Google didn't put it in Android but a number of Android OEMs ARE using CarrierIQ, mostly at the behest of carriers like AT&T who said "include CarrierIQ or we wont sell your new phone"
The problem is not entities like GEMA, its that the government allows them to pursue rights claims on the basis that even if you claim to have permission from the copyright holder for all the music you are using (and can back that up with explicit written permission from said copyright holders) they can still go after you on the basis that its impossible to verify that you didn't play other music beyond what you are claiming.
That and the laws that give these organizations the right to collect music on behalf of anyone without the abillity for musicians to say to them "no, I dont want you to collect on my behalf"
Unless something special is done in the building of apps for the Windows 8 Store, I would imagine that any Microsoft code that an Store app links to would fall under the "code normally included with the compiler or OS" exemption for the GPL and therefore it would be fine. Same reason its perfectly OK to link to any of the headers/libraries/DLLs that come with Windows, the Windows SDK or the Visual C++ compiler and have those count under the "compiler or OS" exemption.
The problem YouTube has is that although they do offer a way to send put-back notices (as required by the DMCA) they often will take ages to put it back. Or in the case of videos removed by ContentID without an actual DMCA request, wont put it back at all.
They should spend less on the TSA (expensive screening machines, special searches, no-fly lists etc) and more on actually getting people on the ground doing the kind of intelligence that lead to the discovery of the printer cartridge bomb before it was detonated, the kind of intelligence that can catch the bad guys no matter what plot they have planned.
Ditch the security theater and invest the money in actual security.
One of the things Apple does right is that they dont need to go through months of testing with every iPhone-selling carrier on the planet just to release a new iOS update, they can and do release on their own terms.
Other manufacturers need to follow Apple on this and take control over firmware releases.
It may not be commercially successful but just like Android, it will probably be ported to all kinds of platforms by various geeks doing it for fun. More to the point, the good bits of WebOS will be snarfed up by those doing other open mobile operating systems like Android, the MeeGo ecosystem (with all its different bits and names and stuff) and the guys doing FreeSmartPhone.org
The problem with Symbian is that the Symbian releases were totally useless for actually compiling and installing onto any platform. And there was absolutely NO documentation on what any of the stuff was or where to find the potentially-interesting bits. Nor was there any documentation or info to point people in the right direction if they wanted to write hardware interface code and drivers and try to get the code running on a given piece of hardware.
With WebOS, assuming they open source all of it and dont keep important parts like the user-space binary daemon and libraries used to talk to the cellular modem closed source, all the stuff needed to actually get a self-bult OS running on a real world device like the TouchPad or the Pre should in theory be there. And again, if its all opened, porting it to new platforms should be a matter of whether you can find the needed hardware information for the platform you want to port to.
That article doesn't say anything about why iFitness or Full Fitness (which appears to have been a re-working of iFitness with a new name) was removed from the store.
I do not believe that the NSA key is being used for nefarious purposes. I DO believe that the NSA needed a way to sign secret stuff for CryptoAPI without the need to have the secret stuff go to someone at Microsoft to get it signed.
There is a story (mentioned in the documentary Food Inc IIRC) about someone who owned a machine for cleaning soybean seeds so they could be re-planted. Monsanto went after him and basically said "unless you can prove that not a single Monsanto GM seed went through your machine, we will sue you"
Considering my mobile number was previously registered with Vodafone in my mums name (at the time I signed up, I didn't have enough credit history to get a postpaid plain in my own name) and I was recently able to switch it from Vodafone to TPG Mobile without either entity seeing any kind of actual ID (and I dont remember providing ID when I first signed up to TPG for ADSL either) I doubt that there are as many requirements on getting a SIM card as there should be.
"There's 57 Channels and Nothing on" The problems I have with TV as an Australian: 1.All the good Australian shows get canceled (or get moved around so much they may as well have been canceled) 2.All the good foreign shows get taken off (or get moved around so much they may as well have been taken off) 3.Where there are good things on, they end up being on the same night (like having ST:TNG reruns on one channel and CSI:NY on another channel on the same night) and then there are nights with nothing at all to watch. 4.It can be months after a show airs overseas before a local network starts airing it. Sometimes a local network will "fast-track" a show but then they will skip a week or more and get out of sync because of "summer non-ratings period", "easter non-ratings period", "school holidays", sport or some other big event (on the same channel or on another channel) or any number of other reasons. 5.The same garbage gets repeated over and over again whilst they never even think of showing any of the GOOD shows from the archives (how many times do we need to see the same damn episode of The Flintstones or I Dream Of Jeanie or The Brady Bunch or The Love Boat or Everybody Loves Raymond?) Although some of that may have to do with the fact that a lot of the good shows cant be shown in those time-slots due to classifications (e.g. M rated shows cant be shown in those slots)
Except that the power of the postal workers unions (and possibly also laws passed by congress) mean that the USPS wouldn't actually be able to fire all those posties.
The #1 solution to "too big to fail" banks is to separate the risky "wall st" parts of the banks from the safe "main st" parts that handle peoples home loans, savings etc by bringing back Glass-Stengel
More broadly though the US needs to take a whole bunch of steps which no candidate with an actual chance of becoming president would have the guts to do.
Like reducing the size of the US military and ending its role as the world's policeman by closing expensive foreign bases, buying less of the latest and greatest toys and focusing on the right threats (China for one is not a threat, why would the Chinese want to attack America when America buys billions of dollars worth of Chinese-made products every year?)
And like taking swift and direct action to solve the housing crisis by getting all those people on unaffordable loans down to more reasonable interest rates (possibly by using Fannie & Freddie) that allow them to stay in their home and not be in the position of having to decide between their mortgage repayment and their electricity bill.
There is a quote or comment somewhere (cant find it) from someone who said something like "I work/worked for an android OEM and AT&T basically said 'install CarrierIQ or we wont sell the product'". I may have gotten the details wrong because I cant find or remember the exact quote/comment but the gist of it is that its the carriers that are insisting on this and the handset makers have no choice but to comply.
Given how many people switch (from crappy cable, crappy ADSL or worse wireless or dialup) when Verizon FiOS comes into an area, why isn't Verizon rolling this out as fast as the fiber trucks can do it? Or are the "vested interests" (including the legacy cable companies and stuff) fighting Verizon's FiOS plans just as hard as they are fighting municipal broadband?
Further searching suggests they may have been the later BBC Master (some models of which came with a 3.5" drive) I distinctly remember "Granny's Garden" (and of the machines Granny's Garden was ported to, only the BBC family even HAD the internal 3.5" drive I remember)
At least I think they were BBCs. I remember they had this special hard plastic yellow thing that went in the floppy drive (a 3.5" IIRC) to keep it from being damaged when the machine was moved or something.
I have a collection of computer books on my bookshelf. There are many more I wish I owned but I just cant justify spending the huge prices publishers in this industry seem to demand.
Same thing with science fiction, I just LOVE curling up in bed with a good SF novel. But when the greedy publishers want upwards of AU$25 in some cases for a paperback (one example price I found for an Orson Scott Card book) I cant justify it (which is why I get most of my fiction books from 2nd hand bookstores these days)
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The problem is not SharePoint, its people who use SharePoint for things it is not designed for.
Google didn't put it in Android but a number of Android OEMs ARE using CarrierIQ, mostly at the behest of carriers like AT&T who said "include CarrierIQ or we wont sell your new phone"
The problem is not entities like GEMA, its that the government allows them to pursue rights claims on the basis that even if you claim to have permission from the copyright holder for all the music you are using (and can back that up with explicit written permission from said copyright holders) they can still go after you on the basis that its impossible to verify that you didn't play other music beyond what you are claiming.
That and the laws that give these organizations the right to collect music on behalf of anyone without the abillity for musicians to say to them "no, I dont want you to collect on my behalf"
Unless something special is done in the building of apps for the Windows 8 Store, I would imagine that any Microsoft code that an Store app links to would fall under the "code normally included with the compiler or OS" exemption for the GPL and therefore it would be fine. Same reason its perfectly OK to link to any of the headers/libraries/DLLs that come with Windows, the Windows SDK or the Visual C++ compiler and have those count under the "compiler or OS" exemption.
The problem YouTube has is that although they do offer a way to send put-back notices (as required by the DMCA) they often will take ages to put it back. Or in the case of videos removed by ContentID without an actual DMCA request, wont put it back at all.
They should spend less on the TSA (expensive screening machines, special searches, no-fly lists etc) and more on actually getting people on the ground doing the kind of intelligence that lead to the discovery of the printer cartridge bomb before it was detonated, the kind of intelligence that can catch the bad guys no matter what plot they have planned.
Ditch the security theater and invest the money in actual security.
One of the things Apple does right is that they dont need to go through months of testing with every iPhone-selling carrier on the planet just to release a new iOS update, they can and do release on their own terms.
Other manufacturers need to follow Apple on this and take control over firmware releases.
It may not be commercially successful but just like Android, it will probably be ported to all kinds of platforms by various geeks doing it for fun. More to the point, the good bits of WebOS will be snarfed up by those doing other open mobile operating systems like Android, the MeeGo ecosystem (with all its different bits and names and stuff) and the guys doing FreeSmartPhone.org
The problem with Symbian is that the Symbian releases were totally useless for actually compiling and installing onto any platform. And there was absolutely NO documentation on what any of the stuff was or where to find the potentially-interesting bits. Nor was there any documentation or info to point people in the right direction if they wanted to write hardware interface code and drivers and try to get the code running on a given piece of hardware.
With WebOS, assuming they open source all of it and dont keep important parts like the user-space binary daemon and libraries used to talk to the cellular modem closed source, all the stuff needed to actually get a self-bult OS running on a real world device like the TouchPad or the Pre should in theory be there. And again, if its all opened, porting it to new platforms should be a matter of whether you can find the needed hardware information for the platform you want to port to.
The Nokia N900 supports the T-Mobile frequency bands and it supports HSDPA and HSUPA and its the most open 3G phone there is.
The N9 also supports 1700/2100, as does the Galaxy Nexus and a number of more recent Nokia Symbian phones.
That article doesn't say anything about why iFitness or Full Fitness (which appears to have been a re-working of iFitness with a new name) was removed from the store.
I do not believe that the NSA key is being used for nefarious purposes. I DO believe that the NSA needed a way to sign secret stuff for CryptoAPI without the need to have the secret stuff go to someone at Microsoft to get it signed.
There is a story (mentioned in the documentary Food Inc IIRC) about someone who owned a machine for cleaning soybean seeds so they could be re-planted. Monsanto went after him and basically said "unless you can prove that not a single Monsanto GM seed went through your machine, we will sue you"
Both HSBC Australia and the Bendigo Bank offer hardware tokens.
Considering my mobile number was previously registered with Vodafone in my mums name (at the time I signed up, I didn't have enough credit history to get a postpaid plain in my own name) and I was recently able to switch it from Vodafone to TPG Mobile without either entity seeing any kind of actual ID (and I dont remember providing ID when I first signed up to TPG for ADSL either) I doubt that there are as many requirements on getting a SIM card as there should be.
"There's 57 Channels and Nothing on"
The problems I have with TV as an Australian:
1.All the good Australian shows get canceled (or get moved around so much they may as well have been canceled)
2.All the good foreign shows get taken off (or get moved around so much they may as well have been taken off)
3.Where there are good things on, they end up being on the same night (like having ST:TNG reruns on one channel and CSI:NY on another channel on the same night) and then there are nights with nothing at all to watch.
4.It can be months after a show airs overseas before a local network starts airing it. Sometimes a local network will "fast-track" a show but then they will skip a week or more and get out of sync because of "summer non-ratings period", "easter non-ratings period", "school holidays", sport or some other big event (on the same channel or on another channel) or any number of other reasons.
5.The same garbage gets repeated over and over again whilst they never even think of showing any of the GOOD shows from the archives (how many times do we need to see the same damn episode of The Flintstones or I Dream Of Jeanie or The Brady Bunch or The Love Boat or Everybody Loves Raymond?)
Although some of that may have to do with the fact that a lot of the good shows cant be shown in those time-slots due to classifications (e.g. M rated shows cant be shown in those slots)
Except that the power of the postal workers unions (and possibly also laws passed by congress) mean that the USPS wouldn't actually be able to fire all those posties.
The #1 solution to "too big to fail" banks is to separate the risky "wall st" parts of the banks from the safe "main st" parts that handle peoples home loans, savings etc by bringing back Glass-Stengel
More broadly though the US needs to take a whole bunch of steps which no candidate with an actual chance of becoming president would have the guts to do.
Like reducing the size of the US military and ending its role as the world's policeman by closing expensive foreign bases, buying less of the latest and greatest toys and focusing on the right threats (China for one is not a threat, why would the Chinese want to attack America when America buys billions of dollars worth of Chinese-made products every year?)
And like taking swift and direct action to solve the housing crisis by getting all those people on unaffordable loans down to more reasonable interest rates (possibly by using Fannie & Freddie) that allow them to stay in their home and not be in the position of having to decide between their mortgage repayment and their electricity bill.
There is a quote or comment somewhere (cant find it) from someone who said something like "I work/worked for an android OEM and AT&T basically said 'install CarrierIQ or we wont sell the product'". I may have gotten the details wrong because I cant find or remember the exact quote/comment but the gist of it is that its the carriers that are insisting on this and the handset makers have no choice but to comply.
Given how many people switch (from crappy cable, crappy ADSL or worse wireless or dialup) when Verizon FiOS comes into an area, why isn't Verizon rolling this out as fast as the fiber trucks can do it?
Or are the "vested interests" (including the legacy cable companies and stuff) fighting Verizon's FiOS plans just as hard as they are fighting municipal broadband?
I suspect any phone with a "free" baseband would likely be illegal in the US due to the FCC rules that govern the use of the cellular frequency bands.
Further searching suggests they may have been the later BBC Master (some models of which came with a 3.5" drive)
I distinctly remember "Granny's Garden" (and of the machines Granny's Garden was ported to, only the BBC family even HAD the internal 3.5" drive I remember)
At least I think they were BBCs. I remember they had this special hard plastic yellow thing that went in the floppy drive (a 3.5" IIRC) to keep it from being damaged when the machine was moved or something.
Doesn't Apple already have a rating system for iOS apps?
I have a collection of computer books on my bookshelf. There are many more I wish I owned but I just cant justify spending the huge prices publishers in this industry seem to demand.
Same thing with science fiction, I just LOVE curling up in bed with a good SF novel. But when the greedy publishers want upwards of AU$25 in some cases for a paperback (one example price I found for an Orson Scott Card book) I cant justify it (which is why I get most of my fiction books from 2nd hand bookstores these days)