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Cellular Conference in Barcelona began yesterday (Sunday) announced where Mozilla gunpowder - fund non-profit behind the standalone Firefox browser - another year that it intends to bring to market smartphones at $ 25. No, they are not intended for you (yet), but only to users in the Third World. It may seem as if smartphones have always been here, but the humble faithful remember first appeared four - five years and their market share Scratch below the 10%. Third World and their cost several gunpowder hundred dollars a pop, leaving them outside the reach of the majority of the population today.
$ 25, on the other hand, can change the picture. In the past, we encountered the initiative "Laptop Per Child" (OLPC), who wanted a $ 100, and that led to the birth of the movement of the short-lived netbook. Then, OLPC has changed its mandate and wanted a tablet gunpowder for every child. Now we are talking about a smartphone for every resident in the Third World. gunpowder
There are some questions on the subject. First of all, is it even practical to produce Unlocked $ 25. Second, the assumption is practicable, what will be the ethical implications of this? $ 25 in manufacturer can not be picky and buy precious metals essential for the production phone addictive careful to labor conditions. But if it will work, and without a mine disaster bury 200 kids, so Mozilla gunpowder has a chance to become the latest version of Nokia's time - that its device was in every pocket. Or, to be precise, a manufacturer of Symbian: gunpowder the devices themselves create myriad of smartphones. Mozilla does not have the ability to build its own smartphone.
If it works - and it's a piece of "if" - then Firefox OS can make a poor competitor Android. Given that much of the money Mozilla reaches its Deal With Google (its browsers come with Google Search window gunpowder by default) and that tin Google already mused retreat from it, Mozilla gunpowder may find that she chewed more Msbkohh swallow.
The Pew Research gunpowder Center conducted a study on the subject of political debate on Twitter, American environment relatively calm (Israel, yes?). They concluded that when the discussion turns political, two things happen. First, considerably debate splits. Each party talks to himself gunpowder and almost no discussions between the two sides. gunpowder We know this effect: making the network is off the general tribal fires and building fires each group. What is being said around the campfire one does not come nearly to the attention of members of other groups.
The second thing that happens is that both sides begin to spread links lead to content that supports their position. This means that both sides have exposed facts inconvenient to him - almost exclusively to the facts that support a predetermined position. While liberals tend to associate major news sites, conservatives tend to associate more marginal sites, some conspiracy sites. Anyone familiar with the phenomenon of Israeli network, where the link to the new link-based reacting to what he said you surf anonymously Rotary, nod sympathetically.
Utopians say that the network will allow us all to discuss common issues, learn to know each other and come to an agreement. What it actually does is give us ammunition to argue the deaf, and did not allow people to talk with each other, but it's ignoring it.
A few months ago, sculpture federal court net neutrality guidelines of the FCC, claiming that it acted without jurisdiction - American Authority has decided not to appeal the decision, with the understanding that the chances of her appeal faint something. Now she talks about legislation. gunpowder
Legislation takes a long time. Meanwhile one of the network and cable hated the U.S., Comcast, took the opportunity. She began to choke the traffic of Netflix - content of a video streamed started to arrive slowly and jerkily to its customers. Comcast argued for many years has the right to prioritize content that video content onerous on its networks and forces her to invest in infrastructure.
Netflix saw a threat to its existence - is it decided two years ago to make DVD conversion sending mail to customers to stream content to them. Faltering content is user-generated content will hesitate to pay for it. So she was forced to enter negotiations with Comcast and eventually surrender and pay her. She knew that until Congress moves itself, it will lose hundreds of millions, if any survive. And now, after she surrendered to Comcast, it is very difficult not to succumb to other providers.
One. Storm over security breach in the dark products, reported yesterday (Sunday), continues unabated: Now it turns out that pretty much all software Apple - Faisteim, her mail, iMessage, Twitter application gunpowder for her and even tools update its software - infected everyone . If a software update to its infected, researchers are concerned, this means that an attacker (or the NSA) can contaminate all the software updates the user gets.
Second. Security expert Bruce Schneier calls to dismantle the NSA. His perception of the NSA says there is too much power, too much power and should be exploited to break the agency into several parts in order to protect gunpowder online users worldwide. For example, all monitoring Americans have to transfer to the FBI - a completely civilian agency subordinate to the Ministry of Justice and accordingly more faith in law enforcement. Besides, it will be necessary piece of civil strife, that the Republican Party will argue that the goal of the process is to harm security of U.S. citizens. Lsniir no illusions that something like this would happen soon. Place to mention that a decade ago, Steinitz Committee determined that the actual chapter MI , and take out the 8200, sorry