So it's HDCP-compliant.

No, Blackberrys are their own special type. Namely, the type that's actually dead.

Some people surf anonymously and sign in only if they need to post. Sometimes, it's intentional. Sometimes, it's because the browser doesn't keep cookies between sessions.

Let's call things the way they are. He was abandoned by the First World and got stuck in the Second World. Some states in the Third World wanted to help (but unlikely for altruistic purposes), but they being of the Third World, were largely powerless.

Snowden got himself stuck in a Cold War struggle between two superpowers.

Core product's probably not making them enough money.

Mobile's the hot thing, and the "open" niche is actually turning out to be quite sizeable. A lot of small phone manufacturers would love to be able to put out products that are unencumbered by the policies of certain U.S. corporations. That's where these alternative mobile OSes fit in. They're trying to cater to these small manufacturers largely out of the BRIC nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China) who can't or don't want to afford the MS surcharge on top of the Android tax, or aren't interested in playing by Google's rules.

Even Cyanogen has jumped into this market. That's how underserved it is.

It's one thing to stop feature updates. That happened once Vista came out. But security updates? That's like knowing that your product is certain to cause property damage after a certain amount of use but still keeping it out in the wild. With non-software, there'd be mass mandatory recalls. At least with software, it's a matter of putting out an update.

And yes, severe security vulnurabilities are a defect in the product and zombies do cause monetary property damage albeit a very small amount individually.

Please do not let the writer be George Lucas. Please do not let the writer be George Lucas. Please do not let the writer be George Lucas.

The force is obviously not strong in this one.

I'd suggest using your foot instead. It's more powerful, he won't see it coming, and you won't have to soil your hands with his privates.

The thing that most annoys me about the add-on bar is that when you hover over a link, the destination shows up above the add-on bar. With a true status bar, the destination (and other status messges) appears in the bar, and doesn't take up more screen space than what's already taken up.

With the add-on bar, parts of the page are covered up that I don't always want covered up while loading or hovering over a link. It's a small thing, but it's something that keeps annoying me every so often, albeit infrequently.

The address bar under the tabs makes a lot of sense. It's probably the only UI change I approve of. The rest of the menu and buttons should go above the tabs.

Discrete math to be precise. People laugh when you tell them a college class taught venn diagrams and truth tables. But those are the fundamentals to programming, the things that, no matter how many languages somebody knows, determine the soundness of the program. Those are the concepts that allow someone to transform a real-world problem into a solution the computer can solve.

The rest is just syntax.

In puritanical America, not being in the office for 10 hours a day, not taking less than one week of vacation (including sick days), not taking less than fifteen minutes to buy and eat lunch, is having a relaxed work ethic.

This is just one aspect of interstate commerce. "Interstate" means between state. "Commerce" means the sale of goods and services.

The clause was put in place to prevent states from levying tariffs on goods and services coming from other states. It exists to keep states from favoring their own industries at the cost of a product from another state. Transportation of said goods is but the tip of the iceberg of what this allows the Feds to do, and rightfully so. Without the interstate commerce, the United States would have denigrated into another lesser Europe before the EU, where every country had protectionist laws and discouraged or outright banned importing of certain goods that had domestic equivalents from other countries. Trade disputes is a very common cause of war, and this clause was meant to prevent the states from going to war with each other.

The transportation network that came out of this clause (interstate highway system, rail network, ports, etc.) is a stretched reading of the clause, but regulating how states treat the goods and services from other states is the raison d'etre of this clause.

I wonder how much draining the water would help if the contaminant was actually batrachotoxin.

The Swiss are in a slightly different position. America (the U.S. of A. specifically) has no natural enemies. To the north is Canada, who wouldn't hurt a fly, and to the south is Mexico, who's been dealt with. It has nobody constantly trying to kick down its door, nobody who's wars are spilling over, nobody who makes claims to territory based on historical ownership and/or population majority.

America is safe. There's a zero-percent chance of a war erupting from outside of its borders that might affect its borders. The Swiss are not safe. They're surrounded by dozens of warring states that have only recently calmed down, with each one having held claim to some piece of land somewhere that they don't currently control.

Americans arm themselves to push their own agenda on the rest of the world. Its purpose is the projection of power, and the American military is built exactly for that. The Swiss (and most of the rest of the world) arm themselves to protect themselves.

Now, I don't necessarily disagree with making everybody essentially a part of a national militia. However, I'm not certain the consequences of such an act (e.g. no defense spending, no standing army, etc.) would happen the way you envision. I do agree that everyone should learn how to use and care for a firearm from a young age. It'd probably be more beneficial than learning how to drive at the very least.