No afterlife for computers? But where do all the calculators go?

This. I read this in an astronomy book a long time ago. Maybe now it's more certain, but really, this isn't big news.

Double post all the way across the forum! What does it mean?

A lot of people who call themselves "Anarchists" these days really aren't. Some still subscribe to the idea of no government and believe that it would work out for the best, but too many with that name are just assholes who want to break things.

As opposed to ACs, who seem to turn everything into utterly absurd hyperbole and ludicrous exaggeration?

You left out "And get off my lawn!"

I never had a "fitting" appointment. One for an regular checkup and prescription adjustment, and that was that.

And I may not disagree, but that sure as hell does not justify the lying, fraud, thuggery, bribery, and the rest of the long list of nasty things the **AA organizations have done. I daresay they've done far more damage overall than people downloading a few tracks.

Well, you can be an asshole if you just throw crap for defacement or you can be an asshole if you build your own custom software and find a new exploit to steal a bunch of SSNs for identity theft. Skiddie is almost universally negative, but someone could use such tools for a good cause. Shame that it's so rare.

I'd say it's more the level of understanding that differentiates. If you get the tools, have no idea how they work, don't care how they work, etc, then you're a skiddie. If you do know, understand, try to, maybe tinker with them on the lower levels, then maybe you're something more.

Well, if that customer purchased it through Apple or AT&T and registered the device with Apple, then I'd say there would be enough records to say that it's theirs.

If customers reported their iPhones as stolen and had all of the necessary details (serial number, IMEI number, etc) that could uniquely identify their phones, then this suit may well have merit. This info is likely in either their system or Apple's system, especially if they both track serial numbers through sales and registration. If thieves are bringing stolen phones in and that data is in their system then they damned well should be doing something about it.

Actually, I think you already can. If ViDock hasn't put out one of their external GPU cases for Thunderbolt yet then they probably will soon. I wouldn't be surprised to see breakout boxes with a few PCIe slots of varying speeds.

So would you say that PCI serial/parallel ports were just as bad? Because TB is essentially a PCIe bus. It was built with things like this in mind. USB is a different ball of wax.

Also, I'm pretty sure that ultrabook is using Thunderbolt (albeit in a proprietary form factor) to connect to that dock. Sony is one of the few companies other than Apple currently using it.