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" The Nexus 10 and Nexus 7 are selling well and higher spec than the latest iPad and iPad Mini respectively"

Uh really -higher specced?

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6426/ipad-4-gpu-performance-analyzed-powervr-sgx-554mp4-under-the-hood

As far as "selling well"....

Less than 3 million in 3 months?

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57542796-94/asus-nexus-7-sales-climb-toward-1-million-a-month/

You obviously aren't thinking about the secondary effects. A story on Slashdot advertises it to mainstream media. A Google search for Apple Hides Samsung Apology So It Can't Be Seen Without Scrolling gives a link to this story on the 22nd page of the search results: Apple accused of hiding U.K. Samsung 'apology' with code. A story on CNet may become mainstream news. Even if it doesn't, the story is traveling fast with 21 other pages of web sites.

A lot of people on Slashdot make comments that show they aren't thinking carefully. However, many people who do think carefully read Slashdot. The kind of person who thinks carefully has social power.

Apple has loudly advertised, "We can't be trusted. We're dishonest." People may think that, if Apple can so easily be sneaky about that, maybe the company can't be trusted to provide good hardware or service. Remember, those who buy hardware now are depending on the supplier for years to come.

Contrary to what the good doctor maintains Apple, like Mormonism is a cult, not a religion.

Some iPhone users don't know the difference between an iPhone5 and an iPhone4s, even when they own the iPhone4s. http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-57512267-71/kimmel-fools-people-into-believing-iphone-4s-is-iphone-5/

Anti-competitive. That's quite a laugh.

Samsung engaging in anti-competitive practices vs Apple is rich. Apple, who wants an absolute monopoly on anything resembling a smartphone would seem to be the one being anti-competitive. Samsung designed another phone, the Galaxy S3 that was designed by lawyers not to infringe, yet Apple found some triviality that they could use to name that phone in a patent suit.

The trivialities about what Samsung did, or minutia of particular patent details are mere distractions. The big picture is about Apple wanting an absolute monopoly. Apple cannot charge monopoly rents otherwise. Apple is also suing every other Android manufacturer. And if any other smartphone brand (eg, Microsoft) represented an actual threat, Apple would be suing them too. Steve Jobs was specific that he would spend all of Apple's money to destroy Android -- not Samsung. It's just that Samsung makes the most awesome Android phones, at the moment, and so are the targets of Apple's anti-competitive actions.

bic pen for her! LINK!

Size.

The first from Google (21", 19,8" viewable, 2048x1536):

http://bizsupport1.austin.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/lpv07137/lpv07137.pdf

Weight: 30.5kg.
"30 minutes to reach optimum performance level".

Size: Gigantic.

Power consumption: 130W, not *that* bad when compared to living-room displays (but hey, sizes on them are not on 21" range) - a modern computer display (27", 2650x1440) from last year consumes 51,3 and the review calls it power hungry):

http://reviews.cnet.com/lcd-monitors/samsung-syncmaster-s27a850d/4505-3174_7-35018743-2.html

So yes, being able to move the display as an skinny nerd is a plus, not requiring a gigantic place is nice, and the power consumption...well, if you keep the monitor active 8 hours a day, take a calculator and see for yourself on your electricity prices how much a waste that CRT is.

And yes, the good ones are still used professionally because they still deliver, but the cheap big CRTs were shait also on geometry - on low end you get garbage anyway in some aspects.

-k

http://thehiddenevil.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cointelpro
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens'_Commission_to_Investigate_the_FBI
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaslighting

Smart meters reveal TV viewing habits

"By analysing electricity consumption patterns, it is, in principle, also possible to identify films played from a DVD or other source."

http://h-online.com/-1346385

Researchers find smart meters could reveal favorite TV shows

"Tests on smart meters made by German company Discovergy show that someone with network sniffing skills and equipment could determine what's been watched by looking at lighting display patterns."

http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-57364883-245/researchers-find-smart-meters-could-reveal-favorite-tv-shows/?_escaped_fragment_=#!

This is the precise reason the Samsung S3 Mini is going to be a runaway hit. Mark my words. Even with the lower resolution display and the slower processor, the S3 Mini is exactly the form-factor that users have been clamoring for in smart phones ever since pre-smartphone days.

I don't think any of the major US wireless carriers offer discounted monthly rates for buying your phone outright. You might as well reap the price of discounted phones if your bill is the same rate.

Prepaid. Prepaid is almost always significantly cheaper than contract.

For example, with an iphone prepaid can save you $500-$1000 over a 2 year contract including all up-front costs like the full purchase price of the phone. And that doesn't include all the misc "surprise" fees that frequently show up on contract phone bills but never on prepaid.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57449345-94/why-a-prepaid-iphone-is-an-amazing-deal-for-bargain-hunters/

3.6 million SSN lifted, governer claims it was encrypted.
I'm 80% sure it's unsalted, sha5 or less strength, just because it's a state run operation.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57541481-83/millions-of-ssns-lifted-from-south-carolina-database/

Trade war, or war within the bureaucracy of the US Govt itself? Remember that Cybersecurity Executive Order? Wonder who will be put in charge?

Reminds me of a little story about a power outage, maybe.

We can't tell you what we know, but trust us to be in charge...

Try 1 million: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57461870-94/android-activations-reach-1-million-per-day/

I've never read an accurate telling of the Dell/Apple story.

Why is this inaccurate?

Well, it's certainly not light - apparently it's around 900 grams undocked. The battery life is also what you'd expect from a Core i7 device, as opposed to ARM - I can't find the source again, but I've seen figures quoted as coming directly from ASUS putting it at 6 hours of battery life for the tablet by itself, and 10 hours when docked. Which is still pretty decent if you treat it as a laptop doubling as a tablet, I suppose, rather than the other way around.

Note that there are other options from Asus, which are Atom-powered, and hence lighter and last longer. The next one down the line is the 11.6" Vivo Tab, for which they claim 10 hours for the tablet and 19 hours docked. The weight is also in the same ballpark as iPad and Surface; but it's still an Intel device, and you still get the keyboard dock that lets you turn it into a laptop, albeit with reduced features compared to Transformer Book.

Who knew a process by which the ultimate goal is to produce ethanol would be a good starting point to produce ethanol?

True that. I'm far more impressed by the people who realized that you could make dresses from wine making waste.

no, its not. Its like an alcoholic thinking they've been dry for a couple of years and so its ok to start drinking again...

Allowing Microsoft to install only IE is much the same thing - the temptation to put just one little Windows-only extension in will be too great, and next thing you know, you're using MetroUI and wondering why your head hurts.

Its bad enough that Windows 8 will come with a single browser that works in the Metro side of things (subject to the others figuring out how to fully replace it, which they currently cannot). Can you imagine web sites that only work correctly in IE10 running in Metro?

App authors can also expect a greater payout from iOS compared with Android, with Apple's mobile operating system delivering developers four times the revenue as their Android counterpart per user, Flurry found.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57449358-37/ios-still-tops-android-with-app-developers/

I don't disagree with you at all; there's tons of apps that are, frankly, garbage. But even if your app is genuinely good, given the amount of "noise" in the store, you must also get lucky to be seen and discovered amongst all of the junk.

Who cares what the old man says anymore? As the Salesforce chap said,Windows is irrelevant these days.

What grade are you in, son? Freshman in college? Junior in high school? because it's pretty damned obvious that you've never seen the inside of an office building. Every single PC in almost every office (Ernie Ball notwithstanding) is running Windows. On desktops. And there are a lot more PCs in offices than in homes. That said, I'm running kubuntu at home and anyone who has seen many of my comments knows I'm no MS apologist, I much prefer the far superior kubuntu, but your comment was just moronic.

Irrelevant? Son, I feel sorry for you, having all that ignorance and such little knowledge of the world.

BTW, mods, his comment wasn't flamebait, it was just stupid.

There is a report that Samsung is denying that they're terminating the contract with Apple for LCDs:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57537773-37/samsung-says-its-still-supplying-lcd-panels-to-apple/

I have no idea what is true or not, but there are well known hazards believing rumors.

A Samsung spokesman refutes a report out of Korea that the electronics giant is ending its agreement to supply LCDs to Apple.

It's simple, Samsung was the only kids on the block with that quality and reliability.

Apple have tried a few times before, but the results have generally been rather bad.

I seem to recall some similar stories now and then, but right now it's so much Google noise it's hard to find old stories.

Anyway, seems like other producers have caught up, and are now ready to deliver. Hopefully.

If he clicked 'Post Anonymously' there is no way they can trace the comment back to him individually.

Unless he posted from a device on the Verizon network.

The same can be said for the Windows fanboys, the Android fanboys, and every other damned fanboy ... that's pretty much the definition of fanboy; "my manufacturer makes awesome products and would never do anything wrong, yours are evil doodie heads who make crap".

I see just as many people mindlessly defending Microsoft on Slashdot. And, let's face it, Google's "do no evil" has become more of a joke than anything of late.

Throw in the telecoms carriers (*cough* Verizon *cough*), and someone is going to be trying to screw you over at every step of the chain.

And, if you think the free software folks are any better, well, Canonical wants to embed some extra crap from Amazon.

http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13746_7-57532892-48/gibbs-demoes-atv-jet-ski-mashup/

http://www.gibbssports.com/quadski

I know Comcast DVRs will give 30 second skips. you just need to reprogram the remote for a secret function. The 'A' button on the Comcast remotes works really well for this. http://howto.cnet.com/8301-11310_39-57404724-285/how-to-program-a-30-second-skip-button-for-comcast-dvrs/

Because we all know that TOP GEAR is a car show that is for serious car information.

I'm not sure how good cnet is in regards to serious car information, but someone linked this to me trying to state that the Smart is a safe car.

http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13746_7-9944458-48.html

The IIHS' crash safety tests are conducted using a dummy in the driver's seat fitted with injury sensors that assess head protection countermeasures and the vehicle's structural performance during the impact. Despite the ForTwo's maximum ratings for front and side impact, the IIHS did point out that the absence of a front-end crash zone means that drivers involved in accidents in the two-seater undergo a different kind of experience than those in cars with a longer frontal crush structure. Instead of relying on the car's crush zone to weather most of the impact, the ForTwo relies more on its internal restraint system to protect the driver. "We recorded a high head acceleration when the driver dummy's head hit the steering wheel through the frontal airbag," said IIHS President Adrian Lund in a press release, suggesting that the dummy maximized the use of space in the car's cabin to "ride down" the impact.

The car might survive, but will be irreparable, and you might be in the same condition if you are in one when it wrecks.

http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13746_7-9944458-48.html You seem to be wrong.

http://www.iihs.org/news/rss/pr051408.html# ohh look the actual report.

OR are you using the Romney type of "facts"

they bought into the hype / nonsense about low-power devices being "The Next Big Thing," and failed to ready a new top of the line processor.

The shareholders bought into the hype and then CEO Dirk Meyer was fired because he didn't buy into it.

Opportunity for WP8 to implement a mini-Optimus which could use an ultra-basic graphics chip (just what's needed to render Metro) paired with the usual GPU (all packed in the same SoC with the CPU, as usual). This would make battery life skyrocket when non-gaming or non-H.264 tasks are executed. In general, Android will get ruined by the Linux kernel eventually (and Linux's unstable ABI). Google were smart enough to not use X.org and PulseAudio, but not smart enough to not use the linux kernel. This is because Android was designed in the Symbian era, when smartphones weren't meant to be updated (beyond bugfixes). Now that the iPhone and Windows Phone are getting updates, the unstable ABI of the Linux kernel is showing. Ooops! Google could have bought QNX and have the most badass mobile OS outthere. But no, LinuxIsAwesomeForEmbedded. PS: Read here for Motorola's efforts to upgrade their phones (read: re-write the drivers of the SoCs): http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57526994-94/android-users-outraged-over-motorolas-broken-promise/ All that FUD about how companies purposely don't upgrade their phones just got shot down in flames. It's not that they don't want, it's that they can't, because it involves significant rewriting of the drivers.

There's trouble (a parking ticket with a $100 fine) and then there's trouble

The burden of proof for the latter (or any other life-ruining penalty) should be much higher. This is not proportionate, even if it is proven that she did it herself.

Blaming her for negligence doesn't make sense. IANAL, but poor / no security (e.g. a failure to encrypt an internet connection or encrypting it with WEP, leaving a car unlocked that is subsequently used to commit a crime etc.) is not an act of negligence that should result in penalties such as these in any rational legal system.

If anyone disagrees, can they please represent me against Sony for exposing my credit card details (as part of the PSN hack)?

Does anyone know why two American companies are suing each other in Germany? Are these German patents?

And why bother suing in Germany when the US courts apparently think that they have jurisdiction in Germany too.

When I did the search earlier, the results included How piracy built the U.S. publishing industry.

Google: "site:techdirt.com apple arbitrary"

Well you could do that if you wanted to end up with a lot of out of date and incorrect information. But that's close enough for an Apple Hater!!

http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2009/04/24/crudebox-becomes-prudebox-to-make-it-into-the-app-store/

The link even says it's in the App Store. Next!

http://almerica.blogspot.ca/2008/09/podcaster-rejeceted-because-it.html
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10042127-2.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20

Podcaster is in the App Store.

http://forum.nin.com/bb/read.php?59,651569
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/91508-Apple-Blocks-Obscene-Newsreader-Apphttp://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/91508-Apple-Blocks-Obscene-Newsreader-App

Apple is very clear they do not allow obscene/pornographic content in the app store (this is not an arbitrary rule):
"Applications must not contain any obscene, pornographic, offensive or defamatory content "

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2009/may/21/apple-iphone

Apple is in fact Allowing Kama Sutra on the app store.

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2008/09/apple-imposes-n/

This article was not correct even way back in 2008 when it was posted.

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/36946/Interview_Molleindustria_On_Phone_Storys_Objectionable_Message.php

Prohibiting child abuse in an app is not an "arbitrary" policy.

SInce you can't even be arsed to check a lint you copy from Google, I see no reason to read anything further from you or to respond again. As such you may have the last most and copy blindly from Google all the outdated links you like.

You even need to be careful of the legit air bags.... http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-57444565-71/airbag-saves-man-then-kills-him/

You sure are snarky for someone who is seemingly incapable of using a search engine.

Google: "site:techdirt.com apple arbitrary" They've done a fairly thorough job of documenting Apple's arbitrary policies. Of course, Apple is free to be as arbitrary as they wish, as are the fanboys free to defend them blindly (thanks for your shining example!). And the rest of us are free to criticize their silly approach and enjoy a superior product.

For the lazy ones:
http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2009/04/24/crudebox-becomes-prudebox-to-make-it-into-the-app-store/
http://almerica.blogspot.ca/2008/09/podcaster-rejeceted-because-it.html
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10042127-2.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
http://forum.nin.com/bb/read.php?59,651569
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/91508-Apple-Blocks-Obscene-Newsreader-App
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2009/may/21/apple-iphone
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2008/09/apple-imposes-n/
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/36946/Interview_Molleindustria_On_Phone_Storys_Objectionable_Message.php

I await your apology with bated breath.

What are you talking about? There was no misconduct. If there was, the judge would have kicked the guilty juror out. I think you've only seeing the fandroid perspective. Perhaps the question is, what will you do once the appeal's court confirms the judgement?

http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13746_7-57506088-48/volkswagen-unveils-the-seventh-generation-golf-tsi-tdi/

140 horsepower and just under 50MPG, or 100~ horsepower and just over 60MPG. Yes, diesel, but really it is not as bad as people seem to think.

"...can you blame them?"

Ohh yes I can, but for a different reason:

Lies, blatant lies, or call them broad day thievery, for lack of a better term. Wanna know why? Here's why:

Apple's top gun on their "wonderful maps..."

"Designed by Apple from the ground up, Maps give you turn-by-turn spoken directions, interactive 3D views, and the stunning Flyover feature. All of which may just make this app the most beautiful, powerful mapping service ever."

Want proof? Fella, I didn't make this up:

Read here for the actual claim, here, for customers who almost revolted (my words), and here to satisfy your mind that Apple was then forced to face the truth.

Need more? Simply ask.

Hard to say which is REALLY the bigger problem. But going by the CNET article, though they mentioned one map inaccuracy, mostly they complained about POI being horrid, which they say Apple is getting from Yelp.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57517404-37/apple-maps-in-ios-6-what-you-need-to-know-faq/

For the map inaccuracies I've seen, I would assume Apple's server-side software is to blame. Things like nothing but a single highway on Grand Cayman Island just reeks of the server generating the maps from some high-level global map, and not properly including the region-specific map data. Other big empty sections could similarly be attributed to Apple's server-side failing to include a specific map file for that region.

I have no desire to defend TeleAtlas/TomTom, but I speak from experience when I say I found their maps to be nearly as good as NAVTEQ. And the integration issues Apple is having, like the altitude data not aligning with the aerial photos in the 3D flyover, again indicates some server-side issue, where the two layers of data are not being aligned properly. Perhaps most damming, TomTom makes navigation devices, which uses this same map data, and I haven't heard such shreiks about inaccuracy with those devices.

If you've run into lots of navigation issues, then I concede it's *probably* due to inaccuracies in the TeleAtlas map data. But Google and NAVTEQ are both far from error-free, directing you to enter an address from the back, a block over, where there's no entrance... directing you to drive in a big circle around a block because it's unaware of an intersection or stop-light... and many more such issues. My solution is simply to keep TWO different apps installed on my phone, to get a second opinion when one seems to be taking me off-track.

(Rei, you're the man when it comes to knowledge of the EV industry. I wish Slashdot had a way of sending messages to other users, so I wouldn't have to post an off-topic question like this.)

According to this video.
      http://cnettv.cnet.com/can-tesla-model-unkill-electric-car-cnet-cars/9742-1_53-50132179.html?ttag=cnet~tesla~ob
the Model S' performance is limited by the throughput of the inverter.

Inverters also add weight, volume, cost, and are not 100% efficient. Why not do away with the inverter altogether and use DC electric motors?

Yes, apparently replacing wires is the general idea of the 802.11ad:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-57326718-264/wilocity-60ghz-wireless-revolution-begins-at-ces/

Or wireless point to point line of sight commercial connections:
http://www.bridgewave.com/products/60ghz.cfm

Aereo is doing this for their TV-to-internet service: each user gets his/her own antenna, in the hopes that it avoids legal issues. They create stacks of mini antenna arrays and set them up somewhere in Brooklyn. The wavelength for TV is 30 cm to 5 m, depending on the channel; both dimensions are much larger than the dime-sized antenna shown there.

How this exactly works, well, I can't exactly say. Although I am an electrical engineer, I have to admit that antenna design has always been out of my league.

Sure, it is possible that they will start building mainly robot based factories in mainland Chinal, but why bother? In its purest form a robot factory would just take raw materials and energy as input, with product as output. You want to place a factory like that in a location with a really stable energy supply, good infrastructure, and a stable political situation. Staff costs wouldn't be such a big issue, since you wouldn't have too many staff anyway. So, why choose China, where you would have to deal wiith rampant corruption, bad infrastructure and millions of starving former factory workers?

Personally I would put the factories in Japan, northern Europe and Canada, that way they would be closer to the consumers as well. It would certainly save a fortune in security!

So this also says that Apache will ignore the Do-Not-Track flag if the browser is Internet Explorer 10. I understand the argument that setting DNT:on without the explicit user consent is questionable, though that's really what 90% of the users want anyway. But how is ignoring the DNT flag of all IE 10 users without knowing whether it was set manually or not any better?

Something feels very wrong when an open-source project sides not with the general population but with big corporations out to invade their privacy in any way they can.

Now, when MS shifts directions in the mobile phone market, they leave their HW makers drowning in their wake. If MS is in the HW biz themselves, then they'll have to think harder, else they'll be shooting themselves in the foot.

If a person becomes self aware and protests- finding, tracking and exporting from that one in 300000 devices is a neat skill.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57524109-38/justice-dept-to-defend-warrantless-cell-phone-tracking/

Some links: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2410451,00.asp http://m.cnet.com/news/woz-i-wish-itunes-could-run-on-my-android-devices/57524293 http://m.nbcnews.com/technology/technolog/woz-sees-little-difference-between-iphone-android-6225572

I could happily give all my money to the first guy who can give me functional cat ears. (And a functional cat tail as a bonus

Item One: Cat Ears
Item Two: Waggy Tail

Please call me to arrange payment.

"No, it's very misleading because Amazon is investing the profits into expansion which is way different from a company struggling to make money which Gruber wants to portray it as, comparing profit like the way he did is ridiculous. And it looks like it worked, with people like you thinking profits mean everything. Check the stock market reaction to earnings and you'll know why it is misleading."

Amazon has been in business since 1994. How many more years will Amazon be "re-invsesting profits" for growth?

In 1997, Apple was nearly bankrupt, and now it has $100 billion in the bank. Which company has done better?

"Because marketshare also matters, and Android is clearly winning there."

So who does marketshare matter to?

The OEMs who are all losing money except for Samsung and HTC (barely?)

Google? Who according to there own testimony before Congress get 66% of their mobile profits from iOS devices? And then spent two years worth of their net income to buy the money-losing Motorola Mobility?

The third party developers who get an average only a quarter for every dollar on Android compared to Apple?

Web advertisers where iOS traffic is 4x that of Android traffic?

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57464763-37/apples-ios-grabs-65-of-mobile-web-traffic/)

"Read it later was kicked out because of Apple's policy (which was ironic given that Apple used their OSS code in Safari for a similar feature)."

Huh?