I just came up with an interesting theory. It would be reasonably easy to 'hide' the microSD card in my phone with a bit of putty or JBWeld to make the edge of the card where it shows look like just more plastic, and have a fake card holder with a random microSD card in it just glued on somewhere significantly more visible just behind the battery or something. HOPEFULLY the cops would just take the 'obvious' microSD card, and leave the hidden one. I'd say there's at least a vaguely decent chance the real card would survive if the phone was stomped.

The only problem is that pretty much any cellphone nowadays doesn't have the 'spare' room to hide an extra microSD card.

And since neither of those will not change anywhere in the even vaguely, remotely near future, then one has no choice but to play by their rules and accept them.

I thought that was by design, to force the farmer to buy more seeds. As well, isn't Monsanto suing farms CLOSE TO the farms using their seeds, if they notice even a bit of their seeds have blown into that crop?

He probably just finished browsing Thinkgeek:

http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/tools/b308/

Yes, because justice falls evenly on random, troublemaking (in the eyes of corporations) individuals, and the giant corporations themselves alike.

"Nokia and Sony: Companies that fucked themselves and pissed off their customers, but still don't even notice the slightest inkling of a drop in sales, because 99.9998% of their customers are consumer whores and could care less about details such as this, as long as they get their next version of Madden or Call of Duty."

FTFY

He did something that had no purpose other than enabling piracy / cheating
Yeah, damn people for wanting a program to allow backwards compatibility, or for wanting to do things with their hardware. CLEARLY the only possible uses for a jailbroken system is for playing unpaid-for merchandise.

After all, all jailbroken smartphones have only one single purpose in their existence. To obtain and use as much illegal software as is physically possible.

At least give him something more confusing than annoying:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cs_eMqI1MIQ -- Venetian Snares - Winnipeg is a frozen shithole

Now y'see, this confuses me. I must obviously be mistaken in my understanding, but my Garmin GPS recevier (GPSMap 60Cx) can ridiculously easily get a signal from inside of a car. Inside the apartment, actually initially getting a signal can be a bit rough... pointing it in the general direction of a window and giving it an extra minute tends to solve that though. Once it's GOT a signal, I've seen it somehow still manage to hold onto that signal in a room without windows whatsoever... no clue how the hell THAT works.

So yeah... why would my Garmin be able to do such things while a satellite phone can't even get through the glass-windows-on-all-sides of a car?

Meh, personally I don't think the church will burn anything, probably never would have with or without the criticism from like... everywhere. I think they're more leaning towards the "any publicity is good publicity", and on the last day or so before the burning will be all like "oh, we've see the error in our ways" or "I saw a vision and it told me to be tolerant of everything"... but with more verbal jabs at islam.

I'd relate a church burning a Quran to the release of Duke Nukem... but since that's actually theoretically going to happen now, I'll have to go to the standby of "when pigs fly".

If my boss tried to ask me why I didn't do the work he emailed to me while I was on lunch, I'd reply "Because I was on fucking lunch!"

Could we PLEASE try to go even a single day without some apple-based story? My god, there's more to the world of science and technology than a single company!

Canada attempting to pass a bill to put filesharing along the same lines as in the USA?
Info on the oil leak?
Hewlett-Packard cutting 9000 jobs?

To hell with all of that, someone somewhere posted something about Apple!

Personally, I'd rather the doctor concentrate more on KEEPING ME ALIVE than being delayed because he didn't say 'pretty please, with sugar on top' in order to get some results needed to make me not die.

I mean, there's attempting to make them more coerteous, and then there's "oh, let the patient die... the doctor didn't say please".

Yeah, but we're adults, so the natural inclination of corporations is to use us like the expendable batteries that we are. Force every hint of productivity out of us, then discard us when we're broken and no longer of use.

That's because north america puts such a brutally large importance on competitive sports that many kids are sadly taught that if they don't become a professional athlete, they've failed their parents. After all, every parent wants to retire once their kid scores that 4-million-a-year contract. The system is horribly broken.

Personally, I say athletes should have their salaries capped (after bonuses or any other possible way to get the money) at 150k a year. And that's for the highest-end athletes.

Imagine how much better the country would be to have those millions upon millions of dollars spent ELSEWHERE, instead of some baseball or football player? Higher pay could be going to everyone (although the higher-ups at companies wouldn't allow that), it could be funneled into infrastructure, or god forbid put towards research and development!