My guess is that the fuckers at the hotel forgot to renew the contract and were too fucking dumb to offer a good setlement. They deserve whats coming.

Are there alternatives to this tech? I would happily buy from a competitor if one is available and boycott a company who would fuck over consumers like this. Is there even a way to choose or tell the difference between fakes or competitor products?

Where are they used? Who uses them? What alternatives are there?

They want to remake the naming scheme. This one will be called "Windows X" (because it's cool). Next one will promise to be different and they will call it "Windows Y" (because changing things for no reason might work). And the version after that will be the ultimate version. "The Windows Y can't we make a decent OS".

You're not very smart. Can I please call you stupid?

Where the fuck are you from?

I was going to mod you +1 funny, but you stole my joke.

Some people are so damn stupid it would be a surprise if there aren't dozens of people falling for this.

New slashdot slogan anyone?
Why is this news on the front page?
For this to actually make it in the front page. It should have at least statistics about how many idiots have fallen for this.

Not on apple devices.

Apple does not support many standard technologies and artificially limits the usability of the device that is double the price of other devices on par on features. Except for the crippled functionality of many features.

Entire world? Yes if you mean leaked nudes. No if you mean convinient file transfer between people. At least samsung devices have the ability to connect to other devices.

You're making the assumption someone wants to send their pictures to a server. Or the transferable file is a pic at all. The thing is. Apple does not have a fully functioning bluetooth, contact sharing or any wireles medium whatsover and it will not have a fully functioning NFC either. This is not new. And I am talking about fully functioning, not some "it has bluetooth cause my 200e apple bluetooth speakers work on it."

AFAIK microsoft did not get any nokia patents with the buyout. As such nokia has left the market and samsung can no longer cross license with nokia, instead have to pay them and have to rethink their spending on frivolous microsoft patents.

In my opinion, keeping patents secret while saying someone is infridging one should be sued for libel or similar. If a company wants royalties from patents, they should say how much and from which patents. For a long time companies just say "they are infridging" and do not specify and are not called out on their bullshit. Top that with tons of obvious patents that should never have been granted. The system is fundamentally broken.

I installed addblock because videos and streams I watched had add volume loudness so loud that it was a real problem. I often watch videos during the night and when the loudness jumps up for the adds it becomes annoying really fast. And that was the only reason.

I don't really mind adds and I know they run the content creators, but just that one small issue was enough for me.

Shitty article and the answer is simple.