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At least these schemes solve solars problem of storage. (maybe no idea how these schemes will deal with being operated intermittently)

No, no they don't. All those schemes are based on nuclear but they just don't tell you that. The only way any of these technologies doesn't produce CO2 is if they use nuclear. Solar and wind are far far far to energy sparse (ie not energy dense) to provide enough heat to power these processes. If you were to try to use wind or solar you would create more CO2 moving and heating the water or air than if you just used natural gas to power the process. Not to mention the land you would have to clear for the wind and solar plants (you can't just use solar cells, you would need a solar concentrator like Ivanpah). If you used fossil fuels, that would be self defeating as you would use more fuel than you produce. These systems are about what you can do with nuclear. Without nuclear they are interesting curiosities with no use. That's why nothing has been done with them even though we've be able to do these types of chemical processes for decades in some cases.

Korea
https://economictimes.indiatim...
Audi
http://time.com/3837814/audi-e...
When was the ONR renamed NRL ?
https://www.smithsonianmag.com...

At least these schemes solve solars problem of storage. (maybe no idea how these schemes will deal with being operated intermittently)

Everything is secondary when the economy is crashing down and people are unemployed. Every high ideal you can think of will be put on hold and forgotten when people are feeling economic pain.

You know what is worse than being poor and/or jobless? Literally dying because the temperature and humidity are so high that human life (actually, mammalian life) becomes impossible: You need to sweat to bring your temperature down to something that won't kill you, but the humidity is so high that sweating doesn't work to cool you. So you die. This will happen in MAJOR POPULATED AREAS in the 2070's range. Lack of air conditioning (or a power failure due to everybody trying to use their air conditioners at once) will become a death sentence: Thousands will die.

How do you think the people affected by THAT kind of problem will feel about the fact that some poor, middle-class, and wealthy Americans decided that it was inconvenient to save their lives because doing so might have involved making some sacrifices to their lifestyles (which are already far, far above the global average)?

Do you think that people whose lives are literally threatened from this kind of problem will consider the comfort and very lives of Americans more valuable than their own? What do you think they will do about the situation? (What would Americans do if the roles were reversed?)

Think on that for a bit.

I was starting to literally shake due to climate change article withdrawal

Actually I was waiting for another "Global Waming" post. We can no longer call it climate change because the weather is too fucking cold, even Trump is warning his redneck constituency to stay inside. The problem is that his advice will lead to more little rednecks being conceived during the current cold snap because of all the global waming going on.

Why should foreign entity obey US law is I may ask?

Because the U.S. claim to have jurisdiction over the whole fucking world.

If the US and EU did everything that would not solve the problem.

That's true, but that's not a reason that you should make no effort or that the US and EU should make zero effort. Moreover, other countries are changing what they are doing. For example, solar power is being installed in India at a rapid rate, by many metrics more rapidly than it is in the US https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/energy/power/government-working-to-double-generation-target-from-solar-parks/articleshow/53268569.cms.

There is an entire world and many billions wanting a better life. I do not want to deny them a better standard of living and will not expect them to forfeit it because of climate guilt.

This isn't about "climate guilt"- in fact,many of the developing countries will suffer the most under climate projections. Heat waves in developing countries which are already in warm climates have far more of an impact on daily living and food production than they will in temperate climates in developed countries. But I agree that denying those people a better life is a bad idea: hence, reduce one's CO2 output so one doesn't harm them. And if one does want to make sure they do well, then donate to the Solar Electric Light Fund which gets solar panels in developing nations http://www.self.org/. If we do things right, then the developing grids will come online with minimal use of fossil fuels and so will get a high standard of living without any issues. But it is the height of hypocrisy to claim that because you don't want to deny them a high standard of living therefore you should eat a lot of meat and use CO2 now.

I should do something I can't afford because in 10 years I can make the money back and piety? I don't have money for these expensive things you ask for. Please, tell me how I am supposed to do these things I cannot afford.

I'm not asking you to do anything involving "piety" and I'm not telling you to do anything you cannot afford. If you cannot afford to buy solar panels then don't do it. But there's a serious problem in your line of logic when you say you won't buy solar panels or do anything else because you cannot afford it, but when pointed out that meat consumption is expensive and also damaging refuse to even consider reducing meat consumption. If one cannot afford to take those active steps, then that's all the more reason you should take the steps which actually would save you money in the short term; that's especially the case because the lower your income bracket the higher proportion of your income ends up going to food.

Again, you don't know what I have done or how I have lived my life but expect more money and more changes to my life because Europeans think their shit doesn't stink and per capita. No.

I don't know what you've done with your life. I do know that by your own description you are utterly unwilling to do any of the most basic steps to help out, even ones which will save you money, right now, literally today with no investment on your part. And yes, the European attitudes can be pretty annoying; although many European countries have done a lot of good, many have not. Moreover, some have been actively counterproductive, like Germany turning off its nuclear power as a supposed "green" move, but that doesn't change the basic parameters. And yes, per a capita matters because it reflects systemic and large-scale indications of what one can do. As for not knowing what you personally have done, you could of course state explicitly what you've done, but you haven't in this thread, and my tentative guess is that you haven't because you've done jack. I for example don't own a car (which also saves money) and rarely eat meat. I'm skipping referencing your next

You haven't been reading the news have you? https://timesofindia.indiatime...

Are you going to lie again and claim your account was hacked and that's the reason for all your lies.?

You were shown the facts numerous times. American AC is worse, than China's. Its just a fact WindBourne.
Even though you have better AC available, you get the cheapest and crappiest.
It's clear in the pretty picture Europe, Japan, Korea and China are all better than America.
Why do you still lie about this and all things WindBourne?

You could buy the best. You have the best available. But Americans clearly care the least about the environment and get the worst that they can. China has much less money and worse AC available. But they still by better AC than Americans.

This is all old news to you WindBourne. You tried to lie about it last time as well, but now you are too stupid to remember. Or is lying just so natural to you it's like a reflex?

China obviously doesn't import all those electric cars from the US. You are going to have to show how America manufactures the most EVs. Or just more lies from you? Only a handful of states even have EV's as more than 1% of car sales. That bubble you live in will pop one day...

Wasn't there an outcry, not long ago, over iOS location services still recording your location even when disabled? Also, is this the story you read? Seems Apple is doing the same thing; at least according to that source. If you think there's a whole lot of difference between a ping ever 15 minutes and a ping every 1.5 minutes (or 18 and 90), when the location granularity is something like 30-80ft (actually look at GPS accuracy numbers in real world use sometime, you rarely see better than that) you're mistaken.

Also, you must be completely blind to Apple's underhanded practices. The stories abound, so you have to be actively trying to avoid them.

If you think you would like Android, try it. It's no worse than iOS and Google is no worse than Apple.

Apply some critical thinking: Apple didn't become the richest company in the world on the backs of the smallest market share in the industry by being open and honest.

Sent from my 2016 MacBook Pro. No, really, I'm not an Apple hater, just a realist.

The problem comes when an ID system becomes mandatory or essentially mandatory for things it shouldn't be needed for in the first place

Excellent point, this is exactly the problem here. The legislation text itself says nothing at all about it being mandatory (although government lawyers in the 2017 Supreme Court case have argued that it should be). However, there are now at least 50 official schemes that require Aadhaar to utilise - anything from receiving social welfare payments, applying for a scholarship, opening a bank account, making any payment above a threshold (INR 50,000) or receiving treatment for - for example - HIV. So it isn't mandatory, but you basically need it to do anything remotely useful.

Not only this, but details of 130 million people and 100 million bank accounts have been leaked via four *government* websites, and a handy little backdoor has turned up (under the 'ExpressLane' programme) which allows the CIA real-time access to unencrypted Aadhaar data.

In short, it's a gigantic shit show.

"there is no conceivable political or economic way that China, India, or African nations would agree to eliminating greenhouse gas emissions" thats why China is the world leader in renewables.... https://futurism.com/china-new... - it'll just take a longer time due the size of China.
and India is chasing to be second in the table https://economictimes.indiatim...

People can "claim" a lot of things but where is the proof to backup their claims?

I can find at least 3 articles claiming that the Indian spaceflight to Planet Mars cost only $7.5 Milliions

http://www.bbc.com/news/scienc...

https://economictimes.indiatim...

http://www.iflscience.com/tech...

Can Space-X launch a space mission to Planet Mars for less than $7.5 Millions ??

You are right in your assessment. The last few villages were tough. They were located in dense forests or in higher altitudes of himalay. Some were even in the places affected by terrorism.

See for example this case. Chhattisgarh's Maoist-hit village gets electricity after 15 years. . The light vanished from the Chintalnar village when Maoists, in a bid to disrupt the development activities in the district, uprooted electricity poles. Bringing back electricity to such villages was a tough job. I am happy it is done.

However, as the summary mention, electrification of a village just means public places are electrified. The next job is to provide electricity to all and ensure 24x7 supply. This part is what you have said :

spend forever on the last 5% to make sure everything works -together-

I do not believe that India's caste system is the main reason of their national underdevelopment. Remember Japan's own caste system: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-... The answer lies in their manufacturing sector that still today, falls short of meeting international quality standards: https://www.mckinsey.com/busin... Notice how politely Pete Lau (OnePlus CEO) mention this in an interview: "One of the toughest challenges with India smartphone manufacturing is maintaining the same level of quality as China since the manufacturing environment in the country is not the same" https://tech.economictimes.ind...

7 out of every 10 Indians are vitamin deficient. I'm sure it's just a coincidence.

Probably just small sample size.

It's not like there are millions of Indians who are vegetarian, is it? Oh wait, there are.

  7 out of every 10 Indians are vitamin deficient. I'm sure it's just a coincidence.

How can vegetarianism persist in India?

You do know that vitamin deficiency is a big problem in India, right?

https://timesofindia.indiatime...

In order to make a real change, alternative energy HAS TO ACTUALLY MAKE ECONOMIC SENSE.

It already does make economic sense. Long-term macro-economic sense.
The problem is that we don't think in this way, only "what is the best possible money I can make before I bail out of this". That is in the grand scheme short term and very localised.

NOTHING our industry currently does makes this same kind of sense. We already have an incredible amount of regulations, we already have compliance related costs, and all of these comes from the governments in the interest of the general population at the expense of the enrichment of each specific working entity. Such a rule would be perfectly in line with that as well as not being unexpected in an industry that already needs to follow a long string of town-planning based requirements.

India isn't going to switch from coal to solar until solar is cheaper.

I'm actually really glad you mentioned India: https://economictimes.indiatim...

Nuclear power.

http://www.newindianexpress.co...
http://www.business-standard.c...
http://timesofindia.indiatimes...
https://www.reuters.com/articl...
http://www.hindustantimes.com/...

Sure, in those stories you'll find India planning on adding 2 or 3 GW of solar energy capacity. You'll also see plans to add 7 to 10 GW of nuclear energy capacity. They know they can't rely on the sun and wind alone to keep their economy going.

Well what do you know?
I still haven't run out of copy/paste NOR has the reality abruptly changed to fit delusions of pathetic creatures who can't face facts.
How's them mod points working for ya, snowflake? Still downmodding facts and arguments you can't accept?
Aaaaw...

Anyways... as I was saying above to that CUNT who's accusing people promoting renewables of genocide...

Those hundreds of thousands you mention have NO energy, if by energy you mean electricity.
Nor the means to get it. There is no electric grid in most those places. Nor will there be as long as there's money in stealing copper cables.

And guess what?
Those "douche bag westerns preaching about global warming" are actually a part of the solution.
Cause all that preaching is the reason why western governments have pumped in billions of dollars into renewable energy (and continue to do so), increasing production and lowering prices of solar and wind power (particularly solar) - thus creating conditions for all those hundreds of thousands you clearly care sooooo much for to get electricity for the first time.
Electricity from renewable sources, that is.
Which is not only cleaner now, thanks in part to those "western douche bags", it is also cheaper than the same electricity from coal.

Which kinda makes you a part of the problem, doesn't it?
So... how does it feel to be "actively killing real people right now"? Does it get your limp dick hard enough to see it?
Without a microscope?

Poor snowflake can't face reality.
Snowflake want rubber ball? Squeezed between its ties it might feel like a testicle? Maybe?
Maybe then snowflake can face reality instead of being a pathetic loser who can't accept factuality of arguments, forced to throw mod-tantrums instead?
Like a retarded baby with diarrhea. Only more retarded.

Anyways... as I was saying above to that CUNT who's accusing people promoting renewables of genocide...

Those hundreds of thousands you mention have NO energy, if by energy you mean electricity.
Nor the means to get it. There is no electric grid in most those places. Nor will there be as long as there's money in stealing copper cables.

And guess what?
Those "douche bag westerns preaching about global warming" are actually a part of the solution.
Cause all that preaching is the reason why western governments have pumped in billions of dollars into renewable energy (and continue to do so), increasing production and lowering prices of solar and wind power (particularly solar) - thus creating conditions for all those hundreds of thousands you clearly care sooooo much for to get electricity for the first time.
Electricity from renewable sources, that is.
Which is not only cleaner now, thanks in part to those "western douche bags", it is also cheaper than the same electricity from coal.

Which kinda makes you a part of the problem, doesn't it?
So... how does it feel to be "actively killing real people right now"? Does it get your limp dick hard enough to see it?
Without a microscope?

The best part of all this is - facts still remain facts.
I.e. My downmodders are proving themselves to be SUCH pathetic cognitively dissonant losers with each downmode it's so HI-LAR-I-OUS it's almost tragic.
Like watching a brat writhing on the floor, kicking and screaming "IT'S NOT! IT'S NOT! IT'S NOT!".
And then you say "Oh yes it is." And kick it in the face.

You snowflakes realize you're more likely to run out of mod points while trying to bury facts than I am to run out of copy/paste?

Aaaaw... someone don't likey facty-facty? Boo-hoo... Poor snowflake. Don't you know that global warming is bad for you?
Too bad copy/paste is my ally.

Anyways... as I was saying above to that CUNT who's accusing people promoting renewables of genocide...

Those hundreds of thousands you mention have NO energy, if by energy you mean electricity.
Nor the means to get it. There is no electric grid in most those places. Nor will there be as long as there's money in stealing copper cables.

And guess what?
Those "douche bag westerns preaching about global warming" are actually a part of the solution.
Cause all that preaching is the reason why western governments have pumped in billions of dollars into renewable energy (and continue to do so), increasing production and lowering prices of solar and wind power (particularly solar) - thus creating conditions for all those hundreds of thousands you clearly care sooooo much for to get electricity for the first time.
Electricity from renewable sources, that is.
Which is not only cleaner now, thanks in part to those "western douche bags", it is also cheaper than the same electricity from coal.

Which kinda makes you a part of the problem, doesn't it?
So... how does it feel to be "actively killing real people right now"? Does it get your limp dick hard enough to see it?
Without a microscope?

Aaaaw... someone don't likey facty-facty? Boo-hoo... Poor snowflake. Don't you know that global warming is bad for you?
Too bad copy/paste is my ally.

Anyways... as I was saying above to that CUNT who's accusing people promoting renewables of genocide...

Those hundreds of thousands you mention have NO energy, if by energy you mean electricity.
Nor the means to get it. There is no electric grid in most those places. Nor will there be as long as there's money in stealing copper cables.

And guess what?
Those "douche bag westerns preaching about global warming" are actually a part of the solution.
Cause all that preaching is the reason why western governments have pumped in billions of dollars into renewable energy (and continue to do so), increasing production and lowering prices of solar and wind power (particularly solar) - thus creating conditions for all those hundreds of thousands you clearly care sooooo much for to get electricity for the first time.
Electricity from renewable sources, that is.
Which is not only cleaner now, thanks in part to those "western douche bags", it is also cheaper than the same electricity from coal.

Which kinda makes you a part of the problem, doesn't it?
So... how does it feel to be "actively killing real people right now"? Does it get your limp dick hard enough to see it?
Without a microscope?

Those hundreds of thousands you mention have NO energy, if by energy you mean electricity.
Nor the means to get it. There is no electric grid in most those places. Nor will there be as long as there's money in stealing copper cables.

And guess what?
Those "douche bag westerns preaching about global warming" are actually a part of the solution.
Cause all that preaching is the reason why western governments have pumped in billions of dollars into renewable energy (and continue to do so), increasing production and lowering prices of solar and wind power (particularly solar) - thus creating conditions for all those hundreds of thousands you clearly care sooooo much for to get electricity for the first time.
Electricity from renewable sources, that is.
Which is not only cleaner now, thanks in part to those "western douche bags", it is also cheaper than the same electricity from coal.

Which kinda makes you a part of the problem, doesn't it?
So... how does it feel to be "actively killing real people right now"? Does it get your limp dick hard enough to see it?
Without a microscope?

A lot of people do. This stuff is good business. It's no lie: They're only in it for the money.

I think the Chinese know how to play game better than anyone else. Gather all the trade secrets and intel that you can, while "systematically dismantling" anyone leaking the same to the world.

Sometimes I wonder what the going market rates are for this sort of thing. Did this guy try to sell to Russians, because they pay more than the Chinese?

No, probably not. The Chinese espionage model is to send over 'graduate students' as spies, who then report everything they see back home. That is, China doesn't need to hire locals, since they have thousands of moles in our University system already. I don't know about the pay, but at a guess, I'd wager that no US citizen would find the $$ amount appealing. Just a guess.

I think the Chinese know how to play game better than anyone else. Gather all the trade secrets and intel that you can, while "systematically dismantling" anyone leaking the same to the world.

Sometimes I wonder what the going market rates are for this sort of thing. Did this guy try to sell to Russians, because they pay more than the Chinese?

India will invest more in solar than nuclear and already has more solar capacity than nuclear. The new nuclear plants are in danger of not being built due to the high cost, GE pulling out of the bidding and Westinghouse going bankrupt.
http://blogs.timesofindia.indi...

The qualifications issue is one of false or unequal credentials. Diploma mills are a problem in many parts of the world:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes...

There have been accusations by many that some outsourcing firms do not adequately vet the credentials of the candidates they bring over on an H-1B visa.

I suspect a credentials audit of the visa holders would find that some do not possess the credentials they claim to have earned.

Zero, except here, here and here.

But if you don't want to believe that something isn't true, dismissing it as "fake news" is so much easier than doing five minutes of research with a web browser.

An engineer is a person who takes responsibility for what he delivers.

You're a fucking moron.

Here you go, all the way from the 70s, and yeah, they got the shit sued out of them.

"They" in this case means the company involved which "settled out of court" whilst nobody even mentioned the specific "software engineers" involved because they all knew they weren't real engineers.

As for engineers in jail, cite?

Five seconds on google searching "bridge collapse jail" would have saved you embarassment:

• In the Maccabiah collapse five people including the engineer were jailed
• this even happens in places like India notorious otherwise for rich people avoiding jail
• or in China
• Gas Engineers too

Sure, you'll run around like a needledick citing cases where engineers covered up malfeasance and went to jail, but NEVER will you cite a situation where an engineer actually went to jail without mitigating circumstances of a crime.

I'd smack you, but shit splatters.

That word, mitigating, I do not think it means what you think it means. But I do apologise because you make me so afraid.

What do you mean, "outside areas where antibiotics are abused"? India is one of those places.

World cereal production reached a new all-time record of nearly 2,534 million tonnes (MT) in 2014, beating the previous record of the 2013 by over 13 MT, according to latest estimates put out by the UN affiliated Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). In one decade, global cereal production has gone up by almost 25%, setting all-time high records in five years out of 10.

Seems to beneficial or at least not harming anything.

1. On the emjoi's fonts there's "Raised Hand With Part Between Middle And Ring Fingers" - WhyTF is that not called "live long and prosper"? Some fonts are described by how they look while others are described by what they mean. A bit inconsistent but I guess that's more of a Unicode consortium issue.

2. Some of the hand emoji's like "White Left Pointing Backhand Index" are all called "white..." even though they've clearly done the race/skin tone colour spectrum ala whatsapp.

2b. The colours are a second unicode code (emoji modifier sequence) on the emoji ranging from U+1F3FB (white/pale) to 1F3FF (black/dark). (Btw, that's counter intuitive to programmers since RGB colour codes have "#00" being dark and "#FF" being light.) P.S. I haven't decided if the skin colour aspect of emoji's is racist or not. There may be some people who found the default yellow emoji's racist.

Answer to #2:
 

Names of symbols such as BLACK MEDIUM SQUARE or WHITE MEDIUM SQUARE are not meant to indicate that the corresponding character must be presented in black or white, respectively; rather, the use of “black” and “white” in the names is generally just to contrast filled versus outline shapes, or a darker color fill versus a lighter color fill. Similarly, in other symbols such as the hands U+261A BLACK LEFT POINTING INDEX and U+261C WHITE LEFT POINTING INDEX, the words “white” and “black” also refer to outlined versus filled, and do not indicate skin color.

and

General-purpose emoji for people and body parts should also not be given overly specific images: the general recommendation is to be as neutral as possible regarding race, ethnicity, and gender. Thus for the character U+1F777 CONSTRUCTION WORKER, the recommendation is to use a neutral graphic like (with an orange skin tone) instead of an overly specific image like (with a light skin tone). This includes the emoji modifier base characters listed in Sample Emoji Modifier Bases. The emoji modifiers allow for variations in skin tone to be expressed.

Batteries have a higher energy density than explosives. For this reason there are many layers of defence. The charging circuitry knows the maximu safe rate. Inside the battery are thermal cut outs. The circuitry of the battery is designed to control the rate of charging. The battery series as a whole should be extensively tested under all sorts of situations and failure cases.. Each batttery should be tested separately. In the case of most failures of the battery then it should simply stop accepting charge and act dead. In order for something like this to happen many layers of design, manufacturing and testing need to have failed pretty disastrously.

The people behind this are proper engineers (not the clowns who call themselves "software engineers") and this is their bridge fall down / go to prison moment. The main hope is that Samsung senior management also gets it because such a widespread failure, especially delivered multiple times, clearly doesn't come from the individual engineers alone.

Nurse takes lethal injection to kill herself in ICU of private hospital
http://timesofindia.indiatimes...

Don't ignore bride burning.
Although not limited to, its particularly popular among hindus.

Do you believe anything they say any more? India required that ALL communications be accessible, not just consumer devices. So the fact that they only mentioned consumer devices is just to make you not ask about BES.

Correspondence reviewed by ET, however, shows that the solution demonstrated by RIM can intercept all BlackBerry services. A telecom department official also confirmed that corporate emails would form part of the services that the government will be able to monitor.

They set up and then gave BES servers to the government So RIM's Enterprise servers weren't compromised because those servers were no longer RIM's property.

The Canadian smartphone maker, which had set up servers and other interception facilities in Mumbai last year after India had threatened to shut down BlackBerry services, has now handed over this infrastructure to Indian agencies, internal government documents reviewed by ET reveal.

Double-speak.

Not hard to say you never gave the decryption key to BES when you've pushed out a software update that also sends a plain-text copy to the powers that be.

All the money in the world couldn't get me to a third-world country like India. The honor killings, mobs murdering people suspected of eating beef, thousands being tortured and executed on suspicion of being a witch, 80% of their rivers choked with raw, untreated sewage, rampant corruption, modern slavery, and their prime minister is a nutter are all things I try to avoid.

http://economictimes.indiatime...

How it works is you underbid a bunch of stuff, build half of it, then go bankrupt.

It's a proven model.

Much of India doesn't even *have* 24/7 power

Perhaps, but I suspect that the parts that don't, can't afford this either...

The parts that do, already have coal...

http://articles.economictimes....

At the end of the day, big business needs to sell the coal they have, so solutions will be found to sell it and burn it.

The world is not homogenous. In many areas, Windows Phone's market share is far higher than its global average. A lot of those areas are also areas of very high WhatsApp usage, so it makes sense that the company would want to keep that market.

When I was in India for a couple weeks last year, I saw more Windows phones than iPhones (according to an admittedly old article - 2013 - iOS has only a 2.3% market share in India, Android has 91%, Windows Phone has 5.4%). Based on what I saw last year, Windows Phone and iOS has probably both made gains there - if you have more recent statistics, it'd be interesting to see them - but Windows Phone more than iOS. Another example where WP market share exceeds its global average (even though, unlike India, it's still only in third place) is Europe last year: 10.1% across UK, France, Spain, Germany, and Italy.

In the case of Europe, some of that is probably brand loyalty to Nokia, even though they were already owned by Microsoft at that point (although if that were the case, I'd expect northern Europe - especially Finland - to feature in the list). In the case of India, it's simpler: low-end Windows phones are nearly as cheap as low-end Android phones (you can get a Windows phone, new, contract-free, and SIM-unlocked, for $50 even in the US if you know where to look, or a bit less if you don't mind previous-generation hardware) but are much more functional. A Lumia 520 - one of the lowest of the low when it comes to Windows Phone devices - is still supported and can be upgraded to Windows 10 Mobile. This on a handset that launched as a minimum-specs WP8.0 device in 2013 and available on Amazon.com for $40 new. An equivalent Android phone would have been lucky to get the first major OS upgrade (8.0 to 8.1, for Windows Phone), or even be hardware-compatible with the second.

An "opt-in" system seems acceptable (since it's essentially just personally deciding to use an ad-blocker, but outsourcing it), but blocking data by default should not be allowed.

Also, it's deemed OK in Australia because Australia's populace is apparently even more authoritarian than the US's. Net neutrality is an issue in places like India and Europe.

That is the kind of condescending attitude that people like Mark Zuckerberg have that really pisses off people know who anything about internet access in India. That whole 'let them eat stale bread for free' thing.

The choice between Zuckerberg curated internet and no internet is a made up, false dichotomy. Whatever else you may say or hate about Google, I much much prefer their philosophy of fast internet is good for Google and therefore they focus on improving access to ALL of the internet.

For anyone who has been to a train station in India for example, this is an absolute godsend: http://indianexpress.com/artic...

And a huge number of poorer Indians use trains - we are talking millions of people every day if they cover the 100 largest stations with adequate bandwidth.

The biggest barrier to internet access in India is not just the cost. And the reason for the high cost is not just the fact that people are poor - the licensing regime and restricted spectrum are far bigger factors than price.

This has been big news in India and most opinion was strongly against Facebook. You can read some of the arguments here: http://blogs.timesofindia.indi...

Being poor or poorer doesn't universally bestow some sort of nobility or sense of purpose or a special hunger for knowledge. Most people in the third world use the internet for what the developed world does - games and pointless social media and sharing garbage. That is exactly what the free 'tablets' that a misguided minister subsidized in India a few years ago were mostly used for.

Provide internet access in public spaces, and in schools and universities Mr. Zuckerberg if you really give a shit.

Blackberry is making Android phones with their signature keyboard. File under: "If you can't beat them, join them."

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/hardware/blackberry-may-abandon-bb10-operating-system-and-and-switch-to-android/articleshow/50765073.cms

BB just installs the US keyboard on its devices, including the Priv, which might possibly be acceptable in UK and Italy. Try finding a Swedish or French or Polish keyboard for it.

Blackberry is making Android phones with their signature keyboard. File under: "If you can't beat them, join them."

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/hardware/blackberry-may-abandon-bb10-operating-system-and-and-switch-to-android/articleshow/50765073.cms

"ET couldn't confirm the names of the banks and the pharmaceutical company or the total number of computers that were compromised." So it is possible that the whole story is made up.

"In May last year, two Indian conglomerates had to pay about $5 million each after hackers breached their systems. The hackers, suspected to be operating from the Middle East, threatened to leak information to the Indian government if the ransom wasn't delivered. Both are said to have paid up."

So in May the hackers were in Middle East and now they are in Russia? Looks like these hackers are going around the world and paying for their trip by hacking systems.

And they've always handed over all the data when the government threatened to stop their sales in the country.

India - http://articles.economictimes....
Saudi Arabia - http://www.reuters.com/article...

There is one candidate who does not support the current H1B visa program as it is being used or its expansion of this abuse. He basically called out Disney to say Give Americans their Job Back (I like how the publisher got the article title wrong, but look where it is coming from).