Similarities in names are a judgement call. You believed that the names were sufficiently different, google's lawyers did not - and to be honest as soon as I read neuoogle I related that to google, so IMO they are sufficiently similar for an individual with no previous experience with your app to associate the two. Also, as you were going for trade mark of your name, you would (or should) be aware that trade marks can be lost if not defended. The google lawyers are just defending the google trade mark against attempts to trade mark words (or whatever) that are sufficiently similar to theirs that a regular person may believe that your app is being represented by google (or whatever).

The fact that you chose a name that differed from google in only the prefixed letters, you almost invited the lawyers to your door. I will assume that you chose the name as you wanted your app associated with the google term which could be considered synonymous with "searching the internet". If the google lawyers didn't protect google's trade mark, it would soon fall into the realm of kleenex, or cling wrap; Once trade marked names that were not defended.

Perhaps in the future you would find a name that is far enough removed from the trade mark of giant companies to ensure the giant companies don't start exercising their legal right in protecting their trade marks.

I am based in Sydney and have done some graphic work, feel free to send me your assets plus your new name (if you think of one) and I'll update the assets for you free of charge. (p3r AT users.sourceforge.removeme,net)

I will be marked down as flame bait (if they still do that here) but why is it that sexism towards men is ok in today's society? For example if this was an app targeted at rating women based on criteria that men find interesting (for want of a better word) it would be removed from the app store before it could even be downloaded. In days gone by there were men only clubs which were shut down due to sexual discrimination, today there are women only clubs and they are applauded.

Why does the world always be painted in the same shade of grey. Perhaps there are fewer women in engineering because the majority of women don't like engineering. I'm sure there are more boys burning ants with a magnifying glass then there are girls, should we now force girls into burning ants with a magnifying glass just to even up the numbers?

Has equality really just become evening out the numbers with disregard to what women actually want to do with their lives? Let's just hope there are no women who actually want to become housewives. Fuck that! You need to be an engineer and work in a shit job for 8+ hours a day then go home and work for another 6+ hours. Why? Because of fucking gender equality where you are no longer allowed to do what you want.

I fucking hate this planet and I'm glad I'll be leaving soon,

Caller: I can no longer connect to my computer using my ingested password and I don't know why.

Support: Shit happens and you can lose your password.

One solution is for Cisco to produce network products that use external storage instead of internal chips for firmware storage. Have the customer download a firmware image from a source outside of the US and "burn" that onto a SD card (or whatever medium is to be used). The card is then inserted into the Cisco device which is now ready to use.

I understand that the Cisco system would still require an equivalent of a bios in order to initialise the card reader but as the bios would only need to initialise the card reader and none of the network hardware, it could be fairly securely isolated to prevent hacking at that level. Also the firmware (on the SD card) could checksum the bios in order to detect modifications and prevent initialisation of the hardware, resulting in a brick.

Don't buy a giant phone.

There will always be stupid dickheads in every aspect of life. Some of these dickheads have managed to get in a position of influence, usually we call them politicians but they do appear in other places as well.

You just got to love it that in a supposed "free country" like America, people are being fined for using a mobile phone while walking, yet in a country that is perceived as having a heavily controlled population, they are providing safe areas where people are free to walk and use their phone. Interesting.

So, of the tree listed examples, only the first one is a valid test. why?

- The Simpsons is not funny, hence a simple call to sleep(1320); would correctly identify all times to laugh (based on a 22 minute episode)
- The first rule of Ikea is that you don't read the instructions. If a bot was to read the instructions, then it could be determined that it is not human. Further to that, of the humans that do read the instructions, they are usually incapable of interpreting the glyphs on the (single) sheet. Therefore, if an individual (be it human or bot) could correctly fulfil the third example, it must be a bot.

After reading the article I have a question, how does a bomb squad detonate a non explosive device? Or did they strap the explosives to the device (and hence the bridge) and then detonate them?

Perhaps there are not many girls in IT (any fields) because it is a shit job in where the smartest people (the devs) are always told what to do by the dumbest people (the managers).

Devs are require to build a bridge at a level not much higher than the molecular level without proper instructions and with the possibilities of huge structural changes that would result in either an unstable system (dev's fault) or a broken system (dev's fault) or a system that does not match what the customer thinks they want (dev's fault).

Fuck, if I could do my time again I would be as far away as possible from computers.

I heard...
... they will be taking this in their stride.
... they will be addressing it one step at a time.
... they don't have a leg to stand on.
... they have a solution but it will cost an arm and a leg.

It's obvious that Amerika is performing a DDOS attack on North Korea because I once saw some text in a file that was written in Amerikan english.