Ok so you're so indispensable that you can't take 15 minutes off 4 times per week, but you're unable to plan ahead sufficiently to ensure that you have 30 minutes worth of work to do which can be performed without a computer? Give me a break.

That 20 minutes or so where I was disconnected from grid was intolerable. Sometimes it would be as long as half an hour! Half an hour without 'liking' anything! Also, my virtual farm was practically in ruins and my digital pets were thirsty.

Not exactly sure which planet you believe to be so much better than Earth. It may have some problems, but I'd still choose it over living on any other celestial body I'm aware of.

I see. Thankyou. What a depressing situation.

IANAL as will be pretty evident from this confused series of questions, but from the article: 'They claim to have patented the method of using GPS location on vehicles to determine when they will arrive at a certain place,'

So, did they patent it or not? And if they did, then who the hell approved it as a valid innovation???!
If they didn't patent it then it's just a case of straight up fraud isn't it? Conversely, if they do actually hold this patent, then isn't just as clear cut that this poor guy is infringing it - no matter how ridiculous that seems? The article seems to suggest that they are now reviewing whether the patent is valid or not - but once a patent is granted doesn't that automatically mean it's valid too?

it's pretty embarrassing that he 'makes a nearly identical blunder' all over again.

What's embarrassing is that you continue your association with an author who has shown himself to be of poor credibility.

How does artificially cutting your children off from a huge part of the world help develop their brain in a healthy way? As opposed to teaching them how to interact with the world in a responsible and constructive way? Creating a little bubble to isolate your children from things that you don't understand, but one day they will not be able to work without, is the real dysfunction here.

Well you can pretty much boil any story down to a bland set of base components and call it not worthy of the title 'news'. However, I didn't know this and I was interested to read it since I remember the original case. If I hadn't read it here, I may not have seen it at all.

"End of life" is a verb now?

I'm betting that if he had sent the company into a tail spin and taken a $3billion parachute you'd be on here commenting about what a dick the guy was. Can he do anything to please you, or are you a serial whiner?

First of all, some of the smartest people on the planet have facebook accounts - it is not solely the domain of "stupid" people and "idiots" as you put it. There are also plenty of people who have enough self discipline that they are able to refrain from using facebook while they are at work and do not spend every waking moment taking selfies and posting pics of food they are about to eat. That you are unable to see this and instead implement a blanket hiring policy which eliminates candidates based on their social media preferences suggests that you yourself, sir, are in fact an idiot.

A dictionary?! You use a dictionary for improving your interpersonal communication? Perhaps chatbot is exactly what you need.

So it would only be valid news if it put Apple in a negative light then? Or are we not allowed to hear about Apple at all?

There are less conspiracies going on in the world than you think.

Check out this link: http://projects.apache.org/indexes/quick.html

Granted, not all of these are of the highest quality, but it may jog your memory of a few projects which are used in high demand environments everyday.

Then Guy B goes out of business for not taking enough interest in the product he sells and being a non-value adding price hiking middle-man.