My prediction is that Microsoft will almost give away phones when they own Nokia's handset business. Micorsoft realizes that they are in danger of an entire generation learning that they don't need a PC running Windows and that this is complete disaster for Microsoft in the making.
How much money has Microsoft dumped into Xbox over the years? I suspect that those billions will pale into insignificance in comparison to Microsoft's plans for Windows Phone.
So, you're saying that Verizon is paying $130billion for something it already owns? And if it's "part of Verizon" then why does Verizon have to pay $130billion for it?
Are you dense? Or just obtuse? Clearly, your reading skills are lacking
Verizon Wireless is jointly owned by Verizon Communications and Vodaphone. Vodaphone owns 45% of this joint venture. Verizon Communications is buying the part of Verizon Wireless that is currently owned by Vodaphone.
I don't know if you're a garage-door guy or something, but my experience with the controller boards is that they do not last anywhere near 20 years.
They are probably just like every other consumer device these days. Over 20 years ago, they built them to last over 20 years. Modern devices are built to last 5 years.
At one time, I thought of creating a/. called "ISPs are not common carriers".
No, ISPs are not common carriers. They have some of the same protections that common carriers enjoy, but they are not common carriers. If ISPs were common carriers, we would not even be talking about the possiblity of losing net neutrality.
So now Verizon pays $130billion (with a "B") for Vodaphone,
Hah, hah, that's a good one. No. Verizon is buying the part of Verizon Wireless that Vodaphone currently owns. Vodaphone is not being bought out, or merged. If anything, it is a demerger.
Far less intrusive? Flying out of Ben Gurion, you have to stop and be questioned by airport employees at some three or four checkpoints, and when your bags are being swabbed down and tested for chemical agents
In the mid-nineties, I experienced something similar going through the channel tunnel from the UK to France. Our car was stopped, I was asked to step out of my car and was questioned by an agent of some kind (complete with ear bud) who asked me about where I was from, where I was going, etc.. He asked me if a town was near to the one that I was from (it wasn't); I assume his collegue in the office had a map and was feeding him questions that would probe the truth of my answers. Our luggage was swabbed and the swabs tested.
I had been pulled out for extra checks before boarding flights around that time, so I suspect that I had got onto some kind of watch list.
What's with Yahoo's lawyers? Their motion is filed as a scanned pdf file -- no searchable text.
I can understand the need to do this with redacted documents, but this document contains no redactions. It's the 21st centary already, why can't Zwillgen PLLC get with the times already?
The Obama administration secretly won permission from a surveillance court in 2011 to reverse restrictions on the National Security Agency's use of intercepted phone calls and e-mails, permitting the agency to search deliberately for Americans' communications in its massive databases,
That is so obviously unconstitutional that the FISA court is clearly in violation of its oath to uphold the constitution.
the problem is that most ppl only vote for democrats and republicans, who are two sides of the same coin.
Not really. The perties are quite distinct. We have one party that works for the benefit of the 1% and another that works for the benefit of the 0.1% (or is it the 0.01%?)
It's also the reason I've never touched PPTP or IPSEC. Nothing to do with the NSA or GCHQ.
Microsoft's MS-CHAP (used with PPTP) has known vulnerabilities. Which of the following is true:
Microsoft is incompetent at secure software or:
Microsoft deliberately included vulnerabilities to make things easier for the NSA?
I seem to have hit the reverse effect. About 10-20 years ago, I put on quite a bit of weight, but my weight has been the same for years (~ 200 pounds and I am 6'0) , despite not worrying about what I eat and without a significant amount of exercise.
I don't understand what is going on, but I am very happy to not have significant weight gain for the past decade.
Yeah, my boss wouldn't understand that either. He does understand BUSINESS RISKS. If I point to a WSJ or Forbes article about a company that got owned and say "we are vulnerable to the same thing" he'll understand that. He doesn't understand SSL ciphers, he's not supposed to. He does understand "PR nightmare" and "noncompliance".
A smart boss would ask you to explain the significance of the "too technical" stuff that you are trying to explain. If the boss doesn't understand still doesn't ask why you think something is important then he is just as much to blame for the communication failure.
Symbian hemorrhaged marketshare for Nokia in 2009 and 2010 before Elop took over the company.
Nokia only hemorrhaged market share in the same way Android is doing now. Once you get close to 100% market share, the only way to go is down. However, in 2009 and in 2010, Nokia was growing its sales and its market share was much greater than Apple's. Nokia's downturn correlates with the burning platforms memo.
The agencyâ(TM)s success in defeating many of the privacy protections offered by encryption does not change the rules that prohibit the deliberate targeting of Americansâ(TM) e-mails or phone calls without a warrant.
I can see (although I don't necessarily agree with) the argument that we have no expectation of privacy on metadata, but surely there is an expectation of pricacy on encrypted data. Surely the fact that the user has encrypted his data (or knows that it will be) provides an expecation of privacy that would invoke a 4th amendment protection.
Let's put it this way: The Chinese Junk is the best boat ever made. It's harder to sail than a modern sail boat, but functionally superior when handled properly.
I think that you will have to define the functions that you think are important for that to be true. Look at the boats used in the Vendee Globe: planing keelboats sailed by one person. Far, far faster than any Chinese Junk. So, clearly, speed is not a function that you think is important.
Their "buisiness model" isn't under attack here anyway. The order songs play in isn't their business model.
Actually, if you read the article, the "order songs play in" is a significant part of their business model and that is what MoS is claiming. What do you think compilation albums are?
Great example: T-Mobile's US site. This is a morass of scripts, so loading on anything less than the fastest currently available machine is very slow. Furthermore, I have yet to discover how to download a PDF file of the current month's bill. I can download pdf files for prior months' bills, so why can't I download a pdf of the current month?
Perhaps the current month's pdf is in locked filing cabinet stuck in a discused lavatory with a sign on the door saying "Beware of the Leopard"?
It's all supposed to boil down to how well one can design and build a boat (that's matched evenly with others) and then how well can one sail it.
The AC45 class (the type of boat in which this rule violation occurred) is supposed to be a manufacturer-supplied one-design boat. In this class, it should come down to only how well the boats are sailed -- the boats themselves should be identical.
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Hasn't it?
My prediction is that Microsoft will almost give away phones when they own Nokia's handset business. Micorsoft realizes that they are in danger of an entire generation learning that they don't need a PC running Windows and that this is complete disaster for Microsoft in the making.
How much money has Microsoft dumped into Xbox over the years? I suspect that those billions will pale into insignificance in comparison to Microsoft's plans for Windows Phone.
Are you dense? Or just obtuse? Clearly, your reading skills are lacking
Verizon Wireless is jointly owned by Verizon Communications and Vodaphone. Vodaphone owns 45% of this joint venture. Verizon Communications is buying the part of Verizon Wireless that is currently owned by Vodaphone.
Clear now?
They are probably just like every other consumer device these days. Over 20 years ago, they built them to last over 20 years. Modern devices are built to last 5 years.
At one time, I thought of creating a /. called "ISPs are not common carriers".
No, ISPs are not common carriers. They have some of the same protections that common carriers enjoy, but they are not common carriers. If ISPs were common carriers, we would not even be talking about the possiblity of losing net neutrality.
Hah, hah, that's a good one. No. Verizon is buying the part of Verizon Wireless that Vodaphone currently owns. Vodaphone is not being bought out, or merged. If anything, it is a demerger.
In the mid-nineties, I experienced something similar going through the channel tunnel from the UK to France. Our car was stopped, I was asked to step out of my car and was questioned by an agent of some kind (complete with ear bud) who asked me about where I was from, where I was going, etc.. He asked me if a town was near to the one that I was from (it wasn't); I assume his collegue in the office had a map and was feeding him questions that would probe the truth of my answers. Our luggage was swabbed and the swabs tested.
I had been pulled out for extra checks before boarding flights around that time, so I suspect that I had got onto some kind of watch list.
Actually, we probably know about 1% of the illegal shit that the NSA is doing.
FTFY
What's with Yahoo's lawyers? Their motion is filed as a scanned pdf file -- no searchable text.
I can understand the need to do this with redacted documents, but this document contains no redactions. It's the 21st centary already, why can't Zwillgen PLLC get with the times already?
That is so obviously unconstitutional that the FISA court is clearly in violation of its oath to uphold the constitution.
Not really. The perties are quite distinct. We have one party that works for the benefit of the 1% and another that works for the benefit of the 0.1% (or is it the 0.01%?)
Microsoft's MS-CHAP (used with PPTP) has known vulnerabilities. Which of the following is true:
Microsoft is incompetent at secure software or:
Microsoft deliberately included vulnerabilities to make things easier for the NSA?
Perhaps the developers cannot make the same claim now and are unable to state that backdoors exist?
I seem to have hit the reverse effect. About 10-20 years ago, I put on quite a bit of weight, but my weight has been the same for years (~ 200 pounds and I am 6'0) , despite not worrying about what I eat and without a significant amount of exercise.
I don't understand what is going on, but I am very happy to not have significant weight gain for the past decade.
A smart boss would ask you to explain the significance of the "too technical" stuff that you are trying to explain. If the boss doesn't understand still doesn't ask why you think something is important then he is just as much to blame for the communication failure.
Nokia only hemorrhaged market share in the same way Android is doing now. Once you get close to 100% market share, the only way to go is down. However, in 2009 and in 2010, Nokia was growing its sales and its market share was much greater than Apple's. Nokia's downturn correlates with the burning platforms memo.
I can see (although I don't necessarily agree with) the argument that we have no expectation of privacy on metadata, but surely there is an expectation of pricacy on encrypted data. Surely the fact that the user has encrypted his data (or knows that it will be) provides an expecation of privacy that would invoke a 4th amendment protection.
Which is pretty much what the Supremes did when upholding the last extension of copyright.
I think that you will have to define the functions that you think are important for that to be true. Look at the boats used in the Vendee Globe: planing keelboats sailed by one person. Far, far faster than any Chinese Junk. So, clearly, speed is not a function that you think is important.
Actually, if you read the article, the "order songs play in" is a significant part of their business model and that is what MoS is claiming. What do you think compilation albums are?
Great example: T-Mobile's US site. This is a morass of scripts, so loading on anything less than the fastest currently available machine is very slow. Furthermore, I have yet to discover how to download a PDF file of the current month's bill. I can download pdf files for prior months' bills, so why can't I download a pdf of the current month?
Perhaps the current month's pdf is in locked filing cabinet stuck in a discused lavatory with a sign on the door saying "Beware of the Leopard"?
The AC45 class (the type of boat in which this rule violation occurred) is supposed to be a manufacturer-supplied one-design boat. In this class, it should come down to only how well the boats are sailed -- the boats themselves should be identical.
Well, it was the same team that was found guilty of cheating for getting too close to their competitors during practice.
Not can, is dangerous
Uh, you know that 50 knots is faster than 50 MPH, right?