This is racism: When the shop owner thinks that this woman, because she is from another ethnicity, will sell the iPhones outside of the US, then it is racism. Asking this woman to leave is like asking a black person to leave because of some random reason, because he is going to sell the iPhones in Africa for example.
The police, who arrests this woman because she refuse to leave the shop (why couldn't she do the same thing than the other people), is just doing the dirty job of the shop owner.
And the ending with the tazer is just the climax of this chain of stupidity.

At leastst my asd45WSd558_315 takes more than 1 peek to be memorized, and people just don't try to watch since it's seems so complicated anyway. If you watched me type the horse thing you would have my password by now.

Is this fee paid to the German government of partially to GEMA ? Because it's so high that it could push to crime.

True. "I had my old machine loaded with all sorts of tools I had custom crafted for my needs. DSP stuff. Digitizers and digitizing software. Unusual displays. Dual disk drives and RAM drives, along with drivers of my own design. Assemblers. C++ compilers. Schematic capture and PCB layout software. SPICE circuit simulators. Mathcad. Thermodynamics software. Disassemblers and debugging tools just in case something didn't work like it oughta." Does you job involve using these tools ? If yes how can you justify you were fired ? In my job I have to install/configure/update this kind of programs, because my users are supposed to use these tools. If not, then it's just like bloatware to me. Maybe useful for a specific task but certainly non-critical. I give some "marge de manoeuvre" to people, because they know better than me how they work the best. But I can also recognize when people are requesting useless privileges/tools. And no, whining never made me install something. Prove me a tool is useful for your job and I'll do all the IT you need.

What an horrible way to die for a phone: Being bent to death (with the cracks and such) by it's owner, raging at the device not reacting while it was in fact not turned on.

Wouldn't "Firefox with Bing for Workgroups" sounds more like a Redmond product ?

Patenting the fact that you can restrict what will be bought with a gift card ? And we lived until now without it ? Really, Graham Bell and Thomas Edison have found their master here.

Maybe it's the whole purpose of this lack of apps: To make you captive from the blackberry. They might think that the tablet fashion can lead to more blackberry sales ? don't know, just trying to explain some really bad strategy...

They understand the problem. But it might be too little too late.

Booting speed is fine for any OS. But how about the delay between entering your credentials and getting a ready-to-use firefox window ? On my machine it easily doubles the boot up time.

Did you have a look at Java 7 already ?

In this case, a direct vote by the people is a good solution because it settles down the decision once for all. Even if the government loses the next election you know that the country will follow the same direction about a subject, in this case: nuclear power. Look at France and his typically dual political class. They keep justifying their mediocrity by complaining about the laws voted by the opposite side 10 years ago. Look at what they have done to their solar power industry: The government withdrew his public funding all of a sudden and now a whole industrial branch is collapsing. If you want to invest in new power technology, you know that you have a solid option if you invest in a country that have decided by a vote of the people of the direction they want to take. You will have stability. Will you invest in biotechnology in a country where the people voted against stem cells ? Or voted for it ? Or even worse: in a country where this kind of decision is changed every 4 years ?

Plese read the article. The research team successfully applied 3D synthesis models (and their nanocones) to solar cell. Meaning higher efficency and cheaper costs. Just by going 3D instead of 2D. "Key features of the solar material include its unique electric field distribution that achieves efficient charge transport; the synthesis of nanocones using inexpensive proprietary methods; and the minimization of defects and voids in semiconductors. The latter provides enhanced electric and optical properties for conversion of solar photons to electricity." "Because of efficient charge transport, the new solar cell can tolerate defective materials and reduce cost in fabricating next-generation solar cells."

From the article: "With the creation of a 3-D nanocone-based solar cell platform" You're missing the whole point of the article. You're missing the progress made possible by the 3D chips. How many of the current solar cells technologies are using 3D chips ? Thanks for the "clown".

Graphics are not the problem with games nowadays. Content is, or rather: lack of content. I don't care to be able to count the number of leaves on a tree of seeing or not the shadows of these leaves. I want to be able to interact with the tree. It's the corridor syndrom, I don't care the graphics of a corridor, it's still a corridor and it's only designed to be walked trough. How fun... Tell me why minecraft has so much success ? The funky design of the cubes maybe ?