So if Apple would stop selling iPhones, and instead produce a $10 plugin module with 3G/4G for their next iPod touch, then the fees to Motorola would be 22 cents.

Would you consider this to be fair too?

If you think biometrics is useful for unsupervised authentication, please read this:

http://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram-9808.html#biometrics
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/05/16/gummi_bears_defeat_fingerprint_sensors/

Your fingerprints are not secrets.

Can I publish program my own text that encodes and decodes H.264 video without infringing a patent?

Can I sell that text? Like other authors can with their work?

Programs = text.

I am happy if the patent law contains an paragraph that states that buying, selling, writing, downloading, installing or executing software will never infringe on any patent.

In one sentence:

I am a software author and I want to have the same right to publish texts I write as other authors have.

If you don't agree, why should novels, film scripts, musical genres, comic characters, etc, be exempt from patenting?

If you bought your Mac three years ago and never bought an OS upgrade, you are likely running Leopard.

Apple has still not provided any fix or upgrade that addresses this malware for Leopard. Only for Snow Leopard and Lion.

Mozilla already plays H264 video embedded in flash contents through an external flash plugin. Today.

So why would it be controversial to allow another plugin to do the same?

Yes it does and it is built in. But it is not supported for the boot partition.

As the parent to your post said, you can easily create encrypted disk images that grow as they are used which you can mount by double-clicking on it. OS X will then ask for the key before the image is mounted.

The difficult questions are:
- How do you manage your encryption keys?
- What is your procedure for changing them?
- How many bits of entropy does your key really have? Did you say you used AES-256?

Encryption is easy. Proper key management is hard.

The same is true for Microsoft. So why did they join the cartel?

Do you think MS is able to re-license the patents to Nokia? If they can, why couldn't Google?

Correct. It is the labels that mess things up.

{ // long, long code //
a = 1;
a_label:
b = 2;
return a*b;
}

When reading code, the label messes up what you know about the state of the program. What are we returning here? You have to scan the entire function and find the gotos to know.

Why do we talk about power consumption in units of kWh/year. Why not simply measure average consumption in kW (kilowatts)?

And why do we pay by the kWh and not by the MJ (Megajoule)?

Don't they teach everyone stuff like this in school?

Please mod the parent up!

The referenced article says nothing since they never did a proper reset on the SSD.

Of course OS X needs TRIM. Unfortunately, I don't know of any way to reset an SSD on a Mac. You have to remove the drive and put it in a Linux or Windows machine to reset it properly.

But the Iranians insist the nuclear facilities are for research and civil uses. It is against islam to create nuclear weapons!

So why the secrecy? Why not be open about everything and build some trust?

Most people believe that a widescreen 20" monitor gives you "more/better screen" than a "non--widescreen" 20" monitor.

The opposite is true. The 20" measurement is the diagonal of the screen. You get the largest area when the height/width is equal.
The more you increase the width (and reduce the height), the smaller area you get.

The manufacturers benefit because they can sell a 20" screen with less pixels and make it sound more desirable.

Think of a circle where the radius is the screen size...