That's right. He blames his apprentice instead.

Umm... why? If you can get away with publishing photos of celebrities nipples without being sued, you can surely post on YouTube an interview which Steve Jobs agreed to have taped with no repercussions.

They should skip the VMs and just paint racing stripes on their server racks... I hear that will increase clock speeds by up to 10MHz!

As far as I know, my whole family (including grandparents on both sides, and aunts, uncles, cousins, etc) are all on Kaiser and I haven't heard a single awful story about them. My grandfather had 3 heart attacks in 3 years and Kaiser helped him get better every time... then he had a massive stroke and Kaiser helped him learn to talk again (at age 84) until Alzheimer's and more strokes got the best of him and he died early this year.

I'm on Cigna because my employer is retarded (you can choose Cigna or Kaiser in Southern California, but you're stuck with Cigna in Norcal for some dumb reason) and so far they've been less than helpful... so I agree with you on that one. But I can't imagine that a government medical system would ever be as good as Kaiser.

Anyway, who would go through the trouble of making a keylogger that worked by reading a laptop's accelerometer when you can make a keylogger that worked by reading a laptop's keyboard.

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That is so completely unrelated that I can't even be sure you read the summary. Social games are a different sector of the industry than conventional games. In fact, one could probably consider them a completely different industry given that their demographics have nearly no overlap and their business models are completely different. Social games are not designed to be "fun", but addictive. They hire psychologists and shit to determine the most effective ways of getting people hooked on their crappy sort-of-games. The conventional gaming industry profits on making fun games... they don't need you to be addicted to make money off you because they already have your money. Piracy has nothing to do with the social games industry because it's not like game designers stopped making conventional games and switched to social games in response to it..... get it?

Also completely unrelated. TF2 is a conventional video game that started as pay-to-own. Valve only switched to F2P after they had already made millions selling the game to nearly everybody who would ever in their lives wish to play it and came up with a different business model as a way to profit further from those who have hundreds or thousands of hours in-game (I myself have almost 600 hours... but haven't played it in probably over a year). TF2 is not a game designed solely with addiction in mind like social games are.

I'm a Windows guy, and I've always hated most Apple things I've come into contact with. But I'm also a professional in the video production and broadcast industry... and Final Cut Studio has always been the best A/V production suite in existence. I've used Adobe CS, Vegas, EDIUS, and several I can't remember the names of... Adobe takes second place, but it was still nowhere near as good as Final Cut. Now that Final Cut has been ruined, Apple and I are breaking up for good.

I find it funny that such posts are modded Informative or Interesting. They're joke moderations and they're about as meta you can get.

I love the Moderation emails I get when engaging in political discussions such as this... you can literally watch the battle between those who agree with you and those who don't.

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Second world, actually. So it's even worse because we're supporting those dirty commies!

Bravo. I'm all for reducing consumption, smog, etc. Things that actually have an effect on our lives. Air quality, etc. I drive a hybrid not to save the planet, but to save money on gas and reduce my use of foreign-controlled resources. Al Gore is a hypocrite and a fraud. Environmentalism has become a religion in this country and others, and Al Gore is the holy prophet. People don't use logic and critical thinking when discussing environmental issues, they default to the flawed thinking that the planet is dying fast and we must save it any way we can, and the environmentalism movement has become 13th-century Catholicism, dominating public social and fiscal policy, and taking the Peoples' money for themselves under the guise of forgiving you for your sins. It's funny how many of these enviromentalists claim to be atheists, but walk right into the same traps that the corrupt Catholic church used so many years ago (and still does today to some degree).

How about paying attention to the planet's natural climate cycles that have been occurring since the beginning of time? Early springtimes? We had a drought here in California that lasted a couple years and that was harked as a sign of global warming. And now last year and this year rains are starting early and they're starting hard. Last year we even had rains (AND SNOW) well into June and early July. We just had our first storm of the season pass through last week and I bet things will be similar to last season... and now THAT'S being harked as a sign of global warming. Well make up your mind. Does global warming cause rain or does it cause drought, because it can't cause both because both happen all the time, global warming or none.

What? No. Someone there has decided that they're pissed off DC signed an exclusivity deal with a competitor and now they're retaliating because one of the largest bookstores in the world pulling all your material means you will take a big hit in your income. It has absolutely nothing to do with principles over bottom line.

We seem to be lucky in the US. The lower-cost airlines are the ones that seem to have better customer service and less nickel-and-diming. Southwest lacks many of the amenities of more expensive airlines, but tickets are cheap as hell, free checked bags, no change fees, a little more room in each seat (which my 6'4" stature appreciates), friendly service, no bullshit. JetBlue and Virgin are lower on the cost scale, but they are more of an a la carte setup. Most amenities cost extra, but not in a nickel/dimey kind of way and customer service is also great. It's the expensive airlines (United, Delta, Continental, etc) that I absolutely hate flying on because they cost more upfront, charge you for all kinds of bullshit, AND have crappy service and tiny seats.