One word: unions.

I have no doubt that the additional Phoenix Lights events were flares, and likely hoaxes. In fact, I believe they were productions to cast doubt on the first events. But, suggesting that the first event could be birds is absurd. That does not match the video, many thousand of creditable eyewitness accounts, and coverup. To suggest that migratory birds are not ruled out as an explanation of the Phenoix Lights is to admit ignorance on the topic.

There's about 55,000 vehicular fatalities every year in the US. Over 40,000 of them do not involve any alcohol. Of the ones that do involve alcohol, the alcohol use is not always a contributing factor.

Drunk drivers are pursued because it's both profitable and politically correct. That's not enough to make it just. A truly just cause is to work to prevent all 55,000 fatalities every year. Systems exist to do this. If the government funded programs for vehicle safety, such as cars that drive themselves, most all auto fatalities would vanish, along with the DUI problem.

VLC was removed because someone complained, and Apple did not want to deal with the problem

That said, I do not believe GPL2 prevents users from posting in the App Store. Here's why.

It is said that it can not be posted, because someone can not freely use the code that is shared when it's posted. That's not true. Anyone can use the code. The true complaint is that you can't sign and distribute the code without paying $99. Does GPL say that there has to be free code certs? I don't think so. The only issue is the code certificate need to sign the code.

Personally, I hate typing on touch screens. I doubt they can replicate the experience of a keyboard. I want to be able to type with two hands, without looking at the keys, while able to see the full screen.

Also, get off my lawn.

You have to realize that the article is talking about small independent software vendors, and not companies like Blizzard who have billions in market capital that can be used for advertising.

I am an independent publisher of software on another platform, and I make a good living selling discount software at $40 a copy. If overnight I had to worry about others discounting that software to $5 a copy, I'd have trouble.

That being said, my software is for a very limited group of people, and I doubt I'd see much competition, but who knows?

Some systems have an option to fully overwrite the files instead of simply deleting the references to the files. Also, it wouldn't be hard to imagine that an algorithm to overwrite a disk could fail when finding a bad spot on the drive, and fail to finish the job.

I read a while ago that the same happened with the Earth's moon, or the Moon. The same side of the moon is always facing the Earth, because it bounced off of the Earth. It's also moving away from the Earth, for the same reason. The theory was the object that crashed into the Earth was about the size of Mars; that object is now the Moon.

A wavelet was a very basic bit of text. They took communication to the most basic roots. Why add email headers to it? The whole point was to get rid of them. Why impose the limits of email on Wave?

Wave was a reinvention of the old systems. It's a very good idea, that has a few very good uses. Those uses are not email, or chat, or message boards; the real use was document creation and maintenance. And, that functionality likely got bastardized by internal politics.

Lawyers are expensive. Defending patient violations is expensive. Demostraiting prior art is very easy, especially when that art is published worldwide and owned by thousands. Demostraiting that Apple reviewed the prior art is a given.

This wouldn't even require court. Just submit prior art to the patent office if you have it. If they pickup on what Apple is doing, the will be angered.

If the ideas are already in published applications, then the patents are junk.

I have very little interest in mobile phones. In fact, I hate talking on phones, and I hate that my GF looks at Facebook on her phone.

But, I do like that iTunes money.

Well, do something about it.

http://www.waveprotocol.org/

It's awful for general conversion, but it's great for working together with others.

Basically, it's a real time wiki, without the stupid name. What are wiki's good for creating? Well, documents and articles. Wave is good, perhaps better, for the same thing.

Well, he's screwed, unless his info shows major corruption. If his info is solid, his captors may be screwed.