being scared of swedish extradition system is legit.
they've fucked up before.
really the effort in regards of the claimed crime is bizarre(and the victims deciding what it was, that happened, afterwards, after finding out that he was a two timer).
the guy probably felt that there wasn't the need to pay TWICE for playing the music.
maybe he believed that hiring the dj, and with dj paying a fee already, that he wouldn't need to pay more fees. like, the dj already pays for professionally playing the songs in public places BUT the public place also has to pay a fucking fee and they could have probably gotten off with paying just that one.
however he was mistaken, due to fee systems typically being really, really fucked up. want to play your _own_ song on a street? free if you never signed up to receive royalties. if you did, you'll have to pay a fee - a fee that should be paid to _you_ mind you and which you get back just a fraction of(if anything, depending on how that particular organization counts who gets the money - is it pretty much exact racketeering by whoever owns MJ's playing rights? pretty much yeah, in practice in most organizations only the popular enough to register in their rigged measurement system get paid - while playing every band needs you to pay the organization, they're only paying bands their algorithm extrapolates plays for)
generally though, it's the venue who is responsible for paying the fee.
well then they should have leaked to the press how they got the information and how they got the files that they weren't supposed to even have, much less were supposed to have the means to decrypt it.
it just sounds like some guy in a suit wanted a free dinner from the magazines journalist and DADAA... it's like the fucking journalist did no self critical thinking of the story at all (it would have been written differently if there was any analysis whatsofuckingever into what he was writing).
it's just so ludicrous to claim that china and russia would have started a nuclear war without these extra special mi6 agents.
it's simple.
nsa told them that cia had been hacked and the files were now in possession of the chinese.
they were called "snowden files" because they were in a folder on their network share called "snowden files".
it's really rather made up claim any ways. possibly just to ease up the chinese. more probable is that they pulled out of people that were working to them who were in fact american or for some reason filled the forms/data that was stolen from USA, so they removed the personnel that was also on those files and just blamed it on Snowden.
for significant enough snapshot of windows skype users the tablet users are a fairly small minority.
and even the windows rt tablet users would rather have the desktop skype at least as an option.
now, of course, the app should move seamlessly between the two BUT I guess even microsofts own devs were shafted when it came to stuff like that being possible, viable & easy to pull off.
and you really really don't friggin want skype taking up one fourth of the screen while you're typing into excel.
the use case becomes further moot though when considering that it's far more likely that you'll take the skype call on your smartphone IF you happen to be using a windows tablet in "tablet mode".
two things, 600k is modest only if you don't consider it being wages for a year for 10-20 people.
kung fury, which included a lot of stuff that a documentary about stuff you already have and interviewing people you already know who they are doesn't need, got pledged 600k
which india are they spying for?
the thing with india is that it's like 2000 states that barely get along long enough to put a killer in a prison.
ms's answer to this would be to use cloud messaging to push that a call is incoming or IM message was received or some shit like that, which fine for some uses wouldn't really fit with how skype works..
anyhow, ms has been clueless intentionally about what devs want. like, we asked at one company for them to add playing of mp3's from the media library in the background in windows phone.
their dev amassadors or whatevers answer was: "you don't want to do that". yeah sure we don't, the entire app depended on that pretty much for to be an useful port(local office ms guys understood that it was a problem, the jet setting ambassador didn't get it on purpose - a friggin useless talking head that knew just about as much of the system as any dev with one month of experience, like gee whizz if you make a game you don't want to make the sprites from the usual ui elements no shit).
just run an emulator on a pi.
if it's serial or parallel it speaks out through, trivial to tweak it to work.
and ebay has plenty of working amigas for many years..
nobody wants a fullscreen IM app. that's the problem.
for a while they were pushing win8/8.1 users to the metro version, to tie them to the appstore.
on a related note the adware they delivered to shill windows 10 update is crashing on multiple people.. http://answers.microsoft.com/e...
and on an even more related note, skype fails shutting down consistently on my windows 8.1 pc. the desktop version that is, crashes every time on shutdown. EVERY SINGLE TIME. it has been updated multiple times without fix.
seriously, nobody doing serious work inside microsoft even was using the metro skype. it's impossible to integrate it into any kind of workflow.
what are these security features that you speak of?
seriously...
maybe they'll do a deal with some middleware to run android apps directly and do a deal with operas app store for android(nokia X series phones got moved to using that now, since nokia canceled their android line and closed their own appstore).
I don't see how that would be a drawback. bandwidth is still bandwidth anyhow, so more amazon bills for having ads on your web pages - presumably you would try to get higher ad revenue from the ad broker company to offset that.
slashdot mobile is basically unusable on _1ghz_ android phones now, due to how the ads are served and what they do. it used to be that you could read slashdot on a phone with 3.6mbytes of free ram after boot!(nokia 3650).
sounds that just about anything than C for web development could have saved your company.
like, node, ruby, java, python or ANYTHING else.
websites forced for two ad networks then, apples and googles.
and wait for the lawsuits to ensue.
though, it might finally lead to ads being delivered from the same host as the rest of the content on the page - that would be some well needed sanity(and removal of javascript from the adverts for the security implications that approach has).
are you saying that typing isn't an actual skill? mastering 10 finger technique isn't a skill? it sure is.
thing is, it's no longer so valuable of a skill that it would get you a job automatically like in the early '80s.
One man's constant is another man's variable. -- A.J. Perlis
