The point is the amount of people who don't have an opinion about LAN play (especially outside of /.) >> the amount of people who do have an opinion about LAN play and won't buy because of it.

Passively receiving broadcasts for free and paying for an internet data access plan for a mobile phone seems like a big distinction to me. I agree with you in that the argument is useless and trivial (as, dare I say, 90% of all Slashdot arguments). Yet it does irritate me the lengths to which people will go to defend a gadget which is of their liking. The iPhone does not have those features, just call a spade a spade and be done with it. And a fine day to you as well, sir.

Except the substitutes that you listed need internet access available, while the ones listed by the GP don't. So, in the end, they're just workarounds and not equivalent at all.

What? So the GGP asks for examples of features the iPhone doesn't have, the GP answers him and you just say "oh those features don't matter (to me), so who cares?". That's completely dodging the issue.

Yeah, right. That's why they're so focused on predators that are attacking virtual children.
The PROTECT Act of 2003 "Prohibits computer-generated child pornography when "(B) such visual depiction is a computer image or computer-generated image that is, or appears virtually indistinguishable from that of a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct; (as amended by 1466A for Section 2256(8)(B) of title 18, United States Code)."
Researching the law regarding imaginary CP in Canada is left as an exercise to the reader (spoiler: it's even harsher than the PROTECT act).

2GB memory card - not nearly big enough. My torrent PC has 320GB hard drive which sometimes is too small.

Don't be silly, you just set it to upload it to your home PC after finishing the downloads! Oh, wait...

Sorry for the late reply. I don't remember exactly how their website is laid out, since I bought it a few months ago, but you could customize your laptop when buying it. On the "laptop screen" or similar section, you could select from a WUXGA or another lower resolution (which I don't really recall). So your assumption that they would "ship with whatever they had in any particular day" is incorrect.

My 15" Thinkpad W500 has 1920x1200 resolution.

Doing some additional research, you are correct in regards to the current state of the IAU definition. My first reply was misguided and I apologize for that.

No, it is only saying that planets inside the Solar system have the following definition. This particular excerpt says nothing about planets outside the Solar system. Therefore, it does not follow from your citation that planets are only defined for the Solar system. In order for your conclusion to be valid, you'd have to prove that the IAU does not define any other conventions specifying what a planet outside the Solar system is.

Indeed, IBM did it first.

This makes absolutely no sense to me. Everything in the internet, nay, everything in the world should be taken with a grain of salt, why should Wikipedia be responsible for publishing disclaimers and whatnot? If the general population is unaware of what a real research is, is it Wikipedia's job to teach them? Remember, Wikipedia itself never claimed to be authoritative nor 100% correct all of the time.

Google's unfair and skewed page ranking of that site does more harm than good.

I would speculate that a significant amount of Google's users are actually looking for the Wikipedia article in several searches. I don't think Google owes it to anybody's arbitrary standards of what should or shouldn't have a high page ranking, except in terms of finding what people are searching. And that seems to be working pretty well for them.

Since journalists can't be trusted to validate facts

That is the problem and Wikipedia can't be held responsible for it.

http://www.koreus.com/video/simpsons-tetris.html

If I'm not mistaken, IcedTea does not support signed applets yet, which are run in untrusted mode. My bank uses them and I can't log into their website.