You're missing the point. Businesses who do transactions with Bitcoin might be sued for infringing claims in the patent, even if the patent itself has nothing to do with Bitcoin. I read the patent and couldn't find anything I recognized as new. Just a very detailed description of a simple electronic financial transaction. The detail given seems to try to obscure instead of clarify, in my opinion, because there is so much of it that is not necessary. An excerpt from claim 155 of the patent:

...storing, in a computer memory at a host server, payer information and instructions; and accessing the computer memory using a computer processor to retrieve the payer information...

Now, is there an electronic financial transaction which does not infringe on this?

How are the cameras and higher resolution worth anything to a man in his 70s who just wants to read e-mail and watch movies?

Higher resolution improves detail, which makes it easier for a person with imperfect eyesight (like myself) to read. Eyestrain for me is largely nonexistent with high resolution displays. I think your assumptions are incorrect.

The future of academia is one-year to five-year contracts with non-tenured faculty. If you can bring in research contract money, your academic salary will still be reasonably competitive, at least in engineering and the hard sciences. If your research contracts dry up, your contract won't be renewed, and you'll need to move on.

I think this provides even more incentive to fabricate research results. If not getting funding means losing your job and the ability to provide for family, I wouldn't consider you crazy for thinking of cheating a little. Tenure is good for many reasons people on this board never think of.

Please. 99% of the people downloading the book won't bother to read it. They're just downloading because they can.

It's true the author of the post hasn't done any research, but the answers to the question (like use GNU MPFR) are valuable to others.

It looks like the new generation of kids is redefining "several" to mean "seven". Generally, "several" is used to mean more than three, but not much more than 3. The progression is "a couple" (2), "a few" (3), "several" (more than 3, but not too many), and "many".

Several != Seven

Quote: 'Without US production gains, I think we'd be looking at $150 a barrel.'

This is the bubble where ideology and proof are one and the same.

Typically Blockbuster was the only video store open after 10PM. And no self-respecting slacker goes to the store before 10PM--that would be so uncouth...

If the web site is down, the web master does not have to be paid to be on call. Moreover, nobody has to observe the logs daily for suspicious activity. If your e-commerce site on Linode was left unattended for a whole month, wouldn't you worry?

I can sum up your long post in 3 words: haters gonna hate.

Seriously, everyone says this, but is it true? There aren't very many products priced the same for consumers and retailers, yet everyone assumes Sprint/Verizon/T-mobile all pay retail prices for phones, which I think would be crazy.

Except in pure mathematics--the most important field of all.

Thus spoke the unknowing. C++ compilers can and will optimize OOP code in ways a C compiler never can with fake OOP added to the language.

Please, sir, provide us an example of this wondrous claim.

If TI-83's were made by Apple, they would have high resolution displays, which are very useful for visualizing graphs of rational functions.