Isnâ(TM)t it great that we have police forces so primed to murder citizens that an 18-yro with a telephone can call in strikes?

After many years of using chrome Iâ(TM)ve spent hours playing around with six browsers on this iPad. When I downloaded Firefox Focus to run in the background and set Safari to use it as a content blocker, Safari on my iPad became the fastest browser I have ever used in 26 years. Now if only Appleâ(TM)s voice recognition wasnâ(TM)t 2 orders of magnitude worse than googleâ(TM)s...

I havenâ(TM)t opened my laptop in months. This year I did my taxes on my iPad, I work with spreadsheets on my iPad, I do a fancy math equations and graphing etc. on my iPad. For most people I donâ(TM)t think they need anything more.

You donâ(TM)t get to be Democratic presidential nominee if African-American voters reject you, and African-American voters picked Biden 3 to 1. Game over.

This is a terrific move, touch screens are stupid for some interfaces.

HIPPA would absolutely not allow this.

How many bits per second does the whole internet handle?

The answer to the Fermi paradox. Evolved species are so greedy and shortsighted that when they get enough tech to wreck everything, they do.

The only way social media works is giving people the power to screen out malignant assholes. this is going to be a big improvement, though there will be some entitled jerks who are unhappy they can't intrude on everyone.

My YouTube horror story is every time I try to watch a video I get 10 "suggested blah blah blah" pop ups I have to swipe away. Fucking annoying. Telle there's an app that'll turn that shit off.

You'd never get to see the pictures in any case (nor would any human anytime soon).

Serious question (it's been many moons since I've coded): what sort of data structure is used to represent these insanely large numbers? And how are they manipulated/utilized so they can be used for computation?

Clearly it's well beyond the traditional long datatype.

Now I think you're just trolling. Section 6 of the AIA actually establishes a process for ANYone to challenge the validity of the patent right immediately after it is awarded and for MORE reasons than currently exist for filing a reexamination.
 

That was just two sections of the 30+ sections in the bill, many of which have nothing to do with either of these. Please don't pretend like you know what the purpose of the bill is when you don't even know what it contains.

God, your comment is so misinformed I want to explode.

1. First-to-file actually doesn't go into effect until March 2013 so you are wrong on that front.
2. This patent was filed in 2008, well before the AIA was signed into law, so even if the first-to-file aspect of AIA had gone into effect on Sept. 16, 2011, it would be irrelevant anyway to this patent
3. Your comment - I assume - is some form of dig that first-to-file means companies have carte blanche to file patents on obvious ideas just because somebody doesn't already have a patent on it, which seems to be a viral misunderstanding of the law here on slashdot. First-to-file itself has nothing to do with determining patentability. The AIA - if anything - made it harder to get a patent because it increased what things could be considered when determining novelty of a claim, i.e., under the old laws, some invalidating product could be on sale in another country more than a year ago and it wouldn't be considered, whereas now it will be.

FFS, please STFU until you educate yourself on what you are commenting about.

Thank you, Theaetetus. I've enjoyed reading your responses over the last week. Slashdot has beaten me down to point where I don't have the energy to try and correct people, so I appreciate you saying all the things I'm too tired to say myself.