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Can anyone point me to any information that FB has meted similar action to any pages from the left?

BTW, I long for the day we'll get a viable FB alternative. Available ones are g r a s s i n g the last time I checked.

How do those work?

Far as I can tell, it embeds itself into the phone such that it decides if it will drop the call, or allow it through to ring (or at least hang up on it immediately).

Do they actually keep your phone from ringing?

The one I have on my ancient Android phone with no data plan and no access to wifi does, it's literally being used like an old phone with no internet connection. I can block from call history, SMS history, or by wildcards ... there are entire area codes which can't call me because I don't know anybody who lives there and have received spam calls allegedly from there. My wife has something similar on her Nexus phone.

Can you recommend one?

A google for "Android Call Blocker" got me this as the first hit.

If you don't have one of these, they're pretty awesome in terms of being able to block the garbage.

It can't be a Chrome clone, because it doesn't keep you logged into Google when you clear cookies ;-)

https://fossbytes.com/chrome-d...

It's an even worse deal if T-Mobile doesn't sort out their custom Android firmware security and/or start checking their hardware vendor's default configs. Judging by the number of probes I'm seeing on port 5555 from T-Mobile US's IP space they've shipped a *lot* of phones with the Android Debug Bridge enabled by default that have subsequently fallen victim to ADB.Miner malware.

And the reality of life is, if you don't have the Play Store, you don't have crap.

Really? What about f-droid and more than a dozen of other app stores?

>It is not appropriate anywhere.

That's why 90% of Fortune 500 companies use it.

Sounds to me like someone is butt hurt about their favorite toy not having the traction Java has.

https://fossbytes.com/ubuntu-1...

but can it run on a 500 mhz cpu ? https://fossbytes.com/best-lig...

The problem of the Start menu is a lack of automatic application categorization. Microsoft should have imposed this sort of thing upon all devs, all the way back in '95. Is it too late to fix Windows now?

There was another city (Munich) that did this years ago and showed up on Slashdot saying after years of trying to make Linux work they are switching back to Windows. What did they learn it was impossible to completely get rid of Windows and the software they used could not be ported to Linux. I guess Barcelona does not have the Internet to do some searches and find out this is a bad idea ??? https://fossbytes.com/city-tha... https://www.techrepublic.com/a...

Yeah, he won the clown car race with 16 (or was it 17) candidates by a healthy margin by differentiating himself. But polling throughout the race had him at unprecedented unfavorability ratings, with only Clinton able to even remotely complete. He polled worse than lice and Nickelback.

Also, among the groups of independents, Democrats, and Republicans, Republicans are the smallest group, and only a small subset of them voted in the primaries.

Which is why there are many questions yet unanswered. Without any mention of any other nations, American voting machines are notoriously easy to hack https://fossbytes.com/defcon-2... http://thehill.com/policy/cybe... 2012 - https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/... 2011 - https://www.salon.com/2011/09/...

2005 - https://arstechnica.com/uncate...

This is not fake news, this is not remotely deniable. I knew that the voting manchines were Internet of things easy to hack almost 15 years ago. http://euro.ecom.cmu.edu/peopl...

There have been some strange happenings like in the 2012 election where Carl Rove had a public meltdown when he refused to concede the Ohio vote, expecting some districts to come through and push the Republican candidate over the edge and win Ohio. It was interesting in the aspect that Ohio had a strange even in a previous election where the exit polls gave the state to a Democrat, but the vote tally did not. The Republican response was the typical Good Republican Voters screwing with the Media. But that's just a side story, and I digress.

The big question is - with the machines having terrible security, why the hell would a tech-savvy nation not hack and alter the results to mess with an adversary nation or to put in a person they had sway with?

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Zoolz yet. They are a legitimate business and have been operating for years. You can find a "for life" 2 TB deal for $49.99 this week.

No Linux client but given it's developed in .NET with no obfuscation, I guess it won't take long before someone decompiles the code and implements the feature in Duplicati or rclone.

https://deals.fossbytes.com/sa...

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Zoolz yet. They are a legitimate business and have been operating for years. You can find a "for life" 2 TB deal for $49.99 this week.

No Linux client but given it's developed in .NET with no obfuscation, I guess it won't take long before someone decompiles the code and implements the feature in Duplicati or rclone.

https://deals.fossbytes.com/sa...

> and therefore Linux is NOT going to become the largest market portion any time soon.

Oh really? Try taking off the myopic PC blinders for once.

Google achieved 2 Billion devices with Linux in 9 years what Microsoft WinCE couldn't do even in 20 years

MS may have 96% of the gamer's PC desktop but that ignores all the servers and virtual machines running non-Windows, let alone consoles.

MS is a total joke on the Top 500 super computers.

Since November 2015, no computer on the list runs Windows.

Hell, even 33% of Azure runs Linux

In the OS server space things get fuzzy -- are we talking Web Servers? Database Servers? Email servers? Windows be has high as 33% or 20%-- there are no accurate stats.

Let's recap where Linux dominates:

[x] Mobile: Linux
[x] Super computers: Linux
[x] Servers: Technically *nix, due to BSD and OSX.
[ ] PC Gaming Desktop

The only place Windows has a niche in is PC gaming and XBox -- but desktops aren't the only thing anymore.

In the global space MS is slowly becoming irrelevant next to Android, iOS, PS3/4, Servers, Super computers, and Wii/Switch.

Not bad for an OS that "(free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu)"

The author wrongly assumed that Microsoft's phone business is the manufacture and selling of cell phones. Microsoft's phone business is in patents, and it brings in far more money from patents that it does phones.

Reports range from 2 to 6 billions dollars every year in profits just from Android.

https://www.howtogeek.com/1837...
https://fossbytes.com/microsof...

Samsung alone pays Microsoft 1 billion per year

http://www.theverge.com/2014/1...

Making handsets is simply a convenient way to stay in the patent creation business.

Looks like Microsoft is up to their old tricks and maybe O'Reilly didn't publish fast enough:

https://fossbytes.com/brazil-r...

http://www.zdnet.com/article/b...

They have to work really hard to step in and mess things up for countries trying to break free (or for those who DID break free) from proprietary MS products. Brazil has a lot of corruption, so this seems to fit right in :(

Pine Book laptop. $89. Awesome.

https://fossbytes.com/dollar-8...

Agreed. It is pretty phenomenal that Linux runs on over 2 billion device. You're absolutely right on scalability: from cell phones all the way up to 99.4% of supercomputers. WOW.

Hopefully nVidia and AMD will continue to support OpenGL on the desktop so that Linux can continue to make inroads into high performance heterogeneous computing & gaming.

What's ironic is for MS to have once called "Linux is a cancer" to now admitting that they use it on 33% of their Azure servers!

* http://news.microsoft.com/byth...
* http://fossbytes.com/33-micros...

Not bad for the little OS that could. :-)

I'd be interested in seeing some evidence of that.

http://fossbytes.com/windows-10-downgrade-one-month-time-downgrade-after-upgrading/
http://www.techradar.com/us/news/software/operating-systems/you-have-a-month-to-downgrade-to-windows-8-1-if-windows-10-isn-t-right-for-you-1299430
http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2015-07-17/news/64535459_1_windows-10-windows-xp-windows-7

Microsoft has no business reason to allow people to roll back

Sure they do. Just because you can't understand it doesn't mean they don't. I suppose you think they have no business reason to offer ISO downloads of various older versions of Windows, but they do.