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Not sure where that list came from the but trademark is a "rectangle with a filigree border and the stylized wording "JACK DANIEL'S TENNESSEE SOUR MASH WHISKEY". The wording "OLD NO. 7 BRAND" appears in an oval shaped design in the center with a filigree appearing around the border."

You can see a picture of it here: http://tarr.uspto.gov/servlet/tarr?regser=serial&entry=85129461
Which looks really close to the book: https://mashable.com/2012/07/22/jack-daniels-trademark-letter/ (you can see them side-by-side)

It does look like an attempt to capitalize on jack daniel's brand recognition.

http://www.rashidumar.com/blog/florida-couple-accused-of-murder-used-google-and-facebook-to-broadcast/

https://mashable.com/2012/06/12/florida-couple-murder-google/

Some of the sitting supreme court justices have implied they aren't sure Software patents are valid either.

Personally, I think it would be best for both sides if someone took this issue to the Supreme court and got it decided. I have my own opinion of what they should decide, but either way everyone would be better off without the uncertainty.

Then why did Apple so heavily promote HTML apps, even after the App Store came around... year after year they have added more support to help HTML apps look and feel like native apps and able to use the same APIs.

Then why did their new bosom buddy facebook
http://mashable.com/2012/06/11/apple-facebook/
drop HTML5 to go native?
http://apple.slashdot.org/story/12/06/28/1719233/facebook-ios-app-ditching-html5-for-objectivec

I guess "year after year" needs a few years of prmotion more for HTML apps to actually be (allowed to be) capable enough to replace native apps.

Unfortunately, I have to watch on my computer to be able to provide that feedback. I generally only watch Hulu on my living room television. The only time my feedback ever changed the ads I received was when I wrote to them over the eHarmony ads I was receiving. I complained about the ads because I didn't want to see ads from a company with an anti-gay history(1,2,3). I will say, however, after I wrote, they responded promptly saying they would forward the complaint to marketing and I never saw the ads again. As far as clicking "No" on "Is this ad relevant to you?" I've watched a few shows on my computer with the specific intent on clicking "No" for the Charter Communications ads. At one point around half the ads I saw were for a cable company that doesn't even do business where I live.

(1) http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1627585,00.html
(2) http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/01/26/BAGB1BNUE5.DTL
(3) http://mashable.com/2010/01/28/eharmony-lawsuit/

Not sure about the UK, but the U.S. courts have repeatedly upheld that students do not have free speech. The case Morse v. Frederick comes to mind, otherwise known as the "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" case.

Long story short, the students were released from school early so they could watch the torch pass from the 2002 Winter Olympics, and Joseph Fredrick, a student at the school, along with friends, held up a banner they'd made earlier that said "Bong Hits 4 Jesus". He was suspended for 5 days (later increased to the maximum 10 days after quoting Thomas Jefferson, which is hysterical), sued, and lost several times. School speech can be regulated both on and off campus; Frederick was not technically in school at the time of his banner (as they'd been dismissed) and he was also standing across the street from the school, thus not technically on campus, but in view of those that were.

Then, of course, are the myriad cases cropping up over the last few years where student's Facebook posts are getting them suspended Just a few months ago a 12-year-old girl was interrogated at length by the administration at her school, with police officers present (but not her parents, of course), and ultimately forced to give up her Facebook password.

If this girl had been here in the U.S., she'd probably already be charged with some form of terrorism by DHS and thrown in a cell with murderers, rapists, and people that upload HD rips of hit movies to the internet.

My aunt bought a new mac a week ago and was furious. She used Photoshop CS 4 and a few other Adobe products that were not even compatible in Lion! These were $700 packages too! She bought them in 2008 and were only 3.5 years old.

That is crazy and she was so angry she almost returned them and went with a PC as the new CS 6 ones would be compatible for 10+ years as long as Windows 7 keeps running until 2020 etc.

So, let me get this straight:

1. Apple has to hold back their OS development to suit a software vendor?

2. It is Apple's fault, not Adobe's, that software sometimes requires a paid upgrade?

3. It is Apple's fault, no Adobe's, that Adobe wrings every single dime out of CS that it can, every chance it gets?

4. That even though Win 7 might be "supported" for 10 years, that is absolutely NO guarantee that a "Security Patch" or "Service Pack" won't require a Paid Upgrade? Ask any Windows person about having to do JUST THAT.

5. Your Aunt would rather RE PURCHASE CS AND A NEW COMPUTER (AND have to deal with the security nightmare and non-ending bullshit that is Windows) than simply look around for a good deal on CS for Mac???

Today people just wont leave that POS XP. Yes, XP was a great version of Windows in its day in 2001 though had issues. Today it is terrible but it still is running and most IT departments and people on a budget plan to keep running it until 2014. It just works and wont die. Flashback was another issue I became mad at for Apple (even though I am not a mac user). The reason was is that Java was patched with recent versions of MacOSX but Apple left them out in the cold. no updates and of course these users say they do not run anti virus software with a smile.

That is borderline negligent. MS still updates XP for security even if they no longer do active development with it nor port modern browsers to the dying platform anymore.

Ahem. Apple actually "broke" their own OS-updating policy recently to issue a removal tool for the Flashback Java vulnerability, and an update that disables unsafe versions of Flash Player back to OS X 10.5 (Leopard), which is TWO revs back (and for both PPC and Intel, too). That is roughly equivalent to MS offering an security update for Windows ME (since Vista doesn't really count as a "rev"; but rather just as a bad joke that was ONLY released when it was to keep MS from defaulting on a zillion VLA contracts).

Unless that's some kind of joke about no one having Windows Phone in order to buy it, you're wrong. That story was erroneous, and Angry Birds has been available for Windows Phone 7 for some time:
http://mashable.com/2011/06/29/angry-birds-windows-phone/

The platform where you won't be buying Angry Birds again is Android, since it's free. Fairly certain the same goes for ChromeOS.

Well, that site does happen to be 25% of all internet traffic in the US as of a year and a half ago. http://mashable.com/2010/11/19/facebook-traffic-stats/

It's a pretty silly argument to say that Google have been unfairly singled out, and quite wrong too. The companies that you mention have all had their share of regulatory intervention, especially in the EU. Your first example, Microsoft (exactly who was inconvenienced by their OOXML standard?) is the first company that springs to mind when thinking of EU intervention. Remember the browser choice screen or the two billion dollars in fines?

They are also keeping their eye on Apple in the eBook market, although I maintain that the consumer has benefited from Apple being able to strong-arm the record industry on removing their DRM. Facebook's privacy problems have also been the subject of scrutiny in the EU. And for Oracle...

No, I can't bring myself to even appear to defend Oracle!

So the idea that Google should be given a free pass because they are being unfairly picked on is just rubbish. That doesn't mean to say that the EU's complaint isn't without issue. The fact that Google displays links to its own vertical search services doesn't seem too unreasonable, and it is a practice that has gone on in the industry for years. I first saw this used by Yahoo when they linked to their own services in their results (eg. Yahoo Finance). And when I search for "microsoft stock price" on Google, I got links to an assortment of financial sites at the top of the results (eg. Yahoo Finance).

Similarly, when they include reviews or news from other sites, they always link to the source. That said I can see that there would be a concern if they show the entire news story or review which means that you never have to follow the link. I guess there is a legitimate concern about some of Google's practices, but I am wary of the heavy handed, simplistic approach that the EU regulators sometimes utilise.

It's a pretty silly argument to say that Google have been unfairly singled out, and quite wrong too. The companies that you mention have all had their share of regulatory intervention, especially in the EU. Your first example, Microsoft (exactly who was inconvenienced by their OOXML standard?) is the first company that springs to mind when thinking of EU intervention. Remember the browser choice screen or the two billion dollars in fines?

They are also keeping their eye on Apple in the eBook market, although I maintain that the consumer has benefited from Apple being able to strong-arm the record industry on removing their DRM. Facebook's privacy problems have also been the subject of scrutiny in the EU. And for Oracle...

No, I can't bring myself to even appear to defend Oracle!

So the idea that Google should be given a free pass because they are being unfairly picked on is just rubbish. That doesn't mean to say that the EU's complaint isn't without issue. The fact that Google displays links to its own vertical search services doesn't seem too unreasonable, and it is a practice that has gone on in the industry for years. I first saw this used by Yahoo when they linked to their own services in their results (eg. Yahoo Finance). And when I search for "microsoft stock price" on Google, I got links to an assortment of financial sites at the top of the results (eg. Yahoo Finance).

Similarly, when they include reviews or news from other sites, they always link to the source. That said I can see that there would be a concern if they show the entire news story or review which means that you never have to follow the link. I guess there is a legitimate concern about some of Google's practices, but I am wary of the heavy handed, simplistic approach that the EU regulators sometimes utilise.

http://mashable.com/2011/07/14/4g-confusion-study/ 34% of iPhone Users Think They Have 4G [STUDY] July 14, 2011 by Charlie White

So I'm watching less tv, DVDs, and haven't got the high score on the latest game.

You've touched on a very important change: Turning off the TV. You'd be surprised how much you can get done - work or fun - when you aren't channel surfing non-stop for a few hours daily.

Heck - just moving around sometimes is better than nothing because some recent studies have suggested that sitting still shortens your lifespan quite a bit (with purty pictures)...

RIM is dead. Shit sux. Amateur hour apparently is only over for them.

I've never bought into the image of benevolence Google always presents to the public, and that's cost me Slashdot karma over the years, but I don't care. It will be very interesting to see who defends this. It would be difficult not to see them as sellouts of themselves, all too happy to trash their own privacy rights, eager to please the advertising megacorp and defend them from attack. Wake up!

(emphasis mine)

Irony: Samsung, biggest seller of Google Android-based phones, staged an astroturfing/advertising stunt by bringing in a couple busloads of people to the front of the Apple Store in Sydney, Australia, who then yelled at customers inside to "Wake up!".

Well it's maybe a little bit of a story. The idea that you want answers not webpages isn't a new one. But Google is also investing a ton of money on solving that as well.

http://mashable.com/2012/02/13/google-knowledge-graph-change-search/

If you search for something like: "The Eiffel tower height" it'll give you an exact answer now.

Have you see this story about COO of Facebook

How many Slashdotters argued voraciously that Hans Reiser was innocent before all the facts were in? How many people signed the anti-Apple-FoxConn petition before the basis was found to be a hoax?

Aren't those protesting -- asking for "justice" (code word for arrest and conviction) -- engaged in the same sort of vigilante justice that got Trayvon killed?

Yes. I know, it's more politically correct to demand Zimmerman's head than to wait for facts to emerge. It's better to react to the distorted photos and the doctored 9-1-1 tapes then to wait for those who are dealing with all the facts.

Please, go ahead, mark this as "troll" because it doesn't fit your world view -- and you certainly can make all the correct decisions without really knowing what happened.

What you're missing here is that had the roles been reversed, Trayvon Martin would be sitting in a jail cell, probably without bail (or some huge amount that pretty much ensures that he'd stay in jail), awaiting trial for murder and/or manslaughter. What's pissing people off is the lack of equal treatment under the law.

How many Slashdotters argued voraciously that Hans Reiser was innocent before all the facts were in? How many people signed the anti-Apple-FoxConn petition before the basis was found to be a hoax?

Aren't those protesting -- asking for "justice" (code word for arrest and conviction) -- engaged in the same sort of vigilante justice that got Trayvon killed?

Yes. I know, it's more politically correct to demand Zimmerman's head than to wait for facts to emerge. It's better to react to the distorted photos and the doctored 9-1-1 tapes then to wait for those who are dealing with all the facts.

Please, go ahead, mark this as "troll" because it doesn't fit your world view -- and you certainly can make all the correct decisions without really knowing what happened.

Even Google Execs don't use google +

http://mashable.com/2011/10/04/google-needs-to-use-google-plus/

One has to wonder just how serious your employer is about this.

Google execs may not be using the public version of Google+, but keep in mind that there's a completely separate, internal Google+. All @google.com e-mail addresses who join Google+ get this one. Google employees who want to use the public Google+ have to use a different, non-work e-mail address (there may be a way to get an exception to allow an @google.com account to post to the public site, I don't know).

The internal Google+ is used heavily by some groups, less so by others. Mine uses it lightly, as a social network, not as a communication tool for work-related stuff.

Even Google Execs don't use google +

http://mashable.com/2011/10/04/google-needs-to-use-google-plus/

One has to wonder just how serious your employer is about this.

Are you fucking retarded? There was a period of time when you could totally own an iPhone remotely just by sending it a text message.

Riots happen in China but are repressed, and of course hidden from public view.

Here is an article from last week in FoxConn:
http://mashable.com/2012/01/10/did-300-workers-at-an-xbox-360-factory-threaten-mass-suicide/

You DO know that you're comparing that to MS selling 15 times that many in the first 6 weeks, right?
Or did my obvious exaggeration (to everyone but you) put you off understand the whole point?

Forgot to mention a couple of the best ones. Minecraft and mojang will go dark (19M users). The entire family of icanhazcheezburger humor pic sites too, including FAIL Blog, Know Your Meme, Memebase and The Daily What (16M users). I do believe that the lack of lolcats will spur some serious action. Firefall company Red 5 Studios will also go dark. nVidia has come out strongly opposed to the legislation, but hasn't announced any action yet. This is really starting to roll, and blackout day is still 5 days away.

Forgot to mention a couple of the best ones. Minecraft and mojang will go dark (19M users). The entire family of icanhazcheezburger humor pic sites too, including FAIL Blog, Know Your Meme, Memebase and The Daily What (16M users). I do believe that the lack of lolcats will spur some serious action. Firefall company Red 5 Studios will also go dark. nVidia has come out strongly opposed to the legislation, but hasn't announced any action yet. This is really starting to roll, and blackout day is still 5 days away.

This wasn't just misbehaving. What Google did was outright illegal. Not only did they falsely claim that they have business partnership with Mocality, they also claimed that Mocality is engaging in bait-and-switch practices to try and charge businesses up to $200 for their listing. Mocality said they have never charged businesses and never will.

Such blatant lies aren't just misbehavior, they are pure fraud. Google is trying to destroy their competitor in any way possible and in turn profit from lies. This is not a new practice to Google - they haven't been able to gain market share in social space because Facebook and Twitter got there first (of who did it well), and it's seriously injuring their currently. They are desperately trying to change that with Google+ but they know they're unable to do so because they weren't there at the right time. Google is also facing serious competition in Russia, China, South Korea and a few other countries where local search engines have the largest market share and Google is unable to compete as again, they weren't there at the right time.

Google has a long history of scraping other websites and then dropping them lower in search in favor of their own sites. They have been doing this for ages with hotels, restaurants and similar information. They're also trying to do it with flights information. All of these practices will net Google enemies and most likely antitrust issues. But Google doesn't care - they know how important timing is and they will abuse their position whenever they can to get there. It's a long term goal and Google has managed to get the position where no one can really touch them even if they misbehave. Seriously, they were also found out polluting search engines with paid links. After that they blame someone else and try to seem like a good guy. The most hilarious thing is that most geeks believe them just because they use open source (while ironically their products are all proprietary).

And note that this isn't just Google's Kenyan office misbehaving. They also received calls from Google's Indian call centers engaging in similar practices, so this is a practice accepted from Google's HQ.
On top of that, EPIC has said they will try to get antitrust investigation into Google's introduction of Google+ into search results. People are finally starting to wake up to see how bad Google is and how it abuses other companies.

1) Opera shows up so often, although this may be because of their huge mobile marketshare

The paranoid view would be that most users won't go for Opera, so if they should happen upon it they are more likely to reject alternative browsers and wind up an Aieee! user.

4) Bing and Yahoo gave the same exact search results.

One would expect so.

Go-Green, Go-Apple???

That's a pretty flimsy argument, given that Apple has long-since moved production offshore, which causes a lot more pollution that would if goods were made in the USA.

The factories in China making Apple's stuff have been getting a pretty bad rap, if you care about green you would know.

Carbon neutral Android phones have been available for year.

Software updates on the Android devices I've had have been pretty good, I've never gotten an orphaned device, whether cellphone or tablet.

Your analysis ignores hardware updates, for instance 4G, display density, camera resolution, front-facing camera, processor speed, memory, mass storage, peripheral slots, etc.

So if you're being intellectually honest you will do three things:

1. Swear never to buy a phone that isn't carbon neutral. If that means buying an Android over an iPhone, at your next upgrade cycle, so be it.
2. Assuming that you don't have a tablet, wait until a carbon neutral tablet is available and then buy that.
3. Put off upgrading your iPhone over technological obsolescence including any of the hardware reasons listed above.

But your article smacks of being written by an apple fanboi rather than someone who is voicing a real concern over being green.

without proof that most people will choose easy-to-guess gestures is just as fallacious as just giving the number of unique combinations

Considering the amount of evidence out there proving that, left to their own devices, a large majority of people already use easily guessable passwords (NYT, 2011 Worst Password Study, and on, and on...), this isn't a stretch at all.
In fact, your non-logic deserves a spanking considering how easy a simple web-search is on this subject. Try a little harder next time.

Nearly everything is developed for both platforms

That certainly wasn't the case last year: http://mashable.com/2010/07/02/ios-android-developer-stats/

The whole fucking article is clickbait. Read this one instead. They are basically debating what influence depicting armed conflicts witout adherence to international law can have on what people think about warfare. It's only the retarded journalists trying to make an upsetting story of something that absolutely isn't one just to drive traffic to their sorry excuses for news sites.

According to a proof of concept by Geek Condition, there is a security flaw in Gmail that allows an attacker to forward GoDaddy account reset information to the offending party unbeknownst by the victim. This is done by creating a filter that forwards GoDaddy’s “change of password” mail to the attacker and deletes it from your inbox.

I would send them one more email explaining how to crack a user account. If they still don't believe you, then I would send a complaint to the FTC with all of the relevant information on how it is insecure. The investors in this company don't want to hear about it. If the name of the company gets out, they'll have issues. If you really believe that their systems are insecure, post the name of the company here. People post security flaws all of the time: http://mashable.com/2011/10/03/htc-security-flaw/ I think you actually have a responsibility to tell people about the issue after you have done what you can to help the company.

iOS most certainly does not ship on more devices. The iPhone is the most popular single device but Android is in use far more overall.

http://mashable.com/2011/09/26/android-sales-2-to-1-iphone/

Your program suddenly looses access to keyboard, screen, file system.

Is that what happened with WordPerfect? I didn't see that written anywhere, the only things i saw were related to an open file dialog.

Maybe it is because MS did not target them with a replacement of their own. The fact that MS did not manage to kill ALL non-MS software does not make them any less guilty.

It does suggest something is amiss with what WordPerfect was doing, if their OFD functionality was broken but everyone elses was fine that seems a little odd. So my question would be how is it that MS broke generic application functionality for only one customer. It all seems pretty dubious, especially since WP's marketshare was plummeting well before the release of Win95.

Who have Apple sued regarding multitouch?

http://mashable.com/2010/10/30/apple-motorola-lawsuit/

Motorola shot first.

Do you actually have a study to back up your statistics or are you just making things up?

U.S. Smartphone Customer Satisfaction Survey The only area where customers didn't like Apple was lack of 4G.

TinyChat Launches Dead-Simple Video Chat. But I can't tell if you need to connect through their site, and they already geo-located me, so maybe you should forget them, also. I'm looking for something with a direct connection between clients

This page says the Galaxy Player has been out for less than a week. I wonder if the local Test Try store has one for me to try.

You might also want to include:

Facebook Adds TV & Movies to the Stream

Spotify Comes to Facebook

Yahoo Hooks Up With Facebook for Socially Curated News

You might also want to include:

Facebook Adds TV & Movies to the Stream

Spotify Comes to Facebook

Yahoo Hooks Up With Facebook for Socially Curated News

You might also want to include:

Facebook Adds TV & Movies to the Stream

Spotify Comes to Facebook

Yahoo Hooks Up With Facebook for Socially Curated News

Microsoft has a patent specifically on how to best sell your private data to the highest bidder. I'm trying to find it at the moment, but searching for Microsoft and patents mainly returns results on Novell, Nortel, Android, etc. And why exactly did Microsoft file this patent in conjunction of their purchase of Skype:

http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72771.html

And you may want to read these:

http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-04-18/social-media/29443159_1_facebook-profiles-status-updates-advertisers
http://mashable.com/2010/05/20/facebook-caught-sending-user-data-to-advertisers/
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/facebook_sells_your_data.php
http://www.financetechnews.com/how-facebook-sells-your-personal-info-and-gets-away-with-it/

Doesn't this sound like overkill and/or reduncancy?

There must be more efficient ways, e.g. Twitter...

http://mashable.com/2011/08/25/animated-map-twitter-earthquake/

Yes, Twitter of all hyped crap.

Actually, this invite-only beta already has over 25 million users. 5% of Facebook's user base in a month by invitation only isn't too shabby.

Facebook has over 750 million users so it is more like 3%. But regardless, the "invite only" isn't much of a limitation, almost the opposite, everybody and their brother (was about to say mother, but apparently Google+ is male only) got 150 invites to spread.

You mean to tell me people actually use Google+?

Well, as almost 9 of 10 Google+ users are male (and 95% of people looking for love on the site are male) it's been called the Internet's biggest sausage fest ;)

http://mashable.com/2011/03/21/microsoft-sues-barnes-noble/

There are hundreds of hits for "microsoft sues". I grabbed the first one that looked remotely relevant. I insist that Microsoft's grand strategy hasn't changed - it's just slower moving, and sneaky. They still dream of being the only operating system on earth, or at least having every other operating system paying them royalties.

The original stats were based on self-reporting on a 3rd party website for tracking your global rank in # of fans. IOW, not something that would have gender-neutral response.

Here are more recent stats from an actual analytics firm:
http://mashable.com/2011/07/22/google-plus-numbers/#21199Google-Gender

According to comscore, it's 37% vs 63% now.

Mostly men and software geeks:

http://mashable.com/2011/07/14/google-plus-male/

Wow - that's fun and diverse. Its just like Slashdot...