If only our politicians in the US were as honest.

The badger is the mascot of the University of Wisconsin, a well-known institution.

You can't use technology to solve social problems.

A large number of the "big" problems (hunger, poverty, homelessness, addiction, oppressive dictators, bad laws, etc) are social in nature. Technology will not help solve them.

I'm American. You've got nothing to apologize for.

Are you crazy?? Do you know how many laws there are? They'd be constantly reviewing the old laws, and nothing new would get done...

On second thought, this is a brilliant strategy!

Look in the mirror. If you have to ask the question, then you aren't out fighting the dictators, so it's your fault.

Add a provision that the people who think this is such a great idea must indemnify organizations that are forced to change off DNSSEC to something less secure. Then, when the Internet goes down, everyone gets to sue the MAFIAA! Watch how fast it would get killed.

You can be (briefly) detained while not under actual arrest.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_stop

This is not a patent, this is an application publication. You can tell because it says "pub no" in the upper right corner instead of "patent no". For reference:

Link to publication from TFA
Link to a real patent (believe it or not)

TFA author can't tell the difference, which is incredibly obvious once you know what you're looking for. And a lot of applications never become a patent.

Now that the application has published, anyone who knows of any prior art might be able to let the patent office know about it if this application isn't examined before the new law kicks in September 16 this year. See the America Invents Act, section 8 (starts bottom of page 32).

In before GVR.