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it's been jailbroken: http://gizmodo.com/5821905/ios-434-has-been-jailbroken

Well, of course... Contingencies are planned for. No one thinks that the "security researchers" looking for exploits to enable jailbreaking just stop looking for exploit vectors once they have root access, do they?

IMHO, Mobile device/OS manufacturers should just give their customers (the end users, not the service providers) root access in an "advanced" menu option... Otherwise it's just a matter of time before some of the "jailbreakers" turn into malware authors...

Don't get me wrong; Including a "Got Root?" option wouldn't keep everyone from searching for exploits, but it would remove a current major motivating factor.

Did you know that due to copyright restrictions of software & games bored Bulgarians began to reverse engineer and crack them. Thus at one point in the 90's Bulgaria was the malware capitol of the world -- Responsible for the most and best of all viruses worldwide.

A similar thing happened for bootleggers of older games for Apple, Amiga, Commodore, and other PCs. In fact, the cracks were rated among their peers according to the duration between a game's release and it's crack date eg: Software cracked only 6 weeks after release was rated as a "42-day crack". It was a competition to the hackers, and sometimes they got a hold of pre-releases just to crack them. If the software was exploited on or before its retail release it was the coveted best rating -- A "Zero-Day" crack!... Somehow the term has changed meaning a bit over the years, along with the term "hacker"; C'est la vie.

Accelerated escape from control due to more constriction. You see this sort of thing happening again and again, it applies to just about everything...

The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the faster the spunk will escape from your... fingers.

it's been jailbroken: http://gizmodo.com/5821905/ios-434-has-been-jailbroken

I swear if this takes any longer next time, I'm switching to Android.

it's been jailbroken: http://gizmodo.com/5821905/ios-434-has-been-jailbroken

Uh. Really? Howabout the MacBook Air? It's basically an Apple Netbook, but they won't call it that. There are plenty of sites explaining how to install MacOS onto price-cheaper Dell and getting basically the same thing. Just Google "Hackintosh Dell".

Base price of a MacBook Air: $1000

Price of a hackintosh-friendly Dell Mini 9: $400

Result: $1000 = $400 * 2.5

Site: http://gizmodo.com/5156903/how-to-hackintosh-a-dell-mini-9-into-the-ultimate-os-x-netbook

Granted it's from 2 years ago, but there's plenty describing hackintoshing the Dell Mini 10v. A quick search found one as recent as Jan 2 this year.

That is ridiculous. The Macbook Air is most definitely underpowered. But comparing it to the Mini 9 & 10v? You are comparing a computer with a Core2Duo to a computer with a single-core Atom (only the newest Dell Minis have dual-core Atoms - but that is still an Atom vs. a C2D).

All that aside, your link has 18 steps to complete. I don't think the average person is going to tackle something like this. By the way, how much are you valuing time? My free time is worth a lot more than my work time, so I better be saving a lot of money by doing this. I'm thinking I would be better off just buying a Macbook Air if what I really want is a Macbook Air.

That argument is pretty much dead.

Price an Apple computer against a competitors eq. computer. They will be pretty close.

Uh. Really? Howabout the MacBook Air? It's basically an Apple Netbook, but they won't call it that. There are plenty of sites explaining how to install MacOS onto price-cheaper Dell and getting basically the same thing. Just Google "Hackintosh Dell".

Base price of a MacBook Air: $1000

Price of a hackintosh-friendly Dell Mini 9: $400

Result: $1000 = $400 * 2.5

Site: http://gizmodo.com/5156903/how-to-hackintosh-a-dell-mini-9-into-the-ultimate-os-x-netbook

Granted it's from 2 years ago, but there's plenty describing hackintoshing the Dell Mini 10v. A quick search found one as recent as Jan 2 this year.

this is the infamous $3 million "overhead projector" from the 2008 election.

only 1 ? ok then
http://gizmodo.com/5634258/the-most-popular-phone-in-the-world

If IT locks out the app store, it won't be successful.

Define "success"? Users won't like it or companies won't buy it? There's a difference, and the latter wins. It's the same reason companies don't buy office workers Alienware PCs.

...

Until the fired boss from Sony or Groupon or the Social Security Administration replaces our boss, and tells us to unencrypt everything, because nobody would ever, EVER, leave an iPad or iPhone just laying in a bar.

Sounds like you are railing on iOS, but do you realize that iOS has nearly ever feature you are touting in this not-yet-existent Cisco tablet? Even the example of leaving a phone in a bar is a stretch -- the thing was immediately wiped remotely.

If IT locks out the app store, it won't be successful.

Define "success"? Users won't like it or companies won't buy it? There's a difference, and the latter wins. It's the same reason companies don't buy office workers Alienware PCs.

If IT blocks internal programs, VPN and corporate websites from Sally's iPad, how's she going to have a choice. In the corporate environment, everyone takes the company phone. Most company phones suck, but the minutes and data are paid for. So, which tablet device are you going to use for streaming? The new one that nobody offers unlimited plans for, or the company one that pays for whatever you use?

Like every other device that companies provide, you'll still take it because the company, not you, buys it. And companies buy Cisco. Companies trust Cisco. Cisco is not seen as a toy gadget company. And most IT will never condone devices without control. They may put up with it, but given the choice, they'll get something they can control.

IT frankly doesn't care what Sally likes better for Angry Birds, or Sally at all for that matter. She's the same idiot downloading WeatherBug on every PC she touches. And if IT says encrypted devices only, they/we will by Cthulu will have it! Until the fired boss from Sony or Groupon or the Social Security Administration replaces our boss, and tells us to unencrypt everything, because nobody would ever, EVER, leave an iPad or iPhone just laying in a bar.

It is workable now and has been for a few years... See the walking timberjack harvester - http://gizmodo.com/036148/plustech-walking-machine Of course they needed 6 legs, not 4.

Actually... http://gizmodo.com/5811834/what-if-you-crammed-the-entire-human-population-into-a-single-city/

The interesting thing is... if you treated copyright infringement much like we treat marijuana here in Australia, things would get a lot better.

A little bit of weed doesn't do a lot of damage and is kinda fun every now and then. A lot of weed is pretty bad, but as long as you're only using it yourself, eh... not a huge issue, but clearly you should cop a fine for it.

But deliberately growing warehouses full of weed, for the express purposes of selling it is pretty bad since it's usually tied to organized crime. Even worse, deliberately manufacturing *cocaine*, a much worse drug, is clearly bad and should be punished heavily.

So we understand that there are "less bad" and "more bad" scales on these things. But now, what if the cops (or vigilante groups with huge congressional power posing as cops) are mass-producing cocaine? Surely they should be fallen upon from a great height and made an example of, right?

http://gizmodo.com/329648/mpaas-university-toolkit-taken-down-for-violating-copyright
http://torrentfreak.com/mpaa-steals-code-violates-linkware-license/

That's just the top two results on a quick Google search. Other examples exist, I'm sure of it.

Now, the MPAA in both cases didn't just download an illegal copy of Photoshop. They stripped out the licencing and branding, rebranded it as their own, and then used it an profit making enterprise as though they themselves wrote it. THAT is the kind of copyright infringement that SHOULD be punished- it's literally taking someone else's work, pretending it's yours, then making money from it. They didn't just shoplift a copy of Photoshop from a store, they claimed they wrote it themselves.

And yes, they should be punished far worse than any individual. They pretend to be the ultimate authority on copyright enforcement, and treat it extremely gravely- Jamie was sued into bankruptcy for downloading mp3's for personal use. Surely their own actions, however, which are so much more malicious in nature, and so much more damaging to a society as a whole (and again given their position as de-facto "copyright cops") should be treated far more harshly. An individual who is busted for speeding gets a fine, a police officer who is busted for speeding can lose their job. And these particular police officers aren't even cops, more like shopping mall Rent-A-Cops arresting 13 year old kids for possessing a bit of weed while simultaneously running a commercial grade meth lab in their basement.

Yes, the MPAA's incidents are not nearly as numerous as the huge amount of copyright infringement that goes on everyday, but their actions are so much *worse* given their circumstances. They should be punished accordingly. If anyone should understand copyright infringement and copyright law, it should be the MPAA.

So, given this, I propose the MPAA and all its affiliatories, sister companies, shell companies, parent companies, CEOs (present, former and past) and anything to do with them should be purged utterly from the internet to make an example of them.

As it so happens I played with one of these things for a few hours (friend got one for a music setup). When I first saw it, I was excited and was seriously considering buying one for myself, since I love having access to more ways to design shortcuts and streamline my computer work-flows. Alas, I was quite disappointed with it. The main problem are:
1. The buttons are flat and small (compared to a foot, I mean), making it hard to know which button you're actually touching. If you're shoe-less, then you can feel around with your toes, and figure out which button is which (though this is pretty slow). With shoes on you have no hope of knowing where you're hitting without actually looking. This rather defeats the idea of having a foot pedal for computer control. At best, you could program this to be perhaps 3 keys (by grouping the left keys, the middle keys, and the right-most 'direction-pad' to trigger three different functions).
2. The buttons have effectively no 'give' or feedback. The only way I knew I was actually pressing the buttons was seeing the triggers in the programming application. This has the unfortunate effect of causing you to press the keys really hard, so that you know you've activated them, which gets annoying and tiring very quickly.
3. No Linux support. It can probably be done with a bit of effort (I gave up getting it to work in Linux after some testing I did on OS X revealed the above flaws), but there is no official support.

Basically, the ergonomics of the device are terrible. I don't understand how this could be useful even for a musician, since they too would want something that they can find with their foot without looking, and know that they've triggered it (a traditional guitar foot pedal has nice feedback). I would not recommend this product.

Incidentally, I have the same complaint about the Fragpedal Deluxe: the buttons have essentially no give, and take too much force to activate. I'm still searching for a good USB foot pedal that has a satisfying key-like feedback and ergonomics properly designed for activation by, you know, a foot.

Google already claimed they'd delete "unauthorized" tracks, didn't they?

Ah, yes...

And how, pray tell, can they tell if I ripped a track from a CD or LP that I've owned for years?

Google already claimed they'd delete "unauthorized" tracks, didn't they?

Ah, yes...

I think Mr Redmond needs a lot more respect. Al Gore even stole one of his biggest inventions a few years back. At least give Mr Redmond the respect you would give an Uninformed Luddite. Thank you for caring.

This Scott Redmond?

I'm assuming it's a big-media backed attack given who the targets are. It would be interesting to see who's behind the VC companies.

Some googling revealed that BitTorrent is being sued by Tranz-Send Broadcasting Network from San Francisco, CA . They also have a public listed phone number and web address.

Its CEO is Scott Redmond, http://www.scottredmond.com/

His personal page is kind of LOL... this guys really thinks he is a genius who solved all the world's problems. What a douche.
He is also making an ass of himself in this article http://gizmodo.com/5737088/the-greatest-scam-in-tech-scott-redmond-would-like-us-to-clarify

From his site: (lolquotes incoming)
Few may know who Scott Douglas Redmond is, but his client's and
employers know he is the engine behind their most spectacular innovations
and projects.

+ According to the U.S. Patent Office and industry press; Scott Douglas Redmond's
efforts are always first-to-market with designs & products that are decades
ahead of the competition.

+ Mr. Redmond hold's an extensive issued patent and pending patent portfolio
of historically seminal patents.

+ Mr. Redmond has project managed or executive led projects with multi-million
dollar budgets and hundreds of thousands of end-users, for his client's and
employers.

+ Mr. Redmond's developments have become industry standards:
    First to develop, patent & demo particulated file media delivery. Now the global
standard for large file delivery.
    First to develop, patent & demo integrated VR, wearable simulation & immersive
network PC-based simulation/visualization.
    First to develop, patent & demo mobile media device PDA form factor and architecture
and to demonstrate VOD on HP IPAQ PDA.
    First to develop, patent & demo Internet movie/music-on-demand system for personal
computers.
    First to develop, patent-author & demo online green home building design-to-build
technology.
    First to show iPhone wearable VR headset.
    First to present Internet VOD to the largest film studios in Hollywood.
(see product documentation & client references on this link)
+ World leader in conceptual blockbusting & innovation contracts.
+ Ricipient of multiple White House & Congressional commendations.
+ Awarded over 200 project contracts by Fortune 2000 & Government 100 leaders
since 1978.

+ Recipient of hundreds of letters of reference and acclaim (as shown in the
attached links) from industry and government leaders (Multiple
administrations), Mayors (multiple administrations), Fortune
1000 leaders, Government Agency heads, Community organization executives,
State assemblies, and many more...
+ Over 2000 radio, TV, newspaper and other media items have been generated
by our client's press offices to positively document our past projects for them. While
Few may know who Scott Douglas Redmond is, many have seen the successful projects
he has helped deliver for his client's and investors.

After all, Obama has a Zune. Who in the US government is subject to more obsequious underlings?

Apparently, Anonymous announced an intention to go after the federal reserve next: http://gizmodo.com/5811546/anonymous-goes-after-federal-reserve. It'll be quite interesting if they attempt it. I'm interested in seeing how the fed handles this.

which all parties must consent for a recording to be legal unless, as with TV news crews, it is obvious to all that recording is underway. Since the police do not consent, the camera-wielder can be arrested

Let's all hope they don't rule that you have a right to record the police with the stipulation that you have to be obvious about it.

You know there were smart phones before the iphone. Sure apple made the UI simpler and had it flow nicely but they certainly didn't invent it. Its just windows mobile 2003 with application shortcuts on the front page (instead of pressing start all programs). I don't know why I'm even bothering with you its like trying to convince a religious fanatic the earth isn't 4000 years old.

Really now? Apple didn't just make the UI simpler, they completely changed it.

Name one phone before the iPhone that had a browser that people actually wanted to use?

Name one phone before the iPhone that had a useable, non-stylus-oriented touchscreen interface?

Name one phone before the iPhone that had a useable, non-stylus-oriented touchscreen keyboard? Whether you personally like it is immaterial. Name one. This and this is what a "touchscreen" phone looked like before the iPhone. BTW, I have one of those Treos. It is the biggest POS on the planet. The UI freezes up constantly for seconds at a time, for no reason, even when just using the hardware "joystick", and while you can sort of use the touchscreen with your finger, with the exception of the dialpad, the UI features are definitely designed for a stylus. And if you touch the "end" button for more than a fraction of a second, it disables the phone (takes it off line) completely, and with no confimation dialog. You usually only find out when you haven't received calls for a few hours, and people bitch you out about "never answering your phone".

Name one phone before the iPhone that had random-access voicemail?

Name one phone before the iPhone where the phone manufacturer defined the feature set, not the Carrier?

If the iPhone wasn't a game-changer, then why have so many other phones since the iPhone desperately tried to copy it?

If the iPhone wasn't a game-changer, then why did Google's Android immediately abandon its shameless clone of the Blackberry interface and form-factor in favor of a shameless clone of the iPhone's "Springboard" and the iPhone form-factor? Same thing goes for most Windows Phones, which HTC has even become desperate enough to sell for a PENNY, LOL!!!

Sorry. It is the Windows Phone and Android fanbois that are in serious, almost delusional, denial; not the Apple fans.

There actually are several states where it is explicitly illegal to film police officers, as ruled by courts in those states.

http://gizmodo.com/5553765/are-cameras-the-new-guns

http://www.pixiq.com/contributors/248

It is illegal in illinois, massachusetts, and maryland (explicitly) It is in fact illegal in many states as they will come up with something to nail you with, or just beat your ass bust your camera and arrest you for resisting arrest (how 'bout that for performing an anatomically impossible act?) http://gizmodo.com/5553765/are-cameras-the-new-guns

It's not illegal to film them,

It is in at least the states of Illinois, Massachusetts, and Maryland.

It's a clever idea. I won't begrudge them the patent. I'm even kind of in favor of it; it's kind of a robots.txt file for the real world.

But, like robots.txt, clients (cameras) should treat it as advisory only and be free to ignore it. I certainly wouldn't buy a camera in which it couldn't be disabled. It's way too open to abuse. Not just in prohibiting photos in random public venues, but I can easily imagine advertisers jumping on this. For the price of an IR transmitter you can stuff a watermark into everyone's cameras whenever they're taking a photo near your storefront, billboard, or any random place you can conceal a transmitter. As a photographer, even if your camera ignored such signals you'd probably have a problem taking any pictures In popular tourist areas with the IR glare imposed by advertisers.

And that's not to mention assholes who would set up concealed transmitters for laughs. Imagine the hilarity messing with someone's holiday snaps, intermittently disabling flash and other features, or writing obscenities into the watermarks. Why, it'd be almost as much fun as running around CES with a TV-B-Gone.

Yup.

But, people who require being connected to the internet at all times by their mobile gadgets, especially on their own personal time, are generally considered to be friendless idiots anyway.

Film at eleven.

Apple doesn't actively prohibit "rooting" of their devices.

http://gizmodo.com/303171/apple-says-unlocked-iphones-will-brick-after-software-update-+-what-does-it-mean

From the linked article:

"But first, the bricking. Was this done on purpose? Lam doesn't think so. Jacqui at Ars believes that the firmware was completed weeks ago, and the bricking is unintentional."

Apple doesn't pursue the iOS "hacker" community with legal threats, DMCA takedown notices, etc.

http://news.cnet.com/apple-iphone-jailbreaking-violates-our-copyright/

Partially true. Apple did say this, and a Federal Court disagreed. Apple however, didn't appeal the decision, and unlike many Android device manufacturers, has not done an end-run around that decision by putting "fuses" in their microcontrollers, signed bootloaders, etc.

So, it seems that Apple had one opinion, and the Feds had another, but in the end, Apple respected the process. It sure seems like those other manufacturers are simply taking a disingenuous advantage of the fact that the lawsuit didn't name them, specifically, and that Android users (and curiously, the EFF) seem to be disinterested in pursuing the issue. Wonder why? Could it be that the EFF has an Anti-Apple bias? Nah, couldn't be!

Apple doesn't infest its products with an OS (Windows 7) that has DRM from the driver-level up.

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/05/08/01/0421248/Mac-OS-X-Intel-Kernel-Uses-DRM

Wow! Old story much?!? How long did you have to search for that one!?!

If you look at the article, you will see that that referred to the DEVELOPER PREVIEW PLATFORMS when Apple did the Intel Switch. The TPR protection did NOT make it into the actual RELEASE CODE. Obviously, Apple had a pretty strong interest in keeping their very-restricted Beta release OS protected. Let's see what that actually ended up being in the RELEASE code. A simple deleteable file and deletable kernel extension that says "Please Don't Steal OS X". Wow. Some DRM! This article refers to TPR on OS X as "The Myth That Won't Die." And of course, the very existence of Hackintoshes kinda belies strong TPM protection, doesn't it?

As I said: DISinformative. But his post is modded +5 Informative, and mine will be punish-downmodded, of course.

Apple doesn't actively prohibit "rooting" of their devices.

http://gizmodo.com/303171/apple-says-unlocked-iphones-will-brick-after-software-update-+-what-does-it-mean

Apple doesn't pursue the iOS "hacker" community with legal threats, DMCA takedown notices, etc.

http://news.cnet.com/apple-iphone-jailbreaking-violates-our-copyright/

Apple doesn't infest its products with an OS (Windows 7) that has DRM from the driver-level up.

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/05/08/01/0421248/Mac-OS-X-Intel-Kernel-Uses-DRM

Hilarious.

2. Sealed batteries, smaller sim cards and the like are critical paths to Apple's future product plans.

So what sort of future product would cause a problem with current products having replaceable batteries?

It's not a single product that would be hurt by those things - it's that they are anathema to Apple's design principles.

The guiding set of principles at Apple are a constant movement towards Dieter Rams' ideals of "good design".

• Good design is innovative.
• Good design makes a product useful.
• Good design is aesthetic.
• Good design helps us to understand a product.
• Good design is unobtrusive.
• Good design is honest.
• Good design is durable.
• Good design is consequent to the last detail.
• Good design is concerned with the environment.
• Good design is as little design as possible.

Good design means eliminating parts that the user interacts with (the battery cover, physical controls, etc).

Good design requires reducing parts count where practical - the battery cover, the battery connectors, the casing a replaceable battery must have, for example. I have a first generation iPhone in my pocket which is still on its original battery, so I'm not too worried about the difficulty of replacing it. I'd rather have a physically smaller phone or a better camera in the same-size phone than a replaceable battery.

Any time a designer adds yet another button, or another removable part, they're moving away from that ideal of "good design".

Now, wether you agree with that philosophy or not is up to you and there are a wide range of products on the market if you don't - you aren't required to buy Apple products to fulfill your needs or wants. The idea that Apple can lock down the entire market is a fallacy often professed by anti-Apple trolls in these discussions.

Of course, Jonathan Ives is just copying the old Braun products

, but that's not such a bad set of products to copy.

Google's Android @home initiative.

Some bullet points of the Google Prediction API:

• -Customer sentiment analysis
• -Upsell opportunity analysis
• -Suspicious activity identification...

I would be unsurprised if it was sponsored by the FBI? (cops with a budget of $4.4 billion), easy one-stop-shopping data collection with a handy web interface, no subpoena needed?

http://gizmodo.com/5688087/the-tsas-sense-of-humor-makes-me-nervous

Basically there is a deficit, it has to be cut and the national debt has to be reduced. Social security has to be saved as well. This means only one option, we must raise taxes or die.

So then close all the corporate tax loopholes and have them pay their fair share. Stop letting companies like Google, Microsoft, IBM, etc get away with playing shell games to avoid taxes.

who needs fresh water when you can use pee ?!!!

In other words, stop whining and be proactive if you value your privacy over convenience because others value the convenience and aren't disturbed except when they lose services because of your whining. We're talking to you, Blur-many.

How non-technical, and after how thorough of a look?

I'll just leave these here...

http://forums.macrumors.com/archive/index.php/t-297432.html
http://gigaom.com/2008/08/31/dont-like-the-iphone-check-out-these-touchscreen-phones/
http://www.gsmarena.com/newscomm-769.php
http://www.telecomasia.net/node/5199
http://www.google.com/search?q=SPH-1300&hl=en&prmd=ivns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=jjfATeTDOIL30gHT_tXuBA&ved=0CC4QsAQ&biw=1680&bih=947
http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=ET&p_theme=et&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EEF6B3EB0A8C768&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM
http://cgi.ebay.com/SPRINT-PCS-PALM-OS-WIRELESS-PHONE-SPH-1300-DUAL-BAND-/180613037497
http://articles.nydailynews.com/2000-09-25/news/18143226_1_cell-phone-palm-os
http://www.geardiary.com/2006/11/30/the-palm-treo-700p-palm-os-smartphone-review/
http://www.brighthand.com/default.asp?newsID=1690
http://www.gizmag.com/go/2306/
http://www.google.com/search?q=sony+p900
http://www.electronista.com/articles/08/10/13/lg.debuts.new.prada.phone/
http://www.esato.com/phones/compare.php?phone=433&cp=439
http://gizmodo.com/#!190670/cect-a1000-touchscreen-phone-with-1000-hours-standby
http://reviews.cnet.com/smartphones/at-t-8525/4505-6452_7-32133413.html?tag=lia;rcol

these aren't phones, but what the hell... they could still be mistaken for an iPhone at a glance...

http://welcome.hp.com/country/us/en/prodserv/handheld.html
http://www.suddenlink.net/pages/curtismc/palms.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_III

This isn't funny, it's insightful.

http://gizmodo.com/#!5737002/the-problem-with-android-updates-part-seventeen-or-why-samsung-galaxy-phones-are-stuck-in-the-past
http://androidcommunity.com/samsung-fascinate-users-report-froyo-update-problems-and-solutions-20110422/
http://www.bgr.com/2011/02/24/sprint-pulls-epic-4g-android-2-2-froyo-update-data-connectivity-sd-card-issues-reported/
http://www.digitalhome.ca/2010/12/samsung-users-complain-android-2-2-update-is-bricking-phones/

By the way, since Slashdot seems to deem update problems with specific phone models newsworthy, where are the Slashdot posts on these Android update problems, and how come that isn't a 'saga'?

Here's a thought: AT&T should upgrade their network.

Jebus, does nobody around here actually research anything before they post on it?

It turns out that AT&T has spent and is spending many billions of dollars on spectrum and equipment and backhaul for upgrading their network. So is Verizon. So is Sprint.

All the big cellular carriers in the US spend tens of billions of dollars every year on their network. I know everybody on Slashdot prefers to imagine them as Uncle Scrooge McDuck on his money lake or something, and but for whatever reason you choose to hate them (there are many) lack of network upgrade investments is not one.

Here's a thought: AT&T should upgrade their network.

Jebus, does nobody around here actually research anything before they post on it?

It turns out that AT&T has spent and is spending many billions of dollars on spectrum and equipment and backhaul for upgrading their network. So is Verizon. So is Sprint.

All the big cellular carriers in the US spend tens of billions of dollars every year on their network. I know everybody on Slashdot prefers to imagine them as Uncle Scrooge McDuck on his money lake or something, and but for whatever reason you choose to hate them (there are many) lack of network upgrade investments is not one.

Maybe even toilet paper.

I know you were just kidding, but look what google found.

Saw this, and remembered your recent comment:

Speaking of Android, you're probably wondering why there's no showstopper like Infinity Blade for the platform. Well, wonder no more. Says Sweeney, "When a consumer gets the phone and they wanna play a game that uses our technology, it's got to be a consistent experience, and we can't guarantee that [on Android]. That's what held us off of Android." The problem with Android is consistency. "If you took the underlying NGP hardware and shipped Android on it, you'd find far far less performance on Android. Let's say you took an NGP phone and made four versions of it. Each one would give you a different amount of memory and performance based on the crap [the carriers] put on their phone." Bottom line, for Epic to do the kinds of things they do on iOS, "Google needs to be a little more evil. They need to be far more controlling." Even so, the main reason Epic has focused on iOS? "It's really the best place to make money."

http://gizmodo.com/#!5789093/the-near+future-of-mobile-gaming-is-going-to-be-pretty-epic

Fixed link: http://us.gizmodo.com/#!5787176/this-is-the-moon-and-the-earth-like-you-have-never-seen-them-before.

Pages that try to detect your language and present it in-place are just retarded, whatever using Accept-Language like you suggest or based on IP (Gizmodo, Google, YouTube, ...). Landing pages that 302 you to a language edition or offer a manual choice are fine -- they don't break bookmarks or links.

same here with gizmodo fr, but there are links just under the top banner for several other versions. I clicked "US", got redirected to the us front page, then re-clicked the link in TFS and got the article.

I think this link: http://us.gizmodo.com/#!5787176/this-is-the-moon-and-the-earth-like-you-have-never-seen-them-before should get you to the article no matter where you are.

Fixed link: http://us.gizmodo.com/#!5787176/this-is-the-moon-and-the-earth-like-you-have-never-seen-them-before

The reason it's broken is that they redirect you to your country's/mobile platform's special web site when you omit the "us.". If you're in the US and using a desktop web browser you wouldn't notice.

Does this work?

http://ca.gizmodo.com/5787176/this-is-the-moon-and-the-earth-like-you-have-never-seen-them-before

Thank god the old site is still there and works even better:

http://ca.gizmodo.com/5787176/this-is-the-moon-and-the-earth-like-you-have-never-seen-them-before

(the ca. prefix is applicable to all Gawker sites, couldn't live without it)

That or the NASA images have some small fixes. Maybe they were hiding a secret military base in the middle of the Pacific.