I am from India. And you don't know shit if you say US has the most...... any kind of people!

I agree with your logic of all kinds of people etc though.

You do realize that these things are not like a boutique where each unit is independent, right? They have to sell x million to break even and more millions to make decent profits out of that.

And, even then they still have to compete with Intel & x86, to keep those sales from drying up, so they can keep the business alive for the next year and the year after...

So just because someone doesn't have a solution, they shouldn't attempt to raise awareness about a problem? I bet you're a manager.

But why is it mm (or is it MM)? why not just M?

They are not interested. They already built a bridge between Mountain View and Cupertino!

For me, their spam filtering has gone to shit. What used to be an occasional miss earlier is a regular feature now. It's almost like I have to go through two folders (Inbox and Spam) and keep shuffling things around. I'm not saying error rate is 50%, but I am not able to trust Yahoo! not to send some important mail to spam folder!

Of course, they shouldn't send work to any other countries. It's not like they're selling their products in other countries, are they?

This! A 1000 times this! It seems the "modern" way is to cripple expression and power so that everybody is equally handicapped. That's just fucking stupid to cripple your best (coders) because your worst can't keep up!

A bunch of jerks eliminating themselves from the common pool.

I did RTFA and found this gem: "the iOS version of the RCS Trojans hits only jailbroken devices". Also
“Once the sample is ready, the attacker delivers it to the mobile device of the victim. Some of the known infection vectors include spearphishing via social engineering – often coupled with exploits, including zero-days; and local infections via USB cables while synchronizing mobile devices,”

So, ya, while this is bad, it is not in the same league as what NSA's surveillance of everyone and everything is.

No, I checked. All the nukes in my grandma's basement are legal!

For all the exaggerated scary words used like "one of the largest", "more than 60 campaigns" etc, there was not a single solid data point about the actual devices infected. Not even a ball park number - like whether it is tens, thousands or millions of devices.
Makes me suspect the claims.

+1!

You've characterized the slashdot reader very well. They are libertarian as long as their jobs are safe and their lifestyle is not threatened. They want no government interference whether it's job market or drug ban. But put THEM in a market, start evaluating options for replacing them, they become protectionist!