.. a thousand Barbara Streisands just walked into a room with a truckload of suppression orders.

If they keep this up, they'll tear the patent system to pieces and we'll be forced to start again.

More please. Bring it on. Its about time we got two companies in the ring who simply hate each other.

Cross-licensing agreements only benefit the companies involved - and they're a boring spectacle.
A battle to the death, however, benefits all of us.

And how do you define the difference?

Surely this would come down to a determination by the courts as with any form of negligence...

How do you sue a doctor for negligence after a surgery?
How do you sue a car maker for negligence due to a design flaw?

These are all highly specialised and highly subjective - you bring the case, the courts determine where the line is

...that should be a four letter word.

I watched this live yesterday, but my kids were at school (Australia)
I so much wanted to share with them the experience of the landing and watching the control room react with each step

The human race just put a truck on Mars using a method straight out of the best sci-fi movies and do you think I could find a copy of the raw footage of the control room anywhere?

Nope. Nothing more than the canned final minute replayed ad-nausea by every news service on the planet. The 10 minutes before that? Nothing...
Now I know at least ONE of the reasons why. Whether its ideological or simply for cash, its nothing less than censorship of the masses.

Try "Australian Ads Body Rules Companies Responsible For Own Facebook Content"

isn't this what the "trending" stories already are?

At 40... I'm the first generation to grow up with home computer, a computer lab at school, to learn using video games, and to learn programming as I grew up... Now pick up your skateboard and GET OFF MY LAWN!

anyone else feel we're headed closer and closer to the idea of corporate enclaves?

+1 to this... "Sorry, this video is unavailable from your location..."
We should be cutting ties with anyone (thats YOU Washington Post) who wants to wall themselves off and try to create their own "little Internet"

Pick up your picnic blanket and GET THE FUCK OFF MY SUPER-HIGHWAY!

No, seriously, please keep it going - you're doing more to the current IP madness to a grinding halt than any companies before you... thanks for showing the general public how patently insane the current situation is...

Ahh yes, Lua... thats tied to Angry Birds isn't it?

Usernames for a vast number of sites default to you email address - with a different password for each site.
As such, people end up sticking patterns in their passwords to keep track of which is which... or, worse, they use the same pwd for every account.

I'm more worried about the number of times I've put the wrong username / password combo in a login prompt for some site, when that username/password is valid for another side.

muscle memory too, is a killer in this regard.

eg if your email address is the same as your domain username - how many sites have you given your work account details to due to muscle memory alone?
Sure, the site failed the login - but who says they destroyed the details of the attempt ?

Facebook and the death of texting is one thing, but I'm still amazed that Skype hasn't absolutely destroyed the revenue of carriers everywhere.
I mean sure, they get the data - but VOIP and Skype are infinitely cheaper than paying per call

It seem we finally all got the video phones that sci-fi has been throwing in our faces for years, and the world went "meh..."