Nope. The name al-Qaeda is licensed under Creative Commons.

...if the reason Apple wants to patent this is to sit it on the shelf with the threat of a lawsuit to anyone who cripples cell phones in the future? Think about it: Apple can cripple phones because only they can.

As a result, Verizon, AT&T, et al. all now have to have their phones open and able to allow the consumer to do absolutely anything and everything they could ever want to do with their phones. Now, would Apple continue to have the only restricted phone on the market? I doubt it. They'd lose too much money competing against all the unlocked phones they created.

Hurry up and do it, Apple. I want a new browser on my LG env2.

Coca Cola tastes different everywhere else in the world but America because we use High Fructose Corn Syrup instead of pure cane sugar. The taste difference between the two is so much better when real sugar is used, but this is America where capitalism rules and the bottom line is most important. The bottom line is the following: HFCS is much cheaper to create and use than cane sugar.

If you get the chance to try a sugar-based soda and its HFCS equivalent, you'll be in awe of the difference. Taste for profit. I'd rather pay a few cents more for real sugar over HFCS.

This is one of those things where I would say, "that's pretty cool you made it, but why?"

I think using the web site and seeing the trends over in the right column is good enough for probably 99.8% of Twitter users. Even the geeks like us.

I like this one better:

There as 1 girl.
She was 16.
She did a 69.
3 times.

Know what she was?

11669*3=35007

Kinky Kelly? Is that you?

I make it a general rule to avoid eating something that smells the same going in as it does going out.

Would you be happier if they were using the term oligopoly? Then you could chuck Apple in with MS and it would be blazingly accurate.

Like many of us, I'm sure, I'm not even sure why it even had to be an issue in the first place.

*Boom!* ...Well, I guess we don't have to worry about that AC's line of argument anymore.

Clean up! Aisle five!

Considering I'm about to go to the desert I went ahead and decided to see what the fuss was about. Looking at his site, do you know what I see?

Specs for a civilian network. Any one of you could go buy this exact same equipment and field it in your own back yard. Nothing he posted on that page has anything to do with the military network node system used while deployed. To be sure, there are satellites involved in the government network in Iraq and Afghanistan, but nothing there was listed I would use when I set up my network down there for military use.

25B - Information Technology Specialist
SOP - Standard Operating Procedure
SIGO - Signal Officer (Guy in charge of communications in a line unit, aka combat unit)
CDR - Commander
PL - Platoon Leader
BN - Battalion
BDE - Brigade
PLT - Platoon
DOIM - Directorate of Information Management
ESB - Expeditionary Signal Battalion
COMSEC - Communications Security
SIPRNET - Secure (or Secret) Internet Protocol Router Network (As opposed to NIPRNET, or as they call it now LandWarNet, AKA the Internet)
JNN - Joint Network Node
WLC - Warrior Leader's Course
BNCOC - Basic Noncommissioned Officer Course (now called ALC, Advanced Leader's Course. Follow-up was ANCOC (Advanced) which is now called SLC, Senior Leader's Course)
MTOE - Modification Table of Organization and Equipment (Where people and things are within a unit)
MOS - Military Occupational Specialty (See 25B above)
CSM - Command Sergeant Major
JCU -Joint Communications Unit

And to answer the parent's questions, Yes, I am a 25B in a signal unit. I wrote an SOP for my previous unit, which was a line unit. I made the web page for that unit too. I have done training for the unit, and being in a signal unit, all I ever do is cross-train. I can't honestly remember the last time I did anything geeky in the sixteen months I've been on this post, except for the two weeks we were prepping for a deployment.

I'm still an E-4 after six years for a few reasons:

1. Despite all the technical know-how I have, it means absolutely jack when you're on one profile that questionably makes you possibly non-deployable, and another profile that won't let you run. After all, running is the most important thing we can do, right? If you suck at PT, you must suck at everything else. At least that's what members of the military think.
2. While I have completed WLC, I got moved out of the unit I was with when I went and was going to go to the board and every time that happens, you're at the bottom of the rung, no matter what kind of time in service one has. I got to go thanks to that nice retention policy that makes us "promotable" after 4 years. Ha, how many MOSs actually have 350 promotion points?
3. Do these point trends imply any way one could get promoted without being nearly perfect? If they'd stop reclassing the E-5 25Fs into 25Bs, maybe I'd have a chance.

Yes, I'm maxed on school, both military and civilian. 5 classes from graduation actually, and am going while in the military.

Morale isn't very high with this poster, but that should be pretty apparent.

and do I honestly think I'll ever see any of this stuff?

Absolutely not. They have civilian contractors to do all the cool stuff. I'm a network administrator who is denied administrative rights. My MOS (job classification) is an E4 and out position. Basically I have no chance of attaining any leadership skills in my job. Big change from when I joined six years ago. I'm seriously considering leaving communications for something that I can actually advance in, even if I wouldn't be as happy in it, but I could be wrong about that.

This turned in to an off-topic rant. My bad.

Anyway, I'll be joining tomorrow when I can get access to a computer that I can use my ID card in. Until then, I'll just not be able to look around it and - most likely - correctly speculate what the program is like for a junior enlisted servicemember, even if they know Linux well.

...be it to a library, video store, hell, even Netflix. I can't even bring myself to walk out to my mailbox with that little red envelope. Needless to say, because of that I shy away from video, library, and other lending establishments, because even if I buy it, and it's absolute garbage, I'm probably saving myself some money in the long run.

As for those who pirate books of the Internet, why? I can't stand siting here on the computer reading a book. Sure, for technical documents, it's great, but I better have a paper copy sitting right next to me too. It's a lot easier to look up a reference to something if I have a digital copy of the book, but all I'm pretty much doing is finding out what page it's on in the book and reading it there, thereby increasing my productivity.

If I had multiple monitors, it might be a different story, but I don't, and all that ALT-Tabbing I'd have to do to get back and forth between the two would just get annoying.

Computer screens are great for reading news snippets, articles, or anything like that. But of all the technologies I've embraced, the absolute last one on the bottom of my list is going to be an eBook reader or reading an entire book on a computer.