One reason companies hire contractors for jobs like this is visibility.

Another reason they hire contractors for jobs like this is to get a fall guy. "The code worked before we hired the contractor, now it doesn't work, obviously the contractor is to blame."

Stockholm Syndrome. It's very common among GOP-leaning employees who don't know how hard they get screwed thanks to the steady stripping away of regulatory and union protections for workers...

If the expert was wrong, then the defense should have shown them side-by-side to show the differences.

This. After reading the judge's ruling, I'm convinced it has more to do with the brand-new swimming pool in his backyard with an EA logo on the bottom than anything to do with the facts of the case...

But what ACTUALLY happens is that the big companies have their own attorney on staff, whose job it is to robosign "due diligence searches" without bothering to do them.

placing the burden on the patent holder to prove the patent is NOT the result of:

- Patent slamming to game the system (e.g. submitting the same fucking thing 100 different times hoping one submission will slip by an overworked patent reviewer)
- Patenting something already patented
- Patenting something that is already obvious
- Submarine-patenting

Time for a spate of lawsuits showing how commonly the word is used, and the throwing out of this candy-ass "trademark."

No, the USA is worse.

Iran and SA are slowly embracing the concept of treating women as equals. The GOP are actively trying to repeal women's rights.

Your fault for electing George Dumbass Bush... then Governor Hairgel... Taliban Dan... Louie Gohmert... Ted Cruz...

You'd be surprised how many stereotypes turn out to be right on when it comes to Texas...

"“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”"

--Isaac Asimov

Around here we call that dumbass "Taliban Dan." He's one of the worst of the worst of the GOP's "racist fucking moron christian" base-rousers.

Eventually.

After years of appeals, attempts to bury the employees in mounds of paperwork and bleed them dry on legal fees.

Followed by appeals over whether or not the defendants, if they lose, have to pay the plaintiffs' legal fees too...

Meanwhile, The H1-B Scam is alive and well, just two stories down from this one on the front page...

Incandescent bulbs suck. They break easily, don't last long, and are a fucking fire hazard when used incorrectly (as simple as putting materials too close or putting too bright a bulb in a fixture with inadequate insulation and thin wiring).

CFLs suck less than incandescent bulbs. They don't get nearly as hot, they draw roughly an order of magnitude less current. Are they perfect? No, there are still issues like what to do if one is broken (shattered) and with deteriorating light amount over time on some of the earlier CFL models.

LEDs suck less than CFLs. They draw a bit less power and don't have some of the other CFL trade-offs.

The douchiness is in reactionary fucking morons who scream "waah CFLs suck because of LEDs, therefore we should all go back to incandescents" which is a really fucking stupid comment as you watch them make it.

Which is why they created the kiddie-friendly Xbox S controller in short order... pick which one you want.

Wow. Getting a "debunk" from a PR blog called "Nintendo Enthusiast" about the WiiU... That's like trusting Fox News when they say the Tea Party aren't a bunch of racists.