There you go... Written with all the eloquence, intelligence and creativity I knew you had.

Thank you for making my point more eloquently than I did.

Sorry, I was thinking that other readers would try thinking just a little harder. So to reframe so anonymous posters can understand it more clearly: Was, before this investigation, an investigation underway, thereby making the investigation not new to Google, but in fact, an investigation already underway?

'We have not heard anything from the FTC regarding any new antitrust investigation.'"

Does that mean the investigation was already underway?

Actually, I'm not. You're confusing ethical with legal. Do you work on wall street by any chance?

This entire thing is particularly disturbing... Just not for the reasons the author thinks...

Right. In fact the user did not find what the title claims. He found the point at which they would ask WTF. And it turns out TF was that he was doing something the TOS said he couldn't. Nice job misleading.

I'm not sure - what is the payback? If you have a quantifiable amount that would be helpful. Is it 2% of all corporate tax collected in the US? Is it more than $5B a year?

Or, since they exceeded on all those counts, is it more because you think they should be punished? Again, make it quantifiable.

Not to be picky or anything, but what exactly is the news piece here?

Uhhh, you know he was re-elected in 2010, right? That's why the parent you posted to was talking about 2016?

Really. Carnivore has been around for 15 years.

They need to overhaul their current submission process before worrying about the rest of this.

Literally definition changes

Hmmmm. Now, imagine how this might be spun if the submitter actually understood what was done. BB and Knox were approved. Please... continue...

I for one completely understand the rage. I think I was assigned this examiner - some of the things done must have been very similar to what he describes. It enraged my otherwise calm, quiet reserved patent attorney to the point he had to wait a week before responding or it would have been in much the same way. This poor bastard just didn't wait the week.