Linux is a FOSS operating system. There is more to the question of should Valve start their own distribution. There is how much input they want into that operating system. From examples like what Google is doing with Android with a layer on top to more like Ubuntu focusing on services and support as well as ease of installation, to simply branding. Taking an existing distribution and contributing funds for it's development and just changing branding.
Then you can look a working through the various levels, starting at branding and getting market exposure and working up to a fully internally developed version with a gaming layer on top and ensuring that gaming layer is compatible with the majority of games you distribute. You can even look at making your layer able to work in parallel with Google's Android layer. The real advantage of FOSS you're not forced down one companies lane for the benefit of that company, you can choose a full range options and retain control of those choices.
Valve of course is not really likely to produce a gaming console and far more likely to produce a specification for a gaming console and allow manufacturers some scope of individuality in development and manufacturing of the console. The principle being to take M$'s profit (the windows and xbox tax burden) and distribute it amongst a far wider market.
Of course because others companies IT department should live to make M$ more money. If it ain't broke don't fix it, besides it makes for sense to cross grade to Linux than to continually be forced by M$ to spend more money with M$.
The internet already has an non-DNS protocol it is IPv4 changing into IPv6, DNS is a 'decorative' layer on top. Do you know who really controls DNS, I do, I choose which DNS server my computer points to. Just like you control your version of the internet by your choice of DNS server. The breakup already exists, it is just a matter of countries choosing to establish their own root servers and, hmm well, there is the crux, they either request that their ISPs sneak those DNS servers onto their customers or legally required it, tricky to do as the customer can reset it.
So whether people choose to use their own countries controlled root DNS servers or what ever version of international servers, is really quite a nebulous and something the existing control freak the US or the new players seeking control can really force under current protocols. People can already choose to go to truly independent DNS servers like Google who could establish their own rules if they choose with their own fee structures. Hell, you can create your own DNS address database out of discovered IP addresses and tell the US government to go get knotted.
Brand fixation is what the iPad market is all about. The reality is the bulk of iPad buyers own an iPhone and, and an Apple computer of what ever description and an iPod. They buy the iPad as a toy. The rest of the market is just not really into buying tablets, hence the sales bias.
In the real world there is just no killer application to drive tablet sales, for most people a large candy bar smart phone does all they want. For Apple fans they buy an iPad to buy an iPad, no real use for it, they just buy it to buy it, an ego purchase.
The eReader market is different to the tablet market, content access and price defines that market.
It makes not one bit of difference what the US believes or wants when it comes to governance of the internet both IP address and DNS space. It boils down to each country deciding for itself what it wants to do. The change will occur regardless of what the US wants, much the same as the US is now starting to be excluded from what is going on with regard to 'American' North and South, associations.
Everyone knows the US will be a puppet to US corporate shenanigans as the seek to capitalise and profit off of control of the internet. Other countries will be driven by their corporate interests to take control over their part of the internet. What is inevitable rather than direct, DNS root control, countries will mirror what they choose and change to resell what they choose.
IP addressing will remain pretty clean but Domain Names are going to be exploited for profit a trend started by the US.
When it comes to military spending it's basically pork you burn on purpose, pork you throw in the dirt and stomp on, pork you throw away, completely and utterly useless pork. Want better pork then spend it on infrastructure. A national fibre optic broadband network, a national high speed rail network and, repair roads and footpaths nationally. How about investing it in space instead, not much pay out now but in the future the payout will be huge. How about national development of aquaponics to reduce food imports and in times of drought damn bloody import.
M$ will do a big push on the business market with windows phone. So developers the specialise in business phone apps, likely can squeeze some money our of M$ if they can convince M$ those apps will help sell the windows phone OS to businesses. As for gaming and the typical home user likely you would be better of investing in Android development for quite a few years.
Those appearance patents are only meant to prevent another companies product being sold in the same guise as the patent holder's product. The point of protection being if people were buying the Samsung product in the mistaken belief it was an iPhone. That should be the only thing viewed by the judge. If people are buying the Samsung product based upon preferring the software Android, then that should be the end of it, they are not confusing the offerings, this is clearly a gross abuse of the intent of design patents.
You have to be careful about what you consider to be waiving your rights ie. I wave my rights, sorry changed my mind, waived them again, changed my mind again, waived, not waived, waived, mine again.
Waiving your rights means pretty much nothing because the very second you claim them back, they return with full force of the law, constitutional and criminal law both of which out weigh contract law. There is no legal condition of contract that can prevent you from reclaiming your rights, at any time you choose.
Barack 'The Betrayer' Obama, has now shown you the true overlords the RIAA/MPAA, if they command your assets be stolen and kept indefinitely, then they will be stolen and kept indefinitely, they don't need no stinkin' laws. Remeber what the Obama PR crew said when they were stacking the US department of justice with RIAA/MPAA lawyers, "it was all so they could keep a better eye on the RIAA/MPAA and the legal abuses". Well guess what, Barack 'The Betrayer' Obama, is a right wing tool and a puppet of corporate America.
No those walls are just like the cages of battery chicken. Apple customers better keep laying those eggs or they get cut off, no free content for you, can't pay, then it's the chicken nuggets line for you.
The whole idea of an open system is it allows many players to create different content and distribute with different income methods. Whether you create content to directly promote and give it away free or attempt to directly charge for it or sell advertising space and give away the content or you just decide to give it away free.
Patents, lawyers, one way contracts, treat customers like suckers, PR=B$ saturation marketing, forum trolling, blah, blah, blah. Apple are a bunch of dicks, screw 'em.
Actually we are not all human, should you logically define humanity as a social communal species, that evolves as a group not as individuals. As such, psychopaths and narcissists are no longer definable human and behave as such, parasites upon the body of humanity, bloated destructive parasites that have gained for to great a degree of control and are destroying humanity.
Two seconds are you insane. I would quite cherrily throw a computer and the mouse out of moving vehicle at speed at the person who sold me a computer where it mouse click took a minimum of two whole fucking seconds.
What is happening is the are trying to design computers around what the perceive to be the majority market. The technically literate consumers of content and they are forcing what the perceive to be the minority market the creators of content to conform to the requirements of the consumers of content.
For decades the creators of content defined PC market, why, because they were the only ones in any real numbers buying hundreds of millions of PC. Now the consumers of content are buying more PCs and the M$ idiots have got lost in the idea of shifting PCs to the majority market, people who rarely buy PC's barely make any use of them and basically just use them to consume content. People who make the most use of PCs and buy hundreds of millions of them every year and who will create content in what ever format is required will be ignored because M$ under the idiot Ballmer what to shift the closed ecosystem of xbox to the PC.
If Apple hadn't become such a bunch of dicks now would be their big chance to whip the rug out from underneath MS$. Instead manufacturers and Web entities and Content creation firms will unite and create an open platform to piss off M$ and Apple as dead weights, parasites on their profits.
In a greed driven psychopathic world, expect lies and bullshit about providing a marginal service, with advertising painting as a exceptional service, all sold at the price of a reasonable service but in reality actually a shared substandard service. Greed, greed, greed, all so boring but the reality of every service provided in the US.
Sample early examples of rounded corners on digital equipment http://www.vintagecalculators.com/html/facit_1106_sharp_el-805s.html. Calculators from nearly every manufacturers. Main reason for rounded corners. With portable devices, that get handled quite a bit, sharper corners get knocked off leaving the devices looking fairly ratty, also rounded corners use less material while producer better impact resistance, logically engineering design as old as portable calculators. If you buy Apple you are just supporting douche baggery in corporations.
It sounds all reasonable when your talking about one well. Where it all tends to go nothing like the plan, is when it is tens of thousands of wells. Drilled as closely as possible to fully exploit a field yet minimise 'excessive' pressurised fluid from leaking to other drill sites. It's not a single well of several hundred feet, it is many square miles of producing field punctured by hundreds even thousands of wells. It's a gamble, don't forget to privatise the profits and socialise the losses, it's the only way it will work, and the original legislation put out by Cheney insured that this would happen.
Why not, someone else created the completely artificial means by which they profit, copyright law. Even when absolutely no attempt is made to ensure the content does in fact promote science and the useful arts as required under law, which technically means those profits have been stolen, factually stolen as that money was not 'copied' it was parasitically removed from the economy.
Let's look at the left and right of this argument. The left the side that doesn't want to take any undue risk the conservative side, hey wait what? How come the conservative, low risk people people ended up on the left. Lets look at the other side, the right, in this case the minority of people who will generate additional profit from fracking, that being their single concern, those that which to exploit the environement and their only motive being greed and the absolute willingness to take risks with the environment. The risk of course being limited with the rest of society taking the burden of the risk.
So the conservative people unwilling to take risk with their environment and those people not profiting by fracking but who most certainly are taking the cost risk are basically being smeared as lefties ie socialists and communists. Whilst the exploiters get raised to the Christian Right, doing greed and exploitation in God's image. Isn't it really interesting how conservative people are being labelled politically as radicals lefties and how ruthless greed driven exploiters managed to label themselves totally, falsely as conservatives.
The greatest fracking risk is a substantive earthquake in a major fracking field creative a deep vertical fault through large numbers of artificial gas and toxic water filled horizontal faults all under pressure and releasing it all to the environment in a huge explosive and poisonous rush. So basically all fracking fields in earthquake zones are ticking poisonous fuel air time bombs, buried under the feet of millions of Americans now at risk, not a matter of if just when they will go off.
Let me guess, copper, in your same insane world it also applies to the 'ACCUSED's car, house, clothing, bank accounts and computers. Law Enforcement power is complete, total, all must obey, all must bow, submit or be pepper sprayed, tasered, bashed with clubs and then shot, you are guilty because Law Enforcement says you are guilty, you are now a slave.
The real question here is the form and method of extradition. The US has managed quite effectively and beyond doubt to soil it's legal reputation overseas. The US legal process is felt to have more in common with third world countries and crime gangs, having been corrupted by lobbyists, politicians and corporations. Perhaps a more solid review of the extradition process (they seem to spew out any kind of bullshit with only limited evidence or proof), the court process (far too much intimidation of other parties with threats of life imprisonment or death to force suspected false testimony) and finally associated punitive punishment (the routine and publicly accepted use of homosexual rape as punishment) or remedial training process.
The US justice system instead of being a world leader especially with regard of foreigners (life time imprisonment until confession of guilt and routine torture), has come to be viewed as shite, well done The Shrub (Bush) and The Betrayer (Obama).
Instead of extradition perhaps the trial should be held at the country where the person is being held, the accusing country should prove their case and dependent upon the nature of accepted penalties, the now guilty person should be penalised. The accusing country can pay for the process, including incarceration (costs subject to treaty). Where the accusing country fails to prove their case, they should pay full penalties to the defendant.
The comparison is false. There is no new idea. The intent of computers is to replicate manual or analogue methods of doing things in a digital computerised format, using computer hardware and software, that is a straight up logical process. As computers take a greater part in the interaction between people and the activities they conduct, so more of those interactions are 'digitised'. Putting more devices in one space is a simple direct product if miniaturisation and making use of existing hardware with the minor addition of new hardware. Whilst the hardware itself should certainly be patentable if it requires new manufacturing techniques, the software should not ie it is simply the logical algorithms, the formulas inherent in making the hardware function.
The whole idea of falsity of patenting every shift of known existing method and idea from analogue or manual use to digital is simply a US greed based lie. Nothing new, no new idea, no creation, just lawyers, lobbyists, corrupt politicians, greed and bullshit. You can shove rounded corners on rectangles where the sun don't shine along with slide to lock and any other kind of anticompetitive profit jacking up bullshit.
Your response is farcical. Take for example the reality of the largest terrorist organisations around at the moment crime gangs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gangs or even one particular group MS-13 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mara_Salvatrucha. How come drone strikes are not used against that particular group, numbering 70,000 members and well known for terror attacks and retaliation against policing and those that cooperate with police. Not some faked up al-Qaeda with at most maybe 500 members. MS-13 is a real terror organisation, why is it ignored in comparison, is it because in some insane psychopathic capitalist world they are OK because they are motivated by profit and greed.
So why isn't the US, Mexican and various South American governments firing missiles at each at each other. Basically at any sounds like, looks like grouping of people that in resemble a gang member meeting to plan terrorist attacks (apparently as long as they are motivated by profit they are non-terror).
See the insanity, you have eco-terrorists trying to protect the environment, peace activist terrorists trying to prevent conflict, union terrorists trying to get better conditions for workers but where capitalistic greed for money is the root driver they are simply a 'gang'. A real problem and the administration is silent waffling on about brown people overseas instead and killing them a random, whilst losing parts of cities to gangs and those lost neighbourhoods growing in size all of the time.
Sometimes people are after a tweak that is simply not yet available and as such voicing a suggestion of change might make it available. For example, screens are getting to big to comfortably handle and put up against the side of your face, I am not really interested in wearing a blue tooth head set. So how about a blue tooth styles that also acts as remote speaker and mike, that way I can look at the face of the phone and make a video call, whilst maintaining a level of privacy with a small blue tooth stylus held close to my face. Stylus usefully also provides more accurate interaction with the screen and obviously has a parking spot within the phone where it is recharged (note phone should signal when stylus not parked, simple led warning light illuminating a full bezel).
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Linux is a FOSS operating system. There is more to the question of should Valve start their own distribution. There is how much input they want into that operating system. From examples like what Google is doing with Android with a layer on top to more like Ubuntu focusing on services and support as well as ease of installation, to simply branding. Taking an existing distribution and contributing funds for it's development and just changing branding.
Then you can look a working through the various levels, starting at branding and getting market exposure and working up to a fully internally developed version with a gaming layer on top and ensuring that gaming layer is compatible with the majority of games you distribute. You can even look at making your layer able to work in parallel with Google's Android layer. The real advantage of FOSS you're not forced down one companies lane for the benefit of that company, you can choose a full range options and retain control of those choices.
Valve of course is not really likely to produce a gaming console and far more likely to produce a specification for a gaming console and allow manufacturers some scope of individuality in development and manufacturing of the console. The principle being to take M$'s profit (the windows and xbox tax burden) and distribute it amongst a far wider market.
Of course because others companies IT department should live to make M$ more money. If it ain't broke don't fix it, besides it makes for sense to cross grade to Linux than to continually be forced by M$ to spend more money with M$.
The internet already has an non-DNS protocol it is IPv4 changing into IPv6, DNS is a 'decorative' layer on top. Do you know who really controls DNS, I do, I choose which DNS server my computer points to. Just like you control your version of the internet by your choice of DNS server. The breakup already exists, it is just a matter of countries choosing to establish their own root servers and, hmm well, there is the crux, they either request that their ISPs sneak those DNS servers onto their customers or legally required it, tricky to do as the customer can reset it.
So whether people choose to use their own countries controlled root DNS servers or what ever version of international servers, is really quite a nebulous and something the existing control freak the US or the new players seeking control can really force under current protocols. People can already choose to go to truly independent DNS servers like Google who could establish their own rules if they choose with their own fee structures. Hell, you can create your own DNS address database out of discovered IP addresses and tell the US government to go get knotted.
Brand fixation is what the iPad market is all about. The reality is the bulk of iPad buyers own an iPhone and, and an Apple computer of what ever description and an iPod. They buy the iPad as a toy. The rest of the market is just not really into buying tablets, hence the sales bias.
In the real world there is just no killer application to drive tablet sales, for most people a large candy bar smart phone does all they want. For Apple fans they buy an iPad to buy an iPad, no real use for it, they just buy it to buy it, an ego purchase.
The eReader market is different to the tablet market, content access and price defines that market.
It makes not one bit of difference what the US believes or wants when it comes to governance of the internet both IP address and DNS space. It boils down to each country deciding for itself what it wants to do. The change will occur regardless of what the US wants, much the same as the US is now starting to be excluded from what is going on with regard to 'American' North and South, associations.
Everyone knows the US will be a puppet to US corporate shenanigans as the seek to capitalise and profit off of control of the internet. Other countries will be driven by their corporate interests to take control over their part of the internet. What is inevitable rather than direct, DNS root control, countries will mirror what they choose and change to resell what they choose.
IP addressing will remain pretty clean but Domain Names are going to be exploited for profit a trend started by the US.
The customers would have kept them if the could not have told the difference, 'CASE CLOSED'.
When it comes to military spending it's basically pork you burn on purpose, pork you throw in the dirt and stomp on, pork you throw away, completely and utterly useless pork. Want better pork then spend it on infrastructure. A national fibre optic broadband network, a national high speed rail network and, repair roads and footpaths nationally. How about investing it in space instead, not much pay out now but in the future the payout will be huge. How about national development of aquaponics to reduce food imports and in times of drought damn bloody import.
M$ will do a big push on the business market with windows phone. So developers the specialise in business phone apps, likely can squeeze some money our of M$ if they can convince M$ those apps will help sell the windows phone OS to businesses. As for gaming and the typical home user likely you would be better of investing in Android development for quite a few years.
Bingo, they returned it, so no problem. They obviously failed to pay attention when purchasing.
Those appearance patents are only meant to prevent another companies product being sold in the same guise as the patent holder's product. The point of protection being if people were buying the Samsung product in the mistaken belief it was an iPhone. That should be the only thing viewed by the judge. If people are buying the Samsung product based upon preferring the software Android, then that should be the end of it, they are not confusing the offerings, this is clearly a gross abuse of the intent of design patents.
You have to be careful about what you consider to be waiving your rights ie. I wave my rights, sorry changed my mind, waived them again, changed my mind again, waived, not waived, waived, mine again.
Waiving your rights means pretty much nothing because the very second you claim them back, they return with full force of the law, constitutional and criminal law both of which out weigh contract law. There is no legal condition of contract that can prevent you from reclaiming your rights, at any time you choose.
Barack 'The Betrayer' Obama, has now shown you the true overlords the RIAA/MPAA, if they command your assets be stolen and kept indefinitely, then they will be stolen and kept indefinitely, they don't need no stinkin' laws. Remeber what the Obama PR crew said when they were stacking the US department of justice with RIAA/MPAA lawyers, "it was all so they could keep a better eye on the RIAA/MPAA and the legal abuses". Well guess what, Barack 'The Betrayer' Obama, is a right wing tool and a puppet of corporate America.
No those walls are just like the cages of battery chicken. Apple customers better keep laying those eggs or they get cut off, no free content for you, can't pay, then it's the chicken nuggets line for you.
The whole idea of an open system is it allows many players to create different content and distribute with different income methods. Whether you create content to directly promote and give it away free or attempt to directly charge for it or sell advertising space and give away the content or you just decide to give it away free.
Patents, lawyers, one way contracts, treat customers like suckers, PR=B$ saturation marketing, forum trolling, blah, blah, blah. Apple are a bunch of dicks, screw 'em.
Actually we are not all human, should you logically define humanity as a social communal species, that evolves as a group not as individuals. As such, psychopaths and narcissists are no longer definable human and behave as such, parasites upon the body of humanity, bloated destructive parasites that have gained for to great a degree of control and are destroying humanity.
Two seconds are you insane. I would quite cherrily throw a computer and the mouse out of moving vehicle at speed at the person who sold me a computer where it mouse click took a minimum of two whole fucking seconds.
What is happening is the are trying to design computers around what the perceive to be the majority market. The technically literate consumers of content and they are forcing what the perceive to be the minority market the creators of content to conform to the requirements of the consumers of content.
For decades the creators of content defined PC market, why, because they were the only ones in any real numbers buying hundreds of millions of PC. Now the consumers of content are buying more PCs and the M$ idiots have got lost in the idea of shifting PCs to the majority market, people who rarely buy PC's barely make any use of them and basically just use them to consume content. People who make the most use of PCs and buy hundreds of millions of them every year and who will create content in what ever format is required will be ignored because M$ under the idiot Ballmer what to shift the closed ecosystem of xbox to the PC.
If Apple hadn't become such a bunch of dicks now would be their big chance to whip the rug out from underneath MS$. Instead manufacturers and Web entities and Content creation firms will unite and create an open platform to piss off M$ and Apple as dead weights, parasites on their profits.
In a greed driven psychopathic world, expect lies and bullshit about providing a marginal service, with advertising painting as a exceptional service, all sold at the price of a reasonable service but in reality actually a shared substandard service. Greed, greed, greed, all so boring but the reality of every service provided in the US.
Sample early examples of rounded corners on digital equipment http://www.vintagecalculators.com/html/facit_1106_sharp_el-805s.html. Calculators from nearly every manufacturers. Main reason for rounded corners. With portable devices, that get handled quite a bit, sharper corners get knocked off leaving the devices looking fairly ratty, also rounded corners use less material while producer better impact resistance, logically engineering design as old as portable calculators. If you buy Apple you are just supporting douche baggery in corporations.
It sounds all reasonable when your talking about one well. Where it all tends to go nothing like the plan, is when it is tens of thousands of wells. Drilled as closely as possible to fully exploit a field yet minimise 'excessive' pressurised fluid from leaking to other drill sites. It's not a single well of several hundred feet, it is many square miles of producing field punctured by hundreds even thousands of wells. It's a gamble, don't forget to privatise the profits and socialise the losses, it's the only way it will work, and the original legislation put out by Cheney insured that this would happen.
Why not, someone else created the completely artificial means by which they profit, copyright law. Even when absolutely no attempt is made to ensure the content does in fact promote science and the useful arts as required under law, which technically means those profits have been stolen, factually stolen as that money was not 'copied' it was parasitically removed from the economy.
Let's look at the left and right of this argument. The left the side that doesn't want to take any undue risk the conservative side, hey wait what? How come the conservative, low risk people people ended up on the left. Lets look at the other side, the right, in this case the minority of people who will generate additional profit from fracking, that being their single concern, those that which to exploit the environement and their only motive being greed and the absolute willingness to take risks with the environment. The risk of course being limited with the rest of society taking the burden of the risk.
So the conservative people unwilling to take risk with their environment and those people not profiting by fracking but who most certainly are taking the cost risk are basically being smeared as lefties ie socialists and communists. Whilst the exploiters get raised to the Christian Right, doing greed and exploitation in God's image. Isn't it really interesting how conservative people are being labelled politically as radicals lefties and how ruthless greed driven exploiters managed to label themselves totally, falsely as conservatives.
The greatest fracking risk is a substantive earthquake in a major fracking field creative a deep vertical fault through large numbers of artificial gas and toxic water filled horizontal faults all under pressure and releasing it all to the environment in a huge explosive and poisonous rush. So basically all fracking fields in earthquake zones are ticking poisonous fuel air time bombs, buried under the feet of millions of Americans now at risk, not a matter of if just when they will go off.
Let me guess, copper, in your same insane world it also applies to the 'ACCUSED's car, house, clothing, bank accounts and computers. Law Enforcement power is complete, total, all must obey, all must bow, submit or be pepper sprayed, tasered, bashed with clubs and then shot, you are guilty because Law Enforcement says you are guilty, you are now a slave.
The real question here is the form and method of extradition. The US has managed quite effectively and beyond doubt to soil it's legal reputation overseas. The US legal process is felt to have more in common with third world countries and crime gangs, having been corrupted by lobbyists, politicians and corporations. Perhaps a more solid review of the extradition process (they seem to spew out any kind of bullshit with only limited evidence or proof), the court process (far too much intimidation of other parties with threats of life imprisonment or death to force suspected false testimony) and finally associated punitive punishment (the routine and publicly accepted use of homosexual rape as punishment) or remedial training process.
The US justice system instead of being a world leader especially with regard of foreigners (life time imprisonment until confession of guilt and routine torture), has come to be viewed as shite, well done The Shrub (Bush) and The Betrayer (Obama).
Instead of extradition perhaps the trial should be held at the country where the person is being held, the accusing country should prove their case and dependent upon the nature of accepted penalties, the now guilty person should be penalised. The accusing country can pay for the process, including incarceration (costs subject to treaty). Where the accusing country fails to prove their case, they should pay full penalties to the defendant.
The comparison is false. There is no new idea. The intent of computers is to replicate manual or analogue methods of doing things in a digital computerised format, using computer hardware and software, that is a straight up logical process. As computers take a greater part in the interaction between people and the activities they conduct, so more of those interactions are 'digitised'. Putting more devices in one space is a simple direct product if miniaturisation and making use of existing hardware with the minor addition of new hardware. Whilst the hardware itself should certainly be patentable if it requires new manufacturing techniques, the software should not ie it is simply the logical algorithms, the formulas inherent in making the hardware function.
The whole idea of falsity of patenting every shift of known existing method and idea from analogue or manual use to digital is simply a US greed based lie. Nothing new, no new idea, no creation, just lawyers, lobbyists, corrupt politicians, greed and bullshit. You can shove rounded corners on rectangles where the sun don't shine along with slide to lock and any other kind of anticompetitive profit jacking up bullshit.
Your response is farcical. Take for example the reality of the largest terrorist organisations around at the moment crime gangs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gangs or even one particular group MS-13 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mara_Salvatrucha. How come drone strikes are not used against that particular group, numbering 70,000 members and well known for terror attacks and retaliation against policing and those that cooperate with police. Not some faked up al-Qaeda with at most maybe 500 members. MS-13 is a real terror organisation, why is it ignored in comparison, is it because in some insane psychopathic capitalist world they are OK because they are motivated by profit and greed.
So why isn't the US, Mexican and various South American governments firing missiles at each at each other. Basically at any sounds like, looks like grouping of people that in resemble a gang member meeting to plan terrorist attacks (apparently as long as they are motivated by profit they are non-terror).
See the insanity, you have eco-terrorists trying to protect the environment, peace activist terrorists trying to prevent conflict, union terrorists trying to get better conditions for workers but where capitalistic greed for money is the root driver they are simply a 'gang'. A real problem and the administration is silent waffling on about brown people overseas instead and killing them a random, whilst losing parts of cities to gangs and those lost neighbourhoods growing in size all of the time.
Sometimes people are after a tweak that is simply not yet available and as such voicing a suggestion of change might make it available. For example, screens are getting to big to comfortably handle and put up against the side of your face, I am not really interested in wearing a blue tooth head set. So how about a blue tooth styles that also acts as remote speaker and mike, that way I can look at the face of the phone and make a video call, whilst maintaining a level of privacy with a small blue tooth stylus held close to my face. Stylus usefully also provides more accurate interaction with the screen and obviously has a parking spot within the phone where it is recharged (note phone should signal when stylus not parked, simple led warning light illuminating a full bezel).