Not sure if trolling, or just really stupid.

Wow. You are a pedant troll. Go back to kindergarten where you belong.

Calm down. I know what secureboot is. I should have said it is a Windows thing since the fear is MS will be conspiring with PC makers to lock out linux using it. I was simply trying to give you an example of such a feature progression.

Umm, you asked for an example of such a feature creeping its way in and I gave you one.

SecureBoot is just a Windows thing too. If you just build you own computer from scratch you aren't hamstrung by SecureBoot.

One major one that I can think of is the kernel mode code signing policy for all 64-bit versions of windows starting with Vista. In XP it was something that you could turn on. With Vista it became harder and harder to turn off. Now you can turn it off with a BIOS setting or something but the OS will refuse to play any protected DRM content. There were a few hacks published that got around all of this.

So the answer to your question is a definite yes.

Throw the idiot in jail when it doesn't work.

You've obviously never been out of your parents basement.

Yea, setting up an advanced industrial operation on the fucking moon is real easy like 19th century mining in Arizona.

I am obviously referring to catapults that fire heavy cargo, not weaponry that fires bullets. But thanks anyways wikipedia-bot.

Yes, number 2 is all most certainly the answer. It is an inconvenient truth that many won't admit. We are just as stuck here as frigging insects.

You watch too much TV. There is no catapult imaginable that can achieve a velocity of > 2.4 kilometers a second.

Yes, Europa has a probably has a better chance of having life in its subsurface oceans but there is that wee problem of penetrating through its icy crust. How the hell are you going to penetrate through 20 kilometers of ice (minimum estimate) without using a massive thermonuclear bomb? And then if you did, any life in the vicinity of the blast would be annihilated and then the thawed hole would freeze over before a probe could find anything. Yea, forget about Europa.

SnapFish along with all of the other "free" photo storage/print sites hold your photos virtually hostage. If you want them back you have to pay to get access to the originals. IMO you are better off with a service like flickr.

My point is this. In response to this legislation, corporations will shotgun sketchy patents for all sorts of ideas. That is what the guy in TFA is trying to say.

RTFA FFS. He did say why. This legislation just empowers patent trolls like never before. Now, even if you thought of the idea first and implement it, someone else can patent it years later and sue the crap out of you. First to file, remember?

Wow, this is something that I've never seen before. A seven digit uid with a two digit IQ...