Why "traitor". Why not "criminal" or "jackass"? Is Gizmodo taking a pro-LulzSec editorial stance?

You are not alone. What employed adult has time to dick around with torrents when you can just hit play and immediately start watching all-you-can-eat (Netflix, Amazon Prime) or low cost (Apple, Amazon) streaming entertainment?

Sure, unless it can be established by a jury that Samsung is creating some confusion in the marketplace (intentionally or not) by infringing a granted monopoly (patent) belonging to Apple, whether that confusion is with end users or salespeople. This isn't a question of "fault", per se.

That is true, but there have been studies which attempt to normalize for definition changes that still show an incidental increase in recent decades. Obviously, accounting post-facto for diagnoses related to a change in definition is a pretty fuzzy area, so it's not probably not conclusive.

I think you're forgetting all of the people who walk in and say "I want to buy an iPad for so-and-so". They're not informed, they just know the intended recipient wants an iPad. Or maybe someone told them they ought to get themselves an iPad without really knowing what it is. The big box salesperson then pushes an…

Probably not, but then I've never found multiplayer FPSes very satisfying on consoles.

Valve has always said it's not even Counter Strike 2, which kind implies that such a game may one day exist.

You are mistaken. Every other military FPS looks like CS. It changed everything when it first came out 12 years ago.

No doubt about it, plasma. Better image quality, better price. The only real downside is power draw, but even that has improved considerably over the past 5 years. LED LCD TVs can be thinner, but nobody notices once it's on the wall (if you keep your TV on a stand, you are most definitely not concerned with…

This fool and his uninformed thoughts don't deserve this sort of reasoned response. You don't argue with crazy guys yelling at you on the sidewalk, why would you engage a dude who thinks women have some sort of pregnancy-control circuitry they can invoke (but only in cases of "legitimate" rape)?

He doesn't have to demonstrate exclusive ownership of the word, merely that Mad Media is attempting to create intentional confusion between their use of the term and the brand Block created using that term. It's pretty clear in this case that's what they are doing. So it's not exactly a trademark issue.

Unless the contract stipulates that the producers retain rights, productions are considered-works-for-hire owned entirely by the purchaser. This is clearly an attempt to derive income by creating intentional brand confusion. Ken Block may not own the term, but it seems certain that the producers interest in owning a…

With most product pitches, you've got to make the product look awesome to sell it to the client. With military contracting, it's mostly about lobbying and has very little to do with sourcing the right product to solve field needs.

Cool. I guess that's the best option for people on a limited cable budget then.

Stupid self-driving cars. Always confusing the brake and gas and plowing into pedestrians.

Except that, unlike actual patent trolls, Apple earns money by making and selling products. Patent trolls do nohing of the kind; they buy patents which they think can be easily used against actual product creators and then wait for a critical mass of products to be released before litigating against big fish…

College students aren't really representative of anything other than college students and, as you note at the end of your comment, their lack of buying power keeps them from being an important consumer demographics so nobody bothers catering to them anyway. Believe it or not, most people aspire to live in…

If you aren't willing to to tell your significant other about it, it's cheating. That rule pretty much covers anything you have to lie about or cover up.

The decision to stick with a single-button mouse for so long was UI design driven. It forced devs to conform to certain interface rules and not create features that were only accessible from a contextual menu. Multi-button mice (and thus contextual menus) were supported by the OS from the mid-90s onward, but…

It's worth $20 just to get 3-column view back in Address Book.