Is that like a fashion piece that dispenses drugs around the midsection?

this sure seems like a handy invention.

Your point is well made. Large companies like Apple, IBM, Microsoft, etc maintain huge patent portfolios and have extraordinarily complicated cross-licensing arrangements that would take an army of outside attorneys decades to fully decipher. It's largely a defensive measure; as you pointed out, poking at Apple with a stick is likely to result in Apple bludgeoning them with a log.

Ah, the wonders of keeping your DNS records set to a low TTL.

Germany has a sketchy concept of free speech to begin with. Perhaps they figured this would fall under "incitement of the people," albeit the Canadian people.

Serverloft is obviously too big to fail.

/me runs.

I wholeheartedly agree that the uniforms should be seen first. I've got an inside source who has sent me photos of the current uniform concept.

I was going to make a bigger reply, but this post already summed up most of what I would have said.

Let's go ahead and regulate the living crap out of everything online... that's sure to do wonders for innovation.

Those nations you're referring to have the luxury of sleeping well at night because there are other nations that are actually willing to take action against hostile regimes. Your ideals are good, but they're not based in reality.

You know, I actually admire and respect our president, although I certainly don't agree with all of his political views. Let's call a spade a spade: plenty of Democrats supporting invading Iraq, and plenty of Democrats supported the extraordinary rendition crap. While we're on the topic of Democrats supporting crap, let's talk about the Patriot Act, which is anything but patriotic.

The GP's request for global market share is pointless, as the story talks about U.S. market share.

I think you missed the memo on the last round of elections... Democrats control the presidency, House, and Senate. Nice try, though.

AT&T is just Southwest Bell is just AT&T is just... Eh, screw it. It's all Ma Bell.

I though it was done in pico, then shifted to nano, and edited later in TextMate...