Don't turn a tragedy into a snarky chain of know-it-all comments, Innocent people died. This isn't a place to prove your intelligence.

a toy. I have an N9 and love it, the Lumia 800 took the same body and put a garbage OS on it. It's like dating a genius swimsuit model, then trying to date a dumb blonde. It doesn't work and you're only dissapointed at what was lost.

I have an N9 and it's awesome too! (I also have an n900) I ache when I realize how close Nokia was to making linux/meego/maemo their top OS.

Mod this up!

They should call this Spock

I was in South Africa in 2010 when one of their main cables got cut by a ship. It sucked. Internet got SLOOOOOWWWW

Windhoek is better! Namibia is SA's hat

You don't know what you are talking about. Your comment is bullsh!t. People won't be taking many 41/38 Megapixel images. People will mostly be taking 8 megapixel images with the 808.

1. Gorilla Glass - won't scratch under normal human usage. Dust can be wiped off, even if you don't, a dusty lens 808 pic is 100X better than a dusty lens Droid whatever camera pic.

2. Have you used past nokia high-end cameraphones? I have a Nokia N8 (the immediate predecessor of the 808) and I rarely have problems with camera shake. This is not some crap digital camera which takes a half second to capture an image. Also, the touch screen shutter works great, and a brush from a fingertip works there if you don't want to push the physical top buttom for that reason.
The Xenon flash on the N8 holds up well, Nokia has used them for years. Very few complaints. I'd imagine the 808's flash is more efficient.

3. Yup, #3 is a problem. But once again, a shrunken 808 image will look crystal clear compared a shrunken other-model image. Also, facebook does allow you to upload higher res images if you go into the settings. You can always use google+ or any of the other photo-sharing sites.

What cell network are you on? The sampled 5 meg image is no bigger than any average 5 megapixel image. I uploaded one this morning in 40 seconds. On t-Mobile, hardly the fastest US network.

While I agree with what ESR is saying, government (and former government) officials don't like threats.

"there are some things we will not stand having done to our network"

If I had more mod points, I'd give you one

I see a future where great artists mysteriously vanish without a trace... record and movie companies add great new content to their cataloges. They'll make a killing in the new media landscape.

agreed
College football > NFL

although the BCS Championship last night was pretty boring, I much preferred Stanford vs. Oklahoma State

A retailer needs 500 handbags to sell to rich women...

In the USA (and most traditional economies):

The retailer contacts a supplier who contacts a handbag company who contacts a factory in China who makes the bags and ships them to the retailer. For better or for worse, it's Capitalism in action where fancy bags come from big factories across the ocean.

In the slums of Mumbai:

The retailer contacts a supplier who goes into the slums and talks to poor women in their shacks and asks them to make him a couple bags each. He goes from shack to shack and picks up the two-three bags and gives the women a tiny payment. Then he goes to another neighborhood and distributes the bags to a dozen other ladies who stitch the patterns onto the bag. Someone else picks them all up or tells the ladies to bring the bags to another shack where they are counted and the women are paid a few cents each. The supplier ships the bags to the retailer. For better or for worse, it's crazy decentralized unregulated and unregulatable chaos Capitalism where fancy bags come from a hundred poor living rooms.

At least in the Chinese factories, workers are starting to demand better conditions and wages and there are standards and some regulations and standards in place. In India the workers get paid next to nothing because they are all working in their homes and don't have any idea who they are working for and aren't employees - work on contract only - and don't know any of their fellow workers so they can't unionize and demand better wages, and they work in their homes deep in slums so there is absolutely no regulation.

My point is that this kind of small crowdsourced job idea reminds me of the Indian model, and I don't like it.
Feel free to disagree though, what else is /. for?

When I lived in South Africa, there was an advanced, modern hospital, the kinds you'd find in the USA not far away from where i lived. But usually people didn't go there until they'd tried the witch doctors and undergo their range of treatments, and by then it would be too late. You know, lemon juice couldn't stop HIV from becoming AIDS, and the hospital couldn't do anything by that time. I thought that was an 'African thing' ...but it's happening in my own backyard (Texas). People really are the same wherever you go, imagine that.