I'd wager a large bet that it was one of the parents or other older relatives who jailbroke the first device. Perhaps even someone related to an Apple engineer. And the other kids follow the example. How many kids did you have in high school who were able to break encryption? As companies have grown up, hacking nowadays requires a lot more skill, knowledge and specialized equipment than in the 70's or 80's.

Why would it? I have upgraded my galaxy tablet with each new Android version and it becomes faster each time.

Showing how reproduction works is 'behaving abominably'. But it's ok to present graphic violence as 'entertainment'.

Please post a pic of them on twitter and get them fired, that should help your cause.

Imagine what good can happen when the government and insurance companies get hold of this data, no thanks.

I haven't seen MS distributing rootkits with its hardware products. So definitely less hostile. I swore to never buy anything from Sont again since the rootkit fiasco, and have kept to that.

That is called 'socialism'. It will increase until there is nobody left to pick up the bills.

At least he's not lying about himself or his intentions. If anything, he's been absurdly honest. Just look at his licence plates, or one of his bragging pictures.

Still just a symptom of another problem. Four decades ago, these people would have been watching TV all day and night and get into trouble because of that. In less developed parts of the world, where goods such as a house, electricity and a laptop, are harder to hold on to, these people would probably develop a into the religious zealot type. These persons just have less self control over their actions and then proceed to blame the symptoms for their own shortcomings. Like a fat person blaming McDonalds. Or a rapist blaming the pretty girls. You might even find this in the DSM under the label OCD.

Based on my location I have at least 5,000 years of pest-free life ahead. I'm also guessing that the rate in which it moves north and southward will decelerate over time, so bring it on!

The debate is centered around the question whether a rise in temperature is caused by men, and if the current trend is upwards. As there has been no change in temperature in the last 10 decade. But thanks for the compliment.

So what is the problem? Some people will always be happy to find a time sink. If the internet didn't exist these 'addicts' would be eating, watching TV, gaming or taking illicit substances all day. So easy to blame the time sink when these problems are rooted much deeper.

Actually, there is a game like that, Game dev tycoon, which even makes your game studio go broke because of piracy if the actual game is pirated.

It's all about natural gas. There are plans to build a gas pipeline from Qatar to Europe through Syria and Turkey. Currently, Europe is drawing gas from Russia. A pipeline would diminish Russia's power greatly as they have used it for political gains a few times in the last years. Syria, a strong partner of Russia, opposes this pipeline. Who is the biggest sponsor of the jihadis fighting Assad? Qatar. The EU would be very happy to have this pipeline, as well as the US, as it would strengthen the NATO. As a European, it seems like a choice between two evils. Either start a war in the middle east with an uncertain outcome, or have our gas supply at the whims of a Russian 'president'.
But what's really depressing is that none of the media, not western nor elsewhere, is reporting about this. It's all about the children in Syria.

Funny how the US always criticizes other countries for human right violations and references their constitution as a safeguard against government abuse. Meanwhile, state agencies are collecting information on the entire internet population and handing it out to foreign governments to aid oppressing their population. The irony!

So they factored in the costs for extra support, downtime, conversion, training and lower productivity, and the end sum is a 12,50 change in price per pc. Most people get office training in their education, but now all new users will have to follow training or the unions will start complaining. They might as well take a pc with a smaller hard drive or without a dvd drive for the same cost saving, and do without all the trouble which comes with open source in enterprise organisations.I predict a rollback to Office (or to another open source office suite if they are stubborn and anti-MS) within the next 3 years. Open source office suites are like Chinese knock-offs. They may look similar to the real deal from the outside but once you start working intensively with them they start to degrade quickly.