Comment Net Neutrality (Score 1, Insightful) 530
This is a great example of what will happen when Republicans repeal Net Neutrality and now MSNBC owner Comcast doesn't feel comfortable letting you access your favorite alt-right website.
Enjoy!
Comment Windows (Score 1) 389
This might be the only time when it is worth it using Windows Phone. No one ever develops apps for that.
Comment Valuation (Score 1) 189
For $12.5B you get:
$3.2 in cash
$2.35 billion from Motorola Home sale
$1B billion in real estate
some deferred tax assets.
patents
Looks like a far better deal than Apple and Microsoft got for $4.5 billion in Nortel patent purchase.
Comment Re:This is insane (Score 1) 150
I would say it probably has to do more with Microsoft doing a lot of work to make ActiveX safer and browsers like Firefox and Chrome taking increasing market share.
Before that Internet Explorer had such a large market share and so many easier attack vectors than Java plugins.
And after constant stream of security updates Flash is probably a bit harder nut to crack than Java is.
Submission + - Apple says booting OS X makes an unauthorized copy 9
recoiledsnake writes: Groklaw has an extensive look at the latest developments in the Psystar vs. Apple story. There's a nice picture illustrating the accusation by Apple that Psystar makes three unauthorized copies of OS X. The most interesting however, is the last copy. From Apple's brief: "Finally, every time Psystar turns on any of the Psystar computers running Mac OS X, which it does before shipping each computer, Psystar necessarily makes a separate modified copy of Mac OS X in Random Access Memory, or RAM. This is the third unlawful copy." Psystar's response: "Copying a computer program into RAM as a result of installing and running that program is precisely the copying that Section 117 provides does not constitute copyright infringement for an owner of a computer program. As the Ninth Circuit explained, permitting copies like this was Section 117’s purpose." Is Apple seriously arguing that installing a third party program and booting OS X results in copyright infringement due to making a derivative work and an unauthorized copy?
Comment Re:50c a day (Score 1) 874
The day you start trusting the Heritage Foundation over CBO is the day you need to admit that you are looking for an echo chamber and not unbiased data.
$5 a day would result in $550B a year revenue to the treasury, single handily eliminating the long term Federal deficit. There is absolutely nothing in the current proposal that would come even close to that.
Comment 50c a day (Score 1) 874
I am glad that after all these years, the tradition of posters on slashdot not reading the article continues.
Even if global warming is completely bogus, I for one will gladly pay 50c a day if it means:
Fewer people dieing from black lung disease.
Cleaner air.
Not having to invade countries for their natural resources.
Funding for new technology based solutions to our energy supply.
And finally, for those that claim cap and trades is the end of capitalism, pricing of public goods is one of the corner stones of capitalism.
Comment Re:Capitalist flight (Score 5, Informative) 1142
Your data does not include the fast that the USA also has a ridiculous number of corporate tax deductions.
Average company in S&P 500 had tax rate of 26% between 2002 and 2006, probably the lowest in developed world.
Comment From The Economist (Score 5, Interesting) 275
Recent space solar power article from The Economist
http://www.economist.com/science/tq/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12673299
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