To those who say that Apple stiffles innovation, please cite examples of innovation within the products for which Apple is seeking an injunction. Why would one invest in innovation if the market is free to copy immediately?

slightly off topic, but what do you have about c++? Also, I think I've seen you here before, what's your actual screen name?

Nice approximation of 2 factor authentication: from a selection of questions you need to know (1) which one to answer, and (2) the answer.

If Verizon is claiming their free speech is being violated, then they must be accepting responsibility for the content of that speech. IANAL, but I would think that Verizon would want to avoid being held accountable for content.

A few months ago some guy generated random numbers firing lasers at diamonds; and now we've got quantum light. Maybe someone could explain how randomness varies in non-random ways...

Privacy /= security.

The effort to hash and salt contact information to provide a basic level of privacy over cleartext is computationally and programatically inconsequencial. We're locking the screen door, here; not securing Fort Knox.

All homeless people are criminals? Part of this program is about raising awareness -- and clearly you could use some awareness raising....

The homeless person doesn't keep the money for the same reason that the cashier at McDonald's doesn't get to keep the money... The profits will be donated to a homeless shelter in Austin.

You assume that gov't entities would prefer bullet proof systems... How could Bush43 have won the elections in Ohio if SmarTech didn't have the man in the middle exploit set up to rig the results?

/tin_foil_hat
/humor

THe best rumor I've heard so far is that the ipad2 will see a price drop to make it more cost competitive with kindle fire. We'll see in a few days.

Length of life (in years) dropped from 120 years to 114 years when the Romans added August to the Calendar...

I wouldn't consider IRC or USENET to be 'back in the day" technologies. Both are alive and well and doing a fine job of allowing for inconspicuous file transfers...

Just because you can't search for it in Google doesn't mean it's not on the Internet.

RT(F)A -- Suit originally filed in 1999. Since the claim is specifically against image interaction, rather than simply hyperlinks, the timing is just about right.

Lots of movies (everything except the blockbusters) make most of their money in back catalog. There is huge money in owning a massive library of old films.

So while I agree that copyright has lost all sense of 'fair use', I don't think you'll win arguing that there is no value in long copyrights.

The real variable, and the real constraint, is theater screens. Bad movies have shorter runs and good movies last longer. Price comes in later when you wait for it to show at some local independent theatre, or on PPV, Redbox, etc.