Now of course Interpols track record with wikileaks and Julian Assange likely makes them a questionable authority that should be subject to review.
So is is child pornography when a US gunship pilot shoots children whilst seemingly in a sexually agitated state as a result of the idea of murdering people with their big gun.
So will the US and other governments demand that websites that show US and other Allied Soldiers act's of brutality against children be banned and branded and child pornography.
It really depends upon how chrome bit's in Android are counted with smart phones. Likely the big gain is simply Android based smart phones, so for Firefox really neither here nor there but for M$ youch, market share disappearing hand over fist. Of course next up will be the Android netbooks and Tablets with Chrome as default, those targeted at the education market could number in the hundreds of millions but there will be a bit of a face between Chrome and Firefox on those platforms, with poor old IE getting kicked to the gutter.
You politicians are what you make of them. Your government departments are what you let them get away with.
The difference between a slave and a free person is the right to say no. Next time you feel that authority oversteps it's demands upon you, don't be a bloody slave, simply but firmly state, "Freedom, I wont".
Either you are a free citizen of a country with constitution that provides you with inalienable rights or you are a slave destined to spend the rest of life afraid to say 'NO' and, condemning your family to the same.
Show some genitalia by refusing to have it radiated and exposed or groped, just say "NO".
Then of course you must add in your ISP's guaranteed uptime, what you don't have one. Well, what about all those hops between you and yours and your cloud, all those connections that must work for you and yours to work.
The cloud always sounds nice but with all those cheap profit hunger bastards between you and your data, that cloud can often be end up being droughts and floods rather than a steady rain. Sounds better as a backup for internal primary services (use the cloud only in emergencies, concurrent backup) rather than as the primary with no backup service.
I managed to keep both ticking over for over seven years, including cleaning up a couple of windows infections. Best way to keep a windows installation going is to dual boot with Linux and use that Linux boot to do the final repairs and clean up as well as quick simple software backups from the windows partition to the safer Linux controlled partitions.
Poor old stale piss (XP even M$ hates it ~ now) seems to have survived the years and been reasonably reliable as long as you keep a Linux boot on system for repairs.
IP is no comparison to manufacturing industries. Whole industries including equipment and expertise had to be shifted before exports became imports. With IP to extort reduced tax rates and other concession, you just shift the country of ownership of the IP, takes a quick pen stroke and it's done and your tax base is screwed. IP is by far the most dangerous and unreliable national income base and is bound for inevitable failure.
Way to truly rebuild the economy is via fair trade. A international WTO system of equalising competitive industry based up making products compete upon a fair basis bound by the costs of environmental safety, labour laws and equitable taxation basis.
In the weird and corrupt world of high finance they did not sell it for 35 million dollars, they sold in for 35 million dollars worth of stock of the company buying it. Now it depends what the companies worth, ie news group is selling my space but via owning a large chunk of specific media still owns myspace.
So a quick shuffle shake to try rebranding with some troll B$ celebrities or on-sell specific media with the now delusion marketing that they bought myspace cheap and a worth a whole lot more (especially after dumping most of myspace staff, leaving it run in high profit inevitable maintenance and update collapse mode).
Then of course unlike you little people, there is the whole write off $545 million as a tax avoidance scam against other income whilst in reality still owning myspace by owning the bought it.
Patriot Act has nothing to do with it. Long ago foriegners were denied all rights by the US government, in fact in US police agencies are entitled to break all other countries laws and US law, even when those actions would be illegal in the US.
Making it public that M$ would have over private information from other countries once in it's cloud at any request of any US government agency, has pretty much crippled the M$ cloud and prevented from doing any work for any foreign government agency.
In fact that kind of delcaration put's into doubt the trust of any M$ software, when updates and patches are delivered direct from the US and US government agencies can legally corrupt those patches in direct contravention to local foreign laws, leaving M$ under the gun for criminal conspiracy to corrupt computer networks and the executives would be subject to extradition or the whole extradition system when tied to the US would collapse.
It is humiliating because it is a dead end, most of the patents are really old, in fact so old the protection is for 'broad coverage under Microsoft's patent portfolio.'
Meanwhile M$ products die on the vine and of course given a few years companies will simply stop paying. So double crunch for M$ not software sales and no patent sales, and of course the triple fail Ballmer complete screw of MSN 'er' Live 'er' Bing 'er', what ever other way he further manages to destroy MSN and leave what should be worth far more than Google as being worth far less than Yahoo, way to go Uncle Fester.
Sure, it really must be hard when you can't find the coders and are always trying to catch up. I'm sorry but I can't make it this weekend, I have a "private" (you don't burn up excuses and you don't need to make one up) family emergency to deal with. How about we discuss a pay rise Monday and I should be available next weekend.
If they are needing to work lots of overtime it is a sign of two things, they can not get any more coders for what they are paying and you are being underpaid, leverage use it but use it politely.
Your employer might insist that you take a flight as part of business but they can not insist that you take an unhealthy dose of radiation or that you be sexually groped. Turn up for the fight and don.t be a bloody slave, simply refuse and explain to your employer that the TSA prevented you from flying. Don't think that's reasonable well unless your a idiot TSA agent, would you accept be exposed to that radiation as a part of that employment. Next up would you accept be sexually groped as a part of your job and exactly how far would you go, more importantly would you allow your employer to grope your children for your next pay rise. Exactly how gutless and fearful can you become to retain your job.
Enjoy this picture to see the true stupidity of being cheap. http://www.omaha.com/article/20110626/NEWS01/110629782/1007. Yes that is dry land at the back of the power plant, nothing like cheap when it comes to losing money hand over fist, "a water-filled tubular levee", to cheap even to pay for a real levee but what the heck risk tens or millions of people's water supply or chase bigger profits, the picture shows the answer to that one.
More specifically the cheap bastards built the reactor on a flood plain because it was to expensive to pump the water around a quarter of a mile and well clear of the flood zone.
Now you might say it would cost a lot or money to pump the water up that additional height but syphon action and waste water solve that, so it is only friction losses but the ass hats were still to cheap.
Way to go, put a major river and water source for tens of millions at risk all because of typical right wing corporate greed. Now how are those savings looking now, you morons.
That's right regardless of the mental health of the individual they should be made to make restitution. So no different to graffiti vandals who smear buildings with the ugly signs et al, they should be made to clean them and well as paying a fine. So just the same principle should apply to DDosers who vandalise websites, they should clean them up, oh wait, we the attack stops the sites self clean, so 'er', they should pay a fine for temporary non-damaging digital vandalism. We you look at it like that, compared to other crimes, it sounds like a parking fine sized fine is appropriate.
Just like a parking infringement, it's a temporary non-damaging denial of access, gees so what it is the bloody big deal and all the bullshit and hype. This has all the stink of a bunch of lame arsed bureaucrats seeking promotions wildly inflated crimes and their great detecting capabilities in arresting the perpetrators. Could you imagine, park your car in the driveway of a commercial premises, deny access for the customers and go to jail for 5 years, oh yeah, like that'll stick but apparently add cyber to it and it does. Ohh, illegal cyber-parking big extradition fight, hundreds of thousands of dollars spent in stupid pointless court cases and a bunch of nob heads prance about like they've solved the crime of the century.
Dams and other devices are flood 'mitigation' not prevention tools. Levies are meant to be flood prevention tools, however when everyone builds levees on a river you concentrate the flow and raise the height of the river because it can not spread out over the "flood plans".
Dams provide a water detention facility, the detain a portion of the flow at peak periods to release it at low flow periods. Dams are not automatically infinitely rising block all water devices, they will only detain the amount of water they have been designed too.
So you must guess the flooding months in advance and, release additional water in low flow periods. However no matter what you do, when flooding is at a peak it will overflow all dams. Added to that are idiotic greedy right wingers who don't want to pay for the proper maintenance and due replacement of fifty year old or more structures, which must now release water at lower levels least the break or if water over flows, the dam be undermined or excessive erosion occur upon surrounding land.
Let's get back to reality here. Both products failure had very little to do with health care or power conservation. It's called privacy invasiveness and trust. Google as a corporations and individuals within Google at vary levels within the corporate structure, developed a reputation for privacy invasiveness and using that for some pretty sick "targeted marketing" tactics driven by people with doctorates in psychology (using education meant for health as a tool of "for profit exploitation" regardless of psychological consequences, no excuse with that doctorate it is some pretty sick stuff), competitive advantage and even petty personal ego inflation. Means that Google will largely be excluded from some markets and rightly so.
Not to pick on Google, 'ALL' the other big players in data mining and, targeted marketing, are just as bad and should also be specifically excluded from certain 'personal information' business markets. Honestly for example when it comes to health data, that should be a government service and, each and every access to it should be registered and the person's whose data has been accessed should be informed. Any illegal or unwarranted access or even attempts should be heavily penalised especially those attempts of privacy invasive data mining corporations.
Can Google rebuild it's trust to gain access to important personal data upon a global scale, not bloody likely.
There is a fourth model, buy the game and ISP's run free server's for their customers. The cost of the server is abated by keeping all traffic on network and thus reducing network traffic costs. Also those servers provide an effective marketing to draw additional customers.
When it comes to competitive MMOG what gamers dislike is the winner is not who plays the best but who spends the most and of course admin's with bottomless accounts who hope to scam players into spending by wiping them out (have to pay to catch up).
This is of course what kills most free web games, why make the effort when you know you are going to lose unless you spend money ie. you are just there as a target dummy to make the big spenders feel good when their credit card defeats you.
You apparently do not pay attention to what you read, "off-duty Fullerton police officer" was arrested by "Miami police", so emphatically not one of their own, not even the same state.
So M$ wants to help those using Firefox and the big shift in version changes with loss of support, hmm, do they also provide an extra special deal for those who invested heavily in silverfish et al, ha ha.
Showing ID to vote is silly, showing ID to register to vote so that your appear on the electoral rolls is the only sensible requirement. Quite simply when your name is checked off the electoral rolls it becomes readily apparent when a person's name is checked off twice, which results in an immediate investigation, with serious penalties.
As such in a manual voting system, even wide spread fraud will still number in just the thousands. To actually steal an election you need to corrupt the counting process not the voting process.
Once you go electronic, you only need to hack the voting system at a single point to affect the whole election ie be able to corrupt millions of votes at one point.
Manual is the only thing that makes sense, it makes corrupting the system very difficult as it requires a very wide spread effort and is always exposed. Simply shift elections to Saturdays so more people will be available from all political parties and candidates to monitor, the placing of votes, the counting of votes at the location where those votes were placed and then the transfer of votes to a secure location for recount if required.
Let's be honest the Liberal/Telstra plan was to spend the next fifty years and beyond talking about it, whilst Telstra maximised the profit potential of their current degrading copper network. The Labour alternative was to seek a solution and actually implement it.
Note this not only sticks it too the incumbent telecom it also screws over the existing mass media channels, be they idiot box or dead tree.
In political terms it also cripples the ability of corporations to dominate the limited high cost mass media political advertising, as that advertising has to compete against the directly shared political mind scape created on a 100mbps multimedia socio-political network.
New things like live video feeds from all the various federal and state political houses, so people can always keep an eye on politicians. Banning of all 'commercial' political advertisements as all politicians would have equal access to broadcast their speeches et at on broadband for all those who wish to view them.
Easy to guess why Labour wanted broadband and why the Liberals (the Australian libertarian political party) wanted narrow band and mass media with corporate campaign donations.
That of course is the real confusing issues, what is a laptop and what is a netbook. generally the Laptop around the 15" screen, seen as being a little to heavy for real portability and too pricey for the high drop risk. The netbook with 12" screen or less, being lighter and of course being cheap enough to face high drop factor risk (replace yearly).
The netbooks of course ate into the road warriors ultra portable high margin laptops, which held them out of the 12" screen size for a while, to preserve that high profit market.
So the push is now to get past 10" and get to 12" at a much lower price that 15" or larger notebooks. Here is an interesting article http://www.goodgearguide.com.au/article/381033/asustek_hold_netbook_shipments_flat_tablet_sales_grow/, which shows the limited sales of tablets and the shift to the 12" netbook, the tablet at less than 10", with the assumption that laptops will be larger than 15". Interesting point screen real estate is the driver.
Actually conservatives by definition seek no change, so at the time of the founding of the US, which all the current rank of conservatives pretend is about them, the conservatives at the time of founding of the US government were of course, Royalists.
Conservatives do not normally call for a limited scope of Federal Government, in fact conservatives, likes lots of regulations to 'limit' the actions of others, whether those others are exploiting or polluting the shared environment or in others ways seeking to change the shared socio-economic environment. Your are confusing conservative with libertarian and or exploitative.
The welfare state is about limiting the affects of downturns in the economy (it provides an economic cushion and prevents an economic death spiral) and of course reducing crime brought about by desperation and a lack interest in the shared economy resulting from exclusion from it. Of course the libertarians and the exploitative abhors the welfare state because it prevents the ruthless exploitation of those around them in economic downturns, this with total disregard for the impact upon the shared socio-economic environment, the prime driver being the fulfilling of personal greeds and lusts.
No matter how loud the current rank of pretend 'conservatives" scream they are religious conservatives, they are not, they are quite simply lying pseudo religious libertarian exploiters.
Perhaps in this instance because who is WDF and of course how do you blame software for "keypad/button failures and microphone and battery issues". In this case "Windows Phone 7, meanwhile, will benefit". So in all, a silly little story based on a silly little study, all paid for by some silly little M$ marketing executive.
Well, that's were you do exactly what the PR=B$ advertising agencies do and pay people to pretend they like it. How much you pay will depend upon the illusory 'celebrity' value of those people created by the same PR=B$ advertising agencies. Those people, basically a pack of pathetic liars willing to put their name to any product, will of course suck a proportion of their gullible fans into buying your product and from there if it is any good word of mouth will spread. Of course if it is crap like the majority of commercial content, well, then that's the 'normal' state of our psychopathic business world.
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Now of course Interpols track record with wikileaks and Julian Assange likely makes them a questionable authority that should be subject to review. So is is child pornography when a US gunship pilot shoots children whilst seemingly in a sexually agitated state as a result of the idea of murdering people with their big gun. So will the US and other governments demand that websites that show US and other Allied Soldiers act's of brutality against children be banned and branded and child pornography.
It really depends upon how chrome bit's in Android are counted with smart phones. Likely the big gain is simply Android based smart phones, so for Firefox really neither here nor there but for M$ youch, market share disappearing hand over fist. Of course next up will be the Android netbooks and Tablets with Chrome as default, those targeted at the education market could number in the hundreds of millions but there will be a bit of a face between Chrome and Firefox on those platforms, with poor old IE getting kicked to the gutter.
You politicians are what you make of them. Your government departments are what you let them get away with.
The difference between a slave and a free person is the right to say no. Next time you feel that authority oversteps it's demands upon you, don't be a bloody slave, simply but firmly state, "Freedom, I wont".
Either you are a free citizen of a country with constitution that provides you with inalienable rights or you are a slave destined to spend the rest of life afraid to say 'NO' and, condemning your family to the same.
Show some genitalia by refusing to have it radiated and exposed or groped, just say "NO".
Then of course you must add in your ISP's guaranteed uptime, what you don't have one. Well, what about all those hops between you and yours and your cloud, all those connections that must work for you and yours to work.
The cloud always sounds nice but with all those cheap profit hunger bastards between you and your data, that cloud can often be end up being droughts and floods rather than a steady rain. Sounds better as a backup for internal primary services (use the cloud only in emergencies, concurrent backup) rather than as the primary with no backup service.
I managed to keep both ticking over for over seven years, including cleaning up a couple of windows infections. Best way to keep a windows installation going is to dual boot with Linux and use that Linux boot to do the final repairs and clean up as well as quick simple software backups from the windows partition to the safer Linux controlled partitions.
Poor old stale piss (XP even M$ hates it ~ now) seems to have survived the years and been reasonably reliable as long as you keep a Linux boot on system for repairs.
IP is no comparison to manufacturing industries. Whole industries including equipment and expertise had to be shifted before exports became imports. With IP to extort reduced tax rates and other concession, you just shift the country of ownership of the IP, takes a quick pen stroke and it's done and your tax base is screwed. IP is by far the most dangerous and unreliable national income base and is bound for inevitable failure.
Way to truly rebuild the economy is via fair trade. A international WTO system of equalising competitive industry based up making products compete upon a fair basis bound by the costs of environmental safety, labour laws and equitable taxation basis.
In the weird and corrupt world of high finance they did not sell it for 35 million dollars, they sold in for 35 million dollars worth of stock of the company buying it. Now it depends what the companies worth, ie news group is selling my space but via owning a large chunk of specific media still owns myspace.
So a quick shuffle shake to try rebranding with some troll B$ celebrities or on-sell specific media with the now delusion marketing that they bought myspace cheap and a worth a whole lot more (especially after dumping most of myspace staff, leaving it run in high profit inevitable maintenance and update collapse mode).
Then of course unlike you little people, there is the whole write off $545 million as a tax avoidance scam against other income whilst in reality still owning myspace by owning the bought it.
Patriot Act has nothing to do with it. Long ago foriegners were denied all rights by the US government, in fact in US police agencies are entitled to break all other countries laws and US law, even when those actions would be illegal in the US.
Making it public that M$ would have over private information from other countries once in it's cloud at any request of any US government agency, has pretty much crippled the M$ cloud and prevented from doing any work for any foreign government agency.
In fact that kind of delcaration put's into doubt the trust of any M$ software, when updates and patches are delivered direct from the US and US government agencies can legally corrupt those patches in direct contravention to local foreign laws, leaving M$ under the gun for criminal conspiracy to corrupt computer networks and the executives would be subject to extradition or the whole extradition system when tied to the US would collapse.
It is humiliating because it is a dead end, most of the patents are really old, in fact so old the protection is for 'broad coverage under Microsoft's patent portfolio.'
Meanwhile M$ products die on the vine and of course given a few years companies will simply stop paying. So double crunch for M$ not software sales and no patent sales, and of course the triple fail Ballmer complete screw of MSN 'er' Live 'er' Bing 'er', what ever other way he further manages to destroy MSN and leave what should be worth far more than Google as being worth far less than Yahoo, way to go Uncle Fester.
Sure, it really must be hard when you can't find the coders and are always trying to catch up. I'm sorry but I can't make it this weekend, I have a "private" (you don't burn up excuses and you don't need to make one up) family emergency to deal with. How about we discuss a pay rise Monday and I should be available next weekend.
If they are needing to work lots of overtime it is a sign of two things, they can not get any more coders for what they are paying and you are being underpaid, leverage use it but use it politely.
Your employer might insist that you take a flight as part of business but they can not insist that you take an unhealthy dose of radiation or that you be sexually groped. Turn up for the fight and don.t be a bloody slave, simply refuse and explain to your employer that the TSA prevented you from flying. Don't think that's reasonable well unless your a idiot TSA agent, would you accept be exposed to that radiation as a part of that employment. Next up would you accept be sexually groped as a part of your job and exactly how far would you go, more importantly would you allow your employer to grope your children for your next pay rise. Exactly how gutless and fearful can you become to retain your job.
Enjoy this picture to see the true stupidity of being cheap. http://www.omaha.com/article/20110626/NEWS01/110629782/1007. Yes that is dry land at the back of the power plant, nothing like cheap when it comes to losing money hand over fist, "a water-filled tubular levee", to cheap even to pay for a real levee but what the heck risk tens or millions of people's water supply or chase bigger profits, the picture shows the answer to that one.
More specifically the cheap bastards built the reactor on a flood plain because it was to expensive to pump the water around a quarter of a mile and well clear of the flood zone.
Now you might say it would cost a lot or money to pump the water up that additional height but syphon action and waste water solve that, so it is only friction losses but the ass hats were still to cheap.
Way to go, put a major river and water source for tens of millions at risk all because of typical right wing corporate greed. Now how are those savings looking now, you morons.
That's right regardless of the mental health of the individual they should be made to make restitution. So no different to graffiti vandals who smear buildings with the ugly signs et al, they should be made to clean them and well as paying a fine. So just the same principle should apply to DDosers who vandalise websites, they should clean them up, oh wait, we the attack stops the sites self clean, so 'er', they should pay a fine for temporary non-damaging digital vandalism. We you look at it like that, compared to other crimes, it sounds like a parking fine sized fine is appropriate.
Just like a parking infringement, it's a temporary non-damaging denial of access, gees so what it is the bloody big deal and all the bullshit and hype. This has all the stink of a bunch of lame arsed bureaucrats seeking promotions wildly inflated crimes and their great detecting capabilities in arresting the perpetrators. Could you imagine, park your car in the driveway of a commercial premises, deny access for the customers and go to jail for 5 years, oh yeah, like that'll stick but apparently add cyber to it and it does. Ohh, illegal cyber-parking big extradition fight, hundreds of thousands of dollars spent in stupid pointless court cases and a bunch of nob heads prance about like they've solved the crime of the century.
Dams and other devices are flood 'mitigation' not prevention tools. Levies are meant to be flood prevention tools, however when everyone builds levees on a river you concentrate the flow and raise the height of the river because it can not spread out over the "flood plans".
Dams provide a water detention facility, the detain a portion of the flow at peak periods to release it at low flow periods. Dams are not automatically infinitely rising block all water devices, they will only detain the amount of water they have been designed too.
So you must guess the flooding months in advance and, release additional water in low flow periods. However no matter what you do, when flooding is at a peak it will overflow all dams. Added to that are idiotic greedy right wingers who don't want to pay for the proper maintenance and due replacement of fifty year old or more structures, which must now release water at lower levels least the break or if water over flows, the dam be undermined or excessive erosion occur upon surrounding land.
Let's get back to reality here. Both products failure had very little to do with health care or power conservation. It's called privacy invasiveness and trust. Google as a corporations and individuals within Google at vary levels within the corporate structure, developed a reputation for privacy invasiveness and using that for some pretty sick "targeted marketing" tactics driven by people with doctorates in psychology (using education meant for health as a tool of "for profit exploitation" regardless of psychological consequences, no excuse with that doctorate it is some pretty sick stuff), competitive advantage and even petty personal ego inflation. Means that Google will largely be excluded from some markets and rightly so.
Not to pick on Google, 'ALL' the other big players in data mining and, targeted marketing, are just as bad and should also be specifically excluded from certain 'personal information' business markets. Honestly for example when it comes to health data, that should be a government service and, each and every access to it should be registered and the person's whose data has been accessed should be informed. Any illegal or unwarranted access or even attempts should be heavily penalised especially those attempts of privacy invasive data mining corporations.
Can Google rebuild it's trust to gain access to important personal data upon a global scale, not bloody likely.
There is a fourth model, buy the game and ISP's run free server's for their customers. The cost of the server is abated by keeping all traffic on network and thus reducing network traffic costs. Also those servers provide an effective marketing to draw additional customers.
When it comes to competitive MMOG what gamers dislike is the winner is not who plays the best but who spends the most and of course admin's with bottomless accounts who hope to scam players into spending by wiping them out (have to pay to catch up).
This is of course what kills most free web games, why make the effort when you know you are going to lose unless you spend money ie. you are just there as a target dummy to make the big spenders feel good when their credit card defeats you.
You apparently do not pay attention to what you read, "off-duty Fullerton police officer" was arrested by "Miami police", so emphatically not one of their own, not even the same state.
So M$ wants to help those using Firefox and the big shift in version changes with loss of support, hmm, do they also provide an extra special deal for those who invested heavily in silverfish et al, ha ha.
Showing ID to vote is silly, showing ID to register to vote so that your appear on the electoral rolls is the only sensible requirement. Quite simply when your name is checked off the electoral rolls it becomes readily apparent when a person's name is checked off twice, which results in an immediate investigation, with serious penalties.
As such in a manual voting system, even wide spread fraud will still number in just the thousands. To actually steal an election you need to corrupt the counting process not the voting process.
Once you go electronic, you only need to hack the voting system at a single point to affect the whole election ie be able to corrupt millions of votes at one point.
Manual is the only thing that makes sense, it makes corrupting the system very difficult as it requires a very wide spread effort and is always exposed. Simply shift elections to Saturdays so more people will be available from all political parties and candidates to monitor, the placing of votes, the counting of votes at the location where those votes were placed and then the transfer of votes to a secure location for recount if required.
Let's be honest the Liberal/Telstra plan was to spend the next fifty years and beyond talking about it, whilst Telstra maximised the profit potential of their current degrading copper network. The Labour alternative was to seek a solution and actually implement it.
Note this not only sticks it too the incumbent telecom it also screws over the existing mass media channels, be they idiot box or dead tree.
In political terms it also cripples the ability of corporations to dominate the limited high cost mass media political advertising, as that advertising has to compete against the directly shared political mind scape created on a 100mbps multimedia socio-political network.
New things like live video feeds from all the various federal and state political houses, so people can always keep an eye on politicians. Banning of all 'commercial' political advertisements as all politicians would have equal access to broadcast their speeches et at on broadband for all those who wish to view them.
Easy to guess why Labour wanted broadband and why the Liberals (the Australian libertarian political party) wanted narrow band and mass media with corporate campaign donations.
That of course is the real confusing issues, what is a laptop and what is a netbook. generally the Laptop around the 15" screen, seen as being a little to heavy for real portability and too pricey for the high drop risk. The netbook with 12" screen or less, being lighter and of course being cheap enough to face high drop factor risk (replace yearly).
The netbooks of course ate into the road warriors ultra portable high margin laptops, which held them out of the 12" screen size for a while, to preserve that high profit market.
So the push is now to get past 10" and get to 12" at a much lower price that 15" or larger notebooks. Here is an interesting article http://www.goodgearguide.com.au/article/381033/asustek_hold_netbook_shipments_flat_tablet_sales_grow/, which shows the limited sales of tablets and the shift to the 12" netbook, the tablet at less than 10", with the assumption that laptops will be larger than 15". Interesting point screen real estate is the driver.
Actually conservatives by definition seek no change, so at the time of the founding of the US, which all the current rank of conservatives pretend is about them, the conservatives at the time of founding of the US government were of course, Royalists.
Conservatives do not normally call for a limited scope of Federal Government, in fact conservatives, likes lots of regulations to 'limit' the actions of others, whether those others are exploiting or polluting the shared environment or in others ways seeking to change the shared socio-economic environment. Your are confusing conservative with libertarian and or exploitative.
The welfare state is about limiting the affects of downturns in the economy (it provides an economic cushion and prevents an economic death spiral) and of course reducing crime brought about by desperation and a lack interest in the shared economy resulting from exclusion from it. Of course the libertarians and the exploitative abhors the welfare state because it prevents the ruthless exploitation of those around them in economic downturns, this with total disregard for the impact upon the shared socio-economic environment, the prime driver being the fulfilling of personal greeds and lusts.
No matter how loud the current rank of pretend 'conservatives" scream they are religious conservatives, they are not, they are quite simply lying pseudo religious libertarian exploiters.
Perhaps in this instance because who is WDF and of course how do you blame software for "keypad/button failures and microphone and battery issues". In this case "Windows Phone 7, meanwhile, will benefit". So in all, a silly little story based on a silly little study, all paid for by some silly little M$ marketing executive.
Well, that's were you do exactly what the PR=B$ advertising agencies do and pay people to pretend they like it. How much you pay will depend upon the illusory 'celebrity' value of those people created by the same PR=B$ advertising agencies. Those people, basically a pack of pathetic liars willing to put their name to any product, will of course suck a proportion of their gullible fans into buying your product and from there if it is any good word of mouth will spread. Of course if it is crap like the majority of commercial content, well, then that's the 'normal' state of our psychopathic business world.