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They demoed this at CES months ago... http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/ces-microsoft-shows-off-windows-8-on-arm/8339

RE: Mission Accomplished: SCO Loses, Groklaw Closes
@Robert Hahn Contrary to what you wrote in your 04/10/2011 12:34 PM comment, I don't have an employer. I'm simply independent.

So, now we know why Mueller can troll so many different discussion boards full-time. He doesn't have a job. He's "independent." Nobody is paying him for his "services."

In other words, he's one of those "useful fools" that can be exploited because they hope that, in return, a company like Mickeysoft will throw them a bone at some future date.

Today, as Jones wrote, âoeThe crisis SCO initiated over Linux is over, and Linux won. SCO as we knew it is no more.â And, thatâ(TM)s what really important here, not the carping of desperate anti-Linux enemies looking for anything to whine about.

Linux has won. It dominates the smartphone market. It owns a virtual monopoly in supercomputing. It powers the biggest websites that people use every day - google, facebook, amazon. It runs the worlds stock exchanges and financial markets. Linux webservers power the web. It's over. Linux has won, SCO and the people funding SCOs attack on linux, have lost.

Yes, there is a PJ

Let me address this directly. Yes, Pamela Jones is a real person. Iâ(TM)ve met her several times, and Iâ(TM)ve often âoetalkedâ with her on email and IM. I consider her a friend.

She is not a front for anyone. She is a paralegal, hence her excellent legal research skills, which are the foundation of her stories. And, sheâ(TM)s a journalist by any standard I know of.

So, you're just a sore loser.

That link is small, and I missed it. :-/ I have donated now, and left her a note of thanks as well as concern over her comment removal policies. I really do appreciate the work she has done, and my fondest wish would be for her to get thousands in donations just like mine with a similar note of both thanks and concern.

Wasn't that well-documented when I found out about it; only discovered Groklaw's unofficial comment policies myself due to a random cryptic troll comment on Slashdot, and that article is newish. Basically they delete comments that go against Groklaw's POV and the users posting them, then delete comments referencing the fact they've deleted comments or banned users to conceal the fact they're hiding stuff from their readers. They also "sandbox" comments so that the poster thinks the comment is visible but only they can see it. Oh, and the users they delete effectively become unpersons: the comments are re-attributed to Anonymous and their profiles 404.

Groklaw isn't the only site that does this kind of thing; Digg has a similar history deleting critical comments (most egregiously to make it seem no-one objected when they got caught secretly soliciting money for front-page posts on the site) and a similar "shadowban" mechanism for concealing from users that they've been banned and none of their comments are showing up. Several other sites use comment deletion to stop their readers hearing about contradictory opinions too. No matter who does it,it makes it hard to trust that site.

Nah, it obviously doesn't work. This story has been doing the rounds since 1999, always promising a working engine "by year's end".

Nah, it obviously doesn't work. This story has been doing the rounds since at least 1999, always promising a working engine "by year's end".

Groklaw's well-documented "sandboxing" of user comments was a serious issue, and I think too many people forget about that in light of the announcement of its shutdown.

"New" Meaning 2009?

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/emergingtech/wave-disk-engines-to-make-hybrid-vehicles-cheaper-more-efficient/1887?tag=mantle_skin;content

Oh wait - Nov 1, 2009? Hang on - could it be that the reason this story is "news" is current oil prices, rather than actual "newsworthiness"?

here:
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/emergingtech/wave-disk-engines-to-make-hybrid-vehicles-cheaper-more-efficient/1887

and here
http://ecomodder.com/forum/showthread.php/wave-disc-engine-generator-series-hybrids-10812.html

And what's this thing about "the engine is only suited for hybrid-electric vehicles, but that's okay. " ... what does THAT mean?

That usually means it can't produce high impulse power, like accelerating from a stop. It uses the batteries to buffer power production and recharges this during lower consumption, uses regenerative braking, etc.

That brings up the worry that it has a low average impulse output, which becomes a problem when you need continuous higher output, such as when out on the highway. It may not be capable of maintaining highway speeds. That has always been an issue with hybrids, a lot of work has to be put into making sure they can go the distance.

Sort of reminds me of a sterling engine in that respect. Doesn't matter how efficient it is if you can't meet your power requirements. Though the confusing thing is he was saying how this is going to be so much lighter... if it was lighter, why not increase the size of the engine, or put in a twin, for higher power output? Maybe it's really bulky. (there was quite a bit of "stuff" in that lab, you gonna fit that into a mini couper?)

And it says they showed off a prototype, but I never saw anything short of that little aluminum/acrylic wheel he was playing with, and the camera pan around in a large chaotic lab with little in the way of identifiable machinery. (that could be a brewery for all I could tell, and hey, nice stepladder) And the only useful picture in that article wasn't much bigger than a chicklet. here is a bigger one you can actually read. What's wrong with the author of that article?

Note the lame post-facto "sorta apology" to the readers.
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/apple/how-will-japan-earthquake-affect-apples-ipad-supply-chain/9763

Authorâ(TM)s Note: A number of readers have complained that this article is insensitive to the pain and suffering of the Japanese people. Please accept my sincere apology. I have friends and former colleagues in Japan and I offered them my prayers for their safety and recovery last night. I have been to Japan and have a respect for its traditions and people. The devastation from the quake is terrible.

At the same time, my editorial mission here is to look at Apple, its products and markets. If that appears callous, I ask your forbearance. Some of the comments in the story were made several months ago, so please keep that context in mind.

http://www.businessinsider.com/gene-munster-apple-supply-demand-2011-3

Apple's supply chain is likely temporarily going to be affected by the Japan earthquake and tsunami, Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster writes today, but demand for Apple products is stronger than ever, he says, and that should ultimately drive shares higher.

Hilarious phrasing here, "not much impact - more worried about the impact in the next quarter":
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12782566

"In the short term, there won't be much impact," said chief executive Yang Yuanqing of Lenovo. "We are more worried about the impact in the next quarter."

No shit? Employee absences common?
http://www.internetevolution.com/author.asp?section_id=774&doc_id=205416&f_src=internetevolution_gnews

Getting raw materials supplied and distributed remains a challenge in Japan. Disruptions to the country's transportation systems have made employee absences common. Interruptions in Japan's electricity supply have hindered maintenance of sensitive processes such as semiconductor lithography. Because of the setbacks, Apple delayed iPad2 shipments by one week from the original March 25 launch to allow it to catch up with production, given the shortfall in Japan-sourced parts.

But don't worry. Apple's supply chain is very robust and you'll be able to get your iPrick in time for Christmas.
http://www.minyanville.com/businessmarkets/articles/thestreet-apple-supply-chain-japan-supply/4/4/2011/id/33755

Apple's (AAPL) supply chain remains robust, according to analyst firm Canaccord Genuity.

"While we believe supply could be tight for the industry due to Japan, we believe Apple is leveraging its dominant market position and will fare much better than competitors," wrote Canaccord analyst Michael Walkley in a note Monday. "We believe suppliers will likely provide Apple with preferential supply, as Apple is often the largest customer for many suppliers."

They dont release as much as Apple, who are the GOLD STANDARD of open source. Hell, Apple's entire operating system is open source! What has google ever open sourced? Android? NOPE, that's 100% closed source now (in case you missed the news). Google is an EVIL company that wants to destroy open source. By sheer co-incidence, they use and promote the GPL which is anti-open source and anti-business. Thats why I sun Lin-sux and all GPL'd code, and why you should too.

As a geek you will tolerate things that an average consumer will not. As an example one reviewer had specific things he felt were lacking.. These things can be addressed and are not deal breakers for most geeks. An average consumer may feel otherwise on first impressions. As for Flash, even Adobe admits Flash for Android is beta. There are plenty of examples here on /. ranging to layout issues to battery drain to non functioning sites. Again, you understand why and will tolerate it. Average consumers may not.

I can only speculate as to why Motorola released Xoom missing these features. My best guess is that they thought they had more time. Last year Apple announced the iPad on January 27 and staggered the release of different models starting April 3 more than 2 months later. This year it was surmised that Apple would announce the iPad 2 on March 2. Motorola probably thought Apple would release in May based on last year. It might have been a shock that Apple have all models available in just 9 days.

This earlier release was probably not expected. Motorola probably knew that they could release the Xoom before the iPad 2 but thought they would have a few months to fix the deficiencies so that comparison would be more favorable to the Xoom in May.

Samsung 'keylogger' is a GFI VIPRE antivirus false-positive

Excerpt from link:

I’ve confirmed that the ‘keylogger’ that Samsung was accused of shipping with certain notebooks yesterday by NetworkWorld is, in fact, a false-positive result by GFI VIPRE antivirus software. Replicating the false-positive is easy simply create an empty folder called SL in the Windows folder and scan it.

I do remember a sci-fi show (don't remember which one) in which the portable computers were held in one hand by a handle on the bottom and the top part could be any real shape, but it had a screen that could be rolled out of the side of the device while the device itself had the buttons for using it.

Earth Final Conflict. Global Link Communicator
http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/earth-final-conflict-global-link-closed-prop
Earth Final Conflict Global Communicator Prop: http://www.movieprop.com/propscollectionother.htm
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/perlow/google-and-sirius-xm-build-my-dream-handheld/9233

It's clear you are not aware of the primary reason most companies use BES. If you are interested here are some links that should be enlightening.

RIM's security encryption explained
http://us.blackberry.com/ataglance/security/features.jsp

India threatens to shut down Blackberry service because they cannot snoop on BB users.
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/igeneration/blackberry-encryption-too-secure-national-security-vs-consumer-privacy/5732

"Um, Secunia lumps all versions of Mac OS X as one thing: from its release in 2001 to the present. An unpatched vulnerability in OS X is not an unpatched vulnerability in the current version." - by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 24, @04:01PM (#35603324)

Oh, really?

Then WHY are YOU doing that to Windows in your "lists" below then??

Pot calling the Kettle Black??? Appears so.

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To wit:

"Pwn2Own 2011: IE8 on Windows 7 hijacked with 3 vulnerabilities" - by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 24, @04:01PM (#35603324)

This one MADE ME LAUGH THE MOST THOUGH... on the "pwn2own 2011" contest? Guess what OS was "First to fall"? That's right... MacOS X! See below...

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/safarimacbook-first-to-fall-at-pwn2own-2011/8358

I also showed IE9 has ZERO known vulnerabilities currently, & used IE9, which has NO KNOWN security vulnerabilities... so WHY are you using OLDER models in IE8?

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"Windows still unpatched security hole" - by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 24, @04:01PM (#35603324)

That's fixed by a Microsoft "FIX IT" tool (for MHTML 'bug'), so what was your "point" here?

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"RSAC 2011: Windows 7 vulnerabilities show need for kernel control" - by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 24, @04:01PM (#35603324)

You ought to LEARN TO READ your 'sources' buddy... this one's invalid for anyone that uses Windows 7 or VISTA for the MOST part (as most folks do NOT run as "Administrator" by default, & Windows even sets it up that way by default in modern versions):

To wit from your article? See this quote:

"Zheng's vulnerability is only valid for protected administrator accounts with default UAC settings"

(so much for THAT too)

APK

P.S.=> As I stated in my subject-line above? That was just "too, Too, TOO EASY - just '2EZ'" & not all your "Spin-CON-Troll" b.s. can fool people like myself that actually READ... unlike yourself (see above after all, the proofs in your OWN articles no less)... lol! apk

Um, Secunia lumps all versions of Mac OS X as one thing: from its release in 2001 to the present. An unpatched vulnerability in OS X is not an unpatched vulnerability in the current version.

Another interesting thing about Secunia: for Apple, they report any vulnerabilities they can find. For Microsoft, they only report Microsoft-acknowledged vulnerabilities. If Microsoft doesn't admit to a vulnerability, then it doesn't exist, right?

Let's see what people outside of Redmond have to say recently about Windows 7, shall we?
Pwn2Own 2011: IE8 on Windows 7 hijacked with 3 vulnerabilities
RSAC 2011: Windows 7 vulnerabilities show need for kernel control
Patch Tuesday: Gaping security hole in Windows Media Player
Windows security hole gives anyone access to computer without logging into User Account
Windows still unpatched security hole
partial list of current exploits for Windows 7

Um, Secunia lumps all versions of Mac OS X as one thing: from its release in 2001 to the present. An unpatched vulnerability in OS X is not an unpatched vulnerability in the current version.

Another interesting thing about Secunia: for Apple, they report any vulnerabilities they can find. For Microsoft, they only report Microsoft-acknowledged vulnerabilities. If Microsoft doesn't admit to a vulnerability, then it doesn't exist, right?

Let's see what people outside of Redmond have to say recently about Windows 7, shall we?
Pwn2Own 2011: IE8 on Windows 7 hijacked with 3 vulnerabilities
RSAC 2011: Windows 7 vulnerabilities show need for kernel control
Patch Tuesday: Gaping security hole in Windows Media Player
Windows security hole gives anyone access to computer without logging into User Account
Windows still unpatched security hole
partial list of current exploits for Windows 7

You'll have to point me out to where they're catching up with the other browsers.

How about any test where they include the 32-bit version of IE9 instead of only 64-bit? Like this one.

Some relevant quotes from the conclusion:

OK, so what conclusions can we draw? Well, let’s begin with the obvious and say that Internet Explorer 9 64-bit is an absolute dog when it comes to JavaScript performance. This is to be expected given that IE 9 64-bit is using an older, slower JavaScript engine, while IE 9 32-bit was using the newer, more efficient Chakra JIT. ...

So, what’s the conclusion? Simple, IE9 64-bit is shockingly bad, and all the other browsers are, on the whole, pretty evenly matched.

Of course IE still has work to do with regard to things like HTML 5, as do all browsers, but it's pretty disingenuous to claim that they aren't catching up, or that they haven't already caught up in various respects. Look at the HTML 5 support tables, for example, to see how HTML 5 support in previous versions and current versions compare, and how each vendor has been increasing support. IE has increased there more than some. It's no surprise that Chrome focuses on HTML 5 support due to the fact that it's built by an internet services company.

In a related story, AT&T is claiming their acquisition of T-Mobile is good for America and helps to consolidate spectrum usage (as if AT&T doesn't have enough of the spectrum already). Check it out!

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/at-t-makes-its-t-mobile-case-patriotism-spectrum-crunch-mobile-broadband/46288?tag=nl.e539

I would rather see Google acquire both T-Mobile and Sprint and offer services more like an ISP - a flat rate for X bandwidth (tiered based on allocated speed like any other ISP), regardless of whether you use it only for voice, or watch netflix 24/7, or decide to do something really boneheaded and use it as the Internet connection for your entire corporate LAN. That would result in a shakeout of the cellphone industry and cause AT&T and Verizon to improve their networks (and make good on the subsidies they've already been paid to make things happen) and correct their inflated pricing structures.

Windows Phone Marketplace fastest to hit 10,000 app milestone

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/cell-phones/windows-phone-marketplace-fastest-to-hit-10000-app-milestone/5596

App stop is empty? Stop shilling for mod points by posting BS.

In related news, a crowd of dazed, starving and dehydrated developers were found wandering along a rural highway in central Washington State. None had any idea of how they came to be there, or any memory of the past 90 days.

Windows Phone Marketplace fastest to hit 10,000 app milestone

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/cell-phones/windows-phone-marketplace-fastest-to-hit-10000-app-milestone/5596

App stop is empty? Stop shilling for mod points by posting BS.

Those 3 people have 10,000 apps to use though...growed faster than Android or iOS stores, silly Slashdot with it's anti-MS bias and tunnel vision from reading only the posted news and comments.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/cell-phones/windows-phone-marketplace-fastest-to-hit-10000-app-milestone/5596
http://wpcentral.com/milestone-windows-phone-marketplace-hits-10-000-will-overtake-rim-6-months

Florian Mueller has zero credibility left.

Remember? He was the guy who claimed that Android included source stolen from Oracle's Java. After getting enormous publicity the whole thing was debunked:
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/burnette/oops-no-copied-java-code-or-weapons-of-mass-destruction-found-in-android/2162

So, why are we still listening to him? There are millions of voices on the Internet, shouldn't we listen to one of the ones that still has credibility?

Can such standards defined files be copyrighted? IBM argued in its case against SCO that the Unix and Linux header files couldnâ(TM)t be copyrighted because of these issues. In the event, it was proved that Novell, and not SCO, owned Unixâ(TM)s copyrights and that issue, to the best of my knowledge, was never settled. Still, speaking for myself, it seems unlikely thereâ(TM)s any danger to Android or Android programmers from Linux header file copyrights.

Do they have a case?

This is just more FUD being generated by Microsoft's shills.

The list of highly questionable if not outright illegal activities is very long:

You can start here with "A History of Anticompetitive Behavior and Consumer Harm"
http://www.ecis.eu/documents/Finalversion_Consumerchoicepaper.pdf

and then move on to a catalog of their attacks on standards:
http://www.grokdoc.net/index.php/Dirty_Tricks_history

and then any of these:
Illegal tying: http://www.ecis.eu/documents/ECISPressStatementonOperaSO1.pdf
Unethical marketing: http://www.nearsoft.com/blog/MS-test.html
Antitrust: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/600488.stm

Or these:
http://slashdot.org/story/00/05/02/158204/Kerberos-PACs-And-Microsofts-Dirty-Tricks
http://www.technologyevangelist.com/2007/02/microsoft_dirty_tric_1.html
http://techrights.org/2008/12/01/leaked-oem-vista-ad-incentives/
http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/57261/index.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/368660.stm
http://www.groklaw.net/staticpages/index.php?page=2005010107100653
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/06/08/23/1251210/Microsoft-Admonished-by-US-District-Court-Judge
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-tried-to-muck-with-anti-linux-facts/235
http://www.zdnet.com/news/fact-and-fiction-in-the-microsoft-sco-relationship/139743
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2001/10/23/13219/110
http://lproven.livejournal.com/102128.html
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7654

The list of highly questionable if not outright illegal activities is very long:

You can start here with "A History of Anticompetitive Behavior and Consumer Harm"
http://www.ecis.eu/documents/Finalversion_Consumerchoicepaper.pdf

and then move on to a catalog of their attacks on standards:
http://www.grokdoc.net/index.php/Dirty_Tricks_history

and then any of these:
Illegal tying: http://www.ecis.eu/documents/ECISPressStatementonOperaSO1.pdf
Unethical marketing: http://www.nearsoft.com/blog/MS-test.html
Antitrust: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/600488.stm

Or these:
http://slashdot.org/story/00/05/02/158204/Kerberos-PACs-And-Microsofts-Dirty-Tricks
http://www.technologyevangelist.com/2007/02/microsoft_dirty_tric_1.html
http://techrights.org/2008/12/01/leaked-oem-vista-ad-incentives/
http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/57261/index.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/368660.stm
http://www.groklaw.net/staticpages/index.php?page=2005010107100653
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/06/08/23/1251210/Microsoft-Admonished-by-US-District-Court-Judge
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-tried-to-muck-with-anti-linux-facts/235
http://www.zdnet.com/news/fact-and-fiction-in-the-microsoft-sco-relationship/139743
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2001/10/23/13219/110
http://lproven.livejournal.com/102128.html
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7654

bribery, hidden agendas, employee abuse, poor environmental practices

Did you even try googling any of those? Perhaps you've been so poorly bribed that, abused by Microsoft though you may be, your hidden agenda is to astroturf on tech news sites, polluting them?

Bribery:

• 2005-2010 Bing "Loyalty Rewards" program - widely derided as an attempt to grab customers with bribes. If Bing is as good as they want it to be, why do they need to offer cash?
• 2007 OOXML ISO process bribes - you may want to argue about rewarding people for using Microsoft products, by "competitive behavior" maybe you mean offering incentives to a few key people to get things done. But for a standards process, that is bribery. Standards must be evaluated on their technical merit alone. (PDF warning)
• 2006 Bloggers bribed with laptops - when every news site is calling it a bribe, I'd say it's not just "competitive behavior."

Hidden Agendas

• 2010 - Microsoft's shell company, Attachmate, attempted to buy 882 patents from Novell.
• 2007 - Here's the same wired story about OOXML. I'm not going to do your googling for you; this one's obvious.
• 2005 - Microsoft's addition of PDF support. I didn't even know about this one, but it turns up in a google search... Dude, do your own homework next time.

Employee Abuse

• Have you never heard of throwing chairs? Seriously?
• Microsoft's continuing problems with their Chinese workforce - remember, don't hire them directly. Farm it out to a subsidiary to distance yourself from the inevitable PR disaster.

Poor Environmental Practices
Did you mean to suggest Microsoft is a hardware company?

Or can we count all the useless trash they have pushed out the door, forcing users to reformat their machines as soon as they buy them so they can downgrade to a decent OS, Vista ending up straight in the landfill?

http://searchcio.techtarget.com/news/1140155/Massachusetts-CIO-defends-move-to-OpenDocument http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/massachusetts-open-source-fight-becomes-partisan/506 http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/top-national-advocate-for-the-disabled-sets-terms-for-endorsement-of-opendocument-format/2163 (among many others)

http://searchcio.techtarget.com/news/1140155/Massachusetts-CIO-defends-move-to-OpenDocument http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/massachusetts-open-source-fight-becomes-partisan/506 http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/top-national-advocate-for-the-disabled-sets-terms-for-endorsement-of-opendocument-format/2163 (among many others)

In the early days, they did oppose it

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/massachusetts-open-source-fight-becomes-partisan/506

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/top-national-advocate-for-the-disabled-sets-terms-for-endorsement-of-opendocument-format/2163 (the older history of opposition).

You should be able to find more relatively easily (National Federation of the Blind open document format or similar search phrase).

In the early days, they did oppose it

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/massachusetts-open-source-fight-becomes-partisan/506

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/top-national-advocate-for-the-disabled-sets-terms-for-endorsement-of-opendocument-format/2163 (the older history of opposition).

You should be able to find more relatively easily (National Federation of the Blind open document format or similar search phrase).

For Javascript performance you can see the SS/V8/Kraken results from this comparison but note that IE9 cheats on Sunspider with faulty dead code removal that is removing code that needs to be executed and ignore Peacekeeper because it's flawed in many ways and also tests more than Javascript...

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/ie9-vs-chrome-10-vs-firefox-4-rc-vs-opera-1101-vs-safari-5-the-big-browser-benchmark/11890

For info about why FF4 RC is slower than IE9 in some hardware acceleration tests which they will be fixing soon (probably after FF4 release) see this:

http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/roc/archives/2011/03/investigating_p.html

the 'turned on to eavesdrop" is very real.
http://www.zdnet.com/news/fbi-taps-cell-phone-mic-as-eavesdropping-tool/150467
"functioned whether the phone was powered on or off." "a cellular telephone can be turned into a microphone and transmitter for the purpose of listening to conversations in the vicinity of the phone."
"remotely install a piece of software on to any handset, without the owner's knowledge, which will activate the microphone even when its owner is not making a call."
That was a few years about past cases.

You're thinking far too small. By the time a USB 8.0 would come around at the current rate of development, we'll have 3TB in a tiny, tiny little cube due to quantum holographic 3-dimensional storage (35bits per electron quantum space x2... seriously!!). A mere 3.76975415 × 10^11 electron quantum spaces :)

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/networking/chrome-10-vs-internet-explorer-9-reconsidered/792?pg=2&tag=mantle_skin;content

The organizers said that the software configuration was frozen a week ago. Nobody was allowed to do last-minute updates (like it was last year)

This is my reply

Chrome got to use the built in auto mechanism just before the contest started (source 1, source 2, source 3) which is probably why the contestant registered to try to beat Chrome did choose not to try.

Granted, there was a spelling mistake, it should have said "built in auto update mechanism" but why mod me down?

Chrome got to use the built in auto mechanism just before the contest started (source 1, source 2, source 3) which is probably why the contestant registered to try to beat Chrome did choose not to try.

I think this is the important point. It doesn't matter that the Mac failed first, it matters that it failed at all. The order isn't important - all of the exploits took a small amount of time, and all were done just by making the machine visit a malicious site. Which one was tried first is not the important bit.

Exactly. It might have been far more interesting if we'd had a summary that at least made an effort to tell the whole story, rather than just the one-sided flamebait we got...

"Because the iPad is significantly thinner and somewhat lighter. "

You mean the 4.6mm (3/16") difference and the whopping 79 grams (2.8 ounces) loss? Who cares? No one thinks "Gee, I would buy this laptop/computer/screen/etc, but it weighs 2.8 ounces too much". This isn't a cellphone or something where an ounce or 1/4" can make a big difference, it's a tablet.

Reason we don't see clones is because Apple stomped all over the mp3 player market despite competitors offering more memory for a lower price. Apple has 73% of MP3 player sales. Closest competitor is SanDisk with 9%. No wonder everyone's scared to buck-up against Apple. Even Droid is barely keeping up with iPhones and Droids are free. To stay competitive with Apple your product has to be free! How can anyone compete with that?

I wish he was, but, sadly, he's correct.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/is-it-ok-to-use-oem-windows-on-your-own-pc-dont-ask-microsoft/1561

http://www.microsoft.com/oem/en/licensing/sblicensing/pages/localized_licenses.aspx

A "system builder" is defined as someone who builds a machine, configures it, tests it, and sells it to a third party. Technically, homebuilds have to buy the full license, according to Microsoft's own licensing agreement.

Not a point I think they'd ever enforce, of course, but it's part of their legalese.

What's the use in spamming at all anymore?

Because it's profitable. Cite:

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/profitability-of-spam-finally-measured/2159

From TFA:

...this provides a yearly revenue rate of the Storm botnet for the sale of pharmaceuticals of around $3.5 million dollars.

Do you also believe that Apple is out to destroy the open source community? They do the exact same thing.

Take a 30% cut of paid downloads.

That would be a better deal than Ubuntu is offering Banshee
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/canonical-banshee-agree-to-disagree/8345

The only problem I have with your statements is while OSX is based on Unix, Apple hasn't been the most proactive in keeping it's security up to date/maintenance. And when they do patch the holes, 2 3 the list of holes tend to be quite large which means they are doing quite a large backlog (with some of the holes being months overdue, like in the first example having a security hole known since August and not patched until January the next year).

You can take something very secure but if your falter in it's maintenance then it won't be of a lot of use in real world usage. And its due to issues like these that make me believe the opposite. Sure, due to it's Unix background, OSX could be very secure, but its not. And as long as these issues keep happening then people like Charlie Miller will keep breaking into Macs and showing that they are in fact less secure then Windows. And while Microsoft isn't always patching security holes on day 0, they are much more likely to address the holes a lot faster then Apple has.

I'm sure this and
this are clear signs that everything is A-OK with everyone being cheerful and optimistic about the future of the platform.

I'm sure this and
this are clear signs that everything is A-OK with everyone being cheerful and optimistic about the future of the platform.