Apple is an expert at stealing other people's trademarks while simultaneously protecting their own.

I've always called it the "number sign", but most voice mail systems refer to it as the "pound key" for some reason.

This is just the latest in a long line of punctuation-inspired architecture:

^ Pyramids

/ Leaning Tower of Pisa

~ Guggenheim Museum

|| World Trade Center

The Windows OS kernel is mostly in C with some assembly (just like Unix/Linux/BSD/OSX). The Windows GUI is mostly C++ (but so is KDE).

Lets see. I can download a best-selling song for $0.99. I can download a best-selling app for $1.99. I can download a best-selling book for $19.99. Yeah, something's wrong there. At the very least, ebook prices should be closer to paperback prices than hardcover prices. Ideally they should be similar to song & app prices.

I've never understood why this gets thrown around as a measure of the quality of health care received, when there are tons of other factors that have much more of an affect on this (exercise, smoking, eating right, etc.).

But healthy living (exercise, smoking, eating right, etc.) is all a part of true health care, it's just not a part of critical health care. Health care dollars spent on prevention are far more effective than those spent on critical care.

The Mormons declare prior art. They've been baptizing ghosts into their "social network" for years.

Perhaps their motto should be "Smart phones for dumb people"? I'm only half joking. Traditional dumb phones are pretty much gone now, but there's still a huge market of people who want a phone that is "just a phone" but don't want to fiddle around with installing apps (maybe a few basic preinstalled apps like browser, email & scheduler). Unfortunately, it's also a market that's very price sensitive so I don't know how much money Nokia can make with that strategy (and in many parts of the world they'd be competing with Blackberry who also seem to have accidentally fallen into that market)

Anti-corporate "journalists" like Daisey and Michael Moore do irreparable damage to the causes they supposedly support by playing loose with the facts. If I were conspiracy minded, I might assume they were working for the very corporations they rail against.

I've read the entire bill, and as far as I can tell the only bad thing about it is the digital locks provision, which is just a small part.

But that's the evil brilliance of bill. That one little digital lock provision undermines everything else in the bill like a puppy-killing unicorn. Removing a "digital lock" (AKA DRM) is illegal EVEN IF you are doing it to create something that is otherwise legal under the other parts of the bill like time-shifting, format-shifting and yes even the noncommercial Star Wars re-edit (it's pretty hard to re-edit something without source material, and the Star Wars prequels have never been released in a non-DRM format).