You won't have to. If this becomes popular, you'll just have to get all your ebooks from p2p.

Like most DRM schemes, it's only the legitimate customers who will lose access to the higher quality content. This is essentially what happened with audiobooks. If you want a high quality audiobook, you don't get it from Audible (which purposefully degrades their quality), or even if you do end up getting an audiobook from Audible, you end up downloading the very same title from p2p because what you find on p2p in the category of audiobooks is usually of much higher quality and of a higher bitrate (than what they're trying to sell online).

Most people do not encrypt their phone (unless their job requires them to), encryption-down-to-the-hardware is a drain on the battery, it heats up your phone, and it makes everything you do on your phone slower (this usually means that the person with an encrypted phone will usually be carrying two phones, one for the job that's encrypted and one that's personal and unencrypted). Most likely, the police will just plug in your personal unencrypted phone into one of their devices, and copy everything there is on it in less than two minutes.

The same reasoning that says you could have been talking on your phone while driving, or texting, could be used to justify that they check that you were not chatting through other applications, tweeting, checking facebook, checking email, inputting/querying a new address into the gps, or taking pictures of the scenery, etc. so the reasoning will go that they might as well just copy everything on your phone since it's definitely easier to do that than having to manually thumb through your phone and check every possibility from the side of a road.

Yes, the latest version, which doesn't have a formal release date yet, which will be "coming out soon", does include Outlook. That's certainly good to know.

If you're one of the lucky teachers or one of the students however, like those in the article, don't count on getting Outlook without being forced to pay full retail for Outlook separately, or pay full retail for Office RT (2013), or pay for full retail for an Office 365 subscription instead. After all even on the more expensive Surface Pro, the Office Home & Student 2013 edition does not include Outlook. And there is no reason to believe this is going to change for the RT edition once Outlook RT does get released.

[humor needed] You know, an actual funny bone, to prevent you from taking every comment too seriously.

Which may be true for some peoeple, but in my case, whenever I get above the 2 GB threshold on T-Mobile, it takes me to edge, but then it's soo slow, everything and anything I try to use just times out (even email).

Now don't get me wrong, the Unlimited data plan for Sprint is also a lie. First of all, Sprint tacks on a dummy $10 premium data fee, which they don't mention when they compare their rates with their competitors in advertisements (the fact that the FTC or the FCC hasn't fined them for false advertisement is beyond me). Plus their 4G unlimited data used to be great in my home apartment, but then it got so bad, I couldn't even get 1 single byte of data even on 3G using their network (even thought, I never changed my home address, they're the ones who either became oversubscribed, or shut down towers in my area a year or two ago). Sprint should just have called their data plan the Unlimited Data Premium No-data plan, that would have been more truthful.

Actually, DNA looks great under ultraviolet light. They can just shine a light on you at night, then they can swab you to make sure it's not yourself, or someone else, who sprayed their DNA all over you.

For me, if I can't understand code written by someone else (which happens much more frequently than I care to admit), I'll do a spike and I'll try to rewrite the core functionality from scratch. Now don't get me wrong. This doesn't mean that my code will be half as good as the original implementation, in fact, it won't be for sure, since I won't spend much time on it. For me, that exercise is just a way for me to initially orient myself (and I do not keep the code I write during that phase).

If I'm lucky enough to have a good original version history of the code base, I'll go and pull up the original 0.1 version of the code (while I'm doing my own rewrite). Even if that version of the code is completely wrong. It still has a much higher chance of being something I'll understand. And then, I'll have a better understanding of what the developers were trying to do in the subsequent evolution of the project. Then, I'll isolate the parts of the latest code base I can safely break without breaking the entire thing, and I'll focus on those parts first.

Of course, during that next phase, I'd like to say I write unit-tests for the parts I modify before I modify them, but that's usually not how I work. I'll often have to fall down flat on my face a couple of times, cry in pain and frustration, and tear my hair out, before I'm willing give up and go back to doing things properly with unit tests. This does happen quite frequently, because I never seem to learn my lesson.

And of course, like someone else said already, I will also draw all kinds of mind maps and doodles throughout the entire process. And also, if I have access to one of the original developers who wrote the code, that's even better. If I can pair program with one of those persons, that's the ideal. If I can't, then talking to that person is the second best alternative. That person will be the best person to know all the weak points of his code base, give you a thumbnail overview of the architecture, and he will also be the best person to point out what parts you can work on first (so that you can gain confidence and a gradual understanding) that are the least likely to break the entire thing.

And yet, that's not the weight they actually used for their demo flight, not even close, otherwise they would have used a normal-sized dummy, or a dummy that you can fill up with weights to approximate the weight of a real person (even a small real person).

So when they say that their "takeoff weight" is "about 350 lbs", I'm assuming they mean it's the maximum weight that would be sufficient to lift their apparatus just 1 millimeter off the ground for just about half a second, and no more.

In my experience, I find it usually helps to assume the worst when people are seeking attention and funding for their project, and are making bold new claims about what their project can already do.

That bike looks like great fun if you happen to be an anorexic child-size styrofoam dummy.

If you happen to be a real human being slightly over 100 pounds (or slightly over 45 kg, which is really not a lot), that bike will probably just barely lift off the ground.

Aside from the click-bait value of having that word in the title, I suppose having the bicycle would be handy for moving the device from point A to point B when the battery is out of juice (which will probably be 99% of the time).

That wouldn't work for my daily telecommute. Assuming I could even pedal the 747 out of the airport i'd fly into, I would have a heck of a time finding a parking spot for it near my workplace.

Side-loading won't do squat for a multi-player game with a server-side controlled by the new owner.

Just go to any of the app stores, there are plenty of Scrabble clones. Hasbro Inc. doesn't really own the concept of Scrabble, just the trademark. I assume this is probably because the concept most likely predates Hasbro's version of the game (otherwise, Hasbro would have fought to remove all the Scrabble-like games from all the app stores, or the ones that looked like theirs, and as it stands they didn't)

Technically, Samsung Note and some of the Windows 8 devices are using the same underlying Wacom digitizer technology, so they both should be just as good.

Wacom is freaking awesome! It can tell the difference between your fingers and the pen. It has pressure sensitivity and can even detect if the pen is just hovering over the glass.

In this case, it's not even a copy, it's a simulation. In any case, all of us are already biological copies of ourselves, since our cells are constantly being replaced.

Just to be safe thought, I think we should all GPL ourselves, so we don't become the exclusive personal property of this Russian media mogul. I would hate to have my sole remaining copy/derivative of myself spend the rest of its eternity in servitude on some Russian guy's iPod shuffle.

I didn't.

The application asked for permission to send sms (and potentially cost you money).

It's not malware if it tells you exactly what it's going to do, and then does it with your explicit permission (not that it even did that since it was only a proof-of-concept app). It's only a malware app if someone else has temporary possession of your phone, plus its pin number, and then installs the application just to cause you harm without you knowing.

And this is actually nothing new to Android users.