"Worlds Inc. filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Activision Blizzard, Inc., Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. and Activision Publishing, Inc. in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts on March 30, 2012."

This is an Audi sports car. This isn't a Caravan or a Taurus or a Prius. The kind of people this is marketed to are those that love fast cars, and more often than not racing. And Audi is very, very much in touch with that kind of audience (take a look at the last few years of Le Mans Winners for reference.)

A large part of the thrill and love for performance vehicles is the sound they make, so rich enthusiasts (the kind that would actually buy something like this) would be very disappointed if this car didn't sound like a car. Take a look at the video. They spent three years engineering the sound, and they need that kind of effort and detail to the sound if they want to be competitive in their target market.

I'm sorry, but you're not going to be able to slap on a couple mp3's of synthesized rocket ship sounds and expect to sell a high end performance vehicle.

I've heard a lot of people on /. state that libreoffice is better than OpenOffice, but I haven't heard many reasons why. What advantages does it have, beyond not being controlled by Oracle?

I've been using Open Office for years and have no complaints about it. (But at the same time, I don't use it in many advanced ways. After a certain point of complexity, I switch over more specific tools like Scribus.) Am I missing some fatal flaw in Open Office though, that libreoffice somehow fixes?

Shouldn't at least some of these Netscape patents be up for expiration? Any patents they were granted in 94 should have expired last year, and any between 95-99 or so should expire in 2015-2019. I feel like I must be missing some part of the picture, because patents on the verge of expiration seem like they should be almost worthless.

"You should consciously seek opportunities to make friends with [intelligent, well-socialized blacks]. In addition to the ordinary pleasures of friendship, you will gain an amulet against potentially career-destroying accusations of prejudice."

Am I the only one that finds great irony in that statement? Maybe the "amulet" only works if you don't talk about it.

They already do this with some toy lines. At least the line I know of/am aware of is My Little Pony. They offer exclusive toys that can't be found anywhere else, in a market that's suffering from variety/quality issues. So it's something I actually appreciate, and will cause me to enter Targets from time to time, when I would otherwise have no reason to. Toys-R-Us does this too, to the same effect.

I wouldn't mind seeing this business practice in other products, if it actually meant receiving quality alternatives.

Target has already been doing this for a while with toys. In particular, the My Little Pony line has quite a few Target exclusives.

It may be easy to avoid in first world countries, but that's not always the case in third world countries. Lack of sanitary conditions in medical facilities, and lack of education can be major contributing factors. But what about transfer of HIV from mother to infant at birth? What about rape? What about a complete lack of publicly available HIV tests, so it's not known who is infected and who isn't?

What would happen if maritime pirates started exploiting this? I imagine that compromising some databases to gain access to shipping routes/logs/cargo/equipment/etc could go a long way in improving the odds of a successful ship seizure.

From the review, it really sounds like this book is only demonstrating how to use specific tools/programs. Is that just what the reviewer is highlighting? Or is this book really lacking in the theories/principals of vulnerabilities and their exploits? I know very little about "hacking," but the last way I'd want to learn about it is through something that amounts to little more than a script kiddy's field guide. To me it feels like a very immature and impractical approach to a very serious/important problem of how to protect yourself and your network.