Comment 1 in 5 drop phones in the toilet (Score 1) 208
I was wondering why Microsoft would ask about that. Now I know.
India is the 5th country...to get a symbol for its currency.
Ummm... The Unicode Code Charts show many more than 5 country's currency symbols. And the currency code section has room for 23 more currency symbols.
"LLMDA can ensure food, drug and vaccine safety and help diagnose medical problems"
That's just one of the selling points. If an attack does ever occur, this will be of tremendous help.
The honest truth is NOTHING is efficient. And NOTHING is really interested in anything other than collecting as much power as possible/maintaining the status quo.
Hmm.. I guess I just don't agree. Government is really one of the few things that can create solutions in everyones interest. Do you honestly think child labor, anti-discrimination policies, the interstate highway system, free public education (as opposed to private only), etc aren't all successes of government? None of those examples are either "maintaining the status quo". I guess you could argue some of them are "collecting power", but that's not always a bad thing either. Dismissing government as a solution to problems because you only look at its failures is dishonest.
This particular case I don't know about, but you sound like you're merely dismissing it out of hand, based on ideological grounds. I think that's wrong, and you don't have to look to far to see why.
Exactly, and it hasn't been happening in the US. If people *wanted* to do it, they would be doing it.
What makes more sense?
That we have tons of enemies who want nothing more than to give up their lives to kill some americans, but they are completely unable to get into the US, are unable to do things like rent cars or buy weapons when they get here, or are otherwise completely and 100% thwarted by our counter-terrorism efforts
- or -
That we just don't have that many people willing to try to kill Americans in the US, and the ones who do try things are usually just not mentally coherent enough to pull it off
I'm going with the second option - the first requires too many completely absurd things to be true.
The Symbian point is an important one. While Apple is getting a lot of flack for this (because people just love hating Apple), this is pretty normal practice for embedded devices like cell phones.
Can you provide a reference for company or companies owning Symbian (is it just Nokia these days?) legally restricting Adobe, or anyone else, from producing development tools targetting their platform?
Yeah, there wasn't already expectation after their iPhone 4 OS event or anything. What a silly post. This is obviously a stolen test unit.
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