Thinking about it, the waves travel like light and so should simply be visualised as another colour of light with many point sources.

Hate speech next, not what you'd consider to be hate speech, but what the gov't drones or worse, some company the hired to do the list, considers to be hate speech.

Don't like the way the Israeli's are treating the Palestinians? There's a good chance that many websites discussing Palestine will be flagged as anti-Semite and blocked (never mind that Palestinians are also Semites).

Won't happen? It's already happening, GiffGaff, a mobile phone + data service blocked sites (www.gilad.co.uk and wikipedia psilocybin desktop site!!!) and said I have to prove I'm 18 to access them. They say they have a legal requirement to do this?!?!

Keys for discs can be revoked if I'm reading the last line of this section correctly:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Access_Content_System#Encryption

Software players get revoked from time to time as their keys get discovered.
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=bluray+player+revoked&hl=en&btnG=Google+Search

http://news.slashdot.org/story/07/04/07/1417253/first-aacs-blu-rayhd-dvd-key-revoked

Hardware players can be revoked just by putting a newer disc in the player, the player updates its firmware from the disc and effectively commits suicide.

because it would open the floodgates for anyone convicted of any crime subsequently legalized to ask for the same.

??? no excuse, open those floodgates, if something was legalised then the govt f**ked up in the first place by making said thing illegal.

I'm glad not to have a Bluray drive or any bluray discs. Every disc and drive bought supports software patents many which are of course of dubious validity. And that money supports further draconian DRM and more bribes to the congresses of the world. Not to mention both drives and discs can be bricked by new discs, firmware updates, internet checks etc. Part of the reason I never bought into this junk is because you can never be sure the 'content protection path' is going to work with your hardware. It's just not worth it.

This is not an invention, it's simply doing something, there's nothing whatsoever clever about it.

An invention is supposed to be a non-obvious (to those in the relevant profession) way of getting something done. This clearly does not meet that criteria.

Post also applies to most other software patents.

people already have gmail accounts and Google makes it painless

Gmail in browser on android: unusable, mobile version: all features stripped out, desktop version: doesn't work because the stupid compose email box insists on moving itself off-screen.

Android email app and gmail app: both suck bad, lacking in features and never f**king remember or offer email addresses which I have emailed 10 times already.

Gmail on android It is not 'painless' to use it is an awful nightmare to make emails with (Galaxy Note 2).

They say they didn't know the president was on-board, I'm calling BS on that - why did they refuse the plane into their airspace? no explanation.

They are liars, the apology stinks.

This Bug?

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=820259

Filed 1/1/2013, so worth adding your voice or seeing if there's any commonality between your setup and others who get the bug, doesn't look like it though as the submitter was using Linux.

2nd that, what cache problems?

Firefox works so well IMO that the worst that can happen is whatever Mozilla does to it to dumb it down. Perhaps they should stop and look at who is actually using, recommending and installing their browser.

I'm a little more hesitant to offer my mitt to a vagrant person

I work in the city and the suits are no better, most of them: turn tap on, let water run over fingertips for 1 second, flick fingers, walk out.

I wouldn't want to shake their hands either.

Off-Topic much.

takes 5 minutes to boot...

My Win 7-64 with 16GB RAM takes about 20 seconds excluding BIOS, you could try updating drivers / using something like bootvis ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/performance/default.aspx )

Look up the history of money, the first notes where in fact IOUs for various things including gold, those IOUs then got traded and became money.

Some of those IOUs could have actually been for pigs.

Read from here onwards:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_money#Trade_bills_of_exchange

Money IS IOUs, it has no other value.