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Late to the party so I suspect all y'all will miss this but it's important to realise that The Telegraph is a very right-of centre, capital "C" Conservative news organisation. In the UK it's often called the Torygraph for it's unquestioning and unalloyed support of all things associated with the Tory (Conservative) party. For a different spin, try the Guardian's coverage, here.

Even better would be to actually read the LRB article which actually is a detailed, nuanced piece which says both good things and bad about the guy.

A reporter worried that Assange would risk killing Afghans who had co-operated with American forces if he put US secrets online without taking the basic precaution of removing their names. "Well, they're informants," Assange replied. "So, if they get killed, they've got it coming to them. They deserve it." A silence fell on the table as the reporters realised that the man the gullible hailed as the pioneer of a new age of transparency was willing to hand death lists to psychopaths. They persuaded Assange to remove names before publishing the State Department Afghanistan cables. But Assange's disillusioned associates suggest that the failure to expose "informants" niggled in his mind.

-- The treachery of Julian Assange

the immediate response on /. is always "But what about the hackers!" as if there's a group of malicious hackers just waiting for the technology to appear so they could exploit it.

They're called the NSA, you idiot, and they have a long history of silencing activism.

This is device kill switch just a more targeted version of the Internet Killswitch. What, you think they aren't planning on needing such device killing tech? Because that's what the Pentagon says.

This is just the first step. The next step will be to not allow the device to function unless it pings government approved systems and authenticates with your valid citizen ID. They'll turn the blacklist into a whitelist. Black boxes are mandeded into cars already, and Intel has demonstrated their capability for remote wireless PC kill switches too.

Every time they say: "Trust us, this is good for you", or "It stops Terrorism!" or "It' stops Theft" or "Think of the Children" your red flag should go up. Another red flag? The bill proposed in California would make this Mandatory. That's not Capitalism. We should let the people decide if they want this feature in their hardware. Mandatory is a huge red flag.

Immortality is already pretty well assured.

http://www.theguardian.com/sci...

You could get more effective use of just good metal detectors and a few trained dogs with handlers than all this BS that they've put us through....

I wish. Dogs are mostly useless, for that kind of work.

If the boogiemen are going to "blow stuff up," wouldn't they do it in crowded spots like sporting events, malls, public transportation, festivals, etc., instead of airplanes? You know, "attack where your enemy doesn't suspect"?

Maybe the best thing to do about explosives is not worry about them, because they are frighteningly rare.

Bullshit, you're repeating right wing speech without knowing the facts (or you do?).
Maduro has won elections least that a year ago, how could you ever think that he is a dictator?
They have a very clean election system..

See some hard numbers by yourself on how the country was transformed the las 14 years.
Your problem people is news media, the support corporation's power and misinform.
Opposition in Venezuela has tried everything, they have lost elections, failed a coup l'etat and now they try to destabilize the gov.

Right, and they're actually quite helpful too now. When the NSA needed help to crack some systems, MS did the right thing. http://www.theguardian.com/wor...

More because they feel they can manage their own land resources better than the Eurocrats in London or Brussels can.
As an example, have a look at the situation in Somerset and Devon. Eurocrats pay farmers to cut down trees and clear land, but those trees helped remove water from the ground. Then the Eurocrats fund a scheme to return the rivers to their natural state and create a bird sanctuary. But those rivers helped remove heavy rainfall from the ground. Result? Third world living conditions for thousands of people for weeks.

http://www.theguardian.com/env...

> Long term acceleration on the highway? Nobody thought to just turn off the ignition switch? Turns off the fuel pump, care stops running, eventually you come to full stop

I know of at least one such case, http://www.theguardian.com/wor.... The car was modified for a disabled man, so it's not clear what the combination of controls he could manage was. But he wound up rocketing across France into Belgium, traveling over 100 MPH with quick acting police clearing traffic ahead of him.

The AC seems to be hoping we have all forgotten
"Revealed: how US and UK spy agencies defeat internet privacy and security" (6 September 2013)
http://www.theguardian.com/wor...

TFA is disinformation or ignorance, do not believe the message therein.

You are only as free as they let you be. The news is not the news. You are slaves to corporations that farm you. Your wars are fought to privatize economies. Since secrets were allowed in government they have been actively against all activism, because activism the only thing that affects change, your votes do not matter, the political system is rigged. Maintaining the social, economic, and political status quo, even against the will of the people, is what "national security" means. They don't have to fake disasters, they can craft legislation and posture politically so that when one comes along they can turn a blind eye if need be. Each disaster makes the people more powerless, increasing the wealth gap. This is disaster capitalism, and it is working great even in communist nations.

With unemployment up, you are still spending too much time working: One can not truly fulfill their potential as humans without time to relax, enjoy life, create, and explore new opportunities. Your office jobs are pointless, replaceable either by computers or outsourcing to individuals with less cost of living, and we do so increasingly to ensure no job stability -- nearly everyone is a buggy whip maker one step of progress away from being an "unskilled" homeless person. The labor jobs largely have no unions so their working conditions suffer. In both blue and white collar cases people are given no time to seek new avenues of employ, or even manage their finances (you think bankers hours aren't such for a reason? Information disparity is the source of all evil). With inflation out-pacing pay, money in savings is diminished so that people can not safely leave employ -- The better to entrap and farm you with my dear. If you had a little more time you'd have leverage at your disposal to find better work or keep a plan B so that you can bargain for better pay and working conditions. Each disaster allows the system to ratchet your belts a bit tighter, more reliance, less time to be human. This is why banks are not held accountable, and are rather encouraged to destroy markets. How could anyone benefit from economic disaster and the mayhem it brings? Humans will do whatever it takes to survive, and the unscathed upper echelon will capitalize on this.

What is worse than 1984 is having it worse while fools like the article writer think it's not as bad. Classic ignorance. An example of thought control at its finest. When I became an adult I looked upon your world as though an alien from a distant planet -- I managed to forget all the programming about what "the real world" is, and question everything as a scientist would. The most telling and alarming is your willful resistance to application of the scientific method to governance and worklife. It's fucking disgusting. No engineer or scientist would agree to be ruled thus.

The answer is to modularize and decentralize your production of necessary resources, but no one wants to hear that... Moronic NIMBYs, you deserve what you get for your apathetic ignorance and inaction. The government has codified resistance to sustainable coexistence. That's why farmers can't grow excessive crops, even for personal use, and no city can survive on its own. Hell, school kids aren't even taught basic technologies like how to start a cooking fire, swim, sew, butcher, or bake -- Not survival

Android: Tell me again why you think your platform is more secure when the vast majority of the user base cannot access software updates?

BlackBerry: Anyone at BlackBerry can easily intercept everything your phone does, so don't even try.

iOS: No, your fingerprint scanner does not make your phone more secure. Get over it.

What about Windows Phone? Just because you haven't seen one, it doesn't mean they don't exist. People who thought the same about unicorns have been proven wrong.

Yup, don't like fracking - it carries too high a risk of polluting my landscape, and quite likely turning a beautiful view into a rubbish-tip. In the UK, the government has even gone on record to say the extracted oil & gas won't reduce anybody's energy bills. It will, however, make a shit-load of money for some people who already have too much, and who seem willing to rig the deck to make sure they get their way.

Don't like nuclear fission power either - it produces *filthy* dirty waste, that we have no idea what to do with. AFAIK, not a single nuclear power station has yet been decommissioned and cleaned up anywhere in the world - quite a few are mothballed, while an alleged "decommissioning" process achieves almost nothing and stretches endlessly into the future at vast expense to the tax-payer (cos poor little private sector can't take the pain, so public sector has to take that task on, or private sector will take its ball home).

Both these technologies are amateurish, half-assed, ill-thought-out, poor examples of our abilities at this climactic moment of the 21st century, and I'm embarrassed to be a member of the same species that wants to do this crap. Come on ... we're capable of better than that.

For some reason, many of my peers in this /. community seem to take umbrage whenever there is any criticism of any industrial process if there is some kind of "technology" aspect to that process. There appears to be a belief that so long as a process makes money and is technological, it must be undertaken, irrespective of the impact on this one uniquely precious planet that we have here. I will continue to try to understand this point of view, but I fear its exponents are blinded by the flashing lights.

Sigh.

The court ultimately ruled that the government had a legitimate reason to believe that David Miranda was involved with people who were at the time acting or threatening to act in a manner which was designed to influence a government and forward a political agenda, and those acts had the potential to cause death or serious property damage. All those appear true on their face, and thus the law states the detainment was legal.

That is a real stretch, you do know how ridiculous that sounds? First lets be clear: "involved with people" means The Guardian Newpaper and its journalists working on the story. Secondly you could use the same argument to start raiding and shutting down any media outlet you felt like and start detaining anyone the journalists ever related with - family and all. Real Gestapo tactics.

Every media outlet acts in a manner that could be interpreted as designed to influence a government. It could be argued that any newspaper/journalist is forwarding some political agenda. And the most ridiculous claim by Lord "Justice" Laws: "if [some leaked data that we can imagine might possibly be in the medias hands] was published, it [might for example] reveal personal details of members of the armed forces or security and intelligence agencies, thereby endangering their lives.". Neither Lord "Justice" Laws nor the security apparatus knows (by their own admission) what or how much data was leaked by Snowden, nor has any such data that "reveals personal details of members of the armed forces or security and intelligence agencies" been leaked or published by The Guardian or anyone else publishing Snowden material.

Lord "Justice" Laws might have just as easily said with the same straight face: "We do not know what data they have, but if they happen to have plans for top secrete weapons, and publish it, then they will endanger everyones lives.". So basically what the high court has done is make up a possible threat in order to get the ruling they wanted (or were told to get more likely).

No, what Lord "Justice" Laws really did was cover for unaccountable entities operating in the dark with little to no oversight, Exposing their illegal activities and a call for oversight and transparency is a fundamental obligation of any free independent press concerned with the wellbeing of society. This ruling only hints at how desperate they want to be able to raid Media outlets that start exposing their wrongdoing through responsible whistleblowing. We are already way down that slippery slope it seems, so I guess that it is only a matter of time now...

I'm very surprised at that, since it didn't happen.

Unfortunately it did happen: and the UK courts decided to ignore the extradition request, even passing new legislation to get him out of facing any trial for his substantial heinous war crimes.

The Lords, however, decided in March 1999 that Pinochet could only be prosecuted for crimes committed after 1988, the date during which the United Kingdom implemented legislation for the United Nations Convention Against Torture in the Criminal Justice Act 1988.[7][8] This invalidated most, but not all, of the charges against him; but the outcome was that extradition could proceed.

Despicable act by the "Lords", really, but no surprise and very consistent with UK courts history....

To paraphrase, when the government does it, it's not illegal. It would be absurd to expect any other outcome.

Not at all, the executive frequently acts unreasonably and gets slapped down by the courts. However, when parliament grants very broad powers (as in the case of a lot of anti-terrorism legislation) they are more likely to get away with it.

A fairly standard (but nonetheless shameful) case this morning: http://www.theguardian.com/uk-...

I suggest reading the reports. Even the Guardian hasn't been pulling punches for some time.

Revealed: the gas chamber horror of North Korea's gulag

North Korea is a horror.

The German Prism: Berlin Wants to Spy Too
French officials can monitor internet users in real time under new law

And some of the reports of "NSA spying" were in fact NSA being given phone data from European agencies.

Look at the sock puppets we get on slashdot :)
Pentagon Spokesman: Public Affairs Must Change With Times (Jul. 25, 2013)
http://www.defense.gov/News/Ne...
"We must communicate with the American public in crisp and memorable lines that deliver a clear and accurate message,”"
Expect to see a lot of hints of new options to shape the flow of information and public opinion in the next few years.
Blocking select servers, the turning of online activists into "busy work" or traps
"Jeremy Hammond: FBI directed my attacks on foreign government sites":
http://www.theguardian.com/wor...
All this will require an inner cadre of new people skilled with the slang, memes and culture to enter and thrive in different online communities building trust, spreading disinformation long term.
Why new people? They may know nothing but a constant war on a tactic and may find aspects of 'privacy' i.e. the domestic legal protections are historical/just red tape/understood talking points to them.
Think of it a cyber 'cannon fodder' for 1000's of sites, chatrooms, forums been flooded with 1000's of unique new/old user names to spread disinformation.
"Revealed: US spy operation that manipulates social media" (18 March 2011)
http://www.theguardian.com/tec...
to "From Twitter with love: American spies snooping on our social media feeds" Feb 17, 2014
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/t...
also see http://cryptome.org/2014/02/ar...

Look at the sock puppets we get on slashdot :)
Pentagon Spokesman: Public Affairs Must Change With Times (Jul. 25, 2013)
http://www.defense.gov/News/Ne...
"We must communicate with the American public in crisp and memorable lines that deliver a clear and accurate message,”"
Expect to see a lot of hints of new options to shape the flow of information and public opinion in the next few years.
Blocking select servers, the turning of online activists into "busy work" or traps
"Jeremy Hammond: FBI directed my attacks on foreign government sites":
http://www.theguardian.com/wor...
All this will require an inner cadre of new people skilled with the slang, memes and culture to enter and thrive in different online communities building trust, spreading disinformation long term.
Why new people? They may know nothing but a constant war on a tactic and may find aspects of 'privacy' i.e. the domestic legal protections are historical/just red tape/understood talking points to them.
Think of it a cyber 'cannon fodder' for 1000's of sites, chatrooms, forums been flooded with 1000's of unique new/old user names to spread disinformation.
"Revealed: US spy operation that manipulates social media" (18 March 2011)
http://www.theguardian.com/tec...
to "From Twitter with love: American spies snooping on our social media feeds" Feb 17, 2014
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/t...
also see http://cryptome.org/2014/02/ar...

FYI - "best and brightest" usually refers to the policy makers in John Kennedy's administration who got the US into Vietnam. Democrats still like to tell eachother how "smart" they are. Fappers.

If you think this is harmless stupidity, think again. IIRC there is at least one case of an HIV positive mother who refused to test her child. The child later died in an illness with symptoms like those of someone who has AIDS. The mother also died, naturally.

And that's just the tip of the iceberg. In South Africa, HIV denialists advised by the Duesberg cult were in charge of public health policy for several years, leading to a tragedy of genocidal proportions:

http://www.theguardian.com/wor...

But other fields like law, medicine, finance? The common perception is that when you're starting out as an intern or assistant, the way you get ahead is working 12 hours days or weekends or whatnot.

An "intern" (not a very British word) at a bank in London died recently, perhaps from overwork after working 72 hours straight.

http://www.theguardian.com/bus...

(Respect for the banking industry has fallen so far, I'm not sure there was much sympathy...)

Mod parent up.

I'm getting bored of articles about Venezuela's so-called dictatorship. Ask yourself:

1. Why is Venezuela's democracy questioned when former US President, Jimmy Carter, whose foundation monitors these things, says "of the 92 elections that we've monitored, I would say that the election process in Venezuela is the best in the world"?
2. Why does the media spend so much time vilifying Venezuela's democracy when our friends in Saudi Arabia chop off the head of a princess in a car park, ban women from driving and do not have elections but have a rather nasty dictator? "Ignore that man behind the curtain" - apparently it's hateful little Venezuela with their elections that keep voting in socialists that are the real problem not the Islamic dictatorships of the Middle East with whom we can more easily negotiate oil supplies.
3. Does it have anything to do with Venezuela having the world's largest proven reserves of oil? And that despite all the animosity between Venezuela and the United States, it still is the fourth largest exporter of oil to the US? Or could it be that it used to have a habit of threatening to stop selling oil to the United States? A self-destructive move but one which it had every right to do.

Venezuela is undeniably badly run. But in a democracy, a country has the right (within reason) to run their affairs as they see fit.

Studies correlate the rise of violence and aggressive behaviors with lead poisoning due to pollution.

On the other hand, freedom of the press belongs to the owners of the presses.

Still, this recently passed UK Parliament bill puts such heavy restrictions on anything seen remotely as political campaigning that, as far as I'm concerned, we might as well now be living under a dictatorship as far as freedom of political speech. (And I say that as someone whose family was brought up under a dictatorship, where at least there was no illusion of choice to waste time celebrating.)

To agree with your point to some extent, I think Elysium (the movie set partially in a space habitat) would have been a much better film if Jodi Foster as a villain had made the point that the solar system would be "full" in 1000 years of unchecked growth, and so as a matter of policy, the "unworthy" breeders on Earth had to be kept down and away from Elysium. I'm not saying I'd agree, but it would have provided a justification of her actions on a larger scale -- a justification very similar to that made by many wealthy people today or in years gone by.

"Billionaire club in bid to curb overpopulation"
http://www.thesundaytimes.co.u...

"Scientists have created the ultimate GM crop: contraceptive corn. ... The company, which says it will not grow the maize near other crops, says it plans to launch clinical trials of the corn in a few months."
http://www.theguardian.com/sci...

Seven years later: "New Study Links Genetically Engineered Corn to Infertility"
http://www.organicconsumers.or...

Or maybe I've just watched too much "Star Gate: SG1"? :-)
http://stargate.wikia.com/wiki...
"The Aschen's intentions were eventually uncovered when members of SG-1 unearthed the remains of what used to be a thriving urban civilization on the Volian world, learning that the Aschen's Anti-aging vaccine had the effect of sterilizing the entire population, after which they were wiped out."

Robots, Terrafoam, and contraceptives in the water is probably more reliable though, as Marshall Brain envisioned in "Manna":
http://marshallbrain.com/manna...
"I replied, "We could change it now. Robots are doing all the work. Human beings -- all human beings -- could now be on perpetual vacation. That's what bugs me. If society had been designed for it somehow, we could all be on vacation instead of on welfare. Everyone on the planet could be living in luxury. Instead, they are planning to kill us off. Did you hear that women were trying to drink the water out of the river? Some people think they're putting contraceptives in the water.""

That reflects and aspect of my sig: "The biggest challenge of the 21st century is the irony of technologies of abundance in the hands of those thinking in terms of scarcity."

It may well be the case that there are always current limits. Perhaps everyone can't have their own private Caribbean island (yet, but maybe someday via SeaSteading or HoloDecks). There may always be some level of competition, including as young men and women struggle to show off for potential mates. But as a society we can shape how those competitive urges are directed to some extent, like James P. Hogan talked about in "Voyage from Yesteryear".

Still, there is a huge difference between people going hungry and being forced to take jobs they do not want versus people who can eat what they want and choose to spend their time how they want (subject to what other people are willing to do together with them). There may be many levels of abundance, but it seems that such a change in people being able to choose how to spend most of their waking hours without a direct need to earn money, such as via basic income, may be the biggest one.

And there may be dark sides to it too, like the potential for addiction, alienation, and isolation that can come with a wealth of material objects and personal space. Related items:
http://europepmc.org/articles/...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pm...
https://www.drfuhrman.com/libr...

Sweden can't make any such promise because Extradition is a court matter

Repeating Big Lies you've been told doesn't make them true.

"It is simply untrue that it is Swedish courts, rather than the Swedish government, who are the final decision-makers in extradition requests. It is equally untrue that the Swedish government has no final decision-making power regarding extradition requests that are legally sanctioned by the Swedish judiciary. These are not matters for reasonable debate. The law is clear."

I would be cautious to hang your argument on Greenwald's table pounding, considering that his support for that conclusion has been debunked by the very author he cites.

Sweden can't make any such promise because Extradition is a court matter

Repeating Big Lies you've been told doesn't make them true.

"It is simply untrue that it is Swedish courts, rather than the Swedish government, who are the final decision-makers in extradition requests. It is equally untrue that the Swedish government has no final decision-making power regarding extradition requests that are legally sanctioned by the Swedish judiciary. These are not matters for reasonable debate. The law is clear."

However, there is no smoke without fire and some of the EU's enforced regulations are truly head-scratching (eg: bottled water packaging cannot claim to combat dehydration.

Now you're propagating sensationalized British tabloid stories yourself, as explained here.

If your company has an adversarial internal structure, then clearly you need advocate (aka manager) to play the politics.

If that's the company structure, then you are stuck with political decisions being made without reference to the engineering reality. That's how you get big failures like RBS and the continual cycle of outsourcing->collapse->insourcing.

Q1 2011 profits relate to device sold up to (not after) that point: the Windows Phone decision, by simple causality, had nothing to do with it. By that point Nokia were already well into a sustained profits slump, having had their last big smartphone success with the 5800 years before:

http://www.theguardian.com/bus...

This fantasy that Nokia was doing just fine until Elop came in has to end. We in the Symbian community could see the writing on the wall by the time the N97 flopped in 2009.

"[I]t is incorrect to say that the final decision to extradite Assange from Sweden to the US would be made by the courts... Swedish extradition law clearly states that the Swedish government is the body deciding on any extradition request"

Here is the long explanation involving quotes from several law professors who know their stuff.

Thanks for putting that information in concise way.

One more group that has to be added is government/army services involved in electronic warfare:
http://www.theguardian.com/tec...

I agree that European law is rough (this coming from an American)

Especially Norwegian law. ;p

Unfortunately, you're not necessarily safe by using tor.

It's less about being politically correct than it is about the amount that was laundered. If there were six more zeroes at the end of the sum, the guy would have gotten off with a warning.

Sigh. That is a load of horseshit, and you should be embarrassed for believing that all it takes is to be involved in high-profile economic activity. Counterexamples abound. You have to be well-connected. http://www.theguardian.com/wor... https://libcom.org/library/all...

If fairness, do you know anyone with $30 BILLION dollars that isn't well connected? I mean, it's not as if he meant $00000030,000 or $30,000.000000

It's less about being politically correct than it is about the amount that was laundered. If there were six more zeroes at the end of the sum, the guy would have gotten off with a warning.

Sigh. That is a load of horseshit, and you should be embarrassed for believing that all it takes is to be involved in high-profile economic activity. Counterexamples abound. You have to be well-connected. http://www.theguardian.com/wor... https://libcom.org/library/all...

Backdoors in this case of the edge network for this administrator are well know.

http://gigaom.com/2013/12/29/n...

Governments don't like the internet. They want it changed.

http://www.zdnet.com/surprise-...

So far one man, worth millions, with a great future ahead of him "decided to hang himself" over that same legislation.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/i...

People are seeing the connections through whistle blowers and alternative media.

http://www.infowars.com/hillar...
http://www.theguardian.com/wor...

French Invade Mali after Fed refusal of Gold...

I am sure it is JUST a cooincidence Gold is the only major export of MALI:

http://www.silverdoctors.com/j...

Troll.

So be it.

I'm sorry. A remote kill-switch is unacceptable. The big time thieves already put your cellphone in a Faraday cage when they swipe it. The real purpose of this device remote kill switch is to allow a more target approach to the Internet kill-switch -- Which as we've recently seen is what oppressive governments do to silence public opposition. Keep in mind that the USA has a long history of silencing public activism, and they are actively planning to ensure their capability to silence activists.

It's quite telling indeed that this would be made mandatory, and not present at the user's option. Why not let the market decide whether this feature is wanted? This mandatory oppressive non-feature creep is anti-capitalism, anti-freedom, and anti-American.

I suspect most North Koreans would gladly trade the problem of a DDOS attack against them by the government for engaging in DDOS in exchange for their current problems of political prisoners being experimented on and mass starvation due to the government diverting both local food and foreign food aid to the military.

Extreme evil doesn't mean that lesser evils are somehow acceptable,
except perhaps in the twisted reasoning framework of a sociopathic child.

What the sock puppets seem to have missed was the complexity of:
"Anonymous unmasked: hacker ringleader turned FBI informant"
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/J...
"Jeremy Hammond: FBI directed my attacks on foreign government sites"
http://www.theguardian.com/wor...
http://arstechnica.com/tech-po...

I suspect most North Koreans would gladly trade the problem of a DDOS attack against them by the government for engaging in DDOS in exchange for their current problems of political prisoners being experimented on and mass starvation due to the government diverting both local food and foreign food aid to the military.

But they're trying to stop T E R R O R I S T S ! ! !

Protesters are not terrorists. Sadly our governments don't make that distinction.

No, that's not sad, it's quite terrifying.

What's sad is that the secret agencies been treating activists like terrorists to maintain the corporate status quo since their inception over a century ago. That's what "national security" is.

...except that religion isn't just a harmless social thing that people do on Sundays.

They're in government, deciding how to run the country (eg. Bush deciding to go to war).

I hate to be the one to break it to you, but Bush is not a religion. He is a person, who hold views, many of which may disagree with yours. Tough luck on that. Your obsessional focus with his belief in God (which many who opposed the invasion of Iraq share), speaks mostly to your own personal prejudices.

...except that religion isn't just a harmless social thing that people do on Sundays.

They're in government, deciding how to run the country (eg. Bush deciding to go to war).
They're trying to remove evolution from the education system.
They get tax breaks.
etc.

So what's wrong with the sentence? After all, in the third quarter of 2013 Android did have around 80% of worldwide market share. That's correct - here are the ABI research figures.
It's simply wrong, though, to extrapolate from that to think that four in five smartphones in peoples' hands are Android-powered. Here's the reality: at the time this was written, more than 40% of the smartphones in use in the US (a key market for Nike) were iPhones. Only about 51% of the smartphones in peoples' hands in the US are Android phones. The ratios are more in Android's favour elsewhere, but nowhere outside of China (and perhaps India) would you find four in five smartphone owners using an Android phone.

The Roadster was based on the Lotus Elise. A car that's not shipped for 18 years. The supply of Elise shells ran out.

The Roadster was only ever intended to be a way to bootstrap the company in a relatively raid way, by only having to work on the EV side of a car.

Meanwhile, if you want a modern Lotus with electric car performance, here's a nifty hybrid:
http://www.theguardian.com/env...

The build up from fertilizer, human waste, and chemical dumping/spilling, _are_ called toxins and are known to be 'toxic'. All of those things are what accumulate near shorelines, and cause the massive ocean dead zones.

because the enemy hide in burkas.