The defense actually has to submit a summary of the defense strategy they want to use in the pre-trial stage. It saves a lot of time if the judge is not going to allow the defense in the end. If the defense isn't able to convince the judge in the summary they won't be able to convince the judge at trial and the jury will not be allowed to clear the defendant based on that defense even if they agree with it.

Plenty of old cars shared a reservoir for the brake and power steering fluids.

You mean besides for the LA Times and every other major newspaper in the US? And Slate? And a million other blogs with admins who have an interest in these events? It isn't tech related at all, there's no great cry for democracy. It's just another coup in an insignificant country.

That is precisely what happens when a Judge hands down a decision on a border case. That judgment becomes a precedent which is as good as law in a courtroom unless the previous judgment is overturned. There are too many possible border cases, consider V&T laws, custody battles,corporate fraud, etc...; situations where the human element introduces a mind boggling number of variables. Lawmaker cannot possibly define a law that covers every contingency. That is the Judges job.

Same here. I plugged in a drive a few weeks ago with a regular straight cable and bent the cable up to fit in the case and the connector promptly snapped off.

Because there is a slim to none chance that 12 random people on a jury all have the same agenda.

VB.NET and C#.NET produce identical code once compiled. That may not be a good thing in and of itself but I use VB.NET for small modules myself when getting it done fast is more important than clean, compact code (one time use scripts, reports, etc). Whoever did this is clearly an amateur, but not because they use VB.

"Privacy Policies" and "Terms and Conditions" have no legal clout on their own. You can't violate a law because you state that you're going to in your privacy policy, which is exactly what has happened here.

The billions and billions of dollars that sit in corporate bank accounts shouldn't be taxed? CEOs will just start using expense accounts for everything instead of multi-million dollar salaries.