Which department of Samsung do the prosecutors work for? Legal?

Well, first of all, I have to say that I haven't actually used Lollipop yet (Moto X 2013, so it shouldn't be too long a wait), and I am going off of reviews I have read. There are elements of the new Material Design that remind me a lot of WebOS. The biggest thing is the touch ripple, something I have never seen other than on my old WebOS HP Touchpad. The Lollipop lock screen notifications also look very familiar, and the new Overview function, with it's stack of cards, is practically ripped out of WebOS. Check out the screenshots in Ars Technica's Lollipop review, and I think you'll see what I mean.

I think Lollipop was influenced much, much more by WebOS than it was by iOS. Makes it glaringly obvious why they made that patent agreement with LG a few weeks ago.

If Netflix really feels pressured, they will simply leave Canada. I suspect their Canadian revenues make up a pretty small piece of their pie. Thanks, CRTC.

Of course!

Why on earth would Linux do any of these things? If you want an OS that looks and works like Windows, USE WINDOWS! If you don't like using the terminal, USE WINDOWS (the fact that Windows treats the command line as a red-headed stepchild is not nearly a good enough reason for Linux to stop using such a powerful interface)! Linux does it's own thing, in it's own way, and it has absolutely no need to become more like Windows in order to be useful.

Ah, but there is the devious beauty of it. We are incapable of understanding these new interfaces because we aren't super-powerful AI, thus we perceive them as a trainwreck. But tape two Surface RT's together, screen to screen, and see what kind of awesomeness they do...oh, wait, you can't see anything when they're taped that way.

I seem to remember an old jailbreak app for iPhones, called Signal I think, that triangulated positions of the cell towers you were connected to and plotted them on a map. I wonder if something like this could be used in an app, to warn people when a stingray was capturing their signal. If your app "remembers" the positions of towers, and it suddenly sees a new one, or it sees one that is not stationary, seems to me that'd be a good sign that something wasn't right. Is this possible, or am I misremembering?

Even better would be if the app connected with others to create a crowd-sourced database of where and when they are used.

Victoria, BC has it, too. I can't step onto my balcony without getting a "Welcome to the US" text from AT&T.

This whole thing doesn't make sense to me. If Comcast is intentionally degrading (or failing to upgrade, causing degradation) NetFlix stream, why doesn't NetFlix just let them? Put a message over the buffering stating that the buffering is caused by Comcast and asking the customer to contact them in order to fix it. Maybe put a short pre-roll PSA video, explaining the situation to all Comcast NetFlix users. I'm (luckily) not a Comcast subscriber, but if I was, and I couldn't do whatever I wanted with the net connection I bought from them, I'd be screaming bloody murder, and I'd sure want to know who was to blame.

is gonna be pissed!

I've been very happy with the service so far. I can access my music from a variety of devices, whenever I want, and I only pay a little more than $2 a month. I even had a hard drive failure last summer, and I was able to redownload every single track without any loss. Obviously, the service will never be any good to people who hate Apple, but for non-fanboys who like the right tool for the job, it's fine. If this is the model the industry is moving towards, is that so bad?

I don't understand why the big cartels aren't in on this. Direct sales via post would solve a lot of their problems...seizures probably wouldn't be more than they have now (with mules smuggling condoms of drugs in their guts and such), some middle men would be eliminated (increasing their share of the street value), and they could make an App Store-style cut off of the sales they aren't doing directly. They could even host it in some country they have control of, like Colombia or Mexico, reducing the chance of it all being interrupted or seized. They should be all over this.

I saw Ubuntu running on the desktop monitor of a judge on TV* last night. Usually they use some custom graphics to fake an interface, was surprising to see Unity.

* It wasn't actually ON TV, it was from Amazon Instant Video.

I've heard this claimed before, in other articles about Google Glass. When did Google develop batteries that last forever?