Not requiring an "encryption chip" itself shouldn't be something we're proud of. It should be a fact that drives the point home that the USA is almost always a little behind other countries though you'd be hard pressed to find an ordinary American who believes we're indeed a little behind.

Riding the NY subway system just last week drove the point home when I witnessed rail cars those in South Africa may think are from the 50s, and wouldn't associate with a "first world" country.

While I applaud the founder for this move, I can't help but wonder what could have been if these efforts had been put toward producing a truly MS Office replacement.

I mean, for every office product, there would be a true open standards [drop-in] product.

But right now, all I see are what some may call "me too" browsers, all competing for the little attention they can get among so many. Sad!

I say that because I remember time when Blackberry's BBM was a "Blackberry only" affair. Can someone please remind this CEO about those early BBM days?

How about other Blackberry services that are only available on Blackberry now?

Or should other companies' strategies include making rival companies relevant?

This [massive] update will surely provide fertile playground for those hacker boys.

I can almost guarantee that we will be asking ourselves whether Oracle did anything useful with this update within a year.

That sentence should have read, U.S. congressional Republicans on Friday proposed legislation authored by industry lobbyists, that would set "net neutrality" rules for broadband providers, aiming to head off tougher regulations backed by the Obama administration. (additions mine).

I doubt Canada will bless the deal. The canadaian government is well known in protecting indigenous companies, Blackberry being one of them. That's why, it meddled in NorTel's affairs till the company went bankrupt.

I wish Samsung all the best.

Just a question to ponder:

What would happen if one of the judges responsible for this law or politician, were to have his/her system hacked, leading to prosecution for alleged copyright infringement?

Look, I am just your Joe Computer User.

What useful stuff can I really to with these things?

What have those more skilled than myself really done with them? Anything?

Yes, you read it correctly. It's now China's time. to shine.

As we debate the real meaning of these numbers, let's remember that our economy is mostly financed by debt. We're indebted to those nations we despise.

Sadly, the ordinary American just doesn't get it.

Yes, they should learn from our neighbours to the north. They seem to know what they are doing.

Enlighten me Slashdotters...

Are these companies storing Credit Card data in plain readable text? I ask because there seems to be no end to these breaches.

Why not try this as a solution?

Store these numbers and all pertinent information like Unix/Linux stores passwords. I am meant to understand that even if one stole the "hashed" details they would be of no use. What am I missing?

But we have the best democracy you can fine anywhere. It doesn't matter if our legislators are being bribed indirectly, or get embroiled in obvious conflict of interest matters.

Welcome to the USA!

Ohh wait, let's preach to the world about free markets.

So then let's have some fine-print added to the GPL. That way we are able to have legal terms define what we actually mean.

Agreed.

So let's agitate for fine print in the GPL to aviod any ambiguity.

No.

The creators will tell you what it was intended to do and what it actually means within that narrow GPL context.

That is what is important and that's why we have the so called fine print in all agreements I have come across. No?