At one university I went to, students who were not ready for their midterms did the fire alarm pull. At a different university, it was anonymous bomb threats via payphone. Anyone got any other delaying tactics at institutions they attended?

I thought a third party created this audio watermarking stuff? According to the wikipedia the company that created Cinavia is called Verance.

Damn, I always thought fashion patents were non existent. Turns out they simply decided not to use them except in rare circumstances.

Also, women's preoccupation with shoes continues to baffle me.

No clothing manufacturers would sue another another manufacturer for copied designs because patents for clothing are not accepted. And yet the fashion industry doesn't seem to be standing still. Imagine that! Innovation without patents on look-and-feel in an industry that is all about look-and-feel!

I have a small correction. dB is a ratio of power, so it should be 2*48 or 96 dB.

You can already do this. Search the android market for groove ip. Unfortunately, groove ip isn't perfect, you may need to configure it if the sound quality is bad.

Ogg Vorbis lost to mp3 because for the longest time there was no fixed point implementation of an ogg vorbis decoder, while there was one for mp3. This made the hardware to decode ogg vorbis more expensive, and hence no one made one.

mp3 only goes up to 48kHz/16bit. So unless you can hear the frequencies between 22 and 24 kHz, the CD will be better.

However, it might be complicated, because Samsung, HTC and others manufacture their devices i nthe same or similar shops.

HTC actually makes their phones in Taiwan. Since the manufacturing is in Taiwan, they pay the workers a decent level of wages and sweatshop like conditions are not legal.

So you are suggesting that people who get scalded more often have a higher incidence of cancer? Basically anyone who works in a kitchen should have higher rates of cancer than the general population, is that what you are suggesting?