Given that /. is a for-profit website, why is it permissible for them to run this story if what you're saying is true? For that matter, how can any story that mentions any brand ever be run on any news site, of which almost all are run as for-profit enterprises?

Your claims don't even meat a basic standard of common sense, so even not knowing the laws surrounding trademarks, that you could make such a claim at all boggles the mind.

Does anyone ever click those share buttons anyways, other than perhaps accidentally?

I don't use much social media so I have no idea if they show up frequently, if at all. The only time I can ever recall seeing one was in an image capture of someone who had (perhaps accidentally) shared a porn video, which for whatever damned reason had Facebook integration.

One would think that people come here to get away from the Facebook crowd and that the Facebook crowd has little interest in what's posted here, so why they bother incorporating such a feature is beyond me. Never mind that the layout seems fucked, but it could just be my browser.

If you can't beat them, destroy their revenue stream. It's the same reason Google released free online office software to combat Microsoft and why Android is free. It's just good business sense.

Programming itself isn't so much a science as it is the application of one, but the theory behind writing compilers, understanding languages/grammars, as well as mathematics behind all of it are quite a bit different. The name is kind of a holdover from a time when you very well may have had to write your own compiler and language to get anything else done. A lot of colleges also offer software engineering degrees now which are more focused on software development and less on the theoretical aspects of computers.

Anyone who's really serious about gaming that has a Mac is probably going to run Windows. Even though Mac support is probably the best it's ever been, there are a still a lot of games that don't support Mac at all or are sub-standard ports.

Certainly not, but writing an actual article about anything of importance would require actual work, where as even mentioning Apple is sure to garner all manner of clicks as both fans and haters crawl out of the woodwork. Next there will be complaints about a lack of competition on the inflated costs of streaming services.

I draw the line at mechanical ability. If video games required none, you or I could probably compete just as well as anyone else on the stage, but that's clearly not the case, especially if you've ever played some of these games. Just because these individuals have limited their athletic prowess to the hands does not put it in the same realm as chess even though it's closer to it than it is to rugby.

To further make the point, are bowling, golf, darts, billiards, or auto racing sports? None of them require much in the way of athleticism, yet they are all considered sports and have professionals who can make a living engaging in them. Which of those, if any, are also on the chopping block?

The sensible compromise would be to start making all signs contain both metric and international units and gradually transition to using metric over the next hundred years. Gradually start integrating it into curriculum at schools and eventually most people will be using metric with the international units still being left around for the old folks that don't care to bother.

I don't expect that we'll completely get rid everything though. American football can stick with yards and bars can keep selling pints, but let's get the big stuff out of the way or at least start working towards that.

I'm a little skeptical about that. People like to claim that they were improperly banned all the time, but usually once an actual human looks into it the issue it turns out that the person complaining has left out a lot important information that explains why they were banned. Granted, there are a few cases of unjustified bans, typically due to disabled gamers using special hardware that gets them flagged, but a lot of it is people getting busted for cheating and then trying to rally the community behind them for whatever reason.

It's not a controlled experiment, but it could be called a case study of sorts.

Really though, this kind of thing should be publicized. It draws attention to the issues with science reporting and hopefully the people who latched onto this take a little time to look into what they're reporting on and avoid sources that will publish practically anything.

It also lets consumers know which journalists they may want to be more skeptical of when choosing what the read or believe.

That sounds like a really, really inane conspiracy.

It's crime mixed with idiotic politics that come as a result of politicians trying to look tough on crime rather than determine how to solve the actual problem. The prison system doesn't help do much in the way of reforming anyone so a lot of people just go back to crime again. When you make a lot of victim-less activities illegal is it really any wonder that you end up with a lot of criminals.

Not really sure what locking up the nation's poor has to do with preventing some kind of revolution, whatever that's supposed to mean. Realistically it would be much cheaper to pay poor people $25,000 a year to just stay at home than it would to lock them up, which is vastly more expensive.

Is that really different than any other thing as a kid though?

I'm pretty sure that at one point in time I wanted to be an astronaut, but only before changing my mind because I wanted to be president, which only lasted about a week before I wanted to be a dinosaur.

I really don't understand it either. If the government entity receives no unfair treatment and has to play by the same rules as every other company, there's no reason why a local municipality shouldn't be able to collectively decide that they want to take a crack at creating something better.

It seems that some people are more anti-government than they are pro-market or have become so accustomed to making the same argument that they're not even bothering to look at the issue at hand.

At least it makes sense for the politicians to oppose it. They probably get all kinds of brib^H^H^H^Hcontributions from the companies that are paying for these monopoly rights.

Are you kidding? These same people will be back again, which means they have to buy all new copies of the game to get a fresh set of keys which is even more revenue for Blizzard. I imagine that a lot of them are accounts to farm and sell gold or other items so it's not as though they're just going to close shop and go elsewhere when there's still a demand for their services. One could argue that there's even more money to be had right now if the number of sellers has seriously decreased so there's a lot of incentive for these people to get back in the game.

While in the long run it would be better for them to develop the capacity in their own country for these kinds of endeavors, this still does benefit humanity and the space industry as a whole and it's oil money far better spent than Saudi Arabia, which seems to dump a lot into financing extremism and human misery.