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    Obama's BlackBerry May Be Replaced With a Giant Windows Mobile Brick

    Obama Still Steadfast on Keeping His BlackBerry: “They’re Going to Pry It Out of My Hands”
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    Image of frigg frigg
    01/14/09

    In reply to Obama's BlackBerry May Be Replaced With a Giant Windows Mobile Brick
    Actually, I think Obama may argue for "personal, private correspondence" which is not part of the official record, so it may be a matter of the security of the device itself. Although maybe he's just approaching it hurdle by hurdle. First get a device that can't be hacked, then worry about keeping his lolcats private.
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    01/14/09

    In reply to Obama's BlackBerry May Be Replaced With a Giant Windows Mobile Brick
    Why isn't Obama using a Samsung handset on Sprint's network? What if Potato-Face Chloe has just finished decrypting the data and needs to send it to Obama ASAP? All those bitch-fights with Janeane Garafalo will be for naught.
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    01/14/09

    In reply to Obama's BlackBerry May Be Replaced With a Giant Windows Mobile Brick
    Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't there times when Rim's antenna has problem and people with Blackberry's lose communication? Do we really want the President, who is apparently SO reliant on tech that he puts up such a fight, to lose that link if a software upgrade goes wonky, or someone attacks the antenna?
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    Image of Matt Marchant Matt Marchant
    01/14/09

    In reply to Obama's BlackBerry May Be Replaced With a Giant Windows Mobile Brick
    now thats fugly. whats the point in the 'trusted display'?
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    01/14/09

    @Matt Marchant: I'm guessing it's a tiny LCD display that tells you if you are in "secure" mode independent of the built in OS. Probably a hardware encryption that you can't "hack" through the OS.
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    Image of Craig Blaylock Craig Blaylock
    01/14/09

    My guess is that it's a display that meets NSA standards to prevent snooping the minute amount of RF displays usually put out, see [en.wikipedia.org]
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    01/14/09

    @Craig Blaylock: Isn't that for CRT's? Besides, I doubt the 8volt or so battery in the phone is pumping out enough from the LCD display to overpower all the other RF's it uses to make calls, etc...
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    Image of MadCrazy MadCrazy
    01/14/09

    In reply to Obama's BlackBerry May Be Replaced With a Giant Windows Mobile Brick
    Why is he being such a baby about it. Just hand the damn thing over and shut the fuck up, you're a grown man

    for pete's shake.
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    01/14/09

    @MadCrazy: I bet I could make you cry if I took some of your shiny toys away....
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    Image of verythrax verythrax
    01/14/09

    In reply to Obama's BlackBerry May Be Replaced With a Giant Windows Mobile Brick
    Well, I'm not sure, but I think your cleaning lady wants to tell you something...
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    Image of LordGriffin LordGriffin
    01/14/09

    @verythrax: More to the point, my phone wants to tell my cleaning lady something! Maybe I should let it connect so I can learn what. (Oh, and by "cleaning lady", I mean "one of the other janitors that I work with).
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    01/14/09

    @LordGriffin: Your phone probably wants to tell her about the amazing new erectile function medication or possibly alert her on the upcoming Nigerian lottery...
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    Image of LordGriffin LordGriffin
    01/14/09

    In reply to Obama's BlackBerry May Be Replaced With a Giant Windows Mobile Brick
    Microsoft? Really? My MS phone sometimes dials random numbers in my phone book. Earlier today it refused to call my boss until I did a soft reset. It just kept dialing the cleaning lady instead. Then there's the non-functionality of mobile IE and the still horrible layout.


    Once my contract is up, I'm OUT. I pity you Mr. Prez. I really do.

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    01/14/09

    @LordGriffin: You have a cleaning lady?? Oh, well I guess with a title like Lord that's a given, right?
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    01/08/09

    In reply to Obama Still Steadfast on Keeping His BlackBerry: “They’re Going to Pry It Out of My Hands”
    If all his communications need to be documented, can't they just have their own BES at the white house that hardcopies all of his messages? You only need to worry if you are ever planning to go corrupt because then you are screwed. But I trust Barrack more than any of our previous presidents.
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    01/08/09

    In reply to Obama Still Steadfast on Keeping His BlackBerry: “They’re Going to Pry It Out of My Hands”
    Maybe the Secret Service just does not want people backtracking the location of his Blackberry for triangulation. Seriously, I think Mr. Obama will need to delegate the blackberry to a staffer... he'll need to focus on other things and let his team run interference. I mean, who really wants to have President Obama get interrupted during peace talks by a message from a spammer?
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    01/08/09

    @zanella: wouldnt any phone be able to be triangulated?

    and a gps could always be disabled.
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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    01/08/09

    @lol123: A phone wouldn't need to have a GPS to be located. It's kinda like my phone, which doesn't have GPS, yet I'm able to get an approximate location using Google maps.
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    Image of DontFeedTheTrolls DontFeedTheTrolls
    01/08/09

    In reply to Obama Still Steadfast on Keeping His BlackBerry: “They’re Going to Pry It Out of My Hands”
    I'm sure they're looking at it in more of a security point of view. Not just the location tracking, but the much more serious security issues with phones themselves. Bluetooth bugs, FOTA (a la FBI style mobile bugs), curious employees on the service side peeking around like they did with passports, etc.


    Though I'm sure he can talk them into making some sort of compromise that would allow him to keep it while reducing a majority of those risks.

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    01/08/09

    In reply to Obama Still Steadfast on Keeping His BlackBerry: “They’re Going to Pry It Out of My Hands”
    "So, this button right here allows me to send nuclear weapons anywhere in the world?"


    "That's correct, sir."


    "...but I can't have this particular phone?"


    "Also correct, sir."


    "That's the stupidest fucking thing i've ever heard!"


    "Again, sir, you are correct."


    FWIW that 'click screen' blackberry is really, really lame. the whole thing wiggles around and it is balls slow in terms of responsiveness.

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    Image of frigg frigg
    01/08/09

    @nutbastard: Don't blame me i voted for Ron Paul edition: haha!
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    01/08/09

    In reply to Obama Still Steadfast on Keeping His BlackBerry: “They’re Going to Pry It Out of My Hands”
    go speed racer go!!!
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    01/08/09

    In reply to Obama Still Steadfast on Keeping His BlackBerry: “They’re Going to Pry It Out of My Hands”


    This damned dirty ape told me the same thing about his iPhone. Then, he tried out my BlackBerry Bold. He can't keep his filthy paws off it now.

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    01/08/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: I have the count at three usages of this pict in 09.
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    01/08/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: Thats messed up, even for you Ponies.
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    01/08/09

    @ultimpsycho:


    They said the same thing about my marriage to Zira.


    She's not a dirty ape; she's my wife. And she can't keep her filthy paws off me.

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    01/08/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: You should have put a NSFW tag on that. You know, inter-species erotica and all.
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    01/08/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: Much better; much, much better. I was just upset you put the wrong couple up, God.
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    01/08/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: A don't forget about that trick she does with the banana.....
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    01/08/09

    @ultimpsycho:


    You know, friend, it's not what you think. Just because some damned dirty ape feels me up with his filthy paws doesn't make us a couple. I'll have you know that Dr. Zaius is a well-respected proctologist.


    Not only that, for an extra sawbuck, he throws in a "happy ending".

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    01/08/09

    @Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude, disguised as another du...:



    Sir, that's just plain offensive. I'm trying to enjoy a peaceful romantic walk along the beach with my proctologist and this cheap whore and you're besmirching my wife's good name. She may be a damned dirty ape but she's still got feelings. If I wasn't such a pacifist, I'd thrash you to within an inch of your life.


    Take this cheap whore for example. See her natty hair? Is it really any wonder she's a cheap whore? Absolutely atrocious grooming habits. This whore has more fleas than my wife.


    Meanwhile, Dr. Zaius, in spite of being a damned dirty ape, has soft lustrous fur, impeccable diction, and wears this leather ensemble with panache.


    Honestly, I came to New York to enjoy the sandy beaches, destroyed monuments, and cheap whores. I didn't come here to have my damned dirty ape of a wife insulted from afar.

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    01/08/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: I think that's really a leather "accented" ensemble.
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    Image of Rashad Rose Rashad Rose
    01/08/09

    @OMG! Ponies!:


    He acquired HIV just a few hours later*

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    01/08/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: No, no. I was very respectful about it. Now if I had said she Lewinski'd said banana, that would be an insult...
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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    01/08/09

    @Rashad Rose: Man, now that's just being racist.
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    01/08/09

    @Rashad Rose: You mean SIV?
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    01/08/09

    @SonyCEO_SirGitEmSteveDave: Hey fucko! We like to call it inter-species ero--oh, right.
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    01/08/09

    @drjayphd: I miss my donkey.
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    01/08/09

    In reply to Obama Still Steadfast on Keeping His BlackBerry: “They’re Going to Pry It Out of My Hands”
    I picture Obama hiding in a corner going "Precious".
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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    01/08/09

    In reply to Obama Still Steadfast on Keeping His BlackBerry: “They’re Going to Pry It Out of My Hands”
    I don't get it. What are they proposing as a replacement?
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    Image of ilves ilves
    01/08/09

    @ripfire:


    Someone else nearby with a phone, or a car phone in his limo... so basically nothing.

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    01/08/09

    @ilves: Damn, that's fucked up. No wonder he wants to keep his phone.
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