Silly Brit, everyone knows that the key to DIY surgery is a pair of nail clippers.

Those guys or... anyone really. There's a difference between doing a bad job and not even attempting to do the job.

A lot of people are bringing up the engineering costs associated with the jammers' development. News flash, most major companies laid off 10-15% of their engineering force when the recession started. Entry level jobs paying $50-60k a year are still going to brilliant engineers with 5+ years experience and advanced…

50,000 jammers for $17B. Hmm. That's $340,000 per jammer, on average. Unless these things are cobbled together with platinum plated orphan-bones that figure seems a little insane.

How the hell could the court rule against them if the patents are invalidated?

He's quoting Daniel Tosh's stand up comedy routine.

The custom UIs handset manufacturers bundle in aren't necessarily to improve upon the stock UI. Rather, they're to differentiate their offerings in a sea of Android devices. Notice that line about "an HTC experience" they can rely on?

These have some fairly compelling real world applications, even at that price. Walking technicians through service procedures, for example.

Your assertion is founded on the belief that ethics are universal and absolute. This, too, is incorrect.

Man, if only the technology to edit the crazy out of videos existed...

It's the fact that she'll have the womb in which she was conceived inside of her that makes this so bizarre. She becomes, in essence, a walking matryoshka-esque mind-fuck.

Wait, if the interference from this thing can be harmful to implants and has to be custom "shaped" to your particular hardware, what happens if two people with these "shields" sit next to each other? Lethal interference?

Valid has several meanings, the most common usage is "well grounded, justifiable". In that sense, validity is purely a matter of personal belief. Every action taken by a rational person is then, by definition, valid.

Except that validity is entirely a matter of personal belief. There is no objective measure. People have fought and died for things that others never understood. It doesn't mean they threw their lives away.

Not according to your belief system, no. Of course, your view isn't authoritative, representative, or otherwise universal.

So the Spanish police have evidence that the Sony hack was carried out by a loose group of people with almost no affiliation. Brilliant. Everyone involved with the hack is trembling, I'm sure.

No. They've just found something they believe is worth fighting for, many for the first time in their lives.

That dust is clearly digital.

My gas tank is empty when I go to fill it. That's a pretty big and very important difference.

Call me crazy, but isn't pumping out the goo and pumping in fresh goo more difficult than swapping the battery?