Fine, I won't argue the specifics of that case, but the point is, which I think still stands, is that you don't know whether or not there are more details without investigation. If there are none, then of course one can come to a simple conclusion because there isn't anything else to consider, but if a judge spends time on it... maybe there is more to it that they are at least considering.

Sometimes the simplest path happens to be correct, but it's more coincidence than good practice...

You are being simplistic. Just because you don't understand any of the details behind a case, doesn't mean the case is really "obvious".

It's easy to only have a couple of details of a case, and come to a snap decision, and claim that it's "obvious" and groan about how if only someone would apply "common sense"...

Reality is often more complicated. Case in point. Woman burns herself with coffee from McD. If you only have that information, maybe you blame the woman, but it turns out there are more details that escape the 7 word summary. Turns out the coffee was kept near boiling, turns out McD corporate policy was to keep it much cooler (but still hot), turns out they had multiple complaints regarding the temperature but ignored them... To be fair, I haven't looked into that case in detail, but it should be clear that it's possible that there is more to the case than the summary.

And there are plenty of situations where, once the judge hears a complaint, he tells one of the parties to "get lost". If they don't, then perhaps there is something more to it... Oh, and it seems like the judge did exactly that in this case.

While that is some excellent technology, they are just a _display technology company_. They don't make computers. And a good chunk of the discussion by Mary Lou is about wanting to be a _drop in replacement_ for the existing screen technology...

So I don't see how this is a wrench at all, if anything, it'll be a big wrench in the works of e-ink readers, such as, say, the Kindle... that's their big selling point, the image quality (and battery life) and if the Pixel Qi screens can be run without a backlight (which they talk about in the first part of the interview), that'll increase the runtime dramatically.

Handwriting recognition is actually pretty good. I've got a MotionComputing LE1700 with Vista Business, and use it exclusively with a pen. I use Onenote, and push todo items to RTM via a custom add-in that I wrote. Now, it's by no-means perfect, but it is generally pretty good. It could be significantly better if it gave me an easier way of helping teach it my writing style, adding new vocabulary, that sort of thing, but I think the tech has gotten to the point of being generally usable. Also, to see some good development MS is able to apply to a product, Onenote is actually quite good (and looking around at forums you'll see lots of comments to the effect "I hate most MS products, but LOVE Onenote...") And the prototype they did with InkSeine was quite a break from traditional UI design... So, I personally think we are at a point where tablets with useable handwriting rec are here, and are more a matter of refinement.

I might be pissed, but I certainly wouldn't try to claim that they are violating my copyright, or claim that they are violating the DMCA (Ya know, there is that checksum digit in there...) or some other non-sense. I might make the claim (rightly) that they are attempting to commit fraud or identity theft, or facilitating such... but that isn't quite the same thing, now is it?

So in your opinion, rote memorization is what intelligence is all about? Not problem solving, not creativity, not being able to come up with better generalizations, or whatever? Rote memorizing? Really?

This is incorrect. We have no evidence that they lived together. Individuals may choose to ignore the _scientific_ facts, but that isn't science. So, #fail! By your reasoning, if someone was asked: "Is the world round or flat?" and they answered "flat" based on whatever whacko system of beliefs they might have, it suddenly becomes a question of "opinion"? Certainly not. Why an individual chooses to ignore certain areas of scientific understanding are irrelevant, unless it's done on a scientific basis.

As I said, we are running our own name servers, they just happen to be hosted within the frontier network. They are also our backup DNS, but somehow they were still redirecting people.

Honestly, all colos/providers I've dealt with have sucked, it's just the degree to which they suck that varies.