It should be obvious to anyone with half a brain, but invasions of privacy don't happen because technology makes it easy but because of the corrupt people manning those tools.

Nope. The nook simple touch was released almost a year before microsoft invested in nook. Very plausible that he like me bought it before the deal had been announced.

Finally, patents are being used for something useful. What an annoying animation.

Well a SNAFU like this will get more people to understand what the nerds have been complaining about. Hopefully the number of people the are discontent with DRM will grow large enough that it can't be ignored.

You just noticed this?

2 unemployed truck drivers. Where are you going to get the money from?

And as far as we know, the developer of this app hasn't stolen anything or broken any laws. He simply encouraged piracy which violates the TOS.

No legal actions have been taken. None of the legal terms that you've just thrown around have any relevance.

Bands where a single person creates most of the music. Listening to Bathory right now. Quorthon is credited as doing vocals, guitar, and bass. Later albums also have him doing drums. I don't believe that he has ever performed live.

If there was any deity up there in the sky then this would be thrown out on appeal. However, I'm afraid that's not the case.

One would hope that when designing a $200M machine with the lives of 240 depending on it working properly, that you would hire the exceptions.

They tried that method of fire suppression. Then some idiots mislabeled canisters containing an oxygen generator and then they found their way into the cargo area of a passenger airplane. When the oxygen generators activates mid flight they provided both the ignition source and oxygen defeating the type of fire suppression system that you are suggesting. And thus it is no longer allowed.

If they're just planning on offering this online, why would they bother getting the ESRB to rate this?

Isn't that a failure of our lawmakers to set reasonable prison terms for crimes? The prosecutor doesn't set the maximum sentence for any crime, they just charge people with the laws written by the legislative body for their jurisdiction.

And how will you force patients to adhere to a diet after surgery? At least past methods where the stomach was restricted forced a person to eat less and slower.