That's a good point.

The answer I was looking for was either
a) as a suit accessory, like cufflinks or a tie clip, or
b) for fitness reasons (heart monitor, lap timer, diving, etc)

who still wears a watch?

Will they have a model that doesn't make you look like white Kryten?

supermediocrity

I'd love it if we found out that antimatter falls upwards, but I'd be even more interested if anyone could conjecture on what that would mean.

Could that mean that antimatter warps space in the opposite direction as matter so that it has a repelling affect?

Actually, I'm pretty sure a lot of them would have the opposite reactions. When the Higgs Boson was finally found, a lot of physicists were actually disappointed because it meant there wasn't really much in the way of new physics to be discovered.

Not registering spurious taps is an even more key ingredient to an acceptable touchpad -- so those physical buttons had better be there after I disable tapping altogether.

There's a big difference between information about the programming interface of a device, and "blue prints" that would allow a competitor to easily implement a copy. It might make it easier to produce hardware that works with the same drivers, but probably not easier than just writing new drivers for totally unrelated hardware (unlike in the DOS days where drivers were embedded in application code, and hardware compatibility was the only reliable approach).

There is lots of hardware with open source drivers -- how often does that result in the hardware being cloned?

Of course, some devices are relatively simple things with all the intelligence in the driver software. In that case, you'd have more of a point (though you could still document the interface to the hardware itself), but that's more about selling software than preventing a clone of the simple hardware. It doesn't justify a general statement that Linux driver development is "pure hell".

Like Ubuntu? If anyone is ahead of the curve on this, it's Canonical.

OMG! Ponies!

OMG! Ponies! is still the best April Fools Slashdot has ever done. I do wish they would at least repeat it.

"OMG, /. is so useless today (like it is every April 1), what am I doing here?!"

But for anyone that's been on this site for a few years, this shouldn't be a surprise.

So many people get so upset over /.'s April Fools hijinks. It's rather entertaining, honestly.