I had an adviser who was blind, the only was he could access his computer was a combination screen reader + keyboard. I cannot imagine the number of things he is cut-off from due to a lack of support for keyboards.

Do not click link! It is to goatse, luckily I am using FF5 + NoScript and it was blocked

Take heed gentlemen, this anonymous internet commenter has all the traits women desire but chooses to bestow his wisdom onto us.

Depending on your plan you are allowed to have only a certain number of streaming devices associated with your account. So there is no need for Netflix to place a hard limit on the simultaneous number of connections as you are already limited by the number of devices you can use.

That is pretty cynical, federal judges are appointed for life and get a pension after retirement. Could the MafiAA offer a bribe that is worth more than guaranteed income for life, plus a high likelihood of a professorship at a lawschool, or partnership at a big law firm, after retirement? Pretty unlikely.

Stubbornness. Most people in America see no problem with keeping measurements the way they are. People have far more important things to concern themselves with.

You fail to prove your point. You equate corporations to patent trolls and then go on to talk about how corporations have money and small inventors do not.

The definition of a patent troll is an individual that files patents with no intention of exploiting the patent themselves. Patent trolls typically have few to no employees their only assets are patents they purchased from others. Patent troll income is derived primarily from bullying others into questionable patent licenses.

If company X has a factory that makes widgets and they have a patent on widgets, then they are not a patent troll, even if they sue to prevent other from making widgets. Maybe you think everybody should be allowed to make widgets, but that doesn't make company X a troll. That is the power patents grant, to prevent other from using your invention for 20 years (in the US). If you don't like that, your problem is with the patent system as a whole, not company X's trollish-ness.

Both corporations and individuals can be patent trolls. Your discussion of corporations v. "the little guy" is irrelevant to the issue of legitimate inventors v. trolls.

First to file encourages people to file for patents sooner rather than waiting for someone else to file and cutting them off with a first to invent claim.

First to file doesn't favor patent trolls, they can't patent the invention if someone else was using it publicly and didn't bother to patent it.

If anything it cuts off patent trolls because they can't keep inventions a secret waiting for someone else to file a patent, and then usurp that patent from the original filer.

I don't know if it is just the day one attention but has anyone else had a long delay in getting their key? I already tried re-sending it to my email and checking my junk folder, just wondering if this was just an email typo on my part; although my payment confirmation went to my email just fine.

Thanks for the links, very informative. I have the same basic question as the submitter but with a slight variation: Do the certs get installed on the computer or printer if you want to make the https web management feature not give you that warning?

Don't you need to dominate the market to be considered a monopoly? Last time I checked Apple only dominates the hipster/ trust-afarian/ techno-snob markets. Plenty of other markets for fledgling entrepreneurs.

Mr. Wu seems to be saying inflammatory things to increase book sales.

You cannot serve process by mail using a 1st class stamp. You have to use a special class of mail with signature service and return receipt requested, the postal employee does not leave it without an adult who says that they can accept mail for the addressee, signing for it. Also, when you mail it, the process server has to have to physically affix a copy of the suit to the address you are mailing it to, its called nail and mail. Nail it to the door, mail a copy also.

So your anecdote about your neighbors junk mail is irrelevant to this discussion.

thedirt.com got served in error, ignored the papers, and this is what happens when you ignore court papers. This is fixed easily enough by showing up to court now and correcting the error.

The court system works just fine, thedirt.com sitting on their ass and not correcting the error in the beginning is the problem. They would have been able to recover whatever it cost them to respond from the plaintiff that erroneously served them.

So a defendant can avoid all liability by not showing up and ignoring the court? That sounds real fair to the victim. Why would you ruin someone's life by allowing wrong doers to avoid liability by placing their fingers in their ears and chanting 'Nah-nah-nah i can't hear you" to avoid a lawsuit.

Also, let me point out thedirt.com claims it wasn't properly served, yet got the paperwork with the judgment to give to the press, which is all served in exactly the same manner. It must be magic.

Your answer to this one instance of a mistake in paperwork that results in an easy to nullify judgment is to impose Napoleonic Code? Other than the Napoleonic system (which is used be France Mexico and Louisiana) the US has imported most of the spirit of European systems. And to boot you want to allow judges to make up numbers through "simple inspection", that allows judgments to be crafted on something based on nothing other than net worth. That sounds real fair to the plaintiff.

In reality, this judgment is going to be nullified once thedirt.com gets off their lazy ass and goes to court. You can't impose a penalty on the wrong party, in civil or criminal court. But that doesn't mean thedirt.com isn't going to try to milk some free advertising out of this.