That's interesting. How old are the kids? I'm guessing that most kids just live with the headphone jack problems rather than report it.

Also, if they know the break was their fault they may just get their parents to buy them a new one.

Do they have to return the ipads at the end of the year? It'll be interesting if the ratio of broken/lost devices continues at the end of the year.

In other news, hackers have discovered that the game, Angry Birds, mysteriously turns on a setting called "DiagnosticsAllowed".

Fixed that for you.

Not directly in the article but in the links within the article.

Here's the direct link: http://www.geek.com/articles/mobile/how-much-of-your-phone-is-yours-20111115/

I'm sure he has a reserved spot closest to his office. However, I imagine he occasionally meets with people at one of the other 6 buildings on campus and I can believe that he doesn't have a reserved spot at each of those.

The campus has multiple buildings and my guess is that while he does have his own parking spot just outside his personal office, he occasionally parks just outside one of the neighboring buildings when he is meeting with people there.

How long was he dying of cancer? The article states that he'd been doing this since at least the early 80s.

If it was a simple matter of disagreeing with him, then a flamebait moderation is inappropriate. The flamebait moderation is how people's comments are silenced.

There's nothing wrong with the way their house was built. It's just what happens when you forget to type in 4 8 15 16 23 42.

That was my first thought, too. I think it's a catchy name but the headline was confusing at first glance.

It depends. There are a lot of factors that could influence price.

Time. How long does this last? Does $30 mil get them a years worth of access? 5 years? 10 years?
Exclusivity. Is Netflix going to be the only ones who have access to these movies via streaming? Do others get rights, too, but Netflix gets to show first? How long before someone else can show the movies?
Same price for each movie or average? Are some new release movies costing them $50mil while others only $3 mil?

People keep bringing up the loss of Starz but I suspect that once that contract expired Starz started asking for a much larger (undisclosed) amount. The amount they paid Starz for movies was undoubtedly going to go up now that they have many more subscribers.

You've got a point. Any man watching a Hugh Grant movie should just walk out. Perverts.

It's true that comics have been doing this for ages. Sometimes it annoys me and sometimes I'm fine with it. Green Lantern has long been a character that can and should have replacements (and I think it's fine to use various races, genders, species, etc.). It works for that character. I welcome replacements now and again.

alternate universes are kind of hit or miss for me. I enjoy an occasional "what if" type of comic that explores alternative possibilities, but I find the reboots used in comics with alternate universes incredibly annoying and lazy way to slightly mix things up. I see comic movies somewhat in between. I recognize movies have to make some changes for it to work on the big screen in 90-130 minutes. I'm okay with the continuity being off in movies. However, it is just jarring if a serious character is turned into a funny guy or a romantic relationship is created between characters that never were into each other simply to attract another demographic. At least be true to the heart of the characters/story.

Spider-Man seems like a jarring character to have a replacement for. Except for webslinging, his abilities don't come from gadgets. I guess it could be replicated to some extent, just like giving another character Captain America's Super Soldier Serum...but Spidey's origin always came across as incredibly random and nearly impossible to replicate (different spider, different level of radiation, different amount of time before the bite, all might have had much different effects on a person). It's not like putting on the Green Lantern ring or Batman's hood and utility belt.

I think it depends on the friends/allies/confidants/enemies in the comic so far. If the Ultimate Spiderman line is chock full of blacks, whites, latinos, asians, bis, straights, gays, trans, etc. then for a new character to appear that happens to have one or more of those characteristics is not particularly worth commenting about.

However, if the Ultimate Spiderman line is centered in a black neighborhood where Spiderman is black and the vast majority of his friends and enemies are also black, then yes, it would feel like Marvel "pulled him out of the ether" to make some sort of statement.

I haven't read the Ultimate Spiderman line so I can't really say either way. Maybe in that line MJ is asian, J. Jonah Jamison is black, Dr. Ock is hispanic, Electro is white, black cat is bi, Eddie Brock is gay, etc. In that universe it wouldn't be particularly PC for the new spiderman to be a new character that happens to be half-black, half-latino, maybe gay. Honestly, it wouldn't surprise me that much given other comics I've read from the Ultimate universe.

Perhaps he was copying DC. Lex Luthor, Lois Lane, Lana Lang, Clark Kent (okay, a stretch), Gorilla Grodd, Guy Gardner, etc. Or maybe from Disney. Donald Duck, Daisy Duck, Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, etc.