Considering the galaxy is constantly moving.

Edit in a text editor and paste into the web text box, it won't check spelling.

I believe there are a few kinds of errors that won't catch (or at least, there used to be). I once got a YSOD in Hotmail (No stack trace though). For realsies.

To cell phones? Care to share how? SIP gateways to voipbuster and others will call *landlines* for free, but cell phones?

Psychology is a vast field, and some claimed psychology teachings are indeed bullshit. For good examples of non-bullshit psychology, read Richard Wiseman's Quirkology and other works by Wiseman.

As opposed to optimists, who blow.

Wow, the Monty Python reference sure took long.

Where are you following it? The linked document (which the third article, in turn, uses as a source) refers clearly to the suspension type. If you're right, that document is outdated.

...but suspended, awaiting further evidence.

Sobreseimiento (as in the original report) != dismissal

Just nitpicking, though. I don't think there is a case.

Or use a 1.x Gecko-based browser. K-Meleon, for example, is actively maintained and re-enables a lot of good stuff: sane image search, "Cached" link back in place, result links that really link to the result page (rather than some Google script) - all without having to go to the extreme of disabling Javascript. Slashdot looks terrible, though.

Also, IMHO the 20-year extensibility is pretty ridiculous for software and the grantees should be required to license their patents at reasonable fees.

Yes. I must add that only a really tiny fraction of the mathematical algorithms that have been patented should really have been regarded as patentable in the first place (patentable also means non-obvious, novel, and applicable in the industry).

Indeed. Perhaps they would be a bit more moderate about software patents if only the worthy ones were awarded.

Maybe the problem with software patents is not the concept of patent, but the money and bureaucracy required to enforce them and the sheer amount of patents that get awarded.

Arguably the inventors should also indicate the best mode for carrying out the invention to the extent of the inventor's knowledge, and IMHO that includes not only the detailed description but also the source and the necessary steps to compile it.

Mathematical algorithms are processes, and as such they should be qualified as patentable as long as they are novel, non-obvious and capable of industrial application. In that sense they are no different from the process to build an automobile (a patent that expired).

It's not a black-and-white situation. A FOSS company can decide to patent their software and allow selected partners, with a commitment to FOSS, to infringe them, precisely to prevent megacorporations from stalling innovation. Like Red Hat does.

No, it fails the novelty requirement.

Software should be patentable *as long as the source code is released*, which is not the way it's usually done. Quoting from WTO TRIPS agreement, which has been signed and ratified by the vast majority of countries in the world:

Emphasis mine.