Computer software products have a 5 year limit after it is released. If it's made public before release (outside the company employees) they have 2 years to release it and then 5 years of regular protection. In order to get the protection you must submit all source code and materials to make the product and after the 5 year period it's available for download from the Library of Congress or something. Full new versions of software products can be submitted for another 5 years protection but not patches and service packs..

People will have to innovate then in order to beat out the competition and keep raking in the cash instead of sitting on things forever and ever.

"taking care of her" > "taking care of my mother"

Sorry, bad edit job.

"I have to pay to subsidize social security and medicare, neither of which I will ever see, because they are both projected to go broke before I ever collect a cent, and fixing them is a political third rail."

I feel the same way but after my father died of a heart attack after working an 11 hour day in a boiler factory I figure it's money well spent since those things are taking care of her since he's gone. It's not as good as what he used to get for health insurance but it's better then nothing for a woman who's had 18 major operations in her life.

I can't use my insurance on her like her and Dad used theirs on me when I was little so that's all there is. If that stuff lasts till she passes on I'll be satisfied even if there isn't anything left for me.

Or we could just say that companies are not intelligent living breathing biological entities and don't deserve taxation with representation. If a corporation wants representation go as the individual citizens working for that company. They got the representation all the way up to the CEO and board of directors as long as they're American citizens.

Update: Thank God it was a type-o in the upgrade window. 12.04 Xubuntu. So far things look fine but one oddity I noticed was the blue tooth icon in the toolbar not switching from active to disable even though it does disable when you turn it off to save battery power.

Xubuntu 11.10 64-bit install.

I'm doing the OS upgade from the update manager and instead of saying it's updating Xubuntu it says it's updating to Ubuntu 12.04. I'm not sure what is going on but it will be interesting if their upgrade process switches me from Xubuntu back to vanilla Ubuntu. I'll post an update when it's done.

Yesterday it was a seven year old kid with cerebral palsy.

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/04/26/father-tsa-got-aggressive-with-cerebral-palsy-stricken-7-year-old-from-long-island/

"For Tacco so loved the tech that he gave his one and only Slashdot, that who so ever believes in the code shall not perish but have ever lasting karma." Fixed.

Thanks for the chuckle, I wish I had mod points.

Seriously this would have gotten me to make regular visits to Vegas just to see the whole damn thing. Also if they bundled this with actual science type things it would have been fantastic. Hell I bet even Neal deGrasse Tyson would have done one of his talks/shows/etc from the bridge if they worked things out right. It'd have been a boon for education, science, and future dreamers. The money draw in would have been huge.