I always assumed the answer was something to the effect of:

boolean siriEnabled() {
    return (system.cpu.version >= 5.0);
}

Is anything else really needed? They don't want to support it on older models so you have to buy the new one. Conversely, if you really want the feature, buy the latest phone. Personally I find Siri an overhyped piece of junk. I have a 4S and I disabled it because it kept getting activated randomly and rarely understood my commands. Plus for the basic stuff like weather, I can just open the app. The anecdotal crap like "Will I need an umbrella today?" is just a dumb gimmick to me. But anyway, the fact is that the 4S is really an incremental improvement over the 4, and Siri is the one feature Apple can point to on the 4S as a differentiator, so they enforce that differentiation.

It seems like a major omission that the writeup doesn't mention that this is referring to kicking the TV network out of the NASDAQ TV studio, not the NASDAQ stock market.

I mean, why even have editors?

SOPA provides for deep packet inspection, so they can in fact block IP addresses.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-57342716-281/rep-issa-sopa-wont-be-approved-unless-fixed/

No, the first link, http://it.slashdot.org/story/11/11/16/1810231/experts-convinced-duqu-work-of-stuxnet-authors , talks about Duqu being related to Stuxnet, but offers no indication about what Duqu is or who it's affecting. Yes, I can google it and look it up on Wikipedia. The point is that an editor should do that. A simple sentence like "Duqu, the recently-discovered malware that's related to Stuxnet, which researchers believe is being used to log Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's porn collection...", or some other 10-word summary of what it is, is what editors are supposed to provide.

Editors, your job is not simply to click "post." Read the submission and see if it makes sense. I have no idea what Duqu is or what this is about. I had to dig down 2 links deep to see that this was related to an attack in India. Context: provide it.

Why didn't she simply limit the number of coupons that could be sold? I've seen other Groupons with limits. Sounds like she fucked up.

The thing that was demoed was not a "phone," but a bendable screen & chassis. They still need to develop bendable motherboards, processors, batteries, etc.

Was this app approved by the Android app store?

If you remember the late 90s and early 2000s there was an obsession with branding everything with an X. X-games, Gen X, Xbox. Also keep in mind XP was announced shortly after Mac OS X.

The point of currency in general isn't as a store of value, but as a way to facilitate transactions. Currencies are traded as a proxy for trading "stock" in a particular country's economy. When Japan does well and the USA does poorly, the dollar gets weaker against the yen. Bitcoin doesn't represent any country, so trading it seems even stranger. But until and unless there are merchants who accept Bitcoin for purchases, it doesn't seem like the system itself has much value, since as I said, the reason for the existence of currency is as a way to facilitate trade.

Block cookies in your browser from *.facebook.com. Problem solved.

(Note that this will prevent you from using Facebook as well.)

Probably because the severance is agreed upon when they're hired, not when they're fired. After firing one, it may be hard to find someone willing to lead - maybe they assume the board is prone to firing CEOs, so they're reluctant to take the job? - and the huge severance is considered insurance against that outcome?

I'll agree that it's sickening to think that a CEO who tanks his company and fails at his job gets a severance many times more than the lifetime earnings of probably 50% of the US workforce.

And removing the / shows that it's behind a paywall.

I'd argue Microsoft hasn't been Apple's main competitor for 4+ years now.