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Comment Re:Yeah and how about rooting Android? (Score 1) 423

Jailbreaking != Carrier Changing

Both were given in this update as exemptions, but they're not the same thing at all.

Jailbreaking is used to install non-Apple approved apps onto the device. This is something that Android (at least non AT&T Android) devices support out of the box, as does RIM, etc.

Carrier restrictions are another thing entirely. However to do that, you /do/ have to Jailbreak first I believe. But you don't have to change carriers just because you jailbreak. =P

/Android user

Comment Re:make sense? (Score 1) 266

based on a seven year-old contract he never bothered to assert any rights under and is therefore barred by the statute of limitations.

Contracts start and end, but have nothing to with a Statute of Limitations in and of themselves.

Breach of a contract has a seven year period under New York law; however that would be from when the breach occurred. Which is entirely possible to be when he contacted Zuckerberg asking who he was going to sell "their" website to, and how much they looked to make. As soon as Zuckerberg would have responded "You don't own anything" the breach timer would start. Not from when the contract was signed.

(That's all of course asuming that those events happened, which I'm not saying they did.)

Comment Re:Sounds like (Score 1) 757

As others have stated, that's incorrect.

Verizon has licensed Droid from Lucasfilm. Every Android handset they have is named with Droid.

The Moto Droid is the only one of them to not have any further qualifier in the name, however Droid Eris, Droid X, Droid Incredible, Droid 2, etc. are not all Motorola.

Comment Re:Android... (Score 1) 716

And that is coming online shortly in the revamped Market.

Along with (for 2.2/FroYo devices) a true cloud to mobile device system where you can even install software on your android device from the website on another system (along with so much more.)

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Submission + - Stable Open Source NTFS After 12 Years of Work

irgu writes: "Open source NTFS development started in 1995 by Martin von Loewis under Linux, which was taken over by Anton Altaparmakov in 2000. Two years ago Apple hired Altaparmakov to work on Mac OS X and made a deal with the team to relicense the code and return the new one, soonest in the spring of 2008. But the team also continued the work and Szabolcs Szakacsits announced the read/write NTFS-3G driver for beta testing last year. Only half year passed and NTFS-3G reached the stable status and has been already ported to FreeBSD, Mac OS X, BeOS, Haiku, 64-bit and big-endian architectures, and new CPU's!"

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