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Comment Re:Intel's linux support is impeccable (Score 1) 61

No. AMD is afraid that someone at Nvidia, IBM, or elsewhere, will look through their open source code and see that they are violating one of Nvidia/IBM/whomever's patent, and sues them for not just the linux driver, that opens the door to discovery on all their other platforms as well.

Comment Re:legally binding (Score 1) 100

Yes, they are legally binding.

Unfortunately, there is no monitoring or enforcement mechanism, so effectively it is as if there are no conditions applied.

Well, I suppose some crazy guy at AT&T will read the document, and go "hey, we should be doing this", maybe try to actually implement some of the rules in his department and then be summarily fired. It's possible, but unlikely.

Comment Re:Approach security the wrong way? No shit! (Score 1) 157

the uconnect can still display the settings just fine [I guess, potentially a rogue program could try to trick the user by displaying false data on the screen], but it shouldn't be allowed to control the settings.

And that's the rub, the extra couple of dollars for separate, completely independent buttons is too much...

Comment Re:Interesting... (Score 1) 98

FTFS "I am troubled by the allegations that such dangerous and illicit activity went undetected at a federal research facility. It is essential that we determine exactly where the breakdown in protocol occurred and whether similar activities could be ongoing at other federal facilities"

The first sentence [and much of the summary] indicate that possibly illegal drugs were being made, but they weren't sure.
The second sentence was "How did this happen and is it happening elsewhere" [ie, it definitely happened, and we must stop it from happening again].

Comment Re:OS X (Score 1) 405

So, you would only consider buying an Apple-branded PC if it was exactly the same as every other manufacturers boxes, but Apple charged 20-30% less than everybody else?

I'm pretty sure everyone would buy Apple PC's then.

  Apple would have 100% marketshare. Until they ran out of money selling these at a loss, given that the margins for pretty much every other manufacturer are sub-10%.

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