What is Lucid Virtu? I did google for it but what appeared to be the manufacturer's page was obscured by some request to "like" something or other on Facebook.

I don't have a facebook account so I closed the browser tab. Stupid fucking company.

I don't get the full detail of your link because Slashdot anti-spam code cuts off the shit at the end.

I also don't need to worry about which site you're linking to as Slashdot helpfully tells me which site the link goes to.

I also don't need you to tell me the link because I'm sensible enough to use a browser that displays the full URL of any links I mouseover.

But hey, paste in the full link if you like. It's lazy and I can't knock that.

Apple makes the vast majority of its $54 billion revenue on gouging its customers and suppliers.

Sorry, no - I'm thinking profit. It makes its revenue on the back of slick marketing.

Doesn't really matter, they're both going to give my data for free to the NSA who will in turn sell it on.

Good. I MAC address ban all iDevices that connect to my access point. If they all started switching MAC address I'd have to switch to something more sophisticated, and if I have to put effort in, I'm going to get nasty.

Rooting it is a choice, not a chore. To root my android phone I merely have to.. unlock the bootloader. Something the manufacturer provides instructions for.

Not really Apple's "use a security hole in the phone.. until they fix it" approach, is it.

I believe it's freedom of expression, which is not necessarily the same thing.

It also has constraints - much as the US freedom of speech doesn't include some vocal emissions.

I'd rather take the risk that innocent people suffer through terrorism than that we remove the safeties and balances of justice.

If these individuals are that dangerous then court orders for ubiquitous surveillance will be trivial, and that will provide the evidence of wrongdoing that can be prosecuted in open court.

If they're not that dangerous then set them free.

Actually that's one of the few things they would bust him for.

His pictures of himself prancing around in little girlie panties however are probably safe.

All of which has been without the need for design patents or copyrights (on electronics).

Automotive benefits from hard-edged technology patents, not from design patents and not from software patents. Fashion hasn't advanced much partly because it's an exceedingly mature industry - design patents and copyright weren't needed to aid development of automated looms back when fashion was undergoing its rapid innovation phase.

There is tremendous innovation, but that innovation does not derive from copyrights or from design patents. Those are holding us back.

Most people on the motorways I drive on are doing 80-90, except the cunts doing 70 in the middle lane with an empty lane to their left.

It's an interesting point.

The judges are basically allowing her to retrospectively withdraw consent. He should retrospectively withdraw his consent for their sex and have her charged with rape.

That's not true in many jurisdictions, including the UK.

If you pick up my camera and use it to photograph your naked girlfriend, I do not own those photographs.

I do have a copy of them, and it may be tricky for you to get hold of them if I choose not to share them with you, but I do not own them.

I rarely say this, but: You're doing it wrong. You do not need to use the whole screen for most applications.

For instance I have my browser, an SSH connection and a chat window all open and fully visible on the same screen at the same time. Who would've thought it, a multi-tasking OS capable of running multiple interactive applications at once, and displaying them concurrently on the same screen. Crikey, it's like being in 1993.

If the game is 3D rendered on the fly (so most PC games that aren't browser based, and a few that are) then the render overhead increases as you add pixels.

Instead of a fully lit dynamic detailed world with great view distances at 1920x1080 with anti-aliasing to minimise the grain on edges the same graphics card would have to lose the AA, the detail, the lighting, the view distances or the frame rates at 3440x1440.

That doesn't mean that you can't buy a bigger/faster graphics card, but it does mean it's now a lot more expensive.

More of a challenge is that most games wont support an ultra-wide format. They'll display in a 16:9, 16:10 or 4:3 ratio, so if your monitor can't deliver those natively you're now having the scale the output and it's not going to look quite as nice.

That's not true, if the registered keeper can demonstrate that they were not in control of the vehicle at that time.

By default the registered keeper is assumed to be the driver and must prove otherwise, but that is possible.