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Think how fast litigation would move if software and idea patents were illegal, like they used to be. There would be no trial, no lawyers, no judges, no one sucking off of other peoples innovation.

Now, if I write some code that does caching, Bedrock can sue me. They can sue anyone using Perl, Python, Ruby, etc. as they all have caching modules. Bedrock didn't invent caching, it's been around since memory was invented. DNS, HTTP, any web browser uses caching, most of which existed before Bedrock or the patent.

The logical conclusion for these idea vampires is to create an idea patent that states ownership of "the process of litigation against others using any patented idea." Then they could get a cut from any lawyer that sues any company with patents.

Thanks man, America sincerely appreciates that.

The difference is Iran will use nukes. They believe it is necessary to cause as much bloodshed as possible so the Mahdi can return. Even if you don't believe it Mahmoud Ahmadinejad does.

Israel is a U.S. ally. They are surrounded by religious fanatics who will chop your infidel head off. Too bad we couldn't send them some F22s.

I didn't like the DRM and licensing. From what I've read I'm not sure if I buy a blu-ray disc whether I actually own it.

Follow the links. First one takes you to the real article. In the real article there is something like "What the heck is Super WiFi?" on the left about a paragraph down. It's lower frequency than WiFi so expect less throughput bandwidth unless the spec allows more than one channel at a time.

Is this some kind of racist WiFi?

If they were really fancy they could write a script that runs automatically every week or month and then discard the duplicated data. The tricky part is authentication with the bank.

Nope, that's excellent.

Now we can compare numbers. According to the this NCS article based on this 2009 National Safety Council estimate (pdf) we have 636,000 crashes, 330,000 injuries, 12,000 serious injuries, and 2,600 deaths by cell phone. For a total of about 1.4 million crashes. I selected this new link as it had grand totals like your 2008 data. If we just compare injuries and deaths we have...

• drunk vs cell phone
• 257,000 vs 342,000 injuries
• 11,800 vs 2,600 deaths

Your numbers look good: 1) Drunks win at killing people 4 to 1. 2) Cell phone users pull ahead with injuries.

In conclusion: It's much more likely that I will be injured rather than killed. I'm slightly more likely to be injured by a cell phone user than a drunk. But, in the less likely case that the driver tries to kill me, drunks do a much better job.

Others can decide if the additional 636,000 crashes without injury are significant because we do not know how many drunks get away.

With the numbers above people can really decide on which they think is worse. I'd rather neither were driving around.

Who cares! if they're not as bad as some a**hole with a .15 BAC LOL. There are hundreds of thousands of cell phone users. How many people have a BAC over .15? Are there that many drunks driving around because I see cell phones around me constantly. So the problem with cell phones is worse than drunk driving which would make your last statement correct.

As far as "playing" I think this has been completely one sided. You have not posted a single link to support any of your arguments. You aren't even in the game.

The people above and I have included numerous links. I do not think ignoring news of death and destruction has anything to do with common sense. Include some links to statistics that indicate an "order of magnitude". Oh never mind, here it is car accident statistics. Looks like there are lots and lots of cell phone drivers causing problems. Here are facts on hands free vs hand held, there's no significant difference. Here's a study on drunk driving vs cell phone driving. A study from the University of Utah showing cell phones are as bad as drunk driving. There is lots of evidence if you're willing to do a little research.

My personal experience is that I have more trouble with cell phone drivers because there are so many out there. About an hour ago someone with a cell phone swerved into my lane. The road was perfectly straight.

A guy driving a BMW tried to kill me. He wasn't paying attention and came over into my lane.

• See 19 year old kills two in Utah.
• See My 350Z may be totaled!
• See comment from Mark K. Williams in artilce Promoting the Car Phone, Despite Risks.
• See comment from M in article 6 new Oregon business laws take effect 2010.

So what is the difference between drunk drivers or cell phone users trying to kill us?

The reason you do not hear about these things is because you do not research them. Searching the web reveals lots of death and destruction from cell phone users.

I guess the phrase "significant factor" is what you thought my comment was about. I do not believe Linux is a large or even significant consideration in the sales of PS3s. It would be a consideration if I were going to buy one. With the feature removed it is a definite lost sale and others in the Open Source community feel the same.

It is strange to watch people throw money away yet I've seen it happen many times.