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Piracy

Swiss Gov't: Downloading Movies and Music Will Stay Legal 463

wasimkadak writes "One in three people in Switzerland download unauthorized music, movies and games from the Internet, and — since last year — the government has been wondering what to do about it. This week their response was published, and it was crystal clear. Not only will downloading for personal use stay completely legal, but the copyright holders won't suffer because of it, since people eventually spend the money saved on entertainment products."

Comment Re:That they've gotten the message remains to be s (Score 1, Troll) 339

What? HTC locks their bootloaders and forces you to void your warranty (for real, by permanently modifying part of your EFS) to unlock them. Meanwhile Samsung's bootloaders are completely unlocked from the start, and they really don't seem to care at all what you do with the phone - I sent back a rooted Galaxy S running a custom ROM for warranty repairs and they sent back a new one, no questions asked. I think LG leaves their bootloaders wide open, too.

Motorola could be a wild card in this regard now that they're owned by Google. We'll see.
Privacy

Judge Nixes Warrantless Cell Phone Location Data 66

Front page first-timer poena.dare writes "The government sought warrantless access to 113 days of location data for a Verizon Wireless customer. On Monday, a judge refused the request (PDF), ruling that cell phone users have an expectation of privacy in location information. 'There is no meaningful Fourth Amendment distinction between content and other forms of information, the disclosure of which to the Government would be equally intrusive and reveal information society values as private,' said Judge Nicholas Garaufis. Privacy advocates in DC will be cheering as soon as they climb out from under their desks!"

Comment Re:Sandy Bridge (Score 1) 499

To be blunt: You are wrong. Only the "Extreme Edition" and later, K-series chips in the Conroe and Nehalem lines had unlocked multipliers. Similarly, AMD only provides unlocked multipliers on Black Edition and FX-series chips. This has been true at least since the Pentium II/K6-2 line.

The BCLCK is unlocked on Conroe/Nehalem allowing overclocking that way, but it's locked on Sandy Bridge because the processor now provides the clock generator for the whole system. As sort of an "olive branch" to enthusiasts, Intel actually has "limited unlocked" multipliers on their non-K-series SB chips, allowing overclocking by up to 4 bins above the standard Turbo frequencies.

Comment Re:Was It Worth It? (Score 1) 138

The time spent doing this could have been spent on a billable (or freelance) project that would have paid for a new phone (and then some).

I'll admit, I don't know how long it took the writer of the article to do whatever he did. I'm not particularly inclined to read the article since it keeps referring to "jailbreaking" an Android device which indicates the writer has no clue what he's talking about (Android doesn't run in a chroot jail to begin with so "jailbreaking" it is meaningless). However, the entire process of taking my Galaxy S from stock to a custom ROM took about 10 minutes, and the process of changing from one custom ROM to another even less (admittedly the Titanium Backup restore takes about 45 minutes, but it's also a "fire and forget" process that runs in the background). If you could share with me where you're getting these billable contracts that pay in excess of $3000 an hour, I'd much appreciate it.

Comment Re:Bimonthly release cycle == overhead? (Score 1) 555

...and that requires administrator rights to apply those updates.

That's based on where you install it. If it's installed to Program Files, of course it does. If installed to the user directory it will not. That's why Chrome doesn't need admin rights - it's installed to C:\Users\[username]\Appdata\Local\Google by default.

Comment Re:I've got a gesture (Score 3, Interesting) 254

I don't see how anyone who is familiar with computers could find iOS's gestures "intuitive." I actually had to look up how to create folders after iOS 4.0 hit. Drag one application on top of another? How does that bear any resemblance to a) how things are already done on Windows/OS X/Gnome/KDE/etc. or b) common sense?

In Android, conversely, you long-press (stand-in for right-click) and bam, "New folder" is right there in the menu that comes up. Just like you're already used to.

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