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"According to PCMag.com, the New York Times has asked Twitter to shut down the FreeNYT Twitter feed that basically retweets all of the Times' articles. Is this really possible? After all, the feed just points to a list of Times Twitter accounts, all of which can also be found on the Times' website. If the Times succeeds in shutting this down, it could have a chilling effect for Twitter and online free speech in general."

"According to PCMag.com, the New York Times has asked Twitter to shut down the FreeNYT Twitter feed that basically retweets all of the Times' articles. Is this really possible? After all, the feed just points to a list of Times Twitter accounts, all of which can also be found on the Times' website. If the Times succeeds in shutting this down, it could have a chilling effect for Twitter and online free speech in general."

And since Android has now surpassed Apple on smartphones

The really big news is that Android has now surpassed RIM.

This is in line with last weeks Nielsen report.

It's quite a surprise, but Android managed what Apple couldn't: best RIM in the US smartphone market. Interestingly, Android's gains seem to be at RIM's expense. (This is likely due to RIM's "disappointing" 2010 lineup.)

Anyhow, to keep this on topic: If Samsung is rethinking their tablets in light of the prosaic upgrade to the iPad, wait until they see the Playbook (it's absolutely astonishing). With competition like this, Android tablets are going to be pushing new boundaries by years end. If Apple keeps with it's "giant iPod Touch" approach to tablets, they're going to get left in the dust.

Also the summary notes only device information was potentially stolen, but fails to note that the malware was able to download more code that could do just about anything with the device. Can the market patch remove that code from the device, or will it only remove the downloaded apps leaving all post-downloaded code there to do whatever it wants to do?

This is just funded by Google. It's the group at Stanford which did the DARPA Urban Challenge that's doing the work. It's essentially the same technology. They're getting very good at this.

Well, no. Its Google engineers who are doing this. Many of those Google engineers were formerly with teams that did the DARPA Challenges (not all from the Stanford team; from a 2010 PC Magazine article on Google's work, they hired "Chris Urmson, the technical team leader of the CMU team that won the 2007 Urban Challenge; Mike Montemerlo, the software lead for the Stanford team that won the 2005 Grand Challenge; and Anthony Levandowski, who built the world's first autonomous motorcycle that participated in a DARPA Grand Challenge.")

Earlier, Google was a sponsor of the Stanford team in several of those challenges, as well.

Google isn't the first to do this, not by a long shot. Last year, there was a story about an autonomous car driving from Italy to China [ieee.org].

Last fall, there were also stories about the same Google self-driving cars in this story, so I'm not sure how what you point to shows that Google isn't the first "not by a long shot".

In fact, at this point a much cheaper Android-based tablet computer may start to look more interesting than before ("Hey, even Apple didn't add much to their own iPad, why not get this $SEMI_ANONYMOUS_BRAND tablet instead?").

Because the reviews for those cheaper Android based tablets pretty much said they were born too soon and not as good as the original iPad. Now that the iPad2 has had better hardware and more apps, plenty in fact, added to it, there isn't any reason for the average consumer to even look at cheaper Android tablets, at least until some begin to gain some reputation for actually being good.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2381164,00.asp

In the long run this makes me sad.

And we have 5 Macs (3 iMacs, 2 MacBooks/Pro) that have never been in the shop. Out of the about 30 different Mac owners that I personally know and interact with regularly, only one has had his Mac in for repairs. My anecdote is just as valid as your anecdote. Further, based on my anecdote, I can argue (just as validly as you argued) that the build quality of Macs has at least remained stable or even increased.

My point with my reply is that when we look at objective data (I'm not commenting on the quality of these data but they have to be better than your anecdote and my anecdote), Apple computers are the most reliable: http://www.rescuecom.com/2010-annual-computer-reliability-report.html

Here are some somewhat subjective data (but still data with a larger sample size) showing Apple on top: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2368167,00.asp

Maybe Apple's build quality has gone down but objective data don't seem to show that at all.

"I've been hearing "The only reason every Mac isn't infested with malware is that they're not a big enough chunk of the market for it to be worth the effort." for so many years the effect has worn off. Year after year - You know, it really gets old hearing that excuse. If that really is the case, I hope it continues." - by Cheech Wizard (698728) on Sunday February 27, @04:38PM (#35333006) Homepage

Ok then, explain this: Do pickpockets operate on "crowds of 1" only, vs. massive crowds of potential possible victims in crowded city streets, train or bus stations, or malls?

ANSWER = No, they do NOT!

Pickpockets (and yes, online criminals too) go where their efforts expended to "do the job" are most effective for the BEST "ROI" (return-on-investment), from a single method of attack (codebase in malware)!

(And, just like pickpockets? THAT is done by going where the MOST POSSIBLE VICTIMS (users) ARE... & currently (and for decades now), that is on Windows).

You think share of market doesn't matter?

Today's ( & this past decade's), online criminal is NO DIFFERENT than the street pickpocket... and they are BOTH AFTER YOUR MONIES!

Thus - It makes sense for them to attempt to attack Windows on that very same basis (as it IS "where the crowds are").

NOW, ONTO ACTUAL STATISTICS/FACTS & FIGURES of UNPATCHED KNOWN SECURITY VULNERABILITIES: (MacOS X vs. Windows 7)

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Vulnerability Report - Microsoft Windows 7:

http://secunia.com/advisories/product/27467/

Unpatched = 6 of 57 Secunia advisories

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vs.

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Vulnerability Report - Apple Macintosh OS X:

http://secunia.com/advisories/product/96/?task=advisories

Unpatched 9 of 150 Secunia advisories

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NOT ONLY HAS THE CURRENT MacOS X BUILD SHOWN MORE OVERALL SECURITY ADVISORIES THAN DOES WINDOWS 7, BUT, IT ALSO HAS MORE KNOWN OUTSTANDING UNPATCHED KNOWN SECURITY VULNERABILITIES THAN DOES Windows 7... period!

(So, "argue with the numbers"... & good luck!)

Lastly - I hope one of you tries the "local/local network" vs. "remote" tactic "spin-CON-troll" too, because I'll use what I used on the Linux crew a few days back in regards to THAT little "trick" too, due to how malwares today are being constructed... & they are NOT "your dad's oldsmobile" anymore...

APK

P.S.=> Here's a list of problems MacOS X has had in its tenure, for those of you that are interested, that I've been compiling for a few years now - So, "chew on these" (35 of them, or thereabouts...):

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MacOS X - A Worm for Your Apple MacOSX:

http://www.beskerming.com/commentary/2007/07/18/222/A_Worm_for_Your_Apple

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MacOS X - Another Mac Trojan/Fake Codec - Security Watch:

http://blogs.pcmag.com/securitywatch/2007/11/another_mac_trojanfake_codec.php

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Apple's FaceTime for Mac debuts with security holes:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/10/21/apple_facetime_security_hole/

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Apple Patches OS X Flaws:

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Apple/Apple-Patches-OS-X-Flaws/

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Apple patches QuickTime to root out 15 ugly vulns:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/12/09/apple_patches_quicktime_again/

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Appleâ(TM)s Snow Leopard Is Less Secure Than Windows, But Safer:

I can't speak for other PC owners, but my Fujitsu Siemens Amilo Pa1510 bought in January 2007 works just fine. It was on sale for 799€. It was on sale because it came with Windows XP Media Centre Edition and Vista was to be released and retailers wanted to get rid of XP machines because Vista was the "next great thing". (Didn't work out all that well). Anyway... I plunked down another 100€ for a RAM upgrade (from 1GB to 2GB), might have been 200€. It doesn't matter, I did the upgrade at the moment of purchase.

Guess what? That machine is still my primary personal laptop. Works perfectly fine. While it dual boots WinXP MCE and Ubuntu 10.10, I'm mostly in Ubuntu. Windows XP works fine though and the few Steam games I have work fine on it (Stuff like Portal, HL2)

Now, to be entirely honest, I did replace a defective HDD. I borrowed it to a unemployed friend for half a year (until he got a new job), and it came back, let's say... in a not very desirable state. The hard disk failed under his usage.

PC laptops, when given care, work fine for ages too. As a matter of fact, my experience with Apple hasn't been so rosy. I bought an iBook G3 600MHz back in the day. It lasted thee years. Logic board failure, known problem by Apple. Extended warranty was declared, BUT I only found about that 2 weeks after the extended warranty ran out. That was a 2000€++ laptop. Thee years.... A shame. Repairing it would have cost the price of a new PC laptop. I didn't do it, and opted to buy a second hand P-III 600MHz laptop for 100€. Worked another 2 years with it, totalling it's age when it died to 7 years. The electronics were still fine, the plastic case was pretty much falling apart.

You want other stories? My dad used his 2000/2001 laptop (P-III 733MHz/512MB RAM) until mid-last year. Yes, it was starting to break apart physically, and it was getting pretty slow for his uses. The laptop he now has (Core i7/4GB RAM) will most likely outlive him.

My brother? I got him a dumpster-sourced laptop. Compaq Evo N800c. According to this review it's a 2003 laptop. I upgraded the thing from 512MB RAM to 2GB (~100€) and put in a 80GB HDD I had lying around. Reinstalled WinXP Pro (License sticker was present, no problem reinstalling it). That is a 8 year old laptop. Functioning today... No problems, doing his youtube, email, and the golden oldie games we used to play when we were younger: Halflife 1, GTA3, GTA 3 Vice City.

In my humble opinion, the longevity of PC laptops is greatly understated, while the longevity of Apple laptops is greatly overstated. Okay, perhaps I got an iBook lemon series... I'll give them the benefit of the doubt.

No, it's not a rumor. Apple has an exclusive deal with Intel for Thunderbolt until the full LightPeak standard is worked out, which is expected to take about a year.

Not according to Intel, they don't.

"Other system makers are free to implement Thunderbolt on their systems as well, and we anticipate seeing some of those systems later this year and in early 2012."

Thunderbolt will appear on PC laptops as soon as the Sandy Bridge chipsets without SATA problems start shipping. Apple has the head start here because their machines don't have the eSATA port that is standard on most PC laptops today.

The report also mentions iPhone 4-like "Retina Display" technology, which on an iPad form factor, would translate to over 2,000 pixels.
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Whoah! That's nearly 1/2 the amount of pixels on my Nokia 3210!

I hope they hurry up and give him his computers back. He has a lot of work to do now that the new Sony Xperia Phone is on its way.

My PENIS is all wet and slick with YO MAMA'S pussy juices. That's because I FUCKED her and she liked it.

I hope they hurry up and give him his computers back. He has a lot of work to do now that the new Sony Xperia Phone is on its way.

Goodbye Nokia.

I'm still have a 5-year old symbian80 smartphone (a descendant of Nokia's very first line of smartphones).
CTL C is all I need to do to copy and paste.
Now how soon before a windows smartphone will have this functionality?

Now even non-smartphones can run Android (i886 by motorola).
While this phone is running a non-open version of android (it's still running a linux kernel) - it shows that Nokia had other options.

The worst Smartphone OS will now be bundled with the most "under-dog" of smartphone providers.

I expect the same to happen to QT.
I had great hope that the new CEO would have shed - attachment to his former employer.
Looks to me he's still in love with microsoft.

Nokia has (or perhaps-now "had") some of the most innovative engineers out there.
Because of this, the smartphone market will suffer, QT will suffer - Linux will suffer.
And shareholders will suffer, they're currently suffering over 14%.

Nokia, you had so much potential,
You came up with the first real smartphone,
You were #1 for a long time.

Now that smartphones are taking over, you hire a MS guy to run your company...

Well, good luck with that.

(On the other-hand I just became a Motorola developer because of this.)

Me, my 2cents and my 9 nokia phones (7 retired).

Apple responsible for 99.4% of mobile app sales in 2009
My figures taken from Mobile App Store Market Share Based on Usage
The expectation that Android will overtake Apple is a prediction of future growth to 2015, not existing sales.

The total according to this article is 295 exabytes.

Yeah, the minute the internet is used to bring democracy to an oppressive dictatorship, it's time to announce another round of pork for network providers:

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2380048,00.asp

To encourage tech innovation, Obama's plan also calls for a $3 billion Wireless Innovation (WIN) Fund

Funding Access to Internet Lolcats (FAIL)

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2379903,00.asp

See Here: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2379903,00.asp

even hackers can be twarted.. mabye not by Android, but where do you get a pure, unadulterated version that hasn't been skinned/themed/customized by the hardware manufacturer or carrier?

eFuse - run our OS or nothing at all
”http://www.talkandroid.com/6670-motorola-speaks-out-about-efuse-says-droid-x-will-not-brick-or-explode/

“Motorola’s primary focus is the security of our end users and protection of their data, while also meeting carrier, partner and legal requirements. The Droid X and a majority of Android consumer devices on the market today have a secured bootloader. In reference specifically to eFuse, the technology is not loaded with the purpose of preventing a consumer device from functioning, but rather ensuring for the user that the device only runs on updated and tested versions of software. If a device attempts to boot with unapproved software, it will go into recovery mode, and can re-boot once approved software is re-installed.Checking for a valid software configuration is a common practice within the industry to protect the user against potential malicious software threats. Motorola has been a long time advocate of open platforms and provides a number of resources to developers to foster the ecosystem including tools and access to devices via MOTODEV at http://developer.motorola.com./

since it's "illegal" to prevent jailbreaking (or whatever the Android equivalent is).. how is eFuse permitted?
Apple removes the jailbreak API http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2374221,00.asp
and MOT builds eFuse?

Credit where due.. This is the original article... http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2379271,00.asp

This isn't religion or about technical merit. Who wants to pay up to $6,500,000 a year to use this crap?
http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/avc/Documents/AVC_TermsSummary.pdf
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2368359,00.asp

Anyway, with your situation, there should have been somewhere to notify. A web site, or even just a place they could call to leave information saying where they are. (Yes, I know they didn't have web sites back then, but now they do.)

    I think you're close to having the right answer. Damn, two Slashdot people discussed it, and figured out the solution.

    The problem would be, in the case of political refugees, who could you call that could be trusted with knowing where you are? I use friends and family. That's not necessarily a practical solution for everyone though. I do have some international contacts where messages could be left, so in the event of a national uprising in the United States, a contact in Europe could keep track of us.

    Other than friends, who do we trust? I'm sure if there were a sociopolitical uprising , I wouldn't exactly trust calling any government hotline. I guess as far as that goes, and knowing what the government is already doing, calling anywhere isn't "safe". Calling a neutral 3rd party to even just say "The following people are safe ..." would equate to "We aren't dead yet, send the brute squad to finish us off." I know, it wouldn't happen in America (ha), but say you were in Iraq, Iran, or Afghanistan, and you are a citizen of that country, who happened to be on America's shit list, would you trust that your phone call wouldn't be an invitation for a UAV to target your location?

    "I am JW Smythe. I'm at 14 Main Street in Baghdad, with 3 other survivors. What do you mean hold the line? Oh look, a little airplane."

My point is that despite the US' size most states aren't that different from European countries in regards to population. Again take for instance Pennsylvania. They have a population of 12 million vs Austria's 8 million. Austria's is 32,383 sq mi and PA is 46,055 sq mi. PA's density is 289 people per sq mi and Austria is257 people per sq mi. Yet Austria's average speed is almost double that of PA. From what I can tell Austria is anywhere from an average of 8 meg to 10. PA seems to have an average of 4 meg but some stats say that 51% of the population have 4 meg or less so it could be worse.

PA has received money to help improve their broadband infrastructure. It will be interesting to see if anything actually happens but for a country that prides itself on supposedly being the best place to live it is lacking in areas that are quickly becoming necessities.

Telekom Austria stated they've gone from covering the main cities in 2001 to nearly 97% of the country's households. So from just one DSL provider it would appear that nearly anyone can get broadband in Austria. http://www.telekomaustria.com/presse/news/2010/0419-broadband-customer.php

Where as PA is looking at 52.5% penetration and an average speed of 746.8 kb according to this page which claims that data came form pa.gov as of 2008. So that said if they did manage to get up to an average speed of 4 megs rather than it being the average that people have 4 meg or less then they've actually improved. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2335740,00.asp Though I believe the average, if it has gone up is mainly from people having super sweet fiber broadband in a few key areas. Either way Austria has grown faster and I've not even covered their mobile broadband which apparently is or should be 3.5G with speeds up to 21 megs.

In the UK, I've lived here from 2002 until now and I'm not even in a densely populated area and my options have gone from 2 megs to 20megs as of last year. I could get even higher if I were in a town with cable.

Think about what sort of countries you picture if you were to talk about countries little or no phone access. Is unwise to restrict your citizens to communication. The government recognised that when they enacted the communications act which should be updated to include broadband.

Other countries are recognising that broadband is very important and quickly giving people options. The US seems to be either claiming it's impossible or too expensive when in reality that's not true. The US as a whole is bigger but most states are comparable to other countries and it's up to the states to do something about it as it appears PA is doing. Therefore the problem isn't that big.

You have to ask yourself is it more expensive to just lay the fiber now and create jobs or fall behind and not be able to compete with the rest of the world or even have to maintain numerous ways to get information to people because large swathes of the country have been left behind.

No, verizon won't be that happy to lay it even if you pay for it. One of the phone lines were cut in an accident and people complained to them for ages to fix it properly and their reply was not to cough up cash but instead that you can hear people on the other end so you can make calls and it's fine. My parent's neighbourhood could go with local cable co-op deal and pay to lay the lines. You're talking about a little under a mile for that option. Most people seem keen on waiting until someone else pays out so they only have to pay to hook up to the line up to the end of the road so basically it'll never happen due to selfishness.

I'm sure eventually some half assed option will come about but if they get something basic in 5 to 10 years then they're still behind everyone else and that will increasingly make areas like that less attractive which will have a knock-on effect on housing costs and local economies. States, like European countries, need to realise that.

While I do admit I haven't heard of any times Apple has remotely deleted Apps (yet),

For one very good reason: they haven't. Google, on the other hand, actually has used their kill switch on Android.

they have admitted that they built in a back door in iOS that will allow them to do just that.

You know why they admitted it? Because it's not some scary evil thing. In fact, it's there for a very good reason. If an app gets through the App Store that turns out to be malware, Apple can kill it.

But you intrigue me, I had never heard of apple deleting apps from users devices, nor have I heard of them alloing some users to run software that others are not allowed to run.

Can you list links and examples of remote app deletion and apps that are not allowed to be used by certain consumers?

While I do admit I haven't heard of any times Apple has remotely deleted Apps (yet), they have admitted that they built in a back door in iOS that will allow them to do just that.

Is it really too much to ask the /. editors to quickly look around the page for the crud-free one-page "print" version link and post that for us all instead...

http://www.pcmag.com/print_article2/0,1217,a=259387,00.asp?hidPrint=true

So you'd like Slashdot to intentionally screw PCMag out of ad revenue for the (not insignificant) amount of traffic /. brings to their website, making it likely that PCMag's web gurus will block such outside linking to the print version, disable the print version outright, put themselves behind a pay filter, or go out of business (something that plug-ins like AdBlock are already working on doing)?

Yes, no one likes ads. But to quote the snob -- "websites is expensive".

Then the ads shouldn't be so obtrusive. If I can't hover my mouse on the screen without an ad popping up, then it's obtrusive. If I have to scroll through half a page of ads to read the rest of the article, it's a problem.

I have my AdBlock set to allow the google text ads. They don't get in the way & are sometimes useful.

I do agree though, that searching for an adfree version of the page to link to will only result in the site removing that feature completely. Not a good thing for any of us. If you don't want to see the ads, either adblock or find the printable version yourself.

Is it really too much to ask the /. editors to quickly look around the page for the crud-free one-page "print" version link and post that for us all instead...

http://www.pcmag.com/print_article2/0,1217,a=259387,00.asp?hidPrint=true

So you'd like Slashdot to intentionally screw PCMag out of ad revenue for the (not insignificant) amount of traffic /. brings to their website, making it likely that PCMag's web gurus will block such outside linking to the print version, disable the print version outright, put themselves behind a pay filter, or go out of business (something that plug-ins like AdBlock are already working on doing)?

Yes, no one likes ads. But to quote the snob -- "websites is expensive".

Is it really too much to ask the /. editors to quickly look around the page for the crud-free one-page "print" version link and post that for us all instead...

http://www.pcmag.com/print_article2/0,1217,a=259387,00.asp?hidPrint=true

Yea, they fixed it alright. They got rid of it.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2375719,00.asp

No, not broken. Removed. And Microsoft is pissed about it!

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2375719,00.asp

Bah, I doubt OLPC had anything to do with it at all. The thing that launched the whole market in 2008 was because Intel suddenly had a dedicated low-power design in the Atom not just LV/ULV versions that were custom versions/bins of existing designs with large dies. The extremely small die size compared to all the other processors gave Intel a reason to flood the market with cheap computers and still make a very, very solid margin.

Intel pushed Celeron-M / i915 platform for "Classmate" as a competitor to OLPC. Asus partnered with Intel for the original EeePC: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2141742,00.asp What does it contain? Celeron-M, not Atom. In fact the Celeron-M can't even make use of the power saving SpeedStep on identical Pentium-Ms. It seemed clear these Celeron-M machines (either in Classmate, or in EeePC) was a stop-gap until Atom could be released.

Atom was originally designed for other embedded applications, and not mini-PCs.

I'm the author of TFA and I have made changes to include reactions from Microsoft and Zalewski. Larry Seltzer PC Magazine

...access to the signing keys. This is fairly unprecedented, as far as I know

The HDCP master key was also recently found.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2374756,00.asp

The coolant pump is electric so that it can be ket running when the engine is off. The 100C coolant that runs through the heating coil doesn't cool significantly in the time you would spend at a traffic light.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2374756,00.asp

Really? It's the fault of Google that this guy has three different phones that each run a different version of Android? Google made that decision?

Uhm.. yes? Google have made the decision to allow for that, yes. Unlike what MS have done with Phone 7. Ignoring Android fragmentation as a problem is just stupid. This is a real problem affecting both users and developers. New Twitter Client Highlights Android's Fragmentation

Exactly. I built my current machine for around $600 after rebate and it has a 925 2.8GHz quad, 8GB of DDR2 800MHz, an HD460, a pair of 500GB HDDs, and Windows 7 HP X64. To build an Intel machine at the roughly same specs I was looking at a minimum of around $200 more thanks to the higher prices on Intel motherboards, and if I wanted anything even slightly future proof I would have had to go DDR3 which 8GB would have put a serious bite in my wallet.

Plus if you support having a free market and competition your really should be looking at AMD first. Intel was caught bribing OEMs and rigging their compilers to sabotage AMD chips, which is why they paid AMD 1.25 Billion to try to make the heat go away. Personally I think Intel will still be looking at EU fines as well as a host of lawsuits by AGs. I'm all for someone winning a good chunk of the market by having better products, performance, marketing, etc, but sabotaging the market through payoff and rigging just makes the market a sham.

So unless you are in one of the niches where the insane price difference is worth it to squeeze every amount of speed you can get I would look at AMD first. Since Intel got caught rigging and bribing and Nvidia pulled bumpgate I have switched my shop to AMD only and my customers couldn't be happier. I just sent out a triple core with 4GB of RAM and a TB of HDD along with an HD4350 for the local print shop and it cost them just $485 after paying me. According to the owner which had already added a quad I built to the office the performance is great and the lower price is allowing him to accelerate the replacement of the older machines in his business. Hell you can get quad kit with Win 7 for $400 or supply your own OS and get a get a triple for $220. Intel just doesn't have anything similar at those price points unless you get the bottom o' the line Celery or Pentium duals. At those prices the bang for the buck is firmly in the AMD camp. And if you are looking at mobile the Turion and Neo chips make for nice laptops you can actually play games and watch HD video on without breaking the bank. Not a hard choice IMHO.

a full 27.2% of consumers who indicate that they play games on their phones only (and not on the DS/PSP) actually own a DS or PSP, but do not actively use the device(s).

I'm not saying this quote is wrong but I am awfully suspect of that figure. They claim an online sample size of 9,000 but they don't say how many of those actually own both a gaming phone and PSP/DS. I would be interested in the hard numbers.

Based on my admittedly limited understanding:

Backbone providers work on the assumption that data goes both ways: I don't charge you for shoving ten lumps of data down my tubes because you don't charge me for shoving what might be nine, might be eleven lumps of data down yours. We're all doing roughly the same thing so it all comes out in the wash.

When someone turns around and says, "Don't worry, I'll keep taking your ten lumps of data for free. Now here are the five hundred I'd like you to keep carrying for free, too. Oh, and by the way, yes I do charge the generator of all those lumps a hell of a lot for my transporting them to and dumping them on your tubes." then it's somewhat understandable to think the relationship's gone a bit one sided.

When Netflix is using fully 20% of prime time US bandwidth (source) and Level 3 are happily billing Netflix for the right to put that on the net, it's pretty understandable the other companies who have to shoulder what's become a very one sided relationship for free are a little touchy.

In this case, I'm tempted to agree it's not about stomping competition, not about charging one source more or less for a better or worse service, it's about whether the fundamental model for the backbone is being abused.

I'm for network neutrality. But isn't there also a degree to which neutral also means the neutral flow back and forth, not all of the data going one way with one company charging for it and expecting the others to just suck it up?

Then how do you explain these glowingly positive stories about the LTE rollout on PCMag (the same site linked in this article)? Or these non-critical postings here on slashdot? Maybe journalists just like to cover different aspects of an event rather than solely regurgitate press releases.

Then how do you explain these glowingly positive stories about the LTE rollout on PCMag (the same site linked in this article)? Or these non-critical postings here on slashdot? Maybe journalists just like to cover different aspects of an event rather than solely regurgitate press releases.

I just wanted to add that if anything the relatively high number of leaks from the US military/intelligence that has been happening recently tells me that there are people working in these institutions that are worried about what their government is doing. I see that as a positive thing. More indoctrinated people (think about dictatorships) are less likely to do so.

One reason why we likely won't see numerous leaks coming from China is that Wikileaks is not very well known there (it's an english language web site). Also whatever there is at Wikileaks about China right now is blocked by the great firewall. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2373626,00.asp

WHen it comes to Russians one must remember that they very short history of Democracy (if any). People are used to strong rulers and quite apathic about their chances to affect politics. Most of the press is loyal to the government and bad things tend to happen to those who aren't. There would be no problems for getting rid of any leaker inside government organizations and for good. It's one thing to face possibility of going to jail (what might happen in western countries) and another to be killed by some thugs (what might happen in russia) and that makes whole lot of difference in peoples decisions.

'It lacks USB?`

"Powered by an Nvidia Tegra 2 CPU, the tablet has some serious graphics chops. We saw it play a 3D game during the on-stage demo and then watched as it effortlessly handled 1080p HD video streaming from a nearby Acer laptop. Both devices feature DLNA-enabled Clear.fi, Acer's new WiFi-based content streaming and sharing technology. Acer execs said Clear.Fi. will help users create a "personal cloud." link

Sorry, back to the crib sheet fellas .. :)

And you never will since Verizon is no longer expanding service.

How is the market flooded? According to a Nielsen report from just last week, only 28% of US wireless subscribers have smart phones. Seems to me there's still room for growth. Personally, I don't own a smart phone yet, but I'll be buying a Windows Phone come Christmas.

Adobe said that a Flash update is scheduled for (Patch) Tuesday, November 9. Updates for Acrobat and Reader are scheduled for the week of November 15.

Read it and weep. I did: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2371000,00.asp