Computers have been able to "program themselves" since the first Fortran compiler. We just taught computers how to interpret specifications written at higher and higher levels. Let me know what it'd take for a computer to come up with a program's requirements all by itself, and then we'll know what a singularity needs.

I'd be interested in reading a citation supporting your theory that granting a nonexclusive license for qualifying noncommercial uses will weaken a trademark.

Disney sues people for putting a picture of Mickey Mouse on the wall of a day care. LEGO, on the other hand, puts out a movie decrying certain media companies' fanwork ban policy.

Six million people killed for practicing Judaism, as well as members of the Christian Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses sent to the camps for their pacifism, would disagree with you.

Can be but isn't in practice. Fort Wayne's bus system isn't quite "on-demand" because it has at least one 36-hour downtime each week: from Saturday evening through early Monday morning.

When you buy a car, you're buying the ability to have a car in front of you when you leave the building. Autonomous rental cars that drive themselves to the doorstep also provide that ability. Making cars fungible in this manner which changes the threshold for "you are going to use the asset infrequently".

Until your employer happens to relocate you to a city whose buses don't run at all on Saturday evenings, Sundays, or six major holidays.

You mean like Konami v. Roxor, the lawsuit over the Dance Dance Revolution patent that led to a claim construction in Konami's favor?

Don't think of it as 1920x1080. Think of it as twice 960x1080, with one nearly square window on each half of the monitor.

You won't see Google Play Store (lawfuly) on any square tablet. Google licenses the Google Apps only to hardware makers who agree to make all their Android devices meet the Android CDD. And the Android CDD specifies a display aspect ratio of at least 6:5.

1280x1024 to 1920x1080 is still an upgrade, and your window manager should let you divide it into two 960x1080 areas so that you can refer to docs while writing code or whatever.

Are you sure the major version of the kernel wasn't increased to allow breaking changes to the device driver ABI? That's what changed from XP (NT 5.1) to Vista (NT 6) and what didn't change from Vista to 8.1 (both NT 6.x).

If by FB you mean Facebook, I don't even have an account there. I was referring to Wikia.

Hosts alone does not a security policy make. Putting an ad blocker or plugin click-to-play on top of hosts helps especially when the ad server runs on the same hostname as the main server or when the ad servers have a large variety of subdomain names.

Then how should one determine whether a particular work is worthwhile before looking at it? Would you prefer paywalls, which require the reader to buy before he tries?