Honestly, if Nokia was an amurican company I doubt the tone in/. would be quite the same. Nokia's network side is making a profit, they're selling the mobile branch so them doing a low-end project in Android, the OS of 1000+ devices, is supposed to be an evil plot of some kind? You can call them a patent troll when they start trolling, thus far they've been almost too gentle compared to the Samsung/Apple/etc. which keep slinging mud at each other over this and that.
That's not what the NSA did, and US legal code applies to US citizens, not foreign ones. Also, if the NSA is operating within boundaries set by other laws like the PATRIOT Act, which they were, then they're in the clear.
Blame the law and the politicians for poor oversight, the NSA is just a bureaucracy told to go do something without sufficient guidelines and oversight.
Yeah, it's asymmetric to say the least; NSA hacks foreigners by the millions and should one poor bastard get through to pentagon then it's suddenly a hanging crime.
What most people don't remember is that militaries used to build bombs for fun and then explode them in the atmosphere to see what happens. Castle bravo was the largest US bomb though it only killed one jap and poisoned some islanders; they stumbled upon lithium-7 not being inert so the bomb was actually 3x the predicted yield. Fun all around!
I knew this was familiar, here's a similar article in ny times from 2011. The therapy isn't quite risk free, in the linked article it says that a 39-old woman died when the retrained T-cells targeted a protein in her lungs; just 15 minutes after the injection and she developed breathing problems which I guess goes to show how potent destroyers T-cells can be.
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Honestly, if Nokia was an amurican company I doubt the tone in /. would be quite the same. Nokia's network side is making a profit, they're selling the mobile branch so them doing a low-end project in Android, the OS of 1000+ devices, is supposed to be an evil plot of some kind? You can call them a patent troll when they start trolling, thus far they've been almost too gentle compared to the Samsung/Apple/etc. which keep slinging mud at each other over this and that.
That's not what the NSA did, and US legal code applies to US citizens, not foreign ones. Also, if the NSA is operating within boundaries set by other laws like the PATRIOT Act, which they were, then they're in the clear.
Blame the law and the politicians for poor oversight, the NSA is just a bureaucracy told to go do something without sufficient guidelines and oversight.
Yeah, it's asymmetric to say the least; NSA hacks foreigners by the millions and should one poor bastard get through to pentagon then it's suddenly a hanging crime.
What most people don't remember is that militaries used to build bombs for fun and then explode them in the atmosphere to see what happens. Castle bravo was the largest US bomb though it only killed one jap and poisoned some islanders; they stumbled upon lithium-7 not being inert so the bomb was actually 3x the predicted yield. Fun all around!
I knew this was familiar, here's a similar article in ny times from 2011. The therapy isn't quite risk free, in the linked article it says that a 39-old woman died when the retrained T-cells targeted a protein in her lungs; just 15 minutes after the injection and she developed breathing problems which I guess goes to show how potent destroyers T-cells can be.