Well, I guess a story about "self-important attention whores" just wouldn't be complete without a quote or two from Jimbo "self-important attention whore" Wales...

Huh what?

it is pretty clear that this Domscheit-Berg character keeps trying to weasel out of Assanges clear to the point question - did he run to Newsweek with this tabloid crap. When pressed to answer question he goes all childish in his answers and avoids the question.

From the interview:

Assange: Was this you?
Domscheit-Berg: i didnt speak to newsweek or other media representatives about this

Very invasive, indeed. What a weasel.

Which would be why I said "although I disagree entirely with the wiretapping BS they tried to pull", I suspect ...

Uhhh... this wasn't a "bad boy, you're doing ten mph over" traffic stop, issue citation, leave.

This is someone who was charged with multiple counts of reckless endangerment, failure to stop, speeding (and when we say speeding, we're referring to "approaching 130mph on a 60mph freeway"), and so on. Let's not go pretending he was some persecuted citizen busted by a cop trying to make quota.

And whilst I disagree with the "wiretapping" b.s., this guy is utterly disingenuous - his video shows the unmarked car clearly has lights flashing, there's audible siren... "I didn't know who it was!" my hairy ass.

Hell, even in this still image, you can see the lights on the cop car. "I wasn't sure if I was being robbed..." - yeah, by some ballsy carjacker who runs someone off the road whilst they're being pursued by multiple cops, okay, I buy that...

Our current LIPA bill here in NY has DOUBLED for some reason, with no new appliances, and no new usage patterns.

Is your neighbor running a grow house? Maybe you should look for a vampire feed ...

How nice of you to speak for atheists worldwide.

How nice, also, of you, to do the work of thousands of sociologists and philosophers, theologians worldwide, and in one fell swoop, less than twenty keystrokes on Slashdot, declare agnostics to be misguided and wrong.

So Stallman's world view is unequivocally accurate, objective fact, and a perfect snapshot of the present and future?

Or is it some person's view of a world that may, or may well not, exist?

I'm going more for the latter, which renders your point somewhat moot.

And given I've seen six month old children successfully navigate between apps, play games

Please, put some videos of these supposed children on YouTube. Or have their parents offer them up for scientific study. A 6 month old isn't even putting together coherent word sounds yet. Just a goo-goo ga-ga babble. They don't walk, many don't even crawl. They will sit only if propped up. They primarily explore objects around their immediate vicinity by putting them in their mouths.

They are certainly not fucking "navigating between apps, playing games" on the jesusDevices.

No matter how small or insulting it is, it's still 100% more than Microsoft pays for bug reports, and Microsoft's release schedule on the fixes is downright glacial compared to Google or Firefox. Assuming they don't outright ignore you or threaten to sue you for violating the EULA.

Nice FUD. Microsoft issues patches monthly, and more frequently, out-of-band for critical security fixes.

Please, point to the last instance where MSFT threatened to sue for violating the EULA by reporting a bug in IE.

Go on, I'm waiting...

Borderline troll, I think.

This. I think this is like the fourth article I've seen that says 'security fix for chrome, google pays 1, 2, 4 grand in bounties".

Who cares?

What I ended up doing, since I have a lot of wireless traffic in my house, from Bluetooth to multiple laptops, was some of the Linksys/Cisco new devices, WET610N, WRT610N, etc. I set up a 2.4GHz G/N network, and purely for the media center (which is wirelessly connected) I ran 5GHz N to it, and a 8 port GbE switch for Xbox, STB, Soundbridge, etc). I have not noticed any glitches, even in 1080p content.

Precisely. I have a Roku HD, and a Zotac MAG - and really, the only reason I got the Zotac MAG was impatience for Hulu Plus on the Roku, and a random collection of movies on my media server (though truth be told, even that wasn't strictly necessary - I have Twonky MediaServer and an Xbox 360 for that, and Roku SoundBridge for internet radio) - my wife loves, geeky as she is, the fact that it's all controlled through a Harmony remote, not byzantine different pieces of software (the first gen HTPC I set up required Winamp for some things, WMP for others, VLC for yet others)...

LMAO, do you think this would fly in, hmmm, any jurisdiction on the face of the planet?

"Your Honor, I did not agree to the EULA, that was the autonomous workings of a piece of software I installed for the express purpose of accepting EULAs so I could try to feign a claim of plausible deniability."

What will happen in this case I wager is that the "license is free with the purchase of the media", ergo on damage to the media, "your license to use the product will still be valid, you just need to purchase replacement media". Cake, eat it too? Of course it is ...

Leaving aside the agreement or disagreement I have with this decision, your complaint isn't entirely valid. If I sell you something I have no right to, and the rightful owner demands it back, under the law you are required to do so. Of course, then you are fully entitled to seek restitution, compensation and potentially damages from me for your costs, but you still have to return the item. The point at which you became aware that I was not the rightful owner, and that the rightful owner wanted the item back is the point where you are about to be committing theft (without getting into a sideline tangent on copyright infringement vs theft for the purposes of demonstrating analogy).