OK. I read the wikipedia article on her. She has done some nice stuff representing women in business. But that's about as close as her background gets to geeks. From what I can see she's crunching customers and a path to a win in a sad virtual game I deleted years ago.

Do we have a track record on this one?

I've not got a strong opinion about Bloomberg but there is something wrong with the taxi business and its close relationship to retiring police cars. Other than some hardened suspension components, there is nothing about a police car that makes a good cab vehicle.

Am I misunderstanding a couple basic concepts here?

          A person did nothing illegal but did expressed views some consider abnormal.
          A person was detained for expressing what was considered abnormal views.

How many opinions on /. are considered society norms? There are some crazy posts here but who do they harm?

"Misleading headline is misleading"

          News at 5.

For instance, I suspect we waste more energy moving tap water in plastic bottles between cities.

Partnering with office was defensive. It wasn't going to make Microsoft money but it would prevent the killer doc application starting on Apple. Look at graphic editing for example in which softie didn't preempt competition well.

it has round corners now.

This isn't a party issue its far more fundamental.

So some low level employees flagged several organizations for ... What checks are in place to make sure this did not happen and who is ultimately responsible for these checks? Are those people still there?

Not more to say. But thats a good thing

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Most genes are on the order of a thousand base pairs. While not insignificant in number, why not just patent all combinations? Whats preventing an organization from patenting all possible 100 base pair combinations? If someone adds a thousand basepairs onto one of your sequences, you can claim they violate your rights.

There was a time when a post like this would get 800 fish on the hook.

Thing is, people don't care as much about the desktop - especially the younger readers.

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Objects in Mirror are closer than they appear.

Since this agreement transcends corporations, can a class action suite be filed when not if abuse of citizens legally using paid for services is exposed in this cabal?

Who is liable?