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Er... huh? "Apple's Gross Margin is 39.9% - Samsung's is 39.87." Both sell a lot of hardware, and in Samsung's case a lot of other random stuff.

So what was your "I'm sure that Apples margins on software products is comparable" about?

As to the others, I refer you to: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?... http://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?...

Those margins are not anything close to that stated in the original post. Microsoft is primarily a software comapny and has margins in line for that industry.

You are confusing the margins on the devices that Blackberry sells with the fact that they sell far to little to make a profit. Apple has those high margins because they sell so many. As for Microsoft, they sure as hell sell hardware, but either at low or negative margins.

As to Samsung, their margins are actually at the upper end of recent years.

As to Apple and software sales, what is the margin on Final Cut Pro (and think what it was when it cost more than $299) Logic Pro X @ 199? But in the end, those do not matter as without iPhone Apple is at best a third or fourth place computer maker with marketshare in the 5 to 10% range (historically).

Yeah, they've only outgrown the rest of the PC market for almost all quarters during the last couple of years. Total failure.

Er... huh? "Apple's Gross Margin is 39.9% - Samsung's is 39.87." Both sell a lot of hardware, and in Samsung's case a lot of other random stuff.

As to the others, I refer you to:
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?...
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?...

  Those margins are not anything close to that stated in the original post. Microsoft is primarily a software comapny and has margins in line for that industry. As to Samsung, their margins are actually at the upper end of recent years.

As to Apple and software sales, what is the margin on Final Cut Pro (and think what it was when it cost more than $299) Logic Pro X @ 199? But in the end, those do not matter as without iPhone Apple is at best a third or fourth place computer maker with marketshare in the 5 to 10% range (historically).

Er... huh? "Apple's Gross Margin is 39.9% - Samsung's is 39.87." Both sell a lot of hardware, and in Samsung's case a lot of other random stuff.

As to the others, I refer you to:
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?...
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?...

  Those margins are not anything close to that stated in the original post. Microsoft is primarily a software comapny and has margins in line for that industry. As to Samsung, their margins are actually at the upper end of recent years.

As to Apple and software sales, what is the margin on Final Cut Pro (and think what it was when it cost more than $299) Logic Pro X @ 199? But in the end, those do not matter as without iPhone Apple is at best a third or fourth place computer maker with marketshare in the 5 to 10% range (historically).

What can possibly go wrong?

http://news.yahoo.com/us-sees-...

Got me there son, sure do / sarcasm

I have friends or no people who have come over from virtually any time period you care to name since Castro.

You say it's not so bad, but people are still crossing the Florida Straits on rafts to get out.

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Those people violently disagree, whats more they disagree so strongly they are willing to risk their lives for the belief.

It's not the cash-cow speed traps and Officer Dickweed hiding behind your neighbor's azaleas with a laser gun that I'm worried about. It's the mindless, shoot-first cops that are determined to become a leading cause of death to unarmed civilians despite supposedly safe weapons.

Maybe cops need a sensible, community-minded mission in a media friendly format? "Serve and Protect", maybe, or "We're tackling real criminals now instead of the harmless pot smokers".

We have plenty of reasons to hate cops, from racially-motivated shootings to blatant theft and rage murder, these incidents happen many thousands of times every year. If they want to change I'm all for it but in the meantime let me know where these trigger happy fuckers are so I can avoid them. I believe believe in personal safety, freedom to possess property and the inviolable rights of every human being. That's why I feel justified in helping highlight gang members with badges on Waze. Think of the children (AKA collateral damage) please folks.

buckshot

Oh, I think we'll see something new on the shelves really soon from Remington, Federal, Winchester, Fiocchi, etc.

Droneshot

That, or just ask the licensed drone hunters in Colorado what load they're using.

Ok, I grabbed one source here:
https://www.yahoo.com/movies/s...
And here's the money shot quote:
"Currently, approximately $1B in production spending can be expected to deliver $500M-$600M in profits,” the letter says. “Through his continued focus on financial discipline, Doug hopes to improve that ratio to a point where $800-$900M in production spending delivers $500-$600M in profits.”

A traditional that has long been utilized by western economies.

s/western/other/ ?

See India
See Russia
See Bangladesh
See almost-any-fucking-country

Africa is just one of the places where corruption is expected. You don't see such things in places like Canada or US or France anymore (at least not overtly), but they are very much part of every day life in places like India or Russia or Mexico or most of Africa.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/road...

Comparing Telsa with Delorean is not valid.

The company failed because the high expectations and desires of the founder John DeLorean did not match the realities of the level of manufacturing technology and market demand of the late 70's and early 80's. The car was also an under performing over priced piece of junk. The only unique aspect of the car was the gull wing doors and stainless steel skin, everything else was a technological compromise that resulted in lack luster car.

Tesla actually makes decent vehicles.

The people that discover things deserve the credit for it. Both for the sake of encouraging others to discover things and for the sake of raising peoples up based on their achievements such that their genes carry on further. India has nothing but a shit country that is filled with shit to the point their fruits, seeds, foods, etc all literally smell like shit. They have segregated themselves into a caste system such that their upper class is complacent and arrogant with little higher thought and their lower class is utterly whipped to the point they wouldn't be able to make themselves propose a new idea if they were capable of having one and almost entirely incompetent both in terms of accepting their position without striving to work to be more and in intellectual capabilities otherwise. A people's achievements are important because people naturally associate ancillary things with eachother. If you start saying "India created the first airplanes", "India discovered the Pythagorean theorem" and other such nonsense people subconsciously begin to think "maybe there's something to this backwards-ass caste system that turned an entire civilization of people into useless abominations of Humanity that are only really capable of claiming ownership of other people's shit" - only without the negative connotations of that particular phrasing.

But hey - at least they focus on the important stuff, like kicking out people that don't ascribe to their filthy Indian caste system.

most rich donors actually support the Democrats over the Republicans, it just does not get reported because only 7% of journalists are Republican and most journalists who contribute to politicians give to Democrats

There's really no mystery here and it's no conspiracy with secret handshakes and secret meetings; the press in the US is largely concentrated in big liberal cities and these people all live and breathe in the resulting ideological/cultural bubbles while the very rich (also generally concentrated in those big liberal cities) often get that way via government-enabled crony capitalism and revolving doors between big government and big business.

Cyptowall is very sophisticated. It will go into online backups and encrypt them too. If you are using a common online backup it can find those and encrypt those too. The best protection against this is a usb backup in a drawer.

Cyptowall was recently being distributed by yahoo ads via a compromised flash ad http://news.yahoo.com/yahoo-ad.... You could have received it by going to your favorite news site.

LOL @ flash ads ...

Good Gods, man, the skies are falling because there's absolutely nothing except THE Google!

Please provide your email address [1] and an encrypted file [2] that has been encrypted by CryptoLocker. This portal will then email you a master decryption key along with a download link to our recovery program that can be used together with the master decryption key to repair all encrypted files on your system.

Found it at this site.

Reputable security firms Fox-IT and FireEye collaborated on the free DecryptoLocker project, which provides a simple way for CryptoWall victims to recover their files and their privacy.

Disclaimer: I read this stuff but I know nothing more than that.

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

http://news.yahoo.com/paris-sh...

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-...

Cyptowall was recently being distributed by yahoo ads via a compromised flash ad http://news.yahoo.com/yahoo-ad.... You could have received it by going to your favorite news site.

That article makes no mention of a compromised flash ad. It actually doesn't mention any type of compromise or flash. Yahoo ads served up an ad that took people to a server that could lead to a compromise. Just visiting a page that had that Yahoo ad didn't compromise your machine.

Cyptowall is very sophisticated. It will go into online backups and encrypt them too. If you are using a common online backup it can find those and encrypt those too. The best protection against this is a usb backup in a drawer.

Cyptowall was recently being distributed by yahoo ads via a compromised flash ad http://news.yahoo.com/yahoo-ad.... You could have received it by going to your favorite news site.

I use Crashplan. Couldn't they use a canary of some kind? In my online account I define a file that is just plain text or a key. I upload the text content of that file to my account while the local backup software doesn't know about this. I point to where this file is located in my backup, and it should be identical. Whenever this file is encrypted (or changed), I get an alert via mail. Then I know something is messing with my backup or with my local files.

Cyptowall is very sophisticated. It will go into online backups and encrypt them too. If you are using a common online backup it can find those and encrypt those too. The best protection against this is a usb backup in a drawer. Cyptowall was recently being distributed by yahoo ads via a compromised flash ad http://news.yahoo.com/yahoo-ad.... You could have received it by going to your favorite news site.

Every one of these exploits is a proof of concept (so far, and that I have read about) requires physical access to the car.

You need to read about more. First, physical access isn't a barrier.

Second:

Among these, we demonstrate the ability to compromise a car via ..., via vulnerabilities in hands-free Bluetooth functionality and, finally, by calling the car’s cellular modem [used for things like OnStar]...

http://www.autosec.org/pubs/cars-usenixsec2011.pdf

That is absolutely nonsensical. Do eye glasses count as technology? Does sitting in a car and looking out the window count as technology? Subjective laws are never a good thing.

So, another armchair lawyer without any idea about what constitute laws? So per your understanding, if you dig a hole in your backyard and someone then walks into it and dies, that's murder? You see, the law has shades of gray precisely because humans are not binary creatures. Our intentions is what makes something a crime or not. Intent is the difference between negligence and first degree murder.

We all know people can look through windows - that's what they were designed for. Hence if you want privacy, and that is something you expect in your house, you can put shades on the windows. There is an expectation of privacy - if you don't see outside, it is expected that they can't see you either. Capish?

Law enforcement can infringe on your right to privacy by getting a search warrant. With a search warrant they can enter your dwelling and search it. They can observe you for evidence of a crime in a manner that is not detectable by you - recording your communication, watching inside of your house and other private places.

If a device is looking inside a private dwelling, and it is not using regular visible light, it needs a warrant. That's what has been determined on multiple times already. If they do not have a search warrant, any such evidence is illegal - it data will be inadmissible in court as evidence.

Would it be legal for someone not working as a LEO to use one of these devices nonconsentually? Probably not, it would probably be considered stalking, voyeurism, etc.

Is a private detective a voyeur or a stalker then? Or is a LEO automatically not a stacker? It's intent that matters.

http://www.wgal.com/news/polic...

https://ca.answers.yahoo.com/q...

Good thing laws are not black and white!

Kodak always made cameras, though mainly just to sell film, which was always an enormous cash cow for them. They vigorously pursued the digital camera market but basically lost to Canon, Fuji, and Nikon on some combination of features and price. So, they were doing many of the right things, just not doing them well enough to compete. As you point out, they also probably did some wrong things when they saw that film was dying, but that's just part of the process of reinvention.

If Kodak was once a "film" company, they were really a chemical company, rather than a camera company. In that vein, one of their little-known successes in the reinvention department is their spinoff of Eastman Chemical, which currently is a thriving $11B company.

When I have a problem dealing with a U.S. company over the Internet, I go to http://finance.yahoo.com/looku.... This site will tell me the names of the top executives and the corporate postal address of a company whose stock is publicly traded, even on the most obscure exchanges. If the company's stock is not publicly traded, I then resort to Google. Sooner or later -- yes, with some effort -- I find out who is in charge and where to mail a letter.

I compose a non-threatening, literate letter to the CEO or president of the company. I explain in layman's terms what is wrong and why I won't do business with them until the problem is fixed. While the executive likely does not even see my letter, someone in his or her office will see it -- someone who has authority to correct the situation. Occasionally, the situation is indeed fixed.

After sending the letter via the U.S. Postal Service, I wait about a week. Then, I create a Web page re-creating my letter. Yes, I name names. The situation might not be fixed, but the problem and the company are now public. I carry a significant level of liability insurance.

The Silk Railway: freight train from China pulls up in Madrid
The First Yiwu-Madrid Train Starts In Jinhua
Yiwu to Madrid cargo train could touch 3 billion lives
China flags train to Madrid to revive Silk Route

They were a lot better looking than the Google guys, too.

In China (and most east-asian cultures), you never disrespect rulers. It simply is not done ....

That works fine for people under their control, but we now live in a global information age in which the opinion of some minor person around the globe could find its way there. They should probably toughen up. Besides, if they want to sling it they need to learn to take it, and both North Korea and China have had plenty of anti-American and anti-Western propaganda over the years, including that aimed specifically at the leaders.

.... and they see it as a grave insult to the entire nation to do so.

"L'état, c'est moi" in North Korea or China? I thought the Communists did away with royalty. Live and learn I guess.

Colorado already proved that with the tax revenue they brought in from legalized marijuana,

False. Colorado brought in 20% of the promised revenue from legalization and the prospects of them meeting their initial projections are about as likely as Steve Ballmer running Linux.

Before you then say, "Well, they at least got something," I would like to remind you of this article wherein people on here were claiming Chicago's use of red light cameras a failure when they only got 44% of the initial projected income. Apparently getting 44% of of something is much worse than getting 20% of something.

Still further, Colorado is seeing the general effects of people being stoned, such as deaths, robberies and murder, and of course the general loss of productivity from people unable to perform their jobs such as two nurses who quit their good paying jobs at a hospital where a family member works because they would have failed the mandatory drug tests.

Just like Kansas' failed experiment of lowering taxes and cutting services didn't magically produce more revenue, whatever amount of money Colorado brings in will be eaten up by the side effects of legalization and, as this article clearly indicates, bordering states will also suffer financial losses and deaths.

Yeah sure its ok. Oh and they can donate to other causes they care about.

http://news.yahoo.com/apples-c...

Screw the proletariat that makes your trinkets.

tearing out all of the street signs

You're giving them ideas for shaky "precedents"! Ripping up street signs up during wartime is pretty standard https://answers.yahoo.com/ques... and hadn't you heard we're at war?

Let's not overlook Eddie Murphy's courageous journey in the other direction, White Like Me.

Years ago I heard about how a journalist actually followed up on Griffin and spoke with some of the people he lived among in his new racial identity; apparently the common reaction was to laugh uproariously behind his back at this crazy honky. Can't find anything about this now though. Maybe it's an urban legend?

The decentralized currency that's lost two thirds of its value over the past year or a different one?

You mean the Russian ruble?

Along with another more or less tongue-in-cheek version.

Here is my problem: Google has a long history of cooperating with NSA.

Don't believe me? Fine: read these links instead... Yahoo News article about cooperation between Google and NSA, Guardian article, Tom's Guide article.

Even if Google does not/did not/will not cooperate with NSA, Eric Schmidt himself has been cooperating with the US Government, which cast serious doubts about his desire to protect the private information of Google clients.

Again, don't believe me? Fine, read this instead: Julian Assange on Eric Schmidt. Or (even better) this transcript.

Even if Eric Schmidt does not cooperate with the US Government, he has said himself, repeatedly, that privacy is dead and that it's something for hackers.

Don't believe me? Fine, read this instead: EFF article, Gawker article.

In other words, a company that cooperated with the NSA, led by a man who does not care about your privacy (but cares very much about his) is telling you that there is nothing to see here, sure we are protecting your privacy, please buy our products, we are safe and professionals and there is nothing to be afraid of.

Seriously? How come this gasbag is a freaking CEO, paid millions of dollars a year?

Buffett's secretary Bosanek pays a tax rate of 35.8 percent of income, while Buffett pays a rate at 17.4 percent on profit.
http://news.yahoo.com/warren-b...
You're paying Income tax on your salary, not savings.
Tell Govt to impose tax on Company revenues, not profits.
http://wh.gov/iCfVS

There is no quote in that article, just recollections of a conversation that had occurred 30 years earlier, so it's not clear exactly what was said - but here is a picture of the highway in question, underwater in 2012 as predicted: http://news.yahoo.com/photos/p...

So the arms race between Jesus Fish vs Darwin Fish goes up by one notch now?

According to this, Bush approved the general program in 2002 but wasn't briefed on the specifics of the brutal methods being used until 2006, with which he was uncomfortable:
However, a meeting with Tenet over the practices is disputed.
http://news.yahoo.com/senate-r...

Cisco's General Counsel has a blog on the subject.

From another article:

Arista was founded by former Cisco employees, many of whom are named inventors on Cisco's networking patents. Among others, Arista's: 1) founders, 2) President and CEO, 3) Chief Development Officer, 4) Chief Technology Officer, 5) Senior Vice President for Customer Engineering, 6) Vice President of Business Alliances, 7) former Vice President for Global Operations and Marketing, 8) Vice President of Systems Engineering and Technology Marketing, 9) Vice President of Hardware Engineering, 10) Vice President of Software Engineering, and 11) Vice President of Manufacturing and Platform Engineering all were employed by Cisco prior to joining Arista. Moreover, four out of the seven members of Arista's Board of Directors were previously employed by Cisco.

http://wh.gov/iCfVS
Buffett's secretary Bosanek pays a tax rate of 35.8 percent of income, while Buffett pays a rate at 17.4 percent on profit. http://news.yahoo.com/warren-b...

That's like saying Staples, OfficeWorks, etc. should assume responsibility for people printing leaked government documents because they enabled the printing by selling printers. If movies aren't available for download then they can't be downloaded, i.e.: how about Sony and friend fix their own fucking security so these leaks just don't happen in the first place?

Also worth noting: There has been at least one documented example in the past where a "leaked" movie was actually leaked by the movie studio to drum up business ahead of release, e.g.: Sony Pictures Admits Hacking, Film ‘Leaks’ Were Marketing Stunt. And there have been many other "leaks" to promo movies, e.g.: Gary Oldman admits studio leaked their own RoboCop 'spy’ photos. Maybe it's a regular thing.

Not quite. I am talking about in place of the existing tax code.

So take this mine.
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?...
Right now they pay $87M in taxes on $2789M in revenue or about 3%. So prices wouldn't go up that much. If anything their costs of tax complience would also go down quite a bit.

Hi! I'm from $InsertFavoriteBoogymanHere!

I just pwned your system from a coffee shop in $InsertFavoritePrefix_STAN.

Thanks for making my day!

Now you need five while collar workers to secure your blue collar destroying system.

Progress as promised!

Badly rendered from: Def Leppard - Rock of Ages

As spoken it's gibberish, but it almost means something.

Gunter glieben glauchen globen

You know.. the thing even the President wants to forget:

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/president-obama-forgets-his-blackberry-103228872249.html

can illegals still get food stamps with no proof of residency?

Yes — in many cases they can. For example, a child born in the US is automatically a citizen, unlike some European countries. Not only does that entitle his parents to stay here, if they happen to be poor, they'll be helped by the taxpayers.

illegal immigrants will work for less than legal immigrants as they are more desperate

The United States does not have a labor shortage. Bringing in cheap foreign labor means, the less desperate poor Americans will have fewer jobs — requiring more taxes to support them. So the immigration tends to increase "safety net" expenditures, even when the immigrants themselves aren't the immediate recipients.

parties like the republicans that represent the richest

Not true. Though exceptions abound, Republicans tend to represent the middle-class to upper middle class bourgeois. Democrats represent the uber-reach and the proletariat.

https://screen.yahoo.com/weeke...

Yes, the rhetoric for this week's episode of "Theresa May had an idea" has been particularly silly.

The statistics trotted out over the past week or so make for interesting, if depressing, reading.

For example, the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, a very senior officer with counter-terrorism responsibilities, says they've been prevented on average one terrorist attack per year but so far this year it's been 4-5 already. (It's not clear whether this was in the specific context of "lone wolf" attacks, though.)

Just hours apart from that, we have Theresa May herself saying that almost 40 major terrorist attacks have been foiled since the 7/7 bombings, giving an average of about four per year. This means, she says, that the UK is facing the biggest terrorism threat in its history, which might be surprising to anyone who was around during the worst of the troubles with the IRA not so long ago. There are plenty of scary messages played over the PA system when you go through any major London railway station these days, but not frequent closures due to actual bomb threats and the like.

Also on Monday, there was a statement from Met Police Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley citing 271 arrests resulting from counter-terrorism investigations so far this year. Their Commissioner seemed to be implying in the above statement that all of these had led to charges, too. What they don't seem to have mentioned anywhere in this week's PR campaign is how many such arrests ultimately lead to convictions, nor how many of those convictions (or the arrests or charges themselves) are actually for terrorism offences.

The combined budget for our security services reportedly remains somewhere around the £2B mark, not counting additional funding for counter-terrorism units within other organisations such as the police.

In other news, in 2013 (the last full year for which stats are available) there were 1,713 people killed on our roads, and a further 21,657 seriously injured, not to mention damage to the economy estimated in the £15-30B range as a result of the disruption due to incidents on the road. Would anyone like to guess what's been happening to the annual road safety publicity budget in recent years?

while he had no problem being in the UK with only the UK between him and the US.

Really? The last I checked he was stuck in the Ecuador embassy: https://news.yahoo.com/blogs/t...
And Sweden won't promise to not turn him over to the USA.

when I felt my gmail was violating my privacy, and adding bloat I never asked for.

LOL:

When you use Yahoo Mail, our automated systems scan and analyze your communications and also the content sent and received from your account to detect, among other things, certain words and phrases (we call them “keywords”) within these communications. In addition to using the keywords to show you contextually relevant content and ads, these keywords may also contribute to our understanding of things that interest you. These interest categories are displayed in Ad Interest Manager.

Umm, if you chose it for "privacy" you probably made the wrong choice.