This sort of thing was rampant in the early days of PC and video game reviews. Back in the late 90's and early 00's before the largest sites started getting “borg’d” up by media companies this was quite common.

I used to write for a series of sites that were owned at the time by Imagine Media Publishing before I…

They are just not. You're intuition is correct.

Failure rates across brands fail to capture the reality of how laptops are manufactured.

The whole premise of this article fails to take into account the fact that very few of the major brands actually manufacture their own laptops, and that those manufacturing agreements with ODM's can and do change.

PC gamers who play FPS games swear by the accuracy and precision of...THEIR MICE...not their keyboards.

HCl is painfully easy to get hold of in most any hardware store. :P

+1 ...heaven forbid one wipe sweat with a napkin....should have called in a Hazmat team to protect your delicate sensibilities. Suggestion in future....stick to writing...dating humans may not be your forte'

It's just how browsers function, so it's neither a trick or a security oversight. Keep in mind physical access to *ANY* PC makes breaching any of it's security orders of magnitude simpler.

The whole case, no matter which way the judge rules, is to me an indictment of the mess our current patent system is. Our patent, copyright, and trademark frameworks were implemented to protect artists and engineers (i.e. individuals) so that they could profit from their ideas within a reasonable time frame. The key…

I wonder if this relates to issues some similar android devices (Samsung Galaxy S variants, which are very similar hardware-wise to the Nexus S) have had with E911 services in CyanogenMod9 and now CyanogenMod10. All Android devices communicate with their onboard radio's through the RIL (Radio Interface Layer), because…

I suppose it's left unmentioned due to it's clear illegality, but Bittorrent shouldn't be left out of the discussion. All of the methods discussed here are either patently illegal or at the very least in tacit violation of various sites Terms Of Service. If you're going to break the law, you might as well do it in a…