If the parent post is correct that only IE7 and earlier are vulnerable in their default configurations, the fair comparison would be to update support for browsers a year and a half out of date--are firefox 2.0 or 3.0 still getting timely security patches?

Radio stations, at least in the US, don't pay anything to recording companies. They only pay a relatively small fee to songwriters. Money from commercials supports the station itself, not performers.

I haven't seen the movie, but isn't it set on another planet? GPS doesn't do much without all those satellites.

Care to quote one of the 'lies'? I don't see any in the article.

We're not going to run out of iron. Ever. And the steel in a car is a tiny fraction of the environmental impact of the car over it's lifetime, so it's not like re-using enough wire hangers to equal the weight of steel in a car offsets the vehicle.

If you're going to look at the environmental impact of dry-cleaning, the washing process itself and the car trip to deliver a few shirts and the employees of the store dwarf a few coat-hangers. And the form the better part of the expenses of the company, and are where they try to seek savings, rather than a few hangers (aside from putting out a recycling box to make people like you feel better).

The market is creating incentives to conserve scarce goods. It's not infallible, but neither are the people who would substitute their judgement for that of people with skin in the game.

In what way have they been proven wrong? There's been a good number of conflicts since the cold war started, but little to no dogfighting since the early 70s. It won't be long before the post-dogfighting era is the longer part of the entire history of air warfare.

So, If we'd only thought to use stealth bombers in Iraq, we wouldn't have needed six years of using pretty much all of our military to occupy a country the size of California with a smaller population?

1. Get rid of the "presumption of validity". Patents, once issued, are assumed to be valid unless proved otherwise, but actually doing the legwork on every single patent to make sure it's good before approving just isn't feasable, so lots of bogus patents get passed.

But courts still defer to the patent office unless the case is unambiguously bogus.

Move to something more like the copyright system, where having a copyright issued only proves that you had a claim as of a certain date and that your paperwork was in order.

The burden of proof would then be shifted to the patent holder to prove that their patent was valid as part of an infringement lawsuit, back where it belongs.

2. Get rid of or at least weaken submarine patents. The obvious way to do this is to make it so that no damages can be collected for actions before the patent holder files an infringement lawsuit.