... to move a page per click I'll get excited. Windows still rules in that regard (I threw up in my mouth a bit saying that) - RSI sucks.

Only psychopaths need apply.

It's not impossible that Casio are well aware that the patents are bogus but still pay for licenses because that's cheaper and quicker than a legal battle.

Nothing's crashing. nothing's blue screening

oh really? I've had uTorrent hang so hard a couple of times that it can't be killed from taskmgr or taskkill. In fact win7 itself hung while shutting down necessitating a hard reset.

Mao - is that you?

You can guess what happened next

You walked back across the road, waved the wad of cash and said "Look! Credit history! Now approve my loan, bitches!"?

the American method of developing weapons is better than any authoritarian system

Yep, in China the inevitable corruption enriches only the generals and the politicians, whereas in America the corruption enriches the generals, the politicians AND the CEO - a clearly superior method.

"I got a rule. I never let go of money I don't have to^H^H."

FTFY
But where does this insane idea that FB is worth $50b come from? Just because Goldman-Sachs bought themselves a whole heap of fuck-all? *cough* myspace *cough*

Can I set "scroll by page" for the mouse-wheel yet?
No?
Then there's still some catching up to do.

The patent office posts on it's website the summary or abstract of the application and invites knowlegable practioners of the art to invent a comparable system within some given period (possibly determined by the complexity of the invention).

If an alternative invention is submitted before the end of that period then that application must have been obvious.

If the application is repudiated within 1 hour the applicant is forced to eat their application documentation!

Pieces of Eight, knucklehead!

"The facts of life are conservative." Margaret Thatcher

"Reality has a well-known liberal bias." Stephen Colbert

Isn't it the case that Windows ALWAYS adds the current directory to the head of PATH whereas you're talking about having to do something in order to make Linux insecure? You too could prepend "." to your PATH but then you'd be as clueless as Microsoft.

Well done mate for fighting the good fight throughout the comments on this story.

As humans we tend to think of those who we voluntarily associate with to be pretty much like us; it's only when you read the comments on stories like this that you realise that some of the otherwise very intelligent folks populating this site are in fact completely fucking bat-shit insane.

Two sigs seen on slashdot are apposite here (paraphrasing):

Light travels faster than sound: that's why some people appear bright until they speak.

and:

A patriot is someone who defends his country from its government.

Humans have consistently underestimated the intelligence of higher animals except for one species whose intelligence has been consistently overestimated.