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I have a running bet with a friend that it will be. I made the bet several years ago before its actually starting to do in other markets already.

When I made the bet my friend (who works in the cell phone division for an large multinational) was adamant that Android would take over. In the past year the company has decided to removed all Android devices due to support cost/issues and moved to iOS. (I don't know the specifics as to what the android problems where, so don't bother asking, but he said management was very unhappy with them).

I don't see iOS being more useful to a business in the long than windows phone. I'd say in two years time when they review purchasing again that iOS isn't the favored choice, and my bet finally come to fruition.

Especially if you are a skim reader, that grey to bright colour jump just ma me loose my place, and made it impossible to refer back. Probably the worst document page I've ever tried to read :/

When I was about that age I got an intro to electronics kit, I absolutely loved it. Just making little LEDs light up, speakers buzz, nothing that complex just things I could understand, think through, and make work myself.

Apple has been doing colorful consumer devices for over a decade... iMacs come to mind... they do the modus operandi and they are suddenly copy someone? you have some serious tunnel vision.

Or you could reverse the question and ask if the Lumia is inspired by a decade of Apple doing colourful iPod ranges...

One of my friends did this in London. Except he was a recruiter and was floating fake CVs to cause other recruiters to ring him. He eventually got chased down over fraud charges but nothing every ever eventuated in a legal sense (as far as Im aware).

No Im just jet lagged :/ and gave you another reason for the double standard towards Russia.

Its got a mythos as the last frontier of Europe, of hard country and hard men, enduring under dogs ... down trodden but never giving up.

Emerging from each massive injustice with a new culture rich from strife, from the cossacks to beauty hidden within the works of the communist era. And the sadness of what totalitarian rule did to a people trying to build an equal and fair society, the people who died for others, and eventually all in vein.

It resonates as a country to admire, a people to admire, the mystique of its history and taste of its asian influence. And despite that its a foreign place. London to St Petersburg is closer than LA to New York, at times Russia has been part of Europe.

The double standard for me and many of friends (whom I talk history with it) is one of love, sorrow, and admiration. When the illusion of the Russian mythos breaks and the reality of human condition seeps through you get held to that standard. Not one of a distant problem, a stranger in a strange land, one of a friend.

Or are just about to start testing it ;)

Since I miss eve wormholes so much I thought I'd entertain myself with some reminiscing. Heres goes.

I was amongst the first people to take up living full time in a worm hole in eve. We got stranded, and while getting ourselves out we stumbled onto some corps in the middle of a war dec and stole a tower off a freighter pilot that exploded right in front of one of my corp mates, who stole in and docked up, waiting for the cool down timer (or so the tale goes, he showed up with a small serpentis tower so no reason to doubt him). It was like an act of god to set up a base and we spent almost every day over two years in wormholes hunting other players, raiding, laying traps, and generally just being the unseen death of hundreds of players.

There where days when between 5 of us we would get 20-30 kills in a few hours, especially if we got a Jita opening. One weekend we managed to two down two towers between about 7 of us (by controlling the collapse of wormholes so reinforcements couldn't be brought in by our targets, effectively stranding the targets) just using Battleships, took forever but was heaps of fun.

I would describe living in a worm hole more like hunting than anything else, spending heaps of time trying to create a bait scenario, then releasing the trap. Nothing funnier than having the a covert ops ship accidentally bump into few retreivers, decloak, and watching them scramble in panic before we can drop on them. As must people are aligned to warp, when that happens you only have the time it takes to warp a barge to get the drop down.

We eventually got our comeuppance though. Lost something like 20 billion worth of ships, probably about 8 capital ships atleast, as well as a tonne of T3 stuff, one of the players came online outside of our normal hours with a bunch of mates... and just stole everything. Left us unable to defend against the C6, 20 strong cap fleet came in, towers fell within a fortnight, ordered out by the new occupants, and we I went back into 'normal space' and hated the game.

Within a two month most of our core group quit. I went back to boost some indy guys I was helping from within teh hole, and sent my main character to join up with a null sec group. A few months later I lost totally interest, and quit.

I still miss the wormhole days TBH, the amount of laughter, emotions, hours sitting around trying to release a trap talking on vent. I feel like signing back up now, but I know it wont be the same.

The use of details/summary as a hierarchy device doesn't strike me as very semantic. Anyone got an explanation which would fit it being so?

I've been humming and harring on starting a decentralized RSS based social network idea I've had bugging me for awhile, probably two years now. There where a few of these around 2007 and Facebook brought them out and shut them down.

But I'm hearing the same complaint all over the place, so I'm starting to think I might not be alone.

I've just been put off by the idea that maybe I'm an outsider and people don't want that, and it'll be months of work potentially for nothing. Maybe I should start some thing even if I just hand it off. I dunno, would love to see what the thirst is out there.

The app was free, so the motivation was literally an arms race I'd guess.

I did some contracting at a place last year, while there the competition released a complete clone (as in identical) of the companies app. While we where having a laugh at how similar it was we noticed expanded the app store description and it was copied verbatim from the place I was at, which comically included links through to the support area, contact information via telephone, brand names etc...

I'm not sure what the follow up was as I was only there a few weeks, but its shocking how lazy people can be when cloning something.

I used to work with a guy who did the same thing every time you went and asked him a question while he was in the middle of something.

He would answer your question politely and talk you through it etc... but when you got back to your desk he would ALWAYS over and over send you an email link to a Joel Spolsky article stating it took 15 minutes to regain concentration after you are interrupted.

His message being wait to I'm not obviously working, try someone else, or spend an extra 15 minutes (x2 devs) yourself trying to get to the bottom of it yourself.

I just had a quick look onto it myself and can official say its a complete joke of a ranking system.

Apparently some of my friends from the news industry (where I used to work), being minor local celebs/TV personalities... with thousands of follows they interact with daily... friends with proper international celebs... are scoring lower than some of my friends that just rant bullocks.

I wouldn't bother about this service being very indicative of anything in the real world.

I've never had a migraine in my life, but have constant visual snow since I was a child (as I can remember having conversations with adults and being surprised they didn't see the same way I did).

I dunno about google, but my experience was more copy cat behavior by someone that didn't get the purpose of it I think... maybe I was to blame as well as I pushed back expecting to be challenged more.. not just told I was wrong.

It ended up worse then useless for both of us involved.

I got off to a real bad footing in a job interview using a questions like that once. With a guy looking for a 'right' answer, and it didn't go down well when I challenged his assumption.

He asked how many plumbers worked in the city, to which I replied you could check the industry registry for qualified plumbers, you can probably filter them out by city. There was silence then I had the question clarified to how many 'plumbing businesses' where there not individual plumbers.

To which I replied you could get the company registrar office but it was impossible to calculate as so many plumbers work full time while also holding businesses of there own as free agents. A very unimpressed look came across the guys face and I was told there is a very simple way to find out and asked to try again.

I sat in silence for a 30 seconds or so trying to think of something that would be more thorough than the registry offices, I think offered a few alternatives like tax department records, government statistics office. All things I could think of that would keep fine grained data. But I could see the guy growing impatient with me so I stared at him and asked him what a better metric was than what I had offered.

After a few moments I was told the correct answer was to check the phone book, any practicing plumber business would be listed.

Startled but what seemed like a completely faulty answer I pointed out what seemed obvious to me... not every business needs to have a public listing... some deal directly as sub contractors ... some could be umbrella companies for subbies ... again some are free agents... some might use unlisted cellphones... not everyone is a legal company, not all plumbers where qualified. It was a terrible way to get a dataset you could rely on.

Angry swept across the guys face and I was told sternly I was wrong the data was perfectly suitable, onto the next question... which was all down hill from there as he didn't want to hear my answers, didn't challenge me back, just rip through the rest.

To this day I laugh when ever I think back to that interview. It was probably the most uncomfortable interview I've ever been in.

And unsurprisingly there are many accounts of this being abused already, heres a few high profile examples: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbins_v._Lower_Merion_School_... , http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/03/rat-breeders-meet...

You're behind the times if you think people had trust in Facebook before this latest round of issues. I've had friends and family closing there accounts and not returning in a slow dribble for the last two years.

Go have a look at your friends list, see how many accounts are inactive but still listed. Most people I've done this come in around the 10-15% of contacts in that inactive state.

Mine has been growing slowly with most people not reactivating accounts. It started out around 5% a year or so ago, and was headed upto towards 15% before I just deleted a bunch of them and screwed my metrics.

Doing that should give you a metric you can start to track yourself without taking anyone else's word for it.

An interesting this I've noticed is with married couples, the less socially motivated of the pair will usually close there account and get there partner to do all the leg work for them. Generally its the husband that closes the account, but sometimes, in the case of my mother, its sometimes the wife that closes.

My mother did something novel I thought for handling family photos. She has started uploading them into a shared drop box account. I literally get notifications while I'm sitting at work that new photos have been sync'ed. I'm quite enjoying that form of photo sharing ATM.

Should be self explanatory. What would companies in say the manufacturing industry want? ... access to sensitive foreign competitors data stored on the cloud.

Industrial espionage plain and simple. It's in the interest of both the US government (to increase domestic economic activity) and said business to share this information.

OR I rarely pay more than $1 for a phone game, and get a lot more cynical when I'm forking out +$50 for something that often has less replay-ability to the $1 game...

And by mine you mean 'ours' right? because a huge issue being discussed here is people sharing games, its not a individual issue, its a community issue.

You might have missed this release from Sony putting the boot in on the topic http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWSIFh8ICaA

Thrash metal for me, no idea why it works for me but it does. Oddly enough I'm not really a fan of it while I'm not working.

Been using this since the release candidate a week or so ago and absolutely loving it. Has a few quirks here and there which need to be configured or ignored, but I've found it the best organising tool for mail on OSX in a long.

While I understand your point, and can agree in part I don't think it applies here. Reading what I've read today its not about single incidents, its about continuous incidents by a government that doesn't resonate with the people. And infact what is considered a growing fascist dictatorship in guise of a government that is routinely commented on for its human rights abuses.

I'd bet that the reason this has grown so quickly doesn't have much to do with individual gripes but that lack of trust and a feeling of disenfranchisement from that government. Compounded with rumours that government they don't have faith in could very well be going to war against a country with stock piles of nerve gas capable of hitting major settlements. Offering the crowds some security within themselves that the government is no longer emanating.

Ask yourself in that scenario, with the risk of sarin gas hitting your home, families home, government cold and distant,would you also go protest? I know I would.

Send them a message, suggest a stretch goal for digitizing. They might not have thought that far ahead, more concerned with immediate problems/threats.

Its become an umbrella term like mafia for organised crime. I'm surprised of a decade of its use in this fashion you still can't understand what people are referring to.

I don't use my personal name anywhere except linkedin, specifically for business reasons on all accounts. Even Facebook I use a pseudonym. Over the years I've done a lot of contracting for big business and government agencies, often requiring background checks security clearance. No way I'd endanger my access to those contracts by exposing anything personal anywhere.