They found evidence that there was need for an investigation. That evidence turn out to not be true, i.e. the evidence was false (they don't recognise truth as a tristate (true-evidence/false-evidence/not-real-so-not-evidence-either-way), so if it isn't true it is false). You created that false evidence. Therefore you created false evidence, that the authorities then acted on either because it was brought to their attention for some reason or it was spotted as part of a search for something else (or just random surveillance).

You might call that bullshit, and I'd be with you. But you might have to make that call in court (in which case chose a word other than bullshit, otherwise they'll add contempt to your rap sheet) and that might not be easy to "win" depending on the particular circumstances and the imagination of the prosecution.

At that point they find something in your fake data that could be construed as incriminating in some small way, start an investigation that does nothing more than point out all the fake data you have created, then they can charge your with falsifying evidence, wasting police time, and possibly a few other odds and ends.

At this point couldn't Apple turn around and sue the Taiwan office for selling something it didn't have, finish off the company with that legal battle (as they are already close being shut down duw to debt) and buy the trademark in the resulting fire-sale?

They know Proview (Taiwan) had no right to sell them that trademark, Proview have stated this in a court of law (presumably under oath though I know little of the Chinese legal system but I assume they have concepts equivalent to out oaths and purgery laws), so they should have a fairly string case (again, assuming that my assumptions of the Chinese legal system are close to correct).

They are hitting the same angle as the iPhone4's high-res screen: it is intended that at normal reading distances, perhaps even closer, the human eye will not be able to resolve individual pixels.

I don't own any iDevices, but I've had occasion to use other people's and the 4's screen really is impressive. It just looks nicer than I'd think possible, certainly nicer than other phone screens, as if there is some other technical trickery going on. The high-res screen on the iPod3 will probably be marketed the same way as the one used by the iPhone4, and for some users it'll make quite a difference.

I still won't be buying one. But I appreciate the possible "luxury utility" of the high-res screen.

80 characters isn't a bad choice for how most people read. Studies have shown that the ideal (as much as there is one ideal of course, it varies between typefaces, styles and sizes) is around 60 characters. Allowing for a few indents 72 or 80 characters are good guidelines.

But it is only a guildeline. Code is not natural language and the rules are more flexible. You are not just trying to make the code easier to read line by line but you are trying to illustrate its flow in a way that you don't need to with natural language, and sometimes long lines actually help this rather than hinder it.

Using the right tool for the job extends to using the right layout for the code at hand.

Or don't transfer the name proper at all. Well, don't transfer it but monitor email on it for six months.

That way you have no security issue at all.

You want to be helpful to the new site runner of course, but it would be much safer to hand over copies of the site and relevant databases (sanitised where needed, of course) then point the relevant A records to his/her web server and forward things going to relevant email addresses that way too.

You have no security issues, they get the domain to keep running the site under and can respond to mail sent to site related addresses, and the other users of the site should see minimal (if any) downtime if the transition to their web server is done well. Everyone should be happy with that.

If the new owner wants fuller control of the domain at a later time, they can perform a managed transition to a new domain without needing to involve you (host under both old and new names for some time by advertise the new name, then start responding to requests for the old domain with redirects to the new (if you use the right redirect search engines rankings should not be lost), and finally replace responses to the old name with "please update your bookmarks" after a while longer).

You'll want to transition completely off the old name yourself of course. Do that in the phased way others have suggested, but don't get rid of the domain, at least until you are 100% sure that absolutely nothing you care about will ever go to it my email. Keeping the domain active will only cost a few $ per year unless it is one of the novelty types, or otherwise under an expensive country-specific TLD, or registered with an unnecessarily expensive registrar.

Same here. And I'm not fan of facebook and their ilk. But some of my proper friends (and family that I care about too) are, and if I stayed away from one of their preferred contact mediums completely I'd lose one method of staying in contact at those times when meeting them in person isn't possible for one reason or another. While I'd prefer email they wouldn't and I the preference isn't important enough to me that I feel like labouring the point. For a start the second choice for most of them is the phone, and like you I've never been comfortable with that so I'd be swapping something I dislike for something I dislike and that my friends dislike in comparison to the other option.

There are people on my list who are there out of politeness rather than anything else, but that is no different to being pleasant to them in person when we happen to be in the same place in RealLife(tm) because of our mutual friends.

It isn't an investment in the shares and/or dividends, you are simply pledging some money up-front in order to support the game being made. What you get, other than the game being made and you getting a copy (probably) cheaper than the price it will be release to the rest of the world at, is clearly documented on the page.

That shows how blinkered you are. Not all old people are little you know.

It depends on that person's income, assets, and other outgoings though. To a rich sad person $100 might not be much compared to the total scale of disposable income.