What I want is for Google to release a Nexus M. Give it top of the line hardware (like the Atrix and Galaxy S and other high-end android phones), a really good touch screen and a GOOD physical keyboard. Oh and make it as open as the Nexus S with everything on the phone being open source except those bits they cant open (cellular radio firmware, userspace GPU blobs etc)
Motorola no longer makes hardware or chipsets. Their chip business was spun off to Freescale years ago and all their hardware is produced in China alongside everyone elses hardware.
I have already boycotted all games produced and published by Atari for all sorts of reasons, this crap just makes me even LESS likely to buy from them.
The #1 mission of the cable companies is to fight all the moves towards people getting "TV" from the Internet instead of from overpriced "premium" cable tiers.
Maybe I would like Java more if the people who owned it weren't so evil they make MS look good.
And if the people who choose to use it didnt use 5000 different addon libraries with confusing names that say nothing about what they hell they do (Spring, Struts, Hibernate etc etc etc)
Except that unless you test every one of the 1000s of fields of corn in the US and test them every season (or probably more often) as well as testing imports of corn and retailers selling corn products you cant tell the difference between the good corn and the normal corn.
Also, although some states in the US now technically allow the production of hemp under license, its still illegal under federal drug laws.
The point is, if the genetic engineering is done right, it becomes impossible to find the "bad" plants unless they go around to every producer in the nation and test samples (and for that matter test every imported shipment too)
That or completly ban whatever crop has had the weed genes added to it
The cops would be unable to detect the difference between regular corn and weed corn without analysis of the plants somehow (either by taking it to the lab or by using portable kit) because regular corn and weed corn would look the same to the naked eye.
Means they cant simply fly in their helicoptors all over the place looking for plants like they do now.
Now all we need is for someone to take an existing food plant that is legal to grow (and that couldn't be banned) like corn and add some weed genes so that when its consumed, it gives the effects of weed (i.e. make the corn contain the THC and things that the weed contains)
No way for the cops to detect it short of chemical analysis and there is far too much corn grown in the US to make that possible.
Work with phone manufacturers to produce devices like the Experia Play with actual control buttons. Or work to produce devices that can attach to phone and give them buttons via a bluetooth HID device.
I recon if Nintendo wanted to sell more 3DSs, they would produce a new (not ported) Mario title in the style of Mario Galaxy or Mario 64 and make it require a 3DS.
Thats why you use DNSSEC to store a public key in the DNS record which is then used as part of a SSL negotiation with the legitimate server having the private half of the key.
Prevents man-in-the-middle attacks unless the hacker can make your client think that their hacked DNS record is validly signed through DNSSEC keys (or can somehow get a bogus record into DNSSEC directly) and also prevents eavesdropping because only the legitimate server has the private half of the key.
No need for CAs to get involved or for anyone to care who owns "www.paypal.com", all people need to care about is that they are talking to the legitimate server belonging to www.paypal.com and that the public key they are using is the one that matches the private half stored on the legitimate server belonging to www.paypal.com
Yes HTC released GPL source code for the Desire Z eventually.
But some searching with Google and some reading of the archives for the gpl-violations mailing list would show you that they routinely take weeks or even months after the release of the product before they release the GPL source and that in some cases the released source code does not match the binaries.
Actually, Pakistan is more like the next Iran except that unlike Iran they already HAVE nuclear warheads and the missiles to deliver them.
Pakistan has an unstable western-backed government with heavy military involvement. (and elections that arent exactly as fair and unbiased as they should be) and they have a large number of people who follow fundamentalist Islam.
The continued GPL violations by HTC are the #1 reason why I didnt buy a Desire Z and bought a Nokia N900 instead (the locked firmware/bootloader was #2)
Motorola already makes dumbphones for all sorts of markets (emerging markets, prepaid operations like Tracfone, and more). So they wouldn't be building a new one, just replacing their existing one with something that has less features (and less code to maintain)
Things Google should do that will benefit both Android users AND Google: 1.End all deals between Motorola and Microsoft/Yahoo to make Bing or Yahoo the default search engine on Motorola Android phones. Restore Google as the default search engine on these phones. Good for consumers who get full Google apps on all Motorola android phones and good for Google because they get more people using Google search and more eyeballs for Google ads.
2.Start unlocking bootloaders on all Motorola phones. Good way to make tech geeks love your phones and recommend them to all and sundry. (think about how much community support the first Droid got because of its unlocked bootloader vs how much the first Milestone with its locked bootloader got)
3.Throw away all your legacy phone platforms and standardize on Android for mid to high end phones (including anything with a web browser, email client etc as well as any phone that would have had a Java VM if it was based on a non-Android OS stack). Bring in a simple cheap new OS for dumbphones that dont have web browsing, Java or data connectivity.
Good for consumers (since they get more Android phones at the market points that used to be occupied with mid-high-end featurephones like the RAZR) and good for Google since they save money by abandoning work on a whole bunch of code from the various legacy OSs (including web browsers and Java VMs)
4.Threaten to use the combined Google+Motorola patent portfolio against Apple products like the iPhone and iPad unless Apple stops suing Android vendors. This is good for Google since (if Apple does the deal) it means less risk of being sued over Android and less patent royalties that would need to be paid. Good for consumers since patent royalties increase the cost of devices.
Even better would be for Google to create an Android defensive patent pool. Anyone working with Google on Android (including HTC, Samsung, Dell, LG etc) would be able to join the pool with any mobile device/OS/etc patents they want to contribute. Google would contribute relavent patents from the Google pool plus whatever the new Motorola pool has. Any Android vendor that is sued over an Android handset gets to use the entire Android patent pool as a counter-attack.
I have owned a Pentium 166 MMX, a Pentium 3 800, a Pentium 4 1.4, a Pentium 4 2.4 and now a Core 2 Duo. All were bought as individual parts and in all 5 cases I used the stock Intel cooling solution on the CPU.
What I want to know is why owners of web sites who's ads are being replaced by ISPs dont sue those ISPs for copyright violation (IANAL but it seems like its a clear case of copyright violation to me)
For example, Google should sue any ISP where there is proof that said ISP is replacing Google ads with ISP ads. If enough companies sue enough ISPs over ad-replacement practices, ISPs will have no choice but to stop if they dont want to be sued.
Expect US ISPs to start blocking access to alternative DNS options more and more and using the new "we have to block pirate sites specified by the DHS" rules as the reason they are doing it.
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What I want is for Google to release a Nexus M. Give it top of the line hardware (like the Atrix and Galaxy S and other high-end android phones), a really good touch screen and a GOOD physical keyboard.
Oh and make it as open as the Nexus S with everything on the phone being open source except those bits they cant open (cellular radio firmware, userspace GPU blobs etc)
Motorola no longer makes hardware or chipsets.
Their chip business was spun off to Freescale years ago and all their hardware is produced in China alongside everyone elses hardware.
I have already boycotted all games produced and published by Atari for all sorts of reasons, this crap just makes me even LESS likely to buy from them.
The #1 mission of the cable companies is to fight all the moves towards people getting "TV" from the Internet instead of from overpriced "premium" cable tiers.
Maybe I would like Java more if the people who owned it weren't so evil they make MS look good.
And if the people who choose to use it didnt use 5000 different addon libraries with confusing names that say nothing about what they hell they do (Spring, Struts, Hibernate etc etc etc)
I think SourceForge should ban the distribution of closed-source toolbars, browser addons and etc with software distributed on their site.
Change the terms of service and ban this distribution with a way for people to be kicked off SourceForge for violations.
the CoApp project aims to make building and installing open source software on Windows easier.
Except that unless you test every one of the 1000s of fields of corn in the US and test them every season (or probably more often) as well as testing imports of corn and retailers selling corn products you cant tell the difference between the good corn and the normal corn.
Also, although some states in the US now technically allow the production of hemp under license, its still illegal under federal drug laws.
The point is, if the genetic engineering is done right, it becomes impossible to find the "bad" plants unless they go around to every producer in the nation and test samples (and for that matter test every imported shipment too)
That or completly ban whatever crop has had the weed genes added to it
The cops would be unable to detect the difference between regular corn and weed corn without analysis of the plants somehow (either by taking it to the lab or by using portable kit) because regular corn and weed corn would look the same to the naked eye.
Means they cant simply fly in their helicoptors all over the place looking for plants like they do now.
Now all we need is for someone to take an existing food plant that is legal to grow (and that couldn't be banned) like corn and add some weed genes so that when its consumed, it gives the effects of weed (i.e. make the corn contain the THC and things that the weed contains)
No way for the cops to detect it short of chemical analysis and there is far too much corn grown in the US to make that possible.
Work with phone manufacturers to produce devices like the Experia Play with actual control buttons. Or work to produce devices that can attach to phone and give them buttons via a bluetooth HID device.
I recon if Nintendo wanted to sell more 3DSs, they would produce a new (not ported) Mario title in the style of Mario Galaxy or Mario 64 and make it require a 3DS.
I have already blacklisted all games from Ubisoft for this reason, along with games from Activision Blizzard, Atari and Sony.
Most likely HP would do what IBM did and spin it off/sell it.
HP obviously sees no future in the commodity PC market so it would make sense for them to get out of it and let someone else take it over.
Thats why you use DNSSEC to store a public key in the DNS record which is then used as part of a SSL negotiation with the legitimate server having the private half of the key.
Prevents man-in-the-middle attacks unless the hacker can make your client think that their hacked DNS record is validly signed through DNSSEC keys (or can somehow get a bogus record into DNSSEC directly) and also prevents eavesdropping because only the legitimate server has the private half of the key.
No need for CAs to get involved or for anyone to care who owns "www.paypal.com", all people need to care about is that they are talking to the legitimate server belonging to www.paypal.com and that the public key they are using is the one that matches the private half stored on the legitimate server belonging to www.paypal.com
Yes HTC released GPL source code for the Desire Z eventually.
But some searching with Google and some reading of the archives for the gpl-violations mailing list would show you that they routinely take weeks or even months after the release of the product before they release the GPL source and that in some cases the released source code does not match the binaries.
Actually, Pakistan is more like the next Iran except that unlike Iran they already HAVE nuclear warheads and the missiles to deliver them.
Pakistan has an unstable western-backed government with heavy military involvement. (and elections that arent exactly as fair and unbiased as they should be) and they have a large number of people who follow fundamentalist Islam.
The continued GPL violations by HTC are the #1 reason why I didnt buy a Desire Z and bought a Nokia N900 instead (the locked firmware/bootloader was #2)
Motorola already makes dumbphones for all sorts of markets (emerging markets, prepaid operations like Tracfone, and more). So they wouldn't be building a new one, just replacing their existing one with something that has less features (and less code to maintain)
Google may not be a big player. But Motorola has a LOT of patents covering cellular telephony.
Things Google should do that will benefit both Android users AND Google:
1.End all deals between Motorola and Microsoft/Yahoo to make Bing or Yahoo the default search engine on Motorola Android phones. Restore Google as the default search engine on these phones. Good for consumers who get full Google apps on all Motorola android phones and good for Google because they get more people using Google search and more eyeballs for Google ads.
2.Start unlocking bootloaders on all Motorola phones. Good way to make tech geeks love your phones and recommend them to all and sundry. (think about how much community support the first Droid got because of its unlocked bootloader vs how much the first Milestone with its locked bootloader got)
3.Throw away all your legacy phone platforms and standardize on Android for mid to high end phones (including anything with a web browser, email client etc as well as any phone that would have had a Java VM if it was based on a non-Android OS stack). Bring in a simple cheap new OS for dumbphones that dont have web browsing, Java or data connectivity.
Good for consumers (since they get more Android phones at the market points that used to be occupied with mid-high-end featurephones like the RAZR) and good for Google since they save money by abandoning work on a whole bunch of code from the various legacy OSs (including web browsers and Java VMs)
4.Threaten to use the combined Google+Motorola patent portfolio against Apple products like the iPhone and iPad unless Apple stops suing Android vendors. This is good for Google since (if Apple does the deal) it means less risk of being sued over Android and less patent royalties that would need to be paid. Good for consumers since patent royalties increase the cost of devices.
Even better would be for Google to create an Android defensive patent pool. Anyone working with Google on Android (including HTC, Samsung, Dell, LG etc) would be able to join the pool with any mobile device/OS/etc patents they want to contribute. Google would contribute relavent patents from the Google pool plus whatever the new Motorola pool has. Any Android vendor that is sued over an Android handset gets to use the entire Android patent pool as a counter-attack.
I have owned a Pentium 166 MMX, a Pentium 3 800, a Pentium 4 1.4, a Pentium 4 2.4 and now a Core 2 Duo. All were bought as individual parts and in all 5 cases I used the stock Intel cooling solution on the CPU.
What I want to know is why owners of web sites who's ads are being replaced by ISPs dont sue those ISPs for copyright violation (IANAL but it seems like its a clear case of copyright violation to me)
For example, Google should sue any ISP where there is proof that said ISP is replacing Google ads with ISP ads. If enough companies sue enough ISPs over ad-replacement practices, ISPs will have no choice but to stop if they dont want to be sued.
Expect US ISPs to start blocking access to alternative DNS options more and more and using the new "we have to block pirate sites specified by the DHS" rules as the reason they are doing it.