Dude what EXACTLY is left to "refocus"? The company has been bleeding money, the only real selling point they had, American made and supported, just went down the shitter and thanks to the NSA nobody in business is gonna trust jack shit when it comes to communications originating in the USA.

Lets face it, BB is screwed. They sat on ass for too long and let Android and OSX drink their milkshake. Their one chance would be maybe breaking it up for parts be "taking the for sale sign down" translates to "nobody would buy the company" so even that is a no go.

Uhhh...what is to keep a rapist from using one of those portable "mini cell tower" boxes to find out the IMEI of his target and then report it stolen? Seems like a good way to make sure your victim can't call for help, what with more and more folks switching to cell only.

Actually Loongson is a CPU makr you might want to watch, sadly we won't get the chips here (thanks to the broken patent and copyright messes) but they re cooking up some REALLY interesting chips, in fact I'd argue that for the first time in ages you have someone actually thinking out of the box and innovating instead of just making variations on the arm bandwagon.

For an example check out their MIPS designs, where they have added a hardware X86 emulation layer so that you can fire up their custom version of Bochs and have 80% of the performance of the chip when running your legacy software! Imagine how sweet it would be to have mobile devices with the power saving of RISC that still allowed you to fire up your old Windows programs in return for some battery life ONLY when you needed them, wouldn't that be awesome?

As for TFA, sling hate ALL you want but lets call a spade a spade, okay? RMS passed the reasonable exit about 20 miles ago and has been in batshit militant town for several years now, I mean the guy said the fricking OLPC was "too locked down"...what? Then again I figured the cheese had slipped off his cracker when I saw this video...Stallman WTF? You are in public man, on stage no less? What were you smoking that made you think that THAT was appropriate behavior?

That is why I say, much as I disagree with the man, especially on the way he treats people, that if you are gonna look for direction from someone in the FOSS community? Look to Torvalds. He may have a smart mouth but I've never seen him act like he might need a psych eval and even when you disagree with him he makes DAMN good arguments to support his position. With his holding up signs, acting like he does on stage, frankly RMS reminds me more and more of Rev Al Sharpton than anything, someone who trolls the media for publicity and does outrageous shit just to stay in the spotlight. With all the media looking seriously at FOSS since the hit of Android is that REALLY the kind of spokesman you want?

"Mediadefender doesn't count because the users install it"...sound familiar? if you go by THAT metric guess what? Windows is bug free! Yay, there are no malware infected systems, hey security guys, your all out of a job LOL!

Hate to break the news to ya friend but guess how the vast majority of malware spreads? PEBKAC and this proves that Linux is JUST AS VULNERABLE as any other OS. And can you show me ONE zero day that was caught and fixed by a user and NOT a corporation? Just one? You can't because you are falling for the many eyes fallacy that states because something COULD happen it HAS happened. You and others think because the code COULD be audited it HAS been audited with ZERO proof to back it up. Well by that logic since there COULD be zombies there ARE zombies...but I don't think i need to start carrying a shotgun to kill the undead, do you?

Since you seem like a normal person and not a FOSSie, which are like a Moonie only with FOSS as their religion you might want to read this which quickly and concisely explains why its a lie better than I ever could. Oh and just FYI you want to see a FOSSie go absolutely apeshit? Give him a TMRepo link. Of course just as a flat earther hates science so too does a FOSSie hate TMRepo because it has reduced their tired old talking points into cliches. I could take every pro Linux rant here and reduce it to 5 TMs or less, know why? Because its the SAME TIRED SHIT, for 20 fricking years they have been using the same tired ass excuses, "works for me(TM)" "Linux has more drivers(TM)" "Stable ABI nonsense(TM)" its the same shit.

But many eyes is just a variant of the man month. It doesn't work, isn't ever gonna work, and frankly just because you have the source for a low level subsystem doesn't magically give you the knowledge and experience required to repair that system. it would be like saying if I gave you the blueprints you could fab some O-Rings for the shuttle, not happening.

If you actually believe its about driving drunk, where they already can do a Breathalyzer or blood sample? i have a bridge you might be interested in. Its about getting as many citizens in as they can into their DB, specifically the poor. they know the person driving that Lexus is gonna tell them to get bent while the mother of 3 in that 94 Dodge? Not so much.

I never thought I'd say this but I'm glad my beloved grandfather and great uncles are gone, they fought against fascism in WWII and this kind of gestapo shit would disgust the hell out of them. I could probably wrap his body in some copper wire and run my entire neighborhood from all the revolutions he's turning in his grave.

I urge everybody who hasn't seen it to watch Naomi Wolf's lecture which shows how shit like this and the TSA intimidation fits into the bigger picture, because its fucking SCARY folks. This is the same plays that have been run since the time of Lenin and El Duce, get the population used to being confronted, cowed down and intimidated, makes things easier when they inevitably clamp down. Never forget that in 1930 Germany was a democracy and the NSDAP was a fringe bunch of kooks. Countries don't go from free to non free slowly, the shift is VERY fast but there is warning signs that a shift is occurring. I'd say shit like this and the NSA watching everything you do would be good indicators.

For those that think this kind of shit doesn't have a chilling effect? remember that when the wall fell it was found that the STASI had less than 7% of the population on their lists yet the entire population lived like they were always under the boot because everyone thought that they were one of the 7%. It really doesn't take much to break the will of a populace, just intimidation and fear used in the right places.

I think you are missing the more important information here, malware like this and Linux servers being targeted for attack finally drive a stake through the lie that just because you have source that magically makes it more secure. As we see its just as many of us have been saying for years that once Linux reached a level of popularity it too would fall, no different than windows and OSX.

All having the source does is make it so that 1.- if you have the money, or 2.- if you have the coding talent, that you can continue to have that older piece of hardware or software supported...that's it, that's all it does, it keeps you from ending up with software or hardware being unsupported because everybody moved on because you can pay to keep it going or fix it yourself. I mean if anybody even thought about it for more than 30 seconds it would be plain as the nose on your face why "many eyes" is a myth, how many tens of millions of loc is in your average distro? How many programs and/or components are updated/upgraded on that distro per quarter? This is why every bug tracker has bugs going back several years, for the vast majority of any distro I seriously doubt anybody other than the guys that actually work on the project look at it with any regularity and you can be damned sure the majority of it isn't getting a security audit, it simply changes too fast.

But of course I'll be modded off the page for daring to point out what TFA clearly shows, but IRL Linux is just as complex as any other modern OS and where there is complexity there is flaws, simple as that.

I know in the winter especially I can see real benefits of taking a multivitamin because if i don't i end up with split lips along the corners whereas if i take a multivitamin that just doesn't happen.

Now I'll be the first to admit I'm the "meat and taters" kind of guy and salads are what you feed to what you are gonna actually put on the plate but for me multivitamins show a benefit and the cost is so little i really see no reason not to take them. The same goes for my fiance, she hates drinking milk and so takes a multivitamin with calcium and the doc says her bone density is good while many of the women in her family have brittle bones. again the cost is so little why change?

Uhhh...how EXACTLY is "Linux" any sort of solution when it comes to bandwidth? I'd like to have that one explained please, because you can have a BSD/OSX/Windows box that never phones home and a Linux box that is a chatty Cathy and since pretty much any modern OS can use scheduled tasks I really don't see any advantage for one OS over the other.

As far as the other tips using your own DNS and using a router for QOS? Honestly? No offense man, as it seems like your heart is in the right place, but that kind of stuff would probably fit better on an eHow article or in your slashdot journal, most of the guys here already know networking 101 stuff.

BTW you think that's bad Internet? I was on HughesNet for nearly 5 years friend, now THAT is some painful fricking Internet! I would have killed to have even low end DSL, hell shotgunned modems was less painful than the Hughes Blues!

It wouldn't be if done correctly and the savings of domestic production combined with less pollution would have more than made up for the cost.

What we need is a "people's car/truck" made here in the USA that is 1.- Less than 20K,preferably less than 16K, 2.- Runs on diesel so it'll be simple and cheap to switch to biofuel and most importantly 3.- gets 40 MPG for the small truck and 50 MPG for the car.

Once you had this in place you could have a REAL cash for clunkers where the government would offer subsidies and breaks to get folks out of those old gas pigs and into the new more efficient vehicle. I mean have you looked at the national MPG? Last I checked it was something like 14MPG, but why? Its because poor folks have to drive what they can afford and the gas hogs are cheap to buy on the used market. I see it every day in the apts, working poor drive what they can get.

The sad part is you wouldn't need exotic batteries or new tech to do this, this is doable right now and would do more to wean us off of ME oil, cut down on pollution and as we all know the poor spend their money so every dime they weren't handing out at the pump would go back into the economy, it would do nothing but good all around. But sadly because the money men can't figure out how to get huge checks from this like Monsanto and friends get from the pointless ethanol? It'll never get done.

Not if you use Steam, my games are updated in the background, it even updates my mods when a new version comes out, couldn't be simpler.

It doesn't change the fact that the first year of a console's life is shit. Sorry i didn't think to save the link but there was an article just the other day showing that the best games for a system? Usually come late year 2 and early year 3. Just because its X86 isn't gonna change that as its still using a funky shared memory model and like with every launch its more about getting the game on the shelf ASAP and not how good it is so even if you like consoles? the smart money will sit it out for a good 8 months. This gives devs time to learn the system and for the manufacturers to get the bugs out.

Do we REALLY have to point out that correlation does not equal causation? If it did we could wipe out global warming by getting more pirates.

And honestly? DRM as a concept in and of itself isn't bad, its the assholes that always go too damned far with it that make it suck! Take CD checks, those were simple, kept Billy Joe Bob from just popping in a CD and hitting copy while those that know a little more? it was trivial to bypass. And I have zero problems with Steam because unlike other forms of DRM you GET something in return. I get matchmaking, updating of my games, easy access to mods via Steam Workshop, chat, and again just like CD checks if I really wanted to? 10 minutes at gamecopyworld and i could bypass it.

So i don't think the idea itself is bad, just the implementation. I still say piracy is the market telling you that you are doing something wrong, your price is too high, the product is too much of a PITA to get, there is something not right because if you have everything set up right by the market? Just look at Payday:The Heist, they listened to customers, gave them what they asked for without going insane on the budget and the preorders alone had that game making a profit, everything from day one onward is just gravy.

And you can thank Ronnie Raygun for that. See the chart at 3.30? See what happened when the government poured BILLIONS into the stock market through 401Ks and 403Bs? Your bailouts and "too big to fails" can be traced to all this money forced into the market which rewarded short term bounces and rumor instead of actually building real value. This bubble WILL BURST and when it does? It'll make the great depression look like a flash crash. It is inevitable, it can't be stopped, too much of the economy is tied into the mess for any politician to do anything but kick the can and hope it don't collapse on his watch. The bailouts and financial meltdown was what happens when people stop investing in 401Ks and 403Bs because they are all now working "mcJobs" and Wall Street in its current state can't survive without constantly climbing infusions of money.

TLDR? By flooding the market with money they have created the mother of all bubbles, the bailouts are just the preshocks.

Its still the same principle dude, a list maintained by some guy/s somewhere that is supposed to magically keep up with the 10,000+ websites pwned every single day and as I pointed out to the Linux "Just give us the source and we'll maintain it" the math just doesn't work. You've got MAYBE 50 guys working on that DNS list, you have several BILLION websites, and you have legitimate websites getting pwned all the time. in just the past few months we've seen everyone from wordpress to Google serve malware and you HONESTLY think that a text file is gonna save you?

You might as tape a rabbit's foot to the router for all the good you are doing, magical thinking just doesn't work. if it did? You'd see routers sold by default with easy to switch blocklists. the reason they don't is because you end up blocking legit sites that have been cleaned while letting in sites that have been freshly pwned, the math just isn't on your side, like blacklists you are playing an arms race with the world and you WILL lose, the only question is how long it takes.

What kind of "security system" are they running that they just now updated to an OS about to be abandoned? I have a feeling this system is about as useful as a 30 day trial of Norton from 2002.

As for TFA? look folks, its a dozen year old OS...what do you expect? Its patches has patches and unlike Vista and those that came after XP allowed programs to just run amok in its registry and system files. Frankly there ain't no telling which piece is causing the bug and how long it would take to fix. You've got third party AVs and DRM that dig into the kernel, you've got the bandaids bolted on to try to deal with the fact XP was designed to run as admin...its just a mess folks, it really is. So just let the thing die already, I mean if MSFT was still offering patches to Win98, would anybody here REALLY argue it was a good thing to run it, really? Well then why would you champion WinXP, an OS whose system requirements are a 300Mhz P3 with 128Mb of RAM. Yes its THAT fricking old. Let the old gal die already, like Win2K it had a good run but that time is past.

For those running hardware so damned old it won't take anything newer I suggest you look at an AMD Bobcat Board which will frankly pay for itself in a few months thanks to lower cooling and the fact that at load the whole thing uses less than those power hog P4s did idling while running rings around all those old POS chips. Hell you can get one with a PCI slot and use a PCI to IDE/SATA adapter and keep your old drives and STILL be faster than those old Pentiums. You can even dual boot with XP if you need some time to switch over your programs but with only 4 months left better get on the ball. Use Win 7, use Linux, use something but get of XP already!

Besides it really wouldn't be worth the bother as you could either spam the site from multiple directions, thus giving the tracking a lot harder time, or you could just use IEDs or suicide bombers which of course wouldn't be affected by your fancy laser.

Every time I see new "super tech" like this all I can think of is Vietnam, the USA had tech light years ahead of the enemy...who then proceeded to make it so messy that the USA gave up and pulled out.