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Spyware In BlackBerry Updates For Users in the UAE
mulaz writes with this excerpt from The Register: "An update pushed out to BlackBerry users on the Etisalat network in the United Arab Emirates appears to contain remotely-triggered spyware that allows the interception of messages and emails, as well as crippling battery life. Sent out as a WAP Push message, the update installs a Java file that one curious customer decided to take a closer look at, only to discover an application intended to intercept both email and text messages, sending a copy to an Etisalat server without the user being aware of anything beyond a slightly excessive battery drain."
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While there is a little bit of truth to this (having money and the ability to cross the country at a moment's notice helps your chances), it's mostly false. The organizations that manage organ transplants have some pretty strict standards about that sort of thing and do audits to look for preferential treatment. It basically boils down to "you can't buy your way to the front of the list".
But while you can't get yourself at the front of the list, what you CAN do is get yourself on multiple lists. Transplant lists are managed regionally, and so if you'd be able to make it to, say, Tennessee in time for your transplant (this is where money and a private jet come in handy), then you can go to Tennessee, get evaluated, and get yourself on the list for that region. And that is how you can game the system if you've got money and are Steve Jobs. But you still won't get yourself at the front of that list.
And how, pray-tell, do you make such a determination?
Holy shit you Apple fan boys are fucking crazy.
I've been called an MS shill a couple times before, but I think this is the first time I've been called an Apple fanboy...
Fine, I suggest we determine who is most deserving by the age old method of "who has earned the ability to do it". Now...inheriting the wealth isn't exactly earning it, but Jobs didn't inherit the wealth he used. So...no problems here right?
So...hop off your high horse for a minute there partner and let us examine what happened. An individual, faced with death, did everything he could to survive. That isn't exactly much different than anyone else. We could even get further into vague metrics like how many people Jobs employed, how many of them received life saving treatments as a result of their pay/medical benefits, etc, etc.
Now...if you have donated organs and have an objection to him being able to get your organ first...get right back up on that high horse, you earned it. However, no organs, no bitching. You aren't the supreme being, you don't get to decide who lives and who dies.
The only change I can believe in is what I find in my couch cushions.