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John Siracusa wrote a full page on the literal "out of box" experience with the G4 Cube, it seems it's still relevant today:

Who cares what the packing materials are like? What does this have to do with the quality of the product? Is nice styrofoam supposed to make up for the huge price tag? But step back a minute and consider Apple's motivation here. Like other "boutique" brands (e.g. Bose or Bang & Olufsen), it's important for Apple to provide a uniformly high quality experience with its products. And yes, that certainly includes packaging. In fact, psychologically, packaging may be one of the most important first impressions. The customer needs to be reassured from the very start that their money was well spent. It's not so much that they'll be impressed by the packaging, it's just important to prevent the feeling of "cheapness" that might result if "standard" packaging materials and techniques are used. Welcome to the wonderful world of marketing.

Love or hate Apple, but they think everything through.

Doesn't even have a working Mail app - hard to view this as an upgrade.

I kind of assumed that once the Myspace guys got the millions from the mark that bought them out, their job was done and could kick back. Seemed like quite a clever business model really. Couldn't remember who the mark was, but google did: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2011/06/doing-the-math-on-news-corps-disastrous-myspace-years/

It isn't just some newspaper ads:

Now, Birss says Apple must post a notice to its UK website that outlines the July 9 decision, and the notice must remain on the site for six months. ... Unsurprisingly, Apple's lawyer in the case, Richard Hacon, pushed back on the order by arguing that Apple would essentially be forced to advertise for Samsung. "No company likes to refer to a rival on its website," ...

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/07/judge-to-apple-tell-uk-consumers-samsung-didnt-infringe-on-ipad-design/

The Streisand effect was designed in California too, correct?

Developments in Lithium-Air batteries are rapidly making them viable, and are conservatively estimated to give ten times the power/weight of Li-Ion.

There's also been a number of advances in high-surface-area electrodes that dramatically increase charge and discharge rates. Some of these have already made it to market, such as the MIT spinoff A123 Systems - which coincidentally enough has developed a Lithium Iron electrolyte that handles extreme temperatures very well..

There's a great deal of industrial interest in improving battery technology, and claiming that there's been no breakthroughs in years is simply ignorant, I'm afraid. If you're paying attention, the future of batteries looks pretty rosy.

"According to Mozilla, the B2G platform can run acceptably well in an environment with as little as 256MB of RAM." from http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/07/mozillas-b2g-to-be-called-firefox-os-will-ship-in-2013/

It's possible they mean files that appear as text to the user. Ars Technica mentions they use "Right to Left Override" to make it look like executable files aren't (they might show up as a .jpg, for example, complete with a jpg icon) to the end user. If the creators are clever, they could even have it launch the appropriate viewer to make it look like they opened the kind of file they did. So it isn't hard to imagine they did the same with .txt files, although given the context with "PowerPoint" they probably did mean .doc files or the like.

Actually the problem with Office 2013 is it does not play nice with Metro at all.

This looks very Windows 7 ish with corporate oriented features as a way to yank these corps off of XP. Obviously this version requires Windows 7 & 8. You may hate Windows, but many people love Office and it looks like a decent upgrade for the corps with its social integration and sharing features.

Arstechnica has a more comprehensive review.

Also they were kind enough to divide the new features by individual product. Word is here, so is excel, outlook, as well as powerpoint.

I just briefly went through them but the general improvements is that you can share documents with your coworkers with its cloud add ons as well as import and export your work documents with integrated skydrive from your work/home pcs. For individual programs, Excel has a new intellisense that works in cells so you can select commonly used names and formulas with a transparent window that wont obstruct your data. MS calls this ghosting. Outlook has Bing and map integration for directions and travel data as well as having a multiview pane so you do not have to close the calendar to view your todo list for example. Word, well I didn't see anything worthwhile except for some extra formatting options for brochures and other material and a souped up track it list where you can even do text messages in them for things like "Bob redo these figures - boss". Does this mean they are axing MS Publisher? They seem to be covering the same functionality. There is some other stuff that I will read later because it is detailed.

What is clear is this is surprisingly strongly aimed at corporations. MS is getting back to its strength as a groupware product that ties to corporate infrastructure.
The ones who still are holding on to IE 6/8, XP, and Office 2k3. College students or home users will not see that much improvement. Also Neowin mentioned MS is killing both Vista and XP support with Office 2013. This office suite is aimed to get those corporations dragging their feet with Windows 7.

Arstechnica has a more comprehensive review.

Also they were kind enough to divide the new features by individual product. Word is here, so is excel, outlook, as well as powerpoint.

I just briefly went through them but the general improvements is that you can share documents with your coworkers with its cloud add ons as well as import and export your work documents with integrated skydrive from your work/home pcs. For individual programs, Excel has a new intellisense that works in cells so you can select commonly used names and formulas with a transparent window that wont obstruct your data. MS calls this ghosting. Outlook has Bing and map integration for directions and travel data as well as having a multiview pane so you do not have to close the calendar to view your todo list for example. Word, well I didn't see anything worthwhile except for some extra formatting options for brochures and other material and a souped up track it list where you can even do text messages in them for things like "Bob redo these figures - boss". Does this mean they are axing MS Publisher? They seem to be covering the same functionality. There is some other stuff that I will read later because it is detailed.

What is clear is this is surprisingly strongly aimed at corporations. MS is getting back to its strength as a groupware product that ties to corporate infrastructure.
The ones who still are holding on to IE 6/8, XP, and Office 2k3. College students or home users will not see that much improvement. Also Neowin mentioned MS is killing both Vista and XP support with Office 2013. This office suite is aimed to get those corporations dragging their feet with Windows 7.

Arstechnica has a more comprehensive review.

Also they were kind enough to divide the new features by individual product. Word is here, so is excel, outlook, as well as powerpoint.

I just briefly went through them but the general improvements is that you can share documents with your coworkers with its cloud add ons as well as import and export your work documents with integrated skydrive from your work/home pcs. For individual programs, Excel has a new intellisense that works in cells so you can select commonly used names and formulas with a transparent window that wont obstruct your data. MS calls this ghosting. Outlook has Bing and map integration for directions and travel data as well as having a multiview pane so you do not have to close the calendar to view your todo list for example. Word, well I didn't see anything worthwhile except for some extra formatting options for brochures and other material and a souped up track it list where you can even do text messages in them for things like "Bob redo these figures - boss". Does this mean they are axing MS Publisher? They seem to be covering the same functionality. There is some other stuff that I will read later because it is detailed.

What is clear is this is surprisingly strongly aimed at corporations. MS is getting back to its strength as a groupware product that ties to corporate infrastructure.
The ones who still are holding on to IE 6/8, XP, and Office 2k3. College students or home users will not see that much improvement. Also Neowin mentioned MS is killing both Vista and XP support with Office 2013. This office suite is aimed to get those corporations dragging their feet with Windows 7.

Arstechnica has a more comprehensive review.

Also they were kind enough to divide the new features by individual product. Word is here, so is excel, outlook, as well as powerpoint.

I just briefly went through them but the general improvements is that you can share documents with your coworkers with its cloud add ons as well as import and export your work documents with integrated skydrive from your work/home pcs. For individual programs, Excel has a new intellisense that works in cells so you can select commonly used names and formulas with a transparent window that wont obstruct your data. MS calls this ghosting. Outlook has Bing and map integration for directions and travel data as well as having a multiview pane so you do not have to close the calendar to view your todo list for example. Word, well I didn't see anything worthwhile except for some extra formatting options for brochures and other material and a souped up track it list where you can even do text messages in them for things like "Bob redo these figures - boss". Does this mean they are axing MS Publisher? They seem to be covering the same functionality. There is some other stuff that I will read later because it is detailed.

What is clear is this is surprisingly strongly aimed at corporations. MS is getting back to its strength as a groupware product that ties to corporate infrastructure.
The ones who still are holding on to IE 6/8, XP, and Office 2k3. College students or home users will not see that much improvement. Also Neowin mentioned MS is killing both Vista and XP support with Office 2013. This office suite is aimed to get those corporations dragging their feet with Windows 7.

Arstechnica has a more comprehensive review.

Also they were kind enough to divide the new features by individual product. Word is here, so is excel, outlook, as well as powerpoint.

I just briefly went through them but the general improvements is that you can share documents with your coworkers with its cloud add ons as well as import and export your work documents with integrated skydrive from your work/home pcs. For individual programs, Excel has a new intellisense that works in cells so you can select commonly used names and formulas with a transparent window that wont obstruct your data. MS calls this ghosting. Outlook has Bing and map integration for directions and travel data as well as having a multiview pane so you do not have to close the calendar to view your todo list for example. Word, well I didn't see anything worthwhile except for some extra formatting options for brochures and other material and a souped up track it list where you can even do text messages in them for things like "Bob redo these figures - boss". Does this mean they are axing MS Publisher? They seem to be covering the same functionality. There is some other stuff that I will read later because it is detailed.

What is clear is this is surprisingly strongly aimed at corporations. MS is getting back to its strength as a groupware product that ties to corporate infrastructure.
The ones who still are holding on to IE 6/8, XP, and Office 2k3. College students or home users will not see that much improvement. Also Neowin mentioned MS is killing both Vista and XP support with Office 2013. This office suite is aimed to get those corporations dragging their feet with Windows 7.

Not as authoritative as you thought:
"A coalition of electronics recyclers are disputing the Retina MacBook Pro's newly minted EPEAT "Gold" status, noting that the industrial-strength glue holding the battery in place runs afoul of rules designed to make computers easier to recycle. It turns out that the Gold rating was handed to Apple by none other than Apple itself, though EPEAT can require Apple to remove the rating after evaluating its assessment of standard criteria."

"I'm going to have to call bullshit on those numbers."

As I said, they are commonly reported. I'm not vouching for their veracity... maybe the people reporting them are exaggerating. How should I know?

But the 7 LOC number (or some say 10) is a famous one and you can find many sources for it... it's hardly in dispute.

As for the other number, as I say maybe they are exaggerating, but I think there's good evidence for it. Sunday and Monday of last week I personally averaged more than 1000 lines per day. And that's not comments and whatnot either... that's actual lines of code.

Here's the FAQ page link http://www.raspberrypi.org/faqs Pic is here, looks cool! Arstechnica has an article about a Korean made, $129 Arm device http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/07/korean-company-offers-3-5-inch-quad-core-arm-linux-computer-for-129/?comments=1#comments-bar

This is why we need a non profit FOSS console that doesn't do this crap.

Maybe this is not as funny as you think.

One of these would make an excellent starting point for a Linux or Android powered console. You could build it yourself.

A Korean hardware manufacturer called Hardkernel is launching a high-end alternative. The company’s new ODROID-X board comes with a Samsung Exynos 4 processor, a quad-core CPU clocked at 1.4GHz. The board also has a quad-core Mali 400 GPU, 1GB of RAM, six USB host ports, an ethernet adapter, headphone and microphone jacks, and an SDHC card slot for storage.

With four times as much RAM as the Raspberry Pi and a much more powerful processor, the Hardkernel board seems like a nice option for more computationally-intensive usage scenarios. The system is still highly compact, measuring at about 3.5 x 3.7 inches.

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/07/korean-company-offers-3-5-inch-quad-core-arm-linux-computer-for-129/

Does anyone here have enough knowledge of the JQuery codebase to say how the IE-specific cruft breaks down by version?

IE6 is a monstrosity; that's pretty much a given, and IE7 isn't great either. I could see dropping support for both of those being a big win in terms of cleaning up the codebase. That said, how much do they gain by dropping IE8 as well? It was only released 3 years ago.

The "promoted reader comment" in the linked Ars article actually answers exactly that:

Drizzt321 wrote:
Wow, removing support for IE8? That's a really bold move. I can see IE6 & 7, those are rather old and should be deprecated and people should be really encouraged to move to newer versions.

John Resig has said in interviews that most of the IE6 and IE7 code is needed for IE8 as well. While IE8 has far better layout and CSS engine evidently it still has pretty bad DOM API. Resig pointed out that dropping support for IE6 and IE7 would have very little impact on the size and complexity of the library unless they drop IE8 as well

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2008/03/the-vista-capable-debacle-intel-pushes-microsoft-bends/

Judge writes:

One of his thoughts would be to require a patent holder to produce the patented item within a certain time, to cut out patent trolls.

Why this will NEVER happen:

1) The United States Supreme Court recently ruled that politicians can accept an unlimited amount of lobbying money and they don't have to tell anybody about who is paying them off.

2) The biggest multi-billion dollar companies are in the patent troll business (i.e. Microsoft and Apple, to name just two such companies)

I am somebody who is very interested in open source operating systems and software, but I will NEVER volunteer my free time and expertise to help in such projects because Microsoft is forcing companies to way them money for MY hard work. I don't work for free, and I won't be giving Microsoft my free labour, so no open source software from ME!

References:
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/07/two-vendors-pay-microsoft-for-the-right-to-sell-cheap-android-tablets/

Its hard to do so when iOS app success is a "lottery": 60% (or more) of developers don't break even

That's number is a huge misnomer. There are lots of apps that people treat as a hobby and give away for free. There are apples released by businesses that aren't meant to be profit generators but to supplement their primary services. There are a ton of developers that code internal only apps. So you cannot take the total amount of revenue generated and divide by the number of developers to get any meaningful statistic.

You mean like BSD which got backdoored by the FBI? I hate to break the news to ya pal, but if a three letter agency wants to pwn a FOSS project? it would be just as easy if not easier than any proprietary OS.

You should look at some of the entries of the obfuscated C contest to see how damned easy it is to hide nasties in large amounts of code, and those are for bits of code where you KNOW there is a nasty. Now imagine, how many projects are out there with only a handful of guys working on it? How happy would they be to have a highly skilled coder volunteer to help? Have YOU looked at every line of code in the apps popularly packaged in your average distro, hmm? Well if you haven't what proof do you have that anybody else has? Just because you have access to the code does NOT mean anybody that can actually read it and more importantly can spot obfuscated malware has read it line by line you know.

Even reading the apps one at a time wouldn't work since a three letter agency could easily pay for guys to work at multiple projects. Just as we have malware today that simply drops a payload I could easily see program Foo not doing anything by itself but checking to see if you have program Bar and Boned and if all three are present the combination opened a door. After all who is gonna notice dependencies? Those are SOP in FOSS OSes, programs having dependencies really aren't rare ya know.

In the end FOSS is no more a "magic bullet" than painting a cross on the box to ward off evil. there is simply too many millions of lines of code in your average distro for anyone, even Linus himself, to be able to tell you with 100% certainty every single interaction when a program is called. Sure if you were to DIY starting with the kernel it would be more secure, but how many actually do that?

You have clients ... charge a little more and absorb the cost of new hardware. What's so hard about that?

Its hard to do so when iOS app success is a "lottery": 60% (or more) of developers don't break even
 
I'm in the same boat as the OP. I was forced to upgrade my iMac to Lion in order to continue doing iOS development (and for which I am only breaking into).. What this move does is increase the Apple Tax for iOS development from $100 per year to $350 a year minimum (say a new mac mini every 3 years at $800 a pop). If you're not making money in the first place then you can't bill your customers more.

It isn't just the graphics card, you need a a Mac with a 64-bit EFI (Ars Technica article has more detail at the bottom).

God damn, just shut the fuck up. You haven't used Mozilla Firefox in years or you've never actually tried it in a corporate environment, you're just regurgitating shit you heard on the internet.

Updates with no UAC prompt landed in Firefox 12. Since then, a maintenance service makes it unnecessary to run updates manually.

I don't think that's in ESR, but it doesn't matter. If you're deploying ESR, then you can already deploy a new version of Firefox the same way, there's no need for the user to have admin rights. You do make sure new security fixes don't introduce regressions in a staging lab, don't you? It's how competent administrators do thing. They can't rely on automatic updates.

As for GPOs, there have been solutions for years. There are some custom builds of Firefox with GPOs added in, there's also an addon that will read settings from the registry rather than FF's database (therefore you can use GPO to control these reg keys). These days though it seems like no one is happy unless there's a GPO that allows you to control how many grams of sperm can come out of my left and right nut, so maybe that's not enough for you either.

Firefox can be used in the corporate environment, it just requires a competent administrator. Fire yours and hire somebody that is better.

Strange that it has come to this isn't it? Gaming has always been an investment, and early game consoles and games were relatively more expensive that they are today (see: http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2010/10/an-inconvenient-truth-game-prices-have-come-down-with-time/ or http://www.1up.com/news/90s-game-price-comparison-charticle) and the truth is well developed games at reasonable prices simply aren't as safe an investment as a develop as you go/DLC-centric product. If you spend three years developing a title, and after the second year of development realize that play-testers and focus groups aren't responding well, or you've reached the realization that there is some technical (or other) limitation you can't overcome, you've lost at least those two years of development with no releasable product. If instead you try to cram the general mechanics into the game as rapidly as possible, and get the community play testing for you, and then monetize them to support continued development, not only do you take significantly less of an initial investment risk, but you also stand to profit off of your product for significantly longer than just the title's couple weeks or month at the top of the release charts. TF2 is of course the king of this, and the long lifespan of it probably reflects valve's business acumen. If I was a game developer, and you told me I could not only sell my title, but then, as sales began to drop of re-monetize the user-base through micro-payments literally YEARS after the game's release, why wouldn't I say yes? Especially after the considerable (and probably costly) development that went into the original release (many years. and more than one total overhaul), and the subsequent updates before you could buy things for the game. The Mann-conomy update (introducing micro-payments) went live on September 30th, 2010 but there had been 11 major content updates, and two addition community content updates since TF2's release nearly 3 years earlier (October 10th 2007).

Yes but when Kim Dotcom says "yes, I know the TV show Dexter is on my site and we need to make it more easily accessible to everyone" that is something else and, depending on how the law is interpreted, possibly illegal. Here is some analysis that features actual lawyers: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/01/why-the-feds-smashed-megaupload.ars

Actually, I went searching for some info on those patents, and just found this". Seems it has been a non-issue for the past 3 years.

You should read the arstechnica article Iinked. It offers a different slant that you might find informative (and much more legally sound than our armchair opinions):

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/01/legal-experts-say-megaupload-faces-long-odds/

WTF? did you read it?

All three professors emphasized that an indictment may include claims that are misleading, taken out of context, or even flat inaccurate. And they noted that not all the allegations in the indictment may even make it before a jury. But we asked the professors to assume that the indictment is at least accurate (full context is of course impossible to provide) when assessing the legal merits of the case.

That article was from January and we know more now. i.e. the Warrants were Judged invalid as they did not clearly articulate the crime committed.

You should read the arstechnica article Iinked. It offers a different slant that you might find informative (and much more legally sound than our armchair opinions):

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/01/legal-experts-say-megaupload-faces-long-odds/

Are you making that claim based on legal knowledge of the case or are you just talking out your ass? As I have read, the case is based on private emails of the indicted:

It quotes extensively from correspondence among the defendants, who work for Megaupload and its related sites. The correspondence, the indictment says, shows that the operators knew the site contained unauthorized content.

The indictment cites an e-mail from last February, for example, in which three members of the group discussed an article about how to stop the government from seizing domain names.

The Megaupload case is unusual, said Orin S. Kerr, a law professor at George Washington University, in that federal prosecutors obtained the private e-mails of Megaupload’s operators in an effort to show they were operating in bad faith.

“The government hopes to use their private words against them,” Mr. Kerr said. “This should scare the owners and operators of similar sites.”

And it hinges not on the evidence seized at the arrest in NZ but apparently on emails detailing the deliberate actions of the site's proprietors to make copyrighted content widely available not just to the customers who uploaded these files, but to any visitors to the site. If you read some discussion of real legal analysis, things don't look so rosy for fat old K. Dotcom.

As for the customers getting their files back, that's a different issue. It should be legal for me to store my music in the cloud.

I hope fat old K. Dotcom chokes on his bratwurst.

You don't like him because he's overweight?

Are you making that claim based on legal knowledge of the case or are you just talking out your ass? As I have read, the case is based on private emails of the indicted:

It quotes extensively from correspondence among the defendants, who work for Megaupload and its related sites. The correspondence, the indictment says, shows that the operators knew the site contained unauthorized content.

The indictment cites an e-mail from last February, for example, in which three members of the group discussed an article about how to stop the government from seizing domain names.

The Megaupload case is unusual, said Orin S. Kerr, a law professor at George Washington University, in that federal prosecutors obtained the private e-mails of Megaupload’s operators in an effort to show they were operating in bad faith.

“The government hopes to use their private words against them,” Mr. Kerr said. “This should scare the owners and operators of similar sites.”

And it hinges not on the evidence seized at the arrest in NZ but apparently on emails detailing the deliberate actions of the site's proprietors to make copyrighted content widely available not just to the customers who uploaded these files, but to any visitors to the site. If you read some discussion of real legal analysis, things don't look so rosy for fat old K. Dotcom.

As for the customers getting their files back, that's a different issue. It should be legal for me to store my music in the cloud.

I hope fat old K. Dotcom chokes on his bratwurst.

Sure, 15% of that website's users. Most definitely not 15% of global market. That number is closer to 54% on the desktop. http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/07/firefox-fights-back-holds-on-to-second-place-in-world-browser-shares/

What is a bit surprising, to me, is that according to Arstechnica Google had an external consulting firm handle part of the document search and digitization. I would have thought that Google knew a thing or two about that kind of thing...

Not that surprising. I haven't gone through the PACER docket for this case to check, but I'd be extremely surprised if a stipulated protective order wasn't in place, one that permitted document production to be designated 'Attorney's Eyes Only' for commercially sensitive (etc.) documents. Google themselves wouldn't be able to handle the search and digitization of any such material; their lawyers would have had to have outsourced that (or done it internally, much more expensive)...

It, unfortunately, isn't a huge surprise that some fairly epic paper-shuffling(and converting to TIFF, apparently) took place.

What is a bit surprising, to me, is that according to Arstechnica Google had an external consulting firm handle part of the document search and digitization. I would have thought that Google knew a thing or two about that kind of thing...

Ron and Rand Paul are shifting the central focus of their family's libertarian crusade to a new cause: Internet Freedom.

Depends what you mean by freedom. According to this Ars Technica Article, he means the freedom of corporations to decide who gets to speak and what they get to say on the Internet.

This seems like welcome news to me.

I'd say that depends pretty heavily on whether you want citizens to be free to speak, or network providers to be free to generate revenue by restricting speech.

Your little brain freeze notwithstanding, that was an exemplary summary of a complex report. The mea culpa is also appreciated.

For those who want to read a little more, there's a very good article over at Ars Technica, which in turn links to the full English report from the Japanese parliamentary inquiry as well as an IEEE Spectrum account of the immediate aftermath.

. . . the intelligent life will probably NOT want anything to do with us anyway.

They'll just avoid us, like tourists not stopping in a bad neighborhood.

Of course... I mean, who would want to face MAFIAA lawyers and extradition risks for transmission US (should) not have control over?

The App Store isn't GPL-compliant.

Depends on the GPL version; the iOS App Store is perfectly GPL 2.0 compliant, as long as a distributor of software provides their source upon demand, they are fulfilling their terms under Section 3, paragraph b. Several iOS developers distribute GPL software, such as Doom, this way. VLC is distributed under GPL 2.0.

The issue is that the third party conversion of VLC in the Apple App Store imposed DRM on VLC. That was in violation of the GPL.
One of the developers of VLC, Rémi Denis-Courmont objected.

He did not object when the very same binary was distributed free on Cydia, because there was no additional DRM imposed.
He did the right thing. It had nothing to do with Paragraph 6.

See: http://arstechnica.com/apple/2011/01/vlc-for-ios-vanishes-2-months-after-eruption-of-gpl-dispute/

They will just licence software on an hourly basis

They tried that. Arcades died in North America.

That's the cost to US taxpayers* for all this patent trolling. It wouldn't be so egregious if there was actually some legitimacy to the claims but it's all about competing by litigation, which ought to be as illegal as stealing actual inventions.

[*] - http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/07/new-study-same-authors-patent-trolls-cost-economy-29-billion-yearly/

I would like to mention a few things:
- A large part of apps on smartphones are already build with things like PhoneGap. So it isn't a big change from what people use now.

- You don't need to create VoIP encoder, there is already a HTML5 standard for that: WebRTC: http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/04/html5-roundup-mozilla-demos-standards-based-video-chat-in-firefox/

I know a hot topic gets multiple selections, so do Slashdot editors pick the one with the single worst article? This news items is covered in several reputable places, yet, they selected a submission that looks like it was written by an 8th grader. They use AP's Tweet to make it look like an official AP story/headline. There's brilliantly nonsensical lines like "Proview is continuing their lawsuit in Santa Clara for $1.5 billion dollars while allging fraud and unfair competition. The case was soon after thrown out by a judge."

http://articles.latimes.com/2012/may/10/business/la-fi-ct-sony-earns-20120510

Over the past 2 years, Sony is $10 BILLION in the hole, and with the bad decisions they constantly make, I wont be suprised if they are gone in a few years.

Yes, this line of thought hasn't caused ANY problems recently in regards to audio or video recordings.

Hey, that SWAT team was protecting our freedom from message board assholes! Open routers are terrorism!

Apple was ordered to post a bond of $95 million to enact the injunction, which would be used to pay Samsung damages if the decision is later reversed.

But who will reimburse the consumers for the damages we suffer from having these devices temporarily off the market, if the decision is later reversed?

Be more realistic. The chances at very good that the injunction will be upheld permanently, they generally are when they each this stage.
The question should be who bares the responsibility for selling you a banned product that you will not be able to get parts for if it is broken?
The Koreans or Google?

Has anyone else noticed that Samsung's culture's actions mirror the lovable little scoundrels, the Fringy, in Star Wars:Underworld?

The URL itself puts it pretty well:
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/06/in-bid-for-patent-sanity-judge-throws-out-entire-applemotorola-case/

Apple was ordered to post a bond of $95 million to enact the injunction, which would be used to pay Samsung damages if the decision is later reversed.

But who will reimburse the consumers for the damages we suffer from having these devices temporarily off the market, if the decision is later reversed?

Apple was ordered to post a bond of $95 million to enact the injunction, which would be used to pay Samsung damages if the decision is later reversed.

Apparently the decision was based on, "Apple's claim to the patent to search multiple sources, which Apple says is the basis of Siri. [...] Judge Koh said 'Apple has articulated a plausible theory of irreparable harm [because] of long-term loss of market share and losses of downstream sales."

On the surface of it, it sounds awfully stupid to me. If I'm remembering correctly, "searching multiple sources" by voice query existed in Android devices first, no?

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/06/breaking-judge-grants-apple-an-injunction-against-the-galaxy-nexus/