* Posts by 2cent

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Oracle wins round in Java patent lawsuit against Google

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Java is not the end all to be all

If Google works hard and quickly and makes a Java -> Go interpreter and added appropriate additions to Go. Java would be out the door in seconds.

Go, Google, Go

To Oracle: no sense crying over spilled milk and good riddance.

Quote from http://golang.org/

"The Go programming language is an open source project to make programmers more productive. Go is expressive, concise, clean, and efficient. Its concurrency mechanisms make it easy to write programs that get the most out of multicore and networked machines, while its novel type system enables flexible and modular program construction. Go compiles quickly to machine code yet has the convenience of garbage collection and the power of run-time reflection. It's a fast, statically typed, compiled language that feels like a dynamically typed, interpreted language. "

HUD's up! Ubuntu creates menu-free GUI

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Where's help when you need it?

Even a cognitive interface needs some help.

Why a "?" isn't on an extension of the search items is not being realistic.

You don't automatically know what to do. "Help" is the place to go to and it is not near where it should be, right next to the information you have a question about.

Fix this and I could use it.

SOPA is dead. Are you happy now?

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Original Art Resold

Release of the original product. Distribution = 1.

Legal websites owned by Media Distribution to redistribute resale of copy 1 = 0.

Number of copies that could be resold, making millions of transactions at penny's to entire world = 0.

Media companies legitimizes itself = 0.

Media companies invested in ReDigi technology = 0 assumed.

Google Wallet hacked onto Verizon phones

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Wallet dipping goofup

Of course only Verizons' software could do this correctly and they must charge for it.

Anything else is not possible.

Verizons' wallet dipping slipped on this one.

Anti-piracy laws will smash internet, US constitution - legal eagles

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Are patents next?

Right after they pass this, US Patent holders will argue that you can't see a web site because one product outside the US legally uses similar capacity to their patent.

How far they can take it is as far as politicians here will let them. Since money talks and Bullsh*t walks, I assume it is just going to happen that way.

I don't mind a lock-out for reasons of national security, which is a lot to choke on if you really believe in free speech, but this stuff is no where near it.

(Lock-out - Ref: No publication of recent research on how avian flue can be genetically modified)

They should have to take it to the courts.

Microsoft will beat Linux clouds at their own game - with open source

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A source of a different color

Not very likely.

MS will wait for the right (read "lock-in") moment and leave open source in the cold.

Open Source, unless purchased by private hands (Oracle), will always be available to change and update.

Microsoft always holds the the right to leave you out in the cold and feeling blue.

The story of the frog and scorpion at the river repeats itself time and time again.

Concerns over plan to boost pharma by releasing NHS data

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The missing link

I just don't get it.

The people in the study are the ones that need to be contacted if Pharma thinks it needs more information.

An intermediary service is required, similar to PayPal, that allows Pharma to get back to the original data holder, IE patient, without direct information.

Pharma case study Number contact Number <-> intermediary contact org <-> person being studied

In this way Pharma can ask plainly if they may contact them directly or vice versa.

Maybe, if they weren't so hyped on not sharing a few bucks with these people and put together an independent contract paid between them selves, they might get somewhere with this issue.

Don't tobacco companies do this all the time with lawyers ?

Royalty-free web vid spec sets sail with Apple's help

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Probably stunted result

I suspect that if this comes to pass, you will get free product for showing, but will be stunted.

It will look fine on the small screen, but junk on the large.

"Special" licensed hardware will be required for larger formats at 1080.

Patent holders and hardware manufacturers will profit on closed systems that are actually worth seeing. Naturally Google will be left out in the cold, if at all possible.

Same thoughts on creation engine.

If it's not going to be unencumbered, at least let it be interesting. Say, like the voxel renderer.

Bill Gates discusses nuclear development deal with China

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Finally we're getting somewhere

The intertwining of US government/military and business interest has deflated or suppressed practical nuclear energy in this country badly. I can't think of a new design that has even got past initial pilot stage.

This, despite major original technological advances starting in the US.

I am glad the Russians are willing to assist and hope they will actually compete with the Chinese for market.

The End of Free: Web 2.0 will squeeze punters rotten

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Unicorn thinking extended

"Let's suppose, I replied, that half of Facebook users paid a mere pittance (say $5 a year) for the service, then web giants wouldn't feel such a need to go data mining."

Originally cable services were to be no-advertising video only. They got much more than $5 a month. It didn't slow them down in the least. They have more services, but charge more, you see more advertising and your being watched.

They will get what they can and ask and get more.

Adventures in mineral oil cooling

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Moderator, Sorry to bother you but...

ElReg video is not working with Firefox 8.0.1

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/23/sc11/

After clicking on center PLAY arrow, the spinning icon at center of video stays at zero (00) and that's it.

http://www.longtailvideo.com/players/jw-flv-player supplies a server side video function.

Please help.

Sorry to bother you but I got tired of looking for the "something not right at this website" Click Here button.

Samsung strokes big bulb that'll keep going for decades

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A place I hate to be at.

There are places where a light bulb is just dam inconvenient to get at, but the best place for them.

Second floor or higher flood lights, chandeliers and high stairways.

I'm hoping that in my old age, the thing that kills me in an accident won't be changing a light bulb.

These bulbs are worth every penny.

If they last?

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Still heating by the fire?

While I agree with you, in balance, overall advancements in energy savings is still a good thing.

Superhero oil-burping algae will save the world

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10 privates companys and a load of diamonds

I fantasize over this kind of possibility.

However, I think what we'll get is a De Beers Diamonds replay.

You know, where a carbon mineral is 'naturally' valuable. Scientist come up with one that just as good and cheaper. Next thing you know, marketing shenanigans, price controls and not so much for the average guy, even after the entire market is transferred to the big ten.

All legal and nice, but not saving the earth. Otherwise, why not just invest in solar, the grid and storage.

Do automobiles really have that much appeal with a gas/diesel engine vs an electric?

Inside the mysterious US satellite hacking case

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WeeeHooo! everybody, more military budget for everyone

Enough said.

DARPA boffins develop unfeasibly light metal fluff-structure

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Piezo rolls on

I wonder if a tire with a layer of this stuff interlace Piezoelectric material would be possible with this stuff.

Distribution of mechanical force through the linking around a tire.

A nice little side effect might be shock absorption as the energy interlace in the linking moves around the tire.

Have everything. Own nothing. Learn the difference

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RIAA should wake up

ReDigi has obviously created the money machine that the RIAA backers should have come up with in the first place.

They are so bent on making their point that they haven't woken up to joining up with ReDigi and getting on with the business they're supposed to be in.

ReDigi is the right technology at the right time, but the wrong place.

Google flings Bing into search engine bin

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Civil Behaviour vs "Hey, Look at me, look at me !!!"

I don't know, maybe it's just me.

Every time I have to use Bing via Verizon on my cell phone, I feel like I'm being prodded with a stick.

However, when I use Google I feel as though I'm getting a service that I'm looking for.

Fixing Android mobes costs telcos millions

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Wrong title for article

Shouldn't the title be "Telcos make bad hardware that hurts Android"?

India uncloaks new thorium nuke plants

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Thorium Reactor Video FYI

"This talk is aimed at explaining this thorium energy resource from fundamental physics to today's practical applications. The presentation is sufficient for the non-scientist to grasp the whole subject, but will be intriguing to even classically trained nuclear engineers."

The Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor: What Fusion Wanted To Be

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHs2Ugxo7-8

Android 'stands on Microsoft's shoulders', says MS lawyer

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Reference points

1) By the nature of this thought, either Adam and Eve or Cro-Magnon should get a cut.

Who knows, maybe will all end up with MS Stock and then we won't have to worry about the economy anymore.

Let the lawyers figure this one out.

2) Microsoft licensee of Xenix, a multi-user multi-tasking operating system provided with RadioShack hardware. But I'm sure they would have never borrowed any technological info.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Xenix

3) Just because Microsoft doesn't use or acknowledge the Unix/Linux doesn't mean they aren't looking at it's code very hard everyday. (?barrow from your neighbor lately?

FSF takes Win 8 Secure Boot fight to OEMs

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Is the OS making the BIOS secure?

This is just bad design.

If BIOS is the problem, than BIOS should handle the security itself.

This is a physical condition requiring several physical operations before the BIOS hands over to the Boot Loader. That is to say that you, your hardware and its keys must all be in the same physical location for it to work.

BIOS comes up with new hardware, OS or BIOS update file. Screen and keyboard have question.

"Would you like to add Hardware, Operating System or Update BIOS?".

You respond appropriately.

Hardware is the simplest. The manufacturer supplies you with the Key, After all, you did buy the car, you should get the keys with it. Else, how could you use it?

For loading OS, the OS loader says, would you please copy this key into your BIOS. You restart and add OS key. Loader will now allow OS to boot from BIOS.

BIOS updates are stored with a specific name, when BIOS loader sees it, it asks if you want to load it, you say yes and add key from current BIOS for new BIOS, and it does.

The point is that it is not the OS making the BIOS secure.

This means you must be proactive in any change to the BIOS.

No matter what OS you load or boot manager you use to "hand off", the BIOS should not except anything unless you authorize it via a BIOS key.

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Doing Apple one better

How to make you pay more.

Create a hardware/software lock-in just like Apple.

Money, Money, Money....

This is an effort to put up a castle, a defense used time and again.

As always, the castle is surrounded. Wonder how much money (food and water) is stored up to ride out the siege.

Unless an opposing force shows up, they are sure to run the fiefdom.

Can any of these guys actually say "better product"?

Remember when Microsoft tried to close it's kernel? Bet you wished they had secured it that way now.

RIAA-led mob threatens innovation, Senator warns

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Corporate Government

If you had to vote for the RIAA to run your world, would you?

Corporations that want to run the show without the responsibility of democracy.

If they want to run the world, they will have to step and get on the list or step back.

I voted, albeit, within a very constrained list and I think it should count for something.

The RIAA was not in the list, but seams (pun intended) to be in charge.

NOTE: Democrat vs. Republican is a flagrant aberration of this process.

App Store groupthink is bad news for small devs

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Curve of functionality

If the basis is 'common use' for average person in daily life is maximum number on curve, this is no surprise.

Shift the basis to the use of a biologist and see what happens to the programs selected and the numbers of downloads.

What is being used most in what you want to do?

The divergence of these particle programs to icons is pretty amazing way to understand your world and your curiosity.

My hat is off to every submittal.

US telcos agree to warn users before they bust their tariff

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Upgrade option

It seems that rather than stick a fork in their customers, they should take the opportunity to warn their clients that they are about to go over the limit and upgrade options are available.

This would be especially true if they gave a daily rate for X number of days. Enter number of extension days and that you are willing to except additional charges for that length of time and everybody's happy.

Dell signals Windows 8 fondleslab range

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A spoon full of sugar helps the medicine go down! (This is strictly for humor.)

This has the feel of Dell losing its warm and fuzzy because people didn't run out and buy their Android product.

Profits went flat.

Dell says -I don't feel so good- and Doctor MS says -here's the medicine-.

Isn't there is a slight difference between "a free OS" and "paid for product placement" ?

Will this go on the books at MS as advertising?

I guess if two party's agree to it, it must be legitimate.

SWEET DEAL and Dell feels the healing power Microsoft.

NOTE: Quotation signs would indicate knowledge of conversations I do not have true knowledge of. Hence, the -.

Googler squeals: 'We don't get platforms'

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When the bad outways the good

He shouldn't be fired. He should quit.

There is a vision here and the frustration is obvious.

Take Jobs Stamford speech as advise and do it.

Meltemi is real – Nokia’s skunkworks Linux

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Money, Perception and Power

The Money: Microsoft and Nokia

The Perception: Nokia is going "open" and is strong enough to do what is good for all. (Google "do no harm").

Perception side note: MS will control the US marketplace by only making MS/Nokia products available for pseudo-free choice. The rest of the world will have the option of thinking on it's own about it wants.

The Power: MS has used its' legal team to make sure Nokia pays licensing for either OS, hence, making money from either direction.

Note: Methodology of ex-Microsoft employees reminds me of Goldman Sachs suggesting employees take time in their career to find placement in key businesses and government.

Verizon in court to block net neutrality ruling

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FIOS Phonys hold content hostage.

Verizon is trying to force a "you can only get it at Verizon" with FIOS when it isn't even here.

Maybe there network wouldn't need throttling if they provided the fiber service they talk up so much.

I have seen to many FIOS commercials about how great it is while still not available where I live.

It should be the next thing for the FCC to look into.

I'm not in the middle of nowhere, I live in New Jersey, one of the most populated States in the US.

It's between New York City and Philadelphia, which is between Boston and Washington DC, at one of the most concentrated population points in the US.

If they want my money, give me the infrastructure that they promise, not hold content hostage as an excuse for a slower network.

Tosh puts 1TB in the palm of your hand

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A man can dream

The time has come to do away with the larger drive format, change the backplane inside PC's so they have a slot for direct connector in the smaller format. As always, in BIOS or software, RAID it.

If one fails, move on.

Flip open front/side of machine, slide drive into cheap alignment slots and your off.

Everything else uses a cable that's bigger to the same backplane.

The Dream: An external circular cabinet (* see asterisk for design drawing) with a modular fan mount fan at the top and exhaust at the base. Then circular cassettes module holding 5 or more drive can be interfaced at top and bottom and stacked.

Red Hat engineer renews attack on Windows 8-certified secure boot

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The keys come with the car.

The answer is pretty simple.

Demand that any non-military hardware purchased using the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface must have the documented key with it.

The problem lies with contacting Unified Extensible Firmware Interface Organization. You don't get to vote.

Contact them or their members by any means demanding the keys.

I think I could survive typing them in.

MS denies secure boot will exclude Linux

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Microsoft Linux Money Engine - Phase II

This will be great, M$ will push the technology through and allow it to be open by UEFI firmware manufacturers, then via a backdoor contract, gently remind them to pay because of using unknown patents that supposedly linux breaches if loading linux is aloud.

All signers of contracts will be non-disclosure types to keep it from the prying eyes of the light of day.

Boffins play ping-pong with single electron

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Billiards anyone

It would seem to me that this would be an absolutely great path redirection method.

Hit the electron on one end of the table, bounce it off the side correctly, and it lands at the end of the path it should continue on. Next stop, turn the rectangle into a tube, after that an electron light emitting surface on the end of a fiber interface.

Besides, conceptually, I've never met anyone who likes Billiards that didn't mind losing 90% of the time and kept trying.

Bound to keep a scientist in bucks for a lifetime.

Memo to open source moralists: Put a sock in it

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Stallman helps perspective

While I agree that "Technology is amoral and indifferent to religion", its creators (God Complex) and its users (Followers) are not.

When standing in a line that goes in a circle, it is hard to know where the middle and the end is.

Stallman helps to give perspective to a very broad system of beliefs, religious or not.

I appreciate his input.

Windows 8 secure boot would 'exclude' Linux

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Rally round the profit wagons

I don't think Intel will care as long as they are the major player in the technology.

A technology lock like this is just another method for other technologies, good or bad, to be excluded.

All the PR will be how they saved the world.

The reality is that there is no WMD out there, but it won't be played that way.

I will assume politicians taking money will pass laws, but manufacturers will have the ability to opt-out.

Sort of like when Xfinitity does not tell you about the free HD channels they must supply by law in the States. You'll never see them advertise that service.

Android bug lets attackers install malware without warning

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Google's Fault for supporting Homo-Sapiens

"2 - Assemble a small army of lawyers and challenge Google. This might work, if you have enough money."

Unless I am mistaken, it is the manufacturers that are not updating the software.

Why would they, as Homo-Sapiens using there quit wits, hardware manufacturers can carry the ball, drop it just before the hard hit and move on to the next goal (next product). The rule is "a new ball may be given to a player who dropped the ball or while players may accept an new ball at any time".

Note: the field is circular with goals constantly changing according lights mounted above goal with dollar signs color coded to your team jersey. Different teams may come and go as they please.

The game is pretty tough on Cro-Magnon.

Hunt: Online file-sharing is a 'direct assault on freedoms'

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Capitalist make the best Freetards and somebodies paying for it.

There seams to be a slight misrepresentation of the 'Freetard' identifiers.

So I'd like to add some balance with a question.

Do corporations steal ideas?

If so who is causing more damage?

I once saw an interview with Bill Gates and as I recall, I shall paraphrase...

-A lot of people come to me with great ideas. I use them. It's not my fault that they tell me these ideas. It's my job to use them.-

In other words, I owe them nothing.

It seams that it depends on which Freetard you acknowledge that make the difference.

It could be that we are in the balance, but aren't seeing the forest from the.........

More transistors, Moore’s Law, less juice

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Post a letter lately

While they are 'toys' in size, the cost in just 'carbon' saving might be pretty good.

I do like walking to the Post Office where I live, but found I use e-mail more.

I don't like small screen video, so it's a 'give or take' issue. However, I don't go to the movie house as much as I used to.

All in all, it does seem like we are getting better distribution with quite a savings in time/travel.

I would say 'more bang for my energy (battery) buck.

Malware burrows deep into computer BIOS to escape AV

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coreboot

Dare I suggest, don't allow bios to update by software, use a coreboot standardize hardware only startup bios, but watch the "payload" file for changes.

coreboot is a Free Software project aimed at replacing the proprietary BIOS (firmware) found in most computers. coreboot performs a little bit of hardware initialization and then executes additional boot logic, called a payload.

Seagate adding flash embulgement to Thins

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Remember when

Some time ago manufacturers of cars in the US thought "Gee, if it only last 3 years" they will just buy a new one.

This resulted in Japan taking quite a hefty chunk of the market.

SSD's are in the same category. There stamina for longevity is a bit scary to be in between the platter and the CPU.

If drive manufacturers are agree to put the electronics in so that:

A. SSD chips are replaceable.

B. When SSD fails, it returns to normal Hard Drive mode

I'd be a lot happier.

Microsoft inks new patent pacts over Android...and Chrome

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Is Microsoft a better investor than you are (Waxing philisophical)

Paying a Microsoft Tax is interesting, particularly if they invest well to produce a better world.

They have quite a portfolio of investment, more than most corporations.

But does it help the citizens of those they take from or is it that a generation of "last man standing" gamers blind to there own behavior.

It is interesting to note that while some people in the United States wish that the government would stop taking money out of your pocket, although it's perfectly alright for MS to do so.

Side Note: GDP is very important to politicians.

Can Microsoft help to create new infrastructure and roads to the future?

Is a Microsoft world a better world?

I have to say, I feel more comfortable with Googles' version of the world, even though it may be a bit misleading.

Mac Lion blindly accepts any LDAP password

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Apple, patently swayed

The problem looks like, with all the lawyer talk, they forgot what business their in.

Too busy to check on your own OS, just release and wait on on somebody to tell you "hey, this is wrong".

Admittedly, I'm used to Microsoft with this line of thinking. Perhaps the music will stop long enough to find out who's sitting in which chair, but that won't happen till the money runs out.

Of course, Apple will tell you "We're not in the server business", but they do admit to having there head in the clouds.

Mobile operators: US quake proves we need more spectrum

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open network might be a better answer

As always, the answer for a surgeon is a knife. The answer for centralized thinking, is more centralized thinking.

Maybe a program, literally code, should be on every network device allowing bounce from on device to the next. If your device becomes the network, then communication continues, albeit strained, until failed systems can be brought back up.

Why this isn't so, I don't know. But it would be great to have some redundancy over none in an emergency situation.

It could even be a volunteer program, download to support national/local infrastructure. A sort of "do your part for your fellow citizen" thing.

CERN: 'Climate models will need to be substantially revised'

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Water, Energy, and Life: Fresh Views From the Water's Edge

"Dr. Gerald Pollack, UW professor of bioengineering, has developed a theory of water that has been called revolutionary. The researcher has spent the past decade convincing worldwide audiences that water is not actually a liquid. Pollack explains his fascinating theory in this 32nd Annual Faculty Lecture." (See URL below for video)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVBEwn6iWOo&feature=player_embedded

If Dr. Gerald Pollack is right, or even on the right track, between the two, it could explain a lot.

HP: webOS will still run PCs and printers

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Apple expectations ruin HP

This is where executives who actually feel responsible start doing crazy things.

People, greedy people, start to look at Apple profits and add fire to the head guy.

Someone who is usually quite stable.

Being the shining Knight that they are, they start making decisions, having faith in there ability to control the situation.

Regretfully, they do not look around at all the intelligent people they hired in PR, OS development, sales and marketing and say, let plan this out. What are my options.

WebOS is good, really good, and despite nipping at the heels of the product, no one denies it.

It isn't an Apple iPad and it shouldn't be. HP's long view is gone with the warped glasses of comparable profit on the horizon.

HP has made a terrible marketing mistake here, but if they eat there own dog-food for a while, they will end up with what HP provides, stable well engineered technology. If they make a Pad device as good as their printers with the same amount of patience, they will win in the end.

Dare I say, business and industrial cloud connected devices that make their current clients happy.

That's what brings new business in.

The guy should get a grip and start doing.

HP murders webOS tablets, phones

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Great savings and/or stupidity

Great Savings

This is great, the hardware will go on sale and somebody will make an Android version to run on it.

Stupidity

Make great industrial products and heavy duty web servers, have a great web based OS in hand, have many corporate clients, don't mix the three.

Microsoft, McDonald's absolved of tracking cookie abuse

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EULA ???

Probably downloaded something from Microsoft already allowing contractual arrangement for them to use this data.

You agree to EULA, you get access, they get you.

People still don't get that governments preserve your rights and business preclude you rights by contract without representation by a lawyer.

Caveat emptor (Latin for "Let the buyer beware")

Not a lawyer and this is just an opinion.

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No value, so why are they doing it.

This Judge has assumed that the information collected has no value, while it is obvious that there is a value or they would not be collecting the data. Maybe they collect it for fun like stamps?

The damage to the person being tracked is as unknown and similar to the global warming debate.

The proponents that create the problem just say "we just don't know enough about it" while the temperature (privacy rights) just keep on getting further out of your own control.

I'm not a lawyer and this is just an opinion.