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Toshiba have demonstrated fuel cells for laptops since at least 2006. They may not be pretty, but the principle should not be patentable (at least by Apple). http://www.pcworld.com/article/157606/toshibas_fuel_cell_laptop.html

Hell why didn't you bring up toasters while you were at it? See its THIS kind of total flag waving horseshit you ALWAYS get from FOSSies. I said it QUITE clearly we were talking about DESKTOPS, not what your cell phone or TV for that matter runs. Newsflash: Nobody gives a shit, hell unless its Apple nobody even knows what the fuck is on their damned cell phone! Its a screen with buttons and THAT IS ALL. Linux is used there because its FREE and with a locked down cell phone nobody gives a flying wet fart what is behind the buttons, just that the buttons work. Supercomputers? Are nothing BUT CLI, that's it. They are trying to squeeze every little drip drop of horsepower they can so no shit they are using a CLI OS. It also again is the fact its FREE and MSFT frankly has always charged assraping prices on their server products.

Now back to the subject at hand, desktops. if your driver model isn't shit then why does Dell have to run their own repos? If it is sooo good then why does a decade old Windows beat the shit out of Linux on netbooks or why has ASUS has given up on your bullshit or why did Walmart run away from linux as fast as it can?

I'll tell you why, its because its too fiddly, too unintuitive, the kernel on up is as solid and stable as the shifting sands, its a geek programmer's toy and NOTHING more ATM. Funny how all the things you mentioned are controlled by......drumroll....geek programmers! who programs cell phone OSes and writes drivers for them? Who sets up Webservers and supercomputers? Why that would be geeky ass nerd programmers! Meanwhile you can't even give the damned thing away for free to normal folks NOR to retailers NOR to OEMs. Doesn't that slap you with the cluebat? or are you too gonna give me a treaty on how "CLI is leet" like this guy?

See i'm the community's worst nightmare, i'm a retailer. i have better things to do than play 'find the fix' on weekends and i don't think staring at your beloved bash prompt is a solution for ANY problem much less EVERY problem. Frankly Windows 98 and System 9 were more polished than the current Linux distros are, and when i have people on this very forum tell me "Well just don't update it" like Linux magically is immune to ALL software exploits? Well i have to think the whole damned bunch has gone stark raving loonie.

Now you be sure to call me a "nigger faggot cocksucker" aka shill troll astroturfer because I dared to point out that after TWENTY YEARS Linux is STILL lower than JavaME. Oh BTW every single lame excuse you used? There is a whole website dedicated to those excuses such as your excuse about supercomputers? Its been there since Dec 2009 so at least try to come up with some new BS, mmmkay?

It probably has something to do with the nets.

I asked who would want Windows Phone on a desktop. You gave me the exact opposite thing: You like Windows 7 on a tablet.

Now look that that thing: Samsung Series 7 Slate. $1099 asking price. Good selection of I/O slots. Better than average video. Pen. 3.5 hours battery life.

If you really want Windows 7 in a tablet, then this thing with 3x the battery life would be a dream machine. I wonder what it weighs.

So you could have 2 iPads, 6 Kindle Fires, 12 Novo7's, or this. And you like this. Good for you.

You're a corner case. Fringe. Out of the mainstream. Most of us don't like Windows so much that we're going to let it get in the way of all this new good stuff. And especially not enough to tether to a wall every 4 hours. For what this costs I could get an Android tablet for all the kids that are currently stealing my Asus Transformer, and have $400 left to buy apps. And I have Citrix, Onlive gaming and various other things, so it doesn't do anything I can't do better from my Android tablet that cost less than half as much. I can wifi tether to my phone, access my citrix, open Outlook Excel Word and Powerpoint just like I was at my desk - and put it on the conference room bigscreen over HDMI in 1080 res.

When Microsoft could prevent people from having cool new stuff by managing their partners you might have had a point. But you can only hold back the tide for so long. Eventually, the tide wins.

Yeah and the article is that way too. Quoting numbers from that stupid Android fragmentation article by Michael Degusta where he called minor releases major releases just to boost his phoney statistics. It's clear Yoni Heisler is more than just a fanboi.

Surely their dastardly plot to turn Android fans into WP7 ones had *some* effect? Or is the WP7 market share still at the level the telecoms experts class as BD?

(BD = Ballmers Dick: Tiny and shrinking daily).

You're going to encounter vulnerabilities with any popular standard, that's a given; and BTW, Flash has already been attached to Chrome and it's currently the most secure browser; http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/245856/chrome_is_most_secure_of_the_top_three_browsers_study_finds.html

So that throws your theory out the door.

Anyways, look at Windows, the majority of its vulnerabilities that were exploited were not because Microsoft hadn't addressed them, but because many people had not bothered patching their OS. The same can also be said about Flash, which Adobe has addressed many vulnerabilities. They release security updates often and if you're using Chrome it's a transparent update and if you're on a PC there's an automatic updater -- OS X is a different story, but I still keep Flash up to date on FireFox and Safari; even thoughI rarely use them.

2009: Your article talks about people being able to run the app still. The app which therefore hasn't been remote wiped. It doesn't work because the head-end it talks to was taken down. That was owned and run by the app vendor, not Apple. This is clearly not remote-kill; this is the risk of any head-end reliant app from any vendor anywhere. See also: http://www.pcworld.com/article/167383/update_apple_pulls_hottest_girls_porn_app_from_itunes.html?tk=rel_news

2010: Note the "Update: No" in http://www.razorianfly.com/2010/07/08/did-apple-just-use-the-ios-kill-switch/

See? We can both cherry pick random unsubstantiated Google search results.

TTBOMK there has been not one single verified, independently documented, uncontested example of a remote-kill on iOS. Numerous apps have been pulled from the store, though.

I don't know how about Steve Ballmer saying saying that Windows 7 would be Vista just a whole lot better? Or PC World publishing an article indicating that the early releases of Windows 7 were nearly identical to Windows Vista in not just appearance, but also performance and behavior.

I'm not sure what you don't get about the fact that it's a lot easier to change the name of a product than it is to build a new operating system. Vista isn't the same O/S as XP which wasn't the same operating system as Windows 95 because they're fundamentally different in how they operate. Windows 7 and Vista? Fundamentally the same.

And anyone who doesn't think Windows has a marketing driven naming scheme isn't paying attention.

They were 5 years away, one year ago.

So, it seems that after finding the "holy grail" of the missing genome, they have been set back by one year.

I did a lot of research about this back in January, when they first said that it was 5 years away. I heard a genome scientist interviewed on the radio, and he said that the resulting baby will be at most half Mammoth. It will have more elephant characteristics than mammoth, and will most likely be non-fertile, but it is still an important step to eventually having a fertile mammoth clone.

So, as much as I'd like to imagine mammoths in the zoo for my children to see, the truth is that we are still far from that point.

I believe people should have to pay for copyrighted work.

Fine. That's not the question, though--the question is *which uses* of copyrighted works should people have to pay for?

The Lord of the Rings movies required payment to whoever inherited Tolkien's rights.

The warehouses worth of epic fantasy written since then required none.

That's a lot of money people who got paid for stuff that wouldn't have existed without Tolkien having set pen to paper.

Most of us would argue that's a reasonable trade off: Tolkien didn't get everything he could be said to have deserved, but there was also a lot of interesting and creative work done that wouldn't have been if it all had to go through the bottleneck of his heirs.

they would be making money (or increasing value) by using my work and not paying me for it.

That happens all the time. For-profit institutions have libraries too. The price I paid for one measly copy of K&R doesn't begin to approach the value of the income I've received from what I've learned from it.

Again, for me it comes down to weighing practical consequences: how much income are authors going to give up, versus what kinds of services are no longer going to be possible?

Yes, tracking down the owner of "orphaned" works... will be problematic. And there's the problem of reaching an older generation of copyright holders.... But this is Google we are talking about.... I'm sure they can figure it out.

How?

A big university library has around 10 million books. Google claims a goal of scanning 130 million. There are something like a million more published a year.

Forget orphaned work or hard-to-reach authors; just consider authors that still individually hold rights to their books. How do you get legal permission from millions of them, at a per-book cost (I'm not even talking about the licensing; just the labor cost to contact them and verify that they agreed) that makes the whole project feasible?

And once you do, what do you actually expect to actually wring out of them for your 10 millionth (or whatever it works out to be) of the advertising income due to google books?

Hey, I'm just hand-waving here myself, but my intuition here is that if we require opt-in, we're just not going to get anything like Google books in our lifetimes, if ever.

Don't forget, a Windows machine isn't exclusively a Windows machine but a generic PC that doesn't need to run Windows at all.

As a practical matter, this is not the case. Strictly speaking, people could install any number of OSes on their PC. In reality, most people just use the OS that came with the machine, and in fact many parts of modern PCs are often Windows only for a while until the open source stuff catches up with drivers. Also, if you want to split hairs, they have gotten Linux running on an iPad2.

Note I say this as someone with an ex-Windows HP workstation acting as a FreeBSD server in my basement. I don't have and don't desire an iPad for the reasons that you and others point out, but the fact is that I could buy one and do pretty much anything I want with it. There would be no technical or legal reason to stop me, unless I had some practical reason to worry about such things.

Access to ones own property should not be so tenuous nor should it have to be argued for.

I think the only part of the DMCA that I like is the part which indemnifies web sites so long as they honor take-down requests, and even that part could probably have been done better. In general I think that copyright should be commercial-only and should only apply for a very limited amount of time - something akin to patents terms. I'm definitely on your side on this.

But I'd also point out that Apple (nor Tivo, nor MS, etc) did not make the law and really cannot be blamed for playing within the rules, even if it seems evil. Really we need to change the rules that encourage "evil". For instance, the use of a proprietary image on cartridges has been used almost forever by Nintendo (and others) to prevent 3rd party software development. This is about as far from the intent of copyright law as one can imagine, and it really shouldn't be legal.

Android has 3rd party Chinese app stores that you've never heard of.
So what Android apps do I have to worry about as an Android user on this side of the planet?

What do Chinese app stores have to do with the fact that theres a fuckton more malware on Android than iOS?

You're just engaging in some self serving fear mongering based on some crude, incomplete, and misleading information.

Read it and weep. Look at the pie chart - Android is the target of 63% of mobile malware. iOS malware is so rare or non-existant it doesn't even get a wedge on the pie chart.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/245380/ios_safer_from_malware_than_android_security_firm_says.html

Fact once again scuppering the claims of Android evangelists.

The difference is that the IPhone/iPad/PS3 user made his own choice based on his own interests and considers his life improved.

So that's the only one that matters eh? Well I can say I've made my own choice based on my interest but that doesn't make painting with a broad brush accurate. Do you see businesses switching enmass to the superior ecosystem you've proposed? Example: Kohath shows up at work and needs to print on the office network. Kohath also needs to access files on the network. The office network is not wifi. Kohath is asked to create a report on the monthly sales figures (no google docs, no wifi remember!) and needs to enter in some of the contracts into the CRM. How are you doing data entry? (You need a docking station, extra cables, a keyboard and wifi!? Guess you can try and type it in via your phone, since you can type faster with two fingers than 10 right? Why are the other people done with theirs his boss wonders.)

The 3 devices aren't just a substitute for a PC, they're superior

Superior to whom though, and by what metrics? Certainly not cost and not to anyone who creates anything, only to those who consume. I'm not against these devices, however, claiming that they do what a "PC" does (and better!) is laughable, each of those devices are low resolution and functionally crippled by comparison. I'll spell it out for you: How do you compile anything for those devices using those devices? If you're making games for them how does the modelling, full motion video renders and editing, word processing work on the "superior" platform? You're attempting to convince me that having LESS superior? The only perk you have with two of those options is portability, hello, this is "solved" with laptops which are more entirely more functional than the keyboardless portable "solutions".

Kohath's Solution:
iPad2 ($499 US/ €479 DE)
iPhone 4 ($199-399 (US carrier subsidized rate, non-subsidized (see here under unlocked): iPhone 4: $599 for the 16GB, $699 for the 32GB iPhone 3GS: $499 for the 8GB.) €799 DE)
PS3 ($299 US, €239 DE) (unfairly priced as it is subsidized by game price
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$997+ tax (low end subsidized), $1397+tax on the lower end non subsidized (€1517 + VAT).
Factor in phone service fees (lets say $50/month with a limited dataplan).

Why list the unsubsidized rates? Because computers are not subsidized. Makers don't expect you to buy 10 games with your computer purchase. If you want to compare oranges to oranges you need to also factor this in.

Now you can almost do what you can with a laptop, except slower with less options and no ability to create or install your own software (you can't develop for any of these platforms using these platforms and are required to use the walled garden sources). You're also not factoring in how reliable these devices are and they have zero "upgrades" save for storage.
None of the devices you've listed realistically display higher than 720p. PS3 CAN do it, but shouldn't.

Seems like a hell of a deal!

Microsoft said it doesn't want to require established programs to rewrite their licensing models and payment systems just to fit into Microsoft's new Windows store--a comment clearly aimed at Apple's Mac App Store. Instead, it will provide what is basically a free listings service for non-Metro apps.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/239994/windows_8_app_store_what_we_know_so_far.html

You know why Apple is winning the tablet and phone market? Here's a hint:

Um, what?

Here's a hint for you. For every iPhone sold, two Android devices are sold.

Tablet sales? iPad is outselling Android tablets. One would hope so, given how new Android tablets are, and given ICS, the first real tablet release of Android literally just came out.

But can you honestly expect such a closed, limited proprietary OS to compete long-term against one that's open source, free, and available to tens or hundreds of manufacturers?

If apple doesn't change their policies on IOS, it will be relegated to the same space as OSX - a nieche market for consumers with lots of money, and very specific tasks.

Don't get me wrong; I hope Apple opens up, if for no other reason than the market needs healthy competition. But to say Apple is winning the battle is laughable.

Do you have failure rates for spining drives? A little research might just show you that they are basically on par with the numbers you are quoting.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/131168/harddrive_failures_surprisingly_frequent.html

http://blog.backblaze.com/2011/07/20/petabytes-on-a-budget-v2-0revealing-more-secrets/
"All told, Sean replaces approximately 10 drives per week, indicating a 5 percent per year drive failure rate across the entire fleet, which includes infant mortality and also the higher failure rates of previous drives. (We are currently seeing failures in less than 1 percent of the Hitachi Deskstar 5K3000 HDS5C3030ALA630 drives that we’re installing in pod 2.0.)"

For reference, when comparing A and B you should remember to actually quote the data for both A and B and not just one of the other as your proof that one is better than the other.

Talk about a security hole you could drive a truck through.

That's not a security hole - that's a feature. and of course T-Mobile has a history of this shit

See, the telecom industry is legally allowed and prefers to be able to charge for third party services because they get a HUGE commission. That's the reason why T-Mobile gave you a hard time because they were also making money on the fraudulent charges. And the way it works is that the crooks don't even need permission to it. They can slam the charges on your bill. And to add insult to injury, our phone bills are so goddamn complicated and with purposefully vague terms like "National service fees" or charges that are made to look like some sort of Federally mandated charge, it's very difficult to catch the bogus charges and therefore, most people pay for the crooks.

What we need is a regulation that makes third party billing on any telecom account illegal. The telecoms cannot be trusted to do the right thing. Self regulation my ass!

Not bad but not the best smartphone camera either.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/241955-2/smartphone_camera_battle_iphone_4s_vs_the_android_elite.html

And yet again multiple sources ask for citation and all you can do is fling shit like a monkey. Tell me something, how does it feel to be in absolute last place with NO hope of ever getting better? Is it one of those sad stories, where with no friends you turn to something that is unpopular like you are in the hope you'll have something in common? is it that you simply have nothing better to do on weekends besides read man pages so knowing how to "kinda sorta" copypasta makes you have a warm fuzzy feeling? does using a loser in the market somehow justify your own loser state? please tell i bet its an interesting story, probably involves bullying and child abuse. BTW enjoy some failure, just to make you feel at home.

Isn't it sad, how like a frightened child afraid to look under the bed, you cower at the truth? if your driver model isn't shit then why does Dell have to run their own repos even though we are talking a teeny tiny subset of hardware? Oh right because Linux shits itself and dies if you use the default repos! Man that is some excellent product you got there! you think I can get better QA than the third largest OEM on the planet? What, you expect me to tell paying customers "Go to the forum, kiss some loser ass, and maybe, just maybe, in a few days someone will have mercy and give you a big pile of bullshit that may or may not make your sound work again"?

Bleeding yet douchey? want some more? nice thing about having the truth on your side, you can keep throwing punches all day! How about how a decade old Windows beat the shit out of Linux on netbooks or how ASUS has given up on your bullshit or how about Walmart running away from linux as fast as it can? You got the crazy koolaid drunk enough to say they ALL are paid shills because they won't do your forum dance or CLI horseshit? Meanwhile your "hero" Torvalds the great says Plans? We don't need no steenkin plans!. Why don't you tell them that at work next week, see how quick you get a pink slip? More? How about you actually have the balls to celebrate getting a whole 1% market share while you are actually lower than JavaME and there is a whole website dedicated To your bullshit and excuses .

You see you whiny little delusional mama's boy, I'm your worst fucking nightmare...a retailer that still believes. I believe that the community doesn't have to take Torvalds shit sandwiches, I believe that things can be made better, I believe Linux can be something for more than douchebags like you that will happily take a cock slapping from linus as long as you can say you are sticking to "teh man". I believe that there can be Linux boxes on actual shelves and penguins on boxes.

So you go hide now mama's boy, you hide with your Tux blankie and keep saying your magical nigger nigger faggot, or should I say shill shill astroturfer, like it is a magical word that will make all the bad go away. But it won't change reality and the reality is your driver model is shit and more than 15 years behind everyone else and that is why retailers like me wouldn't piss on it, not some mythical money truck that sneaks up to my door in the middle of the night. So go compile something and leave the men to talk about the real world, okay little girl?

Oh please, they are making money hand over fist, getting paid for the majority of Android handsets AND their own WinPhones, and the case will take YEARS which is years of check cashing. Meanwhile you still think half a sentence proves...you can't copypasta? It doesn't surprise me, living in CLI copypasta is probably all you do anymore and you fail at even that. Perhaps you'd like some links on Linux getting pwned and failing, yes? Just to brighten you day? Maybe you can use a Daemon to download the pages and read them in an email client, just like your beloved RMS does. How sad though that you HONESTLY believe your OS, which BTW you STILL can't fucking update without the damned thing breaking, has a shot. remember what your numbers are?

Get ready, here they come! Kinda makes that koolaid just a little bitter now, don't it? I believe in using the best tool for the job, but to say Linux is secure or better than any other complex OS is frankly bullshit. Hell I was talking to a 15 year Linux admin on one of the other sites that had gotten so sick of Linux desktop fuckups they were going to BSD and if THAT didn't "just work" they were gonna wash their hands of FLOSS on the desktop and just go Mac.

BTW if you'd like a little more food for thought, what OS was 3 of the 4 CAs running that were compromised? take a look and see. Maybe they just had bad configs? Surely someone with knowledge would be safe right? Guess again and its not a fluke by any means.

And of course on the retail side you have a decade old Windows beating the shit out of Linux on netbooks proving that your latest and greatest couldn't even compete with a decade old OS,ASUS has given up on your bullshit, remember them? The ones that actually STARTED the whole netbook thing with Linux? And you can't even keep them! Or how about Walmart running away from linux as fast as it can? You got the crazy koolaid drunk enough to say they ALL are paid shills because they won't do your forum dance or CLI horseshit? Meanwhile your "hero" Torvalds the great says Linux isn't planned it grows like a virus!, yeah that would be an STD and explain why you are still a decade behind on the driver front. Oh and when you respond with your usual bullshit and lame excuses could you please go here so we can see which lameness you are gonna use? The current most popular are "use esoteric workarounds" which is ALWAYS popular in Linux land, and "It works for me!" because you neglect to mention the weekend you waste every 6 months to make that statement true.

Oh and in case anyone is curious about the half of the sentence that makes him wet himself in fear the complete sentence is as far as the user is concerned there is NO command line in windows which of course is 100% true, because their OS simply doesn't need it. Here is another sentence for him to fear BTW Linux IS Windows 98, no more, no less because what was

Nice a-factual rant, you've got there.

As an EU citizen, I find US practices completely unacceptable.
Oh, ok. I find some European practices unacceptable. For example, I don't think european countries should ban religious symbols or headscarves. I also don't think Europe should be allowing piracy. I know everyone likes to get stuff for free, but pirates don't have a sustainable economic model for the creation of digital media - except for the cheapest kinds, like TV shows (paid for by commercials) and YouTube videos. I hate to see what the world will become if piracy were the norm. I think europeans are being jerks by allowing groups like the PirateBay to continue operating. (Which is not to say that I agree with SOPA, but I do agree that things need to change.)

Even China doesn't try to restrict other countries.
That's good. Oh wait, wasn't there a recent story about Chinese hackers trying to take down a Fulun Gong website that was located outside China?
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/238655/china_hacking_video_shows_glimpse_of_falun_gong_attack_tool.html

Say, wasn't it China that put pressure on the US and other countries to shut-out the Dali Lama?
China Warns U.S. on Dalai Lama Trip, October 16, 2007 - http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/16/world/asia/16cnd-china.html
China: Obama visit with Dalai Lama has 'harmed Sino-U.S. relations' - Jul 16, 2011 - http://www.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/07/16/dalai.lama.white.house/index.html
China pushes Mongolia to cut short Dalai Lama lecture, Nov 08 2011 - http://mg.co.za/article/2011-11-08-china-pushes-mongolia-to-cut-short-dalai-lama-lecture/

They do what they have to do inside their country, but they have never tried to block or manipulate other countries to do the same.
See above.

Yet US has the balls and hypocrisy to accuse China about its censorship practices, as do most US citizens here on Slashdot.
Stoping piracy is not censorship and you will lose this argument if you claim that it is. And cracking down on political and religious dissent is not the same thing as enforcing copyright. If you're going to make that comparison, you might as well compare one country's jailing of political dissidents with the US' jailing of criminals. There are political dissidents in Chinese jails for the crime of speaking out against the Chinese government.

US is much worse than China.
This should be interesting. By the way, as much as I dislike some of the things going on in the US, I do not like the way you're providing political cover for Chinese policies.

They try to force their views and laws globally.
When you say "views" and "laws" - those are very broad terms, as if all US views and laws must be enforced globally, which obviously is not the case. Let's talk specifics.

They install their own law enforcement agents inside other countries in the name of "providing training" to manipulate.
Not even clear on what you're talking about here.

They revoke IP addresses and domains used by non-US people.
As much as I'd like to agree with you, the problem stems from the fact that the internet is global. What this means is that, either the world enforces copyright or there will be some country which doesn't and everyone in the world will be able to side-step all the copyright laws. What we're talking about here is that one of the two extremes will win-out. It doesn't help at all that the PirateBay was operating for years, serving up pirated material to the whole world while sendi

* VMware vSphere - VMware management YOU SUCK!
* MS-Visio (No substitute)
* Video Redo TV Suite (personal use)
* Windows7 Media Center (QAM recording at home)
* WINE - Quicken H&B 2011 works nicely
* WINE - MS-Office 2003 works (Libre Office is preferred here, but if you embed a Visio drawing, you need MS-Office)

Inside many companies they sipped the Microsoft Koolaid with AD, then bought desktop licenses. They needed DHCP, Server, CALs, then MS gave free copies of Sharepoint, which lead to more CALs, MS-SQL, File/Print, MS-Exchange ... Without a plan, this is what happens to every company.

Here's the story of a CEO that thew MS out. https://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/218083/dont_let_microsoft_trained_brain_syndrome_happen_to_you.html

It is an extremely interesting read.

I'm the CIO for a young, small, company. Almost all our servers are Linux, except 1 for accounting that needs Quickbooks. We use
* OpenLDAP for authentication and user management
* Zimbra for communications
* vTiger for CRM
* Samba / CUPs for file/print
* Redmine for project management, bugs, forums, and project wikis
* MediaWiki for internal knowledge
* OpenVPN for remote access
* Alfresco for document management
We decided to make a conscious effort to avoid Microsoft tools since we've seen what happens once an organization has about 75 users -the costs balloon. Sure, for a 10 person company, MS-SBS is really hard to beat when you don't really know anything. Setting up Linux server(s) to accomplish the same things will take more time and effort. initially. For a growing company, that will quickly change and the Linux servers will be essentially a 1-man job even when you have 500 employees.

We are dropping VMware for KVM internally and encouraging our clients running ESX to switch at their next upgrade points. IMHO, VMware management has lost their brains.

Canonical needs to be cautious too. Their recent GUI choices are concerning. Thankfully, I switched to using Ubuntu Server on my desktop, then I load LXDE on top, manually. I may need to drop back to fvwm soon.

For those folks on Outlook/Exchange I've got to suggest that you check out Zimbra/thunderbird/lightning. It works really well.

BTW, we are a Microsoft partner. ;)

None of those UIs were anything like as big a change from their predecessors, compared to Win8 / Unity / Gnome Shell and iOS.

I have never had a big adverse reaction to UIs since Windows 3.0 and early KDE, but with the advent of Unity and Gnome 3, I'm making the jump from Ubuntu to Linux Mint 12, because Mint is making Gnome 3 look sufficiently like Gnome 2 (via some of its own extensions) and also will enable MATE (a fork of GNOME 2, though it's a little too recent to be usable yet.) See http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/243403/now_with_gnome_3_linux_mint_12_will_meet_users_halfway.html

I don't think I'm alone either - Linux Mint had a 40% increase in popularity in one month after Ubuntu went Unity: http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=1851 (includes overview of the Linux Mint 12 plans for Gnome 3 and MATE).

Ever said "hmm, the cell tower must be down?" or "Power's out". You are the same person you're complaining about. The power isn't out, one of the many transformers is having one of hundreds of problems or a line is severed, etc. etc. The cell tower isn't "down", the antenna is obscured, or the amplifier has one of hundreds of failures possible, maybe the problem isn't at the tower at all.

I've just got to jump in here... In reference to the "Power's out"... Because obviously the power is out, the power supply to the house isn't functioning (probably why they said the power was out) - there's this fun thing called context (something you should be aware of the way you promote Siri - which frankly is Siri's killer feature over other voice systems) and when someone says the power's out, well the power's out. To jump in and say that because the power's on elsewhere (like upstream of their local transformer or in another country) then the power isn't out still doesn't change the obvious fact that "the power's out" for the person saying "the power's out".

Remember, when dealing with anything other than http (or other stateless protocols) CONTEXT is king - as in humans, humans use context so when someone says the "power's out" you probably don't need to check on the opposite side of the world.

And of course actually the cell tower could be "down", down being a generic term covering non-functional (through falling over, no power, lightning strike etc etc) - granted the failure could be on the device - but personally when I've said the network or tower is down it's usually because I've spoken to the friends around and found the ones on the same network have no signal (I'd blame the device in my pocket that I can most easily affect). The cell tower might be fine, but the network connection from the tower might be broken, but that has different failure symptoms on the device so....

Why have you leapt on someone saying that people will complain if Siri goes down - it's happened already as this quick (google) search found this http://www.pcworld.com/article/243175/siri_goes_down_for_a_day_apple_says_network_outages_are_possible.html
From that article:
" According to Venture Beat, contacting Apple customer service resulted in the typical, "Have you tried restarting your device?"" so people contacted Apple customer service because Siri was down... And they guy you tried to tear a new hole said...

"Now imagine those people with an iPhone 4S during a data outage or in the middle of New York City (or another smartphone sinkhole)? "My phone doesn't work" because Siri is offline or unreachable is a pretty lame excuse, but perfectly valid for people who are going to be trained to rely on it."

So he was right, and you were wrong.

Of course I'm not entirely sure what his point was - people will complain? That's not a surprise, there have been complaints about the accent it reads back to you in..

I'm also surprised that you didn't leap on it as validation of Siri - it's made enough of an impact that people complain when it's missing, if it were just a toy most likely people wouldn't bother calling customer support, no?

I seem to remember reading reviews...

Here's an interesting article for you: Please read it carefully!

https://www.pcworld.com/article/139100/the_10_worst_pc_keyboards_of_all_time.html

It's obvious that keyboards are a bad idea, maybe you should stop using them.

Worse things exist in opening attachments from remote senders than malware, http://www.pcworld.com/article/103992/the_worlds_worst_viruses.html

On that note, people need to stop telling others to not open attachments from unknown senders, let natural selection separate the users who know how to use computers (aka maintain their machine in a working state) and those who do not, it's just not fair to have to fix some dumbshit's machine cause s/he is too dumb to apply common sense.

Get a clue. You don't know what a "kernel vulnerability" is, judging by your rhetoric you seem to think only silly OS's like Windows have them and allow user-land processes to exploit them. Not true.

Maybe because the market share of Ubuntu is still near 0, and so there is not enough money to be worthwhile ?

If Microsoft really wanted to target someone, they would have gone to Red hat, Novell, IBM or others companies really making money, not against those that make so few money they need to steal it from Gnome project.

Canonical is not profitable, or Mark Shuttleworth would have said so. The spend a insane amount of money for each UDS ( because a good hotel for more than 150 people during 2 weeks ( 1 week of internal conference, and 1 week of UDS ), plus travel expenses ( for the 150 employee ), plus meal can quickly add up to 500 000 euros. There is 400 employees, see how much it cost to mozilla who have roughly the same size ( and who provides account, unlike Canonical ). They rent 1 floor on Millibank tower, and that's likely not cheap either, according to Wikipedia.

And now, try to find where they find enough money for that. Ubuntu One subscriptions when dropbox forced them to reduce their price ? Amazon refferal ? Magnatune deal ( around 3000 euros in one year ) ? Consulting, after being rejected by Google for ChromeOs, and given there is lots of competitor on their own product and given their involvement upstream on the stack is near zero ? Landscape, a tool to manage your server, but who was hosted outside of your firewall until last year ? Selling goodies to mindless users ?

Canonical is not yet profitable according to the last information we have. Maybe they will announce it soon. Maybe they will not. And once they will be able to survive without being helped by Mark like they did since 6 years, they will still face a tough competition.

Canonical tried the desktop market, without success. They wanted to go on server management ( landscape ), they failed. They wanted to go on the service for consumer ( ie ubuntuone ), they failed. And despites trying to innovate with Unity, they alinated a rather vocal portion of their user base, thus starting to ruin their best asset. And so now, their focus is the cloud, with the current manager fudding like if there was no tomorow on his blog ( http://undacuvabrutha.wordpress.com/2011/10/30/ubuntu-is-the-os-for-the-cloud-and-heres-why/ ), planning to carpet bomb the world with news about their cloud ( https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-o-ensemble-get-involved-campaigns , https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-o-increase-cloudportal-traffic ). Ironically, their own cloud without any interopperability due to their usage of ubuntu specific repositories in the official charm/recipes of juju/ensemble.

So Canonical will also fail wit this plan, especially now that Suse is getting a step on Openstack, as well as Red Hat. Red hat who have also decided to address the interoprability problem with Deltacloud and others tools.

And for the so called arm servers plan of Canonical, maybe they didn't get the memo about current arm CPU being 32 bits and thus a little bit limited in term of memory. Arm servers could be nice, but without lots of memory, it is just cheaper to get a regular server and use vrtualisation. Only specific consumers and hobbyists would be interested by current arm servers , and unfortunately for canonical, that's not on the road for money. In fact, there is already lots of NAS for that.

Thankfully, ARM CEO changed his mind ( http://www.pcworld.com/article/218794/arm_ceo_no_rush_to_design_a_64bit_server_chip.html ), and maybe in 2 years, we will see ARM 64 bits (

Huh what? Apple is using all kinds of patents against Android. See http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/242334/itc_deals_htc_setback_in_apple_patent_war.html

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/07/16/apple-vs-google-inside-an-android-patent-violation/

Take your Apple Love(TM) to RoughlyDrafted(not even linking that crap).

Here you go:

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/ATT-Repeatedly-Helped-FBI-Break-Communications-Law-106553
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2007/03/fbi_confirms_co
http://www.itworld.com/security/216565/google-admits-it-would-give-your-data-feds-93-times-out-100
http://www.pcworld.com/article/190438/microsoft_stool_pigeon_for_the_cops_and_fbi.html

Actually I just like pointing out that retards like you have taken over the Linux community and are frankly doing a better job of making sure Linux goes nowhere than MSFT could ever DREAM of doing, I mean I can give plenty of proof of the uberfails, such as Dell having to run their own repos even though we are talking a teeny tiny subset of hardware? Oh right because Linux shits itself and dies if you use the default repos! How about how a decade old Windows beat the shit out of Linux on netbooks or how ASUS has given up on your bullshit or how about Walmart running away from linux as fast as it can? yet do you have enough sense to LEARN from your mistakes? To ask "What are we doing wrong that the competition is doing right"? Of course not, hell you can't even copypasta correctly! Instead you'll scream "They are noobs, we're leet!" while whacking off to the latest bash handbook.

Yet here you are, being given gift after gift by the competition and what do you do? scream "I'm leet!" and shoot yourselves in the face while whacking off to a bash script, I mean you aren't even smart enough to copypasta a single sentence correctly yet to expect the masses to sit around and copypasta pages of CLI mess? And you wonder why you are dead fucking last? Hell you are actually lower than JavaME and there is a whole website dedicated To your bullshit and excuses. Have you seen that site? It is a WHOLE SITE dedicated to NOTHING but laughing at you and your kind and you know what? Its pretty damned funny!

So please go ahead, i consider it a wonderful chance to educate people on what pathetic failure losers like you have caused the community as a whole. Once upon a time they were making progress, but now there is nothing left of the community but pathetic fat losers like yourself that somehow thinks being able to copypasta into a term somehow makes you "better" than everyone else and that it is your duty to run off the "noobs" but you know what? You are just shooting yourselves in the face,making sure Linux NEVER gains any share, the hardware OEMs won't support you, and that mainstream users treat your OS like toxic waste, and i find that quite hilarious.

MILLIONS of manhours dedicated to linux, TWENTY YEARS of hard work, what do you have to show? you are less than the margin for error, and in large part it is due to douchebags like you that make Linux look like the home of fat losers and trolls. Bravo sir, MSFT couldn't ask for a better useful idiot than yourself. You really should ask them to pay you, after all the village idiot used to get coins thrown at him, didn't he?

Remember when microsoft reverse engineered AOL's protocol so that their MSN client would interoperate with it?

That pissed off AOL and Microsoft justified it .. and kept working around the fixes AOL would try until finally a judge slapped Microsoft.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/12982/aol_and_microsoft_have_a_spat_over_chat.html

That was about 12 years ago, when AOL was the leader in instant messaging.

Microsoft = unscrupulous crooks, if it was OK for them to do it .. why is it bad if others do it?

No, the connectors that interface with the PC are standard USB or Firewire. This is FUD. Any MP3, AAC, AIFF, or WAV will work with an iPod, iPhone, iPad, etc. You are NOT required to use iTunes either. There are a multitude of alternatives (http://www.sourceforge.net). Even if you choose to use iTunes, it can be set to use MP3 if you don't like AAC.

I mean seriously, 2 seconds on Google would net you a decent list of alternatives without any effort at all:

http://www.pcworld.com/article/227348/apple_itunes_alternatives_make_managing_your_music_easy.html

Frankly I think some of the folks on here are so Anti-Apple they dont' even bother to verify what they post anymore. They just regurge the same bile that seems all too common in here these days.

Notice I got modded down and will CONTINUE to get modded down for at least two days in unrelated subjects? This is what I find funny about the teabagger wing of the FOSSies, they think by burying anything that isn't "Gee isn't Linux perfect for the world? Why it sure is Skip, and RMS's farts smells like roses and cure AGW!" they can magically "make it not true! make it all go away, I can't hear you la la la!".

But the funny thing about the truth, one can always produce facts to back it up. Like how Dell have to run their own repos because the current driver model is so fucked up that if they dare to run the default repos the machines will shit all over themselves. not opinion, cold hard fact. How about how a decade old Windows beat the shit out of Linux on netbooks which should tell you something, when people would rather have a decade old fisher price GUI than the latest and greatest because its too fiddly and a PITA, or how about how the ones that invented the netbook ASUS has given up on the bullshit? I would bet my last dollar their support costs were THROUGH THE ROOF because of "update foo broke my stuff!" along with having to try to walk someone through a three page CLI "fix" over the phone. I bet the metrics on the calls were just nuts, or how about the kings of "low price at all costs" Walmart running away from Linux as fast as it can which again I bet my last dollar the support costs killed it. don't see that with the iShiny, even though that is about as unfamiliar a UI as you could get for a lifelong Windows user you do you? Maybe because they make it intuitive and easy instead of flipping the user the bird and typing "RTFM Windblowz Luserz LOL!"? How about how the community has the nerve to actually CELEBRATE 1% market share like that is something to be proud of when IRL after TWENTY YEARS of work Linux is actually lower than JavaME and the craziness and logic hoop jumping by the lunatic fringe has gotten so bad there is actually a website that turns the bullshit and excuses into memes which you then see once you know what to look for over and over AND OVER again.

You see, that is the thing about the truth, they can call me "nigger cocksucker faggot" all day long, aka shill troll astroturfer but you know what? It doesn't make black into white, up into down, nor can it change a single number or add a single user to the crazy parade. We retailers have been fucking BEGGING you to straighten your shit and give us some real choice, we have practically DRAWN YOU A MAP and handed you a GPS to keep you from getting off track, and now the competition is gonna give you a fricking 60 yard head start in the hundred meters by shooting itself in the foot TWICE with the fucked Windows 8 GUI and all those late model P4s and early dual cores being EOLed that could play farmville and run FB just fine.

NEVER BEFORE IN HISTORY has so much been in your favor, your competition is run by an idiot, now more than ever before the world is doing more and more of their work and play exclusively online, and the visionary behind the second front has died and left a vacuum that they may not be able to fill. Oh and the economy sucks so folks want to save money and are willing to try things that will help them do so. You have the market wide open, the field is yours, so what do you do? say "Don't look at me!" and promptly start waving a gun around the track while masturbating to a Bash script.

But you've run out of exc

You mean when a self-selected subset of readers answers subjectively about how reliable their devices are?

http://www.pcworld.com/article/211074/the_tech_brands_you_can_trust.html

Forget Bill Gates, in the words of Steve Jobs:

"what is wrong with our schools in this nation is that they have become unionized in the worst possible way. This unionization and lifetime employment of K-12 teachers is off-the-charts crazy."

"What kind of person could you get to run a small business if you told them that when they came in, they couldn't get rid of people that they thought weren't any good? Not really great ones, because if you're really smart, you go, 'I can't win.' "

"Public sector (government employee) Unions are an abomination."

And in the words of Steve Jobs:

"what is wrong with our schools in this nation is that they have become unionized in the worst possible way. This unionization and lifetime employment of K-12 teachers is off-the-charts crazy."

"What kind of person could you get to run a small business if you told them that when they came in, they couldn't get rid of people that they thought weren't any good? Not really great ones, because if you're really smart, you go, 'I can't win.' "

Awww...is the poor wittle Lunix Luser getting butt hurt he is STILL in last place and getting beat down by JavaME which is a shitastic cell phone OS? NEWSFLASH STUPID: You don't give the people what they want? THEY WILL IGNORE YOU. And hey guess what? That is EXACTLY what they have done! Now lets let everyone enjoy your daily dose of fail, shall we fucknuts?

Isn't it sad, how like a frightened child afraid to look under the bed, you cower at the truth? if your driver model isn't shit then why does Dell have to run their own repos even though we are talking a teeny tiny subset of hardware? Oh right because Linux shits itself and dies if you use the default repos! Man that is some excellent product you got there! you think I can get better QA than the third largest OEM on the planet? What, you expect me to tell paying customers "Go to the forum, kiss some loser ass, and maybe, just maybe, in a few days someone will have mercy and give you a big pile of bullshit that may or may not make your sound work again"?

Bleeding yet douchey? want some more? nice thing about having the truth on your side, you can keep throwing punches all day! How about how a decade old Windows beat the shit out of Linux on netbooks or how ASUS has given up on your bullshit or how about Walmart running away from linux as fast as it can? You got the crazy koolaid drunk enough to say they ALL are paid shills because they won't do your forum dance or CLI horseshit? Meanwhile your "hero" Torvalds the great says Plans? We don't need no steenkin plans!. Why don't you tell them that at work next week, see how quick you get a pink slip? More? How about you actually have the balls to celebrate getting a whole 1% market share while you are actually lower than JavaME and there is a whole website dedicated To your bullshit and excuses .

You see you whiny little delusional mama's boy, I'm your worst fucking nightmare...a retailer that still believes. I believe that the community doesn't have to take Torvalds shit sandwiches, I believe that things can be made better, I believe Linux can be something for more than douchebags like you that will happily take a cock slapping from linus as long as you can say you are sticking to "teh man". I believe that there can be Linux boxes on actual shelves and penguins on boxes.

So you go hide now mama's boy, you hide with your Tux blankie and keep saying your magical nigger nigger faggot, or should I say shill shill astroturfer, like it is a magical word that will make all the bad go away. But it won't change reality and the reality is your driver model is shit and more than 15 years behind everyone else and that is why retailers like me wouldn't piss on it, not some mythical money truck that sneaks up to my door in the middle of the night. So go compile something and leave the men to talk about the real world, okay little girl?

5) Hidden SSID Support in Windows Phone 7.5
Windows Phone 7.5 now supports hidden SSID, which is the ability to connect WP7.5 devices to a wireless network that is not broadcasting its SSID. But this new feature is dependent on the chipset and drivers of the device, he says, so it's not available on current WP7 devices. It could be available on new WP7.5 hardware in the future, though, according to Bryan

Bryan also notes that "[s]ome organizations use SSID so as not to broadcast their wireless network information. However, it is widely recognized that this does not provide a material security benefit."

Source: http://www.pcworld.com/article/240798/windows_phone_75_mango_top_new_business_features.html

STILL to afraid to post the correct quote huh? Afraid? For those that would like to know HERE is the whole quote and I DARE anyone to prove me wrong: as far as the user is concerned there is NO CLI in Windows and ANYONE with a brain (except fucknuts here, who was trying to insist that users launch programs by using start>>>run) would know THAT IS A FACT. Try it yourself, walk up to the next dozen people you see on the street and ask them "How do you get command line in Windows?" and they'll say "What is command line?" Because UNLIKE LINUX you do NOT NEED CLI IN WINDOWS. Don't blame me YOU HAVE A BROKEN OS fucknuts, I didn't design the POS.

As for TFA, somebody forget to cut the congressman a check? This is different than Yahoo, Google, Opera, MSFT....how exactly? Hell you have FB tracking you, Google getting every search, going though your Gmails, hell they can probably tell you your favorite color and what you like to have for breakfast. So NOW they want to complain?

Either they come up with MASSIVE new legislation to protect against the huge amount of privacy violations being done by every. single. Internet. company. or they are just blowing smoke. I wouldn't be surprised if they are pissed the Amazon data isn't going through the little back room at AT&T they were so quick to give retroactive immunity to AT&T for.

Oh and a final gift for fucknuts, here is some of the companies that have abandoned Linux, maybe you have heard of a few of them? Like ASUS who has given up on your bullshit or Walmart running away from linux as fast as it can? Could it be because they don't want to run their own repos Dell has to to keep Linux from shitting itself?. You've lost, give it up. Even for free you can't give that POS away, you are even lower than JavaME. Nobody wants it, nobody runs it, hell you celebrate when you get a lousy 1% market share. Face it you couldn't give it away in a prison wrapped in pardons. Stick a fork baby, its done.

Nice answer fucknuts, no proof, not even any experience with the product, just "nu uh!". And this is from an idiot that doesn't even know how to quote correctly so what should anyone expect?

Now let us see what he is AFRAID TO SHOW YOU because it is the TRUTH. The CORRECT quote is "As far as the user is concerned there is NO CLI in windows" and I DARE anyone to prove me wrong. walk up to 100 people in the street and ask them "How do you call up command line in Windows" and you know what you are gonna get? "Whats a command line" Because windows DON'T NEED A SHITTY TERMINAL just to do the tasks 99.995% of the population does. Linux? Puts the terminal on the desktop, why? Because YOU HAVE NO CHOICE. Its a SERVER OS that has been BADLY hacked to pretend to be a desktop OS, but in the end? Its ALL CLI. Here fucknuts, enjoy your fail...

Isn't it sad, how like a frightened child afraid to look under the bed, you cower at the truth? if your driver model isn't shit then why does Dell have to run their own repos even though we are talking a teeny tiny subset of hardware? Oh right because Linux shits itself and dies if you use the default repos! Man that is some excellent product you got there! you think I can get better QA than the third largest OEM on the planet? What, you expect me to tell paying customers "Go to the forum, kiss some loser ass, and maybe, just maybe, in a few days someone will have mercy and give you a big pile of bullshit that may or may not make your sound work again"?

Bleeding yet douchey? want some more? nice thing about having the truth on your side, you can keep throwing punches all day! How about how a decade old Windows beat the shit out of Linux on netbooks or how ASUS has given up on your bullshit or how about Walmart running away from linux as fast as it can? You got the crazy koolaid drunk enough to say they ALL are paid shills because they won't do your forum dance or CLI horseshit? Meanwhile your "hero" Torvalds the great says Plans? We don't need no steenkin plans!. Why don't you tell them that at work next week, see how quick you get a pink slip? More? How about you actually have the balls to celebrate getting a whole 1% market share while you are actually lower than JavaME and there is a whole website dedicated To your bullshit and excuses .

You see you whiny little delusional mama's boy, I'm your worst fucking nightmare...a retailer that still believes. I believe that the community doesn't have to take Torvalds shit sandwiches, I believe that things can be made better, I believe Linux can be something for more than douchebags like you that will happily take a cock slapping from linus as long as you can say you are sticking to "teh man". I believe that there can be Linux boxes on actual shelves and penguins on boxes. But here enjoy some of the wisdom of the great RMS and maybe you'll feel better

http://www.pcworld.com/article/239020/apple_again_rumored_to_be_preparing_to_release_a_television.html

Aside from the spec sheet factoids that we all already knew, I see nothing else that's factually correct in that summary. Let's go through the rest of it:

To date, however, Apple is the only systems manufacturer to adopt Thunderbolt

Incorrect. Sony shipped the Vaio Z21 earlier this year with Thunderbolt, though it was branded under the old codename of Light Peak.

and it has done so as an additional device connectivity port

Incorrect. It's replacing mini-DisplayPort with Thunderbolt on the models that are being updated since they share the same connector. Doing so means no additional ports. Instead, since Thunderbolt can support different protocols, people who have DisplayPort devices can continue to use them without issue, and they'll have Thunderbolt there for later when more peripherals arrive.

keeping SuperSpeed USB on its computers.

Apple doesn't have SuperSpeed USB on any of its computers. They never have. The MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, iMac, and Mac mini have all been updated with Thunderbolt, yet they're all still using USB 2.0. The Mac Pro is their only computer which hasn't been updated since Thunderbolt debuted, and it certainly doesn't have USB 3.0 either. In fact, Apple is the only major holdout on USB 3.0. It even says so at the end of the introduction on Wikipedia's USB 3.0 page.

No other systems manufacturer has committed to Thunderbolt.

Besides Sony, which I've already mentioned, both Acer and Asus have committed to having Thunderbolt devices out in the future.

In contrast, SuperSpeed USB has been installed on 10 billion pieces of hardware, with numbers continuing to grow.

Incorrect, and entirely inane. Of course the numbers continue to grow. Was there a concern that they'd be shrinking? And 10 billion is patently false. The best numbers I could find in a quick search were that only 14M USB 3.0 devices were sold in 2010 (so you're only off by three orders of magnitude), and that projections by analysts peg sales at 1.7B per year by 2014.

A quick google of 'Android Enterprise Management' returned some potential solutions:

Zenprise
Good for Enterprise
3LM

Those were the top three. I'm sure there's more, including RIM's own Android management solution.

Here's a link to the earlier hack by German reseachers in PCworld , with links to video demonstration and paper of University of Virginia.

A similar hack on the same chip also in 2008 was published by Dutch researchers from Radboud Univeristy in Nijmgen, in the Netherlands. This case attracted additional attention because the company making the Mifare chip, NXP (formerly Phillips semiconductors), tried to block publication of the hack and was denied this in a Dutch court of law (security guru Schneier on this).

Even more recently, the " improved" system, but still using the same chip on the cards, was targeted by Dutch investigative journalist Brenno de Winter who was cleared from prosecution by a judge as recently as three weeks ago. His research showed that hacking was possible by using a freely available windows program (you-tubevideo of his sadly overly-long presentation at DefCon 16).

Last week it became public that the company responsible for the system, Trans Link Systems ( somewhat uninformative site) has silently been introducing cards using a different chip for two months now. It uses the Infineon SLE-66 chip (producer unknown to me; anyone?), that can have software installed. The software that was installed by TLS is to block any tampering. Dutch news site nu.nl has had such a card for two weeks and was not able to hack it with the currently known methods (their article, Dutch only, I'm afraid). Old cards are still in production until he end of the year for subscriptions (linked to personalized accounts) but the new cards are used for the anonymous day cards. Equipment of public transport personnel has been adapted to reveal hacking attempts.

So, the big question to all the security experts hovering around slashdot: how realistic is the claim that this card will prevent fraud? Let's be realistic and assume that it can eventually be hacked in the lab, but that practical application of this hack is not feasible. The interesting case is a hacking method that would make free transport available on a large scale, as is the case now.Can chip-installed software block such tampering attempts?

Acer and Asus have signed up for Thunderbolt and are expected to deliver PCs with Thunderbolt next year. Except more motherboards to have Thunderbolt as well, and once that occurs, Dell and other has-beens will do the same.

...which is (a) obsolete data from 2010, and (b) aggregate revenue, not average revenue per paid app. Keep on ignoring those points, however.

Right because the Android market has become such a developers paradise in the past year.....

http://makingmoneywithandroid.com/2011/05/google-android-marketplace-vs-apple-app-store-latest-report/

"With so many free applications on the Android Market, itâ(TM)s clear that consumers are becoming more accustomed to free (potentially ad-supported) apps. As developers, this creates a bigger challenge if we want to sell apps to generate revenue"

http://wmpoweruser.com/angry-birds-developers-paid-content-just-doesnt-work-on-android/

"Paid content just doesn't work on Android"

http://www.pcworld.com/article/212772/id_softwares_john_carmack_ios_vs_android.html

They can produce cheaper imitations, but their contraptions will never command this level of devotion.

They didn't ship with Android. They likely shipped with WebOS and had Android installed later.

No it's real, here's a video from August 25th, only days after the $99 sale and long before anyone was working on bringing Android to the Touchpad. Here's a different video of Android on Touchpad uploaded August 22nd and a third video.

So where's the ROM? Who's the selfish @#$%& sitting there with Android for the Touchpad but refuses to upload it so the rest of us can enjoy it? If you're too stupid to know how to rip a image then get on a developers forum for instructions or post on craigslist, I'm sure someone within 50 miles would know how to copy the image off the device and torrent it, it would save the porting team a lot of time rather than re-invent what already exists.