in the "more advanced" tech circles(on slashdot) we discussed though which parts of nokia actually were sold to Microsoft(basically, the part that made windows phones), not the networks part. ironically, the networks part had been doing not so good for a few years BUT was ok and is still kind of OK when microsoft crap was dumped on nokia. Also to note, the networks part was called Nokia Siemens Networks due to a merger a while back(fairly recently the requirement to keep siemens in the name expired).

which maybe begs the question, why the fuck did Microsoft even buy it? well, to make _sure_ that Nokia didn't bring any more android phones to the market(x,x+,x xl, x2 in asian markets were released shortly before the takeover). for Nokia it gave the possibility to shed thousands and thousands of people and dump them to be microsofts problem(and microsoft has since been firing them out of a cannon on the job market). without the deal, even with Elop the Trojan at the helm, it was unsure if _anyone_ would have been producing Windows Phones anymore. However, you could also then ask why Microsoft didn't just start buying phones from a contract manufacturer and sell them with their own name(which is what they're effectively doing now anyways!! since they dumped the nokia name from the microsoft phones and it runs a full microsoft stack AND they didn't even buy the Maps portion of the old Nokia! they're still paying for using that shit)

also, Nokia that remains is barred from selling Nokia branded phones for a few years. they're free to sell a Nokia branded tablet though and they are doing that(also running Android).

they're going to show him for what he was,

a guy trolled into giving the game loads of publicity while failing to sue the game.

I mean, it's well known that the reason why GTA 1 got so much press for it's violence etc even before release was that the game promoter made the "negative" press happen.

(it was a good game for a few weekends too, gta1 that is. I had not read any press about it before playing)

you got some post 2000 examples of that?

srsly.

besides, they're using the same millions blabla invstments zillions years blabla argument for software as well.

and the hardware patents i've recently seem have been fairly obvious answers to problems as well. like, have a problem where the 3d printed object contracts too much and breaks because ambient temperature is too low. what is the patented solution to the problem? raise the temperature of the build chamber. so they end patenting hot air. no novel method for doing it either, just the obvious solution of pumping in hot air.

that's quite a lot, if you consider that's the size of MS's work force for the globe.

so in the companies, in the positions relevant to the slashdotters, it's quite probably more than 1%...

2gb has been a standard data cap for nearly ten years.
in markets where people are shafted anyways...

and hey, even when they introduced gprs, the standard limits in markets where you weren't getting shafted were 100mbytes and 20mbytes. but that was a lot after 1999. in 1999 you would have been paying per minute on gsm to get a 9600bps connection. that's why gprs when it came was such a huge booster - it made mobile web possible.

basically what I'm trying to get to is that usa data caps have been fairly stationary despite post 3g technology hitting the market. it's really not about anything else than that people are stupid enough to pay 60-80 bucks plans for that kind of shit, so why should they adjust it?

and back in Finland 7 years or so I was torrenting 24/7 on uncapped 3g prepaid that was 10 euros a month. do you even have the option for doing that yet? no? your operators are screwing you over.

that's not what really happens.

what happens is they get just chips that burn more power per cpu and just burn more coal to cover the power use.

it's not like they can't build the damn thing without the latest xeons.

but what happens is that NSA and DOD can buy the chips cheaper.

google provides the builds to them... they're unlikely to want to push something that breaks things though.

besides, vast majority isn't on any verizon,tmobile/at whatever plan with their nexus7. you see, majority of people with these devices bought them and didn't rent them(like, case of poster, he bought the device from asus. but google branded it and sells it like it's a google device.).

and it's not really a secret why they don't update them all at once: they're beta testing on some regions, like poland or whatever. they fuck up updates all the time, the first updates they roll out inevitably break something.

same goes for apple though, their pushed updates regularly break things.

what is the solution? don't have auto update on. you very rarely get any benefits from updating anyways, like in case of lollipop updates.. there's nothing worthwhile in the update and it has broken several apps for many people! only update when you're doing a phone/tablet reset anyways.

look man it's simple business.

they will lose the cloud services to local players if they have to act as if everything was stored in the usa.

what's shameful is that other governments aren't bitching to usa. some of them may be obliged to sue google, apple, ms etc if they export private data in ways that is against the local rules(like giving them to usa without engaging in a legal request in said country).

if you start speaking like that, why do you think artists are necessary? it doesn't make sense.

entrapment is perfectly lawful.

or maybe it's not lawful, but it still goes on through the courts and the entrapped person gets jailtime and the feds walk free.

kinda like many other things aren't lawful, but still go through. unlawful surveillance and what have you.

and the people who do go to court rarely get sentenced for whatever crime they get slapped with first, thank's to the fucked up plea-bargain system you have that quite often modifies the crimes to be totally other crimes than what the action taken by the perp was!

unless you know the idea for the attack came from you and not from the feds....

this is predatory, looking for vulnerable people and then exploiting them. they should have sent him to the doctors long before they gave him what he thought was a 1000 pound bomb. like, they could have saved a hell of a lot of money and effort just nailing him for planning a terrorist attack(of course, I guess he could have then argued it was the feds who did all the planning, as they did).

autorickshaw/tuktuk drivers work in cash only anyways so not sure how different uber drivers would be from your regulars.

they all work cash only.

all of asia between turkey and korea is cash only for most daily matters.

short timescale during which all dutch converted into having enough food from not having enough food.

same story as in Finland. beds just from 100 years ago are just ridiculous. I'm 20cm taller than my grandparents, few centimeters taller than my father and genes don't have so much to do with it vs. how we got fed when growing up.

well, funnily enough, science projects etc bring them food and money now.

umm..

well, they can speak for their subcons. after all, that's what they did when they implied that your data wouldn't be sold to criminals outside the company.

and that's why they got fined 25 mil, because they did something wrong. should have been a higher sum, but still, they fucked up by doing less of a background check to their employees than they do to their customers!

it's not like anyone forced the company to outsource shit to pacific asia.