Try the Oxford English Dictionary. The definition it cites is:

3. a. A person or company who reproduces or uses the work of another (as a book, recording, computer program, etc.) without authority and esp. in contravention of patent or copyright; a plagiarist. Also: a thing reproduced or used in this way.

The first quote it provides is from 1608. It also provides quotes from 1668, 1703, 1758, 1822, 1887, 1928, and 1996. I would consider a word in use for over 400 years to be "old", but that's just me.

Are you implying that there are more zip files floating around in workplace environments than there are rar files floating around bittorrent and other file sharing worlds? Honestly, considering the feature set I wouldn't even consider winzip to be a contiguous archive format. It was intended to compress small collections of files in the early days and true "archive" features like multi-part files or archives larger than 4GB have only been added to select programs outside of specifications.

I will concede that if you consider popularity strictly from the perspective of public knowledge zip (weather or not it's a true archive) would easily win. If we were to look at the number of files or size of files stored and transmitted nothing will come close to RAR.

There's a reason why RAR is the most popular archive format, it provides small files and sound performance, especially on multi-core systems. As long as you're not doing anything illegal the severity of encryption isn't an issue, the DMCA makes snooping encrypted files or communications punishable with extreme repercussions.

Somebody posting at 2 points should know better than to make stupid incorrect analogies like that. Broadcasting unencrypted WiFi is more like leaving your furniture on the front lawn, or even on the curb with a "please take" sign. Even so, your communications aren't being stolen, they're simply being recorded. That's the real issue here, governments love recording citizens, but when someone else does it they feel jealous. That's why google is being ordered to hand over the data instead of being fined.

A little meth never hurt anyone!

the article is off-topic, making a pc silent enough is not the issue, peripherals are.

Yellow Journalism in the US goes back to the 1800s, so intentionally misleading the public while still masquerading as the news has been around for some time.

I can't speak for DesCorp, but I'll try anyway :)

The funding problem is centered around the best way to get more funding, not whether the amount of funding is sufficient, or if the government has allocated enough funding to the education sector as a whole.

Going back to your Utah example, Utah would never be _given_ more money, because politics don't work that way. The phenomenon that leads to higher budget schools being lower quality than low budget is the method for receiving more funds; success in this case is often proving to the right bureaucracy that you don't have enough funding by performing poorly. Where funds are distributed like this we see the same problems that the financial sector has: failure to the people isn't failure for the organization, it's an opportunity.

since I liked my first puff of cigarette smoke I was addicted from the first puff.

Not at all and you're correct that physical addiction takes some (variable) amount of time, depending on the substance. That said, I find it very hard to believe you actually liked/enjoyed your first N cigarettes. The motivators to take up smoking are varied, but "enjoy" in the common sense of the word isn't one of them. Thoughts to the contrary are, I suspect, rose-colored remembrances.

It's fine to develop a whole new category of devices. But if you're going to do so, it follows that you should start by at least defining who your audience is and what the purpose of the device is. And many of us simply can't figure out the point of this thing. Of course the die-hard Macheads would happily shell out cash if Steve Jobs took a crap on a plate and sold it as the iShit, but why should someone who's not just an Apple fan in general want one? So it's not an iPhone or a netbook, okay that's fine, but what exactly is it then and why should we buy it? Aside from some typical Apple doublespeak, I've yet to hear a good answer.

Likely something like that would still shut down your car. Should a pulse device come into contact with the engine block or chassis it could invalidate the grounding properties by using the surface as a high voltage short.