I actually wrote one of these trackers myself for a company I telecommute with. I've actually found it slightly beneficial. As a C developer some things tend to take me a bit longer than my manager might expect. However I still get the time I billed because I can show my work, and that I wasn't slacking off via the snapshots. It also shows that at certain times I was doing research or something of the sort. I find it a lot better than the usual line counting and what not that would probably go on otherwise.

The 360 may be easier to call, but I'd hesitate to say from those specs alone that it's outright faster than a PS3. When you compare an x86 to a cell... which is almost apples to oranges you have to take a lot more into account than simple clock speed, cache, memory, etc. SPE's aren't like cores. They're not even similar. Benchmarking will be necessary surely. Without it I don't think it's fair to say one way or the other.

This is a flawed comparison. Android is a platform. The iPhone is a generation of specific devices. I'm an Android fan myself, but this is clearly an unfair, and biased comparison.

This is just more of the predictable Microsoft / OEM bait and switch. This is far from the first time that Microsoft has bought out, threatened, or trampled on OEM's that tried looking towards other products; and it certainly won't be the last.

Android is an operating system / mobile platform. An iphone is... a phone. This reeks of fanboyism to me. A slew of phones outsold a single phone, but that's really exciting because they all have the same OS! That's like saying IOS outsold a specific series of Juniper, or Redhat outsold a Dell 2950.

All AV software seems a little broad. This only seems to cover virus utilities that prevent viruses from attaching in the first place. I fail to see how this vulnerability would affect the large portion of av utilities that are simply scanners... e.g. clamav, etc.

Agreed on both points. This fails to mention the 'two rival companies' these lawyers represent. I'd be willing to bet one of them was from Microsoft.

I did a little digging to see if there was any affiliation between Microsoft and Consumer Watchdog, (ironically using google)... and came up with this link http://techrights.org/2009/05/04/consumer-watchdog-exposed/

Here's a quick summary:
A look beneath the surface reveals that ConsumerWatchdog.org is “the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights”, which is affiliated with/derived from Grassroots Enterprise, a Washington/SF-based AstroTurfer for hire.

If you do even a little digging you can find countless incidences of Microsoft and friends doing this exact same thing. I suppose if you can't beat your competitors in a given market... lobby them into oblivion!

The article says that each workshop lasts approximately five-and-a-half hours. It's taken me a half-hour just to explain how to properly navigate a website to some of my more elderly firewall. I'm not sure if the allotted time is enough to teach the various concepts and methods of VPN/ssh tunnels and proxies. I've worked with computer science graduates that didn't even properly grasp these concepts after a semester long course. I wish them the best of luck either way.

Adding an extra year of education sounds great; but with schools selectively indoctrinating children with false ideas these days... could do more harm than good.