It's great to go after pedophiles, drug dealers, terrorists, etc. Go to court and get your warrant access that persons information then go after that person. They shouldn't be allowed to casually browse through your emails and texts looking for "suspicious" looking information.

You have no inherent rights. You have to understand your rights are purely theoretical and can be usurped by a good argument and a bad judge, or a bad argument and a good judge on a bad day. You only have rights if you can successfully argue those exercise of rights in a court of law after they have been actively violated.

Ha! Love it!

Obama is a Democrat? Are we sure Bush still isn't in charge?
What is the difference between Democrat and Republican again?

By the way why don't they prosecute gun manufacturers? We know a certain percentage of guns will be used in a crime?
Again "Precrime"! which is nothing like "Precumm"!

There's gotta also be a Minority Report joke in there somewhere as well....now we're prosecuting "Precrime"?
How long before we start prosecuting security researchers for security holes that we know they will find and exploit someday!

What? Sorry about that, you rambled on for a bit and I stopped paying attention. Something about Obama and some conspiracy or something.

That's neat!
I think this is some sort of scam though. Hackers usually brag about exploits, one claiming to have a high IQ is inviting another hacker to one prove that he's smarter that him; plus being seemingly impossible.

This looks like it's some sort of a scam. I think it's gonna end up on that show American Greed.

This is a very interesting experiment these companies are performing on consumers.
Can these companies push what they want us to use and succeed in business? My guess would be no; but companies can and do manipulate markets and government regulations in their favor all the time. Is the business at the mercy of the consumer or is the consumer at the mercy of the business?
Maybe AT&T and Verizon will try and make an argument that charging for bandwidth is good for consumers? Maybe high bandwidth is a threat to homeland security in some way?
Microsoft can sue anyone that has a GUI interface for patent infringement or can buy a company that might be a threat. This is kind of what Apple did to them when Microsoft first came out with Windows.
Who know at this point, it will be interesting to see what the future holds!

CEO dead pool how long?
I got 18 months!

How specific do you need to be? You can still be pretty generic, for example with the one click button.

• button on screen
• code to run when button is clicked
• storage of information related to button clicked by user in some storage place

I think this will just fuel the fire to completely do away with software patents.

Same idea that big companies seem to be pulling lately; let's stifle innovation, ignore what the client wants, the internet doesn't exist, we deserve to charge the client more money because we are doing a great job, it's 1988.

Yeah I think IT workers need a lobbying group. Everyone else has one. Not sure we need a union.

No, No, No. I meant Nativism was a racist.