Browser manufactures have a responsibility towards their own customers (users), not towards the victims of some untrustworthy CA.

Google's web services may not be a player in China (irrelevant, so I didn't check), but their browsers (desktop and android) most certainly are: http://www.chinainternetwatch....

I don't think "lessor" is a word, but if you meant "lesser" then you couldn't be more wrong: http://www.zdnet.com/article/n...

I'm quite confident that most of these Google-browser users don't have a clue what digital certificates are.

Verisign, Thawte and GeoTrust would probably be treated the same way, if they failed to act of known false certificates. This isn't just "negligently or willfully making bogus certificates", this is mostly about failing to fix the problem after having been informed of having created "bogus certificates". Matter of fact, these CA's regularly update their recovation lists (CRL): https://isc.sans.edu/crls.html

We all know who the real April's fool is today; Slashdot editors.
April's fool jokes are supposed to trick people into believing something which is obvious nonsense in hindsight.
The Slashdot editors have been fooled into believing these stories were believable, even though they obviously aren't.
Seriously, you can't think up a story about Apple announcing an iRing that controls other devices or CERN's LHC having found the flogiston particle?

The same could be said about somebody "conditioned" to associate the e-racing noises with racing and I might well learn to enjoy the sound of e-racing. But right now, I don't.
I was merely stating my taste, to add a different point on view on the topic of noise, then sjbe went full retard about it.
It's like demanding somebody to justify their taste in music or food.

It has to do with enjoying the sport.
The noise servers no purpose other than that it's enjoyable to hear.
There is no purpose to racing, or any sporting event, at all. Attacking this single part of inane.

As for your second comment, you are merely attacking a strawman.

For me, the lack of any "raw" engine noise is actually the only minus.
The high-pitches wheezing just doesn't sound enjoyable at all; it's bland and unrecognizable at this point.

I'm not saying they are equal, as you probably already understood, but the NDA"s are obviously amoral and probably not legal either; a lawyer has a moral responsibility of the things they do as part of their employment just like every employee has moral responsibility. I understand the moral responsibility of a lawyer make take a somewhat more dualistic form (like knowingly defending a guilty criminal), but this situation isn't even remotely close to that.

That still doesn't shield them from moral responsibility.
If their client told them to murder a witness, should they do so?

"The boy who cried wolf" was also a warning, not an instruction manual.

Zooming into London, I passed five totally different map styles.

Realistically though, How could the BBC have resolved this any other way?

I predict we'll see announcements of a totally unrelated new show with all three hosts, called "Highest Gear" on a competing channel very soon.

People can be both victims and perps.

Who is the victim in these situations?
- School vs. Wikipedia
- School vs. parents
- School vs. students
- Parents vs Wikipedia
- Parents vs. students
- Students vs. Wikipedia

And even that is an oversimplified view, if only because most of these parties may have multiple separate relationships to eachother.

There are enough rich people to sustain current high-end priced watches.
A watch (or atleast anything beyond a $10 casio) is a fashion accessory.
Just like all fashion, it pays to have absurd "haute couture" products that nobody really buys, because it makes famous people want to buy the high-end products, which makes ordinary people buy the low-end products where all the profit is made.
Most top fashion brands famed for catwalk suits, dresses and clothing make most of their profit from branded handbags and belts that ordinary folk can afford.
Same deal here; Tag Heuer is perhaps the most popular brand willing to risk their brand name in cooperating with Google.

They sell you a dial with a single needle and tell you it's just as good as 3 needles due to some stupid algorithm that tries to simulate it?