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Don't worry - after what I posted, folks KNOW Linux's security's weak!

You do realise you are posting on slashdot right?

There's only 1 Linux system running for every 95 or so that run Windows...

But every windows machine connects to at least 20 Linux machines a day, which is where your argument falls flat on its face.

I posted 64++ already

It's true you've posted lots of links to security firms fixing Android bugs before they were seen exploited in the wild. I'm still waiting for one that was found in the wild before it was fixed. I showed you one for windows;
http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/13/security-flaw-in-windows-phone-7-5-kills-the-messaging-hub/
Surely you can manage at least one?

Which you tried to "fudge a quote"/misquote, here http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2586024&cid=38515938 by adding in YOUR comments to it, & the source you quoted never stated that

Nope, that was still you failing to RTFA

I did post a kernel level error security issue problem that's ANDROID has here -> http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/11/02/2238205/Serious-Security-Bugs-Found-In-Android-Kernel [slashdot.org]

summary of
http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/news/serious-security-bugs-found-in-android-kernel-11040
says:

Coverity said it will hold off releasing the details of the flaws until January to allow Google and handset vendors to issue fixes. The flaws could be patched via an over-the-air update, Coverity said.

->fixed before they were exploited.

Must try harder

Really. 44.8% Android to 27.4% iPhone is already dwindled, but when the huge hype of the iPhone 4S release produces only a 0.1% increase in market share, the months after initial release will doubtless show further dwindle.

The much smaller market segment that is tablets also shrank, from 75% to 67% iPad, while Android's share grew to 27%. The iPad lead is dwindling, and by the time tablets are as substantial a market segment as are smartphones, the iPad share's further shrinkage in the minority will contribute to the overall dwindling of Apple's share.

Apple is a great innovator, and a terrific survivor. But the company has never been much of a sustainer of market share. The diversity of large markets works against the total platform control that Apple always builds its products on, even as it helps Apple's kind of mass market but quality innovations and its tenacious survival. The middle phase is where most of the money is, and Microsoft and now Google (and its partners, the further development of the Microsoft corollary) come to dominate most of the time by owning it through relative openness.

but it is stealing. If you wrote code for a program and sold that program, and then someone looked at your code, wrote it down word-for-word, and then started selling it themselves, that's stealing:
"FTS became aware that West Yorkshire Police was developing its own software called CLIVE in the summer of that year. The claim alleges that CLIVE replicated errors found in the lists used for Hex in a “tell-tale sign of copying.”"

It would have been better if they pirated the software, at least then they wouldn't have been reselling it and stealing profit from FTS

What are you talking about? Software patents are fully legal in Europe:
http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/news/german-court-declares-software-patents-legal-7211

Exactly - they have ignored the TCO of iPads and compared only the initial purchase cost with the assumption that every civil servant with an iPad will never use a printer again! What about support, administration, setup of wifi networks or 3g costs, software and security updates, replacement of broken hardware etc.? That will be outsourced to some big corporation like Accenture, which will easily triple the initial purchase cost; the civil service apparently pays upto 10 times the commercial rate for IT systems.

This is the same civil service that has consistently refused to upgrade from IE6, and which their own MPs report said "The lack of IT skills in government and over-reliance on contracting out is a fundamental problem which has been described as a 'recipe for rip-offs'". Maybe they should fix the existing problems before they embark on a whole new IT rollout? And why iPads or Android tablets? What can a civil servant do with an tablet that they can't do with a cheaper laptop or netbook? And why dismiss the obvious solution to expensive printing costs - buy cheaper paper and ink? Or charge the users for each page printed? I have seen a per-page charge for printer use instigated at an institution and the change in user behaviour was fast and cut costs more than any large IT project every would. When printing is free it will get abused - people were printing out non-work-related manuals, books, home photos, stuff for their friends etc. Charging for printing stopped that overnight.

TFA links to Government Commits To Open Source Route which states "The government has confirmed that when costs are similar, it will opt to purchase open source rather than proprietary software" and where Francis Maude's parliamentary statement is linked to, saying "The Government are committed to using more open source solutions where possible.".

Well, you're right: Apple won't be tanking anytime soon, but the long-term success of the company is still in question.

The problem is, we won't really be able to evaluate it for a while. I'm sure they already have their next product or two down the road pretty much mapped out and all Tim has to do is point the rudder that direction. The real test will come in when Steve Jobs no longer plays an active role at Apple and there isn't a document somewhere laying out the path forward. In short, we have to get to a point where Tim Cook is actually the one creating the vision and the plan for the company rather than simply implementing it. This could quite literally take years, and we really won't even know when it starts.

For the most part, I do think Apple will be fine. They have a huge brand image that can buffer an awful lot of small missteps. When 35% of consumers say they will buy the iPhone 5 without knowing anything about it or seeing it, and 51% say they would buy it in the first year*,I think that's a pretty nice cushion. It would take some serious fucking up to erode all of that and then take the company into the tank -- not that it is not possible, of course.

* This was the result of an online survey and as such is not scientific, so I wouldn't take the numbers as absolutes in terms of extrapolating to the public at large. They're still damn impressive though. Companies kill for brand images like this.

Efim Bushmanov is full of priase for Skype in a long interview. http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/interview/russian-reverse-engineer-praises-skype-30956 He says all good products will not be able to stay in the closet for long, and hopes to see a full open source implementation for Skype soon. Peter Judge eWEEK Europe

They said on their most recent call that the 2 million number was sales to distributors and have not had to back fill at all. here. The exact quote is “Even though sell-out wasn’t as fast as we expected, we still believe sell-out was quite OK.” (sell-in is the retail term for filling the channels, sell-out is when a person buys it off the shelf). "OK" is corporate speak for "crashed and burned, but we aren't going public with pulling the plug just yet."

Exactly. I built my current machine for around $600 after rebate and it has a 925 2.8GHz quad, 8GB of DDR2 800MHz, an HD460, a pair of 500GB HDDs, and Windows 7 HP X64. To build an Intel machine at the roughly same specs I was looking at a minimum of around $200 more thanks to the higher prices on Intel motherboards, and if I wanted anything even slightly future proof I would have had to go DDR3 which 8GB would have put a serious bite in my wallet.

Plus if you support having a free market and competition your really should be looking at AMD first. Intel was caught bribing OEMs and rigging their compilers to sabotage AMD chips, which is why they paid AMD 1.25 Billion to try to make the heat go away. Personally I think Intel will still be looking at EU fines as well as a host of lawsuits by AGs. I'm all for someone winning a good chunk of the market by having better products, performance, marketing, etc, but sabotaging the market through payoff and rigging just makes the market a sham.

So unless you are in one of the niches where the insane price difference is worth it to squeeze every amount of speed you can get I would look at AMD first. Since Intel got caught rigging and bribing and Nvidia pulled bumpgate I have switched my shop to AMD only and my customers couldn't be happier. I just sent out a triple core with 4GB of RAM and a TB of HDD along with an HD4350 for the local print shop and it cost them just $485 after paying me. According to the owner which had already added a quad I built to the office the performance is great and the lower price is allowing him to accelerate the replacement of the older machines in his business. Hell you can get quad kit with Win 7 for $400 or supply your own OS and get a get a triple for $220. Intel just doesn't have anything similar at those price points unless you get the bottom o' the line Celery or Pentium duals. At those prices the bang for the buck is firmly in the AMD camp. And if you are looking at mobile the Turion and Neo chips make for nice laptops you can actually play games and watch HD video on without breaking the bank. Not a hard choice IMHO.

Congrats on being in a very elite 1%.

SAP already admitted that they knew about the piracy.
http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/news/sap-goes-on-record-to-admit-software-piracy-10988

I read this yesterday on nu.nl and I think it's completely ridiculous.

Me too.

The hotels (and my hospital I found out yesterday, and McDonalds and many many other places) can offer WiFi because they have a deal with a provider. Isn't that enough?

(tongue-in-cheeck.. or only half-of? Not quite sure yetmyself, but I reckon that's the position of govs in the near future)
No, it is definitely NOT enough: if you provide transport-service you are an ISP (you do provide some Internet service; nobody says somebody is an ISP if and only if only if it provides email or Web hosting on top of transport services).
This means every person (organisation or not) that can act as a point-of-control-and-prevention will be, sonner or later, forced to assume all the obligations of an ISP (responsible how their property/service is used - or abused). As the time passes, for govs and such it is more the control and less about taking care of their citizens.
If one sees as common-sensical that consumers (in the Joe Average category) which let their WiFi router opened are responsible for any nastinies carried over their connection (.e.g. downloaded/uploaded copyrighed music or KP, even if potentially only by piggybacking/wardriving), I don't see why HotSpot providers should not.

I don't want to quibble, and I know it does everything else you could want, but surely mini-USB is yesterday, and we should get with the excitement in data cable connections... :-) http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/news/mozilla-shows-seabird-concept-phone-10036

Magnetic resonance is much more "powerful" (flexible and works at a distance) than the inductive charging which looks like becoming more common now there is a Qi standard http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/news/consortium-announces-wireless-power-prototypes-9405 Futjitu's not the only compnay in this - Witricity demonstrated the tech a year ago or so http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/news/news-green-it/wireless-power-promises-to-replace-batteries-and-wires-1461 Here's eWEEK europe's take on the Fujitsu launch http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/news/fujitsu-develops-power-transmitter-for-mobiles-cars-9703

Magnetic resonance is much more "powerful" (flexible and works at a distance) than the inductive charging which looks like becoming more common now there is a Qi standard http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/news/consortium-announces-wireless-power-prototypes-9405 Futjitu's not the only compnay in this - Witricity demonstrated the tech a year ago or so http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/news/news-green-it/wireless-power-promises-to-replace-batteries-and-wires-1461 Here's eWEEK europe's take on the Fujitsu launch http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/news/fujitsu-develops-power-transmitter-for-mobiles-cars-9703

Magnetic resonance is much more "powerful" (flexible and works at a distance) than the inductive charging which looks like becoming more common now there is a Qi standard http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/news/consortium-announces-wireless-power-prototypes-9405 Futjitu's not the only compnay in this - Witricity demonstrated the tech a year ago or so http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/news/news-green-it/wireless-power-promises-to-replace-batteries-and-wires-1461 Here's eWEEK europe's take on the Fujitsu launch http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/news/fujitsu-develops-power-transmitter-for-mobiles-cars-9703

Can the banks and the patent office please get together with the trademark office and put and end to people calling things Qi?

Qi: The Bootloader
Qi: The Open Source Hardware
Qi: The wireless charging standard

Kthxbye

"Hey y'all! Watch this!"*

I'm waiting for the higher power one for my netbook. But I'm more interested in this one that's coming that will charge your stuff from two yards away. It looks like you could have cordless table lamps with that one, using LED bulbs.

* Credit for that joke -- Jeff Foxworthy

GRC's Mark Tlapak tells me that Iceotope's system is "beautiful but costly", while Iceotope's Peter Hopton dismisses GRC as "fishtank manufacturers".
Basically, it looks like a simple solution (a bath) versus a more complex one (individual sealed blades). The discussion is here at eWEEK Europe UK.

Peter Judge UK Editor, eWEEK Europe

Translate is a work in progress, so not all of the translations will be clean, crisp and accurate. But as with everything else Google does, Translate is an iterative technology that will Google will advance over time. http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/news/new-google-chrome-browser-beta-offers-auto-translation-5605

Translate is a work in progress, so not all of the translations will be clean, crisp and accurate. But as with everything else Google does, Translate is an iterative technology that will Google will advance over time. http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/news/new-google-chrome-browser-beta-offers-auto-translation-5605

E.g. this or this or this. Really, you'll find a lot of that if you just google for "russia+agw".

There are even some conspiracy theories abound that Russia was the one behind "climategate" hack, though those are about as verifiable as truthers' or birthers' claims.

At eWEEK Europe, we have spoken to his employers, and confirmed that he is suspended from work for the next couple of weeks. The damage to his work prospects may be the most serious aspect of the story. We await any comment from the company concerned. Peter Judge

http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/news/google-s-nexus-one-phone-coming-in-january-2742

According to a subsequent conversation with Vodafone, if you have a £30 a month contract with Vodafone, you can ask for one free, or have it bundled into your new contract. It's £5 a month on other contracts, and £160 to buy if you are pay-as-you-go. Yes, you are providing Vodafone with free backhaul, but you aren't paying vastly over the cost of the box for it. And yes, you can do the same with Wi-Fi.

Indeed, Richard Stallman has just written an article on this: Free Software is not about saving money.