A CF card is also physically a lot bigger than a microSD card, allowing the card's controller to stripe data across multiple flash chips the same way an SSD's controller does.

I'm not familiar with DSLR cameras, the ones big enough to take a CF card instead of an SD card. Do they play a note after each shot whose pitch gives the photographer an idea of how full the buffer is?

The radio station pays BMI or ASCAP for a license to play recordings of covered compositions.

I don't know what payment processor you're talking about, but my last employer used two: PayPal and Authorize.Net. Authorize.Net doesn't use client-side scripting at all. Does PayPal require the use of off-site scripts?

And each company in the entertainment industry can control votes by using whatever news outlets its parent company owns to frame the political discourse.

Exactly. Who would want to sit around all day copying the rip to the card?

Music? Yes. Even lossless stereo audio rarely exceeds 1 Mbps. Standard-definition movies? Yes; DVD Video's maximum bit rate is 10 Mbps. High-definition movies? Not so much. BD Video's maximum bit rate is 54 Mbps. To rip in real time, you'd need at least 7 MB/s of write throughput, or something faster than a class 6.

I'm aware of the statute of limitations that applies to violations more than several years ago as well as the laches rule blocking money damages for past infringement if the exclusive right owner is found to have intentionally delayed legal action. But anything Microsoft continues to distribute is probably considered a continued violation.

If Oracle beats Google on appeal, then DRDOS Inc. has a case against Microsoft. The maker of CP/M reworked CP/M-86 into DR-DOS.

Even if the trade group representing sellers of recordings of music is on warning for extinction, I don't see how the trade groups representing publishers of the underlying compositions are. These are the groups that get paid when you play songs on FM, XM, or Internet radio (BMI and ASCAP), and the groups that get paid when you record a cover version of a song (Harry Fox Agency). And these are the groups whose members can sue you for accidental plagiarism* should a song you write happen to be too similar to an existing song (see Bright Tunes Music v. Harrisongs Music).

* By plagiarism I mean uncredited infringement.

Could you explain why geeks should be interested in this? Does it work better than Microsoft Security Essentials? Are there reliable third-party reviews?

Several video games come with Ubuntu, and some of these appear similar to popular non-free commercial games. If the owner of copyright in one of those games complains, then everyone who downloaded Ubuntu might be getting a nastygram.

So let me rephrase it positively: What steps should someone take to find a junior-level position in a given company? What should one do first to earn enough money to pay the cost of living during an internship? How should someone spin, say, part-time web application development experience when switching careers to full-time video game development?

Provided one opens up, and provided the junior level positions don't themselves require a degree.

How does one pay for the cost of living while on an internship?

How about "I have a degree, but my six years of experience are part-time and in another industry." Is that a disqualifier?

Because a mouse and keyboard are considered too bulky to use with multiple players sharing a PC, even if your operating system does provide a raw input API for multiple mice and multiple keyboards. And because a lot of households have only one PC that the family shares. And because platformers have tended to be less satisfying to me when played with a keyboard than when played with a gamepad.

True, something like Lemmings or World of Goo would work great on a PC or tablet because it uses a pointing device in the same way an RTS uses a pointing device. But not all genres are made for pointing devices. How would you play Mario or Mega Man, for example, with a pointing device?

What kind of chair do you and others living in your household use to watch a two-hour movie at your PC desk? Perhaps a PC is a better entertainment choice for people who live alone, but what do you recommend for mom, dad, and ~2.3 children?