The problem arises when the two are used interchangeably. I don't care if a HDD's packaging expresses the capacity in powers of 10, as long as it's clear there's a difference between KiB and KB.
A much bigger problem is manufacturers having their devices marketed with 64GB of storage when only half of that amount is available for the user due to the other half being taken up by the OS and pre-installed apps.

The question of whether or not flu shots actually works seems less interesting to me. The case here is that these people refused flu shots based on religious grounds and use that argumentation to combat the decision of the hospital. They aren't having issues with flu shots not working or flu shots being a possible cause of flu itself, no, they argue that their lord and savior instructed them not to take flu shots so they won't.

The other side of the argument is that there are medical indications that flu shots prevent patients from possible exposure to influenza. It's a safety measure taken to protect patients. For the sake of that side of the argument, lets assume that flu shots simply work in the expected way. Again, whether it actually does or not is not important as that is not being questioned by these religious people.

So here we have a discussion of patient safety versus religious belief. I find it insulting that a nurse would expose patients (which might one day include myself) to threats they could easily avoid by taking the shot. I think it's a pretty arrogant and selfish attitude, especially for a nurse.

This is actually an interesting point, but it works against you. You see, Americans' fear of decimals leads them to use a scale with a finer precision. I'm not too familiar with the conversion, but from this discussion I understand that 1 degree C is roughly the same interval as 2 degrees F. So when you're taking someone's temperature, then you're getting a precision of 0.5 degrees Celsius, while my European thermometer, which indicates temperature in 1/10ths of degrees has a precision of 0.1 degrees Celsius.
I'm not familiar with American thermometers, they might have a single decimal digit as well, which would move that precision towards 0.05 degrees C, but that sort of precision is not necessary and it turns the "no decimals" argument on it's head.

I find it strange that a house is being raided over a 600 euro fine. It probably costs 10 times that much money to raid the place and analyze the contents of whatever they have seized.

A school should think of the children, yes, but not by limiting their freedoms and invading their privacy. A school should make sure those "threats" simply have no way of entering the school. That should be their priority, not tracking their every move like a bonafide Big Brother.

You're reasoning this the wrong way around. Is your boss tracking you with an RFID chip? Would you like it if he did? I guess not, so why would schools be allowed to do this? Also, your "but think of the children!!" reasoning is a little bollocks as well. The school should make sure drug dealers, pedophiles and "other problems" don't get onto school property. If a school feels it's necessary to track students to protect them from those kinds of problems while they're at the school grounds, then the school is doing something very, very wrong.

As I understand it, webkit only prefixes CSS keywords with webkit- if they're CSS3 drafts that aren't finalized yet. Mozilla is doing the same with Firefox where they prefix things with moz-. The border-radius example is especially a poor one because the border-radius property has been supported for quite some time by both webkit and mozilla, and the webkit- and moz- prefixed variants are deprecated.

Actually, that isn't the biggest problem. Yeah sure, an in-app privacy policy is a problem for a developer, but I'm sure that if you've submitted your app to the appstore within the 30 day limit and it's denied by Apple because of a different reason, a judge will probably take that into account when deciding on that issue.

No, a much bigger issue in the difference between in-app or an in-store privacy policy is for the consumer. If the privacy policy is in the store, you can read it and assess it before downloading and installing the app. If you don't like the privacy policy, then don't download and install the app. If it's an in-app document or link, then you have to download, install, run, possibly even create an account an login all before you get to see the privacy policy. By that time, the app has probably already completely sucked all personal information out of your phone and submitted it to the app owner.

Same with a EULA that's presented to you when you install a piece of software on your PC. That EULA is presented to you after you've bought the software. So if you don't agree with the EULA, then I'm pretty sure the seller is forced to completely refund the software to you. It's basically the same thing as buying a bread from the baker and after paying, the baker says that you are only allowed to eat the bread at home, and only if don't put any meat on it.

Is it tasteless to make such a joke in front of that audience? Probably.
Should the police and a judge be involved in something like this? No way.
A simple moderation action by a Facebook employee (or even the page owner) could've dealt with it in a far better way. What's wrong with a little common sense?
In fact, I hadn't heard of Mark Bridger or his case, but now I do and now I know about the joke. If a moderator would've simply removed the comment, then it wouldn't spread further. Now it does.

Mozilla is still giving HTML 5 a shot with FirefoxOS, but unless major phone manufacturers pick up on that it's DOA as far as I'm concerned.

So basically it's the browser vendors that eventually determine what goes in and what stays out? How much of an influence will Internet Explorer have on this?

Call me naive. Perhaps I am because I don't know a whole lot about this subject, but couldn't companies just buy some kind of IPv6 router that can act sort of like NAT and assign IPv6 addresses to individual devices, but translate those addresses to IPv4 as data comes in? That way a company could just use IPv4 addresses internally and for the outside world, run everything through an IPv6 converter.

The requirement to join a domain (or more specifically: connect to a corporate Exchange server) is highly relevant if you're using it in a corporate, Windows driven environment. And yeah, you don't need Outlook if all you're going to do is fetch e-mail off of an IMAP or POP3 server.

What more proof do you need that it's made of cheese, eh?

Oh damn, that was supposed to be a reply to this post :-/