Would the courts even accept "evidence" gathered in such a manner? Doesn't it constitute entrapment? Isn't that illegal?

Nokia has more brand name recognition, so of course we won't use that.

Idjits.

I don't understand the hatred. All I can think is that it's anti-Chinese bigotry.

I've had ZERO problems with my Lenovo laptop, and it is one of the cheapest i7 models they make. It's a year and a half old at this point.

The HP I used to have, on the other hand, was a total lemon. Within six months the wifi blew out so the motherboard blew out. Nine months later it blew out again but was no longer under warranty, so it had no wifi. By 18 months old, the hard drive had failed.

No matter what brand you buy, the odds are it's "Made in China" from the cheapest parts the vendor could source. So who cares whether the brand is Chinese, European, UK, Canadian, Australian, African, or American owned save for racist bigots?

Maybe slashdot needs a <joke> tag so all you wankers can tell the difference.

Awww, the poor butthurt emacs fans can't take a joke.

What a shock. I mean really, I'm stunned.

People with no sense of humour seem to abound at slashdot lately.

Using emacs to edit code is like using Eclipse to edit a text file. :P

My most hated clickbait is any article by the verbal diarrhoea expert, Bennett Haselton.

Any slashdot article which mentions Microsoft or Apple. :P

A troll is someone who posts a clickbait message designed not to inform or educate or share an opinion, but for the sole purpose of starting an argument. I despise them as much as I despise the people you claim I'm "confusing" them with. Starting arguments for the sake of having an argument just because you're in a pissy mood is childish and stupid behaviour.

But it's not something you should spend 2 years in jail for.

Microsoft is testing a release candidate and is informing users of what they're monitoring.

So far no one has complained about onerous licensing agreements with Yosemite, which seems to imply that Apple is not informing users about it.

Until Microsoft has a production release, it's not even fair to compare the two.

As much as I despise trolls, I despise heavy-handed government censorship even more.

Unfortunately an awful lot of so-called "parody" posts and sites are just people being mean-spirited and cruel and using the age old bully's line when called on it -- "Can't you take a joke?"

So before you go hunting for an ISP, do a little soul searching and above all else, ask yourself if anyone but you is going to find it funny.

Apple does not design "for the future". They design for future purchases.

They drop support for older hardware to force you to upgrade, not because there is a technical problem mandating it.

I'm running Debian on a 12 year old box. It's had a CPU upgrade (to a whopping 3.8 GHz single core) and some extra RAM installed (4G total.) It's perfectly usable, and fully patched.

Had I bought a Mac, I'd have an unsupported paperweight years ago.

...we don't have a way to ignite and sustain that reaction without needing to input more energy than we can extract in a usable fashion from the fusion that occurs

Bollocks. The break-even point was passed this year. Sure it's not reached a point of economy-of-scale, but it was a critical change in the fusion story.

http://www.cbc.ca/m/touch/news/story/1.2534140

Why so popular? Because the storyboarding and visuals are already sketched out by the original issues of the comics themselves.

Adapting a novel requires an imaginitive F/X team to create the F/X from mere text descriptions of the scenes and items to be depicted. Having existing pictures makes it cheap and easy to skip that creativity in the process.

There is also the fact that an awful lot of movies adapted from novels just tank at the box office because they don't express a vision that the readers of those novels had in mind. Even short stories tank. Take, for example, "Enemy Mine." It was a great short story, but kind of sucked as a movie.

I'd like to believe that a better job could be done by a competent team with a good budget, but then along comes something like "Ender's Game", which was so bad I gave up on watching it less than half an hour in. Yet I'd devotedly read the entire series of novels set in that world in my high school days, and enjoyed them thoroughly.

I've often wished they'd get around to adapting some of C. J. Cherryh's universe to a movie format, but I fear they'd butcher her excellent writing and characterization and leave us with yet another F/X fest that tanks at the box office and loses all the appeal of the novels.