Perhaps Microsoft will buy them. Judging from their past investments, they seem more than willing to pony up big $$$ for formerly important cell phone manufacturers that are quickly losing market share.

I wouldn't think that this Wikipedia algorithm would have worked on a movie like "Jobs", where it probably had a ton of Wikipedia page views and edits but not that much box office revenue.

When you have movies that are based off of nerd heroes like Steve Jobs, I'll bet that the Wikipedia editors probably fought tooth and nail to find every plot hole and technical inaccuracy they could find.

Likewise, I could see the algorithm falsely predicting success of certain Sci Fi and comic book hero movies, for the same reason.

I would think that movie theatres would want you to spend $12 to see the new movie that just came out instead of a $2 movie that has been out for six weeks.

Why do you think that studios time movie releases the way they do? It would be foolish to release three romantic comedies in one week (for example), since most movie viewers would watch one and wait for the DVD release on the other two.

That's OK... the MBA's get their vengeance by asking the server admins for a status update every 5 minutes while they are busy trying to fix the problem.

Then they'll ask IT for a 20 page root cause analysis report of the outage the following day after service is restored, even though they have no intention of reading it past the first paragraph. Not that they would understand what they were reading anyway.

OK... I broke with Slashdot tradition and actually read TFA. That said, I STILL cannot figure out exactly which Samsung phones are being specifically banned in this ruling? Is it a top seller like the Galaxy S3 or Note II, or some older phones that only the prepaid carriers offer now?

Not that it really matters... 60 days is probably enough time to come up with a workaround to get around the infringement.

Looks like I fall in the more than 100,000 times more category.

Yeah... if they want to replace my hard disk, maybe they should think of getting rid of that lame 2 GB storage limit for free accounts. All of the other services like Microsoft Skydrive and Google Drive offer more storage than that. Hell, even Apple gives you 5 GB of storage for free in iCloud, and they aren't exactly well known for giving anything away for free.

Oh, and I still think that the "Modern UI" sucks. At least Windows 8.1 lets you bypass it, and go straight to the desktop.

Really? I thought that the new Start button is kinda cool. I like how it has shortcuts to most of the commonly used admin tools when you right click on it, in what could be considered to be the mother of all pop-up context menus. Someone has to backport that option to Windows 7!

I keep all of my favorite programs in the dock, so the only time I need to use the Start button is to get into a Control Panel or shut down the system. All of those options are there when I right click.

Ah, so it's kinda like VNC vs. RealVNC.

Maybe I should hold out for Ultra IRA, now with more violence!

Funny... I don't remember Comcast reimbursing me for extra electricity that their fancy new public hotspot router is using.

Given their love of tacking fees to my cable bill, I would have figured that there would be a credit on there somewhere...

And disabled it a few minutes later. Facebook's Home application seems to operate under the impression that the primary use of my smartphone is to visit their site, as it makes everything else that the phone can do more time consuming to reach. Funny me... I thought that I bought my smartphone to check e-mails and answer phone calls. What a novel idea :)

Hey you, be quiet! You're giving Diane Feinstein ideas on what to add to her next anti gun legislation bill :)

Oh well... might as well download this. I'm probably already on some government terrorist watch list for those couple of bitcoins I mined a few months ago :)

Microsoft also "sold out" of the Surface RT on launch day as well... and that thing has sold poorly after it's initial launch. They were originally expecting to sell 2 million units in Q4 2012, and they only sold about half of that.

It seems that this tactic has become a common way for Microsoft to generate some additional post launch hype for their products. I wonder how many times they can get away with it before the mainstream press catches on...