Week In Review 2013W44
Google announced a phone I can’t see using a OS my Google Nexus 7 doesn’t have yet.
Meanwhile Microsoft is working to keep bringing Skype to the level of crapiness we expect from them.
On rather surprising news Cisco is releasing a BSD licensed H.264 stack which will probably end the format wars and hell freezes over to make way for Intel fabing ARM with Altera chips.
Intro is still crappy but Linkedin owned up and gave a proper response to the vulnerabilities already made public . Tip of my hat for that.
There seems to be a concerted effort to promote piracy. Battlefield 4 servers failed leaving paying customers stranded and Disney stole titles from paying customers’ iTunes and Amazon libraries. You know who’s not playing Battlefield 4 and watching Cars ? People who did pay for them. This move is in line with RIAA and BPI being copyright breaking filthy pirates.
Last week we learned NSA has gone rogue and indeed even people who supported NSA in the US govt are taking a step back probably in light of them being godless heathens and considering the UN The Enemy.
On this side of the pond UK started making political arrests and the EU parliament finds everybody spies on everybody.
From the world of awesome machines SR-71’s successor, the SR-72.