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Guess which division has the CEO's ear! It's like having an online Office suite that will only work from computers running your company's desktop OS.

Excellent weasel words there" "We XYZ manufacturer DO NOT fit CarrierIQ" "CarrierIQ is required by the carrier - blame them" Of course pretty soon it will be required by the govern…

That's not the point - the point is that apps on Android are sandboxed so that Angry Birds can't read call premium phone lines or extract your calling history. Google approved buil…

Is shader programming going to exist in a world of Cuda and openCL? Honest question, I'm more from the number crunching side of image processing than games/scene generation - so do…

After someone was stabbed and kille don a Greyhound in canada there was a call for airport style screening of passengers. Given that most greyhound stops in Canada are REALLY in th…

Sound of a large number of corporates banning Android phones. So if CarrierIQ claim you have agreed to this - then any consequences of it's use must be your fault. If you are a doc…

Since it's a thermal printer they aren't going to make very much selling ink. Although - since HP make more and more profit by selling smaller and smaller ink cartridges - I suppos…

Yes but it's VIII better

ARM is a company, they have shareholders, the shareholders are really-really happy when ARM get money. Making the compiler free doesn't affect the licensees like Samsung, and the p…

Coding - the new maths! Students are dropping IT in schools - good. Not taking IT at college probably also good. IT in schools has (and always will be) crap. The problem is that no…

Nobody is entirely sure how aircraft wings fly - ask 3 aerodynamicists and you get three different answers. Switching off your phone is a major pain in the butt - a real sacrifice …

"any increased risk is unacceptable if it is avoidable." And yet 40 years after the first studies recommending them - they still don't fit smoke hoods

3 possibilities: 1, Everybody on every flight for the last 20 years has always complied with the order perfectly 2, People haven't complied and caused numerous crashes but they are…

To be pulled by horses or mexican immigrants ? Edit: well you might get the range if you want to drive tiny little Honda golf carts at 30mph. But what about real men that want to d…

Invest in roads - presumably for cars powered by oil to drive on? Now that's a long term vision of the future!

Unless you gave the immigrants with STEM PhDs greencards. It just seems odd that a Yankee going to Texas is welcome but a foreigner taking the same job, paying the same US tax - bu…

In every other country there is a central government who have a department of immigration who accept applications from outsiders and judge them on their experience, qualifications,…

'our' jobs? Suppose you are in california and Caltech hires a new Yorker as a postdoc instead of you - is that any better/worse than them hiring a Canadian/Brit or German? Suppose …

The problem is that most Americans are the descendents of the people that arrived, displaced the native population, took their land and exploited it's natural resources. So natural…

So leaving your main system exposed to the new zero day vunerability for a whole day while you do the tests!

Did those security experts suggest that the new patches would have any less holes than the current ones? Meanwhile all the other experts suggest not touching a high performance, hi…

You have a choice between: The chance of someone bothering to hack you multiplied by the chance that the new patch doesn't include several new security bugs Or the chance of a new …

Unfortunately radio take a long time and a lot of money to get approval for, and the process is different for every country. And it's the entire 'system' that needs approval - you …

Yes - especially for the big name firms in the US

And it's even worse than that - 20/30 years ago most of those none law/medicine degrees would have got somebody a VP type job. Now a non-professional degree gets you an entry level…