it's probably a 1% surcharge on the overtime IBM paid their law department to reach the settlement.

isn't $570,000 / $150,000 about 3.8 people? (articles numbers.) Still probably a good deal, but not quite as good.

The 30 people do matter, but statistics doesn't care about individuals. Having said that, how many people have died in Black Friday (U.S.) / Boxing Day (British) stampedes or riots associated with contentious football matches in Europe/Africa. 14 million excited people in a relatively confined space without guns and other weapons involved and 30 deaths. Not great, but not _that_ bad. Throw in weapons, and the stats sure look a lot better now.

Or the USB 3 port that is backwards compatible to USB 2?

interesting, I'll have to look into this more

wouldn't a small, classic turbine require a not so small, classic tower?

This sounds interesting, but is anyone familiar with plans or devices that do the same thing, except in the 10 to 100 Watt range that you could carry in, or strapped to, a backpack?

Yes, feeding a troll.
Keep in mind that the Northwest territories only has a population of about 40,000. If the Yukon outside Whitehorse is included as implied, that adds about 20,000. So that means half of two territories are involved in the lawsuit.

I read TFA, and it sounds like teachers often type in passwords for updates and the computers already had remote control software installed, so some kid(s) started the remote control software, told the teacher, "It needs a password to update", and away we go. Not really all that clever, just a little Pavlov [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Pavlov] at work, combined with kids who can lie with a straight face.

true, if said employee is a low level grunt, but when that employee is high level management, don't you think that changes things?

except the old patent is probably expired / expiring.

Now this is a good april fools joke - it's almost believable - until they come to the part about a reasonable court.

suggesting vi without giving equal time to emacs? you trying to start a flame war?

okay, maybe "deserve" is a bad choice of words.

I would like to live in the world you describe, however I don't.
When, not if, there are vulnerabilities they will be exploited. (Win 8 app purchases, hotel lock vulnerabilities, and the list goes on. Explicitly naming two of the things that I've seen here in the last little bit),

Maybe I should say, "you should expect what you get", or "you shouldn't be surprised by what you get". Close enough to what I mean without the emotionally charged terms.

I didn't RTFA (shocked?) but wouldn't this assume you put the tv on the open internet with no firewall, router etc.? If you don't use basic protection, you deserve what you get.