MS still lacks market share, and one of their main problems is that windows phone 7 is the last platform supported by apps builders. It is that bad that they consider running android on windows.

At the same time they have to push all phone makers to pay them patent licenses for patents for fat and what they madeup when windows mobile (5.x 6.x) was the big thing.

MS Never said to be open. They controll the gates to their app store, just like Apple takes full control of everything htat is allowed to run on their phone.

Beside your point of not being able to include google apps on them, developers are tied to using a devkit that does not have a lices that allows anyone to fork it.

Forget fiat-money. Think what you need for a happy society.

Suppose you get valued by the things you do for the population, and get valued by that. Laziness wll result that you can only get very basic living. You are rich if people like your work.

Just redefine money and how it is valued, and you are one step closer.

And this situation is not hard to get to. High inflation("printing money") and/or high taxes will shrink the current capital, while at the same time you have tax income to spend on things we all have value from.

RTFA please. If the attacker illegally uses the open source that has a patent clause, or the attacker contributed to software the license can have a considerable impact.

Mistake, Nobody else has so much time to revert articles, or maintain bots to do so, to support their bias. I gave up on wikipedia a long time ago, when instead of fixing the errors i made, all my edits were reversed.

In the netherlands the police stopped sending SMS "this phone is stolen"since it looked like the IMEI code was not unique for all phones. Some phone builders messed this up.

Doesn't work.
-IMEI codes can be changed by a certain kind ROM flashing in lots of phones.
-Blocking is not mandatory, providers do not make it easy to block IMEI codes.

And the real culprit: This is a serious crime. Police should concentrate on getting the bad guys, track the stolen phones, put an end to the theft. Phones can be tracked and recoverd.

Of course carriers like the blocking and killswitch idea. Than they can sell phones. All stolen phones need to be replaced after all.

How about making it obligatory for carriers to track stolen phones. You must pay for the using the carriers network, so by following the money it must be possible to track the stolen phone to a new owner.

That way not only the victim can get his phone back, but also even the thief can be found. Maybe not the most economic way, but if you ever become the victim of robbery at gun/knifepoint you sure will agree that the economic cost of the phone was not the worst part.

Instead of one target to attack (the target website), there are now 2 targets to attack: the shapeshifter obfuscation box and the target website.

I’m sorry to inform you that he has been taken in by unsupportable mathematics designed to prey on the gullible and the lonely. The only way this will work is if will be blackmailed with a hidden dirty sock.

Maybe some chinese guy had his last day on the job, have a long newyear holiday , and Start a new job after the new year holiday.

I once got asked a question which I found hurtful and offensive, and felt tempted to 'blow up' the interview at that point. Fortunately, I resisted the temptation. As it turns out, the question was his way of introducing the next thing, which was telling me that he was offering me the job.

Is it free? Do you broadcast? The proof is in Big brother/ robinson island. Enough people will line up for one minute of fame.

I bet the marketeer is some kid that got trained playing Rollercoaster tycoon 3 and now can do that al in a "real"(but fabricated) world.

Why did nagios take out the server out the hands of the community. Was there a fight in the community? Is this just a "it is named nagios, so it is ours"? Want do to some subscribtion? Sombody in the community took to big consulting fees?

At first it looks like that nagios has a name to loose, and more work to do by maintaining a lot of plugins and a extra site.