Just give it up, she's, er I mean they, are just not interested in you.

I'm secretly hoping no prior art is found. Such issue would raise public awareness to the idiocy of how patenting is being applied to the software world. I guess many people would simply give up without trying to find out why, but sometimes we need a big accident or something "famous" dying to shock people into realizing the erring ways.

It's not as if they are banning GSpot from the desktop.

GSpot??? Must be a new package. Hmm...

user@ubuntu:~$ LANG=en_US sudo apt-get install gspot
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package gspot
user@ubuntu:~$

Damn... no wonder computer guys have so much trouble with the opposite sex.

Would a company be that stupid that they'd bother the user too damn much? I imagine they'd apply it at a low rate, e.g. 1 ad per hour, or 1 ad after the equivalent of an album/movie playback, or right at the start of a movie. I admit it would be annoying, but I imagine still quite a lot of people would put up with it if it's at a low enough rate. Granted, the companies would pay dearly to serve ads on such devices.

I suppose plenty of people have a high tolerance level. See how they put up with the Blue Screen Of Death; you'd suppose it's an ad for buying Microsoft products.

Now, I admit it will be seriously alarming if (when?) they figure out a way to serve ads directly to the brain and requiring user interaction...

BOFH, meet the new guy, the Bastard Operator From Space.

Well I just googled on "Neantheral Porn" and didn't find any... yet.

That's easy. "Neanderthal" is too much of a mouthful for some people. Try googling "Caveman porn" when you're not busy (in 3, 2, 1...).

Nanoparticles killed up to 80% of the brain cancer cells after just five minutes of exposure to white light

Many people DO report seing a white light as they're about to meet their creator... Now if it were black light... well I guess it would kill 100% of the tumor (as well as a very good portion of colateral damage).

I mean, not the answer, but a definite step towards it.

Now we know the answer to a very recent, pertinent question: "how is babby formed?"

Great! Good thing my boxing gloves are orange, no one is going to notice it. Hehehehe...

Sorry for being the clueless noob here, so please enlighten me if you will. But wouldn't Oracle's acquisition of Sun possibly, remotely, be a doorway for them to turn some/most/all of its products Open Source? IOW, if "their" Java tanks, they tank everything else (MySQL, etc), if not they start turning some of their products OS'ed? Or will this acquisition immediately make most (if not all) of previously-OS'ed code closed-source? Granted, I've looked into MySQL's downloads page and their GA is still GPL-licensed (admittedly, they might change it in the future, and herein I might be answering my own question).

Firefox user = criminal

Iceweasel user = poser?

Instead of using a cellphone, whose network can falter in remote areas, one could use a token card. At most it would double the number of cards in one's wallet. Some banks in Europe (I don't know how many) use a token card. During an online transaction initiated from the bank's netbanking site, the user is asked three digits from a 3-algarism number matrix in the card. This could replace the problem with not having mobile connection in some areas, although it does not eliminate the problem with the token being stolen (since people tend to keep both in the same wallet); although, admittedly, one's cellular can also be stolen in the same manner. However, the person's (secret) PIN would deter use long enough to alert proper authorities.

Or they can use Cloud Computing to predict cloud motion and therefore how to distribute work loads.

cut the fat, in your thinking as well as on your body

I think this is key. People think of weight as a measure of body fat. But if you go on a "crazy diet" you lose both fat (a little) and muscle and bone (potentially enough to make you really sick on other accounts). So it's important to cut on fat-rich foods. Sugary substances (which sometimes mimick the fruit sugars that our body tries to absorb as much as it can); fat (which our body also absorbs, "for times of famine"). But keep things like protein and vitamins which are essential for your metabolism.

If your drive is to ingest large ammounts of food (volume) then try to replace it low-caloric foods.

It also helps if you're stressed enough that your focus is elsewhere. Sure you fill lousy, but the key is not gourging after the stress is passed but rather maintaining your normal eating habit (if it's healthy enough).

Google around for "the hacker's diet" for some ideas. It includes some "shock treatments" such as fasting or barely eating for 1-2 days maximum, just enough so that you don't get really sick. But it *IS* a question of self-control.