They are abusing the patent and legal system and it needs to stop. Yes, I know that the patent system is indeed broken but that doesn't mean you should go ahead and abuse an obviously broken system.

Yes, I do have an Android phone and I like my Android phone. What I don't like about Apple is that they seem to have some kind of idea in their heads that they can sue just about everything that moves. That's bullshit, it needs to stop.

Wrong company jackasses! You should be going after Apple!!!!

Obviously this isn't happening in AT&T land. Randall Stephenson is a real idiot!

All he cares about is profit, profit, and more profit and to hell with the health of the company long-term, their customers, and their employees. Just as long as we made our money today, who cares about "tomorrow."

Does anyone get the feeling that this doesn't feel like the Apple we're used to?

Any programming language can be a security nightmare if used by people who don't know what they are doing. And even those that DO know what they are doing can still end up in a lot of trouble. Case in point... C++. All it takes is an unchecked buffer and tada... instant exploit!

Oh yeah, the Borg with the chest that could double as a life preserver in case of a water landing.

They also have some damn good prices on processors. Someone once told me that Microcenter sells processors as a loss leader, as in they sell them lower in price so as to leave room in your wallet for other products.

For instance... Microcenter sells the Intel Core i7-2600 chip for $50 less than Newegg.com. Intel Core i7-960 is priced $60 cheaper at Microcenter than Newegg.com.

I was going to ask that question too. There's no reason why systems such as that need to be connected to the Internet, none what so ever.

First of all, people who live near coal-fired plants get more radiation exposure than those living near nuclear power plants. You're burning coal, which has been known to have bits of uranium (and other radioactive components) in it and sending all that coal smoke right into the air.

I have an E3000 running Toastman's Tomato-USB build. He really piles in a lot of stuff in his firmware but what I like the most is that I can monitor bandwidth usage in near real-time (two second delay) using the web interface. I can even find out what specific machines are using bandwidth as well. Very stable. Haven't had one issue with it at all.

Toastman's Forum Thread over at LinksysInfo.org
Toastman Download Repository

What about SquareTrade.com? I've heard they have good reviews for their extended warranty. Better and cheaper than anything you can get at those Big Box Stores.

Do they know what they just got themselves into? Seriously, EA alone has enough lawyers to keep them in an infinite loop in the courts for the next couple of years. All EA has to do is keep their lawyers in court until Lodsys goes bankrupt and we'll be done with this mess. Then again, EA could go the easy route and just use their lawyers to smash them like a bug.

Wow, I can't believe that I want EA to win here.

"U.S. Patent No. 5,946,647 on a "system and method for performing an action on a structure in computer-generated data" (in its complaint, Apple provides examples such as the recognition of "phone numbers, post-office addresses and dates" and the ability to perform "related actions with that data"; one example is that "the system may receive data that includes a phone number, highlight it for a user, and then, in response to a user's interaction with the highlighted text, offer the user the choice of making a phone call to the number")"

Well... there goes Regular Expressions since that's what is used to make those types of "recognition" systems. But, you could also apply this patent to Arrays in C++ (or any programming language for that matter) since they did talk about "structures" and an Array is a data "structure." But last time I checked, the concept of Arrays have been around for more than 20 years. Yeah, that patent is invalid.

"U.S. Patent No. 6,343,263 on a "real-time signal processing system for serially transmitted data" (while this sounds like a pure hardware patent, there are various references in it to logical connections, drivers, programs; in its complaint, Apple said that this patent "relates generally to providing programming abstraction layers for real-time processing applications")"

You could in theory apply this patent to any kind of radio transceiver be it a cell phone or *gasp* a television. Oops, yeah... that patent too is invalid.

Parents use the Internet as a babysitting tool more often than not these days. Then when they find that little Johnny or Judy finds something inappropriate on the Internet they cry foul about it and say that it shouldn't be on the Internet for their kids to find thus punishing everyone else. Or they run to some filtering program to hopefully block the bad stuff and then the kid finds their way around it and then the parent has a fit about it.

How about actually being a parent? Sitting down with your child and help them use the Internet safely is far better than trying to either force the usage of filtering applications or ranting about why the content is there to begin with.