the official Java API (now owned by Oracle)

Oracle does not own the Java API. They own the Java trademark, and they are the current curators of the API.

Wait. I thought Snowden was a liar. So how could he be a traitor to [USA] public interest?

To summarize: facebook didn't innovate anything, they just provided a popular version of something that already existed.

You say mail thread, but neither Outlook nor GMail's webinterface actually support threads. GMail even has this stupid concept of conversations that groups unrelated emails into the same flat list of emails (this is really helpful for system/monitoring messages).
Instead of tabs Google should have implemented actual threads already (and proper quoting support).

Google taketh away.

Explain to me why we need lawyers again?

And even if it fails for humanity, we can use the space for lawyers.

I'll bet you get a free gun when you buy one of those 3-D printers in some states.

Given the supporters it's either money and/or control. At least it's not technology.

What anti-virus software is sold with promises? afaik they come with huge disclaimers.

This morning, debsum and rkhunter didn't report anything that requires attention.

This isn't about kids spending money. It's about deceitful advertisements that trick people in buying stuff.
The average person might see through these tricks. But a huge population is dumber than the average person.

> (Yup, I violated a boat load of copyrights).

So, you distributed the created PDFs? If you didn't, and it's still your in private collection, when how did you violate the right of creating copies?

4.5 years after VP8 was released.
3 years after VP8 was made open source and freely available

TLJ was a great game, but the sequel Dreamfall was terrible. Will Dreamfall: Chapters be as terrible as Dreamfall? Or as good as The Longest Journey. It was not something I wanted to bet money on.