Sadly in many states believing someone is destroying evidence or "smelling drugs" is sufficient.

perhaps so but it doesn't matter. Competition ALWAYS works. When the patent expires another company will offer the same bottle type with 10% more ketchup for the same price.

It would be nice for the supreme court to formally endorse internet anonymity.

I looked into it once. Drivers for every nearly related printer in every language, an extra bloated install program to choose which the user probably needs, spyware, more spyware, drivers for related all-in-ones, extra bloated "user friendly" crap, useless programs supposed to be usable for things like screen capture, photo editing, scanning, photo archiving, thumbnails, and sample data.

Google, Cyc, Wikipedia, and Watson are damned impressive. I wouldn't mind the government spending a billion dollars making another set possible

Every time a task like this is mastered it's suddenly not considered human level intelligence anymore. I can't believe it's long now...

So what you're saying is I need a skin covered knife?

Hopefully the increased demand will cause a significant upturn in the number of diamond manufacturers lending wider spread knowledge of the true value (much lower than popularly believed) of diamonds.

coffee pots. lights. garage doors. There is no decent reason to attempt to automate these things and by the time hardware worth automating comes out any software developed now will be as obsolete as BASIC on Commodore 64.

Walmart StraightTalk uses Samsung phones. Walmart was one of the the first to offer unlimited talk and text without a contract for a decent price. A direct result was the sale of a huge number of Samsung phones.