each to their own, I prefer a pair of them to a single D.

So simple, so why the fuck did the article have to call it something so complex.

considering any you are buying locally will be made in china or korea anyway then if you are scared of those cards you should be scared of just about every piece of electronic kit in the modern world. Your only safe bet is to go live in the woods with an abundant amount of tin foil.

Actually I think you are wrong, it is simply the bad games that get all the attention, most big games both good and bad have review embargoes. The intent is not to block coverage, rather it is to permit more thorough indepth reviews rather than a rushed hack job at the last minute.

you have time to do a thorough unrushed review with a properly edited write up. Otherwise if they get access the same time as everyone else it becomes a race pump out the fast review to grab the eyes to your site. In theory the embargoes are meant to help everyone, some companies abuse their purpose to prevent negative press before release which is not what they were meant for.

most Slashdot users have a rather impressive set of breasts themselves so it is kinda relevant.

sadly I have tried the latest Z30, and no being a smaller security target for people is not worth the pain of being forced to use it. The last few blackberry's combined with the abortion that is the BES made it very easy for where I work to finally pull the plug on blackberry as neither the Users wanted it and the poor bastards having to run BES certainly didn't want it.

They didn't hack a nokia 5100 or a Motorola razr either. Probably for the exact same reason, why expend effort to hack something nobody uses anymore.

YES it is an Android problem. barring a manufacturing defect the chip does what it is told, their is nothing you can really do at the hardware level to counteract an OS that gets its knickers in a knot.

If I was only speaking for myself then this would not be an issue. the great unwashed masses do not want to be paying constantly for upgrades, nor do they want to wonder if their console is currently powerful enough to run Game X or Y. They want to purchase it and know that everygame release in the next 5 or so years for it will run exactly the same for everyone. Developers also love a single spec to develop for, they know every copy of the game will run at exactly the same resolution and framerate for every person with no hardware variant compatibility or performance issues. This is why consoles exist, otherwise everyone could simply have a PC and I say this as primarily a PC gamer. consoles appear to both developers and consumers because they are a fixed target with known costs.

A console that is upgraded as needed destroys everything that makes a console attractive to both the consumers and the developers.

If you need to ask this question on Slashdot then chances are you don't have the skills to build and run such a system properly.

Their is a massive difference between your own government monitoring you and a foreign government invasively monitoring you. I am not surprised they were justifiably offended by the US's breaches of trust. But your second statements are bullshit, both French and German government spying also caused uproar.

Everyone spies on everyone else, but clearly countries like the US are pushing beyond the boundaries of acceptable behavior when some of the deepest most invasion spying is against supposed friends or their own people. Not to mention spies are not supposed to be above the law!

they can be stopped or at least reduced, they feed on responses, you stop them by not responding to them, especially publically. basically you do everything the opposite way this silly cow has responded to them.