And they did this on purpose to poison the well against AI scraping content. It's like Google didn't learn. And when, not if, they get sued for some dumbass following the AI.. well, it still might not be enough of a lesson.

Ironically, this story might get more traction than Israel killing non-Americans since the laptop photo will look nice on TV.

No, the Air France flight originated in Paris with a layover in Athens. Tel-Aviv was the destination.

I can see lots of possible monetary damage to the developers:

1) Loss of reputation: their names are advertised if the source is distributed with their copyright notices on it. This may lead to loss of work (e.g. related consultancy work).
2) Extra development costs because of loss of access to a bug-fix or feature addition that was not released by the violator.
3) Loss of opportunities to sell proprietary licences.
4) Loss of information because they were not able to identify some devices as using their code. People spend money analysing market share, so the information has value. It may for example lead to lost opportunities to pitch for consultancy or customisation work, or to sell a proprietary add-on.

Actually, the explanation for Craters of the Moon basalt flows is a bit different, although it is related to the Yellowstone hotspot.

Hotspots are relatively fixed in the mantle (though there is evidence to suggest that they do actually move) and the crust shifts over them (continental drift) - leaving tracks behind where the hotspot was. Check out this image from the TFA study showing the extent of the plume, and how it drifted through time.

The Yellowstone hotspot was once underneath Idaho. That was millions of years ago, of course, and your date of the craters of the moon flows (within the past 14,000 years) is correct. While the hotspot didn't cause those eruptions (though it is responsible for most of the Snake River Plain), what it did was heat and weaken the crust, which later thinned and rifted (extension in the Basin and Range). The Craters of the Moon flows are eruptions from the rift, which, though it was helped by it, does not require input from the Yellowstone hotspot to remain hot and rifting.

I looked through the paper and don't see any evidence to support a present-day connection with Craters of the Moon.

It won't be a separate model. It will be the standard model, just like Google and Gmail. The ads will be unobtrusive to the majority of consumers, but still valuable to advertisers. Google will no more offer this without personal data collection and advertising than they do Google and Gmail. Sure, they'll give you some privacy options, but they won't give you options that have a meaningful negative impact on the value of their services to advertisers.

If you run AdBlock, you are a minority. This isn't the phone for you. Since Google will control the hardware and the software, you'd have a heck of a time running AdBlock even if you wanted to. That's the point.

I think the pilots might complain if you take away their ability to go wee-wee and harass the flight-attendants.

Alternatively save at least $70 yourself in a replacement fund. Luckily I've never had to replace a phone. Had I done that I would have $560 not including interest for the past 8 years.

An HTC droid with no contract is $469.99 so I could afford a brand new phone and have money left over. That's just for one warranty plan. If you set aside the money you'd pay into every warranty plan, that money would build up faster and you'll earn more interest faster.

Sure some phones that come of the manufacturing line will be faulty and if you started this you may only save $70, the phone will break and it would seem like you're screwed but you'll make out in the long run and you'd have to be pretty unlucky to have that continually happen to you phone after phone in make it not work in your favor.

Yes, I agree, indeed this is the whole point of an LLC. LLCs are horribly abused quite routinely. I often observe that chemical companies should really be charged with manslaughter for some of their pollutants. *But* a serious research project that happens to "break a few eggs" should really be let slide.

A reasonable compromise might be awarding shares in this company to the damaged cities and the Swiss national science funding body, so the company current backers face dilution as punishment, but no immediate funds change hands, and any IP becomes closer to public property.

Eh, Tesla did it 100 years ago, if the stories and his autobiography are to be believed :)

And you can relatively easily open the battery cases. You may have to be willing to desolder the existing cells, but if you can't be fucked doing that then pay the bloody price and shut up.
 

Right! There's no way in hell a blender company could possibly go viral and get a mention on Oprah.

Sorry, I actually agree with your point, I just enjoyed the irony...

How mature - don't respond to any substantive point I made. Just claim that I am biased.

By the way, I've used Ubuntu 6.06, Ubuntu 8.04, Ubuntu 8.10, Debian Testing, Debian Stable (Sarge and Lenny) and several versions of Fedora. My sister has OS X, so I've setup printers and done some minor troubleshooting there as well. So, it's not as if I've only ever used Windows.

sign on every buffet wall -- 2 hour limit. And "we reserve the right to refuse service to anyone", and the ISP contract that you did -- essentially -- sign, says they can cancel your service at any time.

So be nice to your suppliers.

Or, you can purchase the business-class service, and pay for certainty.

"Unlimited access" is unlimited in terms of what you'll be charged. Not unlimited in terms of how much you can take.

It's obviously limited in terms of speed -- to the size of the wire.

At the age of FOUR. Not to mention it was my only my second gaming experience...my first being Bop'n Wrestling on the Commodore 64 :-)