Even if the class action suit only wins one penny, it will be worth it. Having a verdict on this issue can set a legal precedent (especially since Lenovo is probably not interested in defending the case too hard either).

For instance, it could pave the way for more easily winning a class action against Verizon. Verizon's case is a bit different, especially now that they're supposedly giving their customers the option to opt-out, but with a little bit of luck, a quick verdict on the Lenovo case could make Verizon reconsider its ongoing super-cookie/man-in-the-middle attack strategy against its own customers.

There are many free apps that do that kind of thing.

Also if you have a non-nexus Samsung, or a non-nexus LG device, that are at least one year old, you have that functionality that is already baked into their customized ROM. The only thing is that LG doesn't call their functionality parental control, they call it 'Guest mode' instead which is actually really good because the way it's triggered, through a different unlock pattern or a different unlock pin, your guest has actually no idea he's using 'Guest mode' (aside from the missing functionality you chose to leave out).

So 'Guest mode' also works great for girlfriends/boyfriends, curious passengers borrowing your phone, and overzealous cops, not just kids. It all depends on the way you choose to configure it.

Did you see the huge amount of work that was put into this game?

That's the incredible part, not the fact that people are spending money on it, or the fact that it has become an internet meme.

This is nothing new. For instance, word processing consultants were put out of business by Word Perfect. If those former word processing consultants wanted to stay relevant, they had to retrain themselves. In software development, we're constantly trying to automate our own work and replace ourselves, until one day we're actually successful at it, and then we have to find a new problem to solve if we want to stay relevant on the open market.

I'm not sure why those guys are taking a jab at Uber thought. Uber isn't replacing Taxis. It's meeting the demands of the open market during peak hours, which Taxis are incapable of filling by themselves (at least, not in places like San Francisco or New York where it's absolutely impossible to get a taxi during the time when you most need one).

In this case, the phone must already be rooted, and the user must be willing to grant root permission to the application. In other words, this is essentially a surveillance app for your spouse/girlfriend/boyfriend/children, where you must have physical access to their device for you to be able to install the trojan.

After all, why else would the AVG vendor not give us the name of the app?? And why else does the AVG vendor vaguely says that the app "applies for the root permission" when it goes down to the absolute nitty-gritty details for everything else.

In that context, it makes sense that 10,000 people downloaded/installed this app from some Chinese app store. Finding jealous people that want to spy on their significant other is easy enough (especially around Valentines day, which was only four days before this article was written). And rooting a phone in China is easy also, even for people that wouldn't know how to do it themselves, there is an entire corner shop service industry that's dedicated to helping Chinese consumers getting rid of regional locks, copy-write restrictions, software locks on pirated software, etc.

The bigger the company and the brand, the bigger the temptation.

The US doesn't have such a generous welfare system as in Australia. If you did that kind of thing in the US, you'd be out on the streets and homeless in no time.

It's really more of a STEM problem. It has to do with the type of education one has. If science was largely missing from your education, it's kind of obvious you wouldn't trust science, it wouldn't matter if you were intelligent or not, nor from the left or the right.

Normally, I would say that girls choosing to avoid sciences isn't a problem, it's actually their choice (for those choosing to do so). In this case however, I think it's important to have a much higher level of science literacy for everyone. It's important for the individual, but it's also very important for our modern society as a whole.

When the price is surging, even taxis are not available. And 100 extra luxury taxis won't even make a dent when the demand outstrips the supply during peak hours. In fact, since those new taxis are touted as saloons on wheels, they won't even be competing against regular taxis (that's probably why the government likes the service so much). They will probably be hired the entire night and they'll be clogging up the gangnam streets waiting for their patrons to get in and out of night clubs.

Also Irwin sounds exactly like the guy who would blow all his money on status symbols like expensive wine and an expensive mansion. Furthermore, his salary comes directly from the media, and it's the newspapers job/media's job to drum up business for State lotteries (one of their few remaining advertisers left).

Ask him what? That he thought he was supposed to be the first one on the moon? Or that he left the exposed film on purpose????

My source is "Alex" Filippenko. Granted, you don't need to believe him either, nor even believe me that he really said that, but I was hoping that out of the thousands or people who took his introductory Astronomy class at Berkeley, that someone would back me up on this.

My source is "Alex" Filippenko

I would have hoped that out of the thousands or people who took his introductory Astronomy class at Berkeley, that someone would back me up on this.

No, Buzz Aldrin did leave exposed film on the moon, out of retaliation against Neil Armstrong.

I don't think that's what happened.

The original story goes that Buzz Aldrin was supposed to be the first one to walk on the moon, but during the trip, an order from mission control came in that said that Neil Armstrong was supposed to be the first. Buzz Aldrin had been politically outmaneuvered. And Buzz was so upset about that, he retaliated by supposedly 'forgetting' his own camera on the moon. Obviously, most of the shots on that camera were shots of Neil Armstrong, so most of the photographs we have now (except for the video feeds from the lander) are actually pictures of Buzz Aldrin, not Neil Armstrong.

So upon hearing that Buzz Aldrin had accidentally left his camera on the moon, it would certainly make sense that Neil Armstrong would grab something as well. In any case, it would be really cool if Buzz Aldrin had also lied about not bringing the camera back with him, but in his case, it's actually less likely. If I had been Buzz, I would have also left the camera on the moon in the rage of the moment.

Yes, they should support all their products on every platform all the time, no matter how tiny the marketshare, and no matter how tiny the revenue stream, compared to the revenue from their core advertising products.

After all, Google is a non-profit semi-governmental organization that is only designed to do things for the common good in the fairest-seeming possible way. Also, I don't think that the Google employees themselves will mind being pulled off their current Android embedded Linux project, or their Autonomous car project, or their server-side project, to start working on this major piece of critical revenue-generating Google Earth Linux-client infrastructure. Developers are just like sheep. Just push them towards a new different direction each week, and they'll gladly follow that new direction until you tell them otherwise. That's how obedient they are.