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Patreon is full of talentless beggars who harass people for money similar to Jimbo "A Personal Appeal" Wales. I hope all Patreon users get their penises chopped off.

Except I'm not American. I am British by descent, and have lived and worked on three continents. But your point is irrelevant anyway: The term is commonly used outside the USA as well. For example:

UK:
http://arstechnica.co.uk/gamin...
http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/new...
http://www.theguardian.com/tec...
http://www.macworld.co.uk/news...
http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2015/...

CA:
http://circanews.com/news/cord...
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/n...
http://www.chathamdailynews.ca...
http://www.canadiancordcutting...
http://shayne.tablotvweb.nomad...

AU:
http://www.computerworld.com.a...
http://www.theaustralian.com.a...
http://www.businessinsider.com...
http://www.cnet.com/au/news/co...
http://www.pcauthority.com.au/...

Just because you're ignorant of its usage, that doesn't mean the term isn't broadly used around the world in countries with large English-speaking populations.

I guess you could read this

http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2015/...

Or you could be a fucking retard. Or were you pre-emptively replying to retards? Then you're a retard.

Or were you trying to make fun of mpicpp? Because I could do that for you as well. I think information is more effective, but apparently you think that being an asshole or ignorant fuck on the internet is more effective. So now you're the target.

You're not helping.

The statistics for the UK from the website:

Violations of User Rights 16/40
Freedom on the Net 24/100
Obstacles to Access 2/25
Limits on Content 6/35

And yet on the map graphics it's shown as a bright white 'Free', not 'Partly Free'.

Not quite, mate.

Further examples:

Eye-fi cards are SD cards containing a WiFi module, which can be a quick way to get photos off a camera.

Intel Edison is an SD-sized computer with WiFi and Bluetooth: http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/do-it-yourself/edison.html

USB storage drives can be tiny too: http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/10/worlds-smallest-usb-stick-squeezes-64gb-into-a-tiny-silvery-peanut/

Here's a bit of context on what you're allowed to do re: the "licence to speed" in a police car from Matt Delito, who is a pseudonym for a Metropolitan Police officer somewhere in London:

I am facing a choice: I can drive down the alley and get to the kid quickly, but if I do that, I don't have my car to block traffic. I decide to drive around. Blues on, sirens on their most hectic, feverish pitch. The sound reflects my mental state well: I'm hungry, I'm tired, I'm fuelled only by adrenaline, and I'm pissed off. I'm meant to go home after a long and shitty day in only 20 minutes.

When on blues and twos, there are some things you can do, and there are some things you can't. Technically, you're not allowed to speed or run red lights; the blue lights don't mean that you're not breaking the law - they just mean that the police commissioner has given you a promise: They won't prosecute you for breaking traffic laws, as long as you do so safely and within the parameters of your training. It also means that when I drive out of the Metropolitan Police area, I'm not technically supposed to use my blue lights at all: The police force hasn't granted me, personally, a promise they won't prosecute me.

http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2011/12/jog-on-douchebag/

I think you're right on Albion, which was a big disaster which hurried in a few H&S changes. I can't find any reference to the controlled break of tethers - but it's one of those things that I remember being described to me so either one of those things that gets passed along but never actually happens, or nobody deems it worth mentioning. I'm with you on this one though. Incidentally, I found this http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/06/this-is-what-happens-when-you-launch-a-massive-ship-sideways-and-dont-get-out-of-the-way/ which is another good example of the forces at work in a launch, and you can understand how a gantry piled high with people could easily get torn away.

Just shoot a high power laser on a very short duration wherever this quality is found, and you'll burn out the CCD of any nearby digital camera.

It's claimed LED's will obscure your face; LED's can be placed in a base ball cap

The Anonymous Guide to Hiding From Facial Recognition, or the Long Arm of the Law (shows the use of a laser pointer)
http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/08/the-anonymous-guide-to-hiding-from-facial-recognition-or-the-long-arm-of-the-law/

So I bought a LED cap at a gun shop of all places for $12.
http://www.walmart.com/ip/Huntworth-Men-s-Lighted-Baseball-Cap-Oak-Tree/15111206

I've had it for a month now and haven't tested it to see if it block out my web cam or if I'll need to replace the LED's with IR LED's (I'm sure I will)
but I have a base, all the hard work is done.

Apparently you can search for lots of things on Facebook. For example:

http://media.gizmodo.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/facebookgraphlols1.png

http://media.gizmodo.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/facebooklols4.png

Apparently you can search for lots of things on Facebook. For example:

http://media.gizmodo.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/facebookgraphlols1.png

http://media.gizmodo.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/facebooklols4.png

(Nvidia is advertising a 6 fold power increase between Tegra 2 and Tegra 3)

I think you mean between Tegra 3 and Tegra 4

You're an idiot that has failed to understand the point of Android. Google does have certain mandates to let you Google-certify a device, that is load the Android Market (Google Play) and apps (Gmail, etc.) onto it. If you don't want Google certification you can still run Android and do whatever you want with it, but even then the Google mandates are more to ensure quality rather than consistency.

Google's ethos is that they want people to innovate and do things differently. Google APPROVES of the custom-UI's like Sense and TouchWiz and according to the guy who actually designed ICS

That’s actually one of the things that I feel really strongly about: the idea that we should require as little as possible, because I want to have as much innovation as possible out there. For example, two years ago there was a Chinese company that was able to release an Android device that didn’t have any buttons at all. Not just on-screen soft-key buttons like we have in Ice Cream Sandwich and now Jelly Bean, not just capacitive buttons, not just not-physical buttons, but no buttons at all! And it supported all of the Android functionality — homescreen, back, etc. — by using gestures, like of like what we did with WebOS. And it was great, because that was compatible with Android, because our requirements are so loose that people can innovate that way.

Less requirements means more innovation and more diversification. Otherwise you just end up with 5 phones that are all the same.

Yes, this comes at a cost - the Changes to Android's system need to be ported over to the various custom skins and that takes time, but that's what Google is focusing on now rather than just giving up and making everyone do the same thing.

Well I'd trust the mainstream tech media to give some reliable numbers on Lumia sales rather than an MS astroturfing site.

Let's see: El Reg, Grauniad, Gizmodo, and many others..

Honestly, I can't think of anything that would immature about it.. In fact, especially the UI is great once you've tried it. Easily beats Android and even iPhone too.

Seriously? Have you either of the other devices?

Also, development on WP7 phones is ridiculously easy, as you point out. I'm more than happy that Nokia finally dropped Symbian, which was a *major* pain in the ass to even set up development environment for. XNA, Silverlight etc make it ridiculously easy to do apps for WP7.

Agreed. Compared to Symbian, XNA/Silverlight is amazing :)

Only bad thing about WP7 is that you can't run apps outside markets as easily as with old Windows Mobile's. It really sucks. But it's something iPhone and Android mandated, so blame is on them.

Not the *only* thing, but I'm not going to enumerate them, as it's likely to be a waste of time. I am surprised you didn't mention that Microsoft has blessed a jailbreak/sideloader http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2011/11/official-windows-phone-7-jailbreak-now-live-for-a-fee/