Wow! Who could have possibly think that? Genius (U+2e2e, damn /., allow unicode already!)

I'll start teaching classes for kindergarten, I'm pretty sure I'll be able to steal dozens of patentable ideas!

Sure, because of this highly praised competitive society. If instead of competing to see who's best they would collaborate to achieve something, people who's able to contribute more would probably be seen in a more positive way.

The bad news is that you are going to die, no matter what. The good news is that if you survive (no chance) you can have as much cake as you want!

Soon the people whose jobs were taken by robots will start crying for food and basic necessities... these entitled bastards! Can you even imagine them asking for education? What snobs!

After Reiser and McAfee, I would not be surprised if his body would later be found with a chair-based concussion.

I'm curious what that would mean for the military... how would they deal with the bases, people, information, etc... Any idea?

It benefits all of the big ones by keeping the small and fast innovators out of the game. They are quite happy (excuse the anthropomorphism) litigating one another. For them it is just part of the business, and we pay for all the costs anyway.

It would be awesome (and therefore will never happen) if patent protection would not apply for free/libre/open & not-for-profit endeavors. Anybody willing to implement or improve on something patent protected could do so freely, as long as the whole public could benefit from it.

No, they see the obvious: Windows 8 will dominate the supercomputer OS market [Unicode: U+2E2E]

Sure, if you design it to be impossible, impossible it will be. Or you could try to understand how p2p networks work. Hints: look for 'gnutella', 'gnunet', and 'secushare'.

You are right, this is actually a win to centralized protocols. We need a standard encrypted p2p communication (im / voip / file sharing / etc) to be widely adopted asap. And then protest / revolt when they try to outlaw it.

It will be really funny if they bring back Nokia's CEO to manage this new failure^Wsmartphone product.

Wow. Some more and you may file a class action lawsuit. Unless her EULA explicitly dropped your rights for it.
Now for the serious part: yeah, girls like that may drive us crazy. I had a similar experience, and it was really hard to put an end to it.

It is strange how terminology is formed... now 'image' is synonymous to 'static visual image' in computational contexts. In neurosciences it may refer to other modalities, such as 'sound images', or 'tactile images'.
But that's the beauty of language, it is alive.

Sure, but the point is if a significant part of your customers (those forming the mesh network) is using it you have no alternative other than to allow it. Obviously that would only work if those responsible for the nodes affected would drop they contracts in favor of another supplier. And that's what governments and corporations have in their favor, the social inertia is usually hard to manage/overcome.

+1 (I'm out of mod points atm).

Lots of wireless accesspoints using whatever internet connections available from the usual providers, turning them into dumb pipes. If one decides to do something stupid, it is easy to disconnect it.

This comes with the necessity of a strong crypto layer, to avoid inspecting by all the intermediate parties. We probably already have all the technology required for such a system. The only thing missing is the social initiative (which includes the initial funding).