when bullets are flying at least there is faint hope the person behind the crosshair is directing them. when a gas bomb gets dropped every mother, child and baby sleeping in their bad in the freaking area suffocate and die you moron

You are missing the point that you'll be the one in 10 who normally would be willing to pay "money" for "free" a service. So make it more like $200/year, and then Twitter will happily make it happen for you.

You apparently have no idea what you are talking about. The patent is followed through by a single examiner, and all and any appeals all way until the final rejection ALL go through the said bastard. There are no balances and checks, if the examiner says an "A" in your patent is a "Z", you can argue all you want and that won't make a difference. I had three rounds with an examiner who returned completely irrelevant references to the patent, and in the end, he just said -- I don't give a fuck, I'll still reject your patent... Only after final rejection you can file an appeal that will be reviewed by a different examiner(s). But the chances are this new bastard(s) will be just sitting next to your old bastard ... so you can guess how that might play out ... In the meanwhile, you are $10k-20k, or whatever, out of your budget. And again, there is nowhere to appeal - if the examiner in final decision says that "A" is "Z" ... well, good luck with that ... arguing is like talking to a wall ... good luck with the #$%@ US patent system

Perhaps they should try to get good at fixing the robots that fix industrial robots ... ? ;)

I guess you missed this part ... see, just as he got SSD to spin at 1k it started to vibrate and make dangerous noises...

I laughed my ass off :)))

that's a good joke, did he ever try to type anything seriosu on touchscreen keyboard ?

a missile intercepting a 10 ton object moving at 40kms ??? sorry bud that is not possible

new Digital Pen electrocutes the holder until he/she gets the spelling/grammar right !

Speaking of Russia, to be on the bright side, you should recall how long it took Russia to go from one of the "world's superpowers" to "3rd world country". The one thing we learned from Russia's collapse is that the things you think will take decades often happen in less than a year. Once the breaking point is reached, it snaps, you will never see it coming... simple as that.

You probably hadn't been around for the past 3-5 years. Why would anyone *want* to come to the US? The country with ~100% GDP/debt ratio, fiscal cliffs every 12 month, deadlocked politicians, out of control copyright and "terrorism" legislation, overpriced (understatement) health care, failing schools, no real manufacturing, and advanced r&d focused on the fads along the lines of twitter and facebook??? there are still very sad places around the world, but fyi most of the "third world" had started to carve its way out of the shit-hole the US had been keeping it in for the past 50 years.

I like the way you think: I also think I am a lot smarter than the four FTC commissioners and one year they spent investigating this could be better spent for the issue at hands drinking bear and chasing cheeks like I do.

Perhaps you should remember that Google has the patent on PageRank and it has still until 2020 to go, and that might answer why does Google have a monopoly on search and does it have a monopoly on search.

It won't work because there is no money to be made in it. Who will invest into development of this? And even if a group of enthusiasts will spend their time to implement something like that, implementation is the least of the problems. Who will spend millions promoting altruistic system where you don't own anything and can't sell anything? Solve this problem and options will follow...

you'd have to go with round phones with rectangular edges from now on buddy