Did. And I don't give a hoot for Tesla. Thanks for your opinion AC! 8->

I think you are too kind. The problem is between the ears.

Reading the articles, my take is the car does what it says it does and the reporter decided to get cute and act dumb. 'Disingenuous' is the term that should be applied to the Times and the reporter.

The Times is no stranger to concocted or manipulated stories. eh, anyone who is a reporter or a politician is automatically suspect in my books.

;-)

... The MPAA are not 'parasitic' in a technical sense but you don't take exception to the assertion that they are 'bastards' in a colloquial descriptive sense?

IMHO 'bastards' is term well used in this context.

'Abominable, hideous and abhorrent agents of cold, manipulative and greedy international corporations' would be more accurate and precise than 'parasitic' but a bit wordy. Given that 'bastards' is a figurative description, 'parasitic' isn't so wrong; matches the tone and meaning of the comment.

Besides, 'parasitic' is not so far off: sucking from the stream of income originating from the people they prosecute is somewhat 'parasitic'.

Just sayin' . . .

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Must be a SLOW news day.

I guess I could have just ignored the story. Dang me and my OCD.

er . . . about the same worry as any software from anywhere. Do your self protection rituals and don't install it on anything that contains critical information. Look for oddities (unexpected network connections etc) and check for an online community that may show some pedigree for the software.

Trojan software is a real worry but the fact that it comes from China does not seem to me to alter the worry level. ie: be worried and be careful

A very cursory check of sites that track threats shows China as a source is about on a par with the US. Somewhat worse but still, a lot of malware comes from the good ol US of A. Most sites seem to agree that the USSR er Soviets er Commies er RUSSIA is a major source of crap, standing out from the others.

eh, stats is stats.

The reason Chinese companies (ummm: Huawei) have been labelled a security worry is that the People's Lib Army of the PROC is assumed to be the defacto owner. Worry being that their routers/switches/cell equipment come with back doors pre-installed.

Who knows if this is true or not, but I have often wondered if companies like Cisco, Juniper, Alcatel-Lucent, Siemens etc are working closely with their own governments to provide "special" firmware loads for foreign installations. Maybe domestic as well. But I may be paranoid. ;->

Governments have been caught in the past doing industrial espionage for their own domestic interests. The French apparently bugged first class airline seats for competitive business reasons and the Chinese reported that a Boeing 767 was delivered complete with surveillance bugs.

So: although China doesn't worry more than say the US, it doesn't worry me any less either.

So you don't like RIM to the point that it makes you angry. I get it. Thanks for providing detail.

Just don't assume you know what I think or believe based on me tagging a response onto a cheap joke. Sheesh.

All I said was that the mobile leaders have areas of weakness that can be exploited and that RIM (and MicroSquash) are positioning themselves to take advantage. Also, I hope that RIM makes significant improvements to user functionality that intensifies competition and causes others work harder. Better for all if they do IMO.

I am also glad to see Mozilla and others working to get into the market. Diversity is good.

Nothing there says I like or dislike RIMs methods, services or infrastructure.

You know, I didn't say I like BB or RIM. I said there is plenty of room for competition and that Apple as a market leader in NA has significant weaknesses, and I said I like competition from another player. I'm not religious for or against Apple, RIM, MSoft, Google, Mozilla or whatever.

As far as routing mobile traffic through servers, this happens in many places and many circumstances but usually transparent to the user (one obvious example: firewalls). The trick is to have a good reason for doing it and to build a reliable and available infrastructure with the required performance capability.

Sigh.

sorry for being such an insensitive clod

Good call! I knew I was spouting gibberish when I blamed iOS for bad multitasking at the user interface layer. The devil made me do it.

I guess my hope is that an OS like QNX will inspire or foster an attitude which supports useful multitasking at the user level. Naive, I know.

Cheers

this is a blanket?
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and we are pigs?
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then this is funny, jah?
jah! that is a good one!

Cheap jokes aside, IMHO this is lots of room for BB to move back into being a player.

First, they still have a very large user base and second, the other players all have significant weak areas that BB could target.

BB has always been about business communications and productivity, areas that Apple has never been any good at. Email on iPhones is a joke at best. Even if you jailbreak and install "mail enhancer pro" (jah, that is a good one too!), the mail tool is missing core functionality.

Multitasking on iPhones is pathetic and a total pain to move data between apps. BB 10, if it is still based on QNX, should have the built in capability to change how parallel applications and parallel processing paths function on mobile devices. Raise the bar as they say.

The iPad is interesting and a decent lightweight tool for browsing web but again absolutely not a power tool. More like a kids workbench.

The two vendors who have traditionally been powers in the business space, Microsoft and BB, seem to recognize this and are making plays in an area that Apple just does not understand or fails to address well.

I don't quite know what to make of Android in this area as it should be able to fill the void as well but does not seem to have a leader in the business arena.

BYOD is popular amongst the working population but corporately there is a desire to retain control over corp. communications and security, at least in the Fortune 500. Time is ripe for BB to get back into business.

Anyways, competition is good and from that point of view I am hoping BB succeeds.

Best not to be too religious about platforms, companies, hardware etc. They are just tools and who wants to be mired in a world dominated by iOS and Android when other excellent systems exist?

Sure but you will have to emigrate from litigation happy US. [JOKE not TROLL]

Seriously, consumer safety and potential litigation issues should always be part of an assessment before product release. It is part of what makes it costly to bring new products to market.

In the best case lawsuits are a form of extreme market feedback that the product was not a good idea/implementation.

_FLUBBER_ !

sorry . . . just watched the movie with my kids