There are no legal issues with an end user altering the presentation of what they receive to suit their needs. It's not like you're under contract to download all of the cross-site scripts today's hipster web developers burden their creations with. Injecting some Greasemonkey Javascript or blocking malicious code can be interpreted as a derivative work but there is no further distribution to other parties to make the case of damages through copyright infringement. This is commonly done with screen readers and other non-traditional browsers that need to simplify the content. Having a middle man do that without consent by either sender or receiver is another thing entirely.

Because we shouldn't trust robots to do basic geometry on their own.

Parallel Construction doesn't catch criminals. It hides criminal activity by the government. It is an institutionalized form of lying which isn't acceptable in our court system.

Disney isn't in the dance club DJ business so despite the similarity in trademarks there is no direct competition between them that could cause market confusion. Deadmau5 doesn't get airtime on mainstream radio so Radio Disney doesn't count either.

That's how Purdue works. Somebody's got to pay for the custom branded hand dryers and other pointless luxuries.

In the US to some degree yes. When these kids go back to China or Korea, the degree from a "name" school will open doors that would otherwise be closed. The actual content of the coursework is irrelevant.

I would say it's more of a quirk in both Java and Javascript because they eschew operator overloading in the name of some notion of academic purity and then they go and implement special semantics for the '+' operator that you can't replicate with a user defined type. Same with C++'s abuse of literal 0 before the advent of nullptr.

That and the global scope to variables is why I won't use Lua. Shame, It's a good language other than those warts.

I didn't see any of that thanks to NoScript. Just a partially rendered layout with no content. If Devs can't get their shit together to make a web site usable without Javascript I move on and find something else to do.

This is pretty bad. I designed a controller for some mechanical actuators on a satellite once and the design was filled with carefully designed interlocks and watchdog logic that would prevent an unintentional deployment in the event of multiple failures. It's astonishing that this could get installed on the ISS without a similarly rigorous design.

Apple has a track record of poor battery life so we can expect the iWatch to only last for 8 hours between charges.

They see the writing on the wall and want to avoid classification as trolls in case anti-troll legislation gets passed in the future. Doing the bare minimum to utilize a small part of their portfolio is just a minor cost to keep their racket running.

I wouldn't consider 25Mbps essential. 5Mbps at a decent price would satisfy most users. Even that is almost impossible to come by anywhere in the US.

That equipment was all sold as part of the massive jobs program that the MIC has turned into. Nobody wants to make credible deep cuts in military spending because of the massive unemployment it would generate (and Representatives of affected districts would loose in their next election) so we look for markets to ply with our war materiel. It works out great if you can create new markets for these goods.

Losing control of some weapons to the current enemy of the day only ensures a need for more production to counteract the threat they represent. That's good for business. This is the mindset of the American oligarchs who run the country and pull the strings on their elected puppets. You can almost view our dalliances in the Middle East as a way to guarantee a future revenue steam by purposely inciting instability.

Get a 48GX. It's basically the same as the SX but notably faster.