Why are all the hot guys gay?

Sigh...

Please jump in if I am misinterpreting, but I can't seem to see it any other way. Google offers a developer edition of the Android OS for a few extra dollars. It boasts a, "SIM-unlocked and hardware-unlocked device."

If this phone is only available to people who register with the Android Market, doesn't that mean that the regular consumer version is SIM-locked and hardware-locked?

If so, that would make it non-free software.

Aargh. I wish. The moment I can run Ubuntu on a mobile phone and still make GSM (regular phone) calls on it is when I will buy a new device. For now I have a cell phone for GSM and a laptop for everything else.

No, no--totally right! I had a friend send me a Facebook request and I swear we would have never actually hung out if I actually used Facebook.

I sent him an email explaining my concerns about using Facebook and we actually ended up going out for a beer. It was great and I really enjoy facetime with someone as opposed to having a mechanistic, tit-for-tat, "I can friend you if you can get me a job" type relationship.

If you are paranoid, don't opt-in and switch to one of the unsupported phones.

The SEC filings in the original post are from 2004. Not the most current evidence damning MS. And since I am all in favor or said damning, here is a quick tutorial on how to search SEC filings using the EDGAR database.

In the "company name" field, type Microsoft. Only two choices there, since it is a pretty unique name. We are going to look at the entity known as "MICROSOFT CORP."

Here is where a lot of people get messed up. You have to look for a form called the "10-K" by entering "10-K" into the "Filing type" text field. That is where all the dirt is, any good corporate researcher will tell you.

From there you have to click on the link in the "Document" column that corresponds with "10-K." After that you just choose the most recent 10-K (annual report), and there should be lots of juicy evidence against the company, written by its very own lawyers.

For example, I just did a simple text search (long document) for the term "open source."

I love doing this: From the MS Annual Report under "ITEM 1A. RISK FACTORS", "To the extent open source software gains increasing market acceptance, our sales, revenue and operating margins may decline."

Mmmmm, original reporting...

Oi, the fake bacon kicks ass. The fake liver can't hold a candle to it, I don't care how many fiber tubes it contains.

Heheh. The 10-K form from the SEC is very interesting, so many juicy tidbits. Often times this is the only thing you need to hang a company--they practically hand you the rope!

The IBM Annual report shows some very interesting things.

Here is a fun one for all my standards wonks, "Without interoperability among all manner of computing platforms, the integration of any client's internal systems, applications and processes remains a monumental and expensive task."

This kind of stuff would be totally fine with me, except for the fact that Comcast and AT&T are the only companies I can get broadband Internet access from.

Does anyone know of a way to find an ISP that respects users' rights? It seems that in many places you have the choice of AT&T or no Internet.

Whoever the tech folks who work for Obama understand the need for having a FOSS option. Change.gov is licensed under creative commons, so somebody got the memo that user freedom, the web as a commons and all that is a good thing. The Silverlight thing is probably being viewed by the Obama team as "just another option," but they have made a good faith effort to cater to the (for lack of a better catchall term) FOSS community--at least better than any previous USA presidential administration.

Getting too pedantic about what is and isn't journalism leads the discussion away from focusing on the great tools that are being developed to help the average citizen understand the powers that be (government, corporations, etc..).

The Sunlight Foundation has funded a lot of really great web tools, widgets and applets that show how congress works, track money donated to candidates, expose corporate corruption, and many other areas of coverage that the film noir investigative journalist types might still consider their turf.

Anyone can do good journalism, anyone can do bad journalism. I think talking about who is helping to expose and disseminate new information that is in the public interest (news) is more important that talking about the news industry as such.

I was going to respond to this post by saying something like, "Researchers Discover Social Networks Link Plumbers" but the rest of Slashdot has done such a great job of tearing it to shreds by pointing out all of the other things terrorists can use to do their evil deeds that I no longer need to respond to TFA. Thanks :)