Let's pretend for a moment that the suffix was correctly capitalised. Was that so hard? But you feel it necessary to write personal insults because of a misused "shift"? Wow. Definitely appropriate reaction.

Yes, that would be a plug, note I said "wires". That 5th pin (if it's present at all) is always connected to ground in reality and never appears as a wire. It's the one whose role is being replaced by a protocol change in USB 3.0 because nobody ever implemented it. The cable itself always has 4 wires.

The author knows a reasonable amount about Intel involvement, including their presence in the USB working group. Despite knowing this, you are of the opinion that the author genuinely avoided learning that Intel were the originators?
Disingenuous: Adjective: Not candid or sincere, typically by pretending that one knows less about something than one really does.
Still seems applicable.

I am quite confident you'll reply again and am looking forward to reading it. I promise I'll make an effort to check back too, though I have a tendency to lose interest with those who can't tell the difference between wit and Tourette's Syndrome.

Claims of 5GB/s aren't even backed by the USB working group which says 3.2GB/s will realistically be the upper limit.

All existing cable and plug combinations remain backwards compatible, but the article claims otherwise, there are only some introduced permutations that won't work.

And when did USB 2.0 become 5 wires?

The author attacks Intel about foot-dragging on the USB 3.0 spec rather disingenously since it was Intel that lead the charge on USB 1.0, 1.1 and 2.0. It was their technology originally.

But what can one expect from a technology website that censors the word 'assuming' (comes out as ***uming, I shit you not!).

"The team of researchers think "vintage fraud" is widespread..."

Eh, "think"?
But the headline sounds so certain.

"According to the study, wine experts have estimated that up to 5% of fine wines sold today are not all they are cracked up to be..."

Ah. "estimated". Nowhere do they even mention running the tests in anger. Only proving the tests work when calibrated to known values.

The reporter left it till the end to admit, and /. reports it as an absolute truth. Disingenuous at best.

AFAIK blue lasers currently use the "frequency doubling" method. Which means no RGB yet (at least not cheaply).

You misspelled iGouge.