BTW, that happens to include "friendly" governments like those of the UK, US, Canada, and Australia.

Oh, yes. Companies like Blackberry, Apple, Microsoft, et. al. should all be "digital anarchists" and rebel against the governments of the countries they sell products and services in because you say so.

How about you put your ass on the line against those governments?

They'll finally have a model that doesn't sound like an elephant with a bad case of gas. :(

They were advertising and selling openly. I fail to see how any kind of "sting" operation was required to trick them into selling the illegal hardware, or to catch them doing it.

You also can upload release files to SourceForge. I see nothing in their usage terms that requires you to host the code repositories on their servers; it's just the default to do so.

Good. Someone with a functioning brain cell is asking the right questions.

Oh bull shit.

They bought their operating system (Next.)

They bought their core GUI kit (Next again.)

They were far from first to market with an MP3 player.

Rounded corners on a square case is not "innovation" -- it's product design.

Emulating a barrel bolt for "slide to unlock" is obvious to anyone with a functioning brain cell.

They bought most of the components of the iPhone instead of designing their own.

They're not innovators. They're assemblers and product marketers.

Not that you fanbois will ever accept that.

Let me know when Bill gives away all his money. And I mean *all* of it. And then goes to work with a charity in Africa or India or somewhere, depending on the people around him for food, clothing, and housing.

Until then it's all bullshit. He's a greedy bastard and I don't buy the "charity! I'm actually a good guy!" for a minute.

I'm on a disability retirement. I "work" on my pet project when I feel like it. But even that is more hobby than work.

Housework, now that's *work*. So is weeding the garden.

And that's about all I do that I officially call "work" nowadays. :P :P :P

How'd your Monday go? I slept in until 10AM. :P

In both the US and Canada, data is supposed to be retained for 7 years by companies. It's standard practice to archive email at the SERVER before letting a client download it. Some places won't even allow email downloads, but force you to stick with protocols that leave the email on the server for safe keeping.

I don't buy it for a second. They didn't "lose" the emails and they can get them from the system backups for the email server ANY TIME.

Someone should be SHOT for this fraud.

I find the innovation posts decrying the lack of innovation at Microsoft, Apple, etc. quite amusing.

Big companies have rarely been known for innovation, and often known for acquisition of the innovative. As far as I know, the sole exception is IBM at this point in time, though there was a time when HP did a lot of research and innovation as well.

But Apple has never been an innovator; they bought the ideas and companies that caught their interest and marketted them. The same with Microsoft. They bought DOS. They partnered with IBM on OS/2 leading to a lot of the technology behind Windows. They bought SQL Server from Sybase ASE (SQL Server is modified ASE 10.) I'm not even sure they coded Office instead of buying the pieces elsewhere.

"Innovation" in the minds of a lot of people is about bringing new products to market, not inventing technologies. And who is to say that researching something that never makes it to market isn't a waste of time and energy? What good did Nortel's patent portfolio do them in the face of incompetent and abusive management practices? They were the Canadian king of the telecom markets, right up there with AT&T, but management managed to kill them off. Yet one can't deny they invented a lot of key telecom technologies.

To sum up: Innovation is overrated. And in a world where it's "all been done before" such as IT, "innovation" is often no more than repackaging something that was done 20+ years ago that people forgot about.

Of course they'll succeed with this critical mission. After all, the first thought a starving child has when they wake up with no food, parents with no jobs, and wondering if they'll eat today, all that matters nought. Their first thought is "I wish I had high speed internet."

The fact that the first thing these people would do is trade a free smartphone for food is also irrelevent.

After all, we're out to save the world through cat videos and LOLs. Screw rational thought.

Personally I'd be far more interested in a memory card port so I could have as many saved games and downloads on them as I want. 32GB is a joke nowadays without an expansion option.

As many have pointed out, it's already not enough to play a large number of modern games. Who the hell would want to buy a game device that's obsolete by design?

So the old project is done. Stick a fork in it, grab the source, and spin another.

Everything I own supports IPv6.

I blame the ISPs and backbone providers for the lack of IPv6 in the wild.

And there is nothing you can do to get those bean-counters to move short of legislation -- and they've got the politicians paid off.