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hmm... http://gizmodo.com/5909961/kodak-had-a-secret-weapons+grade-nuclear-reactor-hidden-in-a-basement

It's not like any script-kiddie can pick up the stuxnet script and modify it to attack their local cell-phone tower.

Umm.. actually that has already happened. Flame and Stuxnet are cousins of which Shamoon is a derivative.

"Specifically, Kaspersky believes it's the doing of script kiddies. Shamoon, like Flame, reportedly collects data on any machine it infects, then proceeds to erase the disk. "

http://gizmodo.com/5935647/is-a-script-kiddie-flame-copycat-out-to-destroy-the-worlds-power-plants

Here was Taco Bell's response on that whole... thing, after it went around:

http://gizmodo.com/5743332/taco-bells-angry-because-false-statements-are-being-made-about-its-food

I believe the suit was dropped right away.

1960's Braun products by Dieter Rams:

http://gizmodo.com/343641/1960s-braun-products-hold-the-secrets-to-apples-future

Yes, and for that we'll need raw materials and fuel to lift up from LEO the masses involved. Fortunately Planetary Resources is all over this one. I suspect the first uses of nuclear energy in space will be the secret projects of commercial entities. Which isn't so far fetched. Kodak used to have their own nuclear reactor, and GE does still.

That helps some but you are still left with the internal wiring. Unless there are some mandates in that regard, the usefulness of that fiber connection will be limited.

Even relatively low end streamer appliances benefit from a real, wired ethernet connection.

Think of the backhaul capabilities fiber offers compared to copper. (Also think of the copper savings).
Also think of digital TV capabilities.

The usefulness of the fiber may not be as limited as you think.

Sure, there may be some home monitoring capabilities as well because the backhaul allows easier monitoring capabilities (video or audio) within the household, office, or school.

You've already seen announcements of in-household video monitoring via cable boxes. Hard to tell if these are truthful simply planned for Skype support.

"We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas." - Steve Jobs, 1996. ( http://gizmodo.com/5483914/steve-jobs-1996-good-artists-copy-great-artists-steal )

Steve Jobs' crusade against Google or anyone else for "theft" is hypocrisy.

It's been covered repeatedly that Google makes more from iPhone than from Android: http://gizmodo.com/5897457/google-makes-four-times-more-money-from-ios-than-android. I don't know what the comparison will be with Windows phone, but it is a source of revenue. And some people will be required to carry a Windows phone device by their companies. Google would surely want a piece of that action.

butt.

Actually, that's probably just selective memory...

From a Q&A with LEGO:

Q: I would like to know why they are using so many specialized pieces in their sets now instead of using more "basic" bricks that allow for greater building outside the set the pieces came in. Why have Lego sets for the latest few generations been dummied down?

A: This is an impression that many people have but, in fact, the piece count has been reduced drastically and there's a move back to roots in Lego, not only for creativity but to save money. Lego went from 12,000 different pieces to 6,800 in the last few years-a number that includes the color variations.

Seriously, shouldn't FB at least split the payola with the receiver?

They already made the upside of their payola available to people, but it didn't work out so well for those who did.

Apple does to much to force you to constantly point in their direction. The fact that Apple puts syncing downloaded apps ahead of syncing Outlook contacts, and syncing some crappy unneeded app can hang your phone and iTunes for any amount of time shows me that they are not concerned with me as a user. The iPhone 4 is my FIRST and now LAST Apple product. Period. I'm not even going to go down the patent road, and the fact all apple products are derived from other sources of inspiration, such as 60's Braun products, http://gizmodo.com/343641/1960s-braun-products-hold-the-secrets-to-apples-future.

Without piracy, I have a clear route for making an income from my work. With piracy, I have to hope that my work becomes a loss leader for itself, reaching a wider paying audience through a non-paying medium.

So how do you explain Photoshop and MS Windows being pirated by the tens of thousands for 15+ years yet they remains profitable and market leaders. Hell PS has a monopoly on the market. I'll tell you why, those products have a value that is not easily forgotten. Your books are good for a day worth of reading then done just like most entertainment. With the evolution of the internet your little manufactured scarcity went out the window. People now want instant entertainment and the technology has been there since MP3, Napster and the first PERL based shopping carts. Yet 90% of entertainment industry seems to not get it.

Ok ok lets talk about disposable entertainment. How in the world can porn be so profitable when its probably pirated more then anything, yet people are making millions on porn. They found new themes and ways to deliver their product to their users and this is why they stay profitable.

How do you explain this? http://ca.gizmodo.com/5137827/monty-python-puts-free-videos-online-sells-23000-more-dvds

Look at the Antique business and how the internet all of a sudden made rare items not so rare anymore and lose their value. Some things are not meant to last for ever and look like lots of entertainment styles are not meant to be profitable in the internet age anymore. Maybe time to fine a new career, after all 50% of the population will go through several careers in their life times Why is writers/producers/entertainers be any different?

Not at all. The estimated cost of the Death Star is $15,600,000,000,000,000,000,000. 1.4 trillion times the US national debt.

And this is from a guy on "super perv powder" who "recommended that the most effective way to take a dose is via rectal insertion, a procedure known as "plugging," writing: "Measure your dose, apply a small amount of saliva to just the tip of your middle finger, press it against the dose, insert. Doesn't really hurt as much as it sounds." Yeah, McAfee is so credible.

Extortion:
The Police Raided a 9-Year-Old to Confiscate Her Winnie the Pooh Laptop

Outrageously unfair fines:
$222,000 Music Piracy Fine Not Unconstitutional, Court Rules

Hypocrites:
The RIAA Pirated $9 Million Worth of TV Shows

Ripping off the artists:
Courtney Love does the math

Making sure shit floats:
How Payola Works Today... Or Why You Only Hear Major Label ...

The biggest pirates:
Canadian Music Industry Copyright Class Action Settled

Pushing the worst laws:
Rockmelt Blog | Why PIPA and SOPA are a Very Bad Idea Ã" And ...

So, pirate everything, boycott all of them, destroy the scumfucks.

Extortion:
The Police Raided a 9-Year-Old to Confiscate Her Winnie the Pooh Laptop

Outrageously unfair fines:
$222,000 Music Piracy Fine Not Unconstitutional, Court Rules

Hypocrites:
The RIAA Pirated $9 Million Worth of TV Shows

Ripping off the artists:
Courtney Love does the math

Making sure shit floats:
How Payola Works Today... Or Why You Only Hear Major Label ...

The biggest pirates:
Canadian Music Industry Copyright Class Action Settled

Pushing the worst laws:
Rockmelt Blog | Why PIPA and SOPA are a Very Bad Idea Ã" And ...

So, pirate everything, boycott all of them, destroy the scumfucks.

Extortion:
The Police Raided a 9-Year-Old to Confiscate Her Winnie the Pooh Laptop

Outrageously unfair fines:
$222,000 Music Piracy Fine Not Unconstitutional, Court Rules

Hypocrites:
The RIAA Pirated $9 Million Worth of TV Shows

4. Ripping off the artists.
Courtney Love does the math

Making sure shit floats:
How Payola Works Today... Or Why You Only Hear Major Label ...

The biggest pirates:
Canadian Music Industry Copyright Class Action Settled

Pushing the worst laws:
Rockmelt Blog | Why PIPA and SOPA are a Very Bad Idea â" And ...

So, pirate everything, boycott all of them, destroy the scumfucks.

Extortion:
The Police Raided a 9-Year-Old to Confiscate Her Winnie the Pooh Laptop

Outrageously unfair fines:
$222,000 Music Piracy Fine Not Unconstitutional, Court Rules

Hypocrites:
The RIAA Pirated $9 Million Worth of TV Shows

4. Ripping off the artists.
Courtney Love does the math

Making sure shit floats:
How Payola Works Today... Or Why You Only Hear Major Label ...

The biggest pirates:
Canadian Music Industry Copyright Class Action Settled

Pushing the worst laws:
Rockmelt Blog | Why PIPA and SOPA are a Very Bad Idea â" And ...

So, pirate everything, boycott all of them, destroy the scumfucks.

I thought the real announcement was NASA found water and organic matter on venus:
http://gizmodo.com/5964357/nasa-finds-water-and-organic-matter-in-mercury?tag=astronomy

Earlier this year, Gizmodo reported that the LHC generates a petabyte of data every second. Actually, that's just one of the two primary experiments.

http://us.gizmodo.com/5914548/the-large-hadron-collider-throws-away-more-data-than-it-stores
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mgXNgD3JFU

The have to preprocess the raw data through a filter that determines if the collision is interesting or not. Then they further parse that down and only store a tiny fraction of the raw data generated every day. If they were able to store and distribute that raw data, who knows what kinds of information is being thrown away simply because we can't store it and can't transmit it offsite fast enough.

Armed robots are basically SciFi, unless you are aware of some being used or developed?

They've been in use for 5 years. And of course there will be others in development.

The article on fark said that the kid had been trying to download some songs from PirateBay of a Finnish? singer she liked. The torrents never worked so she and her dad BOUGHT the album she was trying to download...

http://gizmodo.com/5962765/the-police-raided-a-9+year+old-to-confiscate-her-winnie-the-pooh-laptop

Santander bank is on the case:

http://gizmodo.com/5512140/banks-headquarters-are-so-big-that-you-need-robot-guides

Someone should tell this Mr. Chan at Gizmodo, according to him it's been a "whopping takedown." http://gizmodo.com/5961399/anonymous-destroys-israel-by-taking-down-hundreds-of-websites-and-leaking-emails-and-passwords

Indeed, it's through Biden that the RIAA/MPAA infiltrated the Justice Dept with their lawyers:
http://gizmodo.com/5146966/riaa-and-bsas-favorite-lawyers-taking-top-department-of-justice-posts

And also I believe it is under Obama that I saw the first domains "seized by government" screens but not 100% sure:
http://www.domainnamenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Screen-shot-2010-07-02-at-4.11.43-PM.png

Al Gore's wife in the 90s and Hillary Clinton in the 00s also wanted some type of ban on violent video games "for the children". Republicans do suck on a lot of things but the Democrats take the cake here as well.

...The TSA?
http://us.gizmodo.com/5947330/yep-the-tsa-is-definitely-stealing-ipads
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/convicted-tsa-officer-reveals-secrets-thefts-airports/story?id=17339513#.UKXz-hLJCPc
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505124_162-57523230/beware-your-gadgets-at-risk-of-theft-from-tsa/
http://www.businessinsider.com/tsa-agents-steal-from-passengers-2012-10
http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2012/10/06/tsa-agent-accused-of-stealing-100-from-passengers-wallet/
Yeah, I know some of you are wondering WTF all the links, and "does he have a grudge" and so on. Well, suffice it to say my encounter with the scoundrels was double plus ungood.

Party divide according to:

-County -State -Popular vote
-Population density
http://i.imgur.com/pflQf.jpg

Relevant article (though the Image is not originally theirs:
http://gizmodo.com/5960290/this-is-the-real-political-map-of-america-hint-we-are-not-that-divided

If I were one of those folks, I would follow these steps to register a complaint with Apple. Just saying.

This thread is a great example to point to when people wonder how far Slashdot has fallen. So thanks for that I guess.

I concur.
Let's get back to discussing what McAfee dipped his finger in, where he put it, which finger he licked, and in what order.


Oh, and let's not forget that Belizian police raided McAfee's home last April.

Rich white men who come to Belize and act strangely are kind of a type

Sure, Android was in development before iPhone... but dude, did you SEE what it looked like before that?

http://gizmodo.com/5941817/what-really-made-steve-jobs-so-angry-about-google

I was about to point this out as well. I saw early Android prototypes, before the iPhone came out. They seemed more like Blackberry killers. Then the iPhone hit the market, nothing was heard from Android until the Google takeover which was followed by cryptic rumors of a Google phone and then we got something that seemed... well... heavily influenced by the iPhone OS. Of course that doesn't fit too well into the Apple haters mythology of the Jedi Knights Google and Samsung and their evil nemesis Sith Lord Apple INC, but those pictures on gizmodo pretty much tell the speak for themselves. I expect Jobs might have reacted less violently towards Android if this transformation hadn't happened while Eric Smith sat on Apple's board.

Sure, Android was in development before iPhone... but dude, did you SEE what it looked like before that?

http://gizmodo.com/5941817/what-really-made-steve-jobs-so-angry-about-google

Andromeda will intersect the Milky Way. So our far removed descendants will see SPECTACULAR night sky way before generations see nothing: http://us.gizmodo.com/5914702/earths-sky-will-look-mindblowingly-crazy-375-billion-years-from-now

http://gizmodo.com/5958415/now-kim-dotcoms-new-site-mega-has-been-hacked-too

apple doesn't have much FRAND patents but they have a lot of non-FRAND patents that others want.

That is not clearly true at all. It is more accurate to say, Apple says it has a lot of patents that others want. Case in point: the bouncing scroll patent. Invalidated.

In case you haven't read the article - or rather one not written by a clueless hateboy: the patent has been invalidated because of prior art - a patent by Apple. IOW their older bounce-scroll-patent is still valid. Extra double standard points for quoting an article based on FOSS Patents without complaining that Mueller is a shill.

apple doesn't have much FRAND patents but they have a lot of non-FRAND patents that others want.

That is not clearly true at all. It is more accurate to say, Apple says it has a lot of patents that others want. Case in point: the bouncing scroll patent. Invalidated.

My feeling: Apple has a bunch of junk patents but is skilled at gaming the courts.

IPS superior to LED? I believe your mileage may vary.

I believe you are talking of OLED, not just LED. In particular, Samsung's AMOLED. LED is frequently used in conjunction with LCD, e.g. on most TVs today.

That said, IPS can indeed be superior to OLEDs for the time being. E.g., the best screen on any cellphone today is on Apple's iPhone 5 - and it is IPS.

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...

Criminally charged is more like it. The US DOJ says that violating website's terms of service is a felony under the the computer fraud and abuse act. Using fake data violates most web sites' TOS.

Truth be told, I was actually trying to avoid an argument by referring to them as comparable, since I thought I was being pretty generous for the sake of any Android fans who might be offended. If you really want to argue that the Nexus is better enough that the two shouldn't be considered comparable, however, we can go down that path. Looking at the spec sheet quickly, here's my take on each of the major points...

Screen: Tie, since the Nexus' has 35% less screen area but at a resolution that's a fair amount higher
Processor: Nexus wins with the Nvidia Tegra 3 over the 1.5 year old Apple A5
Storage: Tie for the models I was talking about, but an iPad win overall with 16GB to 64GB instead of 8GB to 16GB
Cellular: Tie for the models I was talking about, but an iPad win overall with 4G LTE as an option
WiFi: iPad wins with dual-band 802.11n instead of single-band 802.11n
Bluetooth: iPad wins with 4.0 instead of the Nexus' 3.0
Front-Facing Camera: Tie, with a 1.2MP each
Back-Facing Camera: iPad wins with a 5MP camera, whereas the Nexus doesn't even have a camera
Wired Connectivity: Nexus wins with micro-USB instead of Apple's proprietary Lightning connector
Payment: Tie? Nexus has NFC, whereas iPad uses Passbook
Battery: Tie, with both getting about 10 hours in typical use
Feel in the hand: iPad wins with an aluminum case that's thinner and lighter than the Nexus' plastic case
Software: I'm not touching this topic with a ten foot pole.

Just to clarify on that NFC vs. Passbook point, Apple hasn't added NFC (yet?), instead opting to add Passbook with iOS 6. Passbook seems to be intended to replace the need to have NFC for making a payment, and by all accounts, it seems to be doing very well, despite only being a few weeks old and only being available on the latest version of iOS. Considering that NFC still hasn't seen widespread deployment by vendors yet, I'm leaning towards calling it a wash. They're both immature at this stage.

Long story short, we could quibble about a few of them (e.g. bigger vs. better is an ongoing debate with screens, hence why I called it a tie), but in the end, it's pretty close either way and they trade hits pretty evenly when you consider the base iPad mini vs. the higher-end Nexus 7. I'd call that comparable.

Now, whether or not you're willing to pay an extra $80 for something that's considered comparable...that's a more interesting question.

...why are *no* monitors on the market currently capable of being positioned that way?

I don't know. You tell me... Note that these aren't exactly what I was looking for, but.. close enough to illustrate that they do exist in some form

The company had been running an internship program that put 14- to 16-year-old children on the factory floor

And the link they reference in that quote (to anther article on their OWN site) says it was vocational interns (16+) and college students (18+). So more accurate would be "16 to 22".

I don't want to defend the authors, but Foxconn did recently admit that some of it vocational interns were 14 - 16 years old. It was on the BBC, among others.

Funny thing: Samsung still denies that their Chinese subcontractors employ underage workers (not interns), even after several reports. http://gizmodo.com/5940903/report-worker-abuse-and-underage-employment-at-six-more-samsung-factories

Not really, this time Microsoft has worked out more diligently than ever before and the product has all the elements to be successful. The reality is, this is the first Enterprise grade tablet with Office and other features and enterprises are looking forward to evaluate it. http://gizmodo.com/5952078/inside-surface-microsofts-insane-quest-for-gadget-perfection How it will perform in consumer space needs to be seen, and the wait should not be more than few months from now.

Last year, both Apple and Samsung (and Google) spent more on legal fees than R&D.

http://gizmodo.com/5949909/apple-and-google-spent-more-money-on-legal-fees-than-rd-last-year-and-google-apparently-thinks-apple-wants-it-that-way

You mean like in the actual article where there are pictures showing that the sun doesn't even have to be in-frame (or present at all, for that matter)?

Kind of like how they say 4" is the perfect screen size justified in the same way they said 3.5" was the perfect screen size. It's great to look at articles from last year making claims like:
'It makes total sense. And that is exactly why we would never see any larger screen iPhone.'
http://gizmodo.com/5847981/this-is-why-the-iphones-screen-will-always-be-35-inches

Air Conditioning the Military Costs More Than NASA's entire Budget: http://gizmodo.com/5813257/air-conditioning-our-military-costs-more-than-nasas-entire-budget
That says a lot about this country and where it's headed. It has no problem cooling troops in a war that has no purpose and no end, even when "we are broke!". But funding anything that might be remotely useful? Forget it!

Gizmodo has it:

The best feature may be its price which is surprisingly low. Each [mobiUS] unit costs $7,495 which is slightly less than GE's mobile ultrasound machine, the GE Vscan which costs $7,900. And now after eight months of regulatory testing, the mobiUS is finally available for purchase.

If only Apple had realized that the mobile market was even more MAD than the desktop market...

In the desktop world, Apple tried to sue Microsoft and HP over the desktop GUI paradigm, but ended up facing a counter-suit from both Microsoft and HP, as well as a fresh lawsuit from Xerox. Apple lost almost every point in these battles, but did win on one point.. HP's icons were too similar to Apples, so HP had to draw new ones.

Battered, bruised, and broke.. Apple was forced to cross-license with Microsoft, make Internet Explorer their default browser, and sell Microsoft $150 million in stock.

Initially when Apple opened up the mobile lawsuits, things were going MAD with pretty much every company going after every other company, but now not so much. In July, 60% of mobile lawsuits involved Apple. The truce among the other companies is mostly restored, putting the bullseye squarely on Apple.

Just because Apple can't make a rugged phone doesn't mean others can't. There are many good rugged smartphones now. Nokia, Motorola, HTC, Samsung, Sonim, Casio, and even Caterpillar now have rugged smartphones.

Here's a Samsung phone being used to crack walnuts. Here's an HTC phone being used as a hammer. And here's an IPhone 4 broken by a 1-foot drop.