I'm not Stephen Colbert, therefore I'm not an authority on the matter, but here are a few reasons:

iPad is perceived to have higher quality educational apps because all the big players in educational software initially targeted the iPad (although, that part won't be true for much longer since the iPad marketshare is shrinking vs. all the other Android tablets).

Stephen Colbert has received free iPhones and free iPads. In fact, he has made a couple of satirical jokes on his show about not wanting to be blacklisted by Apple for all the goodies it gave him. These jokes probably didn't make him any friends at Apple, but I doubt they cut off his supply of free stuff because unlike the other journalists Apple blacklisted for badmouthing it, Stephen Colbert could retaliate so easily. That's what his entire persona is about.

The term iPad currently gets more eyeballs in the press (not to mention Apple has a bigger and more focused PR/branding budget, versus the fragmented PR/branding budgets that the manufacturers of Android tablets have). Also, many people still equate Android tablets with iPads.

The schools with the most newsworthy orders of iPads probably got them at a discount over and above the normal academic discount (or they got paid in other ways, perhaps the school administrators/teachers received free MacBooks, or Apple agreed to fund the school in other ways). The key for Apple is just to get the initial ball rolling. It doesn't matter if its first customers do not pay anything, or even if they have to pay them. The Return On Investments for generating news stories is generally worth it.

Unfortunately, adblock doesn't seem to work for Slashdot's corporate overlord.

Make the mistake of posting your email address or phone number on dice.com, and even if you delete that information right away, you'll still be deluged six months down the road with recruitment spam and phone calls of third party recruiters who don't even bother to read your resume in the first place (yes, had I known this in advance, I would have just given a spamgourmet email address and a throwaway google voice phone number).

dice.com should just meter the number of potential job-hunters each recruiter can contact, and charge more accordingly. This would limit the incentives and rewards of spamming everyone in their database by the most incompetent recruiters, and actually make dice.com useful once again to job-seekers.

Who said we had to invent something new? The rich will build dikes and levees and the poor will move.

If you ask me, this problem is a political problem, not just a technical one. At some point, you just have to be willing to let go of some of your Firefox users with weird fonts installed. It's not like LibreOffice can afford to rewrite Firefox from scratch.

Here is a picture of their very first prototype (the one that was too alpha to show the press).

I feel the same way about fortune tellers. Most fortunes told are fine if you understand their limits, and what their results mean.

Thankfully, I'm smart enough to know all of that, because I've actually studied fortune telling just like you must have studied lie detectors and you could say I've become quite the authority on the subject of fortune telling and writing fortune cookies.

To be fair, taking a train to New York, or to San Francisco, is fine. It's only blasphemy when you take a train to a city like LA, where public transportation is a joke, and you end up waiting for a scheduled city bus that never comes.

You might as well just fly and rent a car when you get there, it's actually faster, more flexible (despite the TSA), and much cheaper than the train (assuming you don't mind planning your trips in advance and losing your checked-in luggage as a normal cost of flying in the USA).

You don't seem to be getting my point either.

If the headline had read xx% of field manuals/field web sites do not include a phone number for reporting sexual harassment/sexual assaults to an independent party. Or if it had said yy% of the phone numbers to report such incidents only seem to lead to an anonymous internal university voice mail black hole.

Then, that would be a more constructive news story altogether.

Do we really need explicit prohibitions against sexual harassment and sexual assaults for field work? What about murder or violent assaults? Do we need to explicitly prohibit those as well? Or are those implicitly permitted because they're not mentioned somewhere in a field manual?

That's great news! The Beatles never got their US citizenship since they were convicted of drug possessions. Their IP and images are obviously up for grabs, since they were just a bunch of foreigners. What about the Queen of England, she isn't a US citizen. Am I right? Plus, she's so old, her copyright must have expired by now.

Emphasis mine. I think we're done here.

That's great news! The Beatles never got their US citizenship since they were convicted of drug possessions. Their IP and images are obviously up for grabs, since they were just a bunch of foreigners. What about the Queen of England, she doesn't have a US Passport. Plus, she's so old, her copyright must have expired by now.

I don't think so, since she has already paid the fine and taken down her review (although, now that the restaurant does have hundreds of one star reviews all over the place because of that verdict's backlash, one could say that she has won the French popular vote if nothing else).

When the head of the FCC is already the top former lobbyist of the industry, then you've got to think the bribery period already ended.

The police did stop the chase.

In any case, who needs an helicopter, or a drone, when the Tesla car itself is equipped with remote gps tracking.

I'm just surprised the Tesla doesn't have an owner-initiated remote kill-switch.

According to this help section on Google Hangout, this is not currently true.

You say this is a "recent" decision, so I may have missed it. Please give us a citation.