Is Gartner a division of Microsoft?

There's a girlfriend out there for every porn and video game zombified male. Probably a porn and video game zombified female!

This is not even conceivably constitutional.

The lawyers got their "cause" and Mr. Tenenbaum got screwed.

I generally agree with you, except that FB is not like real estate. Real estate can be counted on to last into the indefinite future. You can't say the same thing about FB. Calculating future value of real estate is is a much lesser gamble than calculating the future value of FB.

The other problem is that real estate is (loosely speaking) dirt. FB stock is not like dirt. If you own dirt, each clod has a market value that is defined by the market. If you own FB stock, you the value of each share is defined by the market AND by the number of future shares that FB decides that they want to issue.

It's a big ripoff.

Does anybody realistically believe that Facebook will EVER pay its investors a meaningful dividend? HELL NO!

Facebook is just a game of stock market musical chairs which foolish investors will dance around until it is replaced by the next big thing.

Good luck, day traders!

If Google weren't acting so evil lately, I'd probably be there. I don't see that they are any better than Facebook--especially since they are reading all my emails.

I'm hoping to shift to Diaspora someday.

I really am sympathetic. But if the feds let him out, he's just going to do the exact same thing all over again. I don't think the poor guy can help it.

That's why it is so sad.

Man, they have his ass nailed to the wall. They were 'watching' him online at the same time they had eyeballs on him entering and exiting his home.

Then, there's the search warrant.
Then there's the snitch.
Then there's the internet bread-crumb trail.

It is a pity that Hammond didn't direct his talents against the internet scam artists and credit card thieves. That would have been so cool.

But Hammond is going to get LAUNCHED. The feds let him off relatively easy the first time. It won't happen a second time.

I'll feel sorry for the misdirected loser as he rots in prison. Poor guy: Smart and Stupid at the same time.

If Anonymous is so powerful, then why is one of its major "leaders" hiding in Canada?

We are allowing the financial middleman (Wall Street) to dominate our economy. Nothing good will come of that in the long run.

Pretty obvious that would not be a content-neutral restriction on the rights of american citizens.

Big 1st Amendment problems with shutting down phone lines or radio lines ONLY because you want to keep certain people from talking.

I'd need to look at the jury instructions, but it might also be that the judge was uncomfortable making a ruling on the 'copyrightability' of the APIs because he was uncertain of the relevant facts. In that case, it is possible that he would wait until the jury decided those facts before ruling on the 'copyrightability' question.

Otherwise, I don't know why he'd defer his decision until after the trial.

Why not clearly and explicitly implicate the First Amendment?