Actually the word "cracker" is the right turn since these people use hacking skills for evil /criminal purposes. The word hacker is used for people using hacking skills in general, and a lot of non-evil hackers hate when crackers are being caled hackers thereby giving the word hacker a negative undertone.

Here in the Netherlands we have a show whose title translates "the best idea of the Netherlands". It is quite similar except the product doesn't neccessarily have to be tech-related, and are rarely to never high-tech to the point where the layman can't judge it. I believe it's quite a popular show.

There is only a finite amount of energy in the universe. Let's assume we can convert all that energy into heat and concentrate it into the smallest amount of space in which heat can be concentrated. If this is amount of space is infinitely small there will be infinite temperature. If this space does have dimensions (a…

I never keep any app shortcuts on my desktop, though mostly because this is default behaviour of most (if not all) Linux desktop environments. Plus, the favorites section of MintMenu works awesome (the rest of MintMenu is just as awesome btw) and keeps all my apps I expect to regularly use just two clicks away at all…

I think a live watcher should not aim spoilers at someone who has not seen it yet through one-on-one communications. They should however be allowed to do public communications about it (provided someone who HAS seen it might somehow benefit from or appreciate those communications, no matter how small that benefit or…

I agree, once there is a suspicion that the laptop is stolen it might already be too late to start tracking it, and therefore it has to be tracked all the time.

Ok if you leave the validity of the patents out of this then Apple is indeed the least evil, I give you that. And admittedly I was slightly trolling in my first post, though still both Apple's and Samsung's moves fit my personal and highly subjective idea of patent trolling. Let's just leave it at this because…

That would be me :)

This has been the most basic and elementary clock design for as long as I have lived, and probably much longer... How can something so elementary be copyrighted?

You know Samsung will not stop patent trolling Apple until Apple stops patent trolling Samsung. It's that simple and I (and probably any of you) would do the same thing.

Is it also touch-sensitive? Otherwise I see this thing more of an annoyance than something useful since you can't control what you're doing.

Not surprising. Sometimes it's hard to form an opinion and you're seriously in doubt, if at that moment you see a flood of other peoples' opinions and they all agree with each other, you tend to agree with them and think they're right, even if after thinking for hours and hours without seeing their opinions would…

Getting personalized ads based on which sites I frequent or what google searches I do is one thing, but it gets creepy when someone is tracking exactly which articles I read and which search results I click. (Though, admittedly, I sometimes don't click a link because I can't rule out this possibility, don't want to be…

Or they should finally make Alien Dalvik for WebOS. I guess with the ability to run Android apps WebOS would be a killer platform.

They could incorporate the phone as a measurement device. Of course a hacker could modify his phone to report that it never actually receives any packets. Free data :D

I've never viewed Google Glasses as ugly or a bad idea, but what I really crave is Ubuntu for Eyewear. Too bad that was just an April fools joke :(

"Apple launched the iPhone in January of 2007."

I thought the Netherlands don't acknowledge software patents like these (and rightfullu so). Am I wrong here?

Does Google keep cached copies of downloadable files? If so these takedown notices may not be as useless as you think.

The ads themselves wouldn't be a big deal to me. The added battery drain on the other hand... Unless, of course, Amazon has implemented the ads in a smarter / more efficient way than ad-supported apps so that they don't significantly drain the battery.