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(And, IMO, shouldn't be patentable. But of course, it's easy for me to say that because I don't hold any patents, least of all a software patent.)

Sure, but for anyone coming from the other side, who does have software patents and is thus in favor of keeping them, all I can say is this: You would be nowhere and have nothing if patents had been allowed in the first thirty years of electronic computing. All the sorting algorithms, all the OS scheduler algorithms, all the compiler technology, all the things you take for granted every day, would have been locked up and all the amazing development that required freely taking these basic ideas as building blocks for more ideas would have faced repeated decade-long roadblocks. The environment in which you are creating your software patents would not exist if they had been able to place those roadblocks to progress just as you are doing today.

So sucks to be you, Mr. Software Patent Holder, but the health and development of the industry requires you to take down your toll booth.

I bet the damn thing will be a hybrid that gets great fuel mileage, has an onboard dancing robot, and ends up outselling all the American rocket companies within 10 years.

Yes yes, and while we're at it, why don't we get IPv6 rolled out too, hmmmm?

Yes, it should be... assuming you're a fan of explaining the joke within the joke itself, thereby rendering it unfunny.
 

because it exposes the fact that today's Mac desktops are just commodity hardware with an extra $1,000 charge for an OS X dongle (TPM).

Barence writes "Viacom wants to know which YouTube videos have been uploaded by members of Google's staff, in what could be a potentially explosive aspect of its copyright infringement claim against the search giant."

if it gets rid of that fat fuck CowboyNeal, I'm all for it.

THE MORE YOU MOD ME DOWN, THE MORE NERDS I WILL PUNCH. SAVE YOUR KIND FROM THE RIGHTEOUS BEATING THEY RICHLY DESERVE AND MOD ME UP, PEONS, BECAUSE YOU FEARED ME THROUGH HIGH SCHOOL AND YOU WILL FEAR ME NOW. FOR EVERY NEGATIVE MODERATION I RECEIVE, ANOTHER INNOCENT NERD WILL HAVE THEIR GLASSES BROKEN AND THEIR TEETH KICKED OUT BY ME AND MY FRIENDS. NONE OF YOU STAR WARS FAGGOTS CAN STOP US.

NOW MOD ME UP BEFORE IT'S YOUR TEETH I BREAK NEXT, NERDS. YOU KNOW WHAT WILL HAPPEN IF YOU DISOBEY THE POPULARS!

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Maybe instead of being a great disapointment it has been so successful that we realized it was in our best interest to blend in and not let our presence be known.

Oh shut the fuck up Anonymous Coward.

JCSoRocks writes "I've spent the last 9 years living about 5 minutes from a Fry's Electronics. Apparently, I was spoiled. I recently moved and made the mistake of going to Staples just to pick up some canned air and a network cable. I'm no stranger to online shopping (I just ordered my new machine from NewEgg and built it a few months ago) but sometimes you need something NOW! Between that Staples experience and the brutal Best Buy post from yesterday, http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/29/1833227, I'm left wondering — where the heck do you buy tech stuff anymore?"

Anonymous Coward writes "The register is reporting that data rescue firm Retrodata claims to be seeing 20 to 30 times more failed drives from Apple Macs than any other drive.
The form blames this on cheap Seagate drives made in China.
From the article: "The drives of this kind sent to Retrodata for data recovery exhibited the same damage: the read/write heads have failed mechanically causing them to gouge deep scratches in the delicate data-storing surface of the disk platters. In almost all cases, this renders the drive useless.""
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/10/30/apple_seagate_drive_warning/