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Rogue Android: We show you how BlackBerry's pain can be your gain

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Re: Ohhhh and NSA-proof!

The NSA only lets Obama use a Blackberry after they harden it themselves, that should tell you how nsa-proof the standard ones are.

Merry Christmas? Not for app devs: That gold rush is officially OVER

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Two sentences in the article stand out to me:

"overall download numbers have crashed"

and

"The number of apps downloaded increased by just 25 per cent year on year"

For a company that supposed to be about stats those Flurry guys don't seem to have a good grasp of numbers.

You're spending WHAT on iPhone 6? Wells Fargo downgrades Apple stock

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Downgrade to "market perform"?

That's a downgrade? Apple stockholders wish that the stock had performed like the market in 2013, it would have been up more than 20%

Get lost, fanbois: Nokia pulls HERE Maps from Apple's App Store

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Re: PostIt Notes...

"but they were useless at the last 500M"

That's weird, my experience is that I don't need the GPS to get to a town, but I certainly need it to get to the exact street.

Well, maybe not need it, I used to get there using maps back in olden times, but it is easier with the gps.

Snowden to warn Brits on Xmas telly: Your children will NEVER have privacy

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Re: Yawn

"is that actually what your suggesting? "

If you meant me, no that's not.

What I am suggesting is that the UK went to war to stop Germany from invading Poland, well that sounds nice.

But at the end of the war Poland was still invaded, together with quite a few other countries, and the UK was fine with that.

Really, I am not criticizing them, they had been fighting for years, they couldn't go on, I understand completely, I really do, who cares about central Europe anyway.

What I don't understand, and what I do criticize, is looking back at WWII like some epic battle between good and evil in which good won.

That wasn't it, WWII was Realpolitik through and through and the Allies let Stalin invade and subjugate half of Europe, evil won with the help of the UK and the USA.

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Re: Yawn

" If she were alive now she would be reduced to tears at the betrayal of all they fought for."

She has my sympathies, but she would need to accept that all that fighting to let Stalin invade and subjugate half of Europe went down with the Berlin wall.

Seriously, the past isn't as nice as we like to believe.

Go on, buy Bitcoin. But DON'T say we didn't WARN YOU

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Re: banking regulator: Don't come crying to us when someone steals it

Their is no reason why governments should protect the investor, in fact they should be the first to get a haircut, up to 100%, when banks go tits-up.

I think you may have meant "depositor"

Samsung poaches Apple store guru for US retail push

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"Must be annoying when every time your business comes up with a concept, idea or product someone copies it."

It only happens to every business, or even if it not a business, for example you have a semi cool group using Fawkes masks and suddenly every wannabe starts using them.

But I am really curious, the ACs are out in force to attack Samsung, doesn't it bother you that nobody cares?

We MUST be told: How many Bitcoins do I need to kill a melon-head?

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Re: Interesting POV.

"Does anybody know exactly how much money there is meant to be compared to exactly how money there is reported to exist?"

Yes, they track it

Marketing told us: 'Justin Bieber is a fad. He’s not going to last.' – Company formerly known as RIM

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Re: Monumental...

I may be showing my age but I have to ask, isn't he a fad?

It's true, the START MENU is coming BACK to Windows 8, hiss sources

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Re: 2015!?

"So 2014 will be the year of Linux on the desktop?"

No, but if SteamOS is at all successful, it could very well be the year of Linux on game consoles.

Step by step you know.

'Don't hate on me for my job!' Googlers caught up in SF rent protest ruckus

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Hardly new

I remember reading about these protests back during the dot com bubble, that they are still going prove the protesters are wrong.

Report says Microsoft has divided CEO list into possibles and probables

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You could say that he ran it into the ground in a way that forced Microsoft to buy it

Sceptic-bait E-Cat COLD FUSION generator goes on sale for $US1.5m

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Is there a context in which "Trust me that it does what I say it does" serves as proof?

Ok, I get it, it is just a quote, it has to sound cool no matter how meaningless.

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Re: Obviously

Haven't you read your Heinlein?

If they do that they only keep a monopoly for 20 years, if they keep it secret they can have it forever.

No, I am not being serious.

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What's the difference between an "extraordinary" proof and a run-of-the-mill one?

Samsung hauls in chiefs for 'CRISIS awareness' confab – report

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Re: So many Anonymous Cowards

That depends, my Nexus 5 is replacing a Nexus 1, so the improvement is real.

And maybe a S4 would be better, but then not enough to pay 50% more, asking 700€ for a phone is plain silly.

Why Microsoft absolutely DOESN'T need its own Steve Jobs

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Re: Elephant graveyard

Linux may never be the Next Great Thing on PCs, but then Windows was never the Next Great Thing on Mainframes.

Julie Larson-Green: Yes, MICROSOFT is going to KILL WINDOWS

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Re: A shining example of how Microsoft got it wrong

James, for a minute I thought I was reading a Linux help forum from a few years ago.

How d'ya make a JPMorgan banker cry? Ask him questions on Twitter

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Re: The 'Credit-Monitoring' Service scam...

Why did you cut my quote "proven to be needed"? You couldn't twist what I said without doing it?

Since we are not going to agree, I am not going to answer all your points, people here must be bored enough with us already, so I will go directly to the end where you seem to believe that what I said would be easy to achieve, I do not, I know it would be extremely hard and I do know about lobbying, that's how the investment banks got the limit on leverage lifted, that it doomed them is not much of a consolation.

So, how would you go around creating a public bank system? Who do you trust with all that monkey?

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Re: The 'Credit-Monitoring' Service scam...

My better ideas are actually very simple:

You have regulation that has been proven to be needed crisis after crisis.

For example, a limit in leverage, a limit that was lifted for the five biggest investment banks in the USA, a crisis came and, surprisingly, only one them, Morgan Stanley, survives as an independent company.

The surprising part, by the way, is that one survived.

Another example of good regulation that no longer exists is a separation of investment and commercial banks, so that the investment branch can't get to use customers money to speculative. Eventually they will lose it.

Another example are the anti cyclical provisions Spanish banks need to keep, not that it is a silver bullet, the saving banks kept them too, but they help.

Another example is that if bank goes bust, it goes into receivership, no big to fail nonsense is allowed.

People who know more about banks than I do are likely to be able to continue, things like independent appraisals of assets, limits on how much collateral you need and the like are likely to be mentioned.

So, you have this regulations, and this is important, you have an agency with real teeth that makes banks comply with them.

And definitely, if some banks break the law, no matter how many billions they are willing to pay to settle, you don't, you convict everyone involved, you also take the billions, of course, but as part of the conviction, not a settlement.

If you do little things like this, you can get a working private bank system, if you don't a public one won't help.

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Re: The 'Credit-Monitoring' Service scam...

"why is all banking private? Why is there no public banking [...]?"

Up until this crisis we had in Spain the 'cajas de ahorro' you can translate that to something like 'saving banks', they were owned by foundations that were controlled by local and state politicians and unions, so they behaved as if they were public banks.

They were so badly mismanaged that they required a 40,000 million bailout which almost made Spain ask for a bailout. In the meantime private banks have survived on their own, Banco Santander even used the crisis as a chance to get to own 10% of the UK banking system.

Yes, I know what you are thinking, "that happened in Spain, a third. or fourth, world country, that would never happen here, only private banks go broke in my country, no matter how many trouble German landkassen are going through".

Keep dreaming.

Bitcoin mining rig firm claims $3m revenue in just FOUR DAYS

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But, if using those rigs is profitable, why sell them?

I guess I have answered my own question.

How to relieve Microsoft's Surface RT piles problem

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Re: The problem is the analysis

You forgot one rhetorical question:

Can you run iPhone apps on an iPad?

Yes, of course you can, anything else would have been retarded.

Ultimate electric driving machine? Yes, it’s the BMW i3 e-car

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It's ugly

That's it really, why bother buying a BMW to drive such an ugly car?

Why couldn't they make an electric car that looked pretty much like a series 3? That could have a chance, this doesn't.

KRAKOOM! iPad Air explose in fireball, terrified fanbois flee Apple store

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Re: If its in the Daily Fail...

Really, Is it that hard?

Google's Nexus 5: Best smartphone bang for your buck. There, we said it

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Re: Hangouts for SMS

Google send their slice of the price of apps to the network operators.

Dark matter: Good news, everyone! We've found ... NOTHING AT ALL

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Re: Fox News/Daily Mail version headline

Why must political nuts turn everything into political drivel?

Finally! How to make Android USABLE: Install BlackBerry OS 10.2

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Even India boast about having BB encryption keys, you think the NSA don't?

Amazon's cloud cash pile dwarfs Microsoft and Rackspace's best efforts

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Re: I bet

That's right, at Amazon they have a history of reinvesting everything they make, that's why they could get in the cloud business to begin with and why they are now producing Tv series.

Microsoft: You've got it all WRONG. It's Apple's iPad playing catch-up with our Surface

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Re: literally

You can find it here

It's the '90s all over again: Apple repeats mistakes as low-cost tablets pile up

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That's the whole point of ebay, you sell the present you don't want and buy the one you do with the money

What the CUFF? Nokia shows how a smartwatch really OUGHT to work

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Joke

Re: Is the iWatch a bluff?

Yes, they are all going the feel very silly when Apple release their iWatch Tv set.

MEGA ASTEROID could 'BLOW UP EARTH' - Russian space boss

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Re: Don't worry!

Of course I watch the documentaries and there are always a couple fragments that end up in the Eiffel tower and the Big Ben.

Last living NEANDERTHALS discovered in JERSEY – boffins

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But, according to DNA we have evolved from Neanderthals too, didn't we?

Why a Robin Hood tax on filthy rich City types is the very LAST thing needed

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Going short and long

It wasn't that hard to go long or short in housing, you could use homebuilders stock to do it, I bet there is even an ETF, or two, that covers them, or you could use Fannie and Freddie stock

Another way to go long was investing in mortgage backed securities which were quite popular since they were triple A, shorting them was harder but Paulson managed to do it and made billions, which he then insisted on losing betting on gold.

Oracle says open source has no place in military apps

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Re: No surprise there then

"But exactly the same is true of closed source products,"

If that's the case, is there any point in sending money Oracle's way?

Dear Apple: Want to stay in business? Make an iPhone people can afford

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Re: This report is complete and utter rubbish (NOT REALLY)

"Have you noticed that Mercedes came out with a C Class that starts at $29,900 USD?"

Haven't you noticed that Mercedes has a car that sells for half that? They are called "Smart" although I don't know if they are sold in the USA

Seriously people, drop the auto analogies.

Billionaire dumps Apple stock because Steve Jobs was 'really awful' guy

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General Electric was funded by JP Morgan after booting Edison from his own companies and merging them.

And I have found strange that Ford, a jew hating dick, always hired Albert Kahn to build his factories, no less than the son of a rabbi.

People are just weird.

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Re: Steve Jobs

"sorry, you can't afford the mortgage and I can't give you a credit limit more than $1000".

In the first season of Boston High, one of the teachers tries to get a mortgage and is told something like that. The moral of the story is how evil bankers are.

And I think I learned what "collateral" is watching The best years of our lives in which a banker, a WW II veteran, gets bitter for not being able to loan money to other veterans who, he knew, would pay the loans back.

That had been going on for decades, so bankers finally get tired of being the bad guys of the movie and start granting loans to everyone.

So now they are even more evil for doing it.

The moral of the story, well none, but it is kind of funny in a non-funny way.

Apple's new non-feline Mac operating system, OS X Mavericks, ready to go

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Re: run out of cats?

Actually the reason OS X doesn't need to run anti-malware software is because it does run it, it is called Gatekeeper and it comes bundled with the os.

Microsoft: Oh PLEASE, HTC. Who says Windows Phone can't go on an Android mobe? – report

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Re: Hey Microsoft - here's an idea

AMD, from whom do you get that "comercial" licence from?

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Re: Hey Microsoft - here's an idea

No, no, that would be fine, that way we wouldn't need to pay Microsoft's Linux tax

Chip, Chip hooray at Samsung outweighs slack gadget numbers

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And the reason why anyone here would care is Samsung lost Apple as a customer is that ...?

Since you don't seem to get it I will explain, if you want to be successful at trolling you have to choose a target with enough fans, Samsung doesn't qualify.

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And the reason why anyone here would care about that is that ...?

Third of Brits now regularly fondling their slabs, say beancounters

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Re: Well I use my little grey one all day every day

As long as there are people ready to pass judgement on others while they try to impress others with a list of 3l33t apps?

Pretty much none, I will agree to that.

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Re: Jesus there's room for everyone..

"As illustrated by the appalling driving standards of your typical beemer driver."

Well yes, we pay more for the cars but we drive just as badly as everyone else.

Except for me, of course.

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Re: Jesus there's room for everyone..

Funny, I have both a BMW and an Android tablet so keep dreaming.

And yes, the blinkers work fine, thank you very much.

WHY didn't Microsoft buy RIM? Us business blokes would have queued for THAT phone

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Re: Sorry?

It can't be serious, certainly when I think of redheads* the last thing that comes to my mind is disdain.

* Of the female kind.

Thorium and inefficient solar power? That's good enough for me

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Re: Thorium reactors

Nobody wants a nuclear reactor close to their homes. It may take a dictatorship like China to build one.

As for the US they have this natural gas boom due to fracking that has made it so cheap there is no real point in looking for other alternatives, not even because of global warning as natural gas allows them to phase out coal plants and reduce they carbon footprint.