* Posts by dssf

1750 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Aug 2010

US congress wants a word with ZTE, Huawei

dssf

turn a what??

turnabut... Umm, turnABOUT is fore... Umm, FAIRplay

Butt, who is the actor and who is the acted up on??? Hahaha

Hackers leak '1 MILLION records' on Apple fanbois from FEDS

dssf

Optional, in fact...

google, you should be busy embedding VPN tools in ALL of your products to enable people to enjoy secure, privileged communications. You can still submit to a valid subpoena by a valid court, but leaving us exposed by default is laughingly anti "Do No Harm", if you ask me.

dssf

Could this just be a release coincidentalnto apple trying to destroy competition? It could be to embarrass mac ios ithing fans or raise their hackles or even to to slow the release of the iphone 5. Or, to embarrass apple before the next trial - after all, it could be argued, if apple cannot innove security they way they enerv, um, innovate products, then why do they get to win a payent on an inherently trojaned phone? Sure, such a release could happen to SAMSUNG and pthers, but, this may force apple to delay product launch in October if millions of cloying fans and hundreds of thousands of DOD, government, and key business people demand better privacy.

Which beggs the question: google, wtf are you going to do about our android security? We can buy a Linux disc and by default our desktops and laptops are rooted. But, our phones? Oh, hell no! You and the advertisers cannot sleep knowing we could blachole adverts if android by default were pre rooted prior to sale. So, you force us without the skills or patience or money to pay soneone to be at risk and just trust you. Hell, twice, here in shanghai, my google chat stream had malformed urls injected between me and a friend in SK. I should not HAVE to have a VPN if i choose not to, but i should not have to tear out my fucking hair because on my own i cannot root my droid devices, cannot find cheap, capable firewalls and IDS tools, and cannot peoperly near-forensically collect info from my device (not the LAN/WAN) to prosecute the fucktards insinuating in my private messages or chat. Thanks a lot, google. What is really scary isnthat it is NOT necessary for me to CLICK the link since transparent overlays and underlays can be clickable ANYWHERE ON THE PAGE!

I won’t be surprised if such a disclosure happens to android devices in the near term....

Now Apple wants Samsung S III, Galaxy Notes off the shelves too

dssf

Re: Apply this logic to cars no... no... apply it to...

Hair dryers

Toothbrushes

Candleholders

Haier, panasonic, fujitsu, samsung, lg, and other standup air con units

Asian style washer and dryer combo units

Security video panels by the door

Nonspill coffee mugs

Electric tooth brushes

?.... Okay, downthumber, do you get it? Apple mostly cobbled together a lot of tech and stylized some nice things. But, they are reaching too far. If they are not curtailed, where will it end, when there are no more mobile phone makers and no more android? Maybe Samsung or others should patent the Star Trek comm badge despite the non patentability, just to lock apple out.

dssf
Mushroom

Re: You are kidding right? Or maybe you meant to use the joke icon?

Did i not predict this a week or so ago?

Judge Koh should be disbarred for letting this shit reach this far. The very points you list should ALWAYS have been part of the instructions and notes to the jury. The jury obvioulsly is a combination of corrupt and inept.

So, to apple, SCREW YOU! Screw you, apple! Screw you and your dirtbag lawyers through and through. Time for me to buy a Galaxy Note 10.1, YOU SPENT, grainy, clumpy WANKERS! Now, i willl have given SAMSUNG $1,000 of my limited, unemployed dollars, partly to say SCREW YOU! APPLE. You are not INNOvating! You are ENERvating! Compete, don't litigate, you tossers.

Cook's icon/anthem status is going to take a nose dive as he works himself into most hated rarity CEO once his cloyish campy fiendish adorers grow weary of friends fed up with apple playing Tech Slayer.

Microsoft awards itself Google-esque power over Hotmail, SkyDrive etc

dssf

SOUNDS?

IT STINKS! I think it is time to go back and re-edit ALL my photos with copyright, and embed unflattering micro images that will land ms, facebook, and google in embarrassment if they recirculate the for profit. I'll also embed in them watermarks denying commercial reuse without compensation, and prohibit redistribution in the open for anything other than maintaining continuity of service between me and the INTENDED recipients. Last time I thought or checked, other than the companies actually doing ROUTING of my stuff, commercial firms are not generally intended recipients of my messages or photos.

Also, time to plainly append all my posts with "text and pictures only for consumption or use by named, intended recipients, not tributary sites or business partners of site hosts nor site hosts. Watermark removal, editing, or masking is FORBIDDEN! Unauthorized redisplay, even with atttribution, for commercial purposes, is PROHIBITED. EARN your income, don't WHORE your way to income!"

I guess well see google making it hard to find .apks for watermarking tools for phones and tablets. Hell, we cannot even find FREE ones that actually WORK anymore. In 2004, my Sharp V-402SH had the ability to insert the date, time, and bits of text. Do phones or tablets even come with that functionality?

Apple demands a quickie, aims its torpedo at 8 Samsung mobes

dssf

Re: And so...... P.A.J.J Conga Begins... BEGAN

... With apple HOT on its own heels...

http://www.pcworld.com/article/261800/apple_targets_galaxy_s_iii_note_in_latest_legal_action.html

Unfortunately for apple, it indeed seems the Galaxy phones are becoming hot as a wild fire. I guess, then, we'll next see apple getting court orders/injunctions against those mobile users, even damanding a list of them and suing them knowingly, contemptibly, and slavishly buying from Samsung in a concerted, evil, Anti-American effort to deprive apple of its rightful monies.

Well, get this, apple: you have a right to COMPETE FOR, not a right to DEPRIVE others OF money. OBVIOUSLY -- and this is the part of which you're too fucking dense to understand -- those who do not buy apple do so for economic and/or political reasons, political being a cover word for CONTEMPT! If you STFU and behave, and just FIT decently instead of ACTING OUT CONTEMPTIBLY, defectors and avoiders might give you some more money and love.

I don't see Mercedes suing the shit out of Ford for making mini-Mercedes... Do YOU? All sorts of combs, blenders, cars, airplanes, engine blocks, laptops, non-spill coffee mugs, backless stools and leather seats, hammers, wrenches, syringes, keyboards, and an almost endless list of consumer products can be found all over the word. Why don't you take your balls, marbles, or quilts and shut you namby-pamby, candy-assed, primadonny pretty ass and legal department STFU. It appears even members of your own board are finding disgust (or someone is claiming as much) in the money apple is wasting, pursuing tenuous claims bolstered by a judge and jury either afraid of, enamored by, or bought by apple and company.

How many other phone companies are pulling this shit in court? Your candy-assed cache has gone to your head and you're becoming more a head-fracked competitor than microsoft.

-- You borrowed from BSD/FreeBSD/Linux and reshaped your world. Have you forgotten that?

-- ms propped your near-death asses up (albeit to avoid anti-competition charges) in the mid-to- late 90s (what, to the tune of $250 millions?)

You're masters at design and tech integration, and masters at advertisement. But, you ARE welcome to keep spending hundreds of millions on lawyers and litigation -- if any good thing comes from this, it will show just how F*CKED UP the USPTO is and how much of a danger to innovation worldwide it is or is becoming. Crowd-sourcing of patents will probably one day (maybe in under 5 years) cost you at least 150 patents. Hopefully, Samsungs legal staff and underutilized employees will scour the hell out of the USPTO database (OpenPatents, and others) and reverse some of your dubious gains that your own attorneys knew were dubiouos. Korea and Koreans won't let this slide. Chinese, Japanese, and some European Union members won't let this tripe of a judgement last and in earnest will cause you some justified setbacks.

An idea for Samsung: Samsung, you should create a contest in which ever 5th Samsung Mobile device consumer family traveling to Korea for at least a week will be GIVEN at least one Galaxy Tab 10.1 or Galaxy Note 10.1. Every 8th traveling individual wil receive at Galaxy Note 10.1 and at half price, a US-capable or world-capable S III. (Of course, you'll have to figure out some way to help the individual avoid the US Customs and various tax authorities when they try to import the device to the USA. Put those under-utilized employees in Seoul and Taejeon to use, SAMMY! AJA!

dssf

Re: And so...... P.A.J.J Conga Begins

Seems apple is already doing its VK (Victory over Korea) *izz jig. They better be careful lest lest they break their *ick due to too much wrist flick. Or, they could get too sloppy and create a tripping/sssslipping hazard for themselves. Time for Korea to get ROKN with the Red Shark, White Shark, and Blue Shark and do a gas-bubble prox-blast on the Appleship Lollipop...

I wonder if they'll be punk-asses and have US Customs on the lookout for US citizens and passport holders bringing personally-owned GTab 10.1 models into the States.... (yes, I know, if they are not intended for sale, they would only be possibly/potentially subject to a sales tax/import tarriff, but knowing apple, even tho it is the wi-fi version, they'll want THEIR tax, too. Just TRY it, apple. MAKE MY DAY!)

dssf

Re: Apple having it both ways

Fiendish, slavish penchant for insane mark-up? Apple is going on fanboyism. Sammy is going on volume.

Besides, what the F*CK is apple's problem? Apple has no and never has had any intention to serve more than it typically sells too. Their cost-analysis-matrix surely won't let them sell to everyone on Earth, yet they know no bounds. They ACT as if every potential smartphone sale is THEIRS to be had, yet if that were true, their make costs would eventually erode their profit. Sammy, at a slightly lower costing/pricing structure, probably sees benefit in rapid model turnover to keep the product line fresh, not stylizing a "must-look-sexy-for-8-years" apple approach.

dssf

Re: "with 8 people towing the line"

LOL!!!!! Well, it WAS a bit of a tug-of-war, hahaha

dssf

Apple Customers Should Probably be Wary, Too...

"Genius training manual details banned words for Apple employees"

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/12/08/28/genius_training_manual_details_banned_words_for_apple_employees.html

Safer conjugal rights via electronic skin

dssf

One more... Would make Austin Powers say....

"YAHHHH, baby, YAHHHH... Sh*gaDELIC, BABY!"

(Couldn't resist considering El Reg and some other UK publications energize my urge to share some "creative" moments...)

dssf
Joke

Re: "Electronic skin"? havin' a blast...

A doozy and oozy for the hard wear de part ment

Could give a (w)hole new(d) meaning to havin' a blast "Bustin' a CAP in his (or, if you purr fur, herrr) asss". (No, not related to cattle prods....)

Could give rise to (w)hole new t(h)erm called "CapASSisSTANCE", and could be a new way to test how long a man could "stand" to the heat or haunched on twos.... Taking the rear.. Uhh, standing at the ready.... (that's assuming this is a new form of chASStity belt..."

Could give rise to a new scale in the Ohhhhhmmmm meethur meter.... Evern thermo meters as flux gives absolute rise to gauss... But, would the gauss be gastronomical or astronomical (missing a couple of "s" in those two words).

Butt, umm, but, a cat suit would probably drive the Doctor BATty or CATatonic.... S/he might moan, "Just purrrrr fekt.... Dahhling..."

dssf
Joke

Re: Excessive precautions?

Will this be SKINtiLLATING or SCENTelating?

Speaking of verteron particles, if applied to a male, would it be vertiFORM CITY end which the male GOES to TOWN?

Speaking of verteron particles and thinking of Vertiform City, this reminds me of Data, when he tried to append to the Bridge Crew's humor:

Data: There ONCE was a woman from VENUS whose FOREHEAD was shaped like a...

Picard (Annnoyed): DATA!!! Another TIME, perHAPS!

Google engineer finds British spyware on PCs and smartphones

dssf

Time to buy stock (if it is possible) in mfrs of Evidence Bags

And stylized privacy bags....

Hell, why buy stock? Why not fashion my own fashion bags and sell THEM. Might make a tidy profit on an untidy business. But, the paperwork would be hell, getting across borders of countries. Or, I might just be made to "disappear", bagged in a super-sized bag-o-mine...

On second thought, ordinary people may not want to go into that line of work without protection, like a $2billion hit contract on the sourcce of ones disappearance. Is that legal? Forming a bounty on the fuckers who might kill you? Could drive up stocks, though, and get the economy rolling along again -- for a FEW years... A few STRESSFUL-AS-HELL years, no doubt...

dssf

Re: British spyware?

And, given hand over fisting and handover fisting, the accused subjects could easily end up in a deep, dank, dark place called "Bend Over", just south of Bendover...

dssf

Re: Speaking as an American, I'd like to...

What are you talking 'bout, "taking the pressure off"? Did you forget that the likes of Cisco still sell hardware that will allow countries to ban facebook, google, g+, and even write and modify on the fly any number of rules that will ban google play but allow g+? Or, do all sorts of pictture-building?

Eventually, cisco will be back in the news, and maybe even some of their shadow subsids intended to misdirect involvement of parent companies...

But, as for the spyware, below is a cross-post I ran too long (in the ms facebook bing thread) and part of it sort of fits here:

"Pretty soon, unless the social sites are delibertately acting as staging grounds for spies, then spies and investigators and brain-fucked repressive regimes will rely on:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/08/31/finspy_gamma_polcie_spying/

Anyone besides me find "Gamma" to sound like the name of pron industry or lubrication products? (No, I'm not thinking of the Gamma Quadrant, hahaha). Maybe it was tongue-in-cheek (or, tongue-round-shaft?) for this spook/spy- company. I wonder how they sleep at night knowing that they took profit over someone's life, limb, or liberty. Sure, CERTAIN people (read, miscreants) do need spying on and to be arrested, but selling the shitware to repressive regimes should come with a back door to take down those regimes, not snuff out individuals who might just be a vocal thorn rather than an actual bomber.

I have a sneaking suspicion that that software can also cripple built-in refresh buttons in the android phones.

Yet, this could be yet another reason why Google makes it a royal pain in the ass to easily root our devices. It's not just that we might nix the adverts (which indeed would hurt google's bottom line if their reports reflect that to paying sponsors), but the governments with business permit powers would just revoke Google's charter to do business in an affected country, maybe even ban the presence of the software. One would think, however, that if that were the case, then countries like China would INVITE google, g+, and facebook so they can trojan the phones and get at the accounts, even if VPN stuff is in use. Ooops, shit, ideas? No, surely they can think of it or already have. That's why I suspect surgical crippling of Android devices is already in play..."

Facebook shoves your face in Microsoft's Bing thing

dssf

In fairness to msoft....

Pretty soon, unless the social sites are delibertately acting as staging grounds for spies, then spies and investigators and brain-fucked repressive regimes will rely on:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/08/31/finspy_gamma_polcie_spying/

Anyone besides me find "Gamma" to sound like the name of pron industry or lubrication products? (No, I'm not thinking of the Gamma Quadrant, hahaha). Maybe it was tongue-in-cheek (or, tongue-round-shaft?) for this spook/spy- company. I wonder how they sleep at night knowing that they took profit over someone's life, limb, or liberty. Sure, CERTAIN people (read, miscreants) do need spying on and to be arrested, but selling the shitware to repressive regimes should come with a back door to take down those regimes, not snuff out individuals who might just be a vocal thorn rather than an actual bomber.

I have a sneaking suspicion that that software can also cripple built-in refresh buttons in the android phones.

Yet, this could be yet another reason why Google makes it a royal pain in the ass to easily root our devices. It's not just that we might nix the adverts (which indeed would hurt google's bottom line if their reports reflect that to paying sponsors), but the governments with business permit powers would just revoke Google's charter to do business in an affected country, maybe even ban the presence of the software. One would think, however, that if that were the case, then countries like China would INVITE google, g+, and facebook so they can trojan the phones and get at the accounts, even if VPN stuff is in use. Ooops, shit, ideas? No, surely they can think of it or already have. That's why I suspect surgical crippling of Android devices is already in play...

dssf

Re: Why don't these f*ckers tell us when they are sharing OUR SHIT ...

You're damned right I have issues. The problem with this is that when we share friends, we sometimes indicate "friends of friends". If we forget that, then eventually, some employer, stalker, or miscreant gets privs to see stuff JUST because biing will serve it up until we tighten up again.

Fortunately, IIRC, i removed "friends of friends". Still, to hell with the TOS. This should be about continuity of service, not c*sucking their way to profitability by whoring out our photos. What's next? They'll start doling out our messages with names purportedly redacted? Even if they did/do that, the context can still point to some people pretty fast if they say, "Oops, we had a bug that didn't redact names of places, URLs, and other personally-identifying information..."

To the down-thumbers, one day, you'll reflect regretfully for your calllous, ham-fisted response. (Just as I am regretting giving fb too much of my life....). It'll only be a matter of time before somebody has their stuff exposed when ms does another joint-venture with law enforcement, not just marketing and manufacturers. That'll be pretty interesting, reading of such things in the papers....

dssf

Re: Why don't these f*ckers tell us when they are sharing OUR SHIT ...

And, THAT was not "continuity of service". That was unadulterated, shameless GREED!

dssf

Why don't these f*ckers tell us when they are sharing OUR SHIT ...

Why don't these f*ckers tell us when they are sharing OUR SHIT with parties we may not want having them?

Had I considered this, I might have started removing my photos. I don't necessarily want msoft harvesting MY SHIT, possibly trying to read my mind, advert tools to me, or beat me to something.

Thanks a lot, facef*ck... Yet, another reason to share less of my stuff on fb. Even if for strategic planning they cannot reveal they are in M&A talks with another party, they could at least not suck in the photos until after they strike a plan. Then, if the plan fails because 800,000 people ask, "WHAT the fuck did you SAY? You want to give MICROsoft MHY PHOTOS without my permission? What? Your TOS/EULA gave you permisstion and I should have read better?"

So what. Fuck fuckface. Time to stop posting non-generic photos on fb...

Why the Apple-Samsung verdict is good for you, your kids and tech

dssf

Re: Sounds like this was written by an Apple fanbois-- Sammy's Revenge Coming?

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Desktops-and-Notebooks/Samsung-Series-5-7-AiOs-Understand-Hand-Gestures-From-3-Feet-Away-500591/

Apple might be expecting a $1.05 beelions check, but Samsung might push apple into hysterics or histrionics and mouth-frothing pretty soon... 3-Foot distance hand gestures....

Indian gov ponders restrictions on Chinese networking gear

dssf

Embedded... EVERYwhere....

"The report therefore recommended that imports from China be restricted to hardware such as mobile phones, laptops and USB dongles, while technology in key strategic areas such as telecoms and broadband infrastructure, security and cloud computing be obtained from other countries."

Hell, any traveling business people may someday find those devices "using a back channel to call home" if the devices go to the manufacturing country. Unless India plans on vetting chips and boards and their build blueprints, and unless India (or any country for that matter) has the technical prowess and speed to check every chip and mobo, then it is almost pointless. Maybe they can screen gear once it is unpacked, but that would be a LOT of testing. And, STILL, there is no guarantee that a chip or circuit or switch or other component doesn't have multiple, undisclosed functions embedded.

I suspect that even with VPNs, espionage chips could easily bypass them and send on a remote port. Unless the laptop or phone has. Built-in IDS and firewalls to report in real time the true clear text of anything trying to transit the phone will anyone be qualified to feel comfortable. Yet, another reason for Android phones to be rootable by default, and be rooted with ease, not complication. All users of ANY electronics deserve the right to know if they've been buggged. Of course, if one really is breaking a material law, there could be repercussions, even if one is a traveler and is using VPN in a country that bans VPN, even if the reality is that is its standard faire for any self-respecting individual or corporation or government to use VPN and other tools to try to assure privacy in communications.

Harvard boffins build cyborg skin of flesh and nanowires

dssf

Re: Skin of flesh and nanowires

Yeh, a T 2500 Archer Series... Kill humans in the past, using retrievable crossbows.

Better yet, why not a T2775 BoomerAng Series... Kill humans by redirectable, retrievable, reincorporable boomerang. Not very complex, either. Just needs speed, sharp edges, and flight control flaps....

dssf
Joke

Re: Negotiation is irrelevant.

And, if people with nano-spinctres have explosions down there, they will be...

ass-im(m)-O-lated

Ho ho ho! Apple's Samsung ban bid pushed back to Christmas

dssf

“Contempt proceeding” is starting to sound like

CONTEMPTUOUS proceedings...

Apple: I love to hate, and hate to love thee

dssf

If apple are not held in check, curtailed...

They most assuredly might ENERvate...

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=US&ie=UTF-8&source=android-browser&q=enervate

dssf

Re: Patent litigation.. they didn't patENT it, but they might be about to be...

PATTED by it in South Korea... As i said earlier this week in another thread here, there WILL BE consequences for apple. See this:

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/biz/2012/08/123_118566.html

“ The nation’s anti-trust watchdog said Wednesday that it will beef up the monitoring of multinational corporations to keep them from abusing their patents here amid growing intellectual property feuds between local and international companies.

The move comes at a sensitive time ― just days after Samsung Electronics suffered a setback in its patent dispute with Apple.

“We have launched an investigation into unfair practices regarding patents,” an official from the Fair Trade Commission (FTC) said. “Nothing specific has been found yet, but we will take a legal step against any irregularities.”

He said there are an increasing number of cases where multinational corporations abuse their intellectual rights, especially in fields such as information technology, medicine and machinery as local firms are vulnerable to patent lawsuits in those fields.

According to the Korea Intellectual Property Protection Association, the number of international patent lawsuits involving Korean firms has increased by over 80 percent from 154 in 2009 to 278 last year.

Patent lawsuits are increasing as domestic firms depend heavily on exports and many local firms produce patented products through licensing.

The FTC also plans to look into aggressive and allegedly unfair patent lawsuits filed by some multinational firms as a way to hinder the advance of Korean businesses in their markets or to profiteer by requesting too high licensing fees.

“The reason (behind the investigation) is that multinational firms have reportedly enforced their patents in an unfair manner through discriminative royalties policies, tie-in sales and unfair conditions in licensing contracts,” the official said.

In fact, Apple is being investigated by the FTC for forcing application developers to use Apple’s payment system when they register their products in its app store.”

Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 Android tablet review

dssf

iP^3

Nahh, call it The iPad Plus Pro...

(Sorry, iP freely...)

dssf

Re: Build Quality

BTW, for those who DO buy the GTab or Note 10.1, make the sales reps walk you through the Samsung site via the device so you know what apps are available for download. That might take care of things like input language options, Korean language tutorials, and remote kill/wipe tools, etc. The store may have it's model in "Demo Mode" using the store's account.

Sammy's docks and stylish cases are not cheap, either.

dssf

Re: Build Quality

Well, if you don't live too far from a store, justt pick one up and handle it. I felt one in Busan, and it seemed okay to me. The one in Shanghai/Pudong seems okay, too.

But, whatever you do, be mindful of any accessory cables you buy. Regarding my GTab 10.1, the Samsung cable seems to be very proprietary -- it shows Linux the hard drive, but I cannot connect without the right drivers. When I connect the free, tossed-in Belkin cable the Samsung store threw in, it won't show the SD card to Linux, but instead, it shows the device's camera. And, under native win 7, weird things happen, too. I wish LinDroid/Andux would f*cking play like it's Linux-to-Linux, dammit. Imagine if two different Linux kernels in a net refused to connect when the Admin needed to transfer files.

Also, I am not certain, but I think the Belkin cable recharges the GTab 2 slower than the native Samsung cable. So, I suspect different pin-outs. For whatever reason, Belkin is either not using the same pin-outs, or something else is going on.

Interestingly, too, the Samsung Korea power adapter modular tip works in Shanghai without the China adapter between Sammy and the power strip.

If you're traveling to China or to Korea, and want Chinese on the device, you might not get it in Korea. English, Korean, and "romantic" languages are in the Korea and Android keyboards, but no Chinese input is possible by keyboard, tho one can speak. So, that means no stylus input of Chinese script when attempting to make notes or such. Even the downloadable Chinese script from Google Play seems unable to get Chinese into the Korea model. The China model, however, is expectedly okay, and IIRC it has Chinese, Korean, and, IIRC, Japanese.

So, play with the thing good and hard. One thing that is pissing me off is that, as with my HTC, when typing, texting, or using web-based input boxes, the fracking cursor won't neatly go to where my finger commands it. I almost always have to finess the bitch to the end of a block of text to prevent it from jumping back. I was thinking it was a Samsung thing, but for over a year my EVO 4G has had the same damned problem. I don't know if other tablets have this.

I was tempted to walk up to the Shanghai iPad sales guy and say, "My iPad has a problem", but I don't wanna tempt fate, hahahaha. I might drop my GTab trying to remove it from the Belkin case.

But, in coffee shops, when I see iPadders near me, I certainly do remove my iP... Umm, GTab from the sleeve and fondle it and insert it into the keyboard dock. When they look up, they can clearly see "SAMSUNG", not the letters they hoped might indicate a stolen or lost iPad5 prototype, hehehehe....

dssf

Re: Stylus performance?

Well, I was looking at the high-performance helo... Reminds me of Airwolf.

As for the Note 10.1, I wish the speed graphic also included the TGab 10.1 (first one). Can you go back and add it just for model lineage?

I am tempted to buy this to replace my Tab 10.1, just for the stylus. I'm sick of the Belkin stylus because it is too fat and keeps my crappy Belkin cover from closing fully. But, the Belkin rubber is flexy and conductivity/pressure-good on the screen. Anothere brand, sold by Lotte, is utter crap. The rubber tip is too dry and takes spit or lube to conduct a good transfer across the screen. Worse, slight friction pops off the rubber scribing tip. But, it has an ink pen, and has a smaller diameter than the Belkin.

Better yet, this Note 10.1 has its speakers on TOP of the bezel, not off to the sides, and moreover, it has the IR port AND a microSD card slot if I am recalling correctly.

But, IIRC, the Note 10.1 CPU is less than my Tab 10.1. Also, my GTab has the DMB antenna. I have to look again at a Samsung or Lotte store to find out whether or not the local Note 10.1 comes with DMB. But, also, the keyboard/docking system is also different, I think. So, there goes the original Samsung keyboard.

I just wish they'd include firewalls so I don't have to root the f*cker or carry around a portable firewall and run the wi-fi path through that device.

Question for Sammy: When can we get it in Black? Seems you're doing a reverse-of-apple: ip4 fans wailed and begged for the iP4 in white.

Good luck on the sales, Sammy!

Question to other users: Is anyone out there having to twice use the copy/paste and URL click process? I am. Does it mean I've been rooted and am going through some dodgy/half-baked overlay inserted by a trojan?

Heartbroken app-maker Qt sneaks into Android's bed

dssf

Fine by me if....

If it can tie together MMORPG, SQL databases, and enable end-users to modify the forms associated with editing a front end to the database... If a small team of 5-8 people can use it to make MMORPG stuff (no, forget about cloud this and cloud that for now)) on the phone, tablet, and desktop (Linux, Mac, and Win), and deliver a common gaming experience, the this would be awesome. If it is simple enough for the team to not be hammered by a need for external contractors to unfrag or de-encypher back-end code, this would be awesome. If the databases are small enough to not be held hostage by any given ISP or other *SP, then super!

Mars rover harangues empty landscape with loudhailer

dssf

JR

Tan Ru ... Steh ril lize...

"*I* am Jackson Roykirk... You will CHANGE your DIRECtive....

Steh rill lize.. Sterile lies....

dssf
Joke

Let 'er rippppp

But, is one of the tracks "I'm REALLY lookin' fer a gas giant bigger than Uranus"?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/48819528/ns/technology_and_science-space/

A gas giant larger than Uranus... Lol....

Samsung fights to stay on US shelves as Apple calls for ban

dssf

Re: That verdict was bloody brilliant

See my 20120828 0207...

dssf

Re: Open Source OS on all Samsung products

And, maybe the will nclude firewall tools, too. Robust ones, at that. And, prerooting of the phone should be really easy or much less painful than now.

dssf

And, Google could have been less standoffish, too

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/tech/2012/08/133_118346.html

Now, Googlemprobably is wishing it took more countermeasures in Android....

" With Samsung Electronics staggering from a stomach punch in its high-profile intellectual property dispute with Apple, Google seems unsure whether it should step in to support its friend or look the other away.

Samsung, the world’s largest mobile-phone maker, has been the undisputed flagship carrier of Google’s Android mobile operating system, the industry’s most convincing challenge against Apple’s robust consumer smartphone presence.

The Korean technology giant was handed an overwhelming loss by a jury in San Jose, which awarded Apple $1 billion in damages in backing its claims that Samsung had copied the look and feel of the revolutionary iPhones and iPads.

This crushing loss was an alarming development for Google, which sees Apple widening its battle front against Android makers. The company apparently doesn’t want the Samsung setback to drag the whole fleet down and is now distancing itself from its most critical business partner.

``The court of appeals will review both the infringement and the validity of the patent claims. Most of these don’t relate to the core Android operating system and several are being re-examined by the U.S. Patent Office,’’ Google said in a statement sent to The Korea Times, Monday.

This is the first time Google officially commented on Samsung’s defeat at the San Jose court. The company seems eager to argue the Samsung-Apple feud as a case example isolated from the rest of the Android bunch.

While the mobile industry is moving fast and all players are building upon ideas that have been around for decades, Google said, the issues between Samsung and Apple deal with Samsung specific software implementations and hardware design decisions.

The statement didn’t please Samsung executives, some of them saying they were ``unhappy.’’ Google assisted Samsung in the U.S. court battles, offering advice on legal and technology-related issues, similar to the way it has been helping other Android makers like HTC.

Industry watchers believe the San Jose verdict will end up exposing the seams of what had been a tight Samsung-Google relationship.

``What Google is trying to do is to make it solely a Samsung vs Apple fight instead of an Apple vs Android one. After the court decision in San Jose, Google seems to be distancing itself from its key Korean partner,’’ said one industry source."

Jury awards Apple $1bn damages in Samsung patent case

dssf

Pinch & Flick

It would be kewl if it were possible to drag and shoot a Linux or windows desktop window to a tablet and from a tablet pinch and flick an app over to a desktop -- either as apps or app content. Treating a tablet as a 2nd screen would be nice, if someone would build a (reasonably affordable) dock for that.

dssf

Re: The real loser here: something else about feedback...

In various computer games, collision detection and user feedback are absolutely CRITICAL to the user experience. It is only SENSIBLE that such features eventually are experienced in a phone or a tablet.

In the early 90s, I helped beta test a "game" called Catz, which was spawned from Dogz. In it, the player was an owner of a newborn kitten, took care of it, groomed, fed, and played with it. As a beta tester, I had other ideas. I not only picked up the kitten/cat and tossed it to the side of the screen to watch it bounce back or walk/crawl back to me for more of that "love", I began to violently whirl it around by mouse and then released the button to see it hurled/flung into one of the corners of the screen. Every time I did it, it crashed the program. Nobody believed me, so I demonstrated it to the two lead developers, and, IIRC, the owner of the company. They were shocked as hell that it happened, but in minutes, they fixed it, and thanked me, tho my method of testing was a bit "off".

When I use my GTab and have Samsung/Android blue-fade bounce alert me that I have reached the end of desktops or movement ability, it looks kewl as hell. When I see the Gallery respond to gyro inputs as I tilt my Tab, i feel thriled to see the tiles of photos pivot in 3D beneath their album parent. I showed it to some people and they were enthralled wwith it. I don't know if it is a Samsung, Android, or another's invention, but it is kewl. I hope it is NOT an Apple-controlled invention, because it is too kewl to have stripped out of my GTab. I'd hate to lose that if I ever some day decided to upgrade or root my Tab. If a court order affected the presence of it, I would never let my Tab update as long as it was under my own physical and menu control.

(Still, I wish the GTab 10.1 shipped with a microSD slot. (Imagine all the hospitals, law enforcement, and military agencies that probably banned this model of Tab if WiFi and Bluetooth are the only easy ways to move data... No, they didn't ship easy-to-use drivers for Linux, and the windoze 7 detection demands going to the internet, something I most decidedly refuse to let win 7 do... MicroSD should not be any more a security risk than the provided data cable. Lack of MicroSD creates a royal PITA to the user not wanting to use or not able to enable it.) If Sammy had included that th FIRST time around, it would even more remove the risk of ban from the USA. Sometimes, I don't know if Sammy's actions are a "Korean thing" the result of a tech company fiendishly controlling the user experience. Next time, Sammy should mimic apple less and take fewer bullets competing with apple. Be flexibile, fluid, and listen more to the users BEFORE locking the design. That would be an improvement well ahead of Apple.)

dssf

Re: This is why you don't leave complex cases to juries

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/08/27/uk-apple-samsung-idUKBRE87Q00C20120827

"With Samsung win on Galaxy Tab, judge may reconsider U.S. ban"

dssf

Assault on tablet makers now...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/aug/25/apple-samsung-injunction-fine?newsfeed=true

" Apple to seek injunction against Samsung smartphones and tablets and could triple fine"

Well, it seems apple is celebrating VK day and stroking its way to spilling on tablet makers, too, now...

Maybe i will buy a samsung laptop now, to complement my gtab 10.1 with DMB??? More money apple can claim as "their" money...

dssf

Re: drop in the bucket for samsung

An additional way to look at it is something i just saw elsewhere, where someone pointed out that it only cost Samsung $1billion to become #2, considering how much skype cost ms, which probably still has not recouped costs for that acquisition.

So, this probably still is a huge win, not merely a simple win for Sammy.

But, grudges are grudges, and when apple victory strokes its way to burning Chinese competitors, it WILL learn that vengeance meted out by Chinese can be complicated, sophisticated, painful, and probably best left unstirred.

But, it would be interesting to see apple try to tapdance with China. Could have global repercussions, though....

dssf

Re: But Samsung did copy Apple though.

And, hell no, i am not claiming duties or tax exemptions. Korea and Samsung can profit. That is more money apple can try to claim as lost, in their alternate reality/distortion field logic.

dssf

Re: But Samsung did copy Apple though.

Well, to the downthumber, chew on this! In Busan, i bought a Galaxy Tab 10.1, Korean version, WiFi. People even here ask me if it is a ipad. I open it and pull ou tthe DMB antenna, show them the double speakers, the flash, and the bouncy stuff on the display, and multiple customizable widgets and multiple desktops. Then, i point out the rectanglular rather than squarish proportions. Some nod, some walk away. Some are dazzled. Yes, it is not the tab 2, which is the stripped down version sold to the antiSamsung laws consteained public...

Yes, this is somewhat o/t since the story is phones not tablets. But, since apple got this verdicked, it will probably do a VK jig while stroking and stard heading after tablets. A true blow for consumers who prefer not to suck from apple's teet.

Cook's 'values' memo shows Apple has lost its soul

dssf

Re: Apple are another amoral company

You got an inadvertent + from me when I intended to hit the reply key.

Okay, consider these:

1. Nobody copied Ford

2. Nobody copied German rocketry

3. Nobody copied submarines

4. Nobody tried to surpass Sputnik

5. Nobody copied the first skyscraper

6. Nobody copied toothbrushes

7. Washing machines remained roller/hand-crank affairs

8. On and on and on.

Apple created the iPhone. So what? They should know that nothing lasts forever, not even a mimiced phone.

iPhone's market share in China sliced in HALF

dssf
Childcatcher

True, but I observed about the same number per train section as on transit in san francisco and in Korea. But, in Korea, there are seemingly countless small girls or women using the latest, Samsung phones that seem to be 2.7 times larger than an iphone, and they are not even using bluetooth. Another defiance of any statement in the past that the iphone was big enough. I have metat least one persone who dumped his 4s for an evo 4g because his fingers were too big for his 4s.

dssf

But, I had a Taiwan friend brag that mine was bigger than his...

Hanging out with him and his usa bf, i pressed my HTC EVO 4G against his 4S and said, "Mine is bigger than yours, body and display...."

He angled our phones in the light and looked at his SO (significant other) and said, "Ooh, look honey... His IS bigger!", ausing laughter around us.

I think part of the unspoken wrath-inviting rage and fury apple is feeling is having to eat Jobs' (was it Jobs'?) words that nobody would need a bigger iphone or smart phone bigger than an iphone, proba ly gambling that apple would hold te lead on sleek styling and miniaturization for a few years. That may have been a bid to frighten off potential competition or just a gambit to excel at refusing to refresh the product line on the demandtimetable vs APPLE'S market wizardry timeline. Samsung and others mimicked and likely forced apple to spend more money, sooner, to retool to fend off the rest. I admit the 4S is a nice looking phone, and ANYone copying that will definitely get their asses sued off. But, for me, if i were inclined to buy ianything, the phone is too smalll and too damned expensive to repair if not insured against glass break or cracking. I think some 10 of the iphone 4s' i see have shattered displays, front or rear, and sometimes both. Fixing it might cost some usd $200 per face.

Google names names in amended 'shills' list

dssf

maybe it is to jam up the court with a google gag order....

muck up the court's ttl and cause a time out or severe lag and latency. The mudge may have gotten more than he bargained for if he is on a time limit...