You can't sue people for violations of your patent if they don't actually commercialize it.

Well, you could, but you'll just get laughed out of court and end up paying for all the patent lawyers.

Why shouldn't it be? It's an unique way of doing something that people may find useful. If they do then the creator gets some profit from it. Isn't that the whole point of patents?

If you log into Facebook, it reactivates your account. Logging into Facebook Connect would be the same as logging into Facebook. Are people really stupid enough this is an issue?

News today can't be bothered with details or facts. They get in the way of reporting the latest tweets.

I'm sure there are some hoteliers that will be excited about reducing their staffing for for washing and folding all the towels and sheets they go through. Hospitals likely would love this too, since it wouldn't show up sick and help spread diseases on clean linens.

Not to say anything definitive since I'm just dealing with a very small sample of firsthand data, but I've found older attachments download much slower than newer ones. I'll get 500+ KB/s on new attachments, and maybe 30 KB/s on ones that are a few months old. It wouldn't surprise me if they cache the newest items in a more-local manner, and let you pull from wherever in the cloud had space for them to store the old ones.

I loved typing next once, then (up arrow) (enter) over and over.

I've always wanted be encased in acrylic and made into a coffee table. Hopefully in a "Let me out!" pose.

Be less like Fark's arbitrary bannings?

I was going to make a joke about if there was scheduled maintenance, but the article already covered that.

A correction for you: We will hear about what the reporters' management expects the most people to want to read/watch.

Wow. Winnipeg MB must be really damned cold.

The Qwik-E-Mart thing was a cross-promo with the movie's release.

I use dialup/stolen wireless, you insensitive clod!

All cell phones don't use proprietary connectors. I've made it a point with my last two phones to get a model with a standardized USB connector for power and sync capabilities, so I can charge from any powered USB port I can find. I can't even count the number of times I've recharged my phone off my laptop while driving or on a train, or even at friend's houses by just making sure a common USB cable.