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What really blew my mind was reading that Apple's biggest desktop customer is now IBM.

And according to this 3 year old article it was Google before them: "Google staff now can use Windows PCs only with a business case making the company the world’s biggest Apple shop with 43,000 devices."

What about when Intel tried to trademark the letter "i"?

http://www.techeye.net/busines...

I used to use AVG but dropped it like a lead balloon because they changed their terms and conditions to spy on the web browsing habits to sell to advertisers http://www.wired.co.uk/news/ar... http://www.techeye.net/news/av...

You act like the US is the only one that complains about this.

http://www.techeye.net/busines...
http://www.theguardian.com/bus...
http://www.theguardian.com/bus...
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/...
http://www.scmp.com/news/world...

Heck, it has been all over the news that Europe is flipping their shit about their companies moving to tax havens and offshoring profits.

There are no international norms, all countries (except the tax havens) are bitching about this happening.

http://news.techeye.net/mobile... which talks of:

"Micron's patent covering a "system and method for controlling user access to an electronic device" was given a US Patent 8,352,745 in January 2013 but it claims priority to an original application filed in February 2000 and lists Jim McKeeth as inventor."

http://kschang.hubpages.com/hu... which talks about, among other things the Neonode N1 - a working prior art example.

I take it that you either haven't watched the video, haven't read Apple's patent claims, or both? Here's claim 1 from Apple's patent:

1. A method of unlocking a hand-held electronic device, the device including a touch-sensitive display, the method comprising:
detecting a contact with the touch-sensitive display at a first predefined location corresponding to an unlock image;
continuously moving the unlock image on the touch-sensitive display in accordance with movement of the contact while continuous contact with the touch screen is maintained, wherein the unlock image is a graphical, interactive user-interface object with which a user interacts in order to unlock the device; and
unlocking the hand-held electronic device if the moving the unlock image on the touch-sensitive display results in movement of the unlock image from the first predefined location to a predefined unlock region on the touch-sensitive display. (emphasis added)

See those bolded words above? Go watch the video. Go read the Micron patent. Neither of them have those features.

http://news.techeye.net/mobile... which talks of:

"Micron's patent covering a "system and method for controlling user access to an electronic device" was given a US Patent 8,352,745 in January 2013 but it claims priority to an original application filed in February 2000 and lists Jim McKeeth as inventor."

http://kschang.hubpages.com/hu... which talks about, among other things the Neonode N1 - a working prior art example.

Note how this patent has been treated in Europe.

Apple's slide to unlock was non-novel (already done) and could probably be considered obvious (if multiple groups independently came up with the same solution then it is likely an obvious solution - assuming they were totally independent).

I see your point of confusion, you think that the NSA has been involved with, to use your phrase, "vast, incredibly illegal spying." That isn't true. Nothing that the NSA has been doing has been shown to violate US law, at least that I'm aware of.

Then you haven't been paying attention.
Oh, but you're cold fjord, so you've probably had your nose so far up Clapper's ass that you haven't been able to see what's going on around you. Come to think of it, how do you manage to type to post on /. when you're too busy licking boots and buttholes to be able to see the screen?

Really? Because as soon as VP8 was hinted at, and before it was actually released, MPEG LA immediately put out a call to form patent pool to attack it. BEFORE its specs were even released.

Does that sound like a group of people simply seeking an easier way to cross-license? Or does it seem like a Troll?

It took the US DOJ looking into MPEG LA's practices before they backed down.

"MariaDB"? "Ishmael view" Jeebus, what's going on here? And now http://mariadb.org/ has been slashdotted^H^H^H DDoS'ed to death by the criminal organisation known as Slashdot!

Maybe we'll see some coverage in the TechEye Bible, wonderful proze!

Google came out themselves about the issue. If anything, these years of fighting over the issue should make companies not want to disclose voluntarily.

This article from Tech Eye says that it the admission was forced by a request to audit from the German authorities. Do you have a more specific time line for this?

Whichever side of the issue you stand on, it's worth noting that arguably the most prominent signatories to this letter and/or the companies they represent - Intel and Google - came under fire for allegedly secretly conspiring together to block worker mobility ("The no-hire paper trail Steve Jobs and Eric Schmidt didn't want you to see"), so a cynic might suggest perhaps they're not quite as concerned with labor's free-and-natural-flow when it doesn't suit their needs. Also, Ireland seems to be finding that importing tech labor isn't quite the rising-tide-that-lifts-all-boats that it was cracked up to be ("Ireland too scared to tax big tech, Let the poor eat potatos"), "Google paid only £5.6m tax despite £10bn turnover").

http://news.techeye.net/software/fujitsu-moans-that-windows-8-is-killing-pc-sales

And while of course there is always room for interpretation, I can state that trying the Windows 8 preview turned me off of the OS, and that I won't buy any product with W8 on it. Laptop, desktop, phone or Tablet. Do Not Want.

At the very least, W8 has not spurred sales. If others think it is the best thing ever, that's awesome. Buy it, use it, and be happy.

Deliberate production caps on new releases just so they can say they sold out.

Citation, please. Provide it or shut the fuck up.

http://news.techeye.net/mobile/apple-pulls-out-all-the-marketing-stops

There you go.
I here it helps if you put your hand over your ears and sing LA LALA LA real loud.

We're all missing the obvious solution where we turn each zombie into an access point. When the horde is clawing at your boarded up home, you'll have an excellent signal.

Yes, they are. Here are the citations for those so inclined:

NYPD wanting to run scanners on the streets of New York
TSA searching cars pulling up to the loading/unloading ramp at an airport
VIPR search in a train station
Another VIPR search at a train station
Stopping commercial vehicles on a highway in Arizona
Searches at a bus station

I'm sure there are more, but that should be enough to prove that no, the powers-that-be aren't limiting violations of the 4th Amendment to the airports.

Anyway, Foxconn is telling us that it has strict recruitment regulations to ensure full compliance with worker age regulations and laws.

That presumes that the records are accurate and that nobody falsifies them - including the Chinese government.

"We have sufficient access to workers who are of legal age and there is no incentive for us to break our own strict policies and Chinese law on the matter. Let us be very clear, Foxconn does not employ, in any capacity, any underage workers," the spokesperson said.

When you have to make a lot of product in a short amount of time, there is huge incentive to break your policies. Never mind that Chinese law only gets enforced if you're from the wrong family or alignment of families.

"It is a clear sign that SACOM is not interested in seeing actions that bring real benefit to workers in China. As such, they do a disservice to those companies who do provide competitive wages and benefits," Foxconn said.

SACOM is interested in bringing benefit to workers in China, just that they would rather see workers have some freedom - especially if it means openly speaking out against the multinationals and government officials that only want a pliant workforce.

In a sideways swipe to SACOM, Foxconn is working with "credible outside organisations such as the Fair Labor Association" to "ensure that our over a million employees in China have a safe and positive working environment and compensation and benefits that are competitive to everyone else."

Foxconn's definition of credible is "as long as they say things we like".

Foxconn top brass Terry Gou has been quoted as saying: "Hungry people have especially clear minds".

If his definition means willing to comply just for the meager rations given, even if one sees unspeakable acts.

Terry Gou also allegedly said, speaking at a zoo in Taipei: "I have a headache how to manage one million animals."

He sure has a very low opinion of the people that work for Foxconn if that's so good of a place.

This is part of the 'We Say So' thinking, driving many of the Ubuntu Faithful away.

They are restricting to 'their' standards, that which you can load. (Don't get me wrong, most of Linux has crappy and worthless standards for installing programs in various and sundry distributions. The only thing worse, in Linux, is the gawdawful documentation...)

I have found that many of the things I use, and have for years, will not install in 11.04... among other reasons, many standard system files have new names, locations, or were done away with.

Common tweaks to 'speed up the internet' used for years, are not as easily installed in 11.04, AND they have not been incorporated in the slow as whale turds climbing Everest distro (Yes... I don't like 11.04... esta es grande suckamundo)

The intent of Ubuntu is to become Microsoft. The reason most used Ubuntu, was to get away from same.

PS: If you like 11.04... and it works for you... I have nothing against you, or your using it... I don't like it, and it didn't near to my standards.... ( I tried variations, (Mint (sheesh (:-( , and two others, all having the core problems I don't like 11.04 for)

Your opinion is yours. Mine is similar to the reason so many have changed what they are using, and Ubuntu took a big hit in user count. see article linked below)

( http://www.techeye.net/software/ubuntu-sliding-in-popularity?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+techeye+(Tech+Eye) )

> Didn't someone just announce they had cracked Skype encryption? ..

Yea, fortunately it rapidly got modded off the bottom of the screen, so nobody noticed.

http://www.techeye.net/security/skypes-encryption-destroyed-by-phonemes

As I understand it, Ed Vaizey and our ISPs are fans of a two tier system.

It'd be a shame if anything.. happened... to the QOS for your Spotify account. You can always pay more, just to be sure you get only the finest bits available on the Interwebs.

http://www.techeye.net/hardware/smart-vending-machines-triple-sales

Japanese always invent first. The Chinese just steal the IP and clone it. :)

“I am the heart and soul of this organization, its founder, philosopher, spokesperson, original coder, organizer, financier and all the rest,” Assange wrote Snorrason. “If you have a problem with me, piss off.”

A goodly number of the original members of Wikileaks have left and are griping about Assange's controlling nature.

This has led to the formation of OpenLeaks.

An article about the new OpenLeaks site states:

Unlike Wikileaks, comments from the organisation have been "anonymous" and the structure of Openleaks is said to be more democratic.

So, apparently at least one prominent member of Wikileaks (Daniel Domscheit-Berg, former German spokesman for Wikileaks) and unidentified "others" felt the organization was undemocratic and Assange himself feels like it's his to operate however he feels fit.

Sounds authoritarian to me.

Well the thing about the iPhone is that it's been shown to have bad/low security. Issues ranging from ease to add a malicious app to the market, to the iPhones security being easy to bypass, to even the fact that the iPhone's encryption is easy to crack.

It does sadden me that with these problems that were easy to find on google were ignored when the DoD thought about allowing the iPhone to be an approved device (demand should have been one of the lowest factors in allowing it). While certain Android's might not be a good idea to allow, the whole concept of a custom ROM I feel would be a safe answer that would have been great middle ground.

Intel will drop VGA from their chipsets and this will be a boon for video card makers.

A lot of laptops are too small to fit a discrete video card. If you mean video card makers in the sense of integrated video chipset makers, then Intel has been giving NVIDIA the finger, and AMD won't have a netbook chipset until next year.

So long as you don't talk to Adrian Lamo and his friends at Wired

http://www.techeye.net/internet/lamo-challenges-wikileaks-assange

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/06/leak/

July: http://www.gamepolitics.com/2010/07/01/ice-seizes-website-domains-part-copyright-crackdown

Nov: http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/130763-homeland-security-dept-seizes-domain-names-

Dec: ?

And in the UK its the police:

Mid-November: http://libcom.org/news/police-force-shut-down-fitwatchorguk-16112010

Late-November: http://www.techeye.net/internet/uk-police-want-power-to-shut-down-websites

Unfortunately the US government (at least in the US) has pulled ahead in terms of controlling the internet via seizure: July: http://www.gamepolitics.com/2010/07/01/ice-seizes-website-domains-part-copyright-crackdown Nov: http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/130763-homeland-security-dept-seizes-domain-names- Dec: ? And in the UK its the police: Mid-November: http://libcom.org/news/police-force-shut-down-fitwatchorguk-16112010 Late-November: http://www.techeye.net/internet/uk-police-want-power-to-shut-down-websites

http://www.techeye.net/mobile/how-to-fix-a-broken-iphone-4-with-a-rubber-band

Now STFU about this non-issue and get back to meaningful dialog.

You crazy? Some people already got pregnant because of 3D porn! Won't you think of the children?! So much for abstinence...

So Google's WiFi snooping and logging was a perfectly-understandable inadvertent accident *and* was done by a rogue programmer. Get your story straight, Google! http://www.techeye.net/internet/google-blames-engineer-for-street-view-snooping

An American woman claims she became pregant after watching a 3D porno.


US military man Erick Jhonson came home from a stint in Iraq to find that his wife was pregnant. Clearly he assumed she had an affair, but his wife Jennifer claims the “other man” was actually someone a little less physical.


It seems he actually buys her story, however. “I see it as suspicious. The films in 3D are very real. With today’s technology, anything is possible,” he said.


What's even more interesting is that both Jennifer and Erick are white, but the child is black. Jeniffer claims the kid looks like the black pornstar she had been ogling. She also claims this was one of the first times she's watched porn and only went with friends for the 3D effect. TechEye did a survey of one person and found 100 percent would say the same thing in a similar situation.


“Even though my husband believed in me, my marriage could be at risk,” Jennifer said. “But he knows I’m faithful.” It just shows you what joining the military does to your head.


Jennifer explained that “a month after watching the movie, I started feeling dizzy and the results were positive.” That must have been one good porno.

3D movies have gained renewed popularity since Avatar, but there have been some concerns raised over how bad they may be for your eyes. Now you'll have to worry about conceiving in the cinema.


You may have jumped when an object in film was thrown at the camera, but now you'll have to be careful of other, far more uncouth things flying at you. TechEye recommends contraception for your next trip to the cinema. You never know.


Read more: http://www.techeye.net/internet/woman-says-3d-porno-made-her-pregnant#ixzz0qPgBB9o9

um... yeah..lol

Looks like it. Even Stephen Timms, noted dumbass and so-called Minister for Digital Britain, doesn't know what it is.

According to him, IP address stands for Intellectual Property address.

They threatened to sue the journalists reporting the story.

Indeed, D&H has already tried to send a cease and desist letter to two sites reporting this: http://www.techeye.net/business/company-threatens-journalists-over-fake-intel-cpu-reports