... I thought that "Ubuntu Phone OS Unveiled" on /. ... leading to

"Ubuntu Now Fits on Your Phone"

... meant that I was going to encounter an actual operating system or some evidence that someone, somewhere, has this working. And by "working," I don't mean has an artist's mockup set up on a demo.

All your presents are belong to us!

I was mostly exasperated at how poorly the article was summarized, which led to an even-worse-than-usual discussion of the merits. Krugman doesn't deserve this and neither do /. readers. I'd rather put my eyes out that go back and read the whole thread, but thanks for saying something intelligent, here, after the fact. ;-)

The poster can't read, or summarize.

Here's the link to Krugman's column: http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/26/is-growth-over/

And this means that in a sense we are moving toward something like my intelligent-robots world; many, many tasks are becoming machine-friendly. This in turn means that Gordon is probably wrong about diminishing returns to technology.

Ah, you ask, but what about the people? Very good question. Smart machines may make higher GDP possible, but also reduce the demand for people — including smart people. So we could be looking at a society that grows ever richer, but in which all the gains in wealth accrue to whoever owns the robots.

And then eventually Skynet decides to kill us all, but that’s another story.

Anyway, interesting stuff to speculate about — and not irrelevant to policy, either, since so much of the debate over entitlements is about what is supposed to happen decades from now.

Netflix: $1.5 billion in revenues in 2011 and growing.

Starz: $1.6 billion in revenues in 2011 and relatively stagnant.

Pretty much explains why.

From The New York Times in February:

Both China and Russia prohibit travelers from entering the country with encrypted devices unless they have government permission.

Was there a survey I missed or has the poster missed the difference between

"Slashdot readers using Android"

and

"Slashdot readers using Android to read Slashdot ...

I look at Slashdot on my computer, NOT my Android 2.3 phone.

... They have to completely uninstall their current justice system, first.

... except for the few people I knew who worked for companies that stood to benefit from the wide acceptance of DRM, pretty much everyone was predicting it was a disaster starting in about 1996.

It seems to me that I've done it more than half the time. I'll get the latest socket in a motherboard and buy a lower-cost CPU ... then upgrade the cpu to the best the mobo will take after a few years. Then I'll keep the machine around as secondary/storage/backup etc. while it has some life.

I'm running a p35 with an Intel quad and 8gb ddr2 now ... it originally had a dual core and 4gb. And I'm about ready to finally build another, since this one's predecessor died.

... you'll find that the affair was apparently discovered by the FBI during an investigation into Petraeus' biographer, Paula Broadwell.

"The biographer for resigning CIA Director David Petraeus is under FBI investigation for improperly trying to access his email and possibly gaining access to classified information, law enforcement officials told NBC News on Friday." (NBC News)

I'd say this makes the story: 1) Slashdot-worthy; 2) Probably not in any way about Benghazi; 3) Messier and more mysterious than the average case of adultery by a public official.

How does this not get resolved by: "Sheesh, okay. Stop suing us, and we'll stop suing you. You can use our really dumb patents, we can use yours."

Oh, right. Lawyers are involved.

... surely they can change the name of YOOR a nus ... pick some other deity. It's not like there's a shortage.