How far away from the touchstone did it charge? This is a different method.

There is no law against patenting something inferior to other technologies much as there is no law against making inferior movies based on the same public domain sources that a successful movie uses.

Well, the change was to match touch movements on the trackpad (the large accessory one at least). But it was easy to revert.

This is also why they eat Cheetos: It is cheaper than steak. And dwelling in your parents' basement is cheaper than having your own apartment. And being a virgin is cheaper than a girlfriend. All in all, quite cheap individuals. Pirating Android apps is just icing on the cake.

But you seem to lack knowledge about iPads. The number of Android tablets that can be called "better" is minimal at best.

That was uncalled for: the poor man might be an Android user with no sense of humor.

but hopeless for working on while carrying them around. Well, compact desktops are useful, too, I guess...

No, bovines (bulls) are even further removed from humans than primates are. But perhaps you belong to the select few who feel that a bunch of nomads sitting around a camp fire three thousand years ago with no concept of genetics had all the answers...

They are not uneducated, they are just largely educated as lawyers.

Now, that is interesting, because there are rules against giving legal advice without having a license, typically associated with said profession.

I wonder if we could enact rules for science as well, where you could not give scientific "advice" (like parroting long-debunked denier myths) without a scientific background, and see how these politicians like it.

There is no such thing as a free world. E.g. the Prison States of America where a ton of laws are regularly abused to feed the prison-industrial complex.

... or "un-American". Heck, they even had a House committee about that back in the Communist Scare.

Well, the Nazis sailed into power on a wave of fear and hate brought on by the "freedom" to print a shed load of books blaming the Jews for all that was wrong...

That's "never" as in "as soon as the war started, propaganda posters appeared showing poor Germany in a squeeze between blood-thirsty Bolsheviks in the Soviet Union and the Jewish capitalists in Britain"... but hey.

I am sure if a part of your country declared independence with Russian help you would sort of get annoyed and send in some soldiers, too. In fact, wasn't there this "Confederate States" for a little while? 1860-ish? Ring a bell? No Russians, though.

Heh, I can see the future of research reports:

Bibliography
Just google it.

... you are all children of Tsar Vladimir.