They're fixing the problem. You bought a phone with the expectation it would work under normal circumstances (i.e. being held), it didn't, and this forces them to rectify the issue.

You aren't entitled to out-of-proportion rewards, like millions of dollars, Apple being put out of business, a new phone, or even a refund. You bought a phone with a poor antenna design, and they provided a satisfactory workaround. Get over it.

If it's more profitable to use lots of "fresh" water than it is to reduce that water usage through different agricultural methods, then a good businessman will continue to use lots of "fresh" water.

If the opposite becomes true, then a good businessman will adjust accordingly.

You forgot the "then charge a premium, claiming water is expensive, while lobbying Congress to reduce regulation and taxes" part.

"Undetectably encrypted". No. There really is no such thing. "Obfuscated", "disguised", ok I'll take those, but not "undetectably". Makes it sound like it's flat out impossible to figure out the traffic contains encrypted data.

Trivially, if you have a regular message that's filled with noise, it's easy to filter. Less trivially, if you have a message that encodes encrypted messages as normal-looking sentences, you might be able to filter it, though the generation of such could get pretty sophisticated. Far less trivially, you could spread the encoded encryption across multiple channels (a few bits in an email, a few bits in an IM, a few bits in an HTTP request). The better the encryption, the less distinguishable from purely random data it is. Then you have to detect close-to-random data encoded randomly across streams of other-random-data.

It may be doable, but it's an arms race. The steganographers just have to change their schemes every now and then, which doesn't take much. The people doing the detection are eventually going to have to spend all resources on doing so. Who's to tell the few bits of the digital photo someone took combined with a few words in an IM and a URL someone visited resulted in passing a message or receiving one?

Of course, once you have the opposition doing nothing but trying to find hidden messages in every bit of information around them, you've won.

People weren't interested in 3d.

I agree fully with the majority of your post. In fact, I think this is the only sentence I don't. People want 3D. But they want the 3D that's in Star Wars and science fiction, not the 3DS. I actively sought out a 3DS in Best Buy just to see the 3D, because while I've never been interested in touch and motion control as particularly useful to gaming, I think that 3D certainly could be.

But spending 30 seconds using a 3DS and playing Pilotwings Resort, it's clear from the dizzying headache that these are not the three D's I'm looking for. And I'd have to say that Nintendo probably sold fewer because people were more interested in 3D, and turned off by the demo units, than simple lack of interest in 3D. I'm personally waiting to see if the inevitable 3DSP Lite+ XL Platinum Shiny Edition is any better in this regard. Til then the Vita should do nicely.

Citizens should be free to work in the best environment for them.

So what's stopping someone from applying for another job? This is all about poaching: that is, the thing Microsoft did back in the day to kill Borland by making ridiculous offers to a direct competitor's employees to effectively hobble the company. How is that not evil?

If Google was sorting through their data to determine who the top Apple/Pixar/etc developers were and making them offers they couldn't refuse in an effort to stymie competition, that would be worth bitching about. There is nothing stopping anyone from applying for a job on their own time, and none of this is about not hiring the competition... it's just about not actively seeking out competitor's employees at their workplaces.

If it comes to light that these companies were actively refusing employment and reporting applications to their competitors (for "disciplinary purposes"), then it will be evil. Not pestering employees during work hours with potentially embarrassing job offers seems more like courtesy.

A new user profile with a very fast first pro-MS post about the successes of MS and Windows? Can't possibly be a shill. I'm actually curious whether these people are paid for this stuff or they're just insecure MS employees with nothing better to do.

Like them or not, at least you don't see Google and Apple stooping to these levels.

As soon as you submit a patch to Slashcode for slashdotters .

Adblock only works by recognizing the domain hosting the image/scripts or common path names. Toss that banner add on the cloud, or have it hosted locally by the site owners(in a non-"banners" or "ads" subdirectory) and for the most part you've got it beat. Advertisers haven't adapted because there's not a big enough incentive to. But if push ever comes to shove, they'll win.

They will never win. Look at it this way. You've essentially said that advertising gets dirtier the less people respond, and if everyone used Adblock, advertising would get so dirty we couldn't win.

Yet, spam is probably the dirtiest advertising there is. There is likely no trick the spammers have not tried. Send from any host, embed stuff in reasonble-looking text, etc. Yet spam detection is very, very good, to the extent that spam is on the decline.

Advertisers will never win, because you can write better software that detects ads. Adblock's simple host and XPATH detection is all that's there because it's all that's necessary right now. It would however probably not be that hard to write image detection software that can process images and assign a AD-PROBABILITY value to them. Use the cloud against the advertisers ... just set up software that learns by user submission on a cluster and click on an ad to submit it. Consult the "cloud" for any new images.

But, until most people care about ads the way they care about spam, it's not going to be necessary. Unfortunately we're so culturally inundated with advertisement that it's just not a thing. Though while this may look like a win for advertisers, it does make ad removal trivial for those of us who care.

Is this a geek trope or some sort of pretentious "vinyl sounds better than CDs"/"old stuff is more real" sort of thing? That's not geeky. Geeky is going to SIGGRAPH, developing 3D tools and hardware, etc. I'm not sure what sort of geek normally hates Computer Generated Imagery.

(Though, geeks hating the other CGI makes sense, I'd say.)

Who is a reputable registrar these days? Does such a thing exist?