Wrong! But I'll cut ya some slack cause it was only released a few weeks ago:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_xvba_vaapi&num=1

ATI cards do support video acceleration under linux, although not as nice of an implementation as Nvidia's yet...

That is cause you are not using the right setting. Text size does exactly that, makes all text bigger. You want to change the DPI setting, which will make text, icons, menus, etc. bigger but will not effect Media Center...

No you are wrong. The iPhone data plan is $30 a month.

Intel has a very similar tech called MyWifi in their newer cards, it uses Windows ICS so it differs in implementation, but does offer a full AP mode while being connected to an external wifi network.
http://ces.cnet.com/8301-19167_1-10139172-100.html

So this feature was created by Microsoft Research back in 2005, and has been available for download ever since: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/994abd5f-53d1-4dba-a9d8-8ba1dcccead7/

I fail to see how this is news, they included it by default in Win 7 and someone accessed it, yay. This has been doable for 4 years...

Try the future still.
There are no retail 3x3 Access Points on the market. The best you can get right now do 2x3.
There are plenty of 3x3 wifi devices, just no AP to go along with them...

Actually every AMD board will. It is a function of the on chip memory controller, so is entirely dependent on the processor.

Umm, yeah it does happen all the time. How is this post insightful?
Sometimes they kill you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathryn_Johnston_shooting
And as far as dogs, it does happen all the time, here is an article about some: http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=6339
Or find your own: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=police+kill+dog
I seriously do not understand how you got modded insightful for being ignorant.

You do realize that the case that established the first sale doctrine was exactly what you describe, a book publisher attempting to control resale price of their book through a license page. It's even linked from the wiki article you posted: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobbs-Merrill_Co._v._Straus

It blows my mind the legal gyrations they must go through to rationalize why this is not acceptable for books but a-ok for software.

FYI with steam games if 1 person is already patched you can simply copy the game folder over the lan or via disk to the unpatched machines, and steam is smart enough to realize the updated content is there...

I suppose this could all be fixed by having more than one app reviewer look at each app before approval/denial. That could raise costs a little but at the same time apple faces a bigger risk should any single employee approve something truly objectionable. I can't imagine 2 random apple app reviewers would both find these silly reasons to reject apps, so it seems to me the easiest solution to have multiple internal reviewers, I can't believe they don't do this already...

Actually it's 40 MPG, not 50, so you should qualify.
See this: http://dor.wa.gov/Docs/Pubs/SpecialNotices/2008/sn_08_GreenVehicleExmpt.pdf

It is not necessarily true that hot hard drives fail, in fact according to google's study over cooled drives fail more often...
http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/18/massive-google-hard-drive-survey-turns-up-very-interesting-thing/

You are off by a factor of 3 there. Newer drives run about 5w or so idle, 1-2w when spun down. Run a NAS software that supports software RAID, then there are no hardware problems to be found. I agree about the P4 though, especially when Atom based solution can be had for $80 or so and pull maybe 30 watts max. All in all you can build a NAS that pulls less than 20 watts idle and maxes at 50 or so depending on how many drives you go with...

Not only is it somewhat painful to read, as far as I can tell it is mostly fiction, no fact checking at all. And it also seems partially plagiarized from this article:
http://www.latimes.com/features/printedition/magazine/la-tm-moonrocks23jun06,1,1392690.story?coll=la-home-magazine

And that one is by an actual reporter with actual fact checking. Obviously some of it is left up to how the perpetrators described it, but it doesn't have stupid made up stuff like a nitrogen filled lab and thermal suits and such. I would guess the crime played out more like the LA Times article, rather than this embellished piece of pulp fiction