Telling the truth is not libel. Giving the vendor advanced notice about announcing a vulnerability is not blackmail or extortion (in fact, its a public service). Furthermore, libel is not a criminal matter. Please reply with rationality, and not kneejerk-fear in the future.

He's especially suspicious because he's dead.

And have you seen the relative difference in quality for Nintendo DS and Sony PSP games versus the ones for the phones?

When I was a kid my parents would not buy me any game or toy that featured an element of violence. No GI Joe, no shoot-em-up video games, etc.

What I got was stuff like Legos, and the freedom to build all kinds of stuff in garage using my Dad's tools and scraps of wood, and we learned to program in BASIC on the computer. Its not surprising that I made all kinds of guns, missile-toting spaceships, and shooting games, etc etc, but at least I had to get creative to do it. Somewhere along the way I learned to enjoy the process more than the outcome.

Once I had my own earning power I was free to buy whatever I wanted (and it was at 16 when I already had a job making 3x any of my peers doing computer work at a local company).

This is testing just one part of the site (streaming video in NZ no less!), so you can't make wild generalizations based on those numbers if you expect any accuracy at all. You're not even going to get a 'rough' estimation.

For example, viewmorepics.myspace.com might do X req/s duting peak and home.myspace.com, www.myspace.com or music.myspace.com might do something wildly different because they have completely different traffic patterns.

No, the scarcity comes from one entity buying all available resources and hording them. That's artificial.

The capitol of Venezuela also happens to have the highest per capita murder rate in the world. They just seem to be following the rest of the world...if you cant blame someone blame video games and anyone who doesnt want to be one of those statistics knows not to blame Chavez's regime.

That completely depends on your needs. This user wants to do what he wants with his phone, not what the manufacturer graciously allows him to do (otherwise, why get a smartphone?). Because of that, Android is an infinitely better choice than iPhone. The UI is about equal (although less pretty), and while people may bemoan the lack of apps, 95% of the apps I've seen on the iPhone are useless. Thus, for my requirements (and yes, I know the mainstream user base doesn't share them. I don't care, as they are not me), Android is light-years ahead of the iPhone.

No, it's pretty much exactly like that on Windows too. There is no secret "your MFT will randomly get corrupted because you pressed Hibernate instead of shut down" bug. More FUD.

Thankfully patent examiners understand there is a difference between obvious after the fact and obvious before the fact.

When no one was doing it, then suddenly everyone wants to be doing it, that's a pretty good example of something that was clearly not obvious before the fact and was after.

That's true of any patent. To anyone mechanically inclined, a huge percentage of mechanical patents (say, as an example, rack-and-pinion steering) are totally obvious once you've been shown there was a problem and have seen someone'e solution. It doesn't mean, a hundred years ago, that rack and pinion steering wasn't patentable -- because the examiners know if it was obvious and there were a hundred inventors looking at the problem, they'd be sitting on a hundred patent filings.

Multi-touch is an obvious solution to how you provide more complex gestural indications to a touch device ... now. But five years ago when there were gobs of touch applications in industry, and gobs of touchpads on laptops there were gobs of people looking at how to provide better gestures, and not one of them came up with that *even though the hardware supported it in many cases*.

That tells you something about the patentability of multi-touch. Apple released it and suddenly everyone was wanting to duplicate it on phones, touchpads and touchscreen computers.

Patents are made to cover exactly that situation -- where someone finds a solution to a problem that no one else has *especially* where its obvious after the fact (since the obviousness makes it easy to copy).

probably whispered "union" and he and all his close contacts were immediately fired.

If that were true, then both of them would have some pretty serious lawsuit material. It's against the law for firing someone for wanting to unionize. Yeah, you can cover up the firing by giving another reason, but there are plenty of lawyers who would take the case (and win) anyway, since the feds are inclined to look suspiciously at any firing in close proximity to a unionization attempt.

Wrong. (Commercial) resale is never illegal. It’s perhaps against the terms of the sale. But that can be disputed. In fact it was disputed, and shown in court no not be valid, multiple times.
What fraud? Who exactly got frauded? Nobody.
I did only read the summary, and it doesn’t look like they used bots.
And if I go to the supermarket, and buy all the bread with my own real money, it does not matter if it pissed off others who did fail to buy it before me.

Only impersonating *other* persons would be illegal. But “impersonating a person”? ...that term does not make any sense. You always are a person. A script between you and something else does not change it more, that the tool (e.g. wrench) between you and a machine. It’s just a tool.

And about impersonating a non-existing person... well, it’s not exactly proper, but it also doesn’t hurt anyone. So what?

Obviously, Veracode's tests aren't thorough enough. But it raises the question, "who tests the testing software?"

Then the buying of politicians would be supplanted by the buying of judges for the purpose of getting rid of both laws and people they don't like.