I disagree. I don't think the open source community, or rather nerds in general have a special problem with sexism or racism or homophobia for that matter.
Society has a problem. There is a vocal minority of assholes everywhere. Including in technology.
Also there is generally a healthy dose of racism and sexism in all of us. Is it natural? I dunno. But I do believe it can really hurt people and it does cloud our judgement. We deal with it in different ways. Some recognize it, try to be educated about it and try to avoid expressing it and keep it from clouding their judgement. Some others don't even see it. Some even celebrate it.
But no matter if you see something or not. Or if you ignore it. It doesn't go away. And it doesn't help victims, if you tell them that it doesn't exist. Every time there is a story on sexism on Slashdot, most comments are either outright sexist or they deny the existence of sexism. That is the problem, IMHO.
There is network effect in software as well. Larger market share means that more people know how to use the software and there is more training and other business build around it. That is why software piracy is a mixed bag for the producer. If the pirate wouldn't have bought the software, the pirated copy provides market share and thus value.
> For example, empirical evidence is pretty strong that the Keynesian multiplier (how many dollars the economy gains from each dollars spent by the government) is less than one.
Yes. But it is bigger than zero. So if the government spends it on anything useful and the multiplier is bigger than zero, it is an added benefit.
> There is little evidence that natural monopolies exist in any economically meaningful sense. [...]
This is exactly the crazy libertarian I was hinting at. This is just meaningless theory which has horrible consequences in practice.
> those monopolies aren't stable, and they collapse the faster the more economically important that monopoly is
They don't. Comcast still exists and will for a long time, even though internet access is very, very important. This is just one example. Maybe their natural monopoly will fail. Are you willing to wait another 20-30-40 years for that just to prove a point? And what if it doesn't? The Wikipedia article on natural monopolies is, unfortunately, a little sparse on the details of natural monopolies and how they work. Perhaps because crazy libertarians have even influenced Wikipedia itself (something I see frequently on the discussion page). And seeing the score you got for this comment reinforces this.
When I wrote about economics being suspicious, I meant, for example, the supply-demand curve. Which is one of the basic theories in microeconomics. And it makes perfect sense in theory, yet carries little to no relevance in practice. I am not going to drive across town, because there is a bakery there which has cheaper bread. Even if I knew about that bakery. Many economic theories, including the supply-demand-curve assume zero transaction costs, making them irrelevant in practice. Even the research to find out and know about a cheap bakery is transaction cost. This all assumes that humans make rational decisions. Something most economic theories assume without even stating it. Which is false. Almost all decisions we take are not rational. Otherwise no one would spend a dime on marketing (Google relies solely on marketing for their revenue) and everyone would be running Android phones instead of Apple. But what would a rational person really need a smartphone for? Is the purchase of a smartphone actually a rational decision? Maybe, maybe not. Who defines rationality anyways. But this argument takes us too far. I acknowledge that. The beautiful shopkeeper that makes you drink you coffee at that place is just the rational decision of the owner. But what is the economic implication of that? Where is the economic benefit of expensive coffee? Humans are influenced by so many factors in their decision. How much rationality there is can be argued. What can not be argued is that there is at least a big proportion that is not rational.
Those are some of the many reasons why the supply-demand-curve is irrelevant in practice and beautiful in theory. Just like libertarianism. And, surprise, surprise, the supply-demand-curve is one of the most important corner stones for libertarianism. To believe in libertarianism means believing in the supply-demand curve, denying the existence of advertising and believing in the imminent demise of Comcast. Crazy, isn't it?
I know that economics has a bad reputation. Rightly so. Keynes doesn't make sense, but seems to work and the crazy libertarians make a lot of sense in theory, but got us 2008.
Yet some models and explanations are solid and work. One of them is the concept of the natural monopoly. I would argue that Facebook, Microsoft (Windows and Office) operate in markets with natural monopolies.
Markets with a natural monopoly don't work well in a market economy. They either need to be heavily regulated or simply taken over by the state and out of the private industry. Both models aren't ideal.
But Microsoft isn't regulated. Facebook neither. This happens because of globalization. Nation states would need to regulate them, but since those companies operate on a global scale, there is little interest by national regulators to step in. Since there is no international regulator, there is no regulation. Hence these companies are free to exploit their natural monopoly.
Thunderbird shares a lot of parts with Firefox. Since Firefox is rapidly developed, the Thunderbird people spend a lot of their time trying to keep up with the changes. A lot of those things may not be needed for an email client.
By splitting the project, Firefox can stop worrying about breaking Thunderbird and Thunderbird can focus on things they like to build.
The split may result in a more stable Thunderbird with a longer time between releases, resulting in less breakage with the addons and also more and more interesting features per release. Making encryption accessible would be at the top of my request list. It might be easier to obtain after a split.
I also set up DokuWiki myself recently. My webhoster Netcup is offering to update this application for their customers when they install it through their interface. In any subdirectory of my choice.
- Piwigo for photos, because Digikam supports direct uploads to Piwigo.
- Kolab for Email/Calendar/Contacts, because it support ActiveSync and thus iOS and Android support syncing out of the box. Also Kolab is pretty awsome.
- Seafile for cloud file syncing, because it is a lot faster than Owncloud
Please keep in mind that I recommend Owncloud as well, because it is a lot easier to install and maintain. You only need webspace. No one in their right mind should really be operating a personal email server in 2015. This is what Google Apps is for. If you earn minimum wage or above, anything you pay for Google Apps will be a lot less than the time you spent on maintaining an email server. I also use Keepass and sync the file.
- Firefox Sync is open source and uses client side encryption. So why bother with Shaarli? Maybe because Firefox only just now came back to the iOS platform? Note: Chrome/Chromium is nice, but not really for me. For several reasons. This is a thread about keeping your data to yourself, so Chrome goes out the window anyways. Then we have the repeating issue with the extensions
which applies to Chromium as well. And then there was the quality/packaging issue on Debian. Among other stuff. So why bother? I use Chromium frequently. Just not as my primary browser.
SJW may be bad. I don't know. I have never seen one or anything from them except for when they are made fun of or shown as horrible example.
What I have seen is an awful lot of racism, homophobia, transphobia and misogyny. In the tech industry. Which isn't surprising. Homophobia, transphobia and misogyny are deeply embedded in our culture and may even be natural to human beings. Racism and it's cousins are for sure natural to humans. We distrust outsiders. People with different outer features are perceived as outsiders.
These things exist, if you deny them or not. Not in the tech industry, but everywhere. Including the tech industry. But by denying them, you don't make them go away, you are simply telling people that are bullied, that bullying doesn't exist. And since you say you are a nerd, you may know something about bullying. How does it feel?
The drone program is a killing machine that creates it's own targets by itself. One of the basic things you learn about government agencies and programs is that they can't be stopped or reduced. You can only slow down their growth. Fortunately, this isn't 100% true for the US, but generally, people like to keep their jobs and positions. And they will go to any length to do this. They will keep finding reasons why their work should continue to exist.
Once you set something up, it is very, very difficult to tear it down.
Why should the drone program be any different? Target lists are secret. As well as the reasons given for people being targeted. If you were to reduce the target list, you would need less drones, less people and less money. Is there any sane reason why this should ever happen when there is no oversight over target lists?
Anything we have heard about the drone program confirms this. They are now down to shooting kids that made suspicious posts in online forums.
To me it looks like the scapegoat and business as usual thing is currently what we do. What happened after 2007? Did the top management from Lehman Brothers get touched? Or any other bank? They didn't even have a scapegoat. And it doesn't end with private industry. There is clear and conclusive evidence that the Abu Ghraib abuses were directed by knowledgeable people that had at least the rank of generals:
> It also traveled at over 3 times the speed of the Concorde.
Why do you post easily refutable factually wrong information?
From the respective Wikipedia articles.
Concorde:
Maximum speed: Mach 2.04 (â1,354 mph, 2,179 km/h, 1,176 knots) at cruise altitude Cruise speed: Mach 2.02 (â1,340 mph, 2,158 km/h, 1,164 knots) at cruise altitude
SR-71:
That same day SR-71, serial number 61-7958, set an absolute speed record of 1,905.81 knots (2,193.2 mph; 3,529.6 km/h), approximately Mach 3.3. SR-71 pilot Brian Shul states in his book The Untouchables that he flew in excess of Mach 3.5 on 15 April 1986 over Libya to evade a missile.
Freemium is alive and kicking. Especially with companies that don't have enough money for marketing. Maybe they cut back on features for the free offering. But a digital product that can be distributed over the internet is naturally suited for the freemium model.
I just started using Cloudbacko, for example. I had to purchase the pro version immediately, because I needed the bandwidth limiter, but other than that, the free version is the perfect entry to this software.
For a crowd claiming to be pro science, you come across as a bunch of rednecks defending a flat earth when it comes to social science. I guess everyone has a blank spot, but please stop defending it so intensely.
Once you have the people and equipment in place, it will be used. Which is why we have an ever expanding list of people to assassinate with hellfire missles shot from drones.
A lot of people actually support the drone program. I seriously don't get it.
I think the issue isn't really autonomous robots. The problem is the declared and clearly defined battlefield. Inside the battlefield, autonomous and semi-autonomous systems are already at work, there is not much you can do about that. Ships, for example, have anti missle systems that are completely autonomous. And decisions to kill or not to kill are often made on the spot and quick. Humans err a lot in these situations, leading to lots of horrible mistakes.
Outside the declared battlefield, e.g. around the whole globe, the story is quite different. If we could simply decide to require a legal trial before execution, we would have much more moral ground to stand on.
You comment is ironic, right? People could have been easily executed for treason in the Weimar Republic in Germany. Hitler would have been gone, would it not have been for a lot of intervention on his behalf by people in the justice system and politicians. Justice is flawed. It was even worse back then.
During the time Hitler was not executed, lynchings were still frequent in the US.
George W Bush gave the order to kill people and torture people. Obama did the same. Even though the US has the death penalty. Some people can't be touched. Politics. That's how it works.
I really hope that all the new TLDs will end this domain squatting pest and diminish domain names. Squatters add nothing of value. Only transaction costs to online businesses.
I am sure there is more than one company working on this right now. The idea is quite simple. I want to get from A to B and would like to see all my options listed and sorted by speed and price. Including rental, flight, taxi, uber, train, car sharing, bus, own car, bike, walking, hovercraft, skateboard, and so on. And any combination of the above that would make sense. Optimized by weather forcast (less likely to bike, motorbike or walk), recorded walking speed, recorded bike speed, and options I can put in. For example a dislike for rental cars, lack of drivers licence and other.
This is simply a logical conclusion of Google Maps, navigational software and the modern smartphone. If I want to travel to point X, why doesn't it show me everything, how fast and how much it will cost me? Why do I have to manually check train and bus schedules (which are machine readable on the internet) and see if I want to walk to a different public transport station than the one nearest to me, if it offers a much better connecting and I am a fast walker. Or own a bike.
I am from Germany. Over here I spoke to someone working in the field of nuclear safety (obviously also job dependent on nuclear energy, so...). He said that he thinks we take more than enough precaution with dangerous material in connection with nuclear energy. Especially compared to other chemicals and materials in other fields, which can also be quite hazardous, but are regulated and therefore handled with a lot less care. And thus tend to harm human health and the environment much more.
I think a lot of nations are watching very closely. We have the conflict in the Mideast, where Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Iran are often cited to be nuclear hopefuls. Israel is/was expected to give up their bomb if/when a proper security structure is in place.
Then there is the potential conflict in the South China Sea, where China just unveiled a military budget that it's neighbors can't even hope to match conventionally some day. So we have Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam and possibly Indonesia eyeing "other alternatives".
And we have the standoff between India and Pakistan, both of which were hopefuls for a nuclear disarmarment, should a peace deal be reached at some point. I don't need to mention that China, just like Russia, being nuclear capable and having had a war with India and still some territorial disputes, will make it impossible for India to give up it's nukes. Especially when treaties like the Budapest Memorandum are not worth the paper they are written on.
We also have some very old rivalries in South America. Brazil is expected to have enough material and the scientific resources to make a bomb. There are also rumours. Putting regional rivals such as Argentina and Venezuela on edge. And even though Venezuela is nowhere near nuclear capability, the mere chance is probabely making the Colombians uneasy.
It's over. Android has won. The iPhone will stay around with a significant market share. But current high specs for phones will be the low end in three years. 2GB Ram and a 1.5 Ghz Quad Core CPU with be in entry level Android devices in 2017. Enough to run Android any way you like.
Android already runs on so many phones. It already is ubiquitous. Microsoft might have a chance in a niche. Same as Firefox, if it comes down to it. The mobile phone market is a billion device market. Why not a couple thousand Windows or Firefox or Jolla or Tizen devices? Or Ubuntu for that matter.
Android already runs on low spec cheap entry level devices. Granted, it doesn't run them very well, but neither does Firefox atm.
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I disagree. I don't think the open source community, or rather nerds in general have a special problem with sexism or racism or homophobia for that matter.
Society has a problem. There is a vocal minority of assholes everywhere. Including in technology.
Also there is generally a healthy dose of racism and sexism in all of us. Is it natural? I dunno. But I do believe it can really hurt people and it does cloud our judgement. We deal with it in different ways. Some recognize it, try to be educated about it and try to avoid expressing it and keep it from clouding their judgement. Some others don't even see it. Some even celebrate it.
But no matter if you see something or not. Or if you ignore it. It doesn't go away. And it doesn't help victims, if you tell them that it doesn't exist. Every time there is a story on sexism on Slashdot, most comments are either outright sexist or they deny the existence of sexism. That is the problem, IMHO.
Case in point:
http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
There is network effect in software as well. Larger market share means that more people know how to use the software and there is more training and other business build around it. That is why software piracy is a mixed bag for the producer. If the pirate wouldn't have bought the software, the pirated copy provides market share and thus value.
> For example, empirical evidence is pretty strong that the Keynesian multiplier (how many dollars the economy gains from each dollars spent by the government) is less than one.
Yes. But it is bigger than zero. So if the government spends it on anything useful and the multiplier is bigger than zero, it is an added benefit.
> There is little evidence that natural monopolies exist in any economically meaningful sense. [...]
This is exactly the crazy libertarian I was hinting at. This is just meaningless theory which has horrible consequences in practice.
> those monopolies aren't stable, and they collapse the faster the more economically important that monopoly is
They don't. Comcast still exists and will for a long time, even though internet access is very, very important. This is just one example. Maybe their natural monopoly will fail. Are you willing to wait another 20-30-40 years for that just to prove a point? And what if it doesn't? The Wikipedia article on natural monopolies is, unfortunately, a little sparse on the details of natural monopolies and how they work. Perhaps because crazy libertarians have even influenced Wikipedia itself (something I see frequently on the discussion page). And seeing the score you got for this comment reinforces this.
When I wrote about economics being suspicious, I meant, for example, the supply-demand curve. Which is one of the basic theories in microeconomics. And it makes perfect sense in theory, yet carries little to no relevance in practice. I am not going to drive across town, because there is a bakery there which has cheaper bread. Even if I knew about that bakery. Many economic theories, including the supply-demand-curve assume zero transaction costs, making them irrelevant in practice. Even the research to find out and know about a cheap bakery is transaction cost. This all assumes that humans make rational decisions. Something most economic theories assume without even stating it. Which is false. Almost all decisions we take are not rational. Otherwise no one would spend a dime on marketing (Google relies solely on marketing for their revenue) and everyone would be running Android phones instead of Apple. But what would a rational person really need a smartphone for? Is the purchase of a smartphone actually a rational decision? Maybe, maybe not. Who defines rationality anyways. But this argument takes us too far. I acknowledge that. The beautiful shopkeeper that makes you drink you coffee at that place is just the rational decision of the owner. But what is the economic implication of that? Where is the economic benefit of expensive coffee? Humans are influenced by so many factors in their decision. How much rationality there is can be argued. What can not be argued is that there is at least a big proportion that is not rational.
Those are some of the many reasons why the supply-demand-curve is irrelevant in practice and beautiful in theory. Just like libertarianism. And, surprise, surprise, the supply-demand-curve is one of the most important corner stones for libertarianism. To believe in libertarianism means believing in the supply-demand curve, denying the existence of advertising and believing in the imminent demise of Comcast. Crazy, isn't it?
I know that economics has a bad reputation. Rightly so. Keynes doesn't make sense, but seems to work and the crazy libertarians make a lot of sense in theory, but got us 2008.
Yet some models and explanations are solid and work. One of them is the concept of the natural monopoly. I would argue that Facebook, Microsoft (Windows and Office) operate in markets with natural monopolies.
Markets with a natural monopoly don't work well in a market economy. They either need to be heavily regulated or simply taken over by the state and out of the private industry. Both models aren't ideal.
But Microsoft isn't regulated. Facebook neither. This happens because of globalization. Nation states would need to regulate them, but since those companies operate on a global scale, there is little interest by national regulators to step in. Since there is no international regulator, there is no regulation. Hence these companies are free to exploit their natural monopoly.
For what did they send the 12 year old to jail?
What country sends 12 year olds to jail for anything anyways?
Thunderbird shares a lot of parts with Firefox. Since Firefox is rapidly developed, the Thunderbird people spend a lot of their time trying to keep up with the changes. A lot of those things may not be needed for an email client.
By splitting the project, Firefox can stop worrying about breaking Thunderbird and Thunderbird can focus on things they like to build.
The split may result in a more stable Thunderbird with a longer time between releases, resulting in less breakage with the addons and also more and more interesting features per release. Making encryption accessible would be at the top of my request list. It might be easier to obtain after a split.
I also set up DokuWiki myself recently. My webhoster Netcup is offering to update this application for their customers when they install it through their interface. In any subdirectory of my choice.
- Piwigo for photos, because Digikam supports direct uploads to Piwigo.
- Kolab for Email/Calendar/Contacts, because it support ActiveSync and thus iOS and Android support syncing out of the box. Also Kolab is pretty awsome.
- Seafile for cloud file syncing, because it is a lot faster than Owncloud
Please keep in mind that I recommend Owncloud as well, because it is a lot easier to install and maintain. You only need webspace. No one in their right mind should really be operating a personal email server in 2015. This is what Google Apps is for. If you earn minimum wage or above, anything you pay for Google Apps will be a lot less than the time you spent on maintaining an email server. I also use Keepass and sync the file.
- Firefox Sync is open source and uses client side encryption. So why bother with Shaarli? Maybe because Firefox only just now came back to the iOS platform? Note: Chrome/Chromium is nice, but not really for me. For several reasons. This is a thread about keeping your data to yourself, so Chrome goes out the window anyways. Then we have the repeating issue with the extensions
http://labs.detectify.com/post...
which applies to Chromium as well. And then there was the quality/packaging issue on Debian. Among other stuff. So why bother? I use Chromium frequently. Just not as my primary browser.
SJW may be bad. I don't know. I have never seen one or anything from them except for when they are made fun of or shown as horrible example.
What I have seen is an awful lot of racism, homophobia, transphobia and misogyny. In the tech industry. Which isn't surprising. Homophobia, transphobia and misogyny are deeply embedded in our culture and may even be natural to human beings. Racism and it's cousins are for sure natural to humans. We distrust outsiders. People with different outer features are perceived as outsiders.
These things exist, if you deny them or not. Not in the tech industry, but everywhere. Including the tech industry. But by denying them, you don't make them go away, you are simply telling people that are bullied, that bullying doesn't exist. And since you say you are a nerd, you may know something about bullying. How does it feel?
Malkin is a professional troll. Shouldn't /. know that you shouldn't feed trolls? What gives?
The drone program is a killing machine that creates it's own targets by itself. One of the basic things you learn about government agencies and programs is that they can't be stopped or reduced. You can only slow down their growth. Fortunately, this isn't 100% true for the US, but generally, people like to keep their jobs and positions. And they will go to any length to do this. They will keep finding reasons why their work should continue to exist.
Once you set something up, it is very, very difficult to tear it down.
Why should the drone program be any different? Target lists are secret. As well as the reasons given for people being targeted. If you were to reduce the target list, you would need less drones, less people and less money. Is there any sane reason why this should ever happen when there is no oversight over target lists?
Anything we have heard about the drone program confirms this. They are now down to shooting kids that made suspicious posts in online forums.
When shipping 13 million complex computing units, some may be faulty.
We get this with every iPhone release. Issues affecting a couple hundred devices. Or is there really more to this? I doubt it.
To me it looks like the scapegoat and business as usual thing is currently what we do. What happened after 2007? Did the top management from Lehman Brothers get touched? Or any other bank? They didn't even have a scapegoat. And it doesn't end with private industry. There is clear and conclusive evidence that the Abu Ghraib abuses were directed by knowledgeable people that had at least the rank of generals:
http://www.newsweek.com/roots-...
But they found scapegoats. And everything went on business as usual.
> It also traveled at over 3 times the speed of the Concorde.
Why do you post easily refutable factually wrong information?
From the respective Wikipedia articles.
Concorde:
Maximum speed: Mach 2.04 (â1,354 mph, 2,179 km/h, 1,176 knots) at cruise altitude
Cruise speed: Mach 2.02 (â1,340 mph, 2,158 km/h, 1,164 knots) at cruise altitude
SR-71:
That same day SR-71, serial number 61-7958, set an absolute speed record of 1,905.81 knots (2,193.2 mph; 3,529.6 km/h), approximately Mach 3.3. SR-71 pilot Brian Shul states in his book The Untouchables that he flew in excess of Mach 3.5 on 15 April 1986 over Libya to evade a missile.
Freemium is alive and kicking. Especially with companies that don't have enough money for marketing. Maybe they cut back on features for the free offering. But a digital product that can be distributed over the internet is naturally suited for the freemium model.
I just started using Cloudbacko, for example. I had to purchase the pro version immediately, because I needed the bandwidth limiter, but other than that, the free version is the perfect entry to this software.
Expected some, didn't expect all above 4 to be.
For a crowd claiming to be pro science, you come across as a bunch of rednecks defending a flat earth when it comes to social science. I guess everyone has a blank spot, but please stop defending it so intensely.
Once you have the people and equipment in place, it will be used. Which is why we have an ever expanding list of people to assassinate with hellfire missles shot from drones.
A lot of people actually support the drone program. I seriously don't get it.
I think the issue isn't really autonomous robots. The problem is the declared and clearly defined battlefield. Inside the battlefield, autonomous and semi-autonomous systems are already at work, there is not much you can do about that. Ships, for example, have anti missle systems that are completely autonomous. And decisions to kill or not to kill are often made on the spot and quick. Humans err a lot in these situations, leading to lots of horrible mistakes.
Outside the declared battlefield, e.g. around the whole globe, the story is quite different. If we could simply decide to require a legal trial before execution, we would have much more moral ground to stand on.
You comment is ironic, right? People could have been easily executed for treason in the Weimar Republic in Germany. Hitler would have been gone, would it not have been for a lot of intervention on his behalf by people in the justice system and politicians. Justice is flawed. It was even worse back then.
During the time Hitler was not executed, lynchings were still frequent in the US.
George W Bush gave the order to kill people and torture people. Obama did the same. Even though the US has the death penalty. Some people can't be touched. Politics. That's how it works.
I really hope that all the new TLDs will end this domain squatting pest and diminish domain names. Squatters add nothing of value. Only transaction costs to online businesses.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I am sure there is more than one company working on this right now. The idea is quite simple. I want to get from A to B and would like to see all my options listed and sorted by speed and price. Including rental, flight, taxi, uber, train, car sharing, bus, own car, bike, walking, hovercraft, skateboard, and so on. And any combination of the above that would make sense. Optimized by weather forcast (less likely to bike, motorbike or walk), recorded walking speed, recorded bike speed, and options I can put in. For example a dislike for rental cars, lack of drivers licence and other.
This is simply a logical conclusion of Google Maps, navigational software and the modern smartphone. If I want to travel to point X, why doesn't it show me everything, how fast and how much it will cost me? Why do I have to manually check train and bus schedules (which are machine readable on the internet) and see if I want to walk to a different public transport station than the one nearest to me, if it offers a much better connecting and I am a fast walker. Or own a bike.
I am from Germany. Over here I spoke to someone working in the field of nuclear safety (obviously also job dependent on nuclear energy, so ...). He said that he thinks we take more than enough precaution with dangerous material in connection with nuclear energy. Especially compared to other chemicals and materials in other fields, which can also be quite hazardous, but are regulated and therefore handled with a lot less care. And thus tend to harm human health and the environment much more.
I think a lot of nations are watching very closely. We have the conflict in the Mideast, where Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Iran are often cited to be nuclear hopefuls. Israel is/was expected to give up their bomb if/when a proper security structure is in place.
Then there is the potential conflict in the South China Sea, where China just unveiled a military budget that it's neighbors can't even hope to match conventionally some day. So we have Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam and possibly Indonesia eyeing "other alternatives".
And we have the standoff between India and Pakistan, both of which were hopefuls for a nuclear disarmarment, should a peace deal be reached at some point. I don't need to mention that China, just like Russia, being nuclear capable and having had a war with India and still some territorial disputes, will make it impossible for India to give up it's nukes. Especially when treaties like the Budapest Memorandum are not worth the paper they are written on.
We also have some very old rivalries in South America. Brazil is expected to have enough material and the scientific resources to make a bomb. There are also rumours. Putting regional rivals such as Argentina and Venezuela on edge. And even though Venezuela is nowhere near nuclear capability, the mere chance is probabely making the Colombians uneasy.
Have I missed anything?
It's over. Android has won. The iPhone will stay around with a significant market share. But current high specs for phones will be the low end in three years. 2GB Ram and a 1.5 Ghz Quad Core CPU with be in entry level Android devices in 2017. Enough to run Android any way you like.
Android already runs on so many phones. It already is ubiquitous. Microsoft might have a chance in a niche. Same as Firefox, if it comes down to it. The mobile phone market is a billion device market. Why not a couple thousand Windows or Firefox or Jolla or Tizen devices? Or Ubuntu for that matter.
Android already runs on low spec cheap entry level devices. Granted, it doesn't run them very well, but neither does Firefox atm.