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Unless it's AGW of course. :D

As if the way it was before when they would simply litigate you out of money, while costing the PTO tons of taxpayer time and money, was better? Also, now you do have to exemplify what's in the patent within a year of filing. Hopefully no more perpetual motion machine patents.

The biggest change this makes is it changes the system from a "first to invent" to a "first to file" system. It will speed things up and make it cheaper simply because the patent office won't have to spend a ton of time dealing with arguments over who invented something first. It will now...

I do find it funny how some people think it's okay for companies to charge "as much as the market will bear" but as soon as laborers get together to charge "as much as the market will bear" those same people will come out and blast them for being greedy and lazy.

Buy a Leaf and some of these.

Well, the crime rates have been declining pretty steadily since computers became popular in the '90s. Of course, correlation does not equal causation. Heck, that article talks about lead levels. I think it's the popularity of gaming keeping people off the streets.

Or "get rid of all those govt programs except mine!!"

And spy on you. And say who you can and can't marry. And tell you what you can do with your body. Oh wait...

This was on Extreme Engineering a few years back. Can get it on Netflix instant watch if you're interested. I hope they do a follow-up episode to talk about all the other problems I'm sure they encountered since then.

You're absolutely right. It's the FTC's job to uncover the price fixing and collusion that occurs with text messaging. All major carriers doubled the price of a service that is essentially free for them to provide all at the same time? Somehow I doubt that's a healthy market.

If it's works, it'll catch on. People have gotten really good at typing with 9 keys. Going down to 4 is not a huge stretch.

No kidding. When you see a headline stating "ACLU DEFENDS child porn peddler!" Be sure to read between the line.

Who'd have thought making communication easier would get someone in such hot water. Funny how Craigslist gets in so much trouble for what people completely unaffiliated with the company do.

I will also be happy when I can google where you left your car keys.

Only $2 million? A much more modest 3-4 br house in Westchester NY will run you about $1 million.

Those that use their hobby to hurt others are the ones you're talking about. Just the same as those that target practice using humans as targets or people who riot after a sports event.

One could say the same thing about watching sports, playing video games, target practice, and almost any other hobby.

And don't forget the lube.

Yet another reason to donate to the EFF and ACLU.

That's exactly what the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation is. They fund research into things like AIDS and malaria research. Bill Gates has been pushing these people to spend the money quickly and fund research to fix current problems rather than set up an endowment.

This is what they want to charge the man in order to have it done. The local govt. has a contract with TWC stating TWC will provide cable to anyone who wants to subscribe and also has utilities to their house. There's some small print that says they only have to do this if someone is within...

And think, those bombs were about 1000x less powerful than our largest deliverable bombs today. We stopped developing ever larger bombs because there were no targets big enough for them.

You guys want population control? Bring all the 3rd world countries up to 1st world status. Almost every 1st world country has a declining population growth, and in some places it's already negative, like Japan. It's so damn expensive to have kids, people choose to only have 1 or 2 if any...

Well, there are cosmic rays that hit the earth with 100000000 more energy than anything the LHC can produce, so I think we're fine. We're still trying to figure out where those super high energy cosmic rays come from though.

With all that money, time, and reasonably good following, he should do his own show and release it directly on the internet. Bypass the networks alltogether and keep the profits for himself. I'm of the understanding his crew also got severance, so they'd probably be up for it too. He could do...

Woohoo! Low sys reqs means I can play it on my lappy. It's all about the gameplay for me kids. Great graphics is nice for about the first 5 minutes.

Hexane poisoning? Were they bathing in the stuff? They must have some really lax safety controls if someone died from hexane. It's not pleasant, but not the worst stuff in the world. Probably about as bad as gasoline, maybe not even as bad since gasoline has benzene in it, but close.

A whole year? Those adverts made it look like it was already done...

There's also the massive greenhouse effect of a mostly CO2 atmosphere. Lead would melt on the surface of Venus because of it. It's hotter even than Mercury even though Mercury is much closer to the Sun.

AAAHAHAHAHAAA....haaaa.... *knee slap* Haaaa....

Of course U.S. cyberwarfare focuses on the defensive. If it gets annoying enough to go on the offensive, it'll be with physwarfare: bombs.

I do have to admit that I LOL'd at this.

Overlord's like Dungeon Keeper? Sign me up! Loved that game. The second one randomly crashed on the 3 machines I tried it on unfortunately, I wanted to play it in a bad way.

Meh, not much worse than those in finance. At least people are willingly giving their money to spammers.

But that wouldn't be as sensationalist.

You're confusing criminal law with civil law. In civil law you do not get "innocent until proven guilty beyond reasonable doubt". It becomes "guilty until you've spent so much money you can't prove your innocence".

Didn't that used to be called "Username and Password"?

Well yeah, of course. If it's the hottest day in 100 years one day, do you really think it's going to be hotter the next?

Just look to wall street. Goldman Sachs employees are getting an average of 500k bonus this year.

+1 for steam making me an impulse buyer. They've got the business model down.