Stop being ignorant. You've obviously never read Smith v. Maryland. Buh bye!

So, the 4th A isn't a legal problem. OK.

The most interesting trademark dispute is probably the one related to "Budweiser." "Jeep" is another, which started out in the public domain, but was then commercialized.

Ah, I see you have the machine that goes "Bing!"

This is my favorite. You see, we lease this back from the company we sold it to - that way it comes under the monthly current budget and not the capital account.

In my experience, very few people use "Xerox" as a verb. I've much more often heard "make some copies on the Xerox machine" (and less often without the "machine") referring generically to a photocopier.

In any case, bad example, as Xerox still holds their trademark.

I can certainly envision someone, having been told to "google it," simply searching using Google or Bing or Dogpile to search.

" preclusion against running 'servers' on residential service."

What's a "server?" A piece of software with a local display and keyboard connecting to the net is called a client if that piece of software is named "web browser" and a server if it is named "X windows." "Server" is an entirely arbitrary distinction.

If the NSA and federal government didn't change after the info was released publicly, why are they acting like an internal complaint might have made a difference?

"a lot of people aren't willing to accept the simple credo of "do good"."

ITYM "Be excellent to each other. And... PARTY ON, DUDES!"

" a landowner may make any legitimate use of their property that they want, even if it interferes with aircraft overflying the land."

So the FAA has no say if I fly drones over my land (or private land where I have the owner's permission).

But, but.... look, shiny!

Too bad it's not removable media.

Try again, with early 1700's technology.

In what way do you consider the choice of a measurement which is easily reproducible virtually anywhere worldwide "arbitrary?"

Yes, things like altitude change the scale a bit. Can you can come up with a better solution (very accessible, reasonably accurate, reasonably reproducible) for transfer of a standard temperature scale worldwide with mid-1700's technology? Choosing the freezing and boiling points of water on that basis for something of scientific, industrial and commercial use seems anything but "arbitrary."

"Why the hell are we talking about the Fahrenheit scale. And, while we're at it, memory of all kinds is always expressed in GiB, so a 512GB card is 1024 times as large as a 512MB card"

I use Rankine, you insensitive clod.

And, you're wrong. The Sandisk 512 GB card being discussed has a capacity of 512,000,000,000 bytes ("1GB=1,000,000,000 bytes" - Sandisk). Just like disk drives and SSDs are measured.