No. Times for astronomical events are very often given in UTC, to avoid exactly the confusion which is occurring here. In any case, the time zone should always be specified to avoid ambiguity.

Seems to me that it's Gnome Foundation which is acting like a sexist dirtbag. They're driving/funding sexist "outreach" programs which are well beyond the scope of their formal charter, in which they disingenuously claim to be "a Meritocracy."

There is nothing in the article to indicate the batteries are defective, that's entirely conjecture by the submitter.

It could well be that the Sony charging circuits are defective and causing perfectly good batteries to overheat.

Although it varies by state, in general pepper spray may be used wherever use of physical force is. Protecting property from damage usually falls into that category.

How can an AC be expected to actually read the ruling they're commenting on, which specifically addresses his complaint?

There was no evidence at trial that Auernheimerâ(TM)s actions evinced any contact with New Jersey, much less contact that was âoesubstantial.â The Government has not cited, and we have not found, any case where the locus of the effects, standing by itself, was sufficient to confer constitutionally sound venue./blockquote)

Spitler was in San Francisco, California and Auernheimer was in Fayetteville, Arkansas. The servers that they accessed were physically located in Dallas, Texas and Atlanta, Georgia. Although no evidence was presented regarding the location of the Gawker reporter, it is undisputed that he was not in New Jersey.

He was indicted and tried in NJ, despite none of the involved parties being located there.

"Zuckericanneverrmemberthespelling"

It's Zucker of Borg. You will be assimilated.

HTH! HAND!

He's not going to complain when the police drones provide a counterpoint by dousing him with pepper spray, right?

Nope. You're wrong. Stop trying to create a straw man, because you're failing miserably.

The barycenter of the Earth/Sun system is inside Sol, and the barycenter of the Earth/Moon system is inside the earth.

I haven't heard any claims about orbiting the center of either the Sun or Earth.

They already have equal opportunity, which is all that matters.

Einstein taught us that no point of reference is special. It's perfectly legitimate to state that everything goes around the earth. It does make the movements of everything else very complex though, since they then don't follow Keplerian orbits. It also breaks some of Newton's laws (like inertia, since other planets sometimes reverse course).

But, fixing all of that is just a matter of using different math and creating different physical laws. The accepted convention of the Earth orbiting the Sun is simply the one which we've found to have the simplest math and laws.

That stone looks more like a horseshoe crab than Australia.

"The trackball layout on the early Powerbooks was an obvious requirement of using a GUI."

Nope. Look at the Mac Portable, which had the keyboard down near the edge, and a trackball to the side.

"I remember using a similar touchscreen and keyboard setup...mid-80s"

Touchscreen in the mid-80's? Even if so, how does that relate to the positioning of a keyboard and trackball/trackpad? (Fairlight? You talkin' 'bout a musical keyboard???)

"Apple, and several others, have managed to blatantly hijack the patent system"

Not defending their current practice (slide to unlock and pinch zoom clearly have prior art), but it comes from their past experience.

One obvious example is the keyboard/trackpad layout of all modern laptops. It was Apple on their PowerBooks who pushed the keyboard toward the screen, making room for palmrests and pointing devices below. Prior to that, everyone was putting keyboards tight against the lower edge. They didn't patent it, and the rest of the industry quickly followed.