special status just means that people will file extra co-patents, so their existing patents can get special examiner status.
It might cost a little bit more, but to some companies, that will probably be peanuts, compared to the value of "special examiner"-status.

of course, more patent claims = more money for them, and since they can discard the co-pending patent, it means more money for a tiny bit of work.

Wherever she goes, the police will be aware that she was once accused of something related to pedofilia.
Accused of course implies she was linked to it.

ok, i meant to make this longer and darker, but i'm just not really feeling that paranoid tonight =)

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Are you referring to the french made Exocet missiles that sank the type 42 destroyer HMS Sheffield causing 44 casaulties, whereof 20 were fatal?

I take it that gp has had plenty of bad days and been on the wrong side of the law often enough.
Gp was just never caught doing so and thus believes that he or she never did anything "bad".

But i guess as someone trying to learn about usability analysis and the like, there's a lot to learn when it comes to drivers (of cars, bikes,trains, boats, airplanes, etc.)

If you patent, it'll be expensive.
If you don't patent, but end up making it, someone else will patent it and sue you, that will be more expensive.
However, if it'll never really be marketable, publish, someone might think oooo nifty, and hire you because it sounds great.

that they weren't required to do!

Time for me to sue someone for not giving me money!
Saddle up, we're going to Australia!

And while it doesn't help me directly, it seems this phrase will get modded up.

I genuinly appriciate it too.

ps. i prefer insightful over funny, i'm not just a joker, i'm a karmawhore too!

create work A.
get annoying little brother to send A to company X (but bully him a bit, so he'll never admit that he did it, or you forced him)
Go to court over X illegally holding A.

the work A could be a simple poem, that your brother posts on their tech support site or forums, where it's available to anyone.
At least in Denmark, where i get a note saying "STOP the police are not logging this (yeah right)" even read any of the pirate bay subdomains (*.thepiratebay.org).

To Cement fair use
To reduce ridiculous copyright lengths
To differentiate between commercial and personal abuse
To ensure that the copyright legislation promotes diversion creation of culture.

When i read the summary, that's what i thought.

And to some extent, i think you might still be right.
What they've done isn't to build in Conficker detection and the like, but to enable scripting so you can extent nmap.
being able to write nmap scripts is nice, on the other hand, on the other hand, several other tools allow for scripting nmap, so i don't see the point in going the other way around it.

Graphics can be great for immersion.

I've never really felt that nethack was fun, because it was ME running around in dungeons.
Nethack is fun because it speaks to logic and bad puns (i like bad puns. I like bad punch too, if it's spiked).

when first played games such as quake or bioshock, good graphic and soundscape helped me feel in danger of whatever was around the next corner.
I like a good shock once in a while, the sudden appearence of a darg grey 'D' or '&' just doesn't hit my nerves.

This might also mean that it's most im

It's wonderful to live in Copenhagen, one third of all personal transportation is on bicycle, a little less is public transportation (metro, trains and buses).

Motorists in this town actually feel that they have to fight to be allowed to stay in the city. Honestly, the city is doing what it can to ban gasoline vehicles from the inner city. Even though bicycles are slower, there's still a lot more room for these than for cars, and bicycles pollute less too.
So dear car-driver, get out off my town.

oh and to stay on topic. The real solution isn't to paint imaginary lanes, but to establish real bicycle lanes!

well, it's just a minor upgrade to windows vista, so...?
It's a good upgrade to vista, they've taken care of many of the big grievances.

Windows 7 is not that big a change, so it hasn't cost that much to develop, so it's cheaper.