I've heard that Intel's Atom graphics drivers for Linux are pretty awful. Customers aren't exactly clamoring for netbooks with barely functioning graphics displays.

Customs will confiscate any imported copies IF they can identify them. Not sure what the punishment might be, but unless you're attempting to conceal a copy within a shipment of drugs or explosives, Customs won't find it unless you're extremely unlucky.

It's sort of a win, given that an imported UK copy can be purchased for approximately $45, while locally purchased copies will start at $80

Sure, and then the Iranians can simply hijack them, leaving us with a multi-billion dollar airforce parked on our enemy's runways.

Clearly you should have whipped out your phone and filmed/photographed her bad driving. At this point, either upload to YouTube or head to the nearest police station.

Yeah, letting fanboys for both systems flame each other during games will surely make for a fun time.

Why not get the Christo-fascists involved and let them know that Sam's Club is refusing to sell the bible? Should be entertaining.

Why does someone have to buy T-Mobile?

Well, they wouldn't be in that position if they'd tried actually innovating over the last decade instead of running around shrieking about piracy. Instead they let another company monopolise their newest distribution channel.

If they want a strong competitor to Apple, they're going to have to play nicely with others and somehow beat Apple on prices or features, neither of which they're likely to let Google do.

With the possible exception of STOVL, the JSF design doesn't offer any useful capabilities in the future that can't be served by existing aircraft designs at a lower cost. For bombing enemies without any airforce, the F-35 is a gold-plated bomb truck whose mission could be more cheaply achieved by new-build F-16s or possibly even newer turbo-props. For penetrating high-end enemy air defenses, the F-35 isn't likely to be competitive against future Russian SAM systems (S-400, S-500) or future stealth aircraft (PAKFA and J-20) and would require assistance (B-2, F-22, cruise missiles, etc). Once (or if) those threats are down, you've got a mostly permissive airspace where legacy aircraft can operate unmolested at a lower cost. In summary, it's not stealthy enough to compete with future air threats and its too expensive to use in permissive airspace.

Unfortunately at this point, the JSF program is too big to fail and plenty of civilian and military personal have bet their careers on it, while the various services have gambled their future aircraft recapitalization on it. Expect to see the total number of aircraft built to be reduced below 800 (down from ~2500) and the cost inflate to more than $100m each (up from Lockheed Martin's promised $65m).

If it happens, I'd expect to see various bullshit-clad variants of the following argument: "We should be able to fund terrorists to protect against piracy, because piracy funds terrorism"

Now I can enjoy having my system exploited while watching 3D games.

Is this feature really going to solve any problems, given that the typical reason for reinstalling Windows is that third-party apps or malware broke it in some way. A reinstall which then installs the same apps again isn't likely to help matters much. If malware or trojans are the problem, they're just going to adapt and hide among the legitimate apps and get reinstalled on the supposedly clean install. This leaves the user back where they started, but with the mistaken idea that their system is fixed.

The more sophisticated the attack, the smaller the pool of suspects. An attack only needs to be sophisticated enough to succeed and additional complexity may cause additional problems. If an attacker achieves their goals with a unsophisticated attack, then they leave a larger pool of suspects for investigators to focus on.

The Soviet Union was forced to cancel their high school history exams in 1988, after admitting that constant historical revisionism had left the history texts in such a state that they were mostly inaccurate. Repeating this mistake, for what are essentially the same reasons, would be idiotic.

I'm guessing geeks get shitty with fantasy with a science coating because it's often served up to them as being hard science fiction. Both are pleasant, but it's annoying to constantly receive a bait and switch between the two because most of the entertainment industry seems to believe that this fantasy masquerading as science fiction is the only type of science fiction.