So if I want to rip off and steal investors and bank money all I have to do is create 3 shell companies move the debt around and pretend they are 3 entities then declare bankruptcies on all 3 where I get first dibs on my own debt. Then keep all the money again to myself since I get first dibs. Meanwhile pensioner and investor funds get screwed.
Is there any ethics left or did I misinterpret this story? This should be illegal as none of us us individuals can do this with credit card debt as that of course would be irresponsible. But not here if it is for corps
Icahn makes as much money as possible by shutting down Dell, selling its assets to competitors and running up debt to inflate its share price via increasing cash on hand and cutting expenses.
With no assets you have no product and you are done in which Icahn sells all the shares to smucks like you who think he is out for you and the other shareholders when in reality you got screwed and he is laughing all the way to sunset with billions in cash.
Why don't you ask AMD how will its doing after sellings its cpu foundries? Its not the chips suck but they are 2 generations behind Intel now with nano meter sized circuits. Ooops
Icahn did this with Timwarner and after Icahn left they had to repurchase all their assets over again at an inflated price. It cost the company money but made Icahn cash by temporary boasting the shareprice.
Dell might not recover and with the PC business sold to HP will have nothing.
It is about vultures taking advantage of a lower share price to raid the company and sell its assets for a quick buck. The PC market is dying (albiet not dead for a long time but in the eyes of wall street if it does not grow it is already dead and time to cash out.)
Intel too is coming with huge losses too as people are switching to tablets and SMBs shoot they just discovered they can stick with a browser and platform for 10 years without upgrading! That is lost revenue as pentium IVs are still popular out on the floor of these companies and consumers are switching to phones and ipads for internet access and Facebook.
I can see why Michael wants it back. Dell needs to move in new ways in the corporate market and wall street wont them re-invest either as they want that cash right now. Icahn is evil in this regard and if he wins and fires Michael you can bet he will be happy to sell the Dell IP and brandname to HP or whomever for pennies on the dollar and close the company down in order to make a quick buck with cash similar to AMD when it sold its foundries and now can't compete with Intel.
Immediately higher return plus more money in 6 months when he closes Dell and sells off all its assets for billions! Maybe not ethical or wise for long term investment but great for a quick buck in a quarterly market.
The problem is stocks were once 30 year investments and under that guise you would be retarded and suicidal to do what Icahn does. However, computer programs and millisecond holdings are the cream and crop of the market today. Icahn is really great at optimizing for this by selling all its assets, brands, products, desks and chairs, for the highest possible bidder to inflate the company's bank accounts.
When the trading supercomputer programs see billions in growth in just 6 months! the shareprice goes through the roof and both Icahn and Silverlake double their money. These programs do not know or care how it was made by slaughtering the golden goose.
In all likelihood I think poor old Michael Dell is screwed. Icahn is offering a sweet deal and the stock market is different now than in 1997 with Apple when humans looked at a company's long term vision and not bank account numbers of assets in an Excel macro. At least Dell can sell his shares to Icahn to profit big as he fires his ass from his own company so he can close it within a year.
If Icahn bought it up (I doubt this as MS still has an insane market cap and millions of shares) the first thing he would do is sell all its assets and rank up debt to raise the shareprice.
Then sell it and MS would have to repurchase all its assets again but lose its core brands in the process. He did this to TimeWarner. The company lost money long term and it was a stupid move but computer programs determine the share price on Wall Street. They showed all this cash and a quick buildup of assets.
That is part of the problem of Wallstreet in general. The issue is magic asset/expense ratios in the bottom line. Not marketshare, growth, or anything else! The human factor of looking at a stock as an investment and not something to hold for a few milliseconds to get a few quick bucks by a supercomputer program. Icahn looks at this factor with ratios.
Debt should be considered an expense rather than an asset. Infact trading debt as an asset is what caused the great recession! It is not free and I wish more economists who know better would trade stocks rather than guys with clipboards and Excel macros.
ASLR is a great fix in addition to buffer overflow protections. Infact since XP SP 2 and IE 7 they are included when compiled which is why Windows 2000 is stuck with IE 6. ASLR with 64 bit virtual memory space increases the randomization greatly as you now have 2 terabytes of addresses to check if you are spraying.
The fact that linux does not do this is a downside. ASLR is now supported in the latest versions of MacOSX as well. You can try to fix as much as you can with overruns but there are always other ways to exploit.
FYI Balmer and Gates own more than 50% of the company.
For Balmer to go Bill Gates has to fire him and fat chance of that happening. I do not know how involved he is with the company he is now. Gates was a much better CEO
Most people do not even know about XP EOL and do not know what that means.
Man I fear for next spring. We are going to see some major viruses hitting the internet and slowing down ISP speeds next summer as one malware to another keeps getting released for XP.
In this new economy many who make now $10 - $12/hr simply not only will not but can not afford to replace an XP system even if they get nasty emails from their ISP begging them to upgrade!
Small business too is heavy on XP and the owners do not give a shit as the cash register and POS inventory system for the bar to serve drinks wont work on anything else and will cost $7,000 to replace etc.
Firefox has had shitty browser releases. Firefox 4,5,6, and even 3.6 were all bloated, slow, buggy, and broke updates every month. Worse Asa Dolzter told us who work in corporate I.T. to fuck off and even logged on slashdot begged a user to go back to IE 8 when he complained?!
On my Turion with 2 gigs of ram system Firefox quite frankly is unusable in Linux. even with 3 tabs open it uses all 2 gigs of ram back when I ran it in 2011. Chrome runs smoothly back then.
IE is the browser we love to bash here but when Chrome hit the scene Firefox became the new legacy and slow browser. Many of us went to bat and put our reputation on the line to put Firefox in at work explaining how it doesn't break every release unlike IE. I did not like Chrome spying on me so I held my nose and used IE 9 for the first time in many many years until I gave up for Chrome eventually.... low and behold the MS bigwigs said see I told you so after Asa broke the plugins! It made web developers angry too as they hated IE 6 with a passion, but need to certify there apps. Guess what? You can't recertify your app every 6 weeks! So now IE is more entrenched than ever.
So yes there is some resentment and even hostilality towards Mozilla here.
But the positive is Firefox ESR 17 and later are great! Firefox no longer breaks add-ons with the latest versions and uses 1/3 the amount of ram. Slashdotters should try Firefox again? However at work I am a die hard IE supporter now,:-( No group policy and no way we can know an update will break our intranet apps means too much risk.
No g3/4 or even GPS?! What kind of crap is that if I cant get directions or weather reports on the road? Metro is not bad but its implementation on the desktop. Taskbars and start menus are really fine with big screens ms. Nothing to fear folks and they work when you have 20 apps and files open. The cell phone UI cant handle this.
MS is still thinking like a monopolists because it worked. Bad release... Oh just wait. NT failed, IE failed, xbox failed failed, etc. Because they were ms they just gradually fixed them and monopolized the market later.
Guess what? Those days are done. Apple, Google, Mozilla, and others will eat you for breakfast while you wait for the next version. Look at IE as an example? Gosh darn it hell froze over and IE 10 and soon IE 11 are great browsers now that Google and Mozilla slapped IE 6 crazy but who cares? People do not feel comfortable picking MS and IE as a brand now. Windows will go the same route.
They really need to try to be better. Not catch up and assume people will use it because its from MS like they did in the
4:3 is not coming back. Its old and appears odd today in the 21 century.
Many apps like Office make use of the wide screen by by having more than 1 page up at a time. Eclipse and now VS 2012 put more toolboxen and tools to the right and left of the screen so this is not just for movies only.
When I read these I image geeks still running Office 2003 fearing the ribbon, XP, and now having a 40 pound CRT monitor and living in the past fearing change. I find nothing wrong with 16 x9 and yes some of us do watch movies too on our computers where a wide screen view in youtube would eat up too much screen in a limited 4:3 configuration. Also the ribbon is not bad and it makes you look funny bashing it too... yes I know I made an assumption here but that is just what I have observed.
The original arguement was gpl is the best oh yeah with a few squeely cheerleaders thrown in and how it bests everyone yada yadA.
Well it had one developer hold the vlc project hostage! It is not free. 90% of developers who release it under gpl have no clue it adds liability if they use it at work.
I wont use your software fine. But dont be surprised when you invent the next ruby on rails and people use an inferior clone instead. BSD and Mozilla are more free
You should read the clauses of the gpl? Any linking is part of a deritive work and not allowed. This is why Sun couldnt gpl java for IceTea as it would be useless in a commercial setting.
A special classpath exception was added. Lgpl lets people link freely and the stuff spewed on slashdot is incorrect. If you release gpl apis do not be surprised if people cant use it and replace yours lile what VLC had to do.
Yes corps pay taxes too and they have the right to use it as much as you. GPL is am ideology that is impractical
The GPL is engineered to destroy non GPL software.
You can't link to it and produce any license you want. A simple link or include is a violation unless you GPLed your whole program. In my opinion it is transfering ownership if you can't license your own software the way you like. That is wrong. LGPL includes linking and many engineers do not know the difference and simply willy nilly use the GPL thinking anyone can include it without liability.
Go read the license? You simply can not use it at work as any your employer can not use it and sell his company as all his assets would ahve to be given away.... correction you can use GPL but you can't link code to it in programs at work.
The GPL forbids you to link to it or develop any software that includes any bits of code in it under any other license.
Basically if I wrote a silly.dll or header file that is only 1k in length that you include for your 100 meg program I in essence take ownership of the rest of it as the GPL forbids linking it unless the master program is also under GPL.
The LGPL ( I wish more developers would know and use this) makes linking fine as long as you do not contribute back to me in a non GPL license.
The GPL restricts freedom of the developer. It is an anti-EULA. EULA means the user gives up rights to the owner. GPL means the owner gives up rights to the user. So it is one extreme or the other and LGPL stays neutral in this.
It is not a problem for software having problems with anything non RMS approved and extreme in ideology? That is a funny sense of the term freedom.
What about my freedom to charge users? What about my freedom to let do what I like and not what the author of some header file or object I linked too?!
GPL is a plague and why the BSD license is supperior especially for tax payer funded software where corps can not play. If I develop some software that costs money to develop I need to charge for it or I go out of business.
The LGPL is perfect. You keep your freedoms and I can link to it and keep mine. Many ignorant develpers think RMS is nuts but have no idea they open businesses and users up to liability by making it GPL. I think it is morally wrong to tell others what to do with software they write. Apple to me is not the bad guy but rather the authors of the header files.
GNu is not. Hence why Bill Gates called it viral and started a flamewar on slashdot. I am not a troll here but someone correct me if I am wrong?
If I make a C++ header file it means you can use include in your mozilla or proprietary product if I make it available under the LGPL. L = linking. You acknowledge you do not own my header file and likewise I do not own your program. You own the program even if I provide the header file, dll, or.so you wish to use to make it functional.
Now if I make it under the GPL I can sue you for copyright violations as the GPL dictates if one part of the program is GPL then all of it is. RMS did this because he hates non free software and this now puts you in a sticky situation.
This is why FSF put a linking exception in the GPL license for IcedTea. Java developers can not use a gnu library in a non-gnu program.
The idea is to make $$$$ off the Windows Store like what Apple does. 30% profit margin is damn insane if you ask me!
So in a world 10 years from now where every device is a tablet and even offices use monitor and keyboard docking stations hooked to their tablets this means Microsoft makes 30% off of every piece of software sold!
New Oracle installation costs $500,000? MS makes $150,000 cha-ching! Adobe upgrade for your marketing team 10 users x $700 each = $7.000. That is $2100 more money cha-ching!
It makes perfect sense while they do not care if it is a loss leader. Think about how much money MS will make after taxing the whole I.T. industry 30% through the app store?
Except for the fact it does not have cell phone service nor a GPS unit. Even a crappy Nokia Windows phone for $199 have these which would make it a better and useful device. No google maps is bad too. IS there even a navigator? Oh heck with a gps you can't use it like that.
Save your cash and get a barebones PC with 4 gigs of ram, amd/ati gpu/cpu combo or an intel atom for $399. At least you can tinker to your hearts content on WIndows 7 or Linux without any locking bullshit if you want to play with a device or a raspbery pie
That is an attribute for apps you can set to run in jailbreak mode if I understand it correctly. Not a full hardware/OS jailbreak.
I really wish DRM and locked down devices were not the wave of the future and some law would prevent them? Android would rock as it has touch support and perhaps more people would be fiddling with WIndows 8 on other devices which would b ea plus for Windows RT marketshare.
But these things are so damn locked down that people wont buy htem. I am on a houldout with the PC for this reason even if I use WIndows 7. It is because I do not have to use an app store and can download and run free apps.
MS has not done this since Windows 98/ME. Even IE is in userspace and has been for a long time. The graphical drivers are in kernel space because you can not talk to a highspeed video device without it and expect good performance. Linux too has nvidia and framebuffer drives in the kernel as well. No different.
All modern kernels need the above if they are expected to be on the internet. I think the Android kernels include some of these in patches.
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So if I want to rip off and steal investors and bank money all I have to do is create 3 shell companies move the debt around and pretend they are 3 entities then declare bankruptcies on all 3 where I get first dibs on my own debt. Then keep all the money again to myself since I get first dibs. Meanwhile pensioner and investor funds get screwed.
Is there any ethics left or did I misinterpret this story? This should be illegal as none of us us individuals can do this with credit card debt as that of course would be irresponsible. But not here if it is for corps
Icahn makes as much money as possible by shutting down Dell, selling its assets to competitors and running up debt to inflate its share price via increasing cash on hand and cutting expenses.
With no assets you have no product and you are done in which Icahn sells all the shares to smucks like you who think he is out for you and the other shareholders when in reality you got screwed and he is laughing all the way to sunset with billions in cash.
Why don't you ask AMD how will its doing after sellings its cpu foundries? Its not the chips suck but they are 2 generations behind Intel now with nano meter sized circuits. Ooops
Icahn did this with Timwarner and after Icahn left they had to repurchase all their assets over again at an inflated price. It cost the company money but made Icahn cash by temporary boasting the shareprice.
Dell might not recover and with the PC business sold to HP will have nothing.
To me this is not about business.
It is about vultures taking advantage of a lower share price to raid the company and sell its assets for a quick buck. The PC market is dying (albiet not dead for a long time but in the eyes of wall street if it does not grow it is already dead and time to cash out.)
Intel too is coming with huge losses too as people are switching to tablets and SMBs shoot they just discovered they can stick with a browser and platform for 10 years without upgrading! That is lost revenue as pentium IVs are still popular out on the floor of these companies and consumers are switching to phones and ipads for internet access and Facebook.
I can see why Michael wants it back. Dell needs to move in new ways in the corporate market and wall street wont them re-invest either as they want that cash right now. Icahn is evil in this regard and if he wins and fires Michael you can bet he will be happy to sell the Dell IP and brandname to HP or whomever for pennies on the dollar and close the company down in order to make a quick buck with cash similar to AMD when it sold its foundries and now can't compete with Intel.
Using the new technology added short circuit from Wally, and goofy rendered flawlessly into the movie preview
If I were Silver Lake I would sell to Icahn too!
Immediately higher return plus more money in 6 months when he closes Dell and sells off all its assets for billions! Maybe not ethical or wise for long term investment but great for a quick buck in a quarterly market.
The problem is stocks were once 30 year investments and under that guise you would be retarded and suicidal to do what Icahn does. However, computer programs and millisecond holdings are the cream and crop of the market today. Icahn is really great at optimizing for this by selling all its assets, brands, products, desks and chairs, for the highest possible bidder to inflate the company's bank accounts.
When the trading supercomputer programs see billions in growth in just 6 months! the shareprice goes through the roof and both Icahn and Silverlake double their money. These programs do not know or care how it was made by slaughtering the golden goose.
In all likelihood I think poor old Michael Dell is screwed. Icahn is offering a sweet deal and the stock market is different now than in 1997 with Apple when humans looked at a company's long term vision and not bank account numbers of assets in an Excel macro. At least Dell can sell his shares to Icahn to profit big as he fires his ass from his own company so he can close it within a year.
If Icahn bought it up (I doubt this as MS still has an insane market cap and millions of shares) the first thing he would do is sell all its assets and rank up debt to raise the shareprice.
Then sell it and MS would have to repurchase all its assets again but lose its core brands in the process. He did this to TimeWarner. The company lost money long term and it was a stupid move but computer programs determine the share price on Wall Street. They showed all this cash and a quick buildup of assets.
That is part of the problem of Wallstreet in general. The issue is magic asset/expense ratios in the bottom line. Not marketshare, growth, or anything else! The human factor of looking at a stock as an investment and not something to hold for a few milliseconds to get a few quick bucks by a supercomputer program. Icahn looks at this factor with ratios.
Debt should be considered an expense rather than an asset. Infact trading debt as an asset is what caused the great recession! It is not free and I wish more economists who know better would trade stocks rather than guys with clipboards and Excel macros.
ASLR is a great fix in addition to buffer overflow protections. Infact since XP SP 2 and IE 7 they are included when compiled which is why Windows 2000 is stuck with IE 6. ASLR with 64 bit virtual memory space increases the randomization greatly as you now have 2 terabytes of addresses to check if you are spraying.
The fact that linux does not do this is a downside. ASLR is now supported in the latest versions of MacOSX as well. You can try to fix as much as you can with overruns but there are always other ways to exploit.
FYI Balmer and Gates own more than 50% of the company.
For Balmer to go Bill Gates has to fire him and fat chance of that happening. I do not know how involved he is with the company he is now. Gates was a much better CEO
Most people do not even know about XP EOL and do not know what that means.
Man I fear for next spring. We are going to see some major viruses hitting the internet and slowing down ISP speeds next summer as one malware to another keeps getting released for XP.
In this new economy many who make now $10 - $12/hr simply not only will not but can not afford to replace an XP system even if they get nasty emails from their ISP begging them to upgrade!
Small business too is heavy on XP and the owners do not give a shit as the cash register and POS inventory system for the bar to serve drinks wont work on anything else and will cost $7,000 to replace etc.
Firefox has had shitty browser releases. Firefox 4,5,6, and even 3.6 were all bloated, slow, buggy, and broke updates every month. Worse Asa Dolzter told us who work in corporate I.T. to fuck off and even logged on slashdot begged a user to go back to IE 8 when he complained?!
On my Turion with 2 gigs of ram system Firefox quite frankly is unusable in Linux. even with 3 tabs open it uses all 2 gigs of ram back when I ran it in 2011. Chrome runs smoothly back then.
IE is the browser we love to bash here but when Chrome hit the scene Firefox became the new legacy and slow browser. Many of us went to bat and put our reputation on the line to put Firefox in at work explaining how it doesn't break every release unlike IE. I did not like Chrome spying on me so I held my nose and used IE 9 for the first time in many many years until I gave up for Chrome eventually. ... low and behold the MS bigwigs said see I told you so after Asa broke the plugins! It made web developers angry too as they hated IE 6 with a passion, but need to certify there apps. Guess what? You can't recertify your app every 6 weeks! So now IE is more entrenched than ever.
So yes there is some resentment and even hostilality towards Mozilla here.
But the positive is Firefox ESR 17 and later are great! Firefox no longer breaks add-ons with the latest versions and uses 1/3 the amount of ram. Slashdotters should try Firefox again? However at work I am a die hard IE supporter now, :-( No group policy and no way we can know an update will break our intranet apps means too much risk.
And crappy tablet.
No g3/4 or even GPS?! What kind of crap is that if I cant get directions or weather reports on the road? Metro is not bad but its implementation on the desktop. Taskbars and start menus are really fine with big screens ms. Nothing to fear folks and they work when you have 20 apps and files open. The cell phone UI cant handle this.
MS is still thinking like a monopolists because it worked. Bad release. .. Oh just wait. NT failed, IE failed, xbox failed failed, etc. Because they were ms they just gradually fixed them and monopolized the market later.
Guess what? Those days are done. Apple, Google, Mozilla, and others will eat you for breakfast while you wait for the next version. Look at IE as an example? Gosh darn it hell froze over and IE 10 and soon IE 11 are great browsers now that Google and Mozilla
slapped IE 6 crazy but who cares? People do not feel comfortable picking MS and IE as a brand now. Windows will go the same route.
They really need to try to be better. Not catch up and assume people will use it because its from MS like they did in the
Get over it.
4:3 is not coming back. Its old and appears odd today in the 21 century.
Many apps like Office make use of the wide screen by by having more than 1 page up at a time. Eclipse and now VS 2012 put more toolboxen and tools to the right and left of the screen so this is not just for movies only.
When I read these I image geeks still running Office 2003 fearing the ribbon, XP, and now having a 40 pound CRT monitor and living in the past fearing change. I find nothing wrong with 16 x9 and yes some of us do watch movies too on our computers where a wide screen view in youtube would eat up too much screen in a limited 4:3 configuration. Also the ribbon is not bad and it makes you look funny bashing it too ... yes I know I made an assumption here but that is just what I have observed.
So then it is not free?
The original arguement was gpl is the best oh yeah with a few squeely cheerleaders thrown in and how it bests everyone yada yadA.
Well it had one developer hold the vlc project hostage! It is not free. 90% of developers who release it under gpl have no clue it adds liability if they use it at work.
I wont use your software fine. But dont be surprised when you invent the next ruby on rails and people use an inferior clone instead. BSD and Mozilla are more free
You should read the clauses of the gpl? Any linking is part of a deritive work and not allowed. This is why Sun couldnt gpl java for IceTea as it would be useless in a commercial setting.
A special classpath exception was added. Lgpl lets people link freely and the stuff spewed on slashdot is incorrect. If you release gpl apis do not be surprised if people cant use it and replace yours lile what VLC had to do.
Yes corps pay taxes too and they have the right to use it as much as you. GPL is am ideology that is impractical
Here is the problem.
The GPL is engineered to destroy non GPL software.
You can't link to it and produce any license you want. A simple link or include is a violation unless you GPLed your whole program. In my opinion it is transfering ownership if you can't license your own software the way you like. That is wrong. LGPL includes linking and many engineers do not know the difference and simply willy nilly use the GPL thinking anyone can include it without liability.
Go read the license? You simply can not use it at work as any your employer can not use it and sell his company as all his assets would ahve to be given away. ... correction you can use GPL but you can't link code to it in programs at work.
Wrong.
The GPL forbids you to link to it or develop any software that includes any bits of code in it under any other license.
Basically if I wrote a silly .dll or header file that is only 1k in length that you include for your 100 meg program I in essence take ownership of the rest of it as the GPL forbids linking it unless the master program is also under GPL.
The LGPL ( I wish more developers would know and use this) makes linking fine as long as you do not contribute back to me in a non GPL license.
The GPL restricts freedom of the developer. It is an anti-EULA. EULA means the user gives up rights to the owner. GPL means the owner gives up rights to the user. So it is one extreme or the other and LGPL stays neutral in this.
It is not a problem for software having problems with anything non RMS approved and extreme in ideology? That is a funny sense of the term freedom.
What about my freedom to charge users? What about my freedom to let do what I like and not what the author of some header file or object I linked too?!
GPL is a plague and why the BSD license is supperior especially for tax payer funded software where corps can not play. If I develop some software that costs money to develop I need to charge for it or I go out of business.
The LGPL is perfect. You keep your freedoms and I can link to it and keep mine. Many ignorant develpers think RMS is nuts but have no idea they open businesses and users up to liability by making it GPL. I think it is morally wrong to tell others what to do with software they write. Apple to me is not the bad guy but rather the authors of the header files.
GNu is not. Hence why Bill Gates called it viral and started a flamewar on slashdot. I am not a troll here but someone correct me if I am wrong?
If I make a C++ header file it means you can use include in your mozilla or proprietary product if I make it available under the LGPL. L = linking. You acknowledge you do not own my header file and likewise I do not own your program. You own the program even if I provide the header file, dll, or .so you wish to use to make it functional.
Now if I make it under the GPL I can sue you for copyright violations as the GPL dictates if one part of the program is GPL then all of it is. RMS did this because he hates non free software and this now puts you in a sticky situation.
This is why FSF put a linking exception in the GPL license for IcedTea. Java developers can not use a gnu library in a non-gnu program.
The idea is to make $$$$ off the Windows Store like what Apple does. 30% profit margin is damn insane if you ask me!
So in a world 10 years from now where every device is a tablet and even offices use monitor and keyboard docking stations hooked to their tablets this means Microsoft makes 30% off of every piece of software sold!
New Oracle installation costs $500,000? MS makes $150,000 cha-ching! Adobe upgrade for your marketing team 10 users x $700 each = $7.000. That is $2100 more money cha-ching!
It makes perfect sense while they do not care if it is a loss leader. Think about how much money MS will make after taxing the whole I.T. industry 30% through the app store?
Windows 7 while a better OS does not have the near touch support that 8 does nor the power saving optimizations and tuning.
You can thank Sinofsky for killing the touch enhancements in the final RC of Windows 7. I think he was already eying WIndows 8 back then.
Except for the fact it does not have cell phone service nor a GPS unit. Even a crappy Nokia Windows phone for $199 have these which would make it a better and useful device. No google maps is bad too. IS there even a navigator? Oh heck with a gps you can't use it like that.
Save your cash and get a barebones PC with 4 gigs of ram, amd/ati gpu/cpu combo or an intel atom for $399. At least you can tinker to your hearts content on WIndows 7 or Linux without any locking bullshit if you want to play with a device or a raspbery pie
There is a different key from ARM devices than for intel.
Also no one has the master or header keys. Just a resultant key certificate obtained from both.
More like the hood wielded shut and explosives inside to blow up the engine if you open it.
That is an attribute for apps you can set to run in jailbreak mode if I understand it correctly. Not a full hardware/OS jailbreak.
I really wish DRM and locked down devices were not the wave of the future and some law would prevent them? Android would rock as it has touch support and perhaps more people would be fiddling with WIndows 8 on other devices which would b ea plus for Windows RT marketshare.
But these things are so damn locked down that people wont buy htem. I am on a houldout with the PC for this reason even if I use WIndows 7. It is because I do not have to use an app store and can download and run free apps.
MS has not done this since Windows 98/ME. Even IE is in userspace and has been for a long time. The graphical drivers are in kernel space because you can not talk to a highspeed video device without it and expect good performance. Linux too has nvidia and framebuffer drives in the kernel as well. No different.
All modern kernels need the above if they are expected to be on the internet. I think the Android kernels include some of these in patches.