Well, there is http://retroshare.sourceforge.net/

Sure - when it is new, people will make mistakes. give people a few scandals, a few years - perhaps even a few generations and people will remember to backup their private key. Or we will have private keys in secure distrib storage!

Well, it does not have to be clumsy, particularly on your home computer with a little extra software

• it could have decent search on the device
• it could launch websites, and login
• auto login to websites
• launch apps and login?

Well, Thats easily enough to be covered by some solar cells in the body of the car.

It's pure anicdote - but I made a somewhat popular little android called "Wheelz" - the day I put it up on demonoid (and TPB) my sales, and ad-supported downloads doubled.

Quoting myself:
"As an aside – more than 20x as many people have downloaded the full version of my game Wheelz (from TPB or other “piracy” websites) rather than bought it. And yet as I see it, it has never been stolen! In fact I would go as far as to say it has never even been infringed! And that’s because I uploaded it, giving my permission for other to download the full version for free, shortly after putting it on the android market for a profit.

Why? Well – why not? Popular games will be pirated anyway (no amount of DRM will stop that – although it is likely to destroy any enjoyment the game previously offered), there’s no stopping that. I thought it may lower my sales, but was a nice ethical thing to do

What happened? My sales doubled! and I received thousands of kind messages!"

I suspect, often someone downloads the free full version from demonoid, shows it to their friends, and on of them buys it.

The way this'd be really handy for a driver, is if they head a decent HUD on their windscreen, which could highlight pedestrians *through* a parked van. Of course, we would need better GPS, a better HUD, some head tracking, and a few other bits and bobs...

Can you give a few examples of patents you think should have been granted?

Just press the Mute button if it bothers you =P

They were making profit - 5% of their total was from android. I'd rather they add a notice saying "this platform is not 100% supported - very sorry if your device is not supported" and keep supporting it, but only as much as they feel like. If some new/old devices cant play the game... so what? Cant they just hide their app from hard to support devices?

30,000 times smaller - at 100nm that means they were 3mm before, right? why couldnt we have handheld scanners with 3mm antenna in them?

Exactly the same - right down to putting pirate faces on things http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5555899/Physics_Playground_for_android_(awesome_game_)_-_apk