The judge in question:

Edward R. Korman (born 1942) is a United States district judge serving on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, in Brooklyn, NY. He was nominated by President Ronald Reagan on October 2, 1985, confirmed by the United States Senate on November 1, 1985, commissioned on November 4, 1985, and entered service on December 16, 1985, to fill a new seat. Korman served as Chief Judge of the Eastern District of New York from 2000–2007 and took senior status in 2007. In addition to continuing his caseload in Brooklyn, Korman has also sat by designation on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in California from 2008[1] through present.

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My opinion time: This guy is a relic who sees the world though a very distorted lens. He was put into his post by freaking Raygun and likely is someone who, like a Dick Cheney, sees the world having evil (literally) and that such rulings are ways to keep it at bay. Civil liberties are things that are silly to think about when you are fighting "evil" and should never get in the way of what is "right and good".

I've seen a lot of talk about current politics here and about stuff as stupid and silly as how if our executive branch was different we'd have a different society and other bullshit. It is a whole lot more complicated than that. We have a LOT of wheels within wheels here and the fact that we have judges that date back to before some of you were even born shows that. It is not just about congress and the executive branch but we have a huge 3rd branch of government too people! Wrap your heads around all of it becuase trust me if you don't and just watch that you are missing a lot of the show.

Some of you I see did get it right. We HAVE to get money out of politics. Until we do that nothing will be fixed with any meaning.

Lol, thank you oh wize (ass) AC! You found a word where I missed letters on and something my spell checker fixed wrong! I bow to your wizdom!

Japan is not just one area thou, you make it seem as if it is all the same. Where exactly did you live?

Manhattan is a super expensive place to live but it is not representative of all of the US. You need to provide much details to be creditable.

Well er...not to say that by the numbers that it might be up there, even #1 by some metric. But really? I've never even heard of the thing!

Further that the ubiquitous "credits" is not on the list is kinda more silly IMO. My main man Harry Harrison should have had some reps!

I would tend to view this as a shot across the bow to MS. They have messed with everyone and everything for years now and finally the market has broken there utter stranglehold. That being said is anything, including MS's Win8 clusterfuck, being done the best way? Hell no.

And that is for a number of reasons which tend to be interwoven. There was a good article at Ars, kinda pro-MS (especially at the end), about how MS was able to win the OS war vs IBM. And to me the message was more about IBM's failures than MS's triumphs, it illustrated how such things can go down.

Getting to the technical aspect of this I am waiting for the market/fever/whatever to break about trying to force mobile UI's onto the desktop. Yes the desktop market is diminishing but there is more to it than just the rise of mobile devices. Desktop systems have been quite powerful enough for years now to web/email/office/and other nominal things. The market is just going to react to THAT as well as the rise of the mobile devices.

Trying to force mobile alone onto desktops is just foolish. No matter how glitzy it is made to look in the movies. I've yet to see any of those movie/TV "OSs" that would last to 5 minuets of real use beyond the flashes of whatever super specialized task they are meant to represent doing.

I think it is also worth noting that this is coming from Harvard. Not to say that other schools don't have similar issues but my point is that this is a very high end, private, and expensive university. And that that most of the people there are expected, and that is probably putting it lightly, to excel.

My point is that the higher the stakes the more people tend to be willing to do. Whatever those stakes may be. Be it some personal drive, parental urgings, or whatever. (And I'm talking about people that would otherwise be rational.)

The "public approval" has come though a representative government that has single digit approval ratings. That were gerrymandered into being allowed to keep office. That most progressives have railed against the President for his failures to keep even some of his basic promises, even his 2nd term promises, about transparency and trying to respect civil liberties.

Ok...deep breaths.

If you continue to lie to us we will call you out on that. What you just said is a lie. It might be not a direct lie but it is a lie of omission. Stop fucking doing that. I could start talking about how your director should be in federal prison for doing exactly that but I'm going to stop right now.

I'm a huge fan of market competition and AMD. If this is not not a slashvertismemnt then I'm a noob.

Windows RT always struck me as a marketing ploy.

I mean I get it. There had to be a team of programmers, managers, and support staff that made a whole new OS. But when I saw the way that MS marketed RT, as some sort of sudo Windows, that it seemed that was the goal. Not that they really wanted to introduce a new OS but that they wanted to try and sneak it in.

And with the billions of dollars in their warchest due to them being a convicted monopolist they had to try right? When you are a convicted monopolist that escaped any real punishment you are going to continue to do what you have been doing.

So the near 1 trillion dollar failure of MS to push their way into the mobile market is likely done for now but they still have the Xbox One that is out now. And those very very low information types of people who buy consoles, not everyone but they are the target market, will help them stay alive for a bit yet with the failure that was Windows 8.

I use Intel SSDs, period. I'm not a fan of Intel at all and really want AMD to succeed such that we have some compititon in the marketplace. But when it comes to SSDs Intel holds the best non-failure rate that I've found.

I've paid more but on my own personal rigs as well as every client's, I've not had any failure. And they are fast too. I mean duh, they are SSDs!

But whenever I saw OCZ I saw marketing. I mean I guess they had some good drives using reliable chips and good controllers but from what I saw it was all about the marketing. Which leads me to my post's question. How many engineers did they really have at that company that worked on things vs the amount of MBA marketeers.

In short I never saw OCZ as a serious company. They were not a Corsair or some other startup that had real desires to make good hardware. Rather they had a lot of marketing push and very little else. The level of return on their SSDs was super high and once I saw that it told me all I needed to know about them. Anyone can make some RAM and slap on some crafted aluminum heatsink onto it. Not everyone can make a SSD.

Translation: Can't back up your talk with anything other than AC posts. And your lack of running anything other than MC during vanilla leads to your lack of understanding of how WoW was not always ezmode.

(Big hint: Very few guilds got into Naxx40. It was not easy. AQ40 was not easy either. Getting Twins on farm was a big deal.)

I am not nearly as fully informed about all the details of the game as I was when I was playing it but I have kept tabs on it. I did use the 10 days free offer IIRC about a month ago to just see what it was like. That new Isle of Catchup and all that. I was not looking for anything huge to do but the idea of getting my "fleet" to the cap was something that I thought might be worthy of resubbing for a bit.

And then I started working on leveling and hit the lack of 5-man content wall and said nope nope nope. That is not just disappointing it is a fundamental change in the way they made the game. Nevermind the fact that all instances are a series of linear hallways. But if you are actually informed about the game you should know all of this...right?

I say that because you not only posted as an AC but you did not even detail your own WoW history. I DID actually raid 40 mans as I said and DID fight Patchwerk in progression mode. Did you? Did you fight anything outside of the The Construct Quarter? How about doing any fights in AQ40 in progression mode? You talk about 40 mans being "easy mode" but I have a feeling your nub ass did MC at best.

Come back when you want to try and back up your words with a little more than just an AC post. I'd be obliged if you stfu until you do so.

I watch a few YouTube series and the people who make that content are not happy either with the way things have been trending. Of course since their income is being provided for by Google/YouTube they tone down their criticism but you can easily listen to what they are not saying and get the message.

Further I've seen the idea that YouTube will be next/soon in the G+ requirement and that is surely worthy of discussion. I'm damn sure that discussion has been had ad nausum on the Google campus but it is likely very tempered by the idea that doing so could easily kill off a large chunk of their viewer base which would allow any number of other video services to gain real traction.

Right now YouTube has a good hold on the market and any big shift could endanger that. However there is the other 500 lb. gorilla sitting over in the corner that is about to become unchained in the way of losing Net Neutrality which means all bets are off and who knows wtf will happen.

Obligatory WoW history: Started a few months into vanilla, ended that version as a Naxx 40 raider 9/15. Progression cleared everything in BC save the Sunwell and burned out of hardcore raiding. Took some time off during Wrath but came back for the end and did a fair amount of casual raiding as well as "fleet" building. (I had one of every class and had them all to the level cap.) Played Cata on and off but at most just leveled the fleet to cap. And then Mists hit and of all the versions of WoW it has been the one I have played the least. I leveled only 3 of my toons to the cap, no raiding other than LFR, and then left the game.

And a number of things really turned me off to WoW with the direction they took with Mists:

1. Lack of 5 man content. This is huge. When leveling up I really do like questing but without some 5 man content every now and then to break things up it can get a bit tedious. And the lack of 5 man content in Mists while leveling was unlike any previous version of WoW. Without a decent amount of 5 man content, while leveling, I will never go back to WoW.

2. Daily grinds. I am not at all interested in doing daily quests really at all. Sometimes I might feel up to them but the idea of doing daily quests is not fun to me at all. And then locking things behind those quests was just the last nail in the coffin.

3. Oversimplification. I get that the old talent trees were often just cut and pasted from EJ. But it is a lie to say that they did not make the game simpler by turning them into what they are now. The fact that you can no longer get them wrong shows that lie. And that goes for a lot of other things that they have done in the game as well such as spell downranking, stat simplification, and such. After playing Skyrim a lot lately I look back on my early play and think man I was doing that wrong but now I learned. I don't necessarily want Eve's learning curve but what they have now is not a curve at all.

Ars? Maybe but really do you not know the place for teardowns?

http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/

And as to JoeyRox's idea that this was a detailed teardown...no. No it was not. It was a fluff piece for people who don't know anything about computer hardware.