On one hand, I agree with him. On the other, we have a judge who volunteered apparently just to make a stand in this case. How long before "receptive" judges start volunteering to argue for the other side...

Well, isn't there a way to trick/force all these computers who are affected to go to a website stating: "Yo, you've be hacked and infected. We have taken down the websites, but you are still infected. Do this to get fixed."

You'd likely have to buy a full Win 8 though. Otherwise Microsoft has nothing stopping them from saying "Well, this is an addition to Win 7. You no longer own Win 7, so this addition license is no longer valid. You can just buy a new Win 7 license for this to work with."

Before, never. Now? I'm tempted to make it my life, and by life I mean until I fall a sleep tonight, goal of working it into every sentence.

This was something I was wondering.

Even though I don't doubt this happened, the whole summary and concept sounds too much like a cheap scare tactic. The mechanisms for cyanide production had to come from somewhere. The cyanide production had to either be natural to the plant strain originally or involved with whatever was added. What you say is similarly true for yeast. Fermentation of alcohol has to occur in anaerobic environments as otherwise yeast produce other compounds. Still more research needs to be done.

If what was added, kill use of this strain while examining it as one would a medical treatment/substance that passed FDA inspection, but started killing people.

If else natural, could be a coincidence that this was GM. Perform studied/experiments against un-GM versions of same plant strain to see if this is the capabilities of the "normal plant" in similar environmental factors, or a mutation in part of the plant's genome that should not have been influenced by the GM modifications.

Else a combination of the two, study to see how to prevent this from happening again. If unprovable either way, release a version that removes the capability to produce cyanide unless it is a necessary requirement for the plant to survive.

That reminds me, my grandmother used to have a saying "It is bad luck to buy a coin bank without anything in it". In hindsight, I think she just liked tricking people into thinking they suckered her out of potential money. Usually it was just a few pennies or old washers she picked up.

I imagine it is their subtle and slight way of getting back at all the readers for headaches we caused.

[quote] You see, Tetris is a very simple game, there's no hidden levels of depth to it. It's blocks falling and you arrange them to make lines that disappear.[/quote]
Sir, I pray for your soul that no serious Tetris fanatics get a hold of this comment. You do not fathom the degrees and tournament rules they have developed over what is or isn't allowed. Dare I even mention the black market, and underground games? The unlicensed, hard core stacking where two people enter, one person leaves?

I would recommend that you start packing your bags now and moving to a third world country. I fear they may already be planning for you to wake up with the head of a T block in your bed tomorrow.

I think the low resolution display is in part because they factored that display as the most used resolution when designing Windows 8? I remember seeing they did a survey and found that to be the case. It is a shame, though, that they aren't aiming ahead of the target since in this case they are producing the hardware. With Win8 they aiming to make it work for the lowest common denominator.

No. For now that he has died it is only a matter of time before he steals, *cough*, I mean out innovates the Devil himself and becomes CEO of Hell. We now have to prepare even more, even harder.

Well, from my understanding changing times/styles also contribute to this. Wasn't C once considered a relatively "high" language when it first emerged and is now more of a "middle" language?

Compared to rubbing two sticks together or use of flint matches are "simple", but now we have lighters.

Realistically, yes. I agree.

I'm still dumb founded by those who genuinely believe that we have our life-long career and ambitions set by time we enter high school.

This article would have made more sense realistically a while back. Current teen gamers are part of a console generation where one of the main three contenders, the Wii, is even doing well in Nursing homes. Gaming could be seen as having a stronger correlation back when gaming was more niche.

To use your analogy, anyone can make and eat pizza these days. At one point, in a steadily decreasing percentage of those alive, the only people who made/ate Pizzas were enthusiasts who either built their own oven, knew someone who did, or was a relative of an over owner/builder. If you are this involved, connected, etc. you might be more inclined to work at a pizzaria than anything else.

These days anyone can buy a frozen pizza for a dollar and nuke it in the microwave. Yet the TFA makes a big deal that these microwave pizza eaters aren't as dedicated or interested as the oven building pizza eaters. Go fig.

Unrepairable by user is a surprise? I thought Apple computers shipped with a screw driver detecting alarm that invalidated the warranty if an unlicensed screwdriver got within five feet of one.

The need is always relative to your own needs. I know a color blind person who has trouble with tablets with "acceptable" display resolutions depending on color schemes, but can make out the iPad "3" just fine due to the higher resolution.