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Note because of politics. Not because of any financial action they've done.

Because they hired that despicable fuck Ulrich Drepper. Seriously, the amount of nice, young people who were forever turned away from GNU/open source with a bad taste in their mouths because of that scumbag dipshit.

I don't care if he was right % percentage of the time. The point of a project is to welcome users, and if you can't do that, why the fuck are you maintaining it?

I mean fuck, how many projects switched their libc implementation because of that fuck? Fuck. Fuck that guy.

The worst part? I didn't even get something rejected by him. I've just read enough of the communications with that guy to have his name seared into my brain next to the part that produces bile.

iOS does not have an ENCRYPTED boot loader. Right now cracking one is tough. But you CAN install other things on it. This goes for all devices so far in all of history. It's only a matter of persistence. These new ones will never, ever allow you to install another OS. Not without the magic key.

You're right pragmatically; who gives a shit, less than 0.00001% of people run something besides iOS on their iPhone. That isn't the issue at all. The issue is that although their isn't a perceived choice, it still exists. Just because it's ignored by the majority doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

I mean, aren't people worried about this? Intel is trying to sell CPU's with DRM for unlocking cores basically; if hardware limitation gets paired with encrypted boot devices, overclocking could literally become illegal. At least under the DMCA and most likely ratified super-ACTA/CISPA.

Basically, all ARM Windows machines will have an encrypted boot loader. The concessions you might have read about are for secure boot on other systems.

They also have been threatening Linux distributors with patent infringement lawsuits. Every ARM phone has a windows license paid for it, it's just not installed.

This is truly the sign of desperation and insanity. Once you get scared of the competition that much, you might as well show yourself to the door.

I want to make myself clear: Microsoft has done great things. But now; well now they are finally having to bleed. And we, the customers and competition, are going to see just how fearsome a desperate, dying cornered animal it truly is.

That patent library and legal team aren't going to go unused...

I noticed people always complained about GMail having bad service (like me, when I couldn't open particular pieces of mail for a few days at a time).

How do these problems change when we become paying customers of Google? When I get a Google drive, do I get help in fixing problems? Or is that a lie I want to believe in?

You dumb fucks

Usually I'm pretty good at googling stuff, but when it comes to this I feel like too dumb to know what I don't know. If you know a link or two that answer most of my questions below, it's cool if you just post those. I feel like I can't even tell what info is right when it comes to this stuff.

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Okay, so I'm a US citizen. If I understand you right, most of my problems stem from wanting to incorporate in Singapore. If I incorporate domestically but run it while traveling, that'll cover most bases and make life much easier, correct?

Secondly, I don't doubt your talk about the complexity added on by incorporating in Singapore. But Singapore is really banking on people starting to incorporate there, I mean there must be some sort of national effort to automate/lessen the hurdles, right? I mean your random comment literally saved me from thinking that incorporating in SG/HK would be a good option.

I don't know, just after reading sivers.org I just assumed that the complexity was much more manageable. Maybe I'm just gullible/easily misled? Or does this option only make sense when you have a certain number of people working with you/certain profit? Could you guess as to what those numbers might be?

If I did want to incorporate, is there a big difference between incorporating in HK/SG/better place I don't know of?

Till exists in such popularity simply because spellcheckers won't correct it. Til brings up the red underline thingy, and people want to assume it knows what it means. Sadly, most people listen to it.

Till isn't what you mean. Til is. Fuck spellcheck, if that thing actually was smart you wouldn't have any headaches.

That's the sad thing about technological achievement. Most of the time it occurs because enough people start following the default behavior.

Don't get me start on how 'referer' became the default spelling for the HTTP referrer.

The web needs to be open. As much as this would appease those who want privacy/drm for their code, we all know what road this leads to. Eventually we will be forced to execute certain binaries to browse certain portions of the web. The Urchin.exe forced to execute while we divulge our lives in our browsing habits.

Google/Facebook will track us, we'll know it, and we won't be able to function without it.

We do need a vm. But more than that, we need transparency in the future choices of web standards. Their are powers-that-be that are simply salivating at how quickly developers will evangelize this technology.

All I'm trying to say is the battle seems quite planned and half-done already, and I'm not sure anyone understands the long-term consequences. I sure don't.

VC's represent a corporation with a corporate interest. I do not extend ethics to corporate entities. I will feel bad if something bad happens to a person, but not to a corporation. I will never allow myself pretend that corporations deserve anything close to a personal bond. And fucking shame on you for trying to make people think of that.

You are business partners. At the end of the day, it is money. You want to put a guilt trip on me? GTFO.

I guess this is their midstep until OnLive-esque cloud gaming is more dependable/available.

In no way do I doubt that the NSA has the best intentions for the USA. But, I do have doubts about whether or not their beliefs, and how they impose their beliefs, might be actively discriminating against things that could rise the tide for everyone. I think that sharing technology will always be seen as a form of dissidence and aiding the enemy, while I guess I'm stuck believing that transparency and the sharing of knowledge are all we can do to help others question themselves. The need for security and the desire to predict the moves of others can make one scared of stepping openly and boldly towards what is best for all. I hope they are sleepless not out of fear of the enemy but out of fear of becoming their own enemy. I don't doubt most already are, but I have a habit of getting quite sad when I think about what wonders they hold from us all.

But who am I but another armchair idiot with an internet connection.

To me, the articles main support for the rise of Intel as a mobile chip competitor are: 1). Motorola made a deal 2). Intel can leverage their own manufacturing process/plants

The first is stupid. Considering how much Motorola bent over for Microsoft, this is probably more Microsoft doing Intel a solid to get into the market rather than a purely "logical" financial long-term decision by Motorola.

The second I can't really argue about with any real knowledge. However, upgrading plants is fucking expensive. By ARM separating themselves from that portion of the chip business, they have basically enabled a secondary competitive market of improving ARM designs. Intel has locked themselves into the position of Overseer of all-best-designs, and whether or not this is true, it will lead to comparative stagnation in innovation.

I'm might be wrong, but I honestly think that Intel will lose simply because their mentality depends too much on an idea of limited competition. They are too used to AMD and legacy slaves; the switch to open-source and web-based systems will lead to insane competition and crunch their profit margins like a nutcracker.

Accelerating the rate at which humanity is educated is fundamentally more important than anything going on today, and it's always pushed back because the generation that's currently being educated doesn't have a fucking say in the matter.

Someone should take some of their money out of their hedge fund and drop it on this shit pronto.