Actually in Canada this is legal (or it was last I checked). As long as the person doing the ripping is person B. If person A rips the music and gives the digital copy to person B then there is a problem.

OK I'll admit I don't know much about business (or law) but is it really "required by law" for companies to give investors a return on their investments?

If this is actually true I guess I need to start investing some money.

OK I'll admit that I didn't notice the H1 in the graph right away but...

Unless the article author has a time machine you still can't say that the vulnerabilities have increased 100% until they actually have. It would have been better if the author had compared the first half of 2013 to the first half of 2014. At least that way the comparison is grounded in facts not speculation.

Did you even look at that graph?
It does show a slight increase for IE but definitely not 100%.
At best this shows and increase from ~125 vulnerabilities to ~135. That's ~10% not 100%.

So I guess there aren't any countries in the EU?

Show me one single country that has "free market rules and no state interference".

But let's not have pesky, inconvenient reality crush your misinformed, ignorant claims.

Actually, what they should have done is implement smarter mouse controls. If you swipe your finger across the screen (on a touch device) metro scrolls left to right (or right to left obviously). So why can't I click somewhere on the right of the screen and drag the mouse to the left to scroll sideways? Only when using a mouse do you have to use the scroll bar at the bottom of the screen to scroll (or use the mouse wheel).
It would seem more logical to me if you converted the touch interface into analogous mouse controls.

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.