Eventually we'll learn that ALL the components were made in China.

It is a bad patent. It's obvious! If a gadget(GPS, Loran,sextent, radar) gives me a location (coordinates) I (or some machine) looks up what's around me (on a map, Rutter, or database). The fact that at it's on a phone is really irrelevant. This is exactly the kind of patent that should have been thrown out initially.

I wonder what the Teamsters have to say.

Just Adobe, that's all. I use Indesign 20 hours a week. Nuff said.

Does Open/Libra Office have the same problem?

Back in the early 1990's I wrote a book about how to migrate from mainframes to Unix. I got a good advance and the first printing was for 10,000 copies. I received a statement every month until the royalties owed matched the advance exactly, to the penny. The statement said that they had sold about 7500 copies but they were declaring the book to be out of print. No one could tell me where the extra 2500 copies went or how my royalties could match my advance exactly. All I was told was that I was free to pay for an audit.

Needless to say I never wrote for them again.

They guy doesn't say anything that's really out of the ordinary except that CERN might have made some money out of the web. This is an ad for Cory Doctorow nothing more.

Adam may have been the name of the founder of a dynasty that invented written, symbolic language. IF written language IS the definition of what MAN is then yes, Adam could be considered the first man. By the way this isn't just my idea it's fundamental Judeo-Christian theology. Most Pentecostals are theologically clueless.

My response to this is that any citizen should be able to go before a Federal Special Grand Jury and request indictment of a prosecutor (and or Police) who knowingly violates ones Civil Rights. This is an obvious violation of the cartoonists civil rights.

I had/have a similar problem. I switched my DSL line to FiOS and Verizon continued to bill me for 9 months for the DSL line. No amount of polite conversation could convince the DSL folks that they were in error. They finally sent it to collections where I insisted that they take me to court. They won't and periodically still try to collect from me. meanwhile my FiOS is working just fine. I get the impression that Verizon is really a few dozen companies that don't really talk to each other. I know that Verizon Wireless was really Vodaphone with almost no contact with the rest of Verizon. They appear to be better integrated now than they were even a year ago.