2 "seriously" injured, 20 others lightly wounded, no deaths (so far). This is what happens without easy access to automatic weapons. You're going to have sociopaths and psychotics everywhere, but only in the US (and maybe Afghanistan) will they have such easy access to such lethal weaponry. Absent this lethality, it's a lot more difficult for these people to create such efficient carnage.

You want your "right to bear arms" organized around individuals and not through State militias? Give everyone access to a 1776 -era state of the art musket. See how many kids they can shoot on a rampage then...

Neurologists and Psychiatrists say: What took you so long?

See also: Libet and Bereitschaftspotential.

All this cracking and still no way to root the AppleTV 3?

There is still no serious Android competitor to the new iPad, with its unparalleled 2048x1536 display.

Ye, there is. Because the Android OEM ecosystem is versatile, you can go with the low-res screens for $50-$150, the standard res screens ($150-$350), or fork out for the higher res screens ($350+) such as the Transformer Infinity (1920x1200, 224ppi) or the Iconia A700 (1920x1200, 224ppi). Yes, they are not 264ppi like the iPad 3, but with a blind A/B test, it's tough for people to distinguish that difference. And these screens can emit brighter than the iPad's (For the Prime, way brighter), and as Big Box stores have found, for many people an enhanced dynamic range with brightness is a often a bigger eye candy sales factor than resolution (cf, 720p plasma screens).

And I'm not even going near Android phone screens, where you run a continuum of ppi screens from crappy through the 200s into the 300s that sometimes are equivalent to exceed the iPhone's 326 ppi and, again, with OLED tech look way punchier.

there was a foreman who was an engineer and has multiple patents. And led the juries, to protect the patents because he'd want "his" patents protected.

More precisely, he is a patent troll who patented the DVR several years after ReplayTV and Tivo released their DVRs to market. He probably recognised a kindred spirit in Apple, which thus managed to get confirmed patents such as pinch-to-zoom (first implemented by Myron Krueger in 1983) and slide-to-unlock (a trivial, obvious gesture but actually patented three years before Apple by Swedish company Neonode).

Additionally, he's been going around grandstanding, giving interviews where he reveals that he instructed the other jury members not to actually read their deliberation instructions because he acted as an expert witness for them in interpreting the law (thus being an expert witness giving testimony to the jury yet unavailable for cross-examination by Samsung). Mistrial material right there.

those "Before iPhone, after iPhone" and "Before iPad, after iPad" images Apple fans constantly post

Yes, they are a silly. This timeline clearly shows that after the miserable failure of Apple's first phone, Apple took a couple of years off to copy HTC and LG before releasing its second phone, the iPhone, directly copying their design.

The Mitsubishi Trium Mondo released in 2001 was a PDA-style cellular telephone clearly in the slate form factor now effectively claimed by Apple.

No, he doesnt. He really hates litigation.

This is what he says. It's the same way Bezos at Amazon says he hates patents, including his own 1-Click.

Actions speak louder than words.

Then they should have come up with something original on their own.

Like Apple did?

Indeed. It can be refactored as follows:
Depression::Somatization.

Patent wars between companies are because of the patent & court system problems

I agree with you there. However...

I'm not worried yet that this lawsuit will cause any serious problems down the line.

I don't know., If Apple win this then it could be a reprise of the mid-to-late 1980s, when it was busy suing basically everyone who wanted to bring out a WIMP interface. Apple sued and won against Digital Research's GEM claiming that, among a whole host of WIMP objects, Apple owned the right to even basic stuff such text centered below an icon (you know, the way people had been making labels for centuries). Apple's aggressiveness was one of the reasons for UIs (such as NewWave and GEOS) continuing to remain much uglier and clunkier than they needed to far too long. Apple's obvious goal here is to cause Android manufacturers to uglify their phones for the next several years.

comparison of phones/tablets available prior to the iPhone/iPad and those that came out after both were unveiled

You've seen something like this smartphone timeline, right?

Wiki says the Prada won the iF award in 2007.

There's a lot of wikis out there. Wikipedia English says this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LG_PRADA#iPhone_controversy

Woo-Young Kwak, head of LG Mobile Handset R&D Center, said at a press conference, “We consider that Apple copied the Prada phone after the design was unveiled when it was presented in the iF Design Award and won the prize in September 2006.”

It's difficult to ignore the abrupt physical design changes that came after the iPhone release.

The iPhone's slate form factor was the culmination of a trend in high-end mobile phones that had been brewing for the previous 7 years and ironically only in 2006 did a combination of SoCs, lower-power screens, commercially feasible augmented glass and higher-density polymer batteries come together. This is what that process looked like. Technology moves in clades.

I don't think it received an award in 2005

The LG Prada won the i-F award in Autumn 2006 (it had been submitted as a demo to a bunch of trade and design fairs through that summer). That's why I put "2006" on this timeline.