Here's a hint: a trademark has no natural expiration.

And a trademark can be lost if it's shown that you knew about the infringement but did nothing.

FTA: “Recently I applied for a patent on 3D printing,” Suarez told BBC in an interview.

Okay, give us the application number so we can actually see what you've done and see if there's any prior art. A cursory search of the USPTO application database returns nothing at all for Thomas Suarez as the inventor, nor for any Suarez in either Los Angeles or Manhattan Beach, the given (residential) address for CarrotCorp.

I really hope this kid has stumbled onto something good, but everyone seems content to just take him at his word without anything to substantiate his claims.

So, no, it isn't going to hurt like blazes.

He was referring to whatever surgery the patient had been rendrered unconscious for (say, an appendectomy), not surgery to implant a device in the brain

Then you have never looked at a ten line C program to implement a PID control loop for a servo motor.

But the controller that the loop is a part of will still be more than happy to drive whatever the motor is attached to right past its mechanical limits if a limit switch fails. :-) I've seen it happen many times myself.

Here is my phone. Notice that it has been dumped, it has 768mb of ram, and a 1ghz CPU.

Compare that to the Samsung Fascinate, a very similar phone that is still supported despite having less ram.

What you can see is a developer bias: Qualcomm technology is (already) preferentially terminated.

For myself, I need to start buying Samsung, and I need to make sure that it has as little Qualcomm technology in it as possible.

Does Cyanogenmod need even more encouragement to dump Qualcomm processors? Odd that the Nook Color is still supported, when many faster Qualcomm chips have been shown the door.

I already have to run an unofficial release of Cyanogenmod on my vivow. Now what is the likelyhood that I'm going to get a Towelroot patch when you are nuking the source repositories?

I still won't buy Motorola products because of their past behavior. Am I about to add Qualcomm to that list?

Available soon: The 60" Sony LCD Panopticon!

Their primary function does not and should not supersede U.S. law.

The excuse Chief Justice Rehnquist gave in his majority opinion was that while being stopped at a checkpoint did count as "seizure" under the Fourth Amendment, it is only a "slight" intrusion which must be weighted against the importance of preventing drunk driving and the effectiveness of the roadblocks and therefore not a true violation of our Constitutional rights.

"Just the tip, okay baby?" as defined by the Supreme Court.

The operative and contested term being reasonable.

Which essentially is what the Fourth Amendment defines.

"Yeah, they broke the law, but they had good reasons!" Another useless government agency.

You know, you can write hard to read code in C as well but most C doesn't turn as hard to read as most Perl.

Unreadable code is unmaintainable code. It may not be buggy but how do you know?

Did anyone really expect this to go any other way. SCOTUS has been bought and paid for by corporate interests. This is why they should have term limits not unlike the President. 12 - 15 years, max.

There were enough usability problems with them

Agreed, but you're going to have usability problems when the use of a poor UI continues to be dictated from above despite the opinions of the people that actually have to use it.

GUIs are suppose to be less work, not more - typing is more work (as the AC pointed out)

They're better for some things, not as good for others. I can pop up a command prompt and type "copy *.txt \newdirectory" a lot faster than I can select the same files in the UI and drag them to another window. Conversely, if I want to copy everything in a particular folder between a range of dates, it's usually faster to use the UI.