It sounds like 'Attila Dimedici' either has an axe to grind or has poor reading/summarization skills.

Probably both.

Why did that summary get approved? It's obviously false.

That article that claimed iOS was the most secure was pretty much ripped to shreds when it was posted here. So don't go around quoting it as fact.

If I but $20 worth of points and purchase $20 worth of content, how am I "getting bamboozled"? This just sounds like people looking for a reason to complain.

Not to mention that you can often find sales on cards so that you can get $20 worth of content for the price of a $15 card.

It's the difference between unlocking a door to find a big pile of cash and unlocking a door to find a locked safe.

So yeah, it helps.

Seems all the more strange that such an expensive router would go missing. If I had some rackmount hardware that cost 4k, I can pretty much guarantee that I'd always know where it is.

No-knock SWAT raids are pretty news worthy.

The poster never said that they were no-knock raids. Just said that people were getting busted. Big difference.

Is it really a misnamed genre if no one has heard of it?

If you think there was nothing innovative about an American console in a Japanese dominated market that allowed cross-development (PC-Xbox) in a proprietary market and online-capabilities in an offline world, you are either blind to history or just have an axe to grind.

This is one of my pet peeves about Slashdot: Random jabs/commentary/unexplained references thrown in as if everyone knows what it's about.

simply making a good tablet does not guarantee that it will sell â" much to the chagrin of Motorola and its Xoom product.

A "good" tablet will fail. Especially when it is more expensive than the iPad. The challenge that the Xoom faces is that it is a good tablet, but not *as* good as the iPad, and it's more expensive to boot. A sucessful competitor will need to be as good as or better than the iPad, and have a competitive price.

Nintendo has quasi-acknowledged that its 3DS can cause headaches and should not be used by children under 7.

No, they didn't. They attached a disclaimer warning as a legal CYA. It's more equivalent to a "Warning: Toy cape does not allow the wearer to fly" warning than an acknowledgement of a flaw. Stop spreading the FUD.

In fact, "Nintendo 3DS could help spot kids' vision problems, according to optometrists":http://www2.newsadvance.com/business/2011/mar/18/nintendo-3ds-could-help-spot-kids-vision-problems--ar-914736//.

Secondly, the cost of e-books doesn't represent much (or any) savings over new paperbacks.

Unfortunately ebooks are often *more* expensive than physical books. Worse yet, people are apparently willing to pay that price so the situation will just continue (or get worse).

How many, really?

Well, according to the Firefox addon page, NoScript has 367,131 weekly downloads.

This is very misleading. The poster two levels up mentioned an Augen device, and the link here is for a series of Archos devices. Entirely difference devices and different price points.

FWIW, I think the Augen is Android 2.1 (un-upgradeable), although I could be mistaken.

Exactly. This article selectively looks at the history of prices, choosing the data that supports their thesis and ignoring that which doesn't. It's concerned mainly with cartridge based games that grew to insanely high prices, but neglects the major drop in prices when companies moved to optical disc based systems. At the Playstation launch, many titles debuted at $39.

The current pricing scheme is quite a hike. And more so when you figure that you often don't even get the full game at that price. You need to buy DLC to unlock content on the disc that you already paid for. The price can easily bump up to $69.99.