OR, they thought they could cash in on his new found fame in the media. People have been doing it for years/generations in the United States. The Swedes just caught on and picked this one up before any American girls did.

Except that it's not. Science isn't some book that can't be questioned. It, mostly, changes with time. Usually, if a theory is wrong, someone will eventually refine it, but it takes time, effort, and a willingness to defend your hypothesis with more than just name calling. It also requires an education. In many cases, to be accepted in a particular field of study one must have axially studied it. This is not always the case, but the two have a strong correlation.

I believe I speak for everyone when I say "Fuck you George Lucas."

The majority of gamers are right handed and that's that way games have been developed for decades, that's right decades. Atari 2600, video arcade machines, the Jaguar, they were all designed for right handers. Not only that, they were all designed the same. Joystick on the left, buttons on the right. That is how most of us learned, and it took a bit to be able to do it all correctly. It's the learning curve that comes with picking up a new game or system. It's tradition, and a bit of economics.

I highly doubt that most of the people that read this site think that Apple is incompetent. Sure they have made huge mistakes in the past, every company does, but that doesn't mean that they are going to do it forever. The point is that they do this stuff, in this case locking it up so tight Baptist parents are jealous, and then being praised for doing what they should have done in the first place. They even had a federal inquiry started because of how anal they were being. Did anyone praise the Nazis for releasing everyone they had in their concentration camps? No, and why should anyone.

This is eerily similar to Microsoft being praised for Windows 7 after pushing Vista. Sure the situation is completely different, but praising a company for finally listening to consumers is the wrong way to go about it.

He has, for the most part, ruined his reputation. Even if he didn't actually blame the CIA that's not what people will remember. Unless it returns out that the CIA actually did attempt to discredit him, it's going to take years to recover, if his reputation ever can. That and getting Amnesty International on his case and then coming out basically saying "not my problem".

Why not learn about IP and fair use at the same time. Change a couple of things around astheticaly and claim fair use. I realize this isn't the best way to handle it, but I'm a dick and this is how I would respond to assholes.

Hey, I played that game. It lasted for about 5 mins, then got switched to tanks. Which has helped me with conceptualizing angles, so I can scam people playing pool.

It may help to be an expert in order to provide useful data, but a persons level of knowledge should never limit the information they can obtain. If that were the case, only the most brilliant children would ever goto school which greatly limits the pool of knowledge and possibilities. Unfortunately, with claims as large as Global Warming the scientists involved will be inundated with both insightful and asinine questions, the latter far more often than the former. This is just the way it is and as scientists we should be prepared for this. Not by limiting access to the knowledge/data, but by presenting it openly and willingly, and defending it or revising it as needed. Obviously one can expect the occasional individual who can not be dissuaded no matter the amount of information presented, but they would be there with our without the data. On a personal note, and as a conclusion, I believe that there is only one case where a person should be ignored and our denied access to information. This is when the individual, not a group, ignores everything in front of them and goes after the person, not the data. This is, of course, a very personal and highly subjective case which I don't expect people to associate with or even understand.

I live in northern MN and the decision to use asphalt or concrete is based on many factors, none of which are the deterioration sure to salt. Frost heaves, and snow plows do most of the damage. The damage from salt is negligible in comparison. Many times cost is the major factor. The standard plan for highways is about 5 years and then replace. If they start with concrete then after 5 years they can grid it up and use it as a base for asphalt. 5 more years and they strip it down to the ground and start over. However, more recent road construction has begun using a bituminous material for redoing asphalt roads. Either way after 3 or 4 years the roads suck, and by 5 it can be dangerous. They also have to be repaired after every winter due to cracking.

People have long known about AT&T's spotty/weak signal. Is it any wonder that the iPhone is programmed this way? The only reason it's a problem now is because they actually improved the ability to connect to the network. That and the whole antenna issue. The question still remains, at least in my mind, "Will this actually improve reception?" Form what I've seen it's not a matter of the displayed signal being wrong, but one of reception. Visually it may appear to have better signal, or at least an accurate signal, but it doesn't solve the dropped call issue. The people having problems making/keeping calls are still going to have these problems.

http://apple.slashdot.org/story/10/05/03/1952258/Apple-May-Face-Antitrust-Inquiry?art_pos=7 As an example. If one were told that the entire world were open to them but that world was defined as a single 12x12 foot (3.658x3.658 meters) room, is that still open?

It's not illegal because anytime anyone tries to do anything outside of Apple's closed loop legal terms, they get sued. Apple is always going to be preemptive. A soon as they let one slip by they lose. Let us not forget that, unlike Apple, Microsoft creates almost exclusively software. At least that is what they are in trouble for. Apple creates not only software but the hardware that it runs on. While their software is open, their hardware is far form it. How many times have companies tried to copy Apple's hardware and gotten sued? Even the ones who didn't try to rip offew their OS. It doesn't matter how open they pretend to make their software. If they close off their hardware, and make the software acceptance procedure ambiguous they are not open. Hell, they just had an antitrust inquiry two months ago.