The lead plaintiff would change, but the lawyer behind this would still be suing on behalf of all those aggrieved parties who sold their stock before the announcement and therefore lost money when the stock rose later. If only they had known how spinning off the PC business would unlock shareholder value, they could have gotten what was rightfully theirs! Or something.

These shareholder lawsuits are little more than a shakedown. The lawyers (both sides) make out like bandits, the lead plaintiff gets a little taste, the company (or their insurer) gets screwed, and everybody else gets close to nothing.

So that they can dissolve the ink in the 'payee' line and replace it with "Cash".

GreaseMonkey scripts can run in Chrome; just drag and drop them into the Chrome window. They can be enabled/disabled in chrome://extensions.

We'll miss you, Mr. Jobs. Wish you good health.
Sincerely,
Apple fans everywhere

Now there's an arms race in the technology industry, with patents playing the role of ICBMs. "Patents are emerging as a new currency," Alexander I. Poltorak, chief executive of the patent licensing and enforcement firm General Patent, told the New York Times. "I've recently received several calls from financial analysts and bankers who want to know how to value patents and what does it mean."

I think there's a lot of truth to what he's saying, but Mr. Poltorak clearly has a vested interest in a patent war, or at least fear of a patent war.

I'm very surprised that Google would spend so much money on defensive patents for Android. Android can't be generating that much revenue, can it? I thought its selling point was that it was essentially free to carriers. The App Market can't be pulling in that much, can it? I feel like I'm missing something here.

Karma-whoring link to print version of TFA

Not necessarily. The model will presumably incorporate crime reported by citizens, not just violations and arrests reported by police officers. The weighting may be different depending on who reported the crime, the severity of the crime, etc. A typical officer-generated arrest for, say, weapons possession should get a different weight than a more severe crime.

If the automaker sells one vehicle that gets 20mpg for $25,000 and one vehicle that gets 100mpg for $60,000, they have a fleet average of 60mpg. It doesn't matter that they sell 10,000 of the 20mpg units and only 500 of the 100mpg units.

Wrong. From http://www.nhtsa.gov/cars/rules/cafe/overview.htm : "Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) is the sales weighted average fuel economy [snip] " Scroll down to "How is a manufacturer’s CAFE determined for a given model year?" for more details.

OK, I can buy that there could be a detector in a location other than the lens. However, people would figure out what location on the camera needs to be covered in order to take pictures in unapproved places.

That would work great if this were 1995 and we were writing static HTML, but every web site since then has been dynamically generated. There's no LaTeX for "check if the username is already taken before submitting the form."

IR imaging requires a warrant. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyllo_v._United_States

In this case, you're using one market distortion (government funding for a public university) to try to cancel out another market distortion (a school essentially having a monopoly on students wishing to attend it).

The conservative solution would be to discontinue the student loan program and, while they are at it, privatize the universities. The university may or may not choose a different price for different majors.