Commander Hadfield is the most well known astronaut since Sally Ride -- and with this, he'll be right up there with Neil Armstrong. If this is viral marketing, then THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT THE SPACE PROGRAM NEEDS! Fun, excitement, exquisite beauty -- that's what Hadfield has been beaming back to Earth for the last five months. I've been following his facebook posts for the last couple months and I was genuinely concerned about the ammonia leak this week and his spacewalk, and so were millions of other people. How many "fans" will watch his live prime-time EDT re-entry tomorrow night after watching this video tonight? How many even bothered to watch the final Shuttle landing? This guy is a bona fide star and we who care about space exploration should be embracing him.

It's clear that there are a lot more lawyers specializing in tech law now than then, explicitly because of situations like the DOS case and the gazillion tech patent disputes that have been poorly defended before and since.

This argument basically says that yes, you may have a broken product, but you can only sue if you've actually lost data. You can't have "may be injured" and "injured" in the same pool of plaintiffs in this particular case. If you haven't been injured, you can't apply.

If the case had been a few years later, and about Windows 98 instead of DOS 6.0, I'm sure it would've been a lot harder to argue that the all users weren't "injured" somehow because I think everybody would've lost some data using WIN98 by then and been able to better sympathasize with the plaintiffs. (As opposed to DOS 6, mainly used by businesses and hobbists but not nearly as ubiqitious as Windows would eventually become.)

She's a good lawyer who is well paid to get people off the hook. I'm sure she would've done the same for Apple or Sun or Enron. That's her job, that's why she's headed to the Supreme Court.