I could be wrong but based on the summery it looks to me like one of the big problems with this device is that they said it had FCC approval when it didn't. It may have been fine for them to sell the jammer (i.e. the FCC wouldn't have gotten involved) if they hadn't labeled it as FCC approved.

Just to clarify, I think you may have misread the statement. It was about people that spend >$1000 for speaker WIRE not the speakers themselves.

It's Apple. Is that enough of an explanation for you?

I swear that if Apple reintroduced the pet rock as the iRock it would sell a few billion units (ok, an exaggeration but you get my point).

I have been telling my clients this for a while now. If you just add a start menu replacement (the start button of Windows 8.1 was a missed opportunity for Microsoft) and set it to boot directly to the desktop there isn't much difference between 8 and 7.
One thing that I would like to see back is the Aero theme. The current Windows 8 style is to flat and retro for me (reminds me more of Windows 3 era).

This is just the point. I'm sure that somewhere buried in the EULA is a statement that cheats and hacks are against the TOS.

Well if they don't do any better than public schools then what is the point of putting public money into them?

Just because a school takes public funding doesn't mean that it is a public school. If the charter school doesn't take any and all children that apply for enrollment it is a private school (notice I didn't say privately funded school).

Actually, I kind of miss PS2 keyboard/mice systems. The thing is they work. If you plug a USB keyboard/mouse into a Windows system it will work until Windows takes over from the BIOS and then won't work until the driver is set up in Windows.If you plug in a PS2 device it works the whole way through the process. This may have changed now with UEFI since I haven't done a lot of work on these systems yet. It may also have changed with Windows 8 but again haven't used enough systems with Windows 8 to know for sure.

Now I realize that I have just opened myself up to a series of trolls about how "Microsoft sucks and that is your real problems" so bring it on. ;-)

Since these systems need a special key fob to work and the fobs can sell for hundreds of dollars to replace I see this as a bit of a money grab. I highly doubt that the actual cost to manufacture these fobs is more than a few dollars. This smells like a nice way to gain some extra markup.

So GE is a government funded entity as well!

What percentage of the GDP do those 1%-10% account for?
How much influence on policy to the wealthiest account for?
How many subsidies do the wealthiest get that the average person has no hope of seeing?
Etc.

If the wealthiest control 50%+ of the money and power in the country isn't it fitting that they are paying 50%+ of the tax burden?

I don't think I will be interested in buying a smart watch until they can go at least a year or two on one charge.

Actually all we need to do is get the supreme court to realize that money is not free speech. I don't see how some one can go into court (with a straight face) and say that their freedom of speech is impacted simply because there are limits on the amount of money that can throw at politicians. If that is the case I guess some one needs to go into court and argue that their freedom of speech is being affected because they don't have enough money to spend on buying politicians.

Hate to break it to you but XP is from this century. 8-)

Based on the picture in the article I wouldn't call that a laptop (open sourced or not).