As well as allow you to reach a wider audience with your crack pot theories, I suppose

Stop donating to the politicians that cross them?

It's more likely a CYA thing. No one wants to be responsible for trying to hack your iPhone and bricking it, so if they offload it to Apple, they can't be blamed.

This is really interesting. How well does your code perform?

Then why use the term at all?

They will probably come for you before they come for me. I'm just reassuring the powers that be that I am an honest and would not ever be involved in anything that might be considered wrongdoing. You, on the other hand, are making waves, and that can get in the way of progress and the happiness and security of everybody.

There is no reason the av companies couldn't cooperate. The Dutch Police could sign their virus and that signature could be checked and then ignored in the anti-virus program. This refusal by the anti-virus corporations flies in the face of the wishes of the law makers, (ie. the police), and they should know that they would have never got to where they were without the permission of the authorities. They are biting the hand that feeds them and there may be consequences for not going along with what their told to do.

I don't see how the D&D notes would work, unless you had a keyboard to edit them as well. And if you have a full keyboard, and google glass, why not just use a pen and paper instead?

And you can get a head mounted camera for 40 bucks.

"Passe" jumped the shark years ago.

Just be careful what you say over there. You don't want to get hell banned...

Doesn't that violate the "no free lunch" theory, though? If it was genetically advantageous for a virus to mutate more than it normally does, why wouldn't it already be doing so?

That could have happened, It seems awfully silly to pass out at an ATM machine with your laptop in tow, though. I don't see much evidence either way, so I choose to believe him. Besides, I guess using roofies to rob someone is a common occurrence in the UK:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2004/dec/19/ukcrime.prisonsandprobation

a) Rohypnol causes retrograde amnesia, too. That is, you won't remember things that happened even before you take it (it prevents short term memory from being converted to long term)
b - d) It causes disorientation and loss of inhibitions. You not only not understand what's going on, but your guard is down.
e) Yea, he says he waited, or more precisely was recovering from being drugged.
f) I don't see where he claimed that. He just said the police wouldn't follow up on it.
g) What's to report? It would just appear to be a sloppy drunk being taken home by friends. It wasn't a kung fu style brawl.
h) If the police aren't doing anything, what do you want him to do?
i) The bloody glove! Maybe a recurring charge, perhaps? It did occur on the first of the month
j) Would they? What would he say to them? For what purpose? He already has the thief's mugshot and address.
k) If he wasn't planning on getting blind drunk, then this would normally be ok.
l) Hardly evidence he was hiding anything. Would you want to blast to the entire world you were surreptitiously taking secret recording of someone wanking?

And, anyway, what would the motive be? What, in your opinion, really happened? Did he sell the laptop to somebody and then decided to smear his name and reputation on the internet for no reason? Occum's razor here...

How can you be personally responsible for someone else spiking your drink with a roofie?

Because he was confused and bewildered and his new "friend" convinced him he needed cash.