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  1. Re:Are you kidding?! on Apple vs. Microsoft: a Tale of Two Mobile Updates · · Score: 1

    unless you have the wrong phone, which include: Desire, Desire HD, Magic, Evo, G2 , Archos 70, myTouch 3G, Wildfire, Droid Incredible MyTouch Slide, and many more!

  2. Re:What phones get vendor updates after three year on Apple vs. Microsoft: a Tale of Two Mobile Updates · · Score: 1

    Apple allows other browsers, go grab Opera Mini. It doesn't let you change the default web browser though.

  3. Re:Are they kidding? on If App Store's Trademark Is Generic, So Is Windows' · · Score: 1

    Trademark law is strange, you can't fault MS for trying to bankrupt Linspire. If they didn't sue them and try to win they could lose their trademark.

  4. Re:It's a good disconnect on IT Graduates Not "Well-Trained, Ready-To-Go" · · Score: 1

    What's a "Development Manager"? ha! I 'kinda' love where I work

  5. Re:power consumption? on Nvidia Demos 'Kal-El' Quad-Core Tegra Mobile CPU · · Score: 1

    It looks like these aren't due to be released till the end of the year(with devices using them early 2012). It's possible they simply have no good power consumption numbers yet.

  6. Re:Physical Access on iPhone Attack Reveals Passwords In Six Minutes · · Score: 2

    The keychain on the iPhone is locked only by software restriction... it doesn't use encryption(there isn't any password to encrypt with). If you backup your iPhone with iTunes without enabling "Encrypt iPhone backup", then you will see all your saved keychain in plain text in that backup.

    This attack relies on a jailbreak to get around the normal keychain software security measures... although once an attacker has root on a running system, nothing it safe.

  7. Re:What's interesting about Android on Android Tablets Were Born Too Soon · · Score: 1

    I've played with 2.2 on my G1... it's not terrible, but of course it has plenty of limitations. Installing Flash makes the browser crash and plenty of apps just fail to launch... I went back to 1.6.

  8. Re:What's interesting about Android on Android Tablets Were Born Too Soon · · Score: 1

    You have to take this into context of hardware age. The iPhone 3G came out BEFORE the first Android phone(HTC Dream).

    I think how Android updates get held back is shameful... Besides fragmenting the community it also leaves gaping security holes open.

  9. Great cover image on Netgear CEO Says Jobs's Ego Will Bite Apple · · Score: 2

    The cover image is great [If you can't see it, it's of the Netgear CEO holding a Netgear branded phone that I would guess was won in a claw-machine game.]

  10. Re:good luck with that on California County Bans SmartMeter Installations · · Score: 1

    Yep, this is pretty much identical to all the local ordinances that ban satellite dishes.

  11. Re:... and an Embedded DRM on Intel Sandy Bridge Desktop and Mobile CPUs · · Score: 1

    Wow... that is some garbage in that article...

    Looking into this further it looks like Intel is FINALLY including vPro/TPM by default(it's currently optional). While you could use TPM for DRM it is also extremely useful for full disk encryption and a load of other stuff.

  12. Re:Is this the Tock? on Intel Sandy Bridge Desktop and Mobile CPUs · · Score: 1

    Read about the actual tech... the article you linked to is pretty silly http://download.intel.com/it/pdf/Evaluating_Intel_Anti-Theft_Technology.pdf

    The tech basically moves the bios password from residing in the bios into the CPU itself... I'm still not sure why you would want this... The motherboard manufacturer would need to include all the equipment needed to remotely do anything, and the "kill" on the CPU can be undone.

  13. Re:Is this the Tock? on Intel Sandy Bridge Desktop and Mobile CPUs · · Score: 1

    That's 95W before you overclock it from 3.0ghz to 3.4ghz...

  14. Re:Is this the Tock? on Intel Sandy Bridge Desktop and Mobile CPUs · · Score: 1

    The i875 is a 95W TDP CPU!!! The 2820QM has a TDP of 45W.

  15. Re:Just do it... on How Do You Prove Software Testing Saves Money? · · Score: 1

    You really sound like you need to quit your job. It's not like that everywhere.

  16. Re:I would like to verify the legitimacy myself on Racy Danish Tabloid May Sue Apple For App Rejection · · Score: 1
    http://side6.dk/6-nyt/article1456688.ece

    Run through Google Translate:

    After downloading the free app on mikandi.com , your mobile a penis icon screen. By touching it you can make it longer or shorter, and thereby get the phone to vibrate more or less.Application also allows users to download small free sexklip on the Private-owned gamelink.com - or buy some other single location.Androidmobiler is becoming the dominant in the smartphone market, so sexindutrien who already have problems with Apple sexcensur, hoping for big things this market.After downloading the free app on mikandi.com , your mobile a penis icon screen. By touching it you can make it longer or shorter, and thereby get the phone to vibrate more or less.Application also allows users to download small free sexklip on the Private-owned gamelink.com - or buy some other single location.Androidmobiler is becoming the dominant in the smartphone market, so sexindutrien who already have problems with Apple sexcensur, hoping for big things this market.

    So how are Side9/Side6 related to the app that was rejected? Side6 is porn by pretty much anyone's standards, but I think they label the pictures of Side9 as "Hot Women" because people might be confused otherwise.

    What's in the print version and what were they trying to put in their app?

  17. Re:Porn. on Racy Danish Tabloid May Sue Apple For App Rejection · · Score: 1

    This app is probably stupid... there are a million ways to listen to internet radio on the iPhone without a station-specific app. If you start listening to a stream in Safari it even lets you play/pause it with the iPod controls while you are in another app.

  18. Re:Porn. on Racy Danish Tabloid May Sue Apple For App Rejection · · Score: 2

    Except when it's Flash or any of a number of codecs or scripting languages Apple disapproves of.

    It also doesn't run Internet Explorer so I can't access anything that requires ActiveX... the iPhone actually doesn't run any Windows apps.

  19. Re:Weird thread atmosphere here on Silverlight 5 — Back From the Dead? · · Score: 1

    Good UI compared to what? It's an impressive upgrade from WinMo 5/6, but not impressive compared to Microsoft's competition.

  20. Re:Weird thread atmosphere here on Silverlight 5 — Back From the Dead? · · Score: 1

    What's your point? That WP7 only runs on new phones, so it's better?

    New apps on old phones aren't always responsive.

  21. Re:Weird thread atmosphere here on Silverlight 5 — Back From the Dead? · · Score: 1

    So.... the keyboard is better.

  22. Re:No not really on Is 'Quadroid' the New 'Wintel'? · · Score: 1

    By today's standards, all of these phones are crap, yet they have had hardly any depreciation.

    You are talking about phones less than a year old...

  23. Re:bad for consumers as well. on Is 'Quadroid' the New 'Wintel'? · · Score: 1

    oops, meant early 2011

  24. Re:bad for consumers as well. on Is 'Quadroid' the New 'Wintel'? · · Score: 1

    Sure.... You do realize that all Android phones are newer than the iPhone 3G?

    I have two Android devices, one has a promised update to 2.2 in early 2010 and the other is officially stuck at 1.6. The security update situation on Android is crap. http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2010/11/26/android-how-security-can-work-while-failing/

  25. Re:In a word: no on Is 'Quadroid' the New 'Wintel'? · · Score: 1
    A couple fixes:
    • There are plenty of third party apps that use native code. With Android NDK(came out with Android 1.5?), you can write native code for ARM, and a lot of people use it. I've just started playing with it, but it should be much better for highly interactive stuff.
    • Android runs on top of a Linux kernel (a good and a bad thing with Linux's driver model)