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   by salem 15y ago

   I'm not a lawyer, but I believe non-compete clauses in employment contracts are not legal in California. Restrictions against non-complete clauses and against forcing employees to assign all intellectual property to employers (even from per
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   by salem 15y ago

   When Cisco was booming, they made a big deal about the metric of revenue per employee, which hit $1m. Apple and Google both exceeded this number in 2008, and with decent margins. I think you'll have a tough time convincing their engineers t
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   by salem 15y ago

   There are actually special tax codes for these kinds of organizations in the UK, which helps them minimizes taxes when they share profits with employees/owners. Metaswitch is one such prominent software company organized this way.
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   by salem 15y ago

   I still don't understand how they are getting away with the 'agency model' for ebooks. With those deals, no one but apple can make money selling ebooks in a native app on an iphone/ipad.
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   by salem 15y ago

   You've seen the clips of the hearings and the movie and were not honestly reminded of it? So you have no sense of humor? That makes me die a little on the inside...
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   by salem 15y ago

   This is where it's all heading http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiocracy
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   by salem 15y ago

   My guess would be to fund a reboot, and come up with a plan B that does not require Microsoft, just in case they pull another Sendo-type thing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sendo
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   by salem 15y ago

   The moral of the story is, don't buy a windows phone if you want to reflash it.
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   by salem 15y ago

   QNX is a micro kernel, theoretically they could support multiple application programming environments at the same time on the same phone, and they should. Ie they could now chirn out a phone that can support webos, rim and android apps simu
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    by salem 15y ago

    Agreed, open source does not mean free, or unencumbered. Symbian went 'open source' too.
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    by salem 15y ago

    I'm not a lawyer, but unless there is some fine print in the notifications sent to subscribers, it is quite possible that they have broken the laws regarding the interception of communication. This sounds a lot like what killed phorm in the
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    by salem 15y ago

    I'm sure the work ethic gained from 10 years in the USMC helped
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    by salem 15y ago

    This is Australian technology that has been around since the early 90's. I guess the patents are expired now.
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    by salem 15y ago

    Exactly, all India really needed was an implementation of the "Mediation Device" according to their needs, which in turn hooks into all the various proprietary lawful intercept interfaces that just about all networking gear already provides
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    by salem 15y ago

    I hope there is some way to shut down the RFID chip once you buy the item
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    by salem 15y ago

    Only if it's implemented poorly
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    by salem 15y ago

    Sounds like they still have some things to learn from Zappos
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    by salem 15y ago

    Even if there were many main stream options, Level 3 would not likely deploy much more than two in each level of it's network because of the complexity of managing and maintaining them. It might even be worse with OpenFlow if the majority o
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    by salem 15y ago

    The bulletin is 3 months old. I would find it surprising if they updated their core router firmware that often, and even if they did, it's probably with a version that is already several months old and has been through lab testing and small
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    by salem 15y ago

    You could also say that this is a situation Cisco and Juniper have created. In the past, they have not been great at delivering good quality software. Some still say that Cisco's version 1 is really a beta. This has created a culture of ca
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    by salem 15y ago

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheels_of_Zeus
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    by salem 15y ago

    At the very least it's a reminder to follow or exceed the security related recommendations.
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    by salem 15y ago

    Well, the more telling issue is that the TSA considers those 6-100 addition deaths to be worth the cost saving. The savings come from the apparent bargaining power of having two competing systems, x-ray and millimeter wave, even though mill
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    by salem 15y ago

    Not the same type of radiation
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    by salem 15y ago

    This: http://www.npr.org/assets/news/2010/05/17/concern.pdf Plus this: "Having both technologies is important to create competition" I know I'm opting out.
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    by salem 15y ago

    Plus, some people still need CRTs for their superior and consistent color reproduction
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    by salem 15y ago

    Also, what about Microsoft surface, which had some multitouch concepts, and had been talked up for years before the iPhone.
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    by salem 15y ago

    Well, if you go back to 2003, there was the Motorola A760, which looked a lot like current android phone but without capacitive touch (resistive touch/stylus, no keyboard though). Oh, and it ran linux, and apps via java. http://www.gsmaren
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    by salem 15y ago

    Well, I was ultimately commenting on margins. Since we agree that at scale, DIY is cheaper, that implies to me that AWS margins are healthy. On point 2&3, there are plenty of cloud offerings, the more you use premium features, the more
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    by salem 15y ago

    The Mexican economy is doing very well. What happens if economic growth in mexico creates greater demand for unskilled labor, reducing the incentive to work in the USA illegally. There is some research that shows that this could happen in t