I wonder if any of those viruses is a key "log"-ger. Better that than a worm, I guess.

I'll show myself out...

Clearly this idea was rejected because it is far too simple.

Very few things are easy when you're 5000 feet below sea level and dealing with pressures of 2k psi.

Well, if you look carefully, you can see two vaguely hand-shaped rock formations to either side of the cave. Scientists have used this information to search for similar images for the purpose of comparison, and have thus come to the conclusion that the cave is approximately "ohgodmyeyes" deep.

I guess that would depend on what you mean by "using it". The ruling itself appears to be mostly concerned with people who have produced derivative works (e.g. performances, recordings, etc.) of items that are in the public domain in the US but were originally produced and are still under copyright in their country of origin. As far as what will happen, I'll let this excerpt from ruling speak for itself:

"a reliance party may continue to exploit that derivative work for the duration of the restored copyright if the reliance party pays to the owner of the restored copyright reasonable compensation . . . ." If the parties are unable to agree on reasonable compensation, a federal court will determine the amount of compensation

What do you mean? Who else would have to foresight to include embedded executable code and a javascript engine in a print document format? It's genius, I tell you!

Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go look at a PDF that has pictures of someone's vacation emailed to me by an unknown perso

Google has multiple indexes. There's a fast refresh index for news, blogs, and social networking sites. The larger "long tail" index has a much longer refresh cycle and is presumably what will be replaced/supplemented by caffeine.

I see what's left of three of them at the end of your sentence.

I assume they can recognize short term patterns and jump in ahead of anyone else who might try to take advantage of them.

More than just recognize - the biggest players can manufacture short term patterns because they control large segments of the market. Oddly enough most of them seem to be located in that prime real estate mentioned earlier...

Pretty much. One of my friends in the LDS once told me that it's fairly common practice for his church to secretly "baptize" non-Mormons whom they deem worthy of saving from the evils of whatever religion (or lack of religion) they currently practice. The targets of this event are apparently never told.

I don't think I've ever been secretly inducted into another church, but I'm always careful to be an asshole to everyone just in case. To whit, I asked said friend if the baptism involves sneaking into the target's house and replacing all their underwear. He didn't seem to find that very funny.

I think the conclusion is more likely that the people running the place don't really know how Chinese restaurants in Podunkville USA typically operate. Kind of like a restaurant not located on the Jersey shore serving Zima - there's clearly something sinister afoot.

Sounds like cartridges would be a good thing in AU, if this article is any indication of where property rights are going with respect to software.

Take a look at the graphic linked in the summary. I'm pretty sure their "software and user interface" is John Madden locked in a room with a whiteboard and dry erase marker.

Domain registrations are mostly break-even for GoDaddy; they make most of their money by pushing hosted services on registrants. Given that the process mandated by the Chinese government would make registration more expensive, it's probably not worth it for GoDaddy to continue operation in China.

So you're saying that salt facilitates the uptake and retention of dangerous chemicals like dihydrogen monoxide in the body? Something must be done!

At what point will the hardware capabilities exceed the software we can write?

Never. More hardware means programmers can get away with writing less efficient code.