According to my reading at Groklaw - it's going to likely be more like $20-$30 million. There is a good chance that the third report(and extraordinary even having a third chance at the apple in and of itself) didn't rectify the problems the court directed Oracle to fix. They may loose ALL testimony on damages. They have managed to shoot themselves in the foot quite satisfactorily.

Let's highlight this last "LightSquared were Idiots!" because they were trying to do something that any amateur radio operator that has been on a Field Day with more than one station would understand - wasn't going to work without even TRYING the experiment.

No - of course they don't define what is "adequate" research, likely anything that agrees with their own narrative. The facts are that the research IS ambiguous. There are likely just as many studies that say it is bad as there are saying it's benign.

This is a pretty unique story - most companies that I've worked for over the last 30 years had an established policy for funding continuing education. In other words it's normally encouraged in my experience.

As for on-line classes - the one place I know people accept readily is the University of Phoenix MBA program.

Obamacare - Government run health care because the Government knows better than you or your Doctor.

Bailouts of GM. et al, i.e. government ownership.

Support of Unions over the best interests of the country - Specifically SEIU.

There's three.

Well -gee, didn't know Florian Mueller posted here on slashdot!

Mueller is generally a very one-sided reporter. He is VERY one-sided when it comes to coverage of Android, i.e. hates it, and ALWAYs in favor of anything Apple.

IANAL - and have no real idea what the real net effect is on the lawsuit. I'll wait till there is some coverage on Groklaw to look for a real explanation of what the implications are. Granted - Groklaw is heavily pro anything FOSS, consequently it serves as a decent counter-point to Mueller.

Me thinks your professor was an idiot.

The engineering design failed in the opinion of the professor. Yet, there was documentation saying HOW to install something that wasn't followed?

Further - somewhere someone had figured out there was a problem in this area and had written corrective procedures to avoid the problem. That of and by itself can be considered an appropriate engineering response to a problem! Don't forget - engineering is the application of science to real world problems while optimizing the cost of the solution.

There are plenty of engineering disasters to look where design WAS the reason for failure. The classic is the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. Yet even THIS should REALLY be ascribed to a poor understanding of aerodynamics as applied to the bridge structure that was prevalent at the time.

Lastly - aircraft design is really one of the places within the practice of engineering where past errors are studied extensively with lessons learned applied to new efforts. Perhaps better than any OTHER engineering pursuit. The current safety rate of commercial aircraft proves this point.

I don't expect this to catch on...either that or it will move to some other social media vehicle like Twitter. Most companies LIKE the fact that they can get their employees free efforts after hours!

It may very well be practical to put electronics next to the eyeball to do a display or whatever, but you do NOT want to put any kind of RF source/sink there. There would only be two ways to power such a unit - solar and RF energy beamed in ala RFID. The pictures I've seen suggest the latter. Having a resonant antenna at such frequencies would scare the heck out of me. Local heating or perhaps re-radiation at microwave frequencies next to something that is essentially H2O? You do KNOW that is why microwave ovens work.

I think I'll stick with LCD monitors.