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If it comes in at the $549 price it would beat the GS4 in price and could be a kick ass Nexus-style phone. The only thing is they would still need to do something non-standard with the buttons, since it only has home and back buttons.

1 day ago on HTC One 'Google Edition' with stock Android reportedly in the works 1 reply

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Like Microsoft has done with Windows for the last 30 years? The government has had plenty of chances to react.

The author of the book is way off base. The internet has created more opportunities for the middle class than have been available in a long time. It has disrupted entire entrenched industries over the last 20 years.

2 days ago on 'Who Owns The Future?' Jaron Lanier thinks Google and the government should pay for your data 3 replies 6 recommends

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We’ve reached a point in ‘the West’ where the wealth gap is so enormous that Governments can’t afford to pay for the most basic services for their citizens.

The US can well afford the basic services: infrastructure, defense, law enforcement, emergency and the basic departments to keep them running.

The US cannot, however, afford all of the non-basic services that seem to be requirements in this age: global police/offense, years of welfare distributions to the same people, mass incarcerations, social security/medicare/medicaid in their current forms, do-nothing and bloated agencies, etc.

4 days ago on Oxfam claims $18.47 trillion held in 'tax havens' as EU leaders meet to discuss solutions 1 reply 1 recommend

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“No, sweetie, I don’t have anything against you. I just don’t like how you look."

More like: “No, sweetie, I don’t have anything against you. Your job just doesn’t earn enough money."

4 days ago on With downloads dwindling, music publishers throw a roadblock into Apple's iRadio plans 2 recommends

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Not to mention it would need to be wife-compatible for many of us. :) A Tivo meets that requirement. Xbox One…hard to say.

5 days ago on Microsoft Xbox One: everything you need to know 1 reply 3 recommends

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If this is true then there is no legitimate used game market for the Xbox One; it’s a used disc market.

If you still have to pay for the used disc and also pay for activating the game it’s not an effective used game market. At that point they may as well just let you download the damn game for the same price as the used game activation.

5 days ago on Xbox One doesn't need always-on internet connection, supports used games (update) 1 recommend

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No it doesn’t, unless the person who allowed it had no knowledge they allowed it.

In this case, these tax shelters have been long-known by the US Government.

IMO, if the companies are incorporated in the US they should be charged the going rate less what they’ve paid to other governments whether the dollars were repatriated or not. If companies don’t want to pay it then they can be incorporated in another country with different laws, possibly less stability, etc.

5 days ago on Senators blast Apple in hearing for keeping most profits overseas

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No it doesn’t, unless the person who allowed it had no knowledge they allowed it.

In this case, these tax shelters have been long-known by the US Government.

IMO, if the companies are incorporated in the US they should be charged the going rate less what they’ve paid to other governments whether the dollars were repatriated or not. If companies don’t want to pay it then they can be incorporated in another country with different laws, possibly less stability, etc.

5 days ago on Senators blast Apple in hearing for keeping most profits overseas 1 recommend

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How about allowing customers buy tethering plans on unlimited plans, heck you can double dip.

Because those grandfathered-in unlimited-data parasites would use far too many GeeBees. They can’t be trusted and should have all moved to tiered plans like the Dark Master wanted. :)

6 days ago on AT&T says 'any' mobile video chat app will work on its network by the end of 2013 1 reply

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Agreed. AT&T screws their customers over left and right. Even more than Verizon it would seem.

6 days ago on AT&T says 'any' mobile video chat app will work on its network by the end of 2013

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Time to start stocking up on masks. I wonder what would happen if people started wearing Scream masks everywhere.

6 days ago on New software brings face detection to stores and streets for $40 a month

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The correct term is illegal alien in legal speak and, if they are not here legally they are, by definition, here illegally.

6 days ago on Why Laurene Powell Jobs broke her silence to support immigration reform 1 recommend

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If they do everything a good citizen should do, then yeah they should become citizen.

People widely disagree on what a good citizen should do. In many politicians view, a good citizen should simply vote…for them.

6 days ago on Why Laurene Powell Jobs broke her silence to support immigration reform 1 reply 4 recommends

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Except the article said an increase of 20%. If the population also rises 20% then the rate per capita is the same.

7 days ago on Heat-related deaths in Manhattan projected to rise 20 percent by the 2020s 1 reply

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Agreed. There are plenty of companies who would have prevented them from doing this bay all legal means even though they weren’t doing anything with it. Kudos to Valve!

7 days ago on How two Valve engineers walked away with the company's augmented reality glasses 2 recommends

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Apple hasn’t indicated whether there is a backdoor or if they are disabling remote wipe somehow, dumping the encrypted storage to another disk and brute-forcing the decryption. I doubt Apple will say how they are doing it anyway.

9 days ago on US Department of Defense approves iPhones and iPads for military use

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Plus there’s a little thing about Apple being able to decrypt iPhones at will. If they can do it you can be sure others will find a way.

http://www.macrumors.com/2013/05/10/apple-has-backlog-of-requests-from-police-to-unlock-seized-iphones/

9 days ago on US Department of Defense approves iPhones and iPads for military use 3 replies 1 recommend

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Can fancy photos and lavish linking help Google+ take off?

It seems to be working for The Verge. :-)

9 days ago on Can fancy photos and lavish linking help Google+ take off?

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It all depends on what the comparison goal is: device models or platform. The article is comparing platforms.

Point of order, Apple actually ships three phone models: 4, 4S and the 5.

10 days ago on Windows Phone overtakes BlackBerry to claim third place in 2013 smartphone shipments 1 reply 1 recommend

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Agreed. The GS4 with fully supported AOSP is really enticing but I’d be concerned about updates. If the updates come straight from Google then OK, if they come from Samsung, probably not until Samsung proves they can do it right.

10 days ago on The best of Google's I/O 2013 keynote: Hangouts, Google+, a special Galaxy S4, and more 1 reply 1 recommend