Bond is an officer of the SIS, (aka MI6), not MI5.

Interesting that that statement came after the story about the school getting a letter from the state saying they went too far.

Then the friend should be punished according to the state's policy. Oh, wait, there's no punishment mandated for students violating the policy (it's enforced against the schools by the Dept. Of Agriculture). Sounds like another case of the local school administrator thinking with something other than his or her brain.

You're absolutely right, but It's all in how you say it. "Oh man, I got caught by this before, let me show you how I got around it." goes a lot further than, "Hey that's some hilarious code, moron, now learn the API, n00b."

If the purpose of the fee hike is to reduce filings, then it stands to reason that they will be too high for someone, otherwise the hikes won't have any effect. And clearly, those affected will be the inventors at the lower end of the economic scale.

Who reads the prompts thrown up by software? The person hitting the button was probably used to them popping up and clicked through on autopilot.

How is that creepy? If a couple's been together for any length of time, they'll run into situations where it's much more convenient to not have to wait for their partner to unlock or lock the door for them. Before we moved in together, my girlfriend lived over an hour away. If she came to visit and I wasn't home from work, her having a key made things much simpler.

Does anyone really think that Apple hadn't already figured out who lost it already?

There won't be ads in the browser anymore -- they'll be beamed directly into our iBrains.

Whenever you go, then you are.

There's a distinction between using FOSS projects, and contributing to FOSS projects. I thought the latter was being discussed.

I, for one, welcome our hoopy frood overlords.

Are you a patent attorney?

It's not clear from TFA whether it was a change in the software, or in parameters to the software that were changed. What is clear is that in the case used to highlight the problem, dispatchers were bound by policy not to override the software's recommendation, even if they knew it was wrong:

Of course he can. The Makita makes a much cleaner cut.