"Kove is run out of a loft filled with other businesses."

So?

Does valid work only occur in garages?

"sit on it until someone comes up with a similar idea"

Kove sells actual products. That does not prove that their specific patents would hold up to scrutiny, but it does undermine your claim that they merely sit on patents until they find something to litigate over.

US 7,814,180 "Domain Name Service Server": https://ppubs.uspto.gov/dirsea...

US 7,233,978 "Method and apparatus for managing location information in a network separate from the data to which the location information pertains": https://ppubs.uspto.gov/dirsea...

US 7,103,640 "Network distributed tracking wire transfer protocol": https://ppubs.uspto.gov/dirsea...

Remember when discussing the validity of a patent that what the abstract/summary/description says is not relevant. It is the Claims you have to look at.

They will be square-dancing by May Day

"they kept getting cancelled "
Every show gets cancelled.

"I only watch series I know are finished."
That's a good way to get shows cancelled before they are finished.

"Who fakes a welding helmet?"

Someone who has identified an unqualified one-time market for welding helmets.

"How many buttons should a mouse have?"

All of them

I just want actual middle buttons rather than clickable scroll wheels.

The summary is very unclear on whether the problem is with the chips or with the packaging. If this chips are faulty, changing the packager won't fix anything.

The summary also includes the implication that the testing is faulty.

"who to blame? Apple or Signal or both?"

The User, who saved screenshots of his exfiltration conversations on his employer-provided device.

"forced to sign a firmware update that they didn't want to by a government"

If we stipulate a forced firmware change is possible, do you actually find it plausible that you'd be able to find out so that for updates coming *after* you have taken possession you would be able to block such a compromised update *and also* that you'd also be able to find out that firmware installed before boxing was not compromised? If not, then this the presales update leaves you no worse off than post-sales updates.

Really, you can't prove NOW that your phone wasn't compromised by the manufacturer out of the box.

"They will lose the money."

The big money won't be coming from people investing in what they think is a viable business; it will come from those investing in what they think is a viable head of state.

The true mark is the one that thinks they are in on the con.

"This would mean you'd have to release a bunch of GPL'd software (up to and including the Linux kernel) under SSPL"

It does not say you have to *change* the license of anything per se. You have to make the source code available for the other software and do it for no charge, but the GPL already permits that. This section is only a problem if the other software does not permit redistribution of source code.

"These people have PhDs. Do you seriously think they've never considered this?"

As someone with a PhD, I am now backing quietly out of the room hoping no one notices me.

"If employees can't follow the company's rules, then perhaps the company is better off without them. "

If the company's rules do not add value to the company, then it is certain than company would be better off without them. The absolute best case for this policy is that RTO 100% correlates with merit-based promotion you were going to do anyway, so you might as well not not block promotion based in WFH. Realistically, some amount of people who would would merit a promotion will now be blocked, meaning you are going to promote others would would not have merited a promotion. This is destruction of corporate value and anti-capitalist.

However, the median businessman has no idea how capitalism works, and at the 90th percentile they are actively opposed.