If by 'way better than' you mean 'the same as' creative's which they ripped off and settled when creative sued them over it, but the damage was done. Good physical design and and advertising had given them a large marketshare and massive mindshare.

Well better to be safe than sorry, you can never be sure which identical twin really committed the crime!

Queue study showing that living in a clean room makes your body's immune system go crazy and kill you.

Because your average tinfoil hat wearer doesn't earth the tinfoil :)

Here (australia) it's allowed from about 14 up with parental consent and limited hours. Over there conditions certainly aren't going to be that great but the alternatives aren't good either for a lot of people.

It's the chinese manufacturers who are doing this, apple is cracking down on it and fining them for it you moron. (And I hate apple BTW)

Hiring 15 year olds is illegal? Quick, someone tell the authorities about McDonalds!

People who can mentally hash their password with the salt the computer reads to them

But IPAD was around before iPad, and dakameleon was talking about claiming IPAD was too similar to iPod. Read the post I'm replying too, your reply is missing the point.

Fujitsu are selling an IPAD, not an iPad or even iPAD. Could McDonalds claim patent infringement over something else because it started with Mc? They'd also have a good case for appending a letter to the start of what something the produced is similar to from well... email.

Works fine for me, but I'm using chrome. Wait, works in IE too... WTF are you talking about???

I'd hardly call posting on slashdot important :P

a) Americans do it regularly, other countries hardly at all b) I'm not British
c) I always say vacuum for vacuum cleaner
d) Yes I say 'Thermos' but Thermos is closely associated with the function of the device (as i'm sure you're aware, knowing what a thermometer is) and also a shortening of 'thermal flask' which also allows the word to be used for flasks which perform the same function but with solid insulation rather than a vacuum.

That would be the fairly constant 2-3% donkey vote, look it up, it's fairly consistent across all types of election.

Hint: It was from a poll. Admittedly the pizza poll but it's practically the same thing as a location poll. 52% for north america, which would include canada. http://slashdot.org/pollBooth.pl?qid=1900&aid=-1 The poll may be slightly slanted to Europe for everyone who went to italy and had expensive pizza but since there are gourmet pizzas on every continent most people will have voted where they live.