Then it is similar to a real life version of The Minority Report by Philip K. Dick, but with a different crime prediction method.

1. Why would someone fleeing Windows 8 for Android like features goto Android (unless you meant Linux)?
2. It is never going to happen since most users only care about whether or not their OS lets them post far more information about themselves publicly on Facebook than any company could hope to quietly collect with software tracking.

If it is not a Russian airliner, how afraid would the US even be of that? Their military could probably crush any small Central/South American country's military no problem (they should have at least 10x the combined active personnel of Cuba and Venezuela) if they actually declared war on the United States. If it is Russia though then we have potential World War III.

Pathetically enough, this is probably true. If Snowden actually gets in the air bound for a country that intends to give him Asylum, the US will probably do anything in its power to make sure his plane is grounded (preferably in a country willing to arrest/extradite him) before he gets there.

Unless there is something else in there to prevent it, I imagine that "uses" would mean that if someone was willing for their organization to become the most hated in the country, they could go around suing every iPhone user in sight for patent infringement.

Someone mod this up. TFA even shows one of Google's not so good ideas for Street View on hiking trails (having someone hike with a huge Street View camera mounted to a backpack) that this is intended to replace.

Even if they realize it, it is unlikely that they care if a movie they released is impossible to watch 100 years from now, as long as they get their money now.

That depends, how much punitive damages could they possibly get on it? If its anything like copyright infringement (RIAA suing people for downloading music), it probably would be profitable for a patent troll with a patent that the iPhone infringes to try to sue all iPhone owners. IANAL, but would they even be able to pull something like have a court order the carriers to release the information of all known iPhone users on their network so they would have their list of targets?

No they probably actually are. While such crimes have been going down, they are much more likely to be heard about across the country than they were 20 years ago. If someone got non-fatally stabbed at a high-crime area school in the 80s, it probably would have been local news for a day or two at best. Today it would likely spread quickly through social media and end up being seen as "breaking news" across the country for several days. It may be going down, but the amount of what does happen you hear about has gone up enough to give the perception that juvenile violent crime is going up.

6. Massive manhunt to find you (and you were probably identified pretty quickly by your license plate being recorded by the cop's dash cam). Also, even if they don't call in a bomb squad before going anywhere near the phone, the cop would probably at least have you in handcuffs and search you first.

I can see the unfortunate implications of that now. 1. Get pulled over for going a couple of miles/kilometers over the speed limit. 2. Cop sees smartphone connected to car charger. 3. Under arrest for possession of a destructive device.

4chan (specifically /v/) hates EA enough that they rallied their extremely large amount of users into voting for EA in this, and knowing 4chan I wouldn't be surprised if some of them are using proxies and similar stuff to register even more votes for EA. And of course we already know that they have no problem with significantly influencing polls.

Windows RT doesn't even have the desktop mode and locks you into a walled garden of Windows Store apps.

I can't make up my mind between:
1. Making them so that you don't have to treat these devices that are supposed to be carried around with you like a large piece of glass.
2. Making them user serviceable, because thanks to a bit of clumsiness on my part (and point 1) my laptop's fan is starting to go on me. I am probably going to have to spend $200+ to get it fixed (out of warranty) because what would be a relatively simple repair in a typical desktop, requires taking the whole thing apart with a procedure that without steadier hands than mine is likely to cause even more damage.

KHTML is LGPL, not GPL. While any modifications to the KHTML parts have to be open sourced, anything else linked to that can be under any license Apple, Google, Opera, or anyone else wants. If KHTML was actually under GPL, then while IANAL I am pretty sure that any proprietary code used in Safari, Chrome (not Chromium), or Opera (once it finishes switching from Presto) would be considered GPL violations. In addition releasing parts of Webkit/Blink under BSD (which is the case) would probably violate the GPL.