Comment Re:Easy! (Score 1) 481
Actually, many people have up to ten fingers. Personally, I use my big toe.
RMS, is that you?
Comment Re:A fervent defense of Apathy (Score 1) 658
America is where a Jew and an Arab can live next to each other in peace, not brainwashed from birth to destroy each other because of some argument between scruffy goat-herders hundreds of years ago. America is where a Catholic girl can marry a Muslim guy simply because they love each other, and not be bred into fervent hatred because of the faiths of their families.
You got it confused. This place is called "Europe", not "America". America never was this tolerant to begin with. The whole "land of the free" mantra comes from the times where it was relatively new to have country without explicit LAWS against the above. The lack of laws mandating intolerance however never had any bearing on the intolerance of the society itself, which was and is the norm.
Comment Re:#1 reason to use Android (Score 1) 287
Not on Moto you can't. Locked bootloaders all along (except some developer units), which means the only thing you're able to boot is one of the vendor-delivered signed kernels. This has been circumvented somewhat by chain-loading, but it still means vendor kernel is started first and can setup whatever spyware they damn please, even if you're on (unofficial) CM.
Comment Re:And still no Windows sandboxing (Score 1) 181
Look up New Tab, New Window extension that forces Chrome to open any new tab in new window instead. You'll still have the ugly tabbar above and the window title is therefore not shown fully (limited by tab with), but this can't be helped without changing source, I guess.
Comment Re:unworkable? care to elaborate, corporate world? (Score 1) 134
And so on. No man is an island.
Except the Isle of Man.
Comment Re:Why? (Score 1) 108
What's the point of a manned ballistic fly-by?
To make Mars flight controllers spill their coffee, of course.
Comment Ladies and gentlemen... (Score 1) 35
...welcome to my underground lair.
Comment Re:I can see it now (Score 1) 126
"Two students enter their first year at the academy. One wants to be a storm trooper, the other a Rebel pilot;
And together, they fight crime!
Comment Re:Damn... (Score 5, Funny) 602
a parking spot would be nice though.
It's Howard spot now. You don't even drive, Sheldon
Submission + - Smartphone companies are now entering a phase of Mutually Assured Destruction (shkspr.mobi)
Tryfen writes: As patent trials rage across the globe, it has become clear that smartphone companies are engaged in Mutually Assured Destruction. What's the endgame here? Do they all capitulate and cross-licence their patents? Are they forced to buy patents and pass the costs onto customers? Will companies withdraw — voluntarily or otherwise — from the smartphone space?
Submission + - Is Police Cellphone Tracking Okay If There's No Trespass? (justia.com)
marbux writes: Two-part article criticizes a questionable recent appeals court ruling that police in the U.S. may track cell phone locations without a search warrant.
This past August, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, in United States v. Skinner, held that police may, without a warrant or probable cause, use global positioning technology to track a suspect’s whereabouts through his cellular phone. This ruling is important because it follows up on the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision last term in United States v. Jones that police do need a warrant and probable cause to attach a global positioning device to a vehicle and thereby track a suspect’s whereabouts.
Submission + - Confirmed: Germany Monitors Skype, Google Mail, Yahoo Mail and Facebook chat (paritynews.com)
hypnosec writes: German Government has went a bit too far trying to be transparent and has inadvertently revealed that German police monitors Skype, Google Mail, MSN Hotmail, Yahoo Mail and Facebook chat as and when necessary. The revelations come as the German Government let out figures of expenses incurred by the Federal Ministry of the Interior following a parliamentary inquiry, which were spotted by the annalist blog. The pages contain a whole lot of tables and as many would find those boring, some pages reveal something very startling. On page 34 and page 37 of the report line item 486 and 265 respectively, represent decoding software for Google Mail, MSN Hotmail, Yahoo Mail for prevention and investigation.
Submission + - OnLive sold for $5M (bbc.co.uk)
gabebear writes: "In a firesale Onlive, which was once valued at $1.8bn, was sold for practically nothing. Workers are mostly losing their jobs and stock options and investors are having to write off their investment."
Comment Re:Double strandards (Score 1) 181
Let's come back to this discussion once you'll have upgraded to the new MAJOR version of the OS. No, 7 to 7.5 wasn't that.
Comment Would be an exercise in uselessnes (Score 2) 151
I bet everybody think about Android Market and all the cool stuff there. Well, don't do that unless your Android runs ARM.
I've got recently my hands on a Android MIPS phone. Extremely frustrating experience -- two of every three downloads from the Market simply refuse to install, because they have some tiny snippet or library compiled to ARM native code. Unless Intel heavy invests in app developers recompiling their works for Android/x86, it will be barely usable outside of the base system.
