To be fair, no one based the safety of wifi upon using say 1000 of them at 1.5m centres for 6 hours a day. Of course they could have simply gone infra red, problem solved.
Keep in mind that all the crap about how safe something is in today's environment is all based upon ignoring other accumulative sources. It is not just wifi, it is wifi, plus cell phone, plus electrical power transmissions, plus solar radiation, plus fluorescent lighting, plus radio transmissions now add in all the pollutants and questionable food additives and then try to pick which straw is turning today's children into evolutionary lab rats, sure some will survive to old age but how many.
Of course who cares, as long as there are profits to be made, let's load the little beggars up with another genetic risk.
Too late secrets out, "The identity of the person whose cell phone signal has moved from one tower to another, according to IISi's court filings. Such techniques - quickly combining intelligence with live mobile phone surveillance from the air - are reportedly central to the CIA's targeting of missile strikes by unmanned aircraft" http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/24/cia_netezza/. See proof positive that using a mobile phone or allowing someone to use it near could get you killed;D.
New terrorist weapon of choice planting a mobile phone from a dodgy account on your enemies (or one that's had naughty voices picked up via filtering and analysis). Personally I think that is really dodgy data to base mass murdering a group of people without trial or review of evidence, really dodgy, borrow someone's phone to make a call and it gets your family killed, there is some really callously indifferent decision making going on at the CIA.
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A complete and total lie. Not every one can be bought at least not with money and of course the price some tricky geeks would demand no company is often willing to pay. Sure M$ could change from being an importer of cheap foreign labour, an out sourcer of the first degree, a employer who keeps staff on sack on a moments notice contracts, a company with a terrible reputation for monopolistic abuse and standards skullduggery, a company that prides itself on the bullshit in it's marketing, a company that doesn't understand creativity and kills it with demands for bean counting pseudo proofs and, a company with Steve 'Uncle Fester' Ballmer at the helm.
At least he was sober enough this time to avoid doing a 'developers, developers, developers' monkey dance but not sober enough to be able to tell the difference between board room waffle and what really motivates computer students to seek employment with a company. A good salary, an exciting and dynamic work place, a healthy and full featured work environment, lots of holidays, full health benefits, taxation assistance, employee purchasing groups, a varied work routine, global employment opportunities, real long term career positions and a supportive and sharing management team - OK Uncle Fester, now that's what future employees want to hear. Now is Ballmer speech his way of saying none of those thing will be on offer any more as M$ seeks to continue to grow profits as revenue looks to be coming under threat.
Just one query about that percentage, where exactly do dual boots end up. Do dual boots just disappear to favour the company paying for the most adds, surely the choice to dual boot should outweigh 'we are a monopoly and we are going to force manufacturers to supply you a cheap version of the OS'. You got the software as an OEM and you use it to play games but does that really count as a desktop or just a game console and the OS you boot to do work, really counts as your desktop of choice.
Why exactly does a dual boot windows and Linux machine only get counted as a windows box. Why does a dual boot Linux and Apple machine only get counted as a Apple machine. I would bet a windows and apple dual boot gets counted twice to fluff up the numbers. Why does a box without an OS get counted as nothing. Why doesn't Android count as it is a fork of Linux and elements of the code base will merge.
Desktop Linux is dead, WTF, yet another journalist that fails grasp open source or real choice, there is only one company who can give real statistics of Linux and that is Google, those privacy invasive buggers can quite readily even count the dual booters out there.
This is not about programming this is about censorship. Basically if you used their cable to access the internet, the censored your connection whilst they entered into negotiations with a supplier and used that loss of customer access to leverage the negotiations in there favour.
Their customers were of course just screwed over and used as nothing pawns to barter with to Fox's advantage
This is forewarning of exactly why net neutrality is required and why the executives who did this should go to jail. This is exactly what corporate controlled internet access will run like, random blocks and slowdowns, competitors shut out from customers, customer decision forced upon them as they have no choice, political control with unfavourable politicians web sites censored out of existence.
This is not the time for joking, this is the time for an FCC investigation and possible prosecutions.
Lets not focus to tightly on the Government, otherwise we lose track on the corrupters, corporations. People pick of government workers for taking bribes but always seem to forget the people paying the bribes, corporate executives. All that happens when you take government out of the equation, is corporate executives stop paying bribes but behave in the same and more often than not worse fashion than when they were paying bribes.
At least having that additional layer of government doubles the opportunity of catching corrupt war contracts and a criminal military industrial complex. That's what they really hated about those documents being released, further proof of the corrupting influence of the for profit contractors upon the mass media created war on terror.
Socio economic collapse and conflict are now inevitable. Governments are still managing their economies upon a growth rather than than a sustainability basis. The rich and greedy are still idolised for the ability to waste an insane amount of the planet's resources upon themselves along with generating an obscene quantity of pollution.
We as a society still waste enormous quantities of resources of vapid consumerist waste like jewellery, cosmetics, sports, empty mass media drivel and a whole swath of absurd egoist luxury items.
Africa will become the resource battle ground (accurate description) with the US and Asia struggling over it. Other countries with low population and high resources with seek to separate themselves from the rest of the world to preserve their quality of life. South America will form a stronger union and throw of the yoke of US corporate imperialism even Columbia will finally be free (which will help to drive the push on Africa).
Basically until the psychopaths and narcissists are removed from positions of control, governance and influence, humanity will continue upon an insane path of self destruction. Of course computer geeks would take the world in a more sustainable direction, virtual reality (it allows extreme indulgences without resource waste and only generates minimal pollution) and, well, safe happy drugs (especially in conjunction with virtual reality) it makes much more environmental sense than trying to buy your way to happiness.
It is vastly trickier for government tenders especially for 1000 units. They already detailed their failure to seek competitive tenders with just buying from easier choice rather than making valid purchasing choices.
So for a proper government tender you have to come up with a way of defining hardware specs in a generic way that will not prohibit competition. Added to that you must define warranty and maintenance issues in a similar fashion.
In today's tech environment with the dominance of ODM in manufacture it makes sense to separate warranty and maintenance from supply contract this reduces purchase price and allows the localisation of warranty and maintenance. So the supplier pays for but does not supply the first year of warranty and maintenance to an agreed local contractor who won the long term say three year maintenance contract. Software of course should always be separated out and always supported internally. If you are trying to save money get more tech staff and make the do double duty, filling in on other non-computer support roles, keeps them better informed of the companies real computer needs (they will outperform regular staff due to their better computer skills and when there are no computer problems they are not idle).
Even worse, shock horror, they might use free competitors products instead. Which of course is what it is really all about, get all journalists to become accustomed to the M$ product so the free product is different, not the same and as a result awkward to use and will reflect as such in reviews.
Of course most of those countries will end up doing the work on, mobile android products, easier to hide than a desktop.
After having used Office suites for over twenty years, this nonsense about the latest upgrades is just that marketing nonsense. People have produced millions of documents on office suits of all varieties including the completing unstable windows 95 and M$ office variants.
The version of M$ office I liked best was 98, after that it got frustratingly unhelpfully helpful, menus kept changing and the original macro language was wiped out to sell visual basic, I was long gone before the ribbon nonsense.
The office suites are all much of a muchness now. So what is all this sudden attack bullshit all about, hmm, "ANDROID EVERYWHERE" and what office suite will it run, 'er', let me guess, certainly not M$ Office. Of course Android won't be absolutely everywhere, that's only cause, Linux will be on servers, net appliances and super computers, leaving M$ with the luddites, the drones and, the dinosaurs (no where did that idea come from).
Technically they can not damage the vehicle, that is a crime, so cutting into wires would be criminal vandalism aside from the theft of energy. So two legal technicalities to get by.
The hunt will be on now to track down these devices and to see who can come up with the most imaginative way of disposing of the free Federal 'gift'. I would think it would be amusing to fit it to local county mountie vehicle, leaving the Feds to wonder what you are doing at all those crime scenes and if the local yokels find out it will leave them wondering what the Feds are trying to bust them for this time.
Now of course bonus points it you artfully manage to 'return it' FBI vehicle with out them catching on (now would that be a crime, it is theirs you are returning it and you are not tracking the device they are and you don't need a search warrant anyhow).
Put silver on glass and it's called a mirror but, what exactly does that have to do with anything. Some hard facts about the glass panels would have been desirable either in the claim or in any rebuttal (unless they have something to hide).
I think it goes far further than that. Oracle is fairly weak on the internet. As a technology company it lacks a good internet company (a future outside of software), a company that can generate income beyond software and software administration. So is Oracle starting to make a move on Google and where would a Oracle Google merger end up.
Don't get too caught up in the type of glass, that often has far more to do with marketdroid hype than anything else. Thickness, how well in the glass supported around the edges, how well has it been cut and what state are the edges left in, what are reject rates at the manufacturer, what quality control has been implemented in passing glass panels for use.
Apple like other pretend manufacturers choosing the cheapest nastiest does not always pay off and trying to shove those losses back onto the consumer and even generating extra profits by it, well that just plain sucks.
Glass stronger than plastic, have to be careful with that one, is that stronger in regards to bearing capacity in tension and compression, impact resistance, crack propagation from temperature variations and edge defects or is it just a broad markedroid sweep with scratch resistance.
It would have been handy to get information on the thickness of the new versus the old panel and other pretend and actual manufacturer's glass panels (branders versus ODMs).
Of course it is guaranteed to prevent the executive running up to their assistant and demanding 20 copies of 50 page document in five minutes because they forgot to do it earlier. Why does my mind baulk at the idea of high speed copiers and OCR software having to scan a process each and every page before it allows a copy to be produced.
So you have a 100 page report, does the printer block the whole report leaving guessing which of the thousands of words you have used is considered naughty, does it just stop at that page and refuse to go one or does in print the rest of the document leaving gaps, which you don't notice as you deliver it prior to checking your email.
Finally how secure will they make and will some black hat being able to access the system and permanently bl0clk 4ll v0w3ls.
Stick to the persnicketiness of the law. Hotels simply need to say they are not providing internet services their ISP is providing internet services via remote hardware. So it simply means ISPs need to slightly alter their provision of services to hotels. Perhaps a remote monitored and controlled router at Hotels.
Of course everyone knows what it is all about, monitoring the populaces use of internet services, can't have naughty executives, holiday makers and foreigners looking at stuff they shouldn't be at hotels. So all about reporting and records and installing monitoring devices in hotels before suspects even arrive (suspects being everyone that is not them, them of course being the professionally paranoid).
You actually have to look deeper into the whole transport issue. The single issue that most drives waste in personal commutes, the one thing that controls it and ramps up the cost, the human loss of productivity and pollution - 'Lack of Job Permanence'.
Corporate greed drove up commute costs, the disposable work force means people can not live close to the place of employment, within in reasonable 'WALKING' distance, unless they want to sell their home every few years and relocate close to their next temporary position.
Even with that, for the majority of people the the light weight energy efficient electric car has more than sufficient range for their daily driving distance, as they would recharge their vehicle each night at the vehicles home charging station.
The big car manufacturers are still 'driven' by greed and their fossil fuel holdings. The electric car is off course still really waiting for a cheap, lightweight and, high capacity, battery (without cost inflating patents with grossly inflate the price).
Actually the whole story is crap, typical mass media drivel aimed at the worship of the rich and greedy. Truth is, putting together the right team and getting the right support is the real difference between winning and losing. Forget all the crap about worship of the corporate leader driven by public relations ass hats.
The staff counts first, the engineers, the accountants, the coders, the marketing and sales team. Put together the wrong team and your product dies, end of story, time to cut the crap, the illusion of the CEO that builds buildings (they hire workers who build buildings), the CEO who writes top selling software (they hire coders that write it and sales staff who sell it), the CEO who creates great hardware (nowadays that contract it out to ODM other device manufacturers, who in turn hire the engineers and industrial designers and of course all the factory staff who actually make the product). Truth is CEOs don't even hire the staff other employees do that.
So the really truly outstanding skill of a modern CEO, taking credit for other peoples work and blaming them those people for the CEO's mistakes. The skill they do this with will define how much the profit when the company goes public, generally speaking the skills of the manipulative psychopath count far more than the intellect of a genius (geniuses unlike Saturday cartoons are never motivated by power and greed, theirs goals are intellectual comes with brain make up). Psychopaths seem really smart but it simply is because they spend nearly every waking moment plotting, scheming, lying and manipulating, it is their brain make up.
Let's just tackle network play. So the latest greed first idea is to expose children to hours at a time, microwave radiation, whilst playing online games on their mobile phone. No problem, why not add junk food, cigarette and alcohol adds with the claims that as only adults can initiate mobile phone contracts that only adults use mobile phone game platforms.
Sometimes bad ideas are truly horrendous ideas driven by corporate executives who can see nothing but profits and completely ignore consequences.
This is not just a 'er' new operating system but an operating system that will naturally run windows programs. So either it is a massive rupee black hole that a few tech companies intend to cash in on or it will be re-branded windows with an incompatibility-compatibility layer built in.
Most computer security experts will tell you that security via obscurity is a fools trap, one just one greedy contractor or employee and your security via obscurity, becomes your hackers playground with penetration by bug obscurity guaranteed. The nightmare of, is it a bug or has someone hacked the system or, how much source code would you need to convince them you have more and demand non-disclosure fees.
The beauty of Linux all you need to do is compare the code you are using with the code that untrusted countries are using in similar situations. Paranoia demands that any discovered bugs are repaired, you can't leave them in place just in case your counterparts also know of them. In makes no sense to spend millions to hack software when it only costs thousands to hack weak willed trusted people and embed a bit of hardware into the system.
Of course the damaging message implied by the Indian government, they have zero confidence in windows security and they do have a copy of the source code to confirm it. Of course it could just be another Android http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_(operating_system) with a built in wine compatibility layer, the development effort they indicate sounds much more in line with that (of course with windows source code getting the best out of wine http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine_(software) becomes much easier especially if they 'er' borrow chunks of code from windows)
China is no a entity it is a country run by an oligarchy of corrupt people driven by a need to feed their ego by accruing power and capital, basically driven by greed and lust. Though they are far better at hiding it, than say US Republicans, there motivations are still they same even though their autocratic power base via the military is far stronger than the Republicans (even with the Republicans gross and offensive attempt to evangelise the US military).
As with all autocracies you have no need to tackle the country or even the whole of the government (unity in autocratic governments is an illusion, they are always ready, willing and able to back stab each other), so it simply becomes a matter of targeting the individual wealth and power of troublesome individuals, of disrupting their personal power base, of course there are just so many corrupt individuals behind the the current leadership, you often just end up replace one sociopath with another (still they new player must focus inward for a while to solidify their power base).
The only country under any real threat from China is Africa, but that is one of corruption, ruthless exploitation of resources, toxic industrial base and of course labour exploitation that will make labour conditions in China look like a workers paradise (I suppose that is one way for a corporo-fascist state pretending to be communist to make it look like labour conditions in China are getting better, make it worse elsewhere, they are currently winning in the US with the help of the GOP).
In this case there is the CBCs own mandate "actively contribute to the flow and exchange of cultural expression" http://www.cbc.radio-canada.ca/about/mandate.shtml and nothing does that more than the creative commons which does it freely.
In relation to Canadian law there is also this "(ii) encourage the development of Canadian expression by providing a wide range of programming that reflects Canadian attitudes, opinions, ideas, values and artistic creativity, by displaying Canadian talent in entertainment programming and by offering information and analysis concerning Canada and other countries from a Canadian point of view," http://laws.justice.gc.ca/eng/B-9.01/page-1.html#anchorbo-ga:l_I-gb:s_3. In one fell swoop they have excluded all Canadians who make use of and contribute to the creative commons and they have effectively barred CBC from contributing to the creative commons in contravention to the law that governs the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
In this case not only should the illegal contract get overturned but the criminals that signed it should be fired.
Quick thinking look at the graph, big drop in growth, oh yeah those two bargain months, with a huge jump in sales sucked up all the growth in the following months - hard plain reality. iPad sells, to people who one an apple computer and an iPhone and an iPod in that majority and the kind of customer they are means they went out and bought one at the earliest opportunity, so it reflects a peculiar market group not the overall market, like the Apple marketdroid PR=B$ suggests (so it is more interesting for psychologists to analyse that particularly marketing susceptible market that for the IT industry at large to base products on).
Beware of marketed success and the difference between units released into the retail chain versus the number of units actually sold, millions of units sitting in warehouse globally soon to be discount items do not in reality count but that's why PR=B$.
I know zero people that own an iPad and I know at least that many who have an interest in buying one. The popular rage is Samsung android phones (the current bargain hotness).
As for a M$ tablet, 'Uncle Fester' stop the delusions and start focusing on making money with MSN and not losing it. The real question is, how many people who do not already own an Apple computer and an iPhone and an iPod (all of them simultaneously) are actually buying an iPad and M$ ballmerdroids wake up to what market you are actually trying to target.
You forgot forgetting, the burden of proof, prove I can't remember the password thing. Never ever refuse to give the password, simply remember it incorrectly and that the password 'should' be correct as far as you remember it, perhaps all the stress is affecting your memory, a factual reality.
In court the prosecution are then forced to say you did not refuse to give your password but that you did not give the correct one and hence they are prosecuting you for having a bad memory. Of course the statement that you had it written down and threw away that note prior to their request for it, will also help.
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To be fair, no one based the safety of wifi upon using say 1000 of them at 1.5m centres for 6 hours a day. Of course they could have simply gone infra red, problem solved.
Keep in mind that all the crap about how safe something is in today's environment is all based upon ignoring other accumulative sources. It is not just wifi, it is wifi, plus cell phone, plus electrical power transmissions, plus solar radiation, plus fluorescent lighting, plus radio transmissions now add in all the pollutants and questionable food additives and then try to pick which straw is turning today's children into evolutionary lab rats, sure some will survive to old age but how many.
Of course who cares, as long as there are profits to be made, let's load the little beggars up with another genetic risk.
Too late secrets out, "The identity of the person whose cell phone signal has moved from one tower to another, according to IISi's court filings. Such techniques - quickly combining intelligence with live mobile phone surveillance from the air - are reportedly central to the CIA's targeting of missile strikes by unmanned aircraft" http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/24/cia_netezza/. See proof positive that using a mobile phone or allowing someone to use it near could get you killed ;D.
New terrorist weapon of choice planting a mobile phone from a dodgy account on your enemies (or one that's had naughty voices picked up via filtering and analysis). Personally I think that is really dodgy data to base mass murdering a group of people without trial or review of evidence, really dodgy, borrow someone's phone to make a call and it gets your family killed, there is some really callously indifferent decision making going on at the CIA.
A complete and total lie. Not every one can be bought at least not with money and of course the price some tricky geeks would demand no company is often willing to pay. Sure M$ could change from being an importer of cheap foreign labour, an out sourcer of the first degree, a employer who keeps staff on sack on a moments notice contracts, a company with a terrible reputation for monopolistic abuse and standards skullduggery, a company that prides itself on the bullshit in it's marketing, a company that doesn't understand creativity and kills it with demands for bean counting pseudo proofs and, a company with Steve 'Uncle Fester' Ballmer at the helm.
At least he was sober enough this time to avoid doing a 'developers, developers, developers' monkey dance but not sober enough to be able to tell the difference between board room waffle and what really motivates computer students to seek employment with a company. A good salary, an exciting and dynamic work place, a healthy and full featured work environment, lots of holidays, full health benefits, taxation assistance, employee purchasing groups, a varied work routine, global employment opportunities, real long term career positions and a supportive and sharing management team - OK Uncle Fester, now that's what future employees want to hear. Now is Ballmer speech his way of saying none of those thing will be on offer any more as M$ seeks to continue to grow profits as revenue looks to be coming under threat.
Just one query about that percentage, where exactly do dual boots end up. Do dual boots just disappear to favour the company paying for the most adds, surely the choice to dual boot should outweigh 'we are a monopoly and we are going to force manufacturers to supply you a cheap version of the OS'. You got the software as an OEM and you use it to play games but does that really count as a desktop or just a game console and the OS you boot to do work, really counts as your desktop of choice.
Why exactly does a dual boot windows and Linux machine only get counted as a windows box. Why does a dual boot Linux and Apple machine only get counted as a Apple machine. I would bet a windows and apple dual boot gets counted twice to fluff up the numbers. Why does a box without an OS get counted as nothing. Why doesn't Android count as it is a fork of Linux and elements of the code base will merge.
Desktop Linux is dead, WTF, yet another journalist that fails grasp open source or real choice, there is only one company who can give real statistics of Linux and that is Google, those privacy invasive buggers can quite readily even count the dual booters out there.
This is not about programming this is about censorship. Basically if you used their cable to access the internet, the censored your connection whilst they entered into negotiations with a supplier and used that loss of customer access to leverage the negotiations in there favour.
Their customers were of course just screwed over and used as nothing pawns to barter with to Fox's advantage
This is forewarning of exactly why net neutrality is required and why the executives who did this should go to jail. This is exactly what corporate controlled internet access will run like, random blocks and slowdowns, competitors shut out from customers, customer decision forced upon them as they have no choice, political control with unfavourable politicians web sites censored out of existence.
This is not the time for joking, this is the time for an FCC investigation and possible prosecutions.
Lets not focus to tightly on the Government, otherwise we lose track on the corrupters, corporations. People pick of government workers for taking bribes but always seem to forget the people paying the bribes, corporate executives. All that happens when you take government out of the equation, is corporate executives stop paying bribes but behave in the same and more often than not worse fashion than when they were paying bribes.
At least having that additional layer of government doubles the opportunity of catching corrupt war contracts and a criminal military industrial complex. That's what they really hated about those documents being released, further proof of the corrupting influence of the for profit contractors upon the mass media created war on terror.
Socio economic collapse and conflict are now inevitable. Governments are still managing their economies upon a growth rather than than a sustainability basis. The rich and greedy are still idolised for the ability to waste an insane amount of the planet's resources upon themselves along with generating an obscene quantity of pollution.
We as a society still waste enormous quantities of resources of vapid consumerist waste like jewellery, cosmetics, sports, empty mass media drivel and a whole swath of absurd egoist luxury items.
Africa will become the resource battle ground (accurate description) with the US and Asia struggling over it. Other countries with low population and high resources with seek to separate themselves from the rest of the world to preserve their quality of life. South America will form a stronger union and throw of the yoke of US corporate imperialism even Columbia will finally be free (which will help to drive the push on Africa).
Basically until the psychopaths and narcissists are removed from positions of control, governance and influence, humanity will continue upon an insane path of self destruction. Of course computer geeks would take the world in a more sustainable direction, virtual reality (it allows extreme indulgences without resource waste and only generates minimal pollution) and, well, safe happy drugs (especially in conjunction with virtual reality) it makes much more environmental sense than trying to buy your way to happiness.
It is vastly trickier for government tenders especially for 1000 units. They already detailed their failure to seek competitive tenders with just buying from easier choice rather than making valid purchasing choices.
So for a proper government tender you have to come up with a way of defining hardware specs in a generic way that will not prohibit competition. Added to that you must define warranty and maintenance issues in a similar fashion.
In today's tech environment with the dominance of ODM in manufacture it makes sense to separate warranty and maintenance from supply contract this reduces purchase price and allows the localisation of warranty and maintenance. So the supplier pays for but does not supply the first year of warranty and maintenance to an agreed local contractor who won the long term say three year maintenance contract. Software of course should always be separated out and always supported internally. If you are trying to save money get more tech staff and make the do double duty, filling in on other non-computer support roles, keeps them better informed of the companies real computer needs (they will outperform regular staff due to their better computer skills and when there are no computer problems they are not idle).
Even worse, shock horror, they might use free competitors products instead. Which of course is what it is really all about, get all journalists to become accustomed to the M$ product so the free product is different, not the same and as a result awkward to use and will reflect as such in reviews.
Of course most of those countries will end up doing the work on, mobile android products, easier to hide than a desktop.
After having used Office suites for over twenty years, this nonsense about the latest upgrades is just that marketing nonsense. People have produced millions of documents on office suits of all varieties including the completing unstable windows 95 and M$ office variants. The version of M$ office I liked best was 98, after that it got frustratingly unhelpfully helpful, menus kept changing and the original macro language was wiped out to sell visual basic, I was long gone before the ribbon nonsense.
The office suites are all much of a muchness now. So what is all this sudden attack bullshit all about, hmm, "ANDROID EVERYWHERE" and what office suite will it run, 'er', let me guess, certainly not M$ Office. Of course Android won't be absolutely everywhere, that's only cause, Linux will be on servers, net appliances and super computers, leaving M$ with the luddites, the drones and, the dinosaurs (no where did that idea come from).
Technically they can not damage the vehicle, that is a crime, so cutting into wires would be criminal vandalism aside from the theft of energy. So two legal technicalities to get by.
The hunt will be on now to track down these devices and to see who can come up with the most imaginative way of disposing of the free Federal 'gift'. I would think it would be amusing to fit it to local county mountie vehicle, leaving the Feds to wonder what you are doing at all those crime scenes and if the local yokels find out it will leave them wondering what the Feds are trying to bust them for this time.
Now of course bonus points it you artfully manage to 'return it' FBI vehicle with out them catching on (now would that be a crime, it is theirs you are returning it and you are not tracking the device they are and you don't need a search warrant anyhow).
Put silver on glass and it's called a mirror but, what exactly does that have to do with anything. Some hard facts about the glass panels would have been desirable either in the claim or in any rebuttal (unless they have something to hide).
I think it goes far further than that. Oracle is fairly weak on the internet. As a technology company it lacks a good internet company (a future outside of software), a company that can generate income beyond software and software administration. So is Oracle starting to make a move on Google and where would a Oracle Google merger end up.
Don't get too caught up in the type of glass, that often has far more to do with marketdroid hype than anything else. Thickness, how well in the glass supported around the edges, how well has it been cut and what state are the edges left in, what are reject rates at the manufacturer, what quality control has been implemented in passing glass panels for use.
Apple like other pretend manufacturers choosing the cheapest nastiest does not always pay off and trying to shove those losses back onto the consumer and even generating extra profits by it, well that just plain sucks.
Glass stronger than plastic, have to be careful with that one, is that stronger in regards to bearing capacity in tension and compression, impact resistance, crack propagation from temperature variations and edge defects or is it just a broad markedroid sweep with scratch resistance.
It would have been handy to get information on the thickness of the new versus the old panel and other pretend and actual manufacturer's glass panels (branders versus ODMs).
Of course it is guaranteed to prevent the executive running up to their assistant and demanding 20 copies of 50 page document in five minutes because they forgot to do it earlier. Why does my mind baulk at the idea of high speed copiers and OCR software having to scan a process each and every page before it allows a copy to be produced.
So you have a 100 page report, does the printer block the whole report leaving guessing which of the thousands of words you have used is considered naughty, does it just stop at that page and refuse to go one or does in print the rest of the document leaving gaps, which you don't notice as you deliver it prior to checking your email.
Finally how secure will they make and will some black hat being able to access the system and permanently bl0clk 4ll v0w3ls.
Stick to the persnicketiness of the law. Hotels simply need to say they are not providing internet services their ISP is providing internet services via remote hardware. So it simply means ISPs need to slightly alter their provision of services to hotels. Perhaps a remote monitored and controlled router at Hotels.
Of course everyone knows what it is all about, monitoring the populaces use of internet services, can't have naughty executives, holiday makers and foreigners looking at stuff they shouldn't be at hotels. So all about reporting and records and installing monitoring devices in hotels before suspects even arrive (suspects being everyone that is not them, them of course being the professionally paranoid).
You actually have to look deeper into the whole transport issue. The single issue that most drives waste in personal commutes, the one thing that controls it and ramps up the cost, the human loss of productivity and pollution - 'Lack of Job Permanence'.
Corporate greed drove up commute costs, the disposable work force means people can not live close to the place of employment, within in reasonable 'WALKING' distance, unless they want to sell their home every few years and relocate close to their next temporary position.
Even with that, for the majority of people the the light weight energy efficient electric car has more than sufficient range for their daily driving distance, as they would recharge their vehicle each night at the vehicles home charging station.
The big car manufacturers are still 'driven' by greed and their fossil fuel holdings. The electric car is off course still really waiting for a cheap, lightweight and, high capacity, battery (without cost inflating patents with grossly inflate the price).
Actually the whole story is crap, typical mass media drivel aimed at the worship of the rich and greedy. Truth is, putting together the right team and getting the right support is the real difference between winning and losing. Forget all the crap about worship of the corporate leader driven by public relations ass hats.
The staff counts first, the engineers, the accountants, the coders, the marketing and sales team. Put together the wrong team and your product dies, end of story, time to cut the crap, the illusion of the CEO that builds buildings (they hire workers who build buildings), the CEO who writes top selling software (they hire coders that write it and sales staff who sell it), the CEO who creates great hardware (nowadays that contract it out to ODM other device manufacturers, who in turn hire the engineers and industrial designers and of course all the factory staff who actually make the product). Truth is CEOs don't even hire the staff other employees do that.
So the really truly outstanding skill of a modern CEO, taking credit for other peoples work and blaming them those people for the CEO's mistakes. The skill they do this with will define how much the profit when the company goes public, generally speaking the skills of the manipulative psychopath count far more than the intellect of a genius (geniuses unlike Saturday cartoons are never motivated by power and greed, theirs goals are intellectual comes with brain make up). Psychopaths seem really smart but it simply is because they spend nearly every waking moment plotting, scheming, lying and manipulating, it is their brain make up.
Let's just tackle network play. So the latest greed first idea is to expose children to hours at a time, microwave radiation, whilst playing online games on their mobile phone. No problem, why not add junk food, cigarette and alcohol adds with the claims that as only adults can initiate mobile phone contracts that only adults use mobile phone game platforms.
Sometimes bad ideas are truly horrendous ideas driven by corporate executives who can see nothing but profits and completely ignore consequences.
This is not just a 'er' new operating system but an operating system that will naturally run windows programs. So either it is a massive rupee black hole that a few tech companies intend to cash in on or it will be re-branded windows with an incompatibility-compatibility layer built in.
Most computer security experts will tell you that security via obscurity is a fools trap, one just one greedy contractor or employee and your security via obscurity, becomes your hackers playground with penetration by bug obscurity guaranteed. The nightmare of, is it a bug or has someone hacked the system or, how much source code would you need to convince them you have more and demand non-disclosure fees.
The beauty of Linux all you need to do is compare the code you are using with the code that untrusted countries are using in similar situations. Paranoia demands that any discovered bugs are repaired, you can't leave them in place just in case your counterparts also know of them. In makes no sense to spend millions to hack software when it only costs thousands to hack weak willed trusted people and embed a bit of hardware into the system.
Of course the damaging message implied by the Indian government, they have zero confidence in windows security and they do have a copy of the source code to confirm it. Of course it could just be another Android http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_(operating_system) with a built in wine compatibility layer, the development effort they indicate sounds much more in line with that (of course with windows source code getting the best out of wine http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine_(software) becomes much easier especially if they 'er' borrow chunks of code from windows)
China is no a entity it is a country run by an oligarchy of corrupt people driven by a need to feed their ego by accruing power and capital, basically driven by greed and lust. Though they are far better at hiding it, than say US Republicans, there motivations are still they same even though their autocratic power base via the military is far stronger than the Republicans (even with the Republicans gross and offensive attempt to evangelise the US military).
As with all autocracies you have no need to tackle the country or even the whole of the government (unity in autocratic governments is an illusion, they are always ready, willing and able to back stab each other), so it simply becomes a matter of targeting the individual wealth and power of troublesome individuals, of disrupting their personal power base, of course there are just so many corrupt individuals behind the the current leadership, you often just end up replace one sociopath with another (still they new player must focus inward for a while to solidify their power base).
The only country under any real threat from China is Africa, but that is one of corruption, ruthless exploitation of resources, toxic industrial base and of course labour exploitation that will make labour conditions in China look like a workers paradise (I suppose that is one way for a corporo-fascist state pretending to be communist to make it look like labour conditions in China are getting better, make it worse elsewhere, they are currently winning in the US with the help of the GOP).
In this case there is the CBCs own mandate "actively contribute to the flow and exchange of cultural expression" http://www.cbc.radio-canada.ca/about/mandate.shtml and nothing does that more than the creative commons which does it freely.
In relation to Canadian law there is also this "(ii) encourage the development of Canadian expression by providing a wide range of programming that reflects Canadian attitudes, opinions, ideas, values and artistic creativity, by displaying Canadian talent in entertainment programming and by offering information and analysis concerning Canada and other countries from a Canadian point of view," http://laws.justice.gc.ca/eng/B-9.01/page-1.html#anchorbo-ga:l_I-gb:s_3. In one fell swoop they have excluded all Canadians who make use of and contribute to the creative commons and they have effectively barred CBC from contributing to the creative commons in contravention to the law that governs the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
In this case not only should the illegal contract get overturned but the criminals that signed it should be fired.
There of course is an art to Apple lying, take this for example http://www.macrumors.com/2010/09/17/analyst-suggests-tablet-cannibalization-responsible-for-shrinking-u-s-notebook-retail-sales/. The claim is iPad is hurting notebook sales, the graph certainly looks like it, hmm, but wait that is a sales "GROWTH" chart. So not the number of units sold but the percentage more units sold than in previous cycles.
Quick thinking look at the graph, big drop in growth, oh yeah those two bargain months, with a huge jump in sales sucked up all the growth in the following months - hard plain reality. iPad sells, to people who one an apple computer and an iPhone and an iPod in that majority and the kind of customer they are means they went out and bought one at the earliest opportunity, so it reflects a peculiar market group not the overall market, like the Apple marketdroid PR=B$ suggests (so it is more interesting for psychologists to analyse that particularly marketing susceptible market that for the IT industry at large to base products on).
Beware of marketed success and the difference between units released into the retail chain versus the number of units actually sold, millions of units sitting in warehouse globally soon to be discount items do not in reality count but that's why PR=B$.
I know zero people that own an iPad and I know at least that many who have an interest in buying one. The popular rage is Samsung android phones (the current bargain hotness).
As for a M$ tablet, 'Uncle Fester' stop the delusions and start focusing on making money with MSN and not losing it. The real question is, how many people who do not already own an Apple computer and an iPhone and an iPod (all of them simultaneously) are actually buying an iPad and M$ ballmerdroids wake up to what market you are actually trying to target.
You forgot forgetting, the burden of proof, prove I can't remember the password thing. Never ever refuse to give the password, simply remember it incorrectly and that the password 'should' be correct as far as you remember it, perhaps all the stress is affecting your memory, a factual reality.
In court the prosecution are then forced to say you did not refuse to give your password but that you did not give the correct one and hence they are prosecuting you for having a bad memory. Of course the statement that you had it written down and threw away that note prior to their request for it, will also help.