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Blu Ray streams data at a top rate of 40 Mbits/s, while HD DVD streams data at 28 Mbits/s. Largest data capacity is 100Gbytes, which is around 18 hours of HD video and HD video resolutions go up to 1920x1080 @ 30 frames/second.

PCI 2.3 (from 2004) has a data transfer rates of 133 Mbytes/second, while PCI Express goes up to 8 Gigabytes/second.

A raw 1920x1080 image takes 50 mbits/s. At 60 frames/seconds, that's 3000 mbits/s.

A comparision of theGT 520 vs the GT 430 has a bandwidth of 14.4 GB/s

The data gets streamed from the DVD player directly to the graphics card via the PCI bus. CUDA processors are used to compress the data directly into the framebuffer. There's enough processing power to support the HD picture-in-picture feature.

Using their usual dirty tricks [Apple keeps] releasing new updates to their OS making them run slower on earlier hardware.

You are so full of shit your eyes are brown. Every version of OS X I have used has felt perceptibly faster than its predecessor on the same hardware, and I'm not the only one who feels that way. Hell, the upgrade from Leopard to Snow Leopard was specifically about trimming the fat from the OS.

If you want to talk about bloated OSes that force hardware upgrades, you'd better talk Microsoft.

if someone doesn't know how to drive, we tell them to get off the road because they pose a serious risk to the lives of others and themselves.

and if someone doesn't know how to compute, we tell them to get off the internet because they pose a serious risk to the data and "identity" of others and themselves.

For the first part of the analogy, the individual "spotting cars on the highway", while they may have specialist knowledge, they don't have inside knowledge. They haven't been poking around in your car and being able to gain insight that you can't verify. The computer equivalent to this would be "I saw your computer through your Window the other night and reckon you've got malware". Neither will happen.

Congratulations on knowing little about cars or computers. Advanced car scammers [mis]use semi-public records and contact you with some foreknowledge of what you drive. Advanced computer scammers use popups and tracking combined with the leakiness of your browser and contact you with some foreknowledge of who you are and what your computing environment is like. Taking this a bit further, car thieves who gain access to registration lists can target vehicles with known security vulnerabilities (such as replay attacks, for which you can purchase completed solutions from Chinese sites like DealExtreme) with knowledge of model and year (via VIN) and address. And "computer criminals" can attack your computer based on the same information that the scammers attempt to use to extract money from your wallet quasi-legally.

A better equivalency would rather be that your car breaks down on the side of the road, and a few minutes later a breakdown/tow truck comes along and says he was just on the way back from a job and asks if you'd like any help.

Only if there was actually something wrong with your car. Even from the summary the clear analogy would be if a mobile mechanic were to pull up next to your car in a parking lot and tell you that you had a problem, then proceed to (for example) put a drop of oil from your dipstick into a bogus oil analyzer (perhaps the diesel one when testing a gasser, and vice versa) and then proceed to sell you an oil change. Because the only thing that has been alleged here is that they're selling unneeded services to the sucker^Wcustomer, and it's possible that they actually are delivering a malware removal tool to the customer which may actually remove some malware in some circumstances, just like some of the people the unscrupulous mechanic in our automotive analogy scams into getting an oil change might actually need one.

The Tor Project is heavily associated with Jacob Appelbaum, one of their core members and proponents (and also a major proponent of Wikileaks). Jacob was also part of the team that exploited the MD5 weakness of SSL and created their own rogue Certification Authority.

So at least they know what to look for. Information wants to be free, except when it doesn't.

I think there's little hardware that doesn't work with Linux.

The PLAYSTATION 3 video game console is no longer compatible with Linux without the threat of a lawsuit.

I think I know what you had in mind: by "hardware" you meant PC hardware. But even if you restrict it to PCs, this becomes more complicated in the alleged coming post-PC era (1 2) when it may become difficult to find a new working PC.

Stupid Slashcode. Fixed.

"The previous demonstrations were always technology demonstrations of the underlying architecture," he said. "All of the apps for ARM are going to come through the store which means they're all going to be Metro style." Answering another question on whether Windows 8 on ARM will only run Metro style applications, Sinofsky insisted "That is definitely the message to ISVs."

You're still wrong.

Then explain why the ARM version has a desktop mode. I don't know where your quote is from but it is not consistent with what has been shown at BUILD. Also this.

Are you serious? The guy is complaining about a notebook that looks *completely different than Macbooks".

Sony is more guilty of ripping off Macbooks.

Sony laptops have looked like that for at least 10 years, if not more.

Actually you're right, this is a 2006 story:
Sony rips off MacBook design
Sony's MacBook Pro, the VAIO VGN-N17L

Sorry, here's one architecture slide: http://i.zdnet.com/blogs/archslide.png that specifically shows .NET being for both desktop apps and Metro style apps.

In case anyone's unaware of what the parent is referring to... http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/rest-in-peace-roland-piquepaille/11430

Hahahaha!

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/emergingtech/rest-in-peace-roland-piquepaille/1138?tag=search-results-rivers;item1

Well played, sir!

100 Mbps and 1,000 Mbps costs the same. Both require FTTH and the expensive part is the fiber. The equipment to run gigabit on that fiber is almost the same cost as 100 Mbps equipment.

Thanks, thats not at all true. Comcast sells 108Mbps and demonstrated 1Gbps speeds on HFC networks, eg. not FTTH. Secondly the equipment capable of handling these two speeds is vastly different in price. A 100Mbps connection requires one 10GbE aggregation router for every 1,000 users, a 1Gig connection requires on for every hundred. Considering such routers can cost tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars its not a trivial difference. Thanks for proving you have no idea how the industry works though.

They definitely should have done so. It made the top ten tech industry executive disasters.

The offer was for more like $47bn, and was not in the interests of Jerry Yang, the f***wit.

Actually no they didn't. They present pictures of both (yes those picture aspects were changed to make them look more familiar) but they also had physical representations of the models in court. The decision wasn't made off the photo's alone.

Do you have a citation for that?

Apple themselves stated in the evidence that the Galaxy S was larger in dimensions and the photo in question was just one (I believe it one of the photos on page 28 of the evidence presented). It was the only photo with the 'bad' dimensions. It is believed by legal experts that the photo is actually a prototype photo similar to the mock ups released by Samsung prior to the actual product release showing it was 'thinner' than the iPad.

http://gadgetsheaven.n-ame.com/?p=2309

Galaxy S does include “some non-identical elements, such as the slightly larger dimensions.” This supports the idea that Apple isn’t trying to secretly submit this evidence to the courts. Many have noted a German court’s decision to grant Apple with the original preliminary injunction on the Galaxy tab didn’t take the doctored images into account. In fact, patent expert Florian Mueller noted ”the court’s decision was based on both Apple’s motion and Samsung’s pre-emptive opposition pleading” and also stated “Samsung is in a legally weak position against Apple. If Samsung wants to inspire confidence, it has to understand that half the truth is sometimes tantamount to a whole lie.”

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/08/is-apple-faking-evidence-to-crush-the-competition-not-likely.ars

Müller doubts that the images are outcome-determinative for the case in The Netherlands. "Apple has asserted in its Dutch complaint several technical patents, unrelated to the size of the device, and a Community design that's also about a shape rather than a particular size," he said. Furthermore, Apple clearly noted that there is a size difference between the two devices in its legal filing.

http://9to5mac.com/2011/08/19/samsung-claims-apple-doctored-galaxy-phone-images-in-netherlands-court/ http://gadgetsheaven.n-ame.com/?p=2309

The decision to ban was not made of off a single photo out of a series of photos. Would you, if you were a judge, base your decision off of an image when the relevant piece of hardware can simply be handed to you for inspection?

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/apple-accused-of-doctoring-image-to-sink-galaxy-tab-101-in-europe-update/14246

[UPDATE: The judge at the middle of this case claims that he actually handled the tablets to back up the images supplied by Apple.]

So you don't have any citation that they had physical representations in court then.

Apple themselves stated in the evidence that the Galaxy S was larger in dimensions and the photo in question was just one (I believe it one of the photos on page 28 of the evidence presented). It was the only photo with the 'bad' dimensions. It is believed by legal experts that the photo is actually a prototype photo similar to the mock ups released by Samsung prior to the actual product release showing it was 'thinner' than the iPad.

http://gadgetsheaven.n-ame.com/?p=2309

Galaxy S does include “some non-identical elements, such as the slightly larger dimensions.” This supports the idea that Apple isn’t trying to secretly submit this evidence to the courts. Many have noted a German court’s decision to grant Apple with the original preliminary injunction on the Galaxy tab didn’t take the doctored images into account. In fact, patent expert Florian Mueller noted ”the court’s decision was based on both Apple’s motion and Samsung’s pre-emptive opposition pleading” and also stated “Samsung is in a legally weak position against Apple. If Samsung wants to inspire confidence, it has to understand that half the truth is sometimes tantamount to a whole lie.”

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/08/is-apple-faking-evidence-to-crush-the-competition-not-likely.ars

Müller doubts that the images are outcome-determinative for the case in The Netherlands. "Apple has asserted in its Dutch complaint several technical patents, unrelated to the size of the device, and a Community design that's also about a shape rather than a particular size," he said. Furthermore, Apple clearly noted that there is a size difference between the two devices in its legal filing.

http://9to5mac.com/2011/08/19/samsung-claims-apple-doctored-galaxy-phone-images-in-netherlands-court/
http://gadgetsheaven.n-ame.com/?p=2309

The decision to ban was not made of off a single photo out of a series of photos. Would you, if you were a judge, base your decision off of an image when the relevant piece of hardware can simply be handed to you for inspection?

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/apple-accused-of-doctoring-image-to-sink-galaxy-tab-101-in-europe-update/14246

[UPDATE: The judge at the middle of this case claims that he actually handled the tablets to back up the images supplied by Apple.]

...In their 2011Mac Minis . With app stores pushed to the consumers, Optical Drives seems to fade away. Even Microsoft is supporting natively the .iso files in win8, another nod to a system with no optical drive.

Girl With One Track Mind can tell you all about the importance of being able to stay anonymous.

Actually in her case she was doing a pretty good job at staying anonymous while posting her blog entries about her sex life, but then she published a book and some asshole 'journalists' tracked her down and gave out all her personal details.

She lost her job.
She stopped writing her blogs, and let's be honest, the readers lost an interesting character to read about on the interwebs.

Staying anonymous is extremely important for many reasons, so people like facebookâ(TM)s marketing director Randi Zuckerberg, who also happens to be Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerbergâ(TM)s sister need to shut their yaps and stop spouting this type of nonsense:

I think anonymity on the Internet has to go away⦠People behave a lot better when they have their real names down. ⦠I think people hide behind anonymity and they feel like they can say whatever they want behind closed doors.

So one guy with a thousand fake names will get the entire run and sell them all off for $300-$400 a shot on eBay. Good, good, glad to see the system works.

Given that HP couldn't sell them at all until they dropped the price to $99... your scenario seems pretty unlikely.

I won't be surprised if someone tries to do it - but they're going to get stuck with a lot of inventory. The interest just isn't there.

What in god's name are you talking about? Do you even READ the internet?
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/hp-touchpads-earning-ebay-sellers-around-150-percent-more-than-fire-sale-prices/56239
http://mobilesyrup.com/2011/08/26/humour-drawing-of-an-hp-touchpad-hits-ebay-bidding-now-over-80000/
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2103751/hp-touchpads-ebay

The NIMBY crowd's already quick to jump on the article. Just look at the first comment. There's not enough aluminum on this planet to make a hat big enough for them.

The sub-$200 Linux netbook market seems to have completely disappeared, killed by Microsoft. There's some MeeGo crap, but that's tethered to an "app store", so it's like buying a subsidized phone. ("Creates a direct connection between your wallet and our bank account.")

I do enough input that I want a keyboard. Tablets are for passive consumers; you know, TV watchers.

Yeah, there's a reason why the previous CEO of Acer was fired four months ago:

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/acer-ceo-lanci-resigns-in-search-of-an-aggressive-tablet-strategy/46805:

So what was the problem? Reading between the lines hints strongly that Lanci and the Acer board disagreed on a tablet strategy and how aggressive the company should be. This Wang statement tells the tale:

"The personal computer remains the core of our business. We have built up a strong foundation and will continue to expand within, especially in the commercial PC segment. In addition, we are stepping into the new mobile device market, where we will invest cautiously and aim to become one of the leading players."

Note the wording: Acer is “stepping into the new mobile device market,” but will “invest cautiously.”

I am not sure why people keep saying this even in the light that Microsoft has said that they are bringing .NET even closer to the core API here.

HTML 5/JS is just being added onto what is already there. The fact that no one has heard about Silverlight has made everyone worried. Microsoft has talked about Silverlight just not to the degree that everyone had hope for. So since no one likes waiting until September, we'll just spread rumors and make Microsoft pay for suddenly wanting to do things like Apple and keep quiet.

The "Tiny Minority" is anyone with an Android tablet. A few million Androids across all lines vs 25+ million iPads? Or were you talking about tablets in general?

No Embedded 7 is now gone too: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/windows-embedded-handheld-7-slips-off-the-microsoft-roadmap/9005

Teachers cannot establish, maintain, or use a work-related website unless it is available to school administrators and the child’s legal custodian, physical custodian, or legal guardian. Teachers also cannot have a nonwork-related website that allows exclusive access with a current or former student.

For a teacher who works in a small town for a few decades that will be a large number of people they can never friend on facebook. It could even prevent someone friending their husband or wife. A teacher/pupil can have an age difference of four years, which a few years after they younger one graduates will seem an insignificant difference.

A company spin off is a very, very different thing from simply closing down the PC factories and shredding the plans.

But both of them result in Hewlett-Packard no longer manufacturing personal computers, so I, at least, think of both of them as "HP exiting the PC business". Perhaps you don't, and perhaps some others don't, but perhaps some others do, e.g. Larry Dignan or IBM's CTO or the authors of this piece.

I think is was last year or something. They said they first tried Windows, which crashed and then used some Linux as their OS for more reliability.
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/the-london-stock-exchange-moves-to-novell-linux/8285

As others have pointed out, a lot of those quotes come off as suspiciously similar. (all the tweets from partners all use use "Goggle" "committed" "defending Android" "it's password" in a very similar way) http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/googles-coalition-speaks-with-one-voice/3771 Which sounds like they all got the same tasty sandwich from Google PR and went with it.

Obama saving us money? Your kidding right? I have faith he is just getting rid of them so he can rent them off of someone else at a higher price. Or maybe he got in with Amazon to scale up as need with cloud services kind of like what United Kingdom is up to http://eu.techcrunch.com/2011/07/21/uk-government-now-using-huddles-platform-for-top-secret-documents/. Or the fact that Hillary Clinton is shipping US datacenter jobs off to Inda so we don't need a lot of computing power over here. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/india/india-and-us-to-work-together-on-datagov-and-against-cyber-crime/633 So we will never know.

Apple will ignore this as hard as they can, claiming it's not important for their market. Then, next year when the iPhone x+1 comes out, they'll innovate it into the phone and the media will declare them geniuses.

+1, in fact there have been rumors of iPhone 6 getting wireless charging months ago.

external pci-e is in the works and does not have the over head at Thunderbolt has and will not be Intel locked.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/computers/look-out-thunderbolt-external-pci-express-spec-being-developed/6220
http://www.molex.com/molex/products/family?key=external_pci_express_pcie&channel=products&chanName=family&pageTitle=Introduction
http://www.andovercg.com/datasheets/molex-74546-0813.pdf

Thunderbolt may be good for external HDD's and other high data stuff. But for PCI-e add in cards and video cards better to go with pci-e also the mac's with on board video have like 8-12 unused pci-e lanes any ways so why not run a video card off of them as 1 video card just maxes out the Thunderbolt bus and still does not let it hit it's full power. Maybe in 2013 you can have a mac mini with a good cpu and a pci-e box with a good video card in it.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/igeneration/blackberry-messenger-used-to-perpetuate-riots-in-london/12089
Seems law enforcement are all over the web 2.0, social media act.
In Eastern Europe they had to get informants into the protest groups, now politically active people carry their own unique beacons for free.

Apple has a EULA clause that only allows you to install OSX on "Apple-labeled" hardware.

Psystar tried selling non-Apple hardware with OSX, and got crushed in court for it. How is that not relevant?

The problem is that if a student and teacher are friends on Facebook, that is largely out in the open. It's the email messages, the phone calls late at night, the notes passed during school, etc. that are going to be the problem—the stuff that's under the table. ... It is just plain arbitrary to single out Facebook and other social networking services while ignoring other Internet services like email and instant messaging, other telecommunications services like phone calls and texting, etc.

Try reading the Bill. It does not single out Facebook friends— in fact, it never even mentions Facebook. What it actually is targeting is precisely what you said: private communication.

What we have here is a TV station claiming the Bill is too vague, then a blogger interpreting the TV station's interpretation as meaning that friending on Facebook will not be allowed, and finally the Slashdot summary writer interpreting that interpretation of the previous interpretation as meaning that students being online friends with teachers will be illegal.

As usual, the Slashdot summary and the reality are only distantly related.

Submitter is an idiot.

Anyway, for a coherent link, zdnet, which has more than three sentences. What it boils down to is that the Microsoft Azure platform is not open source - but how to interact with it is well known and open. You can then run Open Source programs on top of a closed-source platform.

To be honest, I think it's a complemntary idea to Open Source; and I'm not sure that he explicitly set out to 'dilute' the term open source.

Sounds like a DDoS attack to me. These troublemakers are disrupting the daily business activities of critical public infrastructure and/or private business.

I didn't (and still don't) see the point in using Linux if the first thing you're going to do is spend time looking for commercial solutions to every little problem that comes up; it doesn't take many £29.99 problems before it's just as cheap to say "forget it" and make your next computer a mac, particularly if the existing machine's getting on in years anyway. It's an operating system, not a religion - it has one purpose to its existence and that's to get the hell out of the way so I can do something useful.

Your false dichotomy between "operating system" and "religion" is rhetoric designed to cast your respondent in an unfavorable light, when in fact religion is not the only reason someone would prefer to avoid the products of a particular company. For me, a big reason is that Apple as a company and a culture appears to be ethically challenged, as evidenced by believing there is nothing wrong with its draconian actions in the case of Jason Chen. An even bigger reason is that I do not feel comfortable of Apple's walled garden, unabashedly designed to maximize Apple's profit at the expense of my freedoms. I do not have an issue with a company maximizing its profits, but do have serious issues with a company that is willing to abuse me in the process. And the biggest reason is, Apple's products are just too dumbed down. It is the one button mouse philosophy taken much, much further.

If you are comfortable with Apple's products and ethical issues do not trouble you, I am happy that you are happy. However, I am not impressed with your attack on the obvious alternative, mainly relying on dredging up old issues. What is the point, to help yourself feel better about your choice, when in fact you may be troubled by the same issues I am?

I've done just that. Here's the message I left with Google in their "we're sorry to see you go, please leave a message" box:

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Hi there.

I've heard about a lot of problems with Google plus, for instance:

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/violetblue/google-plus-deleting-accounts-en-masse-no-clear-answers/567

I don't want to use my real name online, for privacy reasons.

And at the same time, I don't want to have my gmail account (that I use a lot), blogger, or others be deleted because of a TOS violation in Google+ (that I barely use).

I'd rather use Facebook or Twitter instead of Google+, and risk a TOS violation there (due to using a nick rather than my real name, or other issues).

At least in that case I won't lose access to all my email, blog posts, etc at the same time.

I wrote more about this problem on my blog over here:

http://chmmr.blogspot.com/2011/07/concerned-about-google-identity-policy.html

And I'm sure you're aware of many other people complaining about this.

I was really interested in your Google+ service before, and was encouraging others to try it out, but your recent policy of deleting accounts has me very concerned, so I'm not going to bother with using Google+, and I'm recommending to other that they be really careful about signing up with Google+.
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Also I made sure that all my Google-related backups are up-to-date.

- Blogger - using their export function each week to save a backup to XML.
- Gmail - I'm using a mail client (kmail) in offline IMAP mode to slurp all my mails.

Google also thankfully has some other exporting services, if you're paranoid about losing your account with them.

More problematic is losing access to my gmail email address, but it's too much trouble/I don't know how to setup my own domain, email server, dns records, etc, so I'll take that risk for the time being. I'm also keeping track of all my logins/passwords/etc in a separate secure location, I don't rely heavily on websites "reset forgotten password" functions.

So much for Google's blog post in February, "The freedom to be who you want to be..." which extolled the "great benefits" of pseudonymity. http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2011/02/freedom-to-be-who-you-want-to-be.html

Other recent suspensions:

• * A guy who used a pseudonym on Google+ ("Thomas Monopoly") claims to have lost his entire account including "approximately 7 years of correspondence, over 4,800 photographs and videos, my Google Voice messages, over 500 articles saved to my Google Reader account for scholarship purposes all of my bookmarks, having used Google bookmarks my Docs account with shared documents and backups of inventory files my own personal calendar of doctors appointments, meetings, and various other dates collaborative calendars, of which I was the creator and of which several man hours were put into creating, community calendars my saved maps and travel history medical records and a variety of very important notes [and] My website, a blogger account for which I purchased the domain through Google and designed myself": http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/why-you-shouldnt-trust-google-or-any-cloud-service-with-your-data/13860
• * Daynah (a Senior Editor at Beatweek Magazine and a blogger at Cali Lewis' GeekBeat.TV) was suspended from Google+ on Saturday, presumably because her Google+ name was "Daynah .net" (she never shares her last name online due to privacy and safety concerns). I believe it was just her Google+ account that got suspended, not her e-mail or access to other services. Her profile is still suspended as of when I'm posting this.
• * I was suspended from Google+ on Friday, June 15th through Wednesday, June 20th, presumably because my Google+ name was "the JoshMeister" (which is how I'm known to almost all of my friends and followers online, on my podcasts which have been downloaded over a million times, including at my employment at MacTech Magazine as the Podcast Producer and Host). I tried changing my name to my first and last name with the JoshMeister in parenthesis after it, but that was also rejected, so ultimately I had to settle for using just my real first and last name. Unfortunately, my name is fairly common, and there are already several people with that name on Google+, making it significantly more difficult for people to find and recognize me or + mention me. I did not lose access to Google services other than Google+ and Google Buzz, although I did have to log in again to my e-mail and other services because Google claimed there had been "suspicious activity" (although I confirmed that nobody had accessed my account other than me). More of my story: https://plus.google.com/114936727752666468558/posts/5nHEHFsWCTx

Lists of suspensions:

• * Robert Scoble (linking to Skud's link below) inadvertently began compiling a public list of suspended Google+ accounts here, along with some good discussion of the topic and links to other lists: https://plus.google.com/111091089527727420853/posts/YnzXfbpe9Nj
• * Skud is compiling a private list of suspended Google+ accounts here: http://is.gd/nonplussed (redirects to Google Docs form)

Examples of Google's double standard and inconsistency:

• * Some people such as "Soulja Boy" (a recording artist) and "Violet Blue" (the author of the linked ZDNet article) get special treatment and have not been suspended for using their pseudonyms on Google+
• * "Die Ennomane" (die means "the" in German) was suspended but then was allowed to keep the pseudonym after German media coverage
• * Google has turned a blind ey

It may be less, but I doubt it's "dramatically" less. Tablet makers aren't feverishly pushing them out just to lose all their money as they rot on the shelves.

Actually, yes, they are.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/mobile-news/samsung-comes-clean-galaxy-tab-numbers-not-consumer-sales/775

Apparently the number of Tabs sold to consumers is far less (10-20%?) of those shipped so far (Samsung won't comment on that number, of course, because it's a lot less than they hoped). Compared to the iPad (which is still hard to keep in stock at all) that's pretty dramatic.

But Google used the code anyway and that's where they are in the wrong.

Uh, no, you might be confusing patents with copyright. They don't distribute Oracle's licensed code in Android itself and as far as I know, the copyright claim in the lawsuit has already been dropped.

It's pretty obvious they knew about these patents but ignored them so that puts them in the wrong.

The question is not whether they knew about them, but whether:
1) They are valid at all - (Oracle was ordered to drop 98% of them from the lawsuit)
2) They are infringing - that's up to the court to decide.

Yeah, MD is a real prize. They have magical disappearing video to help ensure that the bad guys are always brought to justice.

For those too lazy to read linked articles, in Prince Georges County Maryland they've had quite a few incidents with police "caught on tape".... or not. In the most remarkable coincidence in recent history, all 7 dashboard cameras at the scene simultaneously malfunctioned while the police were allegedly roughing up a TV reporter. Another case had a student beaten and arrested for assaulting police only to find that the surveillance video mysteriously malfunctioned at that exact moment. Fortunately for him some random passers-by happened to capture the whole thing on his cell phone video camera. It turns out that the official version of events had a few holes in it.

I had not seen that article yet, thanks. However, it still misses the point. ZFS is *not* intended for 4GB workstations with single hard drives!

I'd like to see them benchmark a ZFS setup with 3 or 4 RAIDz pools concatenated into a 10 to 20 TB partition spanning 10 to 15 physical drives, with an MLC L2ARC. Throw 48GB of ram and an 8 core processor at it as well. Next, properly tune the InnoDB and logging partitions. Then, benchmark MySQL. Finally, try a large update/join spanning many tables, using foreign keys and stored procedures-- and:
-- pull the power plug, see if there is any data corruption
-- do a ZFS snapshot, live, see if the benchmark notices the difference
-- add more RAIDz pools to the live file system

People choose ZFS for the reasons in this article:
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/storage/zfs-data-integrity-tested/811

Sorry to hype on ZFS so much, but that is where my expertise is. Their benchmark was testing a scenario that nobody would be encouraged to ever actually use in the real world. It makes me seriously doubt the usefulness of their other benchmarks (like HURD) when they make such an obvious (to me) mistake as to omit these important details.

To do so only download from your operating systems repository or app store. If you OS doesn't have one, find one that does.

...because there has never been malware on the Android Market.

and the Amazon App Store has an inherent risk

To do so only download from your operating systems repository or app store. If you OS doesn't have one, find one that does.

...because there has never been malware on the Android Market.

and the Amazon App Store has an inherent risk

Seems like MS will not let go of their old ideas :)

http://www.zdnet.com/news/microsoft-flushes-out-iloo-gag/129298

Meh. This isn't news. The app is available on some third party app markets (read: not google's market) which are used on the other side of the planet. There was a time when a malicious text message could damage or brick an iphone.

There was a proof of concept that could execute arbitrary code on iphone by sending about 500 SMS and which worked about 20% of the time, as explained by the hacker here. Of course serious bugs aren't really news on either platform. There was a time when Android would execute all text typed into the phone as root, then there was the Android bug that sent your messages to random contacts or the one where an SMS corrupts Androids SQLite database. People in glass houses should throw stones you know.

Meh. This isn't news. The app is available on some third party app markets (read: not google's market) which are used on the other side of the planet. There was a time when a malicious text message could damage or brick an iphone.

There was a proof of concept that could execute arbitrary code on iphone by sending about 500 SMS and which worked about 20% of the time, as explained by the hacker here. Of course serious bugs aren't really news on either platform. There was a time when Android would execute all text typed into the phone as root, then there was the Android bug that sent your messages to random contacts or the one where an SMS corrupts Androids SQLite database. People in glass houses should throw stones you know.

See subject line above & this link-> http://www.zdnet.com/blog/ou/s-korean-addiction-to-activex-stalls-vista-adoption/412

APK

P.S.=> Pretty much "says it all" as to WHY what you said, rings true (they love their "ActiveX")

... apk

What are you talking about? http://www.zdnet.com/blog/igeneration/facebook-instant-personalization-how-to-disable-it-and-why/8006

Facebook tracking is on something like 1 in 3 websites

Mod parent up, cgeys is a paid Astroturfer. Read his comment history 90% have a vague pro MS or pro facebook remark in them. Several stories always get submitted like this with vague unsubstatiated "Google is the privacy devil" themes and out com one of the 2m+ UIDs like him to post the first comment. dave420, x**xy**y and all the rest.

http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/05/12/138229/Facebook-Admits-Hiring-PR-Firm-To-Smear-Google

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/facebook-admits-to-hiring-pr-firm-for-google-smear-campaign/48650