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Can you be more insulting? Tell you what sparky, you tell me how your "onion layered security" will stop this scenario? Allow me to answer for you /cue Samuel Jackson voice/ It won't do a God damned thing about it.

Whether you accept it or not as long as the user has root rights they CAN fuck the machine, full stop. That is why we don't allow users in corporations to be admins. But just as the user I watched helpfully followed the instructions to open the password protected zip file, so too can any malware writer simply place helpful instructions that they WILL follow. Or are you one of those that thinks CLI makes you smart? Oh and you might want to check out this link on how to write Linux malware in just five easy steps! Enjoy!

Here is a little explanation and chart to help you. Note how cdmaOne/"CDMA" has a purely linear progression into CDMA2000 and has nothing to do with W-CDMA and, by extension, nothing to do with UMTS or LTE.

Also note the market share.

The original breech was at least one year ago, but Hell chose to ignore it. Whoever made their website allowed SQL code to be run from the url.

Here's a blog by the owner of the geekzone forum that initially discovered the problem (because someone received spam from a disposable email address they used with the company.

The original breech was at least one year ago, but Hell chose to ignore it. Whoever made their website allowed SQL code to be run from the url.

Here's a blog by the owner of the geekzone forum that initially discovered the problem (because someone received spam from a disposable email address they used with the company.

First of all, WTF is it with the jack off font? You think you're hip making the thing look like a bad bash prompt? Second of all my money is not "tied into MSFT" as I give customers what they want instead of trying to force them to do things my way which is what Linux does. Here is my last conversation with a FLOSSie: "My customers do NOT WANT bash prompts and trawling forums! This is a problem!" /FLOSSie/"but CLI is powerful!/ "My customers DO NOT WANT and don't care! Make it simple and easy to fix problems!" /FLOSSie/"If they would only embrace the power of bash/ walks off in disgust at brainwashed FLOSSie

And here I am talking about desktops and the magic bullet problem, and you bring up...servers? Who gives a fuck? Symbian is number 1 on mobile phones! Yay! Doesn't have a damned thing to do with what we are talking about, which is why Linux is sucking on the desktop, how even machines built with Linux strengths in mind still won't sell with Linux, and how OEMs found out the hard way that Linux on the desktop is a deathtrap. I'm not the the only one saying these things by a long shot, yet we get ignored or ridiculed by a group that brags they got 1% while companies walk away in disgust.

It is a good thing the community "supports" Linux, because if it were a company it would be in chapter 11 right now. And don't waste your breath bringing up server companies because we are talking desktops, so stay on topic. You would think that after sitting in dead lasts for years someone would wake up and ask "what are we doing wrong?" but instead of finding out what the problems are and working to correct it we just see the same tired memes about Linux Security and how Linux is more usable and even you yourself trotted out the just use Wine and Linux supports more hardware along with hurling insults! You know why the call them trademarks? Because it is the same tired old shit we hear year after year AFTER YEAR. Nothing gets better, nothing ever changes, Linux still sits in the basement.

I am a businessman, I WANT to sell your product! I want and believe in free market competition! But instead of working to make a better product, we get instead 6 month release schedule (you HONESTLY think any real QA can get done in less than 6 months? Because I got some swamp land in Florida to sell you buddy!) and insults thrown whenever anyone points out the emperor has no clothes. But don't worry, you can keep your elitist attitude and insult throwing. Myself and every other business that has tried selling your product at retail have realized Linux is a dead end and walked away. Walmart, ASUS, Best Buy, Staples, nobody will carry your product. When no American retailers will touch your product, even for free, it is time to take a hard look and see what you are doing wrong. Will anyone do that? Nope they will delude themselves into thinking CLI is bet

I take it this guy has invented inertial dampeners?

Too late: Inertial dampeners in action

Fair enough...the **cable** is pretty nice. The ownership and the resulting price structure is the part that's not so flash. Telecom has used the doctrine of artificial scarcity to squeeze ISPs for international transit costs and put the equivalent of a banana in NZ's internet tailpipe. Here's hoping that the competition envisioned by Drury, Morgan and Co comes to fruition sooner and not later....

Or you could just go to this handy site that explains how to write a Linux virus in 5 easy steps (virus, trojan, worm, whatever, its a bug) and if you need a way to deploy it here is a PDF from researchers telling how they believe they can take over a repo without needing the private key. The simple fact is NOTHING is secure, short of using the "cut all the lines and bury it in a safe" method, which is why the military uses air gaps on important machines.

As for TFA, they'll probably have folks lined up to buy this crap. You don't know how many spouses want to spy on each other, it is just nuts! I actually had a state trooper come into my shop one time wanting me to have his wife's government email account to see if she was cheating. He actually thought him saying "I give you authorization" to hack a federal account would make it "okay". How sad that I had to explain to a state trooper that a state official can't give someone authorization to break into federal property.

There was a slashdot style Q&A with Mr Smi on a New Zealand IT forum:

http://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=95&topicid=30765

Well, it's empathy from across the ditch. We're getting some pretty shocking ineptness from our governing idiots here in NZ, too.

But at least we're not getting the fires of hell burning entire towns. Chins up, Aussies. I sincerely hope you beat this.

Bundling MORE features into various editions is fine. But deliberately adding anti-features is a different story. Take a look at this.

Peter Guttman's paper wasn't debunked, it was a victim of bitrot. Many of Guttman's sources and references were changed or updated as Guttman wrote the paper over a period of 2 years. Often the changes were a direct result of what Guttman wrote, other times other significant events outdated what he said(like the death of HD-DVD, which fundamentaly changed many of Guttman's arguments since HD-DVD was supposed to only be supported by Microsoft, until Blu-Ray became the the format left). Lastly many of those articles which "claimed" to debunk his paper used differing versions of the paper to create contradictions that did not exist. Or even spewed out more rhetoric in one sentence than they claimed Guttman had in his entire document,ie http://www.geekzone.co.nz/freitasm/3784 (Seriously, his first argument against Guttman is the length of his paper, like that has anything to do with it's credibility? OMMFFFGGG ITS OVER 26,000!!!!).

New Zealand ISP Xnet had already started taking down customers based on this law, and based on only one alleged infringement at that. There is a good discussion on geekzone. What is really sad is that they market themselves as the P2P ISP.

I don't think the obstacles are technical at this point.

Yes and no. Whilst most software is probably happy with IPv6 (although certainly not all software, by a long shot), to my knowledge there are no home-user grade routers which do IPv6. So not only will all the home users have to upgrade their DSL routers, but there is still nothing for them to upgrade *to*.

The other big problems are:
1. Very few ISPs will actually provide their end-users with a native IPv6 connection, whether or not their core network supports it. I actually migrated away from the ISP I was using (PlusNet) after asking them what their plans for rolling out IPv6 were and they replied saying they weren't going to do it in the foreseeable future.
2. The chances of getting IPv6 server hosting are much better than an IPv6 home internet connection, but there are still a lot of data centres who don't provide it.
3. With next to no end-users on IPv6 there is little incentive for server owners to add IPv6 support to their servers (which may involve changing data centre).
4. With next to no servers on IPv6 (and practically zero that are *only* on IPv6), there is little incentive for ISPs and home-router vendors to support IPv6.

I think what needs to change is to put all the porn on IPv6-only servers.

http://www.geekzone.co.nz/LennonNZ/2650

Or YouTube, FaceBook, MySpace, etc..

Making any service IPv6-only is pretty much suicide. Especially for something like MySpace - do you actually expect a MySpace user to even know what IPv6 is, let alone how to get it?

I'm a big supporter of IPv6, but with the current state of affairs I'm not sure how the migration can proceed until IPv4 addresses run out. My prediction of how things will go is:

1. Most ISPs, end-users and server owners will continue to go on the IPv4 course.
2. There will be a big Y2K-style "oh crap, the sky is falling" moment just before (or maybe just after) the IPv4 addresses run out.
3. ISPs will set up a stop-gap solution of handing out RFC1918 addresses to their customers and doing NAT within their networks (this will spectacularly break lots of stuff)
4. Server owners and datacentres will start running proxy servers in front of the web servers in order to reduce the number of machines requiring globally scoped IP addresses.

Whether or not IPv6 adoption accelerates after the IPv4 addresses run out is a bit of an open-question. To some extent, I expect a lot of ISPs to NAT their customers' internet connections for a long time. Migrating everything to IPv6 over the course of many years would, of course, be much cheaper than waiting until crunch-time, but sadly most people ignore the long-term view.

A few years ago I was working in the phone industry, and was quite stunned to discover that telcos are generally upgrading their SS7 infrastructure to IMS on IPv4 - spending millions on upgrading their old networks to run on an already obsolete protocol. Seems like crazyness to me, especially since IMS has been designed to run on IPv6 since day one.

I am completely tired of listening to people use the "for the safety of the children" argument for every damn thing.

Exactly. Take a look here.

Great quote at the end there...

T-Mobile used to sell bluetooth enabled mini-rc cars.
You could steer it (AFAIK) from any bluetooth phone, but it would only charge off a Sony-Ericsson phone

http://www.geekzone.co.nz/content.asp?contentid=1741
http://www.clubsonyericsson.com/en/products_accesories_car100.shtml

Good analysis. I just quoted you on my blog here.

>Which of these other OSes (WinMob, Symbian, and Palm) has a bluetooth API? None, I think.

Actually, they all do.

Windows Mobile Bluetooth API
Symbian Bluetooth API
Palm Bluetooth API

http://www.geekzone.co.nz/inane/5398

Your isp is next

On that note, see this handy chart here.

Yes, it comes with Angelina Jolie pics. :-)

What makes you think they wouldn't pass similar laws in those other place as well, eventually? After 9/11 many western governments eagerly followed suite, because the same people who gave you the Patriot Act in the US also exist in other countries and governments.

If something major goes down on the Internet, which prompts the passing of this i-9-11 Patriot Act, something like this will come into effect in many other countries as well.

I wrote about that here.

There is no open alternative that is equivalent. This article here [ http://www.geekzone.co.nz/foobar/5472 ] lists what an open alternative has to offer to be viable. So far, there is nothing, though. It seems that the open source community has all that is needed in place, it just has not been brought together in one package yet.

You're lucky, in NZ it's $250 per month for 1GB of data!
http://www.geekzone.co.nz/iphone/5335

Pffft. That's 1638.4 times as much as out to be enough for anybody.

You're lucky, in NZ it's $250 per month for 1GB of data! http://www.geekzone.co.nz/iphone/5335

Yes: NVIDIA drivers responsible for nearly 30% of Vista crashes in 2007.

And most of these happened during what phase of the drivers? And how many were hardware specific errors? Additionally, how many of these were from NVidia XPDM drivers being run on Vista, which a lot of gamers 'thought' was a better idea out of pure ignorance?

Also your link proves my point. Out of over 100 million installations, there were 1.5 million crashes in Vista. So a 99% non-fail rate is bad? Hardware itself has a higher fail rate. Hell even Apple hardware has a higher fail rate.

Performance can be measured. I've seen such measurements, none of them show Vista appreciably outperforming XP. If it's so much better, demonstrate it, don't just call me an idiot, cite something.

(Keep in mind that even when Vista was peforming behind XP it was like 2-4fps in games running 60fps.)

OK, so you missed most of the Vista reviews, here are some links I have in my history. I'll let you actually google and read more for yourself:

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2302499,00.asp

http://www.geekzone.co.nz/juha/2070

http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/windows_vista_aero_glass_performance/page3.asp

http://arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.ars/2007/1/2/6453

http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/pretty-vista.ars/3

Yes, Vista has some very impressive aspects, it's very advanced in some areas, but I'll buy it when it actually provides a reasonable amount of benefit to me, thanks, not before.

Use it for a couple of days and you would be surprised how painful going back to XP can be from a 'usability' standpoint especially, let alone watching everything from games to photoshop launch 10x or more faster on Vista than they do on XP.

I do have the feeling though that no matter what I throw out here, you are going to just hate Vista, and that is fine, just don't state your beliefs are based on fact...

Sure sounds like Wine's Win32 reimplementation to me. It tricks the games into thinking they are running on Windows.

If you look at faq

http://www.winehq.org/site/myths#slow

But as to the "it must emulate x86 instructions to run a Win32 application on x86 Linux" theory as someone once put it, "only an idiot would think that".

Mind you there is a flaw to Wine. Consider a DirectX game running on Windows. DirectX is thin veneer over the driver which is probably a thin veneer over the hardware. NVidia and ATI know that the biggest market for fast graphics cards in PCs is DirectX games on Windows. It makes sense to optimize their hardware for this - ideally the hardware should implement DirectX functions more or less directly. Abstraction layers cost time, and they want to get the best 3dMark200x score, not be 3D API independent.

Now run the same game on Wine. Wine needs to map DirectX to OpenGL. And at best call into the NVidia or ATI OpenGL accelerated binary driver. But if the hardware is basically implementing DirectX directly, the driver needs to map OpenGL back into DirectX before it can pass stuff to it. Note the worst case, where the users use the open source driver is worse than this, because that doesn't know enough about the hardware to accelerate things optimally.

ATI are planning to drop support for accelerated OpenGL on Windows as of Vista. Which makes you wonder how well future ATI hardware will support OpenGL

http://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?ForumId=46&TopicId=11123

I read that NVidia don't support accelerated OpenGL on Linux. So if you have a game running on Wine 3D won't be accelerated at all.

And Microsoft will obviously do everything it can to kill accelerated OpenGL partly because it makes things like Wine pointless.

I fully agree that the Linux approach is much better. See also what I wrote here.

However, I would like to point out that even in Linux there is no easy way for a third party app to "register [itself] to the automatic update mechanism". It is entirely up to the maintainer of the repository to decide which application is included in the repos and which is not.

So, for open source applications that are NOT in the repository, this usually means that on their own web-site they either are providing a binary blob/installer or a tar.gz ball from which you can make the program.

It is understandable that there cannot be a quick way to put yourself into some of the busy, public repos of the major distros, since obviously the maintainers of those would want to carefully evaluate the suitability of your software first.

Have you actually tried the Linux version of the Eee PC? There is essentially NO learning curve at all. I wrote about it here: http://www.geekzone.co.nz/foobar/4708

All the activities you describe (browse the web, RSS reader, ebook of sorts, etc.) instantly work out of the box with the Linux version of the Eee PC. That includes connecting to our WAP encrypted home WiFi network, using the web-cam and all that. It was amazing to behold.

My wife, who is non technical, was able to use the thing as it was and out of the box within minutes.

Interesting that this post showed up on /. after Microsoft news that Windows Vista SP1 is now avaialble to beta testers, volume license users and will be available mid-February to MSDN and Technet subscribers. More information here.

FUD.

Tell you what, Microsoft: You come up with an OS that outperforms XP Pro SP2, has some useful new features, is efficient, compatible, maybe even costs less, and then blow me, and I'll give your new OS a try. How's that sound?

Networking (Pre SP1)
http://www.geekzone.co.nz/juha/2070

Raw CPU Use
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/xp-vs-vista-uk,review-2067-5.html

Gaming Performance (Especially after the Beta Driver Releases in Jan - Check out reviews from June to now - Drivers are faster than XP 99.9% of the time)
http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/amd_nvidia_windows_vista_driver_performance_update/page9.asp

Even Early Drivers (Beta Even) put Vista at only a few FPS behind XP, and this is pure RTM code, no optimizations:
http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/01/29/xp-vs-vista/page11.html

DirectX10 REALLY does need Vista
http://arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.ars/2007/2/14/7060
The GPU scheduler and GPU RAM Virtualization are just two major aspects of what DirectX10 expects to be present, and if you run the DX10 libraries on XP, you will never get these features.

Vista is faster than Mac on own Hardware
(Didn't have link in my folder, but do a search, especially with Leopard and Boot Camp. From casual user reviews of Vista loading faster and being snappier than Leopard and Tiger to reviews that take native compiled applications or games for both Intel based codesets, Vista easily out performs OS X in raw application performance and ESPECIALLY gaming like Quake or WoW or other native apps that run under both OSes.)

Beware of Idiot Reviews
-Most Online and 'tech' reviews are conducted by iditors or people that don't have a clue what they are doing.

The main things you will find is that they use a first day installation of Vista, where Superfetch has had no time nor performed any optimizations on the system to increase applications load times, Vista itself has ran no optimization for prefetch, file placement as there is no data to base it on for the applications or games yet, and especially the intelligent SuperFetch optimiations make a massive difference in gaming where you have a tons of textures and levels being queued into the game.

Another signs of a bad test - They turn of Aero, which on modern Video cards is faster than turned off. They also go out of their way to turn of Search Indexing and other performance assisting tools like Superfetch. (In fact with Aero on and WDDM's scheduling handling the GPU in Vista, even a single game will usually run faster 'inside' a Window instead of Full Screen - something that is the opposite of XP or other OS models.

You can find a ton of reviews that fall into these categories.
Here is a recent one for Example:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=797

The majority of the problem with Vista is just like this article mentions 'perceived reality', and also the 'missed advantages' Vista does offer to everyday users as well as gamers.

Gamer example: run several high end games in a Window at the same time, notice you barely lose FPS in any of the Games even though they are running on the screen at the same time, or even in Flip3D (or a 3rd Party Expose' Mimic utility). Not only would this choke XP, since Vista DOES the GPU scheduling and is not application yield based like you find in OpenGL based OS designs, this is something that is nearly impossible to do on anything outside of Vista. And yes there are people that do this, just find almost any MMO player than has more than one account or playes more than one MMO, and they are usually running

The autoidentify is already taken care of, in NZ there is a service from Telecom where you can ring a certain number, and hold your phone up and they will tell you what the name of the song you are listening to is.

It can't do live or classical music though.
http://www.geekzone.co.nz/content.asp?contentid=4562
google "telcom NZ song id" fore more info.

A great post covering the response to the NZ Daylight Savings change by the various vendors posted on the excellent 'geekzone' website :
http://www.geekzone.co.nz/freitasm/3856
This demonstrates how committed vendors are to smaller markets.

it's because of cutthroat exploitative politics like this (it's funny, laugh)

Telecom New Zealand has a new Go Large plan. The advertising says no limits but the conditions say more than 750Mb in one day is deemed excessive. Then there is the Traffic Managment that is not advertised. mmmm

Some links:
Traffic Management on the Go Large plan
Telecom to refund $8m to broadband customers
Telecom New Zealand backpedals and remove un-capped broadband plan Go Large

Yip - http://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?ForumId=49&To picId=12080

I think that perhaps you have a differing set of criteria for "window management inconsistency", "finder cock-ups", "bugs", and what the "mass market and corporations need" than a lot of other people.

I certainly know that one thing I treasure about the OS X experience is how much more consistent the window management is over, say, XP....over, say, the junk that shows up in XP.

Safari requires two clicks to activate a control, unless you click on a text edit area (but not the URL) or the Bookmark bar. Mail will let me open a link without having focus, but Safari will not. TextEdit requires two clicks to move the carrot but one to abuse the toolbar, the ruler which is in the toolbar area, and even overflows a bit with the tab elements requires focus to interact. This inconsistency is pervasive throughout Apple's applications.
XP... controls are active regardless of focus.

As for allowing programmers to make rational, conistent, and powerful user interfaces across the board. That's just spurious nonsense, either platform will let you do whatever you want. Whether or not it becomes a noose has nothing to do with the platform.

At this time I'd like to reintroduce Perversion Tracker. ... it gets my cock down quite frankly.

Cock-up has nothing to do with your phallus, nor is this an appropriate time or place to discuss your penis. Frankly, you are disgusting.

And let's just pretend that you didn't mention bugs. Or polish. Just how is it that you never hear Mac users bitching about their buggy OS and how nothing seems to work seamlessly?

Well, except me... And everyone who has ever posted at Macfixit Et al. Let's not talk about it? That's just ignorant, because that's the point...

The iTunes update today for instance. Apparently Apple didn't think anyone would change to/from full screen because it doesn't update the cover in the other view. Performance on a Mini is horrendous, more like "cover slide show". Forget about animation if you're viewing full screen and skipping a song. I can play WoW well enough on a mini to get some trading done but Apple can't shift and skew a rectangle? They must have been in a hurry, and God knows what else they rushed. Speaking of which, considering how much they have riding on iTunes they sure manage to botch a lot of releases. At least this one didn't destroy my library.

I'm skipping the emotional rhetoric, disinformation, and logical fallacies...

At least Apple is producing major releases every 18 months (not five+ years) with six-month point updates that not only fix the broken bits but actually make older machines run faster. If there is one major company out there that is at least trying to get it right, don't choose Microsoft as your answer. And don't think that M$ somehow updates their operating systems for free either.

If you look at the condition Apple released that software in the best adjective to describe it would be "unconscionable". They said it would work on said platform, but the actual product was unusable. There is a not insignificant number of people who feel that 10.0 and 10.1 should never have been released in the first place.

Oh and MS actually does this, service packs and interim patches are regularly released to fix bugs, improve performance, and add features. Which you can read all about in excruciating detail on their website. Which segues nicely...

Refusing to talk about failure? Which company are we talking about? Personally, I think you've got the whole thing ass-backwards.

And now we arrive at the thrust of my argument, and the thing you utterly failed to address in any fashion. Your baseless cheerleading obviously fulfills some kind of need but brings nothing to the table. All large pieces of software have problems no matter how much you want

Breaking "only" CSS has been trivial for a long time, but it's also increasingly illegal as more and more countries adopt DMCA anti free speech lookalikes under pressure from entertainment industries (and if you happened to miss it, the entertainment industry gladly tried to ruin a young talented programmer's life even in a country where there was no DMCA look alike prohibiting dvd decryption at the time). And you fully ignore that all DRM formats inherently are as usable as a Spanish galleon on wheels when it comes to portability, freedom (nudge nudge, wink wink), usability and simply every consumer's (excluding you, seemingly) wish to avoid Pottersville patterns, as in not be tied to certain, often inferior proprietary hardware and software without being referred to as these pie-rat persons you continue to make noise about.

Have a pleasant evening wherever you are and please enjoy your AIDS

Look for more firmware issues in the future, as not only wireless hardware, but regular wired Ethernet cards, take the driver-loaded firmware approach.

If you think problems with those are bad, you should see the "license" problems with a lot of bluetooth devices.

of these
http://www.geekzone.co.nz/content.asp?contentid=59 6
or these
http://home.hawaii.rr.com/chowfamily/lego/
or maybe these
http://www.directron.com/contest1win.html

• Ban you for mentioning/using vendors other than Microsoft, and technologies other than those belonging to Microsoft?
• Take and use your code without due credit?
• Provide another mediocre service for less than a year?

What the hell the post says Windows Vista EULA doesn't exist? it's there.

http://www.geekzone.co.nz/bradstewart/1658 reports on an updated Vista Licence that allows transfers between machines. Perhaps the poster couldn't find the EULA because it was being replaced?

This makes me wonder why they didn't put a link to info about his arrest in the article. Not everyone knew this, and it is just sloppy of the editors to NOT include a link to give a bit of context about the arrest.

I found info here, here, and here

Look at the pictures of the first and last devices you mentioned, and then look at the pic of the D-Link one from the article. They're all the same phone!

At least that's what former BeLux manager Bruno Segers says. Looks like Segers might have been fired for revealing that too.

New Zealand's biggest ISP Xtra is about it implement port 25 blocking, so making Sendmail kinda redundant unless you use the big boy's server: http://www.geekzone.co.nz/blog.asp?blogid=22&posti d=204 'Course, a fair chunk of Xtra is owned by Microsoft, but that's got nothing to do with it right?

I somehow doubt MS are pushing Exchange at the home market by blocking 25/tcp.

It makes people's mail easier to intercept too, if you only have to get it from centralised mail servers.

So encrypt it, or change ISPs, or both

It might stop some spam, but then so would chopping the cables.

Believe me, I've been been tempted. But that wasn't me with the post-hole digger

an ex-NZ university mail admin

New Zealand's biggest ISP Xtra is about it implement port 25 blocking, so making Sendmail kinda redundant unless you use the big boy's server:

http://www.geekzone.co.nz/blog.asp?blogid=22&posti d=204

'Course, a fair chunk of Xtra is owned by Microsoft, but that's got nothing to do with it right?

It makes people's mail easier to intercept too, if you only have to get it from centralised mail servers.

It might stop some spam, but then so would chopping the cables.

Vik :v)

Verizon Blackberry devices in the US already have 3G-speed EVDO (1.5M downstream) network access and tethered modem capabilities, with much better coverage than EDGE in the US. (http://www.geekzone.co.nz/content.asp?contentid=5 488)

Processor
Dual-core 64-bit processing power means smooth performance and complete control of your digital media.

This is so out of sync! Have a look at the DualPhone ( review ). The DualPhone actually connects to Skype and landline, and you can select to make or receive calls through one or another.

This Linksys one is just half way there...