Oh for goodness SAKE. I'm undoing my mod points here because your analogies sucked so bad.

Nobody has bought this and got something they didn't expect to pay for, unlike all of your examples. Instead, people are getting angry that they are being *offered* the chance to buy something. If it's not to their taste, they can ignore it. Instead they're throwing a hilarious shit fit like you and going on about 'betrayal'.

Are Western geeks so absolutely full of themselves that now they are getting offended because something is being offered for sale that they don't like? Is that what we've come down to?

That's bollocks. Windows key + R brings up the Run box. I've been using it.

They did not fire the woman mostly responsible for the Metro UI. Guess again.

He's just blocking people on Twitter now (myself included.) I usually find 'you don't understand what's going on' with no attempt to educate to be an excuse used by the guilty party. The fact that he later said on said twitter feed that 'he owns the domain name' seems to solidly imply that he is guilty of this dick move, and he thought he's morally in the right to do what he did because of it.

The fellows over at harddrop.com that prefer the licensed Tetris Grand Master series and the 'ripoff' Lockjaw game would like a word with you.

For many extremely detailed reasons that would make your head explode, these aforementioned games are far better for very advanced play, versus the rules currently mandated by Tetris Co. that basically castrate the game if you play Tetris seriously - such as infinite floor kicks (allowing you to stall indefinitely just by constantly rotating a piece even on the ground) and the fine details of how pieces rotate being a pain for 20G play (top-speed.)

I really dislike that part of the ruling as well.

I also strongly suspect that, magically, this ruling will do nothing to help those poor developers who have been utterly ripped off by Zynga, in several well-known cases like this one. Call me cynical, if you will.

Comparing the negative response to the idea of installing Twitter in a car to the hysterical comparison of such negative responses to the support of the TSA and the Patriot Act and strongly implying support of totalitarianism? Slashdot's all well and normal then, the cute little hippy libertarian tykes.

Fucking ridiculous.

Good luck with both of those options, neither being based in any realistic world (good luck successfully dodging every software patent out there for video [The WebM probably didn't either] and you're just being sanctimonious with the comment about uncompressed video.)

...so says the Anonymous Coward on Slashdot at 9.41am. Ran out of new rocket fuel candidates to study?

Death by lack of freedom?

Death by boredom?

Death from prolonged exposure to bad prison food?

Bingo. Simple tactics and social engineering are usually all you need if you really want to get at something.

The weakest link in any security chain is always the people, and people are easy to deceive.