The battery is along the middle of the car, between the left and right side seats. The electric motor is in the front. So it could be a short making the battery overheat and catch fire, or a short making something else in the front catch fire, either way it's a problem that would be tough to solve when you have a 20kWh 330V battery pack completely submerged in salt water..

Salt water conducts electricity a lot better than fresh water. So, yes.

I can't see very well in the graphic because the text is hard to read, but it looks like most (if not all) of the pre-iPhone touchscreen phones were mockups and demos. Seems unfair to compare prototypes to production models.

This is not to say that I think Apple is in the right in their lawsuit. Samsung was probably copying the LG Prada just like Apple. :)

I guess I didn't put enough smiley emoticons in my post to make it clear that I wasn't serious. I thought the XKCD link would do the job in that regard. :)

I know it's not a REAL defense, I was using a joke to voice my frustrations. :) Although, I could sure use $2000, and if I get to steal it without any legal problems because the law is after you and your $1000, it sure would be tempting!

You could always install other browsers on Windows as well. That wasn't what the lawsuit was about....

iPads, iPhones, iPod touches... all bundled with Safari. As an added bonus, all software for those devices must have Apple's approval (which can be revoked) and must be sold through Apple's store (where they take a cut). I like Microsoft products and I like Apple products, I just feel like the legal standards being applied to the two companies don't match up too well.

Would "Hey guys, look at what Apple is doing!" be a valid defense? Also, obligatory....

If I had mod points, I'd probably mod your post "funny" for lack of a "wish I thought of that" option.

Did you see the video? It's only 29 seconds long, and the song is barely recognizable. If you didn't already know the song, it would be hard to identify even with tools like Shazam. The usage in the video would have no effect on the value of the work. I cannot imagine why this video should be an example of a work to be taken down. If it is, then anybody with a radio or ipod speakers could walk into a public place and turn it into a 'no video' zone.

From TFA:

The cloud wouldn't last very long, but long enough to hit the debris. By the time it hit, the gas would have expanded until it was almost a vacuum, so it wouldn't damage the debris. In fact, an astronaut caught in such a cloud probably wouldn't even notice it.

Were you perhaps thinking of the article that claimed a Prius was worse for the environment than an H3 Hummer? That one was pretty thoroughly debunked.

By the weekend we'll be talking wistfully about the good 'ol days when we used to look at 2D images on monitors instead of having alternate realities streamed directly into our brains...

Came here to post exactly the same thing. TFA in this submission even links to TFA from the submission this morning.