I'm gonna be a Shaman!

Proving that technology is always one step ahead of copyright law.

I only wish I could afford one.

District 9 was good this year!

So was...um...

...and...uh...

Well, District 9 was good this year.

That's just what they want you to think.

But that's how it starts!

...okay, so maybe I didn't read the article yet.

"Prey" is a pretty good scifi novel about this. It follows the tired cautionary-tale forumla, but like all of Crichton's novels has (some) basis in real research.

I was making a (poor) joke. Seemed much funnier at the time.

Comedy is a fickle mistress.

Hate Apple...
But hate patent trolling...


My brain hurts.

More like Windows Vista was the beta of Windows 7.

Those of use that skipped Vista would do well to pick up 7, which while flawed, seems to me to be the best of the Windows home operating systems.

No coop?
No dedicated server support?

I guess I'm buying Borderlands and will continue playing MW1 for my hardcore FPS.

Let the common name be "impulse engines".

For those of you that are not Manson fans (and I understand that, I'm only a casual fan) I'd like you to join in the irony here.

"This is the New Shit", the song absurdly-placed as the new themesong of a fairly-generic fantasy world with a lot of blood, is actually a song lampooning our consumer culture. The lyrics refer to the "new shit" as some fantastic new product or service that the consumer must buy for arbitrary reasons...not because they need it, but because it's new. It's a song about aggressive corporate greed and people guilible enough to buy into it.

Think about that a moment.

But you can patent genes. Discovered, not created.

Is it bullshit? Yes, but it has legal precedent.

I never quite understand these stories; maybe it's because I have difficulty grasping the complexities of medicine (as many people do and aren't aware they do), but doesn't it seem like the discovery of a treatment and the implimentation of a treatment have become abnormally distant from one another? Far beyond what proper testing and trials should mandate?

Is this a patent problem?
A legal one?

It's starting to seem like we've all but halted the advance of medicine while we try to extract as much profit from each new discovery as possible, nevermind that real people are dying in the meantime. How long is it before this drug treatment is avaliable? 2025?

Again, I have little grasp of medicine, so maybe I'm being paranoid. Can anyone give greater perspective on my concern?