??? Facebook NFTs? Is it not entirely counter to the decentralized philosphy behind blockchain? One side violates privacy, the other sides provides the bare minimal privacy. Why?

Especially no middlemen that can not be trusted. Our privacy is being violated by every single party in the middle. ISPs, eCommerce vendors, search vendors, social networks. They are all euqal culprits. Avoid a link to a real ID, irrelevant of the addresss. Address is a dummy in most IDs.

It's not just Razer, you can do this with many other drivers and USB devices, such as USB sound cards etc, which are not even user control devices, because they install system level DSPs, and do present an elevated Explorer to launch powershell from. Sad that this still works, maybe this is more of a reason for people to use Windows Ameliorated Edition style system policies that require explicite admin password before elevation or installer launch.

Guys, I've been at Slashdot for years, and have never seen such blatant disregard for the core subject matter. You guys are all going on writing about how obvious the patent is / how bad akamai is, without even looking into the matter. I've been an Akamai customer for many years now, and no matter how much of a bloodsucking leech they are, and how exorbitantly they price their services, they do have some massive innovation going behind their products.

First, the patent isn't so obvious. The patent is for Edge Side Includes, which is in no way trivial. It is the method by which you can have a full HTML page (eg.the slashdot homepage), cached at the akamai edge servers, and have one part of personalized message (welcome USERNAME / you have X private messages / etc. etc.) load from the origin servers, taking into account all cookies etc. Doing so required inventing a whole new method of writing, interpreting, and selectively applying caching to enhanced include tags, that too across a distributed network, supporting other cool items like tiered distribution, progressive caching, server side cookies etc. etc.

Now, realize, this isn't about loading one object, like an image / flash object / javascript from a different server, but transparently loading a part of the core HTML code of a page from the origin server, with full support for cookies / post etc. while making it look like it is coming from the same physical source, so as to maintain cookie coherency. Trust me, before Akamai's founder came around and invented this, web caching static objects with personalized items was like pulling teeth. Also, Akamai is licensing this technology to the whole world http://www.akamai.com/html/support/esi.html, and if they choose not to license this to their competitors, but the competitor goes ahead and implements it "as-is" based on their spec, then hey, the competitor deserves to be sued.

And you know what? Limelight is a bunch of ex-akamai guys, who left with a boatload of trade secrets, and customer lists. I got a call from them within 15 days of their service starting, asking to switch over at half price, but their Super POP model doesn't work for dynamic content like ours.