prior art for "slide to unlock" - go to your local hardware store and get a "door chain" type locking device.

prior art for "hit over the head (...)" was posted in floppy.c from Minix: http://www.raspberryginger.com/jbailey/minix/html/floppy_8c-source.html#l00979 [raspberryginger.com]

However, just for kicks, I'll take one if you do indemnation for repercussions of using the patented invention.

tell me how this is worse than having the software sit around, and claiming that "you didn't use it for 3 years" is more convincing than "we found an error and fixed it".

you're suggesting that leaving the invalidly licensed software on the machines is a better course of action? LOL

Seriously though, hit "uninstall" and claiming in a court later that there was an accidental issue, you discovered it and fixed it, seems a LOT smarter than telling the court that "for three years after sent notice, defendent continued to operate illegally licensed software".

my flip video recorder is laughing very loudly.

I wonder if "[citation needed]" is the encryption key to the "insurance" file....

This whole media circus will be over in a second if all the media looks at the contents of that instead of this.

I live with feet in both sides, and I can tell you, Open Source generally does much (100x) better than closed source. Especially in companies that need to release product or die. Hey, that's about every commercial company I know....

no smoke detector in your bedroom?

Name one linux distribution that ships zfs as part of the default installation, and installs by default on it.

154 comments and nobody mentions btrfs? Seriously, we don't need zfs anymore... And most definately not some half-assed probably-patent-encumbered version that will never make it upstream - mark my words: it will be unmaintained within 10 minor kernel versions.

In other news, 100% of heavily intoxicated people claim their driving skills are fine.

And they'd get behind the wheel too, if the law was open to interpretation. Numbers that can be measured accurately through a blood test work so much better for road safety then asking everyone to judge whether their reaction skills are still appropriate.

If everyone bought the underdog, wouldn't they be the market leader?

It's a bit silly to claim that "most of the world" does it that way, since, well, that's patently false, unless you'd (erroneously) consider the US to be most of the world.

But your other point is still valid; since the Nexus One is primarily offered in the US right now, most of the potential N1 buyers are likely from the US... and since the operators in the US almost universally cover support for the phones, it *is* reasonable to believe that most N1 owners would expect support for it to come from T-Mobile.