And zero evidence of any of the prior roughly 100 billion (your estimate again, going with your thought experiment) having gotten out alive. You're off by about 6% for the running average. Classic gambler's fallacy.

The traditional name for sufficient bug fixes or other code contributions to justify getting a commercial license free is called a "fork".

Unless spying for a foreign power counts.

too long, read against my better judgement Wading through the patent, it just seems to describe the process of converting a vector image to a raster image. I don't see anything novel.

However when you forget once for several thousand customers all at once, each one is likely to take it as a seperate occasion. It's also perfectly normal to treat a mistake that affects orders of magnitude more people as orders of magnitude more irritating. Also it wasn't amusing for anyone affected that I've talked to, it was a combination or irritating and annoying.

Sincerely,
Someone who worked around the issue himself, but then got to spend hours via ventrilo and skype helping other players adjust their DNS settings so they could play the game they'd paid for.

P.S. Dear Sony: I would gladly maintain correspondence with your name / hosting providers in exchange for continued all-access membership during such periods.

Using weak passwords for cases when a password at all is unnecessary should be the norm as a defense against phishing, even by a company you presently trust. Mandatory complexity increases are probably being used already to undermine password variety. When a password has to be one thing different each time (another capital letter, another numeral, another punctuation mark) a service of dubious character could very quickly spot patterns that could be used improperly.

You could even refer to something low-complexity as a "PIN", and something of high complexity as a "password". I imagine you're already doing that for your bank and game respectively.

Essentially the judge points out that a different case requires a different trial. This also means more arguments to study for appealing the Aereo ruling. If Dish's lawyers poke holes in Fox's arguments that led to the Aereo ruling, those arguments are fair game for Aereo's lawyers to use if they're applicable.

Or the average IQ would remain 100, since it's a fixed number.