'Breaking Bad' Fan Sues Apple Over iTunes Pricing; Linus Torvalds Unleashes Fury at RdRand Petition

To view a web version of this message, click here Send this message to a friend 'Breaking Bad' Fan Sues Apple Over iTunes Pricing Linus Torvalds Unleashes Fury at RdRand Petition Will the iPhone 5S Popularize Fingerprint Readers? A Tale of Two MySQL Bugs The Fifth Amendment Paradox Hot Comment: "When the NRA and ACLU both oppose something, you know it's..." From the Vault: Test Driving the Army's Pain Ray Gun Watch It: Is It Time to Replace Your HDTV? Poll Booth: I use spinning-drive storage media ... 'Breaking Bad' Fan Sues Apple Over iTunes Pricing A disgruntled 'Breaking Bad' fan has filed a class action lawsuit against Apple for false advertising when he found out that the $22.99 he forked over for a "Season Pass" of the drug-trade drama was only good for the first 8 episodes of the show's final season. Sound Off>> Linus Torvalds Unleashes Fury at RdRand Petition In a bid "to improve the overall security of the linux kernel," Kyle Condon raised a petition on Change.org to get Linus Torvalds to remove RdRand from /dev/random. Not surprisingly, Torvalds lambasted Condon by calling him ignorant for not understanding the code in the Linux Kernel. Sound Off>> Will the iPhone 5S Popularize Fingerprint Readers? While fingerprint-scanning technology isn't new, the technology has so far failed to become ubiquitous in the consumer realm. But will the new iPhone 5S--which is all but guaranteed to sell millions of units--can popularize something that consumers don't seem to want?  Sound Off>> A Tale of Two MySQL Bugs When Archie Cobbs encountered a relatively obscure performance bug in both MySQL 5.5.x and MariaDB 5.5.x (not surprising since they share the same codebase), he sent a report to Oracle and MariaDB. But as you can probably guess, the responses from each were very different. Sound Off>> The Fifth Amendment Paradox The ongoing case of New York Times reporter James Risen, whom the DOJ wants to force to testify against one of his sources for leaking classified CIA information, brings up a question about the Fifth Amendment: Why are criminal defendants allowed to remain silent, but not third-party witnesses like Risen? Sound Off>>    So it has come to this "When the NRA and ACLU both oppose something, you know it's bad for everyone." --by Anonymous Coward Read More>>   Test Driving the Army's Pain Ray Gun Six years ago, journalist Michael Hanlon got to experience the Army's not-so-secret weapon, dubbed "Silent Guardian". It is essentially a ray gun (even though Hanlon was told not to call it that), emitting a focused beam of radiation similar to your microwave tuned to a specific frequency to stimulate human nerve endings. Read More>>  Is It Time to Replace Your HDTV? Millions of Americans bought their first HDTVs between four and seven years ago, because that's when prices for 40" - 50" sets started dropping below $700. Are new ones so much more wonderful that it's time to get a new HDTV? Not necessarily. Alfred Poor, long-time display technology expert and senior editor for aNewDomain, shares some insight. Watch the Video>>  I use spinning-drive storage media ... For absolutely everything (or just about) More than solid-state, but not exclusively About the same as I use solid-state storage media Less than solid state, but I still use it For absolutely nothing (or just about) I just use The Cloud; is that "storage media"? Cast Your Vote>> Follow Slashdot on Twitter and Facebook. To unsubscribe, click here or send an email to: unsubscribe-213087@elabs10.com To ensure delivery of this newsletter to your inbox and to enable images, please add slashdot@newsletters.slashdot.org to your e-mail address book or safe senders list. Slashdot | 594 Howard Street, Suite 300 | San Francisco, CA 94105 To view our Privacy Policy click here.