, google: "netflix comcast deal" they are also working on deals with other ISPs all of which hurt network neutrality. Want to know why? Click my links below!)

Here is some food for thought:
A bunch of cable tv channels were dropped from directv a few times fairly recently during contract disputes. If level 1 providers like cogent and level3 take a card from big cables deck; by offering offending ISPs just had a taste of dark fiber and all customers jumping ship they might change their tune. I'm sure other ISPs could build a decent network with all those new customers. If you hold their customers hostage and they will definitely come to the table or go out of business, either would be good. We can not allow money hungry last mile monopoly to continue to drive internet speeds downward while erasing net neutrality.

If you are a netflix customer I urge you to please: CALL THEM AND DEMAND THEY CANCEL THE COMCAST AND OTHER ISP DEALS. WE CAN NOT STAND FOR THEM HURTING NET NEUTRALITY NOR CAN WE AFFORD TO PAY THEM TO PUT SERVERS IN EVERY SINGLE ISPs DATACENTER. I CALLED AND DEMANDED THAT THEY SEND A MESSAGE TO THEIR CEO TO GOOGLE LEVEL3 http://blog.level3.com/global-... and COGENTs http://www.cnet.com/news/cogen... STANCE ON THE SITUATION.

Spread the word, please, I beg you as a longterm netflix customer and fan who loves this (normally) innovative and forward thinking company.

I couldn't agree more with this comment. If it is OK for netflix to pay network providers for peering/colocation, then we should be able to get reimbursed for hosting a netflix node even as a customer.

Here is some food for thought:
A bunch of cable tv channels were dropped from directv a few times fairly recently. If level 1 providers take a card from big cables deck; by offering offending ISPs just had a taste of dark fiber and all customers jumping ship they might change their tune. I'm sure other ISPs could build a decent network with all those new customers. If you hold their customers hostage and they will definitely come to the table or go out of business, either would be good. We can not allow money hungry last mile monopoly to continue to drive internet speeds downward while erasing net neutrality.

If you are a netflix customer I urge you to please: CALL THEM AND DEMAND THEY CANCEL THE COMCAST AND OTHER ISP DEALS. WE CAN NOT STAND FOR THEM HURTING NET NEUTRALITY NOR CAN WE AFFORD TO PAY THEM TO PUT SERVERS IN EVERY SINGLE ISPs DATACENTER. I CALLED AND DEMANDED THAT THEY SEND A MESSAGE TO THEIR CEO TO GOOGLE LEVEL3 http://blog.level3.com/global-... and COGENTs http://www.cnet.com/news/cogen... STANCE ON THE SITUATION.

Spread the word, please, I beg you as a longterm netflix customer and fan who loves this (normally) innovative and forward thinking company.

The two comments above were exactly my thought on the subject. Level 3 has responded in the comments (on the blog in the second link of the news article) that many of their peering agreements do not have many of the contractual restrictions we assume they do. A bunch of cable tv channels were dropped from directv a few times. If level 1 providers take a card from big cables deck; by offering offending ISPs just had a taste of dark fiber and all customers jumping ship they might change their tune. I'm sure other ISPs could build a decent network with all those new customers. If you hold their customers hostage and they will definitely come to the table or go out of business, either would be good. We can not allow money hungry last mile monopoly to continue to drive internet speeds downward while erasing net neutrality.

If you are a netflix customer I urge you to please: CALL THEM AND DEMAND THEY CANCEL THE COMCAST AND OTHER ISP DEALS. WE CAN NOT STAND FOR THEM HURTING NET NEUTRALITY NOR CAN WE AFFORD TO PAY THEM TO PUT SERVERS IN EVERY SINGLE ISPs DATACENTER. I CALLED AND DEMANDED THAT THEY SEND A MESSAGE TO THEIR CEO TO GOOGLE LEVEL3 http://blog.level3.com/global-... and COGENTs http://www.cnet.com/news/cogen... STANCE ON THE SITUATION.

Spread the word, please, I beg you as a longterm netflix customer and fan who loves this (normally) innovative and forward thinking company.

> need google fibre. Its the opposite extreme when it comes to performance and openness...

No it isn't extreme, it is middle of the road at best and that's only because the whole broadband market has shifted to the monopoly extreme over the last decade.

The true opposite and completely open approach would be to decouple the fiber from the ISP such that any end-user can contract with any ISP and while their data runs across the fibre, all the routing, firewalling, throttling, capping, fastlaning and ultimately internet access is done by the ISP and not by the company that owns the fibre. Kind of like how it was until the FCC reclassified DSL service in 2005

From 2006 "FBI taps cell phone mic as eavesdropping tool"
http://news.cnet.com/2100-1029...
~"functioned whether the phone was powered on or off."
Today is more about gov malware in your modern mobile OS.
So yes the telco software/hardware layers are fair game to any gov and have been for years with court docs mentioned in the US press.
The journalism going back years was the result of US court documents.
Now just get it all http://www.wired.com/2014/03/s...
Also see the http://www.reuters.com/article... ideas around domestic phone records.

4k isn't just about pixel count. It is also about expanded color gamut, which some people (myself included) think is more important than the resolution increase. Then there is also high dynamic range which is sort of tagging along with 4k, stuff like Dolby Vision.

Interesting article, thanks. The fact that I had no clue probably speaks further to my point. That's not to say I wouldn't like to see better resolution, color gamut, and dynamic range, but I'm certainly not going to replace my TV anytime in the next decade if I can help it (I just bought a 60" LED last year).

After reading the article you linked to, as far as I can tell there's nothing about high dynamic range that's specific to 4K, as you indicated. It sounds like LED is moving closer to plasma in picture quality, as you would expect to happen given enough time and research. Eventually this will probably make it back to mainstream TVs, 1080p resolution TVs included.

4k isn't just about pixel count. It is also about expanded color gamut, which some people (myself included) think is more important than the resolution increase. Then there is also high dynamic range which is sort of tagging along with 4k, stuff like Dolby Vision.

Yes its chilling to understnd the total control over aspect of 'international' payment options that really link back their historical nation state origins.
Recall the wikileaks donations saga http://www.cnet.com/news/credi...

You FAIL again, as usual, miserably http://ultradefrag.en.softonic... just like CNET has it rated by 1,000's as well http://download.cnet.com/Ultra...

APK

P.S.=> Your "9 selected" down ratings (from weak competitors no doubt or morons that don't belong on a computer)? BLOWN AWAY, like you are, yet again... apk

If the idea of Comcast buying out Time Warner Cable to become the largest cable company in America wasn't enough to make you worry

That idea is very worrying — because it is about two competitors merging. However, with both of them being very-very cozy with the governing party, the merger is all but decided, unfortunately.

If it were to happen, it would give the combined company something on the order of 26 million TV subscribers

That's a lot, but less than the other combo and, more importantly, TV is not primary line of business for AT&T...

That said, with Internet-speeds continuing to rise — net-neutrality or not — it will only become easier to deliver content over it. Netflix may have made a special deal with Verizon, but smaller IPTV providers (like KartinaTV used by my relatives to watch channels from the former USSR and Israel) are doing just fine without any special arrangements.

Of course they're cozy with the governing party.

And if the other party takes control they'll be cozy with them.

You bribe whomever can do something for you in return.

And you pay something to their enemies to keep them around in case the people in power get too greedy and need replacing with someone who'll give you more bang for your bribe buck--that way the the people in power know not to get too greedy lest they kill the goose which is laying the golden eggs.

If the idea of Comcast buying out Time Warner Cable to become the largest cable company in America wasn't enough to make you worry

That idea is very worrying — because it is about two competitors merging. However, with both of them being very-very cozy with the governing party, the merger is all but decided, unfortunately.

If it were to happen, it would give the combined company something on the order of 26 million TV subscribers

That's a lot, but less than the other combo and, more importantly, TV is not primary line of business for AT&T...

That said, with Internet-speeds continuing to rise — net-neutrality or not — it will only become easier to deliver content over it. Netflix may have made a special deal with Verizon, but smaller IPTV providers (like KartinaTV used by my relatives to watch channels from the former USSR and Israel) are doing just fine without any special arrangements.

Considering the Nexus 10 has an 'extremely repairable' rating that requires the removal of five Philips screws, I'd say it's far easier than the iPad that requires special tools?

wow. being purposefully ignorant is twice as blissful.

Yeah, ignorant - and only HALF of the story in this headline.

Tom Wheeler, the new incoming FCC Chairman is a leading industry lobbyist. GIGO.

"Wheeler has been around telecommunications policy circles for years and has served as a lobbyist for the cable industry's trade group, the National Cable and Telecommunications Association, and the wireless industry's trade association, CTIA-The Wireless Association. He spent 12 years as the head of the CTIA."
http://www.cnet.com/news/senate-confirms-tom-wheeler-as-fccs-new-chairman/

Rated 5 stars @ CNET as "outstanding" http://download.cnet.com/Ultra...

* :)

(... & 1,000's of others (vs. your 9 b.s. ones) feel completely the opposite of "your findings" - including myself, since I have YET to see issues with their wares, & I even helped them fix a couple things...)

APK

P.S.=> Have you done a BETTER disk defragger than they have? Clearly not - have YOU helped projects of that nature, as I have to GOOD ends?? Hell no.. lol!

... apk

WHY IS THIS ON SLASHDOT!?

Colbert didn't observe the boycott and spoke at the RSA Conference where he said, among other incomprehensible statements, that Snowden was " practically a war criminal". In terms of government use of computer technology to control its people, the Snowden revelations are the most important in history. Colbert's ascension to the Letterman position means that the NSA and its accomplices don't need to worry about criticism from that quarter.

Colbert noted.
"I see the Norwegians gave Snowden 30 Nobel Prize nominations. The guy's practically a war criminal - I don't understand how they could put him up for the same prize they once gave to Henry Kissinger."

Stephen Colbert's not a fan of Edward Snowden's whistleblowingStephen Colbert's not a fan of Edward Snowden's whistleblowing
Colbert said. Snowden, he said, should be taken to court over the espionage charges.

Though I will say one thing - I'm glad Win7's native explorer sucked enough to make me look for a replacement, because while XP's was Good Enough, now that I've gotten used to having a file manager that supports tabs, I couldn't possibly go back.

You don't have to. There is a free utility called Clover that adds tabs to Windows explorer....

http://download.cnet.com/Clove...

combine gasification generators with a nitrogen fixing energy rich wood like Robina pseudoacacia,which grows back faster and makes surrounding plants grow better after it is cut, planted around fruit trees and other useful species and then the act of harvesting wood makes plants grow and the act of generating electricity makes fertilizer. With the right generator http://www.cnet.com/news/carbo... there is only a positive environmental impact to the harvesting and generating of energy which when used in conjunction with a food/medicine forest http://www.beaconfoodforest.or... you have good hunting beautiful landscape and no reason to leave home. There are food forests around which are over 2000 years old still going and no one knows who planted them.

One thing to consider here is that his belief was so strong that he would not recant it, he would not compromise it for the sake of working at Mozilla.
This is evident from his Cnet interview. http://www.cnet.com/news/mozil...
He couldn't even say, in the middle of the firestorm, that he would not donate again to Prop-8. Even though that wouldn't directly compromise his belief.
He was so set against gays having the right to marry that he let it jeopardize his position as CEO. That's why he isn't the right person to be the CEO.

Oh, for god's sake, don't you get it? All opinions are equally meaningless unless people actually react to them. The ultimate non-existence of freedom of speech would be a society, where speech and actions have no consequences. This time, the consequence of his actions was that the public saw him as unfit for CEO of Mozilla. No one has denied him the right to hold those views, and he has been very kindly offered a platform to express them. What you should take away from this, is that your political opinions are often of little importance when you are just another employee, but once you become the CEO, who is a public figure, you can expect heat from those who disagree with your opinions. Which you have an absolute right to. Just like those who disagree with you.

We cannot make an explode-proof cell phone battery, but you expect that a charge of C4 in a phone would only explode in the 1% of cell phones stolen by thieves, and not the 99% that you and I own?

Really, that is the same statement as "if I and all of my neighbors own guns, then as long as I ignore all gun-shot statistics I'm sure that only thieves will be shot by those guns." Or "by ignoring all of the death-row cases overturned by DNA, I'm sure that only guilty people are put to death in the USA."

Totally ignoring the "malfunctioning C4" problem, you really want a phone that a hacker using a 0-day could make explode either next to your head or your crotch? Either way, "just say no".