lol, well I did actually bring my helmet and my gloves to work since I bike...

WAIT A MINUTE IS THIS MY BOSS!?

uh, not sure if you even read the original article but..

There IS an open implementation of java, the openJDK, which is why this is being shut down (IBM who was the main contributor to Harmony has moved it's resources to openJDK).

But I guess it's more in line with slashdots javahate if we ignore those facts.

Are you sure about that?

And more to the fact, why would they? I don't believe any of their message transfering is encrypted, so why would India need to ask them for it? Note, blackberries encrypt by default. Also note, in the articles linked, they talk about Nokia giving access, so this isn't a blackberry only thing.

RIM is also not giving them access to the BES servers it seems, so they are pushing back....and to be honest, this ENTIRE slashdot submission is pretty much just here for more blackberry bashing (which seems to be pretty popular these days). This was originally announced 6 months ago, but now it makes the slashdot headlines.....

False sense of security.

There have been studies, and more well known, mythbusters did an episode on something very similar (is talking on a cellphone while driving just as bad as drinking and driving), and while mythbusters is a bit hollywood science at times, they confirmed the myth. Texting isn't that far off. And in other studies, is just as bad.

But don't take my word for it, take a look at all the studies and materials.

There's a reason why texting/talking on the phone is rapidly becoming illegal while driving. But hey! Maybe in Nebraska, facts and truths aren't the norm!

Good post, just an additional note,

If you do apply for UI (EI, whatever its called these days), you would be surprised at how much lee-way they give you. I've never had to deal with the situation personally, but I know people that have quit and/or have been fired and still got UI.

wow, I never knew about this. No wonder my VLC player on my ipad hasn't been updated in close to a year. :( I guess I should count my lucky stars that I got it when it was still legit.

It's not a ban of the Samsung 10.1 tablet from all of Europe, just from Samsung Germany Division from selling it in other parts of Europe. Considering Samsung has divisions in most countries, this is a bit of a moot point.

Well,

It's not just the phone market. This is actually a good example of a free market. Google is doing it's thing. The carriers are desperately doing it's own. Apple will come out swinging with their own NFC platform. RIM as well. And then there are big big hitters from card processors that basically have full blown out platforms already in production. There are so many players, it's actually nice to see such a huge possible market being fought by every single company.

disclosure: I work in this industry. There are two major ways that are there to mitigate the risk when you lose your phone. 1. You (in most NFC platforms) have to sign in, or enter a pin before you can buy anything with your mobile wallet/card. 2. If you do lose your phone, many of the platforms will have binary encrypted sms's that they can send to your phone to remotely erase your cards. Now when you compare that with your credit card, this offers a much more secure way to disable any type of transactions. Also, there really is no difference between Google's wallet and the carriers wallet. 1. if you lose your phone, you are losing your sim based NFC enabled secure element. 2. If you lose your phone, you are losing your phone based NFC enabled secure element. This is all about control. The carriers want to control this market because of the future growth (possibly the last bastion of profit for carriers), while Google (and Apple, and RIM, etc etc) want it phone based so they can hold all the keys.

muelleralert, so i know when to avoid the article.