Oh, trust me, I get it. They want you on their devices, and they want you feeding from their contractual subsidy. T-Mobile often gives the non-contract discounted rates even if you go on-contract with them, because, frankly, they really want you to be a long term source of revenue.
Do I want properly open subsidized phones? Yep. That said, take a contract, get a subsidized phone, sell it to someone less demanding than yourself, buy an unlocked phone, or root. If he wants it to be relatively painless, he needs to get himself a phone that isn't locked down.
Do the oligopolistic practices suck? Yes, yes they do. As a T-Mobile phone subscriber who owns a Sprint WiMax modem specifically for their now-ending unlimited plan, I'm bummed that the DOJ and FCC haven't crossed the streams on these jerks and cleaned house.
Non-compliance by Verizon is cause for the FCC's termination of Verizon's licenses of C-Block bands. At that point, the FCC should reclaim the licenses and re-auction them to parties who would know that they can sub-lease them to a Verizon that they have by the balls.
The move here is to petition the executive branch to actually do its fucking job, which may mean firing the entire Genachowski FCC and starting over.
Installing a new OS on my Windows machine doesn't void the warranty, and neither should installing a new build of Android on an Android device. There should be a golden bootloader that is locked that then allows the installation of any operating system software. Then you can make a relatively unbrickable device that gives people complete choice. TPM for the DRM dicks if you really think you have to, bud I'd rather that we, as a people, decide to stop stabbing ourselves in the face.
Verizon shouldn't be allowed any end-runs, nor should, frankly, anyone else. So the FCC didn't man up and actually give us network and device neutrality that makes sense. That's not the end of the world if they actually enforce C-Block restrictions effectively.
Yeah. I don't really mind absurd abuses of the patent system in response to absurd abuses of the patent system. I should have patented all polytopes with and without rounding.
Wait a minute! Everything except rectangles is wide open!
(marches off to a patent lawyer with a *lot* of drawing to do)
Anonymous makes very public hacks, generally of pretty low impact. Are we to assume that they are the only ones hacking? What about the Chinese government? What about hackers who don't spin around and start bragging about their hacks?
How many times have credit card numbers and personal info been taken with no publication? How many times have organizations like the FBI and CIA been harangued or penetrated without public disclosure? If Anonymous can do it, it indicates a significant failure in security on the part of the hackee. You can't shut down all hackers. It's only going to get worse. Think of this as a wake-up call and start securing your systems/software.
In 20 years, I hope we look back on this era the same way we look back on medieval medicine. Public hackers like the members of Anonymous do more good than harm. Letting organizations (especially the government) keep a lid on hacks for fear of the public's reaction? That's the real threat to national security.
You have to look at the continuum of design. *Everything* has been able to get thinner, get simpler, and get smoother.
We can mill aluminum parts less expensively now, have materials and adhesives that allow for tighter construction and integration, have fractal antenna developments that allow for *far* more flexible radio and antenna placement, and have new technologies surrounding touch.
Design is evolution. It's constantly happening, and elements of products from all vendors find their way into the designs of the competition. Nobody is saying that Jonathan Ive is anything less than an iconic designer, but a rectangle with rounded corners just isn't new.
Let's say that you're a small company with FRAND patents and one product. Someone strolls in and sues to block the sale of this *one* product with patents (bogus or otherwise) that they have for their competing product. Blocking the sale of your one product will kill your company. Furthermore, their competing product uses your FRAND patents without license.
Are you, at this point, going to license at a reasonable rate and risk getting nuked? Hell no. Now, extrapolate to a larger company.
Apple even goes so far as to build *revocation* of the free license of MiniDisplayport into the license as a protection against IP claims. These are called defensive patents for a reason. When a bully walks in and starts kicking the sandbox sand in everybody's faces, it helps to remind them that you have the shovel.
Agreed. I'm quite happy that the Department of Justice has fallen on the side of reason (for once). As a T-Mobile customer who moved to T-Mobile to avoid AT&T, I'm hopeful that this merger will fall apart, giving T-Mobile a bit of cash (meh) and some more spectrum (yay!).
Sounds like you may have gotten an item that had been set up by Geek squad and then dumped. That, or someone is boosting attachment numbers. Good luck returning the machine that *they* opened.
Back when I worked at Best Buy (15 years ago), my manager would send us to a back room to re-shrink-wrap returned merchandise. A lot of time has passed since, but it seems that Best Buy still incentivizes bad behavior.
I'm guessing his answer to Google's dumbfounded attorneys was likely "because fuck you. That's why..."
Google may suffer from hiring attorneys with the same sort of beautifully hopeful world view that they have. That's probably a bad idea. Lawyers should be hopelessly corrupt bastards.
Woot (not w00t) is the god and original ancestor of the Kuba people of Zaire. He mated with his sister (if memory serves) Ngaady a Mwaash in a sort of Adam and Eve way for the Kuba people. Woot is most commonly depicted in some pretty badass masks. Well worth checking out.
This could be, for instance, private keys for market signatures, etc. There are some bits that you show *nobody* if you want things to be even remotely secure.
Microsoft did actually screw up on this one. There was a clear procedure for disclosure in this case. Google was supposed to have been notified in advance of the inclusion of a 3rd party and be given 10 days to object. That process was violated.
I'll happily sit in jail (and hire a fleet of attorneys) if presented the opportunity to contradict a directed verdict. Of course, by virtue of having typed this, I'll never be selected for a jury.
You should probably read up on the 14th amendment before you bring up state vs. federal law.
These wiretapping laws are pretty damned unconstitutional, which is why states *never* fight all the way up to the supreme court. They just bury people in legal fees and then drop it when it's become clear that they have someone tenacious on their hands. These laws desperately need to die a terrible death.
Perhaps we should just tell some cops that the laws are black-letter and wait for the inevitable.
The trick is that Google doesn't *need* to compete against their 3rd party partners. They win if their OS is on *any* vendor's product, pointing portions of pennies back to the mothership.
Owning Motorola just allows them to set the device feature tone more directly.
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One safe launch doesn't mean that a launch vehicle is safe.
The failure to have one safe launch *does* mean that a launch vehicle is unsafe, so there's that.
Oh, trust me, I get it. They want you on their devices, and they want you feeding from their contractual subsidy. T-Mobile often gives the non-contract discounted rates even if you go on-contract with them, because, frankly, they really want you to be a long term source of revenue.
Do I want properly open subsidized phones? Yep. That said, take a contract, get a subsidized phone, sell it to someone less demanding than yourself, buy an unlocked phone, or root. If he wants it to be relatively painless, he needs to get himself a phone that isn't locked down.
Do the oligopolistic practices suck? Yes, yes they do. As a T-Mobile phone subscriber who owns a Sprint WiMax modem specifically for their now-ending unlimited plan, I'm bummed that the DOJ and FCC haven't crossed the streams on these jerks and cleaned house.
Non-compliance by Verizon is cause for the FCC's termination of Verizon's licenses of C-Block bands. At that point, the FCC should reclaim the licenses and re-auction them to parties who would know that they can sub-lease them to a Verizon that they have by the balls.
The move here is to petition the executive branch to actually do its fucking job, which may mean firing the entire Genachowski FCC and starting over.
Installing a new OS on my Windows machine doesn't void the warranty, and neither should installing a new build of Android on an Android device. There should be a golden bootloader that is locked that then allows the installation of any operating system software. Then you can make a relatively unbrickable device that gives people complete choice. TPM for the DRM dicks if you really think you have to, bud I'd rather that we, as a people, decide to stop stabbing ourselves in the face.
Verizon shouldn't be allowed any end-runs, nor should, frankly, anyone else. So the FCC didn't man up and actually give us network and device neutrality that makes sense. That's not the end of the world if they actually enforce C-Block restrictions effectively.
He's talking about using his phone as a mifi, which he can easily get by rooting or buying a non-carrier phone...
I think it was a joke, but I don't take exception to people ragging on oligopolistic abuses of public resources.
Not many people outside of phone companies will side morally with them. Amoral? Yes. Immoral? Maybe. Moral?
No need to let it get to you.
There's just no upside to this.
Nobody gets reelected as a result. Nobody gets paid. Nobody gets more money to siphon off to their nephew's company...
That said, perhaps we can use the camera for some sort of insta-ticketing. Driving with phones, being asian, etc.
Ah, Illinois, home of corruption innovation since 1818.
People won't pay for a transponder with the cost of camera hardware in it, and *Illinois* will *never* shoulder that burden on its own.
I think we're safe just because so much of the tax revenue in Illinois is already directed to embezzlement, patronage, and fraud.
Yeah. I don't really mind absurd abuses of the patent system in response to absurd abuses of the patent system. I should have patented all polytopes with and without rounding.
Wait a minute! Everything except rectangles is wide open!
(marches off to a patent lawyer with a *lot* of drawing to do)
Dude.. I want that name, especially if my family is responsible for such a hacker friendly snack.
High. Frickin. Five.
Anonymous makes very public hacks, generally of pretty low impact. Are we to assume that they are the only ones hacking? What about the Chinese government? What about hackers who don't spin around and start bragging about their hacks?
How many times have credit card numbers and personal info been taken with no publication? How many times have organizations like the FBI and CIA been harangued or penetrated without public disclosure? If Anonymous can do it, it indicates a significant failure in security on the part of the hackee. You can't shut down all hackers. It's only going to get worse. Think of this as a wake-up call and start securing your systems/software.
In 20 years, I hope we look back on this era the same way we look back on medieval medicine. Public hackers like the members of Anonymous do more good than harm. Letting organizations (especially the government) keep a lid on hacks for fear of the public's reaction? That's the real threat to national security.
You have to look at the continuum of design. *Everything* has been able to get thinner, get simpler, and get smoother.
We can mill aluminum parts less expensively now, have materials and adhesives that allow for tighter construction and integration, have fractal antenna developments that allow for *far* more flexible radio and antenna placement, and have new technologies surrounding touch.
Design is evolution. It's constantly happening, and elements of products from all vendors find their way into the designs of the competition. Nobody is saying that Jonathan Ive is anything less than an iconic designer, but a rectangle with rounded corners just isn't new.
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Let's say that you're a small company with FRAND patents and one product. Someone strolls in and sues to block the sale of this *one* product with patents (bogus or otherwise) that they have for their competing product. Blocking the sale of your one product will kill your company. Furthermore, their competing product uses your FRAND patents without license.
Are you, at this point, going to license at a reasonable rate and risk getting nuked? Hell no. Now, extrapolate to a larger company.
Apple even goes so far as to build *revocation* of the free license of MiniDisplayport into the license as a protection against IP claims. These are called defensive patents for a reason. When a bully walks in and starts kicking the sandbox sand in everybody's faces, it helps to remind them that you have the shovel.
Agreed. I'm quite happy that the Department of Justice has fallen on the side of reason (for once). As a T-Mobile customer who moved to T-Mobile to avoid AT&T, I'm hopeful that this merger will fall apart, giving T-Mobile a bit of cash (meh) and some more spectrum (yay!).
Sounds like you may have gotten an item that had been set up by Geek squad and then dumped. That, or someone is boosting attachment numbers. Good luck returning the machine that *they* opened.
Back when I worked at Best Buy (15 years ago), my manager would send us to a back room to re-shrink-wrap returned merchandise. A lot of time has passed since, but it seems that Best Buy still incentivizes bad behavior.
Hence the golf joke.
I'm guessing his answer to Google's dumbfounded attorneys was likely "because fuck you. That's why..."
Google may suffer from hiring attorneys with the same sort of beautifully hopeful world view that they have. That's probably a bad idea. Lawyers should be hopelessly corrupt bastards.
They just need to be on *your* side...
Woot (not w00t) is the god and original ancestor of the Kuba people of Zaire. He mated with his sister (if memory serves) Ngaady a Mwaash in a sort of Adam and Eve way for the Kuba people. Woot is most commonly depicted in some pretty badass masks. Well worth checking out.
This could be, for instance, private keys for market signatures, etc. There are some bits that you show *nobody* if you want things to be even remotely secure.
Microsoft did actually screw up on this one. There was a clear procedure for disclosure in this case. Google was supposed to have been notified in advance of the inclusion of a 3rd party and be given 10 days to object. That process was violated.
Clearly, Google's lawyers don't play enough golf.
Democrat, Republican... They all seem pretty conservative on the global scale.
I'll happily sit in jail (and hire a fleet of attorneys) if presented the opportunity to contradict a directed verdict. Of course, by virtue of having typed this, I'll never be selected for a jury.
You should probably read up on the 14th amendment before you bring up state vs. federal law.
These wiretapping laws are pretty damned unconstitutional, which is why states *never* fight all the way up to the supreme court. They just bury people in legal fees and then drop it when it's become clear that they have someone tenacious on their hands. These laws desperately need to die a terrible death.
Perhaps we should just tell some cops that the laws are black-letter and wait for the inevitable.
The trick is that Google doesn't *need* to compete against their 3rd party partners. They win if their OS is on *any* vendor's product, pointing portions of pennies back to the mothership.
Owning Motorola just allows them to set the device feature tone more directly.
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Let him talk. This is hilarious.
Yes... A comma would have saved his life, but, alas, he was just too fat...
Serious guys. You learn read book now. Thanksbye.