At what point did Pandora explicitly ask the artists if they wanted their work advertising? At which point did the artists explicitly agree to Pandora advertising their works?

When you build a product which is specifically built around using other peoples works to satisfy your customers requirements, at some point you have to pay the piper - so stop with the fucking advertising "argument", Pandora is taking money from subscribers and advertisers on the back of the works of third parties, so of course there should be recompense to those third parties where those parties require recompense.

Its a problem because the OS isn't checking the entirety of the app for correct signatures, just part of it. Which kinda removes the point of checking at all.

I can install the most recent Windows on Apple computers which Apple won't let you install fairly recent OSX versions on...

Windows 8.1 and Server 2012 R2 on a 2006 Mac Pro, which Apple dropped support for years ago and infact blocks you from trying to install Mavericks on.

At least one can say XP was supported for far longer than the 2006 Mac Pro was.

Do ESRI actually generate the data? If so, what's the complaint?

The Judge did nothing of the sort, the chimps were the ones named in the case by the animal rights activists, the Judge had to direct any motion at the chimps for the owners of the chimps to respond - and thats what he did here. He asked the owners to respond, via the Habeus Corpus motion - he had no other recourse.

The activists are claiming something that didn't happen.

Its amusing how all four of the points you raise are false:

1. The initial prosecutor threw the case out, but a second senior prosecutor took up the case on request from the victims.

2. Assange was not told he was free to leave Sweden, infact his lawyer was specifically told they wanted to talk to him again and he should contact the police before leaving Sweden.

3. No Swedish or Interpol law was contravened by the issuance of Assanges warrant - infact, this is exactly the sort of use they are for.

4. All UK courts where this case has been argued has actually both affirmed the legality of the arrest warrant, and affirmed the right of the Swedish to issue it. No UK court has ruled it illegal, and most certainly no UK court has said what you claim they have said.

How about you get your facts in order before claiming bullshit, k?

He is, the "embassies are sovereign soil" thing is a myth, not fact. Add to that fact that the Ecuadorian Embassy is a rented flat in a shared building and I'm sure the owner will dispute the fact that its Ecuadorian soil...

Assange fled UK jurisdiction to avoid being legally extradited by a recognised court of the land - so yes, he is a fugitive. So your example is complete rubbish because its not equivalent to the Assange situation at all - if the chief justice of Scotland appeared in front of a court in Iran and the court ruled against him, and then he fled Iran, then yes he would be a fugitive.

No he isn't, regardless of how much you want him to be. But it is interesting how many have bought into his PR bullshit while ignoring the fact that if the US wanted him, they had ample opportunity to get him from the UK in the years before he fled into the embassy.

You realise that recycling these beats is a massive massive undertaking, and costs billions of dollars anyway - they are full of nasty stuff which needs specialist handling and removal well before you get to the saleable steel and recyclables.

What Google should be investigated for is linking their search service to their failed social media service - in order for Google to establish canonical authorship on content, you have to link the page to a Google+ account, no other well known public profile (Twitter, Facebook etc) will do, you have to have an account on Google+.

That's something worth looking hard at.

How did Ballmer push developers aside? Under the latter part of his reign, Microsoft started open sourcing a lot of their developer frameworks etc (ASP.Net MVC in 2012, Entity Framework in 2013 etc) and we saw fairly large shifts in developer conferences and support.

From reading various articles on this, the person in question entered the room under the auspices of carrying out legitimate maintenance work, but had doctored the surveillance camera so it only recorded one second a minute rather than continuously - getting the other person to look the other way for a few minutes is a simple matter of social engineering ("hey, I forgot X and I'm right in the middle of this, could you get it?") and doesn't mean they were in on it.

Because *he* never intended to claim the prize - the prize was claimed by a lawyer representing a shell company out of Belize. This bloke himself was exempt from being allowed to take part in the lottery due to the fact he worked on it - if he had claimed it, the prize wouldn't have been handed over.

There are reviews which really really baffle me as well - I did a review for a TV I bought off of Amazon.co.uk in the Black Friday sales - it was a Seiki 4K 39" TV at a reasonable price.

It arrived, I set it up and the sound was terrible, so I used an external sound bar - but there was horrific video lag regardless of the input used, it was between a third and half a second behind the audio. Also there was no way to set the TV audio to just optical out, you had to either mute the sound entirely (which left a mute symbol on screen) or turn the sound down to 0 (which wasnt actually off, you could still hear it). Moving the audio out to the Sky box reduced the audio lag but didn't eliminate it, but at least you could set a delay on the audio out on the Sky box which brought it into line - but didnt solve issues if you have a second device such as a console etc.

There was also horrific tearing and artifacts on the screen - someone moved and they left a wake behind them.

Testing it all with the no-name TV I was replacing had the soundbar working fine, the Sky box working fine etc - no setup needed, no lag involved, no tearing of the picture etc.

So back it went, and I replaced it with a slightly more expensive TV which has had no issues whatsoever since.

But what I don't get is all the "works great!" "Brilliant!" reviews the TV is getting...