Oh, I thought it was extra-solar. As in, not part of our solar system. Non-exo planets would be much more exciting to discover (if far less likely, unless you count dwarf planets).

But to distribute content (movies, TV, videos, etc.) on Blu-Ray you HAVE to copy-protect it. As in, you have to pay to license the Blu-Ray format, and then the terms and conditions state that you have to separately pay for the license to AACS, and use it to copy-protect the disc. Thus releasing open content on Blu-Ray is pretty impossible.

The eMac OS support tops out at either 10.4 or 10.5 depending on processor speed, and uses a PowerPC architecture. I'd imagine that current-generation browsers are starting to get harder to get hold of for PPC, and web apps tend to demand up-to-date browsers.

The last eMac was released almost seven years ago. Seven years is not a short upgrade cycle even for educational machines by any stretch of the imagination.

Thus the upgrade is not unjustified (heck, even if the web app was unjustified, you'd still need new machines for a current version of Indesign, which is kind of a requirement for an "advanced" journalism class). Whether the budget allocated for the planned upgrade is justified is another matter, though.

as opposed to an experimental mathematician?

Facebook broke the law. As punishment, Facebook has to promise not to do it again, and be monitored to make sure it keeps its promise. I guess Facebook is only seven years old, and since companies have the same rights as people (apparently), I guess it makes sense they are given punishment befitting a person of that age.

...except for that period after Steve resigned CEOship but was still Chairman when Tim Cook was CEO... (Reading TFA, it seems that the error is in the paraphrasing rather than the original.)

Instead of pocketing the goods, ship them back to the manufacturer? For high-end stuff could they identify where they were stolen from based on serial numbers? Would they be able to find forensic evidence (fingerprints/DNA inside the package) that would help identify the thieves?

Since they can't uphold the "any time, anywhere" part of the promise, they decided the best thing to do would be to give up on the "any book" part too?

Pretty much all of the dozens of ongoing patent lawsuits try to block imports, because generally that's the best way to do damage even if you can't ultimately win the suit (which is likely, given the propensity of settlements, not that the injuctions are much more common – the threats just make for good headlines). The only one to succeed so far is Apple's suit, which was based on design patents rather than technical patents (as Samsung's seem to be).