The electoral college is necessary to balance power between large and small states. Civics education in this country is going down the pooper.

This. The last thing we need are people feeling pressured by an outside organization (looking at you Unions *and* employers). Some may already feel pressured one way or another but there is not way for an outside source to confirm a third party vote. This is terrible and had better be overturned.

Chord progressions have been held to be non-copyrightable. Melodies on the other hand are a different story.

The article is about a similar form factor to an iMac, not running OS X.

It didn't look like they were talking about installing OS X on it. But, it does use the Intel DH61AG motherboard, which is easily used for a hackintosh.

http://www.macrumors.com/2012/07/30/more-early-iphone-and-ipad-prototype-designs-surface-in-samsung-trial-documents/

Apple has shown prototypes that predate Samsung's. But, regardless, I agree with you--Apple needs to get smacked down a bit on this one.

That's when you click the "Reader" button in Safari.

I'm pretty sure the latest Ice Age is already in theaters.

You heard of Borders, yes? Not 100% Amazon's doing, but it sure contributed.

Instead of buying new hardware, spend a few minutes in Terminal and run Mt Lion on your unsupported Mac anyways: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1325818

Okay, I'll buy that. A lot of this debate does come down to personal choice. I have much more confidence in Apple's walled garden (which is a massive garden, btw) as opposed to the chaos that seems to plague Android.

I wasn't talking about source code.

[quote]It's not security model difference between iOS and Android[/quote] Seems to me that's exactly what it is. Part of it is design philosophy, too, of course.