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CNet respectfully disagrees. FTFA: Each robot will cost around three times the annual salary of a human worker at Foxconn to produce. So a robot that doesn't need time off, or paying, or a holiday, or medical insurance, or a lunch break, only has to last three years to be a viable replacement for a human worker who has to feed his family and keep the roof over their heads. Result: Foxconn develops a completely obedient workforce, human workforce which is prone to sabotage, strike, medical emergency, needs a break every now and again etc., is left in the gutter. QED.

Used to be fairly well known as being both a Police Code for someone needing to be put on a psychiatric hold/person behaving in insane/crazy/unhinged manner and being a potential danger to themselves or others (originating in California) as well as the original IBM PC model number.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5150_(Involuntary_psychiatric_hold)

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=5150

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-20090728-92/how-ibms-5150-pc-shaped-the-computer-industry/

I'm afraid you've got it wrong. At least Australia can build from source. I doubt they got a special deal.

Australia to see Windows source code

The ability to build from source would seem to be a key aspect of verifying the code. I'm not sure why you think they wouldn't be able to do it. What they probably can't do is distribute the binaries for free - they still have to pay Microsoft for the distribution of software.

Also, it seems likely that by providing their code to foreign governments, Microsoft is picking up what to them is free services of what are no doubt some of the best software engineers in government looking over their code, and probably sending in the occasional bug report. What's that saying? Many eyes makes for shallow bugs? Or maybe not.

It looks like at least Australia can build the source. I doubt they got a special deal. Also, the governments receiving the source code didn't get the "recipe," they got the ingredients - that's what source code is.

Australia to see Windows source code

The agreement will enable Australian government officials to view the source code for Windows 2000, XP, Server 2003 and CE. They can also use the code to build those versions of Windows, see Microsoft security documentation the company doesn't otherwise share, speak with Microsoft developers and perform their own tests on the code.

Because people have never found out that relying in a proprietary web app has shortcomings...

I lie? Google is your friend. http://m.cnet.com/news/windows-8-$40-upgrade-deal-ends-today/57566855?ds=1

I bought 3 directly from Microsoft, and upgraded one to pro.

Care to cite?

"Last month, less than three months before his criminal trial was set to begin, Ortiz's office formally rejected a deal that would have kept Swartz out of prison. Two days later, Swartz killed himself."
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57570635-38/u.s-attorney-criticism-of-aaron-swartz-prosecution-is-unfair/

Didn't think so.

Not so fast. Can't I even get a chance to respond, dipshit?

Just another fanboy martyr is all he was. The Cult Aaron Swartz... just another fanboy brigade who will chant his name any time IP is ever mentioned again.

Nope, I guess not. You're just trolling.

By your logic, if I modify my car, we should continue to hold $car_manufacturer accountable for any problems I have with the parts I added from other manufacturers, so long as $car_manufacturer had a problem with that part at some point in their history. That's moronic.

Not only that, but as someone else has already pointed out, those batteries you're referencing were manufactured by Sony, not Apple, and affected a wide range of brands, not just Apple. Everyone involved made things right by engaging in the largest consumer electronics recall in history.

You've been doing too much powershell scripting.

Between the lawsuits, making people's lives hell for leaving or speaking out against them, the pay-to-learn thing they have going on, etc it's hard for me to say "fine whatever"

This.

It's not about the aliens. It is about the coercive tactics.

All religions have beliefs that sound strange to nonbelievers. I give it three minutes until a Scilon shill says something about the Xenu story being no sillier than Jesus in order to derail the story into a flamewar of Atheists vs Christians, instead of talking about a cult that has been at war with the Internet itself for almost 20 years.

Starting with a forged rmgroup message, moving on to a sporgery campaign of random text to flood out commentary on USENET, the compromise of anon.penet.fi (at the time, the Internet's most important anonymizing remailer), the Mickey Mouse Protection Act (named after noted Scilon Sonny Bono), the near-immediate application of the DMCA in order to out a critic, and of course the the 2001 DMCA attack against Slashdot itself, and black SEO activities too numerous to count, including this latest one against Bing.

I thought Larry Ellison hates cloud computing?

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Nah, he doesn't hate Cloud Computing. It is his way to test the waters for an eventual Oracle takeover of Microsoft. Ellison thrives on winning, and will, by successive approximations, suddenly be asked to take over all of MS. Just you wait and see.

Feds: PayPal not a bank: http://news.cnet.com/2100-1017-858264.html

Link is old. It may be one now, but for many years it walked like a bank, flied like a bank, and quacked like a bank.

I thought Larry Ellison hates cloud computing?

No, he's just mocking the marketing term, and uses an analog to fashion ("orange is the new pink"):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FacYAI6DY0

Also the 2009 interview (at the Churchill Club) is quite interesting:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmrxN3GWHpM

A lot of people mock Ellison and Oracle's business practices, but I've always found him to be a sharp guy.

I thought Larry Ellison hates cloud computing?

By your logic, if I modify my car, we should continue to hold $car_manufacturer accountable for any problems I have with the parts I added from other manufacturers, so long as $car_manufacturer had a problem with that part at some point in their history. That's moronic.

Not only that, but as someone else has already pointed out, those batteries you're referencing were manufactured by Sony, not Apple, and affected a wide range of brands, not just Apple. Everyone involved made things right by engaging in the largest consumer electronics recall in history.

The New York Times review called the book "bland and tepid" and reading "as if it had been vetted by a committee of Microsoft executives"; it is "little more than a positioning document, sold in book form with accompanying CD-ROM and designed mainly to advance the interests of the Microsoft Corporation."

It appears to me that Bill Gates is using "philanthropy" to find ways to make more money. He discovers difficulties people have, asks for ideas for technology to fix those difficulties, and then turns those ideas into money-making projects for Intellectual Ventures.

To read more about how they use business to do what many regard as evil, read the August 21, 2012 article, Inside Intellectual Ventures, the most hated company in tech.

Er, woosh?

At least link to an article with more than 300 words. Review at CNET.

How nice that, after these revelations, suddenly all of these companies are coming forward with data and vows to fight or announcing requests to reveal information, etc. Where were these Brave Defenders of Consumers^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HCitizens before Snowden?

In the case of Amazon, it cut off its services to Wikileaks at the request of Sen. Joseph Lieberman (Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee). That's what Amazon was doing before Snowden. They didn't wait for an injunction, they didn't wait for Wikileaks or Assange to be brought upon charges (they've helped the US government deal with Wikileaks, without having to enter the messy US court system and all the rights that could possibly imply for the defendant).

And now suddenly, Amazon is getting this big fat 10-year contract from the CIA for a private cloud (that IBM is challenging every which way). Oh thanks Senator Lieberman!! And thank you US taxpayers!!! Amazon may not like to pay taxes, but it sure likes benefiting from them!

http://news.cnet.com/2100-1029-6140191.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/3522137.stm

That is from 2006 and 2004. My paranoia is well justified.

Which both Candidate Obama and President Obama supported from the get go.

The fix is in, people. Do not worry though:

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At last everything is done for you!

It's a good thing his running mate, the guy at the top of the ticket is completely opposed to warrentless wiretapping. It's like they're agreed.

PRISM (what part of it is eventually determined to be real), just like the old over-hyped PROMIS, are just analysis and coordination tools. A user interface.

It's the COLLECTION that matters. We must slap a collar and bell on the NSA... and introduce strong criminal penalties for corporations who knowingly participate in these taps, OR even fail to exercise due diligence in policing their infrastructure for the presence of 'unauthorized' taps.

Shut it all down and send 'em home. Let the folks at NSA do something worthwhile and productive like filling potholes.

Even straight real-time voice intercept is a well known capability, geezers among us will recall there was a time when taps required alligator clips and assistance of telephone company personnel. Popularity of telephone ESS and CALEA guidelines (thank you Bill Clinton, you dumb outlaw-all-encryption Clipper Chip dawg) began to streamline the process to put back doors in telephone switches.

Such backdoor tactics were necessary because even then the digital component of our voice backbone consisted of an incredible number of multiplexed constant bitrate channels that criss-crossed the country as a mesh. They were far too distributed and numerous to present the possibility of 'complete intercept'.

On a clear day you actually could hear a pin drop too. Bell Standard Practices. Bless 'em, may they rest in peace.

Then codecs happened, packetization happened and IP routing happened. Fiber happened. Gigabit switching happened. Those constant bitrate links, both terrestrial and microwave, went the way of the horse and buggy.

Welcome to the Brave New World, where your voice is compressed to the point where speaker recognition is iffy, turkey garble when packets are delayed or lost.

And most importantly for the NSA who wants to slurp in domestic communications, it all passes through very few terrestrial interconnection points and the compression allows them to spool and store (via 'dark fiber' that has mysteriously come to life) in centralized locations. For-fuckin'-ever.

Since they listen afterwards and have captured every packet --- even the ones that did not arrive on time --- the NSA probably gets better voice quality than you do. How twisted is that??

Amazingly, the Associated Press is starting to get it,

AP: Secret to Prism program: Even bigger data seizure: But interviews with more than a dozen current and former government and technology officials and outside experts show that, while Prism has attracted the recent attention, the program actually is a relatively small part of a much more expansive and intrusive eavesdropping effort.

Americans who disapprove of the government reading their emails have more to worry about from a different and larger NSA effort that snatches data as it passes through the fiber optic cables that make up the Internet's backbone. That program, which has been known for years, copies Internet traffic as it enters and leaves the United States, then routes it to the NSA for analysis.

The only silly fallacy tripping them up now is the prevailing theme that these taps are "only" placed at points of ingress and egress. A border thang, they's listenin' to foreigners, move along now.

Since the days not so long ago when as much traffic passed through satellite earth stations as did undersea cables, NSA's collection and interception has brought them well into the geographical confines of the country. With a extremely high ratio of illegal domestic intercepts versus 'sanctioned' border-crossing communication.

This is an existential threat.

1. LYNCHPIN of warrantless spying: Hepting v. AT&T

There's still no nationwide database in the US of all stolen IMEI numbers

Actually there is. The two major GSM carriers, T-Mobile and AT&T, share a database. Sprint and Verizon will be joining that database by the end of the year; though not that stealing a CDMA phone does you much good on a GSM network and vice versa at the moment. In any case the problem is that the IMEI database is not enough;

1. IMEIs are not unique. We've hit the equivalent of IPv4 space exhaustion. So they're simply reusing IMEIs now.
2. IMEIs can be changed on a number of phones, so it's not a reliable way to keep a phone blocked.
3. These IMEI databases are not shared on a global level, and there's really no way to force everyone to work together. China Telecom for example has little incentive to block iPhones stolen in other countries

The solution then is that rather than merely unreliably blocking a phone, the phone needs to be disabled entirely so that a stolen phone cannot be of any value. It essentially needs to be (reversibly) destroyed if stolen, to eliminate all financial incentive for stealing a phone. This is why the Attorneys General and other law enforcement officials want kill switches, so that shipping a purloined phone overseas is no longer a viable business, ultimately leading to criminals to stop stealing the damn things.

It doesn't have to be perfect, it just needs to make re-use of the phone more expensive.

"reversible" and "hard to defeat" seems like two requirements that would be fulfilled by some sort of encryption. Maybe activating the phone writes the firmware with an encryption code generated by the serial number and something the user sets up and stores with the carrier. Or a hash of some kind like a password (make the phone do some CPU work to connect).

People stealing phones that are causing a problem are the 15 year old ghetto goblins riding the public bus. 99% of the time, the phone is wiped and re used by the same person that stole it in the first place. They need to cut out that loop. Not the "has a lab full of stuff to take apart an iPhone" criminal.

Because Office is not the same as every other 99c fart app on the App store.

The Office app needs special rules because you and MS say it's special. Yeah, that's not a reason. So all the subscription based apps like the WSJ app can do whatever they want because they are special too?.

Which app on the iPad among the million apps following the "rules" is going get more business sales in companies for the iPad apart from Office?

Funny how you defined "business sales" because if you want to talk millions in sales to consumers you have to ignore Pandora, Kindle, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, etc.

Thus, MS is in a way stronger negotiating position than the developer of a fart sounds app. If you can't understand that simple logic, I have nothing more to say to you.

Lets say Apple demanded 100% instead of 30%, does this mean it's all MS's fault? Who is to say 30% is the "right" amount? You, the MS hater?

If you went to any business in this world and you wanted them to make exceptions for you, you would say it's partially their fault if they say no? What kind of warped sense of entitlement do you have? Can you say to a potential landlord that you want to pay less rent than he's offering and then blame him because he didn't say yes? That the landlord is partially to blame that you were without an apartment.

If I were renting a thousand apartments, yes I would ask the landlord for a discount. That is not a warped sense of entitlement, it's getting a good deal for your company. If you didn't, and paid one of your biggest rival companies extra money you didn't need to, you would be called an unknowing fool and would be fired from any half decent company for wasting money like an idiot. You fail at Negotiating 101. Good that you aren't responsible for big companies' business decisions.

You want to see how Apple might bend rules? Look at this email where an Apple exec was proposing an exception to Amazon books. http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57589185-37/apples-eddy-cue-yep-we-caused-e-book-pricing-to-rise/

I honestly can't make out if you're that dense, or your abject MS hate is clouding your logic. I hope it's the latter. And Slashdot moderation shows how it's more about MS hate than insightful comments, no wonder the site is dying as people flee from theirrational hating circlejerk.

There's still no nationwide database in the US of all stolen IMEI numbers

Actually there is. The two major GSM carriers, T-Mobile and AT&T, share a database. Sprint and Verizon will be joining that database by the end of the year; though not that stealing a CDMA phone does you much good on a GSM network and vice versa at the moment. In any case the problem is that the IMEI database is not enough;

1. IMEIs are not unique. We've hit the equivalent of IPv4 space exhaustion. So they're simply reusing IMEIs now.
2. IMEIs can be changed on a number of phones, so it's not a reliable way to keep a phone blocked.
3. These IMEI databases are not shared on a global level, and there's really no way to force everyone to work together. China Telecom for example has little incentive to block iPhones stolen in other countries

The solution then is that rather than merely unreliably blocking a phone, the phone needs to be disabled entirely so that a stolen phone cannot be of any value. It essentially needs to be (reversibly) destroyed if stolen, to eliminate all financial incentive for stealing a phone. This is why the Attorneys General and other law enforcement officials want kill switches, so that shipping a purloined phone overseas is no longer a viable business, ultimately leading to criminals to stop stealing the damn things.

You mean, like this?

It was http://news.cnet.com/The-Compex-Sport-Shock-therapy-for-workout-warriors/2100-1041_3-6226516.htmlall the rage forty years ago, albeit the zapping was not done in the brain directly, but Bruce Lee did it quite frequently.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-10414356-71.html

iPads and androids I won't because they really are just large screen cellphones,

Then you'd be making a mistake.

The Asus Transformer range showed that Android was excellent as a convertible netbook/mini notebook. Now Acer is releasing a full-sized ( 21.5-inch) Android All-in-One pc, and there's rumours of many more in the pipeline. http://www.engadget.com/2013/02/24/acer-Smart%20Display-DA220HQL-hands-on/

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-57581500-92/android-notebooks-yep-intel-says-and-theyll-only-cost-$200/
http://www.engadget.com/2012/09/14/motorola-mobility-launches-hmc3260-cloud-streamer/

There's still gaps in applications and perpiherals that'll keep some businesses on Wintel for a little longer. Unless MS can pull something a LOT better than W8 out of it's hat, though, I'd say the trickle will very quickly become a landslide.

Vote these people out.

I'm getting tired of hearing this. We did "vote these people out" and got Barack Obama. The guy flat out lied. He lied about warrentless wiretaps. He lied about closing gitmo. He lied about ending the Iraq war. The solution isn't vote him out. The solution is throw him out. Impeach the son of a bitch.

You don't have to wait and see. Sony's presentation was largely a really brilliant piece of deception. Watch the Playstation 4 "lifestyle" video that Sony showed. They have people: downloading games from their phone, streaming games to start playing immediately and playing online co-op. No-where in their 'lifestyle' video do any of the gamers go to a store, buy a disc, put it in and play by themselves.

If you buy a digital game from Sony you already have less flexibility than the Xbox One's digital downloads. Sony is going to do everything in their power to push digital downloads, and for good reason, they're better. No scratched discs, no swapping a hardware dongle (inserting a disc) in order to play, you can get every game on day one without pre-order, you can play your entire library of games at work, or a friends house, or home etc. Digital downloads already make up a majority of PC game sales. They accomplished that feat in 2010. Consoles will get there in no-time. When was the last time you bought a PC game at a store? Exactly.

Though digital downloads accounted for most of the number of games sold from January to June, they accounted for just 43 percent of overall game revenue. But that difference stems mainly from the higher prices that retail stores charge over their online counterparts, says NPD.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-10797_3-20016943-235.html

Also digital downloads are cheaper. No middleman, no distribution, no printing just straight download. Again, that was in 2010. By the end of 2014 everybody will be downloading on both consoles and while "theoretically" the PS4 will have used games and sharing--that's only for disc based games.

Similarly look at every single launch title that's being promoted, they're MMOs, they're quasi-mmos with drop-in PVP or co-op or they're multiplayer games like Modern Warfare (which kind of has a single player). So yeah you don't *need* an internet connection but it's like buying Team Fortress 2 and not having an internet connection, it's going to be a fraction of the designed game. Multiplayer is no longer an afterthought it's integral to most games. So sure on the PS4 you don't need an online check-in but it will be the shell of the game you purchased.

I for one am ashamed I voted for Obama in 2008

Why should you be? Obama's a lying piece of shit. The problem isn't that we hired him. The problem is there's no way to fire him.

If I got a job, promising to maintain network security and firewalls, I'm expected to do that. If once I'm hired and collecting salary, I decide I'd rather install trojans and backdoors into the company network, I would be fired immediately upon discovery. I'd probably also be prosecuted for my efforts.

We should be able to fire him, on the spot. Have him escorted out of the building by those men with guns and mail him his shit.

There are no consequences for the unconstitutional actions of the leadership class. They all know it. They're never going to stop.

Plasma TVs are not "old tech", and theyre definately not less expensive than LCDs.
http://reviews.cnet.com/best-plasma-tvs/

Hey look theyre still being sold / reviewed!

Clearly you haven't tried "Excel for supercomputers.

"Microsoft has confirmed that by no means is it winding down its anti-Google Scroogle campaign. In fact, the company was so pleased with the last two chapters of its crusade that it's gearing up for a third chapter. So far, the crux of Scroogle has been negative astroturf aimed at revealing Google's alleged lack of privacy concerns, but its not like what Microsoft is doing is so different "

http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-57572489-75/microsoft-forges-ahead-with-its-anti-google-scroogle-campaign/

The order was suspended on June 4.

"Federal judge suspends order that child porn suspect decrypt own computer files or face contempt" http://www.jsonline.com/news/crime/deadline-is-today-for-west-allis-man-to-decrypt-suspected-porn-files-b9926078z1-210121531.html

"Earlier court order requiring a Wisconsin suspect in underage porn case to decrypt his hard drives for the FBI by the end of the day Tuesday -- or face contempt of court -- has been lifted." http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57587670-38/judge-child-porn-suspect-doesnt-need-to-decrypt-files/

Ruling: http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/threatlevel/2013/06/Decision-Order-DOC-8-re-Motion-to-Stay.pdf

Here is a story on one that was fought.

Why Wine? You might as well be running Windows. The Ernie Ball corporation, biggest (and most say the best) manufacturer of guitar strings use no Microsoft products at all and very few proprietary solutions.

Sterling Ball, a jovial, plain-talking businessman, is CEO of Ernie Ball, the world's leading maker of premium guitar strings endorsed by generations of artists ranging from the likes of Eric Clapton to the dudes from Metallica.

But since jettisoning all of Microsoft products three years ago, Ernie Ball has also gained notoriety as a company that dumped most of its proprietary software--and still lived to tell the tale.

In 2000, the Business Software Alliance conducted a raid and subsequent audit at the San Luis Obispo, Calif.-based company that turned up a few dozen unlicensed copies of programs. Ball settled for $65,000, plus $35,000 in legal fees. But by then, the BSA, a trade group that helps enforce copyrights and licensing provisions for major business software makers, had put the company on the evening news and featured it in regional ads warning other businesses to monitor their software licenses.

Humiliated by the experience, Ball told his IT department he wanted Microsoft products out of his business within six months. "I said, 'I don't care if we have to buy 10,000 abacuses,'" recalled Ball, who recently addressed the LinuxWorld trade show. "We won't do business with someone who treats us poorly."

Ball's IT crew settled on a potpourri of open-source software--Red Hat's version of Linux, the OpenOffice office suite, Mozilla's Web browser--plus a few proprietary applications that couldn't be duplicated by open source. Ball, whose father, Ernie, founded the company, says the transition was a breeze, and since then he's been happy to extol the virtues of open-source software to anyone who asks. He spoke with CNET News.com about his experience.

People and businesses using linux

Who would be the constructor?

I can think of a couple of candidates.

some sort of evidence for your claim?

Cnet: you're left with no doubt that you're being recorded.

Or the fact that HTC did the same crazy naming scheme and released the One X then doubled down next generation with what else but the One.

Not to mention it may soon have a Nexus treatment from google. What will it be named? Nexus One One? Nexus One Two? Nexus One Mk.II?

The original article on CNET has links, the real pictures, and doesn't feed a link building content farm. Not to mention it was written by Declan McCullagh, a great guy (bring back politech!)

Remember kids, only you can avoid feeding the trolls.

A visual compare of TFA with this Cnet article suggests that copy-pasta was involved.

Dunno what counts for you, but here's a few:

Cnet

gizmodo

Starwars.com

Welp, it took about 5 years.

You know, even though I haven't been a gamer for ten years, and Microsoft's software generally just annoys the hell out of me, I liked the idea of it a lot. I've wanted a voice controlled TV for years.

But the more I hear about this the more I'm sure it's a "don't want." The "needs internet" is bad enough, but a CNET article convinced me that if anyone gave me one of these as a gift I'd be pissed off. I do not want my TV set to have a fucking camera!! WTF is wrong with the idiots at Microsoft and Samsung, the other retarded company that's trying to sell this garbage?

The Xbox1 is misnamed. Thay should have called it the Orwell.

that this could be the work of the GNAA?

Just as WhatsApp enabled (free, non-SMS) cross communication between iOS and Android

And by free, you mean "with huge privacy implications", right?

Considering that he has more money than anyone could spend in ten lifetimes, Gates' philanthropy is like you buying a hamburger for a homeless man. I'm just not impressed. I'm far more impressed with the hungry man who shares half that hamburger with another homeless man.

You realize his father reportedly shamed him into philanthropy, right? And his parents are lawyers!

I'm also not a fan of his reprehensible business practices.

Meanwhile, in delicious irony, Google Docs and Drive are down and inaccessible.

"Google Drive documents list goes empty for users "
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57583952-93/google-drive-documents-list-goes-empty-for-users/?part=rss&subj=news&tag=title&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=statusnet

https://twitter.com/search/realtime?q=google%20drive&src=typd

Trusting in someone that could be forced by law to give your encrypted communications (after all they have the right to see all your mails), or modify packaged software to let them in is risky this days. You maybe could trust in the FBI as in a concept, an entity that won't be interested in your trade secrets, but there are people working for them, and people and corporations giving orders to them directly or indirectly that have no problem abusing the power they have.

Open source, widely tested encryption and secure channels are your best options.