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Increasing the data cap is a small step in the right direction, but unfortunately Comcast continues to treat its own Internet delivered video different under the cap than other Internet delivered video. We continue to stand by the principle that ISPs should treat all providers of video services equally.
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There may be individual adapters, but there's also Thunderbolt docks that have ethernet as one of an array of connection options. Here's one. So you're not really wasting a Thunderbolt part on ethernet for a home/work setup and the $30 USB option is likely the one you'd choose for traveling.

My old 15" CRT *many moons* ago had nearly 1080p resolutions. A little sad really...

http://reviews.cnet.com/crt-monitors/adi-microscan-4p/4507-3175_7-143958.html for those who don't believe me.

You mean something like this: http://www.cnet.com/laptops/alienware-aurora-m9700/4505-3121_7-31878926.html ?

I don't make much sense to you because Apple would never sue a design that's more different than Samsung's "obvious ripoff"? If Nixoloco, much like you, is not aware of what Apple is doing they shouldn't loudly shout about FUD.

its like patenting a triangle....

Well they can add that to the patent of the rounded rectangle and the tablet shaped tablet. Really they have replaced innovation with trying to prevent other companies from operating.

Apple are so gay. I hate them so much, the lame queer bastards. Those gays should look for prior art in the wedge-shape of their butt plugs.

its like patenting a triangle....

Well they can add that to the patent of the rounded rectangle and the tablet shaped tablet. Really they have replaced innovation with trying to prevent other companies from operating.

Believe it or not, they can.
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Here's one article I found:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57423754-94/java-creator-james-gosling-google-totally-slimed-sun/

He says that Sun was "wronged" (and "totally slimed") by Google. So apparently, he thinks it's wrong for someone to make something that works much like someone else's product, even though all the inner details are different. So according to this harebrained line of thought, Google should never have even made Android, and should have directed everyone to the iPhone. Or worse, Google should never have even started, and should have directed anyone wanting to do internet search to Yahoo, Altavista, and the other search engines of the time. And no one should have ever cloned the IBM PC. Finally, Gosling himself should never have created Java, since he blatantly stole all the concepts from other programming languages like Lisp and C++.

It's quite simple: Google liked some things about Java, but didn't like the way the official Java product worked (just like OpenJDK people don't), and didn't want to pay to license it, so they created their own. There's nothing illegal or even wrong about that, and to state that there is is just plain disgusting.

Intel HD Graphics 3000 is the definition of useless. Here's proof - 250 other graphics chips are faster. A few of those are several years old and can be found in a $300 refurbished laptop, like the x83vm-x1. If you need battery life, just buy more batteries ($40 each).

Are you talking about the same 1% that use Linux?

Nice pigeonhole attempt. No.

Only 13 percent of the people polled said they trust Facebook "completely" or "a lot" to keep their personal information private. More than half (59 percent) said they have little or no faith in the company to protect their privacy. And allmost a quarter said they don't even use Facebook because of privacy concerns.

The survey was conducted by phone from May 3 to May 7 and solicited the opinions of 1,004 people.

Yahoo to Log "Source Port" with IP Address/Time

        - https://plus.google.com/112961607570158342254/posts/dfDBtCcXNmH

        via http://cryptome.org/ @ O f f s i t e :

        2012-00344 Yahoo to Log "Source Port" with IP Address/Time June 2, 2012

        ===
        FBI: New Internet addresses could hinder police investigations

        "As the Internet prepares to celebrate World IPv6 Day next week, law enforcement is worried the transition could hinder legitimate investigations. Some tech companies agree it's a concern."

        by Declan McCullagh

        May 31, 2012 11:58 PM PDT

        - http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57445157-83/fbi-new-internet-addresses-could-hinder-police-investigations/

Here's an article about it, in case you're interested:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10212843-93.html

We've already seen what China and Iran do with the internet. The only reason you're arguing in favor of giving them more power is because you think knee-jerk anti-Americanism makes you cool and edgy. You're a damn fool. Leaked memos have shown for years that China is drafting proposals to allow them to track any internet posting back to its source. Here's an excerpt from their use case:

1.5 Proxy "Safe harbor" A political opponent to a government publishes articles putting the government in an unfavorable light. The government, having a law against any opposition, tries to identify the source of the negative articles but the articles having been published via a proxy server, is unable to do so protecting the anonymity of the author.

That's not an example of how great anonymity is. That is literally a problem statement. Something they want to solve. Grow the hell up and stop reflexively hating on the US, or else you'll end up supporting the very sort of Orwellian control you hope to avoid.

On many days, the San Francisco courtroom where he presided was more like a computer science classroom. Alsup acknowledged during the trial that he had learned about Java coding to better prepare for the case, and it showed. On a daily basis, he would deftly query the lawyers and expert witnesses on the structure, sequence, and organizations of APIs to assist the jury in understanding the key facets of the copyright phase of the trial.

This is why I have respect for Judge Alsup. In order to apply the law in a complex engineering-related case, he worked to learn the subject matter in order to properly apply the law to the material. That's how I expect every Judge should apply the law rather than just sit and "trust the experts" per-se.

Nowhere in that article does it suggest that 100% of the current inventory will have to be written off. A terrible writeup from someone who clearly has reading comprehension problems.

That's funny. Cnet read it the same way. Of course, they didn't get the link right, so maybe they aren't the best source...

So the moral of the story here folks is simple, if you want it done right you do it yourself and you sure as hell don't trust a country known for snatching every idea that ain't nailed down and who is famous for copying other's stuff to do it for you!

How'd you get that moral from this story? There's no evidence yet that the Chinese put the backdoor in.

What next you're going to blame the Chinese for Apple's backdoor? http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2010/10/25/careful-iphone-owners-simple-backdoor-lets-anyone-bypass-password-protection/
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-57408370-281/how-apple-and-google-help-police-bypass-iphone-android-lock-screens/

When have you ever had an Apple product fail you?

apparently, more than you're willing to believe. http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-9938550-1.html

Don't believe the hype. You're paying more for the same quality hardware, you're just also paying more for easier repairs.

It's probably because of the two quotes:

• "It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy than when there's not"
• "As long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade."

Although 'piracy' has been an integral part of Microsoft's marketing and dominance on the desktop, even to the point of actively encouraging it, it's not a fact they want getting a lot of attention. A pirate copy of Windows is M$ second favorite OS. It means, obviously, that competing software is not used. It also means that if they can get their marketing arm, the BSA, in the door, they can probably shake the company down for everything, including servers and thus gain entrance to the server room. M$ used shakedowns against Netware in the 1990's and seems to be using it against Linux now.

Your Reality Distortian Field Generator(tm) is going haywire

Really?

Come on guys, a little research goes a long way.

Recall instead that the software is not created just for sale to the general public. It is also there to be pirated, a pirate copy of Windows is M$ second favorite operating system.

It's also not just desirable from M$ perspective to encourage piracy of their products but also part of their marketing. It's easier for M$ to compete with Linux where there is piracy than where there is not. Every Windows user, pirated or not, is not a Linux user. It keeps Linux out of the picture. we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade.

It also makes sense from a marketshare perspective. When you have a monopoly, the most valuable thing you have is the monopoly itself. Preservation of the monopoly gives a better return on investment than anything else. Most of M$ revenues would dry up without the monopoly rents.

One of the basic principles of SIGINT is that knowing whether, when, and for how long individuals or groups of people are communicating with each other is valuable, even without knowing the contents of the communications. Therefore tracing packets is useful even if you do not know their contents. Think the Tor button will save you? Check this email out and let me know how safe you feel using Tor now that the FBI has all of the source code as well as the complete cooperation of a now-former member of Anonymous.

The FBI and other elements of the U.S. Government have the capability of intercepting a wide range of communications with superior technological capabilities. Roaming VOIP, you say? Check out this article, which is from way back in 2006, and my other comment in this thread and let me know whether you think the Bureau or other agencies have solved the roaming VOIP problem by now.

Yes there are hooks in the system for intercepting cellular data. It's called make secret agreements with Telcos that are authorized under classified annexes to federal laws.

The technology is being put to nefarious ends all the time, like spying on U.S. citizens who have committed no crimes. Regrettably, I can't go into details. You would not believe the full scope of their capabilities or my experiences with them if I told you.

One thing is for sure, they fail at security when it comes to this thing when you consider they have already had to disable the Chrome extension because it leaked its private cert. While i prefer yahoo for my email...geez, you think they would have done a little beta testing before passing this thing out. Hell according to CNet the ToS is a fricking placeholder!

My old and "disconnected" dumb phone still has a more useful alarm feature than any Android phone due to design choices of the OS makers. It wakes up from full "Off" mode to beep at me (these are all non-MP3 presets, mind you) and then goes right back to Off when I am awake.

The problem is that I keep misplacing it because it is so small, and the trick of dialing its number doesn't work since it's off the grid. Given that it can make emergency calls, it's still not entirely invisible should the police need to turn on the spying power. It would be awesome if I could track down my own phone via its always-on GPS beacon. I mean, the authorities that we pay for with tax mondy are able to in the US, so why can't we since we're already paying for the feature?

I decided to just use airplane mode and make the phone last many times more off a single charge after realizing that GPS and emergency services are just a dead weight since my smartphone duplicates that functionality.

That'll be just for the attitude of those bastards. ;-)

Sterling Ball, CEO and founder Ernie Ball's son said almost the exact same thing:

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.

In case anyone is wondering, here is a nice interview that covers the story pretty much start to finish.

I'm having trouble understanding exactly what kinds of technology this device is using to obtain accuracy on the level of 10 micrometers for $70. On the website they only state:

Leap Motion technology is a breakthrough in computer interaction, using a patented mathematical approach to 3D, touch-free motion sensing and motion control software that’s unlike anything that currently exists on the market or in academia. Developed over the past 4 years, Leap Motion moves far beyond the current technologies designed for distant arm waving.

But that say a whole lot of nothing... Why are they being so coy about the technology behind the device? According to cnet, the company says:

"It's not as if we're using lots of processing power or some new hardware that just came on to the market," he said. "This is really about a fundamental scientific breakthrough, many Eureka moments that (Holz) stumbled through over four or five years of research."

So they want me to believe they came up with some magic algorithm, and not some new hardware tech? Because as far as I'm aware, the limitations in most sensors is hardware based, not software.

the stock is being publically traded - so the price going down means that there are more "sellers" than "buyers" at the moment - what will be interesting is where the stock ends up in a year

remember, the underlying value of the company in question is a big factor in stock valuation, but the stock market is not a rational place, and people buy and sell for any number of reasons.

Facebook, Inc made its money on the i.p.o. (earlier posting said $16 billion) - the day to day fluctuations of the stock price don't directly impact its "bottom line"

for those who remember the dotcom bubble - the status symbol at that time was how much the stock price would rise, over the i.p.o. price ("Revolution OS" has a few examples of this near the end). I specifically remember RedHat's initial offering

notice that RedHat only offered 6 million shares (today RedHat, now RHT, is slightly above that price) - I haven't checked the numbers but if the $16 billion dollar number is correct then FB must have offered over 421 million shares...

in any case I'm happy to see the Mark Zuckerberg could FINALLY afford to get married - it is so hard to support a family on a couple million dollars (estimate is that he is now the 29th richest human being on the face of the earth)

Actually Otellini has been criticised for failing to compete with ARM in the tablet and smartphone market, which is the only market segment that has been showing big growth in recent years. Intel have been promising competitive x86 tablets and cell phones for years now, where are they? The market is still completely dominated by ARM. That is a big fail for the world's largest chipmaker - it wasn't even unpredicted - analysts have been saying for years that Intel needs to get competitive in the mobile game.

But in comparison, Microsoft did worse. They tried to compete in every market, and won in none. They missed or lost out in every important development of the last decade - video streaming (Netflix, Youtube), social networking (Facebook), search (Google), music devices (iPod), music streaming (Spotify), ebooks (Kindle) and mobile tablets/smartphones (iPhone and Android). The mobile situation really is terrible for them, while MS were happy ruling the desktop, people unexpectedly shifted their usage to mobile devices. MS did ok with Hotmail. They did well with the Xbox, but failed to anticipate the consumer switch to mobile and social network games. C# and .Net did ok, but didn't kill Java. Silverlight didn't kill Flash, and now looks like it's dying. Partnering for MSNBC was odd. Acquiring Skype might turn out to be a mistake - it didn't work out so well for ebay, and I suspect MS will face EU antitrust questions when they inevitably start blocking third party clients (Skype could get away with it - Microsoft the convicted monopolist, not so much). I doubt their carrier partners are going to be happy with a free-calls Skype being integrated into Windows Phone either.

No, as i said, in the EU the Sales and Guarantees Directive only applies to physical products, it does not apply to software, there was a proposal some years back and AFAIK it never passed.

Not to mention TFA left out the little fact that the man has cancer

30% of population will have cancer at some point, so what?

Not to mention TFA left out the little fact that the man has cancer which would be a pretty damned good "personal reason' to step down. After all if his doc is recommending an aggressive treatment plan he is simply gonna be too sick to do his day to day work.

According to Reuters, Apple surpassed Android in marketshare

I guess that just goes to show you can't believe everything Reuters writes.

Closer to the truth

>Except that you can't run Android apps on your desktop out-of-the-box, so many people will prefer Window RT for that reason

Are you sure?

http://download.cnet.com/8301-2007_4-57404865-12/latest-bluestacks-arms-your-pc/
http://youwave.com/
http://keyable.blogspot.com/2011/12/using-adb-to-install-apps-on-android.html

>Car analogy: So, if want to buy one of three cars, and the sales person walks up and keys the side of one of the cars, that's okay because I still have two other cars to chose from, right? That's what you're suggesting, that a diminished-but-not-nonexistent choice excuses a critical defect in one of the choices.

If the salesperson believes that keying the side of the cars is going to attract numerous other potential buyers or give him some other advantage, he should be free to do so.

>There is no level playing field to be had, even if you limit the field to the Metro UI.

Contrast that with Boot2Gecko by Mozilla, you can't even run any native apps, forget browsers.

From CNet's article:

After Lamo and others found that at least some of the alleged account data had been posted on the Web last year and speculated that the list appeared to be compiled from various sources, including spam accounts, Twitter provided CNET this statement when asked for comment: "We've looked into this and can confirm that Twitter was not compromised. For extra precaution, yesterday, we pushed out password resets to accounts that may have been affected."

When the imperfection means you can casually walk onto a plane with a pocketful of 12 inch blades, then it's worth taking a bit of notice.

But at least they protect the other passengers from your dangerous insulin pump.

When the imperfection means you can casually walk onto a plane with a pocketful of 12 inch blades, then it's worth taking a bit of notice.

and most internal servers and such, are in Redmond, and elsewhere in Puget Sound area

No, they're not. http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10020902-56.html

One of those DCs probably use more than the rest of their offices and corp servers combined.

Sun was happy about it, Google was happy about it, the Java language got more widely used...

Except Sun wasn't very happy about it, According to James Gosling "Just because Sun didn't have patent suits in our genetic code doesn't mean we didn't feel wronged. While I have differences with Oracle, in this case they are in the right. Google totally slimed Sun. We were all really disturbed, even Jonathan: he just decided to put on a happy face and tried to turn lemons into lemonade."

why blame Microsoft? Have they been knowing for astroturfing here before?

Just a little...

http://lists.essential.org/1998/am-info/msg01529.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/27/microsoft_ie8_chain_letter/
http://www.1pstart.com/mercury-news-writer-accuses-microsoft-of-bribery/
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/87901
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57345892-94/microsoft-nokia-linked-to-comments-on-negative-lumia-review/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroturfing
http://linkprimer.com/internet-marketing/microsoft-encourages-reputation-management
http://www.velocityreviews.com/forums/t568832-microsoft-well-take-the-astroturf-supreme-please.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/30/business/smallbusiness/30reputation.html?_r=1
http://www.clickz.com/clickz/news/1698666/microsoft-tests-social-media-monitoring-product
http://www.informationweek.com/news/220200062
etc
etc
etc
etc

John McAfee lives in Belize and says that this is all just politics. However, the local Gang Suppression Unit issues a press release accusing him a unlicensed drug manufacturing and unlicensed weapon possession.

How about revoking the McAfee licenses of the GSU department, and notify the keyboard driven community about IT Security problems at GSU, Independence Plaza, Belmopan, Cayo District, Belize, C.A.

Robert
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Robert M. Stockmann - RHCE
Network Engineer - UNIX/Linux Specialist
crashrecovery.org stock@stokkie.net

The main significance is WHO is praising the Windows phone, not that it is MS shilling. Unfortunately, the poster degenerated into Apple bashing, which I find annoying. If you want to bash, look at market share - iPhone and Android crush Windows phone, which has less market share than mac does. I don't know where Windows phone stands today, but it lacked numerous features when Windows Phone 7 was released and I was in the market for a phone almost 2 years ago (like multitasking, html5 support, threaded email, and copy/paste).

As for newsworthy, probably not as much as Ubuntu on Android though personally I dislike some of the changes made to Ubuntu lately (I have several flavors of Linux on various VMs for solving user problems, so "not using it" is not an option - I often have to use what customers use to see the problems they are seeing). I have no idea how it will translate to a phone.

Microsoft developer evangelist Nuno Silva apparently confused applications with devices when he claimed that users of Windows Phone 7 (aka Mango) would be able to upgrade to Windows Phone 8 (aka Apollo).

Offering a mea culpa on his blog today, Silva said he was trying to echo Microsoft's own statements that existing Windows Phone apps would run under Apollo. But for some reason he gave the impression that current devices themselves would also be able to run the next version of Windows Phone.

"I mistakenly confused app compatibility with phone updateability, which caused the rumors we saw yesterday," Silva wrote. "I did not intend to give the impression I was offering new guidance on any products under development or their upgradeability."

The developer aroused hopes among the Windows Phone faithful by leading them to believe that Mango devices would be eligible to receive the Apollo upgrade. But various sources have been insisting for a while that there is no upgrade path.

Source here .

If you buy one of these "beta test" phones, you will soon be stuck in a multi-year contract with a device that will not be upgradable to the current version of the OS. There is nothing beautiful about that. Do not buy before Win Phone 8 is released!

its not so different from cnet or zdnet, and I doubt anyone (like us) really reads those. But if /. wants a special section dedicated to MBAs and CTOs, then its fine - just don't bother us with all that buzzword crap that we know better about.

In 2007, I switched to using Linux as my daily desktop and only use Windows for two very specific needs - which have nothing to do with anything I ever needed at **any** job I've had in 25 yrs.

Most call center employees should be switched to Linux.
Most office workers should be switched to Linux.
Most C-suite people should be switched to Linux too, but that will never fly and those are the people controlling the budgets. At companies where the CEO/CIO/CFO/CxO all want to switch, Linux becomes successful and saves money. An example: http://news.cnet.com/2008-1082_3-5065859.html

However, Linux isn't perfect for everyone. At my last job, my boss asked me to find a way to convert 20K end users to Linux. Sadly, these end users had highly specialized hardware requirements and today still use WinXP over driver issues. Drivers for Vista and Win7 do not exist. I did some quick calculations, knowing what we paid for Microsoft licenses (OS + full Office) and figured there would be no way to achieve any real savings due to the effort to rewrite all the different drivers to Linux.

There are lots of places where Linux doesn't make sense.

What needs to happen is the US Government needs to push Linux desktops internally, then mandate open formats for all contracts - no more .docx and .xlsx files.

That will allow smaller government contractors to take the risks and dump MS and Apple. They will need a different sort of desktop support, so small IT companies will become excellent at that support model. This will drive IBM, Dell, HP, Acer, Sony to all support pre-installed Linux desktops.

That will kill the FUD that MS and Apple push about the lack of support or lack of apps. Inside most companies, they use standard apps that are easily replaced by F/LOSS. Easily. I know. I've done it.

Over time, more and more Fortune 100 companies will hear about the Linux working well on desktops and migrate more and more of their internal users towards Linux.

Which distro? Doesn't matter, just stay with a big one - perhaps a top 10.

Ernie Ball ran a company (they make guitar strings).
One day the BSA shows up, armed marshals in tow, to do an audit.
They find a few systems out of compliance, and the lawyers negotiate a settlement.
These thing happen, right? Cost of doing business, right?

But then the BSA thought, hey, this guy has name recognition.
He's connected to music; the kids know who he his.
We'll make an example of him.

And they did.
They ran ads that named him as a pirate;
they got his case on the evening news.

Mr. Ball took exception to this.
So he went to his IT people and told them that he wanted Microsoft out of his company in 6 months.
So they switched to RedHat.
More into at http://news.cnet.com/2008-1082_3-5065859.html

My take-away from this is that Microsoft is running on inertia.
Not theirs: their customers'.
Microsoft persists because their customers don't have a compelling reason to switch.
But given a reason, switching to Linux is no big deal.

At any point in time,
most of the world is 6 months from Linux,
and Microsoft is 6 months from oblivion.

1) Microsoft happily supported it because at the time no one outside of Congress and a few tech giants knew what it actually was. Once its evils were divulged and the tech world at large began ringing the alarms, Microsoft scuttled back. I doubt you'll find those PR release in support of CISPA now, at least not without resorting to archive.org

2) Google actually took no position on CISPA. Their quote is as follows:

"We think this is an important issue and we're watching the process closely but we haven't taken a formal position on any specific legislation."

(The author of the CNET article posted that above-linked quote. Read the story for context).

In other words, Google is sitting back and not taking any position. Nice attempt to shill on your part, though.

Of course Apple and Google do the same things for their phone OSes. And then there's those god damn open source commies who want an authoritarian government - they must do, there are rather a lot of Linux based forensics tools. Microsoft is giving away technology at no cost to help law enforcement gather data from computers? So is open source. Get over your bad self.

I suspect this is the same problem that some people face when watching 240Hz TVs with Auto Motion (or similar) turned on. When we upgraded our old CRT TV to a flat screen my wife kept complaining that movies looked terrible, like an old soap opera. I didn't know what she was talking about and it looked fine to me. But she simply wouldn't watch it. I almost ended up taking it back until I googled it and found lots of articles like these:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-33620_3-57410231-278/the-soap-opera-effect-when-your-tv-tries-to-be-smarter-than-you/
http://www.televisioninfo.com/News/Cleaning-up-the-Soap-Opera-Effect-Motion-Interpolation-and-why-480Hz-looks-terrible-on-your-new-TV.htm

Apparently some people associate the look of a higher frame rate with low-quality video. I never watched that kind of TV so I didn't have that association and hadn't been trained to see the difference I guess. I turned off Motion Plus and now we both love the TV.

> Nokia and MS have utterly failed in building ecosystem around what they decided to go with

There are 85,000 apps in the Windows Phone marketplace now....

Most of which are repeat copies the same app linking to a web site. This goes on to the extent Microsoft actually had to end up rate limiting the number of spammy apps uploaded. Even so, they allow developers to put up 20 apps per day each!