Maybe you could patent the intentionally misleading and simplistic argument you just made.

Actually there was always a LOT of leeway in tablet design, it's just that the lazy ones decided not to design their own solutions, but rather to copy Apple's.

He punched his boss in the face and they couldn't fire him? Seems like more of an argument in FAVOR of unions, doesn't it?

That's flat out not true. Apple has great resale. A simple eBay query dispels your statement.

I share you mindset on this, but what I'm finding funny from all the comments is very few people posting here are excited at the prospect of mankind "fixing" this by manipulating nature. It seems very few of us have confidence in our knowledge of how this planet works and unintended consequences. Yet, at the same time, if you claim to be a skeptic of man made global warming pronouncement, for the very same reason (little confidence in mankind's true understanding of the planet) then you are shouted down around here. It feels like people are a bit full of shit on this topic. "You must believe our conclusions, we understand how nature works, but we don't understand it well enough to feel confident in directly manipulating nature."

Not a nitpicker, it's a thinly veiled clone of the Apple site. They must be associated with Samsung and HTC?

This qualifies as hate speech? A little over sensitive aren't you?

Assuming , of course, that our actions ended up making a better world. Some of them undoubtedly would, stop polluting, etc., but our history of "fixing" nature is not a very successful one because it seems we're shown time and again that we don't really have as good of an understanding how a man made change to fix one thing will cause problems in another area. I think just stopping pollution and researching and building clean renewable sources of energy like solar and wind would be the smart move and stay away from trying to manipulate nature. Our record on that kind of sucks.

Easy there champ, you're gonna give yourself an ulcer.

He makes very good points about the cult like status of this issue on both sides, the politicization of the issues, and the fact that it's a bit presumptuous to think that we (mankind in general) understand nature enough to be certain of all this considering we've F'd nature up every time we've interfered, even with the intent of doing good.

Who LICENSED it from Xerox for Apple stock. Feel free to know what you're talking about before you post.

I think any massive "wake up" in voters that would get Ron Paul elected would also get rid of man representatives of the current two parties too. I'm voting for him and voting 3rd party candidates for anything else, but I doubt the masses will. They "occupy" a bunch of places and then vote for the same retards all over again.

All this drivel to present a case where the Apple patents are invalid. So let's think this through, the patents are valid, Samsung copied their asses off (look pre-iPhone and after iPhone, it's blatantly obvious they turned on the copiers at Samsung) and Samsung gets deservedly smacked down. Not a popular opinion for many myopic Apple haters on Slashdot, but more than likely the outcome. If they redesign and do their own homework then fine, but their current Galaxy line is a blatant rip off of what Apple released first.

Nope, you just need to follow the hater Herd!

Put your spreadsheet away (how pathetic that you have one) and realize that Google does not currently have an offering that does what Siri does. They have snippets of it, but Siri does much more than just commands.

Try not to be a retard and read his post again. Google does not currently have an equivalent to Siri. I know that pisses the Fandroids off, but it's reality. On the other side, Siri is not a translation app, so it doesn't do what Google's translation app does. While they both accept voice as input, they functions are completely different.