Article states, "They're designed to take down Intel's Core i3 chips, and the first application and gaming benchmarks are out."
I3's are meant for basic desktop and doing your homework, not a gaming rig. So they are saying, Hey, our new chip is just as crappy at games as the I3... Brilliant marketting.

Apple can go to hell after this. They arent winning any fans or new customers over this litigation. All they are doing is harming once potential future customers.

I will not purchase any more Apple Products. For work I currently have an older iPhone 3GS and was waiting to upgrade to the 5 this year once it came out. No more, evil actions like this mean I will now purposely seek out a non-Apple product to replace that phone. My company replaces my work cell phone every 2 years and I get to pick what I want. Apple just lost at least one recuring sale by screwing over the general public.

My personal phone is the Samsung Galaxy S3. It was marketed by Sprint to have certain features. Now Sprint and the other Cell phone companys are likewise bowing to Apple in fear of being left out of the next iPhone release and rushing out these patches to cripple the S3's. Yes, Samsung made the update to head off litigation by Crapple, but Sprint is notoriously slow rolling out updates (waited 6 months to get updates on my older Epic), yet Sprint was able to test the crippling patch and other add-in's or sub-tractions and push it out to their customers in days this time? Sprint's forums are full of posts of S3's having signal and other issues now after the patches.

If the cell phone companies cared about their customers, they'd all stand up to Apple and say knock it off. Instead they are more concerned with upsetting apple than their customer bases. I wouldnt be surprised to see class action lawsuits against the carriers from their customers for selling them something and then taking it away. Misleading advertisement and broken contracts. Sure the carriers will try to blame Samsung and Apple, but as i said above, if the carriers banded together and slapped Apple the same way Crapple is slapping all other consumers, this whole thing would be nipped in the bud quick.

I wont be "downgrading" my phone. Screw CrApple.

I dont know about the Kaiser case, but I know about the IBM case first hand...

In California no clause is valid that restricts your rights to sue.

Ask IBM about this. In the early 2000's they went through and laid off a large group of workers. Many of the employees felt they unfairly were fired or forced to retire early. Many of these people had families and no other source of income. IBM offered severances to these employees but required them each to sign a waiver signing away their rights to sue the company.

Some of these employees had no choice and signed the agreement and took the meager pittance offered by IBM.

Now for the fun part, someone figured out that in California the law protects people from having their rights revoked. Those same employees joined together and sued IBM. The case lasted a couple of years. IBM even petitioned for dismissal on the grounds the former disgruntled employees signed waivers and received concessions (far below what that deserved). The California courts rejected IBM's petition and ordered them to pay up to a much higher level for all former employees. Those that had received the lower payouts received the difference.

What Sony is trying to do would be non-binding in California.

And sometimes its fully justified... Let me explain while I will never purchase another Samsung drive...

A few years back I was still working as an IT consultant and a client in San Francisco, a billion dollar a year organization, purchased 40 new workstations. All came with Samsung hard drives. Within 6 months half of the drives had failed.

The client called their sales manager rather irrate after the 18th or 19th drive had failed. The sales manager assured them that it was bad luck and that they had gotten a bad batch of drives. Not to worry, its been sorted out. Still the client demanded new harddrives for all of the systems.

A few days later a shipment of Samsung drives arrive. We install them into every machine...

And within another six months, another 1/3rd of the "new" drives had failed as well.

That client went as far as to state in all new pc acquisitions that Samsung drives NOT be used.

I have seen a fair number of home user Samsung drives fail too. So I will never touch one myself. In fact I now carry that mindset over to all Samsung products. If two batches of bad drives can come out over the span of a year, then I have to question their Quality Control on ALL of their product lines.

This story sounds like more propaganda spin.

The GPS network satelites broadcast two signals:
Encrpyted - Used by the US Military
Unencrypted - Everyone one else (Including pilots, car navigation, your hand held gps...)

The Accuracy of the encrypted signal is much higher than the unencrypted signal. In fact the Military has the ability to vary the degree of accuracy and drift of the unencrypted gps signal. They use to vary it daily to keep enemys from using it against us. A practice that has subsided now that air travel and other services rely so heavily on GPS. Yet the Military still maintains and excerts the ability to manipulate the gps accuracy in any zone.

Its much more difficult to "spoof" an encrypted signal.

And images of the bird show damage to the wing indicating it smashed into something hard enough to dent and tear the carbon composite outer skin.

Oh come on, everyone knows Gamers never shower.... Now getting enough Mountain Dew and Hot Pockets to feed them all, that might be a logistical nightmare.

So wait, he is charging people tens and hundreds of thousands of dollars for a urine treatment? Hell, I'll piss on ya for free...

These snake-oil sales men prey on vulnerable people that are grasping at straws hoping to save their loved ones. These are the people that need to be locked up and the key tossed away.

And from the Articles, the Marc guy that sends threatening letters to 17 years olds, if he is a real person, should really be careful what he says to people. You can face charges for portraying yourself as a lawyer when you arent one. And he does try to come off sounding like one. Though woefully inadaquately. Anyone of those people they tried to threaten or intimidate could turn around and press charges on them.

Hollywood has already made this movie a hundred times...

The contract states that it must be physically destroyed. Depending on what kind of business you are in, the government will only accept physical destruction of a drive if classified data was ever on it.
You will need to adhere to the contract and destroy and replace drives or the Government will rake your company over the coals during an audit. They will also then demand monies paid back, tack on a huge fine, and possibly criminal charges on anyone that failed to properly dispose of and destroy the data per the contract.

I did computer networking in the Marines, was on the spearhead of a lot of new technologies back in that time. Yet when I got out in 1999 a lot of companies didn't want the Military guy with 9 years experience, they wanted the recent college graduate with a piece of paper. Time and Time again i was told they could get the college grad cheaper than my 9 years of Experience. I kept telling the prospective employeers that I was coming from a job where I effectively made $1.67/hr. They could pay me the same as a college grad and I'd be happy. But it was always, "HR wont let us"...

I finally gave up and went into consulting and made a good living through. Ironically 3 of the 10 or so companies I applied for later hired me as a contractor for 1 to 3 months to come in and fix up what the college grads screwed up or to show their teams how to update their technology.

The problem is, as I learned from a former client that was a head hunter, most HR people don't know how to relate military experiance to real world applications and training. The Military gives you a stack of papers with how your various training relates to the real world, but even those definitions fall short of anything a civilian world HR person will understand.

I was going to say the same thing... I have the Samsung Epic, a 1 year old phone... And it fully supports Voice commands and Voice Searching via google. I can write emails and texts via voice as well... Shouldnt the article really say, Apple had to buy another company to get where Google was last year?

Vehicles equiped with Handicapped plates and placards are able to park in on the street metered parking without paying. There is nothing in this system as far as the RTFA states to take that into consideration.

Raising fees would also lead one to believe this system will be tied in with SFPD's parking enforcement officers letting them know where to go to write tickets. This system will have them driving to every handicapped vehicle in the city needlessly since they are parked in a metered space without paying.

How reliable is their analysis data if those factors are ignored?

OEM's like Dell and HP have the DRAC's and ALOM "add-in" cards that they sell at various prices ranging from $99 upwards of $650. Yet Intel is talking about enabling features the OEM's are charging premiums for in the BIOS for free. This could have a backlash effect from the channel partners...

companies manufacturing smoke machines and mirrors have reported increased sales and stock prices...