Comment Re:26.5 diagonal? or per side (Score 2) 330
It exists! It's called the Blackberry Passport
It exists! It's called the Blackberry Passport
I'm not sure about what they mean by "socket", but I think the smallest Power-8 system has 8 cores, going up to 24.
I know, I know - Blackberry isn't really that hip anymore.
But the renders I saw of their passport (essentially, a phablet with a square screen and a physical keyboard) looked intriguing from a usability point of view. Now, a Nexus device with that form factor
I'm pretty sure that the ADB commands will just do a low level format, they will not physically overwrite the sectors holding your personal data (which is difficult on Flash memory anyway).
IMO the only safe method is to use Android's device encryption, but of course it's too late for that once you can't access the tablet any more. I learned this the hard way (a dead Nexus 7 which I probably will end up physically destroying).
Austinite here as well.
What really pissed me off was that the deep packet inspection requirement is very well hidden on their webpage and promotional material. They only mention that the offer comes with "internet options" (!), and it takes you several clicks to discover what this implies.
While $70 + $5 for a VPN service is pretty competitive pricing, I really don't feel like giving them my money.
I looked it up, so for the benefits of others: according to http://www.math.uh.edu/~tomforde/hquotes.html, the quote is from Time Enough for Love
According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_positions_of_Dianne_Feinstein, she acquired a permit in the 70s and surrendered it in 1982.
Keep in mind that to Google and Facebook, each user is a product, not a customer.
They do have business presences in most European countries to interact with their real customers, i.e. advertisers. It sounds reasonable to expect them to adhere to local laws in countries that they do business in.
Exactly.
Our neighborhood terminated a negotiated deal with TWC last year, and people calling TWC for a quote received different offers. I head two different prices for the same package on subsequent calls.
Taking Google's service as an example, how is the FBI to know whether john.doe@gmail.com is a U.S. citizen or not? When signing up for service, all Google asks for is the location, not the country of citizenship.
Even if John Doe accesses his email from a non-US ISP, he might well be a citizen traveling abroad.
Oblig. xkcd: http://xkcd.com/1045/
That's my thinking. If all you have to do is a quick rejig and recompile because the APIs are so close to the Android ones, then it's a near-zero effort situation. I don't know much about the new platform, but I thought I had read that it would support Android apps out of the box, so it may literally may be just pushing a button.
Not that there's a damned wrong with that. If Android compatibility or portability is good enough, then you already have thousands of apps ready to go and you don't need to put massive amounts of effort into convincing developers to support your platform (like Redmond is doing).
BB10 contains the Android Player, which essentially runs repackaged Android APK files (I'm don't know if the reason for the different package format is technical or not). This is different from the native APIs, but the user experience is quite seamless. I "ported" one of my apps to the Playbook, and it was not even a recompile - it is a package converter.
How can you support a man that wishes to take away the right of an ISP to properly manage a network?
You seem to confuse the right of the ISP to properly manage a network with the right of the ISP to manage the network content.
I'm all for the former. Not so much for the latter.
2.4 statute miles of surgical tubing at Yale U. = 1 I.V.League