Comment Trollers... (Score 1) 422
What a big steam load...
Submission + - Verizon removes search choices for Blackberrys (theregister.co.uk)
shrugger writes: I picked up my Blackberry this morning to do a search and noticed, Bing as my default search engine. I thought this was very strange, since I didn't pick this setting. I went to change it back to Google, and to my chagrin, Bing was my only option!! Apparently Verizon has pushed updates that remove all search providers except Bing. Thanks a lot Verizon!
Submission + - Android's Success a Threat to Free Software? (linuxjournal.com)
Glyn Moody writes: Two years after its launch, Google's Linux-based Android platform is finally making its presence felt in the world of smartphones. Around 20,000 apps have been written for it: although well behind the iPhone's tally, that's significantly more than just a few months ago. But there's a problem: few of these Android apps are free software. Instead, we seem to be witnessing the birth of a new hybrid stack: open source underneath, and proprietary on top. If, as many believe, mobile phones will become the main computing platform for most of the world, that could be a big problem for the health of the free software ecosystem. So what, if anything, should the community be doing about it?
Submission + - SPAM: Cell Phone to carry cancer warning like cigarettes
Cytalk writes: After France cell phone cancer warning, A Maine legislator wants to make the state the first to require cell phones to carry warnings that they can cause brain cancer, although there is no consensus among scientists that they do and industry leaders dispute the claim.
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Submission + - Microsoft sued over Bing trademark (guardian.co.uk)
mentus writes: Bing! Information Design, a design company from Missouri is suing Microsoft over the "intentionally interference" with their trademark and claiming M$ had knowledge of the mark when it relaunched its rebranded search engine. Microsoft legal representative Kevin Kutz states that he believes that the case will be dismissed and that Microsoft "always respect[s] trademarks and other people's intellectual property, and look[s] forward to the next steps in the judicial process."
Journal Journal: My opinion of Microsoft is improving.
For many years I've hated Microsoft, in a way that compared them to Satan him (possibly her) self. I was a Novell admin, I loved Netscape and suggested people use it, and I was generally in the Windows as an OS, get everything else from somewhere else crowd. Remember, Linux was still somewhat in its infancy back then, and Mac was pre OS X so it sucked. OS 2 was out there, but largely ignored at the time.
Comment Re:"Narrowing Discrimination Down to a Science" (Score 1) 279
I thought the exact same thing myself. I can see everything including attitudes with new prejudices developing just like in the movie. What if your family has the genetic marker for a physical or mental disease of somekind? Soon I forsee a kind of national registry like the credit bureau for "bad" and "good" genetics. Why waste your time by taking a chance when you can have a sure shot on whatever you need to hire someone for or want to give a 30 year mortgage or sell insurance? We're possibly approaching a very dark time in human history. Think about the almighty social security administration and that serial number they give you. SS was born of a want to help people, now it's used by businesses and crooks to hurt and/or ruin a person. It may seem like I'm coming from a dark view of the world, but honestly I am an optimist. I have unwavering faith in human nature...
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