OMG FISH ARE GOING EXTINCT?

what a surprise, we've never heard of this before... *cough*

While admittably, the technology of Star Wars wasn't terribly well conceived, this whole thing must be looked at retroactively.

When Jules Verne first wrote of a trip to the moon around 1880, he wrote of a large cannon, shooting a cannonball that would contain a passenger. Rockets hadn't been invented yet. Doesn't mean that Jules Verne was an idiot. One way or the other, we did land a man on the moon, and to be fair, it did take a whole lot of firepower.

It's laughable to consider Sci-Fi "wrong!". It's FICTION! Of course it's wrong...The fact is that a long of sci-fi writers imagine things long into the future, and come up with impossible ideas. Sometimes, those ideas become possible by research, and that's a great achievement, both for the author and the scientist.

Don't look for anything more... Unless you're reading Nostradamus, of course...

Those who know how to use the net use Firefox or Opera.

Reminds me of the first Chrome EULA, stating that all intellectual property created while using the browser belonged to Google.

( http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2008/09/google-on-chrome-eula-controversy-our-bad-well-change-it.ars )

Lawsuits (or laws in general) perhaps really are built around a twisted, shortsighted version of sympathy: almost all of them are built around whether something someone does hurts someone else.

Since Amazon has refunded anyone who had bought the book on his Kindle, it all seems fair.

It is up to a customer to prove that this 'event' has hurt him in a specific way.

When we first of this on /. we all realized how silly Amazon's decision was. But this sort of legal bullsh*t is what it takes to rectify such a wrong... hopefully.