Your vision of the www is 1000x worse than what we have. It should be more open not less. Let people do what they want. Maybe we'll come back to hyper text markup eventually. For now everyone is way more excited about reactive data binding on the document object model and restful json data services. Oh and apps, lots of apps.

[An extraterrestrial robot and spaceship has just landed on earth. The robot steps out of the spaceship...]
"I come in peace," it said, adding after a long moment of further grinding, "take me to your Lizard." ...

"It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see..."

"You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?"

"No," said Ford, who by this time was a little more rational and coherent than he had been, having finally had the coffee forced down him, "nothing so simple. Nothing anything like to straightforward. On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people."

"Odd," said Arthur, "I thought you said it was a democracy."

"I did," said ford. "It is."

"So," said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse, "why don't the people get rid of the lizards?"

"It honestly doesn't occur to them," said Ford. "They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they've voted in more or less approximates to the government they want."

"You mean they actually vote for the lizards?"

"Oh yes," said Ford with a shrug, "of course."

"But," said Arthur, going for the big one again, "why?"

"Because if they didn't vote for a lizard," said Ford, "the wrong lizard might get in. Got any gin?"

"What?"

"I said," said Ford, with an increasing air of urgency creeping into his voice, "have you got any gin?"

"I'll look. Tell me about the lizards."

Ford shrugged again.

"Some people say that the lizards are the best thing that ever happened to them," he said. "They're completely wrong of course, completely and utterly wrong, but someone's got to say it."

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You could just make up a language and use that instead. Even better, make up a language that looks like the result of encryption. They'll try to decrypt but will just scramble it up worse. They'd have to have a lexicon to make any headway and that would require active surveillance.

I have no use for such a thing personally. Just a random comment.

Someone has to make those high tech machines as you say. There is your added jobs. Not only that but someone has to market and sell the machines as well. Lets not forget the big data aspect as those machines will generate lots of it. It's a new industrial revolution.

He wasn't commenting on FRAND or anything else you mentioned. His statement was that patents are in practice the opposite of what they are in theory (and as originally prescribed). Therefore they no longer serve the purpose intended and should simply go away.

There hasn't been innovation in software in 50 years. It's all just application of basic principles worked out in the 50s and 60s to new problems. Most of what we're doing today is obvious as soon as you ask the question. People have been patenting the question not the answer.

Give most developers a software problem and they will come up with an answer that looks pretty close to what the next dev comes up with. They may choose a different language or use a different design pattern but in 99.99999999% of the time it's going to be the same logic.

When you ask a dev if something can be done the answer is not yes/no, it's when and at what cost. It pretty much comes down to the amount of time needed to QA the code and make it maintainable (test coverage, modularity, documentation).

Akamai has several streaming media solutions. One example http://www.akamai.com/html/solutions/sola-vision.html

Wrong. BMW would still deny wrongdoing and blame the people who wrote the app. You'll end up in a lawsuit with 5-6 defendants and no end in sight. Would cost more than the car so you'll settle out of court (unless you have a list of damages a judge will get behind).

Why does anyone need to put it up anyways? Is it really so damn hard to aim into the bowl and avoid the seat? If you hit the seat is it any worse than hitting the rim? Isn't it easier to clean off the seat than the rim?

As a man I've never once lifted the seat.

And this I why you build hydro reservoirs. Use the excess energy from renewables during peak output periods to pump water up into the lake, then discharge it later during low output times such as your winter storm. Other possibles include molten salt beds, hydrogen production, compressed air tanks or any other energy store that doesn't leak or have a high maintenance cost to manage.

Tablets work great as personal media viewers. You really only need a TV if watching something with a group.

We do that with Netflix too. Browse to documentaries and hit the first thing that looks okay. Know what's great? It's a documentary. Probably educational. No commercials. If it gets interesting you can pause it or watch it again later without having to have set it up to record in advance. Want to finish watching it outside? Grab your tablet - picks up where you left off.

Subscription to a catalog of content is just the way to go for this stuff. IMHO 90% of the media content ever made should be available and we should only pay for the hard costs of making it available. Books, music, video, audio recordings, photography, art. All of it. It's what the library system should provide, not a private company and IP rights holders.

Did you search for it or just browse? The browse only shows ~20% of what they have.

So you would be perfectly okay with a coworker taking off at a critical time and without notice on sick leave - forcing you and those around you to pick up the slack while actually going on a trip somewhere to play at the beach?

What if you found out about this but had no proof? What if you had proof but were not legally allowed to reveal it?

What if this happened several times? Always the same MO - at the worst possible time when all hands were needed? Again, no usable proof - except that you could see the proof right there on Facebook, taunting you.