Well, unlocking the bootloader is not the same as rooting, which is why it's more news than it people give it credit for.

An analogy (sorry, not a car analogy).

If you spoke to a misbehaving boy, and told him to write 100 lines saying "I will not call the other kids bad names", would you accept his response if he wrote his hundred lines followed by "BUT THOSE OTHER KIDS ARE STILL POOPYHEADS"? No, you would ask him to do more lines, or come up with a different punishment entirely.

The behaviour of Apple in this instance is equivalent to a petulant child, and they are the only ones to blame if the court has to treat them as such.

They're not recording your sexual orientation. They recorded your interest in gay rights, nothing more.

Slippery slopes are a fallacy for a reason.

If you can show they're not real, sure. However, when the BBC carries it as a news story, where maps in the UK are missing entire well-known towns (Shakespeare's birthplace, Stratford-upon-Avon, for example), and others are moved miles out of place, it shows that it really is a widespread issue. This is really basic stuff.

Which, as they've stated they simply didn't renew the agreement with Google, increasingly looks like their own fault.

I'd be interested to hear how they will gather user feedback on individual mistakes, as from searching I cannot see any mechanism by which it's possible to provide that feedback with creating a Tumblr account and hoping Apple look at it. What they should have done in the first place, is:

a) Swallow their pride and renew Google Maps for another year or two, then
b) Pay a decent amount of money for proper maps from the myriad of mapping organisations that have accurate data.

Yeah, all your examples are from 2010, and from cursory glance, they're all resolved. Also you included at least one link to errors that were appearing in Google Places, not Google Maps.

You might think it's unfair that we're judging a map that's been out for less than a month to one that's been out for years, but if you're going to release a new product it's going to be compared to what is currently available. The fact is, there are too many errors in obvious stuff - misspelled capital cities, duplications of entire islands, famous landmarks with incorrect coastlines. It's a complete abandonment of the philosophy of "It Just Works".

Actually, I'm pretty sure all you'd need is a couple of screenshots with the watermark in. If you know the location of the watermark, you can start building the information out of just one, and two or three would give you enough.

And if someone posts a screenshot of them playing on a private server, or of them botting on a real server on a different website where their account name doesn't match, how on earth would you link that to an active player without something in the image?

For 'hysterical nonsense', it's quite well written, and appropriately sourced. Most of the comments are unable to refute the article's points without making irrelevant comparisons to Windows. Which brings me to:

Even if this was true, why would it matter? Just because it's broken in more than one place, doesn't mean it shouldn't be fixed.

No, that's not what's being said at all.

What the USADA is saying is that the kind of doping that Lance Armstrong was allegedly going through with (example, blood doping) is very hard to detect, and as such tests at the time and even now have problems picking it up. What they do have is more than a dozen people willing to testify that they saw him do it.

He already tried to block the decision via the US courts and failed. He still had plenty of options left to fight the charge, including actually turning up to discussions they invited him to and also involving independent bodies like the Court of Arbitration for Sport, but instead of that he's given up and said he can't be bothered. Whether that shows that he's just weary of being persecuted or he realised he can't win, or whether it's a tacit admission of guilt, will probably be debated for years to come.

As it is, he won't dispute the charge so he's guilty, and it's a sad ending regardless.

Ha ha ha! Oh gosh, that's funny! That's really funny! Do you write your own material? Do you? Because that is so fresh. "Windows crashes all the time!". You know, I've, I've never heard anyone make that joke before. Hmm. You're the first. I've never heard anyone reference, reference that in geek circles before. Because that's what always used to happen? Isn't it? Windows crashing. And, and yet you've taken that and used it out of context to insult Microsoft in this everyday situation. God what a clever, smart person you must be, to come up with a joke like that all by yourself. That's so fresh too. Any, any Dr. DOS jokes you want to throw at me too as long as we're hitting these phenomena at the height of their popularity? God you're so funny!

(with thanks to Seth McFarlane)

Colour me confused. That article clearly states that he did have a right to record them, that this was upheld by the court, and that Boston settled out of court and paid him $170,000.

For anyone who doesn't want to read it, he filmed the police and, after asking if it included audio, they arrested him for breach of the peace, wiretapping and another charge they basically invented. After it inevitably didn't go anywhere and they refused to investigate internally, he sued the city for violation of his 1st and 4th amendment rights, and they appealed that they had a right to confiscate his equipment under wiretapping laws. However, the judge said he had his constitutional rights to record, and it couldn't have been wiretapping because the camera was in plain sight.

So, contrary to the GP's statement, they actually affirmed Glik's right to record the police as long as he does it openly and doesn't get in the way of an arrest, which is exactly what the DC police just did.

I don't know. I've had jobs I've hated so much that the exit interview provided some much needed catharsis to combat years of stress.

Isn't it just a logical progression from rendering parts of the desktop on 7 using DirectX, to doing the same for the layout on Word? I mean, any processing you can offload from the CPU is generally a good thing, especially when you're not using the GPU at all.

It also does point out hardware acceleration isn't actually required.