Comment: Re:Part of this is because of US Export Restrictio (Score 1) 139
And, I wonder when the tsunami of refugees pouring across the 49th parallel into Canada, and the Rio Grande into Mexico, is going to start. Good luck containing that, DHS.
Why would they want to contain it? Those people would be leaving the sink^H^H^H^Hcountry, wouldn't they?
Comment: Invisible to Mr Stanganelli (Score 1) 248
The three technologies he cites, online video, image rotation, and search bar autocomplete, were all well in use long before the so-called "inventors" "invented" them, so I cannot but agree with the judgement that the patent is invalid.
It sounds as if Mr Stanganelli is simply suffering from a nasty case of sour grapes because he simply doesn't understand the technology: he inhabits this bizarro world of patents and attorneys where it's seen as perfectly OK to hijack an existing piece of work and pretend it's your own.
Comment: Re:Much worse (Score 1) 451
Comment: It depends... (Score 1) 494
Comment: Re:Invented (Score 1) 43
Comment: Re:Anatomy Issue (Score 1) 583
What's all this about putting a colon on the moon?
Maybe we should have put a Bush and a Dick up there to isolate them.
Comment: Re:Private Enterprise is the way (Score 1) 583
...the result will be unprecedented cheap access to the lunar surface.
Oh shit. Ryanair flights to the moon. Coming to a crater near you (correction, "far from you"
Comment: Re:Should've done this already (Score 2) 583
We've lost our mojo and I don't think we'll ever get it back.
I'm afraid you long since handed your mojo (and pretty much everything else) over to corporations, who bought up the government and now run the country as their private fiefdom, much as Britain used to run it 200+ years ago. And you did this because of a pseudo-Jeffersonian belief that Government is Bad and Business is always Right. You can get your mojo back by the simple expedient of removing the turds who govern you and replacing them with ones who are not beholden to corruption (and good luck with that
"You" plural, of course, not you personally...