It's not a trademark issue. It's a patent issue. The HDMI connector/technology is surely patented. Yes, the license that puts the logo on the packaging is a trademark but the patent is the valuable protection. This is how Sony, et al. can put DRM on their audio discs and just not put the CD Logo on the case. The patent to make a generic CD expired long ago. The HDMI spec is surely still riddled with covered patents that require the license. This means that to actually make a product that would be useful, i.e. connect to an HDMI source or display, you would need to use one of the technologies covered by the patent. Calling it magical digital interconnect isn't going to solve your problem.

Excellent topic/username combo. This is going to fall under generitiziation/comodification.

I hate to say it, but if he's convicted, the punishment will be death. He knowingly and willfully released classified information. It's made clear to everyone with a clearance that by doing this they could face penalties up to and including death. You can debate the merits of the death penalty all you want, but as an enlisted member of the US Army with an active clearance, he knew what he was doing and he knew or should have known of the possible penalty.

That's what Nokia said.

Woopdie do, you pulled in $700m in profit last quarter. Your competitors pulled in $6B and $2.3B (Apple and Google). They are eating your market share faster every day. Further, with increased pressure from IT managers to reduce infrastructure, your model of dedicated support hardware just doesn't make sense anymore. Keep fighting the good fight, but the market is reacting not to your current performance but to your future prospects.
You lost 5% of market share of new phone sales(30%-25%), and your market share dipped to 8.2 from 8.6 from just January to April. Apple is raking in the cash on their devices and you guys were there first.

I agree. the internet loves it's Irony. My money is on her fans not having computers or not being able to use them other than to type drudgereport.com

They should go to JAIL for assault, robbery, wrongful arrest and criminal intimidation. Police acting outside the scope of their authority are just normal citizens and should be punished as such.

Obviously, the problem lies in that no prosecutor wants to stand up to the police as it would 1) make their job much more difficult and 2) be political suicide. This is why the NYPD was so bad in the '70s and '80s (American Gangster Bad)

There is more to getting a new computer than filling out the change request and provisioning a new image. Computers cost money. If you are young startup that is expanding the capital may not be there for new IT purchases, especially for interns.

Could be the worst poll yet.

We are scientists. We speak in scientific units. 1/10th of 1 Shit is equivalent to .001 Al Gore (or 1 mAG).

As the budget situation now is significantly worse than 15 years ago, it seems unlikely that Civilian employees will be made whole after the fact. I love the republicans talking about 'where are the jobs' and then deciding to furlough close to 4 times the number of workers that were added in the latest jobs report over the sum of ~$7B. If the government is closed for a week, that's less than the interest on the National Debt.

The Active Duty military people will be forced to remain, even those that fulfill office type jobs, and will be unpaid until a resolution comes.

This is worse than rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic. This is arguing deck chair arrangement theory.