The cable box is here to stay. Well at least for a while and Google should really be into that anyway. The Google tv was their attempt to get Google on tv's everywhere. If they have cable boxes too, that is another way to get that access to the tv. If we are lucky they will make smaller boxes and hopefully better. Who knows, maybe they will integrate it with the "cloud" somehow. Maybe integrate it with the cable internet and if you have cable internet and cable tv you can watch your cable shows anywhere on any device. Lots of speculation here, but Motorola was just sitting on its past success and the only thing good to come from Motorola has been some of it's upper end phones. It really needs someone to fix that company.

get a laywer. Once you have it copyrighted, the laywer can sue the pants off them :)

Actually netflix does run on linux, because Tivo runs linux and Tivo has netflix.

I think the issue I have with the price split / hike is it was not too long ago that I was paying 8.99 for this plan and then it went to 9.99 and the just streaming was 8.99. So they actually lowered the just streaming price, but almost doubled my original streaming plus 1 at a time plan.

Thank you! I totally agree. The initial idea of the patent system was so inventors could get money for inventing, NOT so companies could buy them and sue other companies.

"I have no interest in wasting any of my precious time taking classes in English, Philosophy, History, Art and the like"

Actually those are not a waste. Without English you might as well be another 'offshore programmer". English and communication classes actually differentiate good programmers from bad. It helps you understand the business and communicate with the business to help design the right solution. The idea that you can code and throw it over the wall and say I'm done no longer flies in the US like it used to. Well except for SOME startups and SOME small companies. You also need to be able to communicate with your peers. Art and History, and the like are not a waste because they actually help make you a well rounded person.

I think what you want is a certificate in computers not a CS degree or maybe you want a CS degree but don't want to do the work that goes with it.

I've meet many computer programmers that do not have college degrees and while often they are good programmers, they are often not so good at communicating and in the end, many employers don't want to hire them or after they hire them they do not like them. Even as a programmer / systems analyst sometimes need to communicate with their peers or even your manager. Often the people that are the angriest at their manager are the ones that do not understand business and economics and because they lack the communication skills are often the ones that have issues talking to their manager.

ROTFLMAO! yes death spriral

.. he uploaded the video to his cloud storage? did they destroy the memory card too? smashing hte phone may not totally destroy the evidence and also it opens them up to a HUGE lawsuit unless they were violating the law. Is it against the law to video tape the police? I do not understand why it would be as most of them are allowed to video tape us????

It seems to me the US is moving to a 2 standards system. One that applies to the government and another that applies to it's people. That is soo not good!

This sounds more like a terrorist act than anything else. They are killing innocent plants and spraying pesticides that who knows how those plants will react. Get ready for attack of the killer potatoes!

On a more serious note, we have genetically modified pets today because of people messing with genes. Isn't selective breeding of dogs, cats, fish, horses, pigs, cows, very similar? The only difference here is in once case one is manipulating the genes with the thought that it is better for humanity.

Unfortunately they bundle things that are not part of the OS into the firmware and they cannot be removed, but they can be upgraded. I'd love to remove monopoly from my phone as well as the other games I never use and screen share and a few other apps on the phone that are part of the firmware.

and an excuse. "I dropped out of college to start a business and it failed." Then you can say you learned a lot from it in job interviews and go back to college while working another job. Hey I would do it if I were 20. I'd start a business in something I like. If it failed in 3 years you are still only 23 and could go to finish college by 25/26.

iptables-save does not require a reload. So after you make your change you save, next reboot your change will be there saved. Not sure what they are talking about here.

own your own music? No idea what their laws are, but what if you don't download or use memory cards for music. Like if you are buying it for a camera or a thumb drive, or to put an OS on it. You still have to pay a tax? Do they have fair use in CA?

This kind of thing has been out there since, well for years now in desktop apps. So why the patent now, isn't it obvious, or are they going to try and go after google/android and all the other web sites and applications that use this feature.

Android based phones have this feature also, so if apple patents it I guess it will either have to be removed or licensed. Kind of obvious 'feature' to me, but too big brother-ish IMO.

Android does this also, so I wonder if apple gets their patent does this mean android will have to stop? It seems like something obvious that the government would want, oh wait there was a movie about this, sort of, Eagle Eye. Very big brotherish IMO and I'm sure there will be more suits to come.