I think we would all agree that western media doesn't have the best track record when it comes to "proof" either. Same goes for NATO imagery, I recall similar imagery as proof of WMDs in Iraq etc.
The images currently being circulated were actually captured on captured on 21-23 August 2014, a week ago during Russian military exercises near the border. The interesting thing is that the artillery positions are inside Russian territory and from what I can tell are pointing the wrong direction.
Time will tell. A much larger geopolitical game is being played here and Ukraine is just a pawn to be sacrificed.
A quick scan on Russian sources shows no confirmation of a large scale invasion taking place. EU rhetoric also quickly changed since this morning and suddenly nobody is using the word "invasion" anymore. Ukraine crying "wolf", again until confirmed.
At every MWC when it launched to the public and pretty much every iteration since then. My company develops solutions for a telco that is one of the key backers of Firefox OS in developing countries.
I've tried Firefox OS and it feels on par with early versions of Android in terms of UI/UX i.e. it is bad, very bad. Plus poor performance, lack of any app ecosystem and operators are sticking it on sub par hardware. At the end of the day, poor user experience. All said and done, Firefox OS is just something developed markets don't want and emerging markets don't need.
Interesting and seemingly well researched article. That said, there are a handful of things are are phandroidy about it, perhaps too much so.
1. Android is fragmented as ever OEM has their own flavour and most devices do not get upgraded to the latest version by the OEMs. This is a problem for consumers and developers.
2. High-end premium marketshare is owned by Apple.
3. Most instanced of malware targeting iOS is targeting jailbroken devices. Android malware doesn't seem to care whether you rooted your device or not.
4. App quality on Andoird still suffers, more so in some categories than others. It feels that developers feel/think that Android users do not expect as much polish as iOS users since they are more used to sub par apps.
My thoughts exactly. Instead of getting with the program they want to stifle the competition while making life difficult for their clients. I just can't sympathise with the taxi drivers.
Besides being stupid, the main problem with Google Now and other "predictive" assistants is that they have no understanding of intent/context.
Google Now would often display travel time to locations and other irrelevant information based on my recent searches. Even though the information was irrelevant. It had no idea WHY I searched for a restaurant in Bordeaux, for example. Sigh. Pointless indeed.
We love to through around the words "alternative" and " replacement" it is neither until it is as easy to use/deploy as X for the average Joe. You know 90% of people out there who would't be able to out the words 'git', 'deploy' and 'heroku' in the right order as their eyes glaze over in confusion.
Sorry, I assumed it was clients were open sources based on the article. Now that I looked it appears that is not the case. So ... it is safe because John McAfee?
So the client is open source but the server and backend isn't, same as Telegram? What is the point? That and McAfee doesn't exactly inspire confidence.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-08-28/nato-releases-satel...