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here (but if you want to decipher a 23 page court opinion instead, feel free...)

You sure are snarky for someone who is seemingly incapable of using a search engine.

Google: "site:techdirt.com apple arbitrary" They've done a fairly thorough job of documenting Apple's arbitrary policies. Of course, Apple is free to be as arbitrary as they wish, as are the fanboys free to defend them blindly (thanks for your shining example!). And the rest of us are free to criticize their silly approach and enjoy a superior product.

For the lazy ones:
http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2009/04/24/crudebox-becomes-prudebox-to-make-it-into-the-app-store/
http://almerica.blogspot.ca/2008/09/podcaster-rejeceted-because-it.html
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10042127-2.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
http://forum.nin.com/bb/read.php?59,651569
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/91508-Apple-Blocks-Obscene-Newsreader-App
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2009/may/21/apple-iphone
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2008/09/apple-imposes-n/
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/36946/Interview_Molleindustria_On_Phone_Storys_Objectionable_Message.php

I await your apology with bated breath.

It's not just verisign, certificates from any CA can/are being used with the likes of this device.

said the US opposes proposals from some of the 'nondemocratic nations' that include tracking and monitoring content and user information, which 'makes it very easy for nations to monitor traffic.'"

yeah, because the US would never do that.

No, the government would never do something like that.

Since military drones are headed to our local police departments sporting Linux, what is your position on the limits of civilian law enforcement use of drone technology? What are your politics concerning drones?

Since military drones are headed to our local police departments and running Linux, what is your position on the limits of civilian law enforcement use of drone technology? What are your politics concerning drones?

Time to move on towards what works, and is not so expensive: Sandia's Z-machine: https://share.sandia.gov/news/resources/news_releases/nuclear_fusion/ http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/09/fusion-energy-breaking-even/ http://newenergyandfuel.com/http:/newenergyandfuel/com/2012/09/18/sandia-lab-releases-info-on-a-new-type-of-fusion-device/

The very fact Huawei has government connections...

Yes, that's absolutely true, in the free world (ie only the US), private companies never ever have government connections. Cough, cough, cough. Don't look behind the curtain, these aren't the droids that you're looking for.

The very fact Huawei has government connections...

Yes, that's absolutely true, in the free world (ie only the US), private companies never ever have government connections. Cough, cough, cough. Don't look behind the curtain, these aren't the droids that you're looking for.

I've been waiting eleven years for the end of this story.

Per my subject-line above: THIS is mainly what made me do what's in my 'p.s.' below:

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24 documented incidences of malware ridden banner ads the past few years now:

http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/06/15/2056219/The-Next-Ad-You-Click-May-Be-a-Virus

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/16/bing_yahoo_malware_ads/

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/24/malware_ads_google_yahoo/

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/24/doubleclick_distributes_malware/

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/30/excite_and_rhapsody_rogue_ads/

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/16/google_sponsored_links/

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/13/doubleclick_distributes_malware/

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/11/yahoo_serves_12million_malware_ads/

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/23/real_media_serves_malware/

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/12/13/doubleclick_msn_malware_attacks/

http://it.slashdot.org/story/11/02/02/1433210/Attacks-Targeting-Classified-Ad-Sites-Surge

http://it.slashdot.org/story/11/01/20/0228258/Hackers-Respond-To-Help-Wanted-Ads-With-Malware

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/2007/11/doubleclick

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/10/12/microsoft_ips_hijacked/

http://it.slashdot.org/it/08/04/19/2148215.shtml

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/12/13/0128249/Two-Major-Ad-Networks-Found-Serving-Malware

http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/09/13/2346229

http://apcmag.com/microsoft_apologises_for_serving_malware.htm

http://it.slashdot.org/it/08/04/19/2148215.shtml

http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/20/0029220&from=rss

http://www.securityweek.com/london-stock-exchange-web-site-serving-malware

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/25/spotify_malvertisement_attack/

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/08/02/1427257/demonoid-down-for-a-week-serving-malware-laden-ads

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* Not only is THAT a threat, but the fact that adbanners account for a HUGE %-age of each page I download, slowing me down & they eat up CP

If you totally ignore how things were done in Menlo Park then yes your convoluted logic is correct.

Here is some quick and dirty info for you to chew on http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/10/steve-jobs-patents/?pid=3821&viewall=true

"Regardless, his name is on more than 350 patents. The patents always list Jobs as part of a team." If anything, your posts prove that Edison was a much greater egotist then Jobs, and that is saying something.

Hacker News has "News for Startups". Many /. articles show up there first. The community has, generally, far fewer commentators and much less humor. Expect to see a lot of stories about new javascript libraries, and blog posts from random idio^H^H^H^H"entrepreneurs". Tag it "RTFPressRease"

People tell me good subreddits exist. I'm not sure I believe it. Tag it "RTFImageCaption"

Linux Weekly News comes with a free neck adjustment to facilitate looking down on things with fewer freedoms. Tag it "RTFLKML"

Ars Technica, and Wired are both brought to you by their corporate overlords. Hard to complain about the reporting, it's sanitized but not awful. There's no community to speak of at either. It gets tagged for you.

Or you could DIY TFA with a custom RSS feed. But unfortunately I don't think what you're looking for exists outside slashdot, even in its supposed decline. You may get better answers, though, by defining what kind of nerd you are.

Remember TIA ("Total Information Awareness")? That monster rose from the dead and its zombie maw is chomping at the bit to eat everything it can.

I wish the MPAA/RIAA would hurry up and die already. They are little more than brutish fossils, symbolic of a decayed era gratefully forgotten.

More DHS reports, this one from Wired.

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/10/dhs-false-water-pump-hack/

Pigeons will soon be the more secure method of communication.

Leave Your Cellphone at Home

The NSA Is Building the Countryâ(TM)s Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say)

WE all know that Youtube is the most scientific of all websites. Try going to real sites that have real data.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24599768/ns/business-autos/t/smart-car-gets-highest-score-crash-tests/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_(automobile)
http://www.wired.com/reviews/2011/04/smart-fortwo-cab/

Is there any info on the smart cars on the onion.com or cracked.com?

Only Greg Aharonian has a working solution to the patent "wars" and it doesn't rely on using divination to determine what and what can't be patented.

Greg basically says a) anything invented can be patented (hardware, software, whatever) BUT (big BUT) it has to be done with proper science something he often feels that both the PTO and the US courts don't understand. Paraphrasing Mr. Aharonian, if after a solid review of patented and non patented prior art, something can be proven with logic and science to be a new invention it's worthy of a patent and if it isn't then no patent should be issued.

It's taken me years and years of reading Greg's musing on patent's to really understand his prospective (I hope I really do...); Why worry about false issues about what type of technology is used; tech is tech, what matters is if you have done something truly novel.

http://ns1.patenting-art.com/

http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa071297.htm
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.06/patents_pr.html

I am not sure stage names should be considered an alias for legal purposes but my opinion really does not matter.

I'm sure there's some leeway there, but this guy specifically has a pretty solid history of using aliases when he's committing crimes, several of them are listed in the first paragraph here. It sounds like when he was receiving probation that the judge was basically fed up with him using aliases and ordered that as one of the conditions. That's just another privilege that he lost, for most of us it's fine if we want to use an alias but if he's going to abuse that then the judge revoked that privilege for him.

but I do have to wonder if anybody would have cared about his terms of probation/parole if he did not give a sizable chunk of the world a reason to hate him.

Doubtful, other than that it looks like his major crimes are manufacturing meth and stealing money from banks. In other words, a relatively small-time criminal. A mastermind this guy is not.

Wired seemed to have a better write-up of potential legal angles:
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/10/3d-gun-blocked/

Regardless of legal angles, though, Stratasys made it clear that this is not what they want their machines used for, and that is that. If he bought it, it might be different - but he was basically just renting it. I'm sure he can get a different 3D printer to work with.

A lot has changed in the past 15 years. UNIX is now mainstream, running on thousands of devices.

UNIX was mainstream, running on "thousands" of devices then too. The great bulk of traffic went through and to UNIX devices. It was a 'background' tech, just like it is today -- people may have *nix based OS's, but since nearly none use the CLI, it's no more visible.

Even more, computer technology and networking are now mainstream,

Yup, more. But that's less of a Change and more of a More. Parents and grandparents are online now. But then, Us adults of Then have been becoming parents and grandparents Since.

with ordinary people navigating wi-fi hotspots

Ordinary people were navigating to wired hotspots. I was a carpenter for petesakes. I heard about /. from a mate in a cafe only a month after things started. Everything was remarkably mainstream already. WiReD was being sold in the grocery store racks. It had been for four years already.

Memory lane: the WiReD covers of 1997,
http://www.wired.com/wired/coverbrowser/1997

and even writing code for their phones.

Java, HTML, Javascript. Very active time for Ordinary People writing code for themselves. BASIC was already historically interesting.

What once was special and unique is no longer so removed from the experience of normal people.

... sigh. Guess I'm a curmudgeon, but you know, that applies to /. all too well.

It's tough to get right, but if /. is to have distinction and thus survival, it really needs to get more nerdy.

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Yup, AC. AC since The Beginning and of course can't prove that at all. But if you're curious about Why anyone would, it's because some think it's a measure of /.'s health to test how posts resting on Content alone are moderated. And that it's important to submit such AC posts so that important option will be preserved and respected. Ain't no other way but doing it.

I'll consider being impressed by 3D printing as soon as someone actually starts doing something useful with it.

This is IMO impressive: Instead of shipping plastic parts around the world the company simply published CAD files. It's a start.

Right. This can never happen in the app store.

http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3154101&cid=41507295

* Enjoy the program & what custom hosts files can do for you...

(Which is far, Far, FAR MORE than slower less efficient browser addons do, & even DNS servers on many accounts - even "filtering" ones like OpenDNS, ScrubIT, NortonDNS, Comodo DNS, or Google DNS, etc./et al).

APK

P.S.=> I feel EXACTLY as you do - but not so much for advertisers "getting in my face" or yours via robbing screen realestate, but more for robbing my ELECTRIC POWER (running ads, the BULK of what comes thru in webpage), CPU cycles, RAM, & other forms of I/O - but MORE for them infecting systems, ala these examples over time:

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http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/06/15/2056219/The-Next-Ad-You-Click-May-Be-a-Virus

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/16/bing_yahoo_malware_ads/

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/24/malware_ads_google_yahoo/

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/24/doubleclick_distributes_malware/

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/30/excite_and_rhapsody_rogue_ads/

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/16/google_sponsored_links/

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/13/doubleclick_distributes_malware/

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/11/yahoo_serves_12million_malware_ads/

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/23/real_media_serves_malware/

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/12/13/doubleclick_msn_malware_attacks/

http://it.slashdot.org/story/11/02/02/1433210/Attacks-Targeting-Classified-Ad-Sites-Surge

http://it.slashdot.org/story/11/01/20/0228258/Hackers-Respond-To-Help-Wanted-Ads-With-Malware

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/2007/11/doubleclick

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/10/12/microsoft_ips_hijacked/

http://it.slashdot.org/it/08/04/19/2148215.shtml

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/12/13/0128249/Two-Major-Ad-Networks-Found-Serving-Malware

http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/09/13/2346229

http://apcmag.com/microsoft_apologises_for_serving_malware.htm

http://it.slashdot.org/it/08/04/19/2148215.shtml

http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/20/0029220&from=rss

htt

Streaming 100 different DVDs to 100 different people was already ruled illegal.

http://news.yahoo.com/zediva-permanently-shut-down-forced-pay-mpaa-nearly-042405420.html
http://www.wired.com/business/2011/08/zediva-shuts-down/

"The first important change in organization came in 1949 with the creation of the Armed Forces Security Agency, which, as its name implies, was responsible for collecting and disseminating intelligence at the strategic level for all services. So well did the new system work that three years later it was decided to expand the organization into the newly named National Security Agency, the octopus that today handles intelligence and cryptography for virtually all U.S. agencies, that has extended its activities to surveillance of Americans at home and abroad, and has been built into the central agency essential for the running of any police state." [emphasis mine]

Keep in mind this book was published in 1977. This year Wired reported "The NSA Is Building the Countryâ(TM)s Biggest Spy Center" (http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/all/1.

/. and techdirt regularly report on governmental overreaching and grabs for power (http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110714/09102815090/dhs-requests-300-million-to-purchase-even-more-devices-that-dont-work.shtml, http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/09/07/195218/fbi-launches-1-billion-nationwide-face-recognition-system, http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120106/03474817298/ice-propaganda-film-pats-itself-back-censoring-web-promises-much-more-to-come.shtml, http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/10/07/151258/dhs-goes-ahead-with-pre-crime-detection-project, http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/01/14/233203/dhs-monitors-social-media-for-political-dissent, http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/09/12/1231227/gao-slams-dhs-over-biowatch-biological-defense-system). The list seems endless.

With all this governmental activity, who is going to protect the constitutional rights of ordinary citizens?

How about the first Warp Drive ship?

Last I saw (US anyway) the contents of messages are not logged.
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/09/cellular-customer-data/

The temperature is much lower and so less heat energy is lost during the storage. The rate of cooling is much lower.

And a fair amount of the heat in the water can allegedly be reused:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericagies/2012/01/25/greening-the-grid-lightsail-aims-to-make-power-cleaner-by-making-energy-storage-cheap-and-plentiful/

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/07/danielle-fong/

Until I read the description, I thought they had slavishly copied Apple again.

Blaming things on "this isn't how Jobs would've done it" is getting a bit old now. He wasn't perfect. He had plenty of bad ideas and even let several of them ship over the years (e.g. putting the vents for the G4 Cube on top of the machine, overdoing it with skeuomorphisms, wanting to name the iMac the MacMan, and I haven't even gotten into things like Antennagate and the like). And especially so in this case, since Apple has had a long history of shipping out aluminum-clad devices with anodized colors. I recall hearing or reading something that I believe Jony Ive said about how as things wear they want for them to wear well, much like good leather will as it takes damage and gets scuffed. That is, things will be scratched up, but the trick they were using was to use materials that would wear that damage well (e.g. the original iPhone that you mentioned). Minor scuffs and dings may detract from how pristine their devices look, but it may still be in keeping with their design philosophies, though I do agree that this device seems a bit more susceptible to injury than I would think they would like.

Side note: Wired had an interested article about Gorilla Glass yesterday, and it's worth a read if you find that stuff fascinating at all.

No wireless. Lame.

Funny, but Wired just did a write-up and noted that it is available with 3G (no 4G though, lame). Though they did complain that the voice control won't be enabled at launch.

Israelis are systematically killing Palestinians to take their land, and doing so with biblical justifications.

The Israelis have killed fewer Arabs than the Arabs in surrounding nations.

Hama massacre
1970: Civil war breaks out in Jordan

Bush the Younger referred to the war on terror as a "Crusade."

A figure of speech, not a declaration of Holy War - the United States has no provision for that.

There's no way of telling how many innocent Iraqis and Afghans have been killed by Christian soldiers because of their beliefs. . .

The total dead in Iraq during the US invasion, occupation, and prior to departure is something on the order of 120,000 people killed. Of those, the vast majority were killed by Shia death squads and Al Qaeda terrorists. So, Muslims killed far more Muslims for purely religious reasons than any possible number killed by the Coalition forces. This is especially true since the Coalition soldiers would have only generally killed people directly engaged in terrorism or combat. So, the number killed by Coalition soldiers (who were of many different faiths, including Islam) only for being Muslim is probably very small, next to nothing.

but some elements of the U.S. Military have certainly encouraged the mass murder of innocent civilians based on the fact that they were Muslims: http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/09/lawsuit-total-war-islam/

You do realize that was 1 (one) man, right? Describing that 1 (one) man as "elements of the US Military" is a pretty extravagant description.

If anything, I think the religious killings by Christians and Jews are probably greater in number than those by Muslims. They aren't reported on in the same way - if you live in the U.S., you'll never see the U.S. or Israel accused of genocide by the media - but they're there whether you hear about them or not.

You're joking?

Tears of Jihad - These figures are a rough estimate of the death of non-Muslims by the political act of jihad

Don't be guilty, per the list below (since you're not the guilty one on all of those links)

Adbanners have been shown to serve malware MANY TIMES...

Evidences are per the partial list only below (23 incidences spanning a few years now)

That, as well as the fact processing ads takes up YOUR electrical power, cpu time, memory space, & other forms of I/O, like disk (that really cost with std. hdds since you're MOVING things), AND YOUR SPEED/BANDWIDTH YOU PAID FOR too...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/16/bing_yahoo_malware_ads/

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/24/malware_ads_google_yahoo/

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/24/doubleclick_distributes_malware/

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/30/excite_and_rhapsody_rogue_ads/

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/16/google_sponsored_links/

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/13/doubleclick_distributes_malware/

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/11/yahoo_serves_12million_malware_ads/

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/23/real_media_serves_malware/

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/12/13/doubleclick_msn_malware_attacks/

http://it.slashdot.org/story/11/02/02/1433210/Attacks-Targeting-Classified-Ad-Sites-Surge

http://it.slashdot.org/story/11/01/20/0228258/Hackers-Respond-To-Help-Wanted-Ads-With-Malware

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/2007/11/doubleclick

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/10/12/microsoft_ips_hijacked/

http://it.slashdot.org/it/08/04/19/2148215.shtml

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/12/13/0128249/Two-Major-Ad-Networks-Found-Serving-Malware

http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/06/15/2056219/The-Next-Ad-You-Click-May-Be-a-Virus

http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/09/13/2346229

http://apcmag.com/microsoft_apologises_for_serving_malware.htm

http://it.slashdot.org/it/08/04/19/2148215.shtml

http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/20/0029220&from=rss

http://www.securityweek.com/london-stock-exchange-web-site-serving-malware

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/25/spotify_malvertisement_attack/

We can get Helium from all the Hydrogen fusion power plants. It might just be a little too hot to handle. http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/09/fusion-energy-breaking-even/

Howling Wilderness of Computerdom [tm], they passed a law against any such shenanigans. The godz forbid we should actually have a CHOICE in our broadband!

http://www.wired.com/business/2011/05/nc-gov-anti-muni-broadband/

http://www.indyweek.com/indyweek/cities-consumers-lose-municipal-broadband-fight/Content?oid=2440390

Of course they also passed laws forbidding any study of global rising seawater .. outside the limits they felt were politically correct, that is.

Gotta love 'em.

The CDMA phone, however, is more of a global device. It supports the same three LTE bands as the non-U.S. GSM phone, as well as the two main bands used by U.S. carriers Verizon and Sprint. Another benefit to the CDMA phone is that it supports GSM/EDGE radio frequencies, while the GSM phones do not support CDMA frequencies. Unfortunately, that GSM support is limited to international use for stateside customers. What is oddly missing from all three phones is LTE support for a large portion of Western Europe, which uses LTE Band 7.

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/09/iphone5-lte-model/

And:

CDMA model A1429*: CDMA EV-DO Rev. A and Rev. B (800, 1900, 2100 MHz); UMTS/HSPA+/DC-HSDPA (850, 900, 1900, 2100 MHz); GSM/EDGE (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz); LTE (Bands 1, 3, 5, 13, 25)

http://www.apple.com/iphone/specs.html

I actually looked into that the other day but I guess I missed that portion. Sorry for adding to the confusion...

Where the iPhone 4S was a dual GSM/CDMA device, meaning one model for all carriers, the LTE-enabled iPhone 5 comes in two separate GSM models and one CDMA model. This means that consumers will have fewer choices when switching carriers, and that LTE access will be limited when traveling abroad.

Since carriers utilize different radio frequencies (also known as frequency bands) for LTE service, Apple has had to diversify its iPhone 5 portfolio. This largely has to do with the fact that 4G LTE is still in the early stages of development, compared to more mature networks like 2G and 3G. It’s a messy situation that Android handset makers like Samsung and HTC have been dealing with when it comes to their 4G LTE devices. For example, the Samsung Galaxy SIII comes in nine model variants, five of which are specific to North American carriers.

The three iPhone 5 models include: GSM model A1428 that supports LTE Bands 4 and 17; GSM model A1429 that supports LTE Bands 1, 3, and 5; and CDMA model A1429 that supports LTE Bands 1, 3, 5, 13, and 25.

In layman’s terms, this means an iPhone 5 user who wanted to jump from, say, AT&T to Verizon or vice versa, would have to buy a new handset, since AT&T runs a GSM network and Verizon is CDMA. And where owners of GSM handsets previously enjoyed wide compatibility with foreign networks, LTE fragmentation means that AT&T customers using an iPhone 5 in Europe, for example, won’t be able to take advantage of LTE speeds while abroad and will instead get kicked down to the 3G network.

More at the link:

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/09/iphone5-lte-model/

Is the Wired story incorrect? Is there more to this? Or is "able to connect to any GSM network" totally bogus?

More details here, including this blurb from Verizon:

UPDATE: Verizon got back to us, and said "Verizon Wireless plans to enable global LTE roaming on the iPhone 5 in the future. As there are many LTE frequencies currently being deployed around the world, Verizon will be surveying which markets line up best with the frequencies available in our version of the iPhone 5."

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/09/want-global-lte-roaming-on-iphone-5-dont-buy-it-from-att/

Perhaps this should read "able to connect to any LTE network that runs on compatible frequencies"?

didn't they already announce something like this?

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/07/mozilla-dumps-boot2gecko-name-firefox-os-tktktk/

the picture in this article sure as fuck looks like a reflashed android though! pretty full fledged, but that's zte for you..

Wired, May 1997 - The Epic Saga of The Well

McClure shared an office with someone from the Whole Earth Software Catalog. His computer, a Compaq, sat on a piece of white plywood board; he cadged a stenographer's chair from the Whole Earth office. It was high tech in the middle of funk, and funk wasn't the ideal setting in which to launch a cutting-edge enterprise. The building had no insulation to speak of, and the roof leaked. In the summer the office was an inferno, and in the winter the temperature indoors dipped into the 50s. The computer room, a modified closet, was just big enough for the disk drive and CPU cabinets. A window-mounted air conditioner -- the largest unit Sears sold -- cooled the VAX.

The world (especially voters and politicians) believe in nutjob armageddon/rapture bullshit and are hell-bent on making sure it happens as soon as possible

Let me help you out there -

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, AKA the Soviet Union, governed by the religion suppressing atheistic Communist Party of the Soviet Union, in a "Dictatorship of the Proletariat" operated according to the "scientific principles" of Marxist-Leninism, built an actual Doomsday weapon, that is still active: Soviet Doomsday Device Still Armed and Ready and Inside the Apocalyptic Soviet Doomsday Machine.. Apparently secular socialist progressive totalitarians are just as crazy as anyone else. Salud.

Related: Moscow arms against nuclear attack

Nearly 5,000 new emergency bomb shelters will be built in Moscow by 2012 to save people in case of potential attacks.

Out of sight but not out of mind

William Burrows’ classic 1986 book about satellite reconnaissance, Deep Black, opened with a vivid scene of retired US Air Force Major General George Keegan recounting how in the early 1970s he had become obsessed with Soviet civil defense preparedness. As head of Air Force intelligence, Keegan had ordered his junior officers to gather all the satellite photography that they could of Soviet underground shelter building. Eventually he compiled a massive amount of data indicating—he claimed—that virtually every large apartment building erected in the Soviet Union since 1955 included a fallout shelter, factories had underground bunkers, and there were “seventy-five huge underground command posts.” A few of these underground facilities housed command centers for the Strategic Rocket Forces and were buried in the Ural Mountains. In particular, Yamantau Mountain (“Evil Mountain” in the local Bashkir language) and Kosvinsky Mountain were considered to be the Soviet equivalents to Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado, home to NORAD (not to mention the W.O.P.R. and the Stargate).

Shelters part of long-term civil defense plan - Shanghai leaders stress the date of 2012 is purely a coincidence
Assessing PLA Underground Air Basing Capability

Bunkers for all

Switzerland is unique in having enough nuclear fallout shelters to accommodate its entire population, should they ever be needed.

IKEA in Hell - The interior design of Sweden’s giant nuclear bunker.

Israeli leaders spend day in 'Nation's Tunnel' nuclear bunker

The frightening truth of why Iran wants a bomb

According to Shia lore, the Imam is a messianic figure who, although in hiding, remains the true Sovereign of the World. In every generation, the Imam chooses 36 men, (and, for obvious reasons, no women) naming them the owtad or "nails", whose presence, hammered into mankind's existence, prevents the universe from "falling off". Although the "nails" are not known to common mortals, it is, at

The world (especially voters and politicians) believe in nutjob armageddon/rapture bullshit and are hell-bent on making sure it happens as soon as possible

Let me help you out there -

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, AKA the Soviet Union, governed by the religion suppressing atheistic Communist Party of the Soviet Union, in a "Dictatorship of the Proletariat" operated according to the "scientific principles" of Marxist-Leninism, built an actual Doomsday weapon, that is still active: Soviet Doomsday Device Still Armed and Ready and Inside the Apocalyptic Soviet Doomsday Machine.. Apparently secular socialist progressive totalitarians are just as crazy as anyone else. Salud.

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Nearly 5,000 new emergency bomb shelters will be built in Moscow by 2012 to save people in case of potential attacks.

Out of sight but not out of mind

William Burrows’ classic 1986 book about satellite reconnaissance, Deep Black, opened with a vivid scene of retired US Air Force Major General George Keegan recounting how in the early 1970s he had become obsessed with Soviet civil defense preparedness. As head of Air Force intelligence, Keegan had ordered his junior officers to gather all the satellite photography that they could of Soviet underground shelter building. Eventually he compiled a massive amount of data indicating—he claimed—that virtually every large apartment building erected in the Soviet Union since 1955 included a fallout shelter, factories had underground bunkers, and there were “seventy-five huge underground command posts.” A few of these underground facilities housed command centers for the Strategic Rocket Forces and were buried in the Ural Mountains. In particular, Yamantau Mountain (“Evil Mountain” in the local Bashkir language) and Kosvinsky Mountain were considered to be the Soviet equivalents to Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado, home to NORAD (not to mention the W.O.P.R. and the Stargate).

Shelters part of long-term civil defense plan - Shanghai leaders stress the date of 2012 is purely a coincidence
Assessing PLA Underground Air Basing Capability

Bunkers for all

Switzerland is unique in having enough nuclear fallout shelters to accommodate its entire population, should they ever be needed.

IKEA in Hell - The interior design of Sweden’s giant nuclear bunker.

Israeli leaders spend day in 'Nation's Tunnel' nuclear bunker

The frightening truth of why Iran wants a bomb

According to Shia lore, the Imam is a messianic figure who, although in hiding, remains the true Sovereign of the World. In every generation, the Imam chooses 36 men, (and, for obvious reasons, no women) naming them the owtad or "nails", whose presence, hammered into mankind's existence, prevents the universe from "falling off". Although the "nails" are not known to common mortals, it is, at

TBH I would not be surprised if there was some feud between them and he just went full retard.

Nah, he was full retard from day one. http://articles.latimes.com/2010/mar/28/nation/la-na-hometown-santa-fe28-2010mar28

My favorite parts: "waves of nausea, vertigo, body aches, dizziness, heart arrhythmia and insomnia returned -- all, he says, because she was using an iPhone, a laptop computer, a wireless router and dimmer switches." To stress this: he gets that sick from DIMMER SWITCHES 30 FEET AWAY. And it would have to be a damn fantastic dimmer to have wi-fi.

And: "Firstenberg said he was staying with friends and occasionally sleeping in his car." A dimmer switch in a house about 30 feet from his makes him sick, but he can drive (I assume) and sleep in a car about a yard from an internal combustion engine, alternator, and a lead acid battery.

Wasn't there also some public school district that was suffering legal trouble from the same claims?

You were probably thinking of: http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2012/07/wi-fi_lawsuit_against_portland.html

Or maybe: http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2003/10/60769

But there's been a LOT of places suffering legal trouble: http://www.smdp.com/resident-files-1-7b-claim-with-city-hall/

If you want to find more, look up Magda Havas. She's making a nice profit being an "expert" on how Wifi is killing you and UR BABIEZZZZZ. Then there's Barrie Trower. I haven't heard much about him except that he adds some conspiracy theory to the mix and meets interesting people like the king of Botswana (the country is a republic).

No, it was Jeff Huber at Google.

https://plus.google.com/+JeffHuber/posts/7aPJrDsk1DA
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/06/google-maps-ios-app/

First, I am very grateful for Wikipedia and would rather not imagine the world without it, even though one need only look back a decade to do so. As a fine and powerful, but fallible tool, it is like the scent of carrion to conniving circling buzzards -- and circling they be! Ahh, yes, the skies are clear you say; where are these buzzards?. Well, Chicken Little has been thoroughly plucked and I'm not following suit. Instead, I'll drop this link (this one too), say a few things, specifically that I suspect there is a problem, and hope this /. article will motivate some capable Slashers to do a little digging and telling, if they will.

The first link directs to a Wired article on Virgil Griffith, a CalTech grad student who did a little forensic prodding, tracing the IPs of certain chivalrous Wikipedia editors. While such agencies and corporations as the CIA and Microsoft have been observed doodling gleefully about, a plenitude of other interesting sources have too. Certainly the CIA and Microsoft are welcome to make appropriate edits to Wikipedia; however, what qualifies as "appropriate" could probably use a good public review.

The second link is simply damned interesting, IMO.

Warning: Rant Begins Here:
It beggars the mind of a bumbling patriot like myself to conceive jingo-seraphim such as Petraeus diverting their genial hoof garments hither domestic. And surely fables of Mocking Birds are no true tales of conniving buzzards. After all, elaborate psychological conditioning could never compete with the unhindered purity of the American phenotype shining so brightly amongst a world lightless without. No, it is not intentional manipulation that deserves credit for the strength of our glorious consumer might. It is far more likely the intrinsic virtue of any decent ape-in-transition to be just as we are, or worse to be fair. Critical-thinking is a disease which must be mitigated by central intervention, by those who know best. For the masses would be lost in an endless banquet of sodomy and cannibalism without the guidance of Malthusian oversight to cull them. Without such counsel, humanity would grovel in the sorry wake of cretins like Tesla, reeling through horrid century after century of wanton growth, like a wicked and vibrant cancer that cannot be controlled, spreading beyond the sweaty grasp of central planning and anthropoid politics. There is a stark and deep Universe beyond the smoke and mirrors of our terrestrial slave'osphere. The iron hand that presses your shoulder every time you gaze into that forbidden abyss of the anti-ape, it only strives to protect you. Baby, it's cold out there.

Here's an interesting related article from 2003 Wired: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.09/diamond.html

Wikipedia maintains a list of synthetic diamond manufacturers at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_synthetic_diamond_manufacturers

When an autistic person marries another autistic person, they can have profoundly autistic children. Wired Magazine dubbed it The Geek Syndrome.

So if you're autistic, like many engineers and programmers, try to avoid marrying someone like yourself if you're thinking of having kids.

No one buys Microsoft phones.

They're in the same boat as RIM but they get a pass for some reason.

I can only assume Microsoft is paying them to stay somehow? Maybe free phones?

Why support desktop Linux for anything? It has much less market share than Windows Phone. Does that make any sense? Perhaps Yahoo thinks it's good platform showing good promise in the future

Just Nokia sold 7 million Windows Phones in the last two quarters and the Lumia 920 is looking promising compared to others. While it may not seem like much compared to iPhone and Android it's not negligible.

Look at this comparison of phones and the poll underneath.

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/09/iphone5-spec-showdown/

Which smartphone are you going to buy?
Apple iPhone 5 22% (8152)
Nokia Lumia 920 56% (21263)
Samsung Galaxy S III 12% (4557)
Samsung Galaxy Nexus 4% (1375)
Other 3% (1170)
I don't plan to buy a smartphone. 3% (1207)
Total votes: 37724

I think I know why you think no one uses Windows Phone though, you get your news from Slashdot.

Yes:

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/08/domscheit-berg-disputes/

"Domscheit-Berg shocked WikiLeaks supporters this week when he told the German newsweekly Der Spiegel that heâ(TM)d deleted more than 3,500 unpublished documents that he and an associate took with them when they left the organization last year. He said he destroyed the documents because Julian Assange could not guarantee safe handling of the files or their sources."

First link when I Googled it, not hard to find.