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by shooper 13y ago
There is plenty of such software on the Play Store. E.g. Rom managers such as this one. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.koushikdut... > I don't know WTF the cyanogenmod team was thinking,
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by shooper 13y ago
>So you think that a user should be able install an OS that bricks their phone and still have the phone still covered by warranty? Yes >How does that make sense? It makes sense the same way that installing Linux and/or wiping Win
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by shooper 13y ago
What about embbedding iframes?
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by shooper 13y ago
The funny thing is that many of the same people you talk about were vehemently against UEFI Secure Boot on Windows 8 being on by default although it actually protects tens of millions of normal users from undetectable rootkits and bootkits
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by shooper 13y ago
So between you and me, we uncovered more than the entire Finnish press with a few minutes of web searching? This is looking more and more like a thread in /r/conspiracy. Anyway, I don't know what Dodge & Cox achieved if t
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by shooper 13y ago
Hedge fund ownership for the level of influence you're talking about is public information. One can easily compile and compare lists of top hedge fund holders in Microsoft and Nokia. E.g. the current list of big Nokia holders is here.
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by shooper 13y ago
I find this kind of comments very funny. If Microsoft had the ability to install their moles as CEOs, why don't they do the same thing to Samsung, Apple, Google, HTC, etc. etc.? How exactly does one company go about installing their mo
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by shooper 13y ago
From the infamous burning platform memo, the rationale for leaving Meego for Windows Phone: >"The battle of devices has now become a war of ecosystems, where ecosystems include not only the hardware and software of the device, but d
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by shooper 13y ago
It's unfair to compare a phone hardware company that needs to make money to survive to a company that gets almost all its money from ads, searches, cloud and personal data and uses that money to subsidize hardware as a loss leader(or m
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by shooper 13y ago
Kinda off topic, but as soon as I opened that page in a new background tab, it froze my browser and PC for about a minute with an hourglass before it would respond to my inputs. I thought it crashed the system, but everything is okay now. I
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by shooper 13y ago
Thanks, very nice. How do you get story point scores from the RSS feed? The last time I looked at it, it was missing that crucial bit of information, and I don't see it now either. Or are you using parsing or another data source to get
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Apple Defeats Patent Claim Over Invention of Smartphone(bloomberg.com)
3 points by shooper 13y ago|0 comments
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by shooper 13y ago
There is http://www.hckrnews.com/ It shows articles that came to the front page, in chronological order, so there's no ranking. If the article goes dead, it shows it crossed out.
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by shooper 13y ago
I guess this is why class actions are sometimes good. Even though the lawyers are the one that enrich themselves, atleast the company suffers the monetary cost so that it will think twice before repeating such shenanigans.
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by shooper 13y ago
You're assuming that the confusion isn't intentional. It is, to make people sign up for Google+ while disguising it as a identity service. And more and more normal customers seem to be noticing, especially on Youtube. Here's
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BlackBerry ousts marketing and operations chiefs, replaces CFO(engadget.com)
1 points by shooper 13y ago|0 comments
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by shooper 13y ago
Also, the Open Handset Alliance terms may prohibit OEMs from replacing Chrome with, say Firefox. From http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/10/googles-iron-grip-on-... >Any OEM hoping to license Google Apps
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by shooper 13y ago
>this feels like a non-issue getting attention because the business agreements around Android are relatively public compared to other OSes. Are they? Where can we see them? The page at [1] about the Open Handset Alliance contains a lot o
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by shooper 13y ago
What's stopping the Senate from reverting back to the old rules just before the next Senate/Presidential elections?
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by shooper 13y ago
Google isn't backing them with $300M/year because Mozilla is pumping out good open source software. They are doing it to maintain their dominance in search and keep Bing, DDG, Blekko at bay. For example, they have a similar deal w
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by shooper 13y ago
I think a better argument is that Mozilla needs to diversify its revenue sources. Chrome is taking away marketshare from Firefox thanks to advertising and paying a lot to be bundled with Java, Flash, Acrobat etc. updates or just being shipp
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by shooper 13y ago
Hope the new CEO puts an end to this nonsense and invests the money into improving Bing instead.
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by shooper 13y ago
>Is there a large contingent of bitter MS employees on HN? Huh what? What leads you to that conclusion? I'm totally lost here.
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by shooper 13y ago
What's the point?
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by shooper 13y ago
I believe that's true for contributions from private companies who don't have to report their earnings. Maybe a finance guru can pitch in, but don't public companies like IBM and Microsoft have to declare such donations in th
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by shooper 13y ago
Indeed, but it's a distinction without a difference since the biggest cost is TV and Radio campaigns and Super PACs run ads. The issue was that Obama blessed a super PAC officially and his cabinet and campaign folks talked to the donor
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by shooper 13y ago
That actually sounds logical to me, like Obama taking money from companies despite opposing the Citizen's United verdict. The rules are the same for all, and people take advantage of the rules. It is also similar to Google warning abou
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by shooper 13y ago
>According to the article, IBM and Microsoft are notable for their portfolio size and lobbying budgets This is what tech companies spent in Q3 2013, maybe someone else can post IBM's stats but Microsoft's spending doesn't
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Samsung Urges Mistrial Citing Racism in Apple Lawyer's Remark(bloomberg.com)
1 points by shooper 13y ago|0 comments
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Lying Google advertising, or Google uses Adblock in its ads(themilehighview.wordpress.com)
25 points by shooper 13y ago|13 comments

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