They could also do what Google did and create their own Linux based operating system and maintaining compatibility in applications. Far more sensible than to get squeezed out in the Apple, M$ and Android battle. The catch with Android the battle of cost versus performance will be pretty fierce between manufacturers, as there is no real identity difference to ramp up margins with B$ advertising (the same for M$ offerings just that the prices are already loaded plus manufacturers lose control) as for Apple.
The next big push will be interconnectivity smart phone connects to the smart book connects to the smart TV and Nokia is a limited electronics manufacturer and lacks the ability to produce a complete package deal.
As IQ is an average, it could just mean the sub-twenties are slipping into the sub-100s and the seventies are seeming smarter in comparison. There are of course plenty of studies that show the elderly who use computers maintain higher intellectual skills as they age. The internet versus the idiot box, they call it an idiot box http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiot_box for a reason, just look at the Fox not-News Channel the idiots channel, beckerheads one and all.
The biggest saving for hybrids will always be in regenerative braking in city driving. No has really gone all the way with hybrid, a combustion engine driving a generator at maximum operating efficiency (no transmission losses), charging a battery, that drives electric motors in the wheels (compact engine compartment). Then add in solar panels to pick up a bit extra when parked.
There seems to be some resistance for the extra investment in the development of hybrids as advances in battery technology will likely make it pointless with the preference for all electric and the detoxifying of cities.
You want old prior art. A lot of you young fellas might never have seen them but thirty odd years ago electronic card poker machines were all the rage. Put multiples of twenty cents in and it would convert it into a non-refundable credit allowing you to play until your credits ran out. Although is was legal is some locations for them to payout, it was illegal in many locations hence you just played to play not to win http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_poker
Especially when that minority wants to sell off the only real asset of that company the domain name. So a minority basically wants to destroy the company and it's long term value so that he can accrue a possible short term gain.
First off Wikipedia only represents a small percentage of the population, with a significant proportion being US residents. The US population has a bias towards competition due to a lack of a fully featured social welfare net which does reduce the stress of a modern life by reducing the impact of losing. The competitiveness reflects in the desire to win with a contribution and to protect it regardless of the validity of doing so.
This is balanced out by a global exchange and the creation of a more psychologically supportive environment where the emphasis is on intellectual exchange rather than competitiveness, hence wikipedia can be an escape from competition for US residence, enabling consensus to more readily occur.
Consensus requires the autonomic biological constraint of empathy, where emotions when recognised are shared. These feelings can be ignored and often are where winning and losing have a more significant impact than greater personal influence on a largely anonymous article, especially when competing in socio economic climates contaminated by psychopaths and actual narcissists (both of whom have a biological lack of empathic ability), which of course excludes any possibility of consensus except as a sham to lull gullible.
Soldiers are not just soldiers, they are what they are trained to be, those that fail the training are unsuitable and are discharged. You can train a honourable army that operates upon a basis of integrity and a resistance to killing, with a preference for capturing. The US instead appears to have abandoned honour and integrity and gone for an unbalanced desire to destroy and kill, creating a psychopathic military not by accident but as a desired goal and then going on to release those unstable service personnel back into the civilian population many of whom go on to be law en'FORCE'ment officers with a history police brutality.
The US military apparently have a secret history of using brutality, torture and random slaughter to subjugate troublesome populations all artfully hidden by propaganda distributed by a willing accomplice in mass media, where slaughter is reported like a sports score and any hint of scandal apart from the random scapegoat is hidden and not discussed.
It is now pretty clear why the US government wanted to hide the last of the documents, it should also be pretty clear to the rest of the democratic world why the documents had to get out and why the rest of humanity was entitled to know exactly why kind of threat is presented by the US military.
Was he using 'https' to log into his bank account via, does he use Firefox and use the get add-ons, see all recommended add-ons which takes you to an encrypted https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/featured page.
As for virus free, they should simply have pointed the court to M$'s non-warranty and the bit where they don't guarantee their software to be free of viruses.
Of course as a teenager it is very likely that the computer uses might be a family computer and the court has not right to pass restrictions of this kind onto the rest of the family if they did not commit a crime.
Next up the definition of what is and is not a computer was left un-clarified. Is the minor not allowed to use a game console, a mobile phone or, even a microwave oven. As for hacking software, again a ludicrously vague title, any coding software is hacking software and it is embedded in all office suits whether visual basic or java. Scanning software, wireless connection require scanning of the airwaves to gain a connection.
It is pretty clear the courts need to sit and pre-prepare a list of predefined titles to cover illicit activities or activities they wish to prohibit rather than firing off with some really ignorant rulings.
Rich people want privacy too and the way the laws work one in all in, it means there will be a lot of people that will demand far stronger privacy laws, anti-data mining laws and, protection of minors privacy and identities. Additionally held data reports to individuals, corporations should be required to report to all individuals for who they have information on, the nature of that information, the details contained therein and, give the individuals the right to correct and or delete that data and, this should be done upon an annual basis.
It should always be the right of an individual to live a private life and where they have at times surrendered elements of their privacy the ability to reinstate a private life at any time the choose. It should not be the right of corporations to invade the privacy of individuals, to not report the nature of information they have about individuals, to hold incorrect and possibly defamatory information about individuals and to deny individuals the right to have that information deleted at any time the individual chooses.
Now how far that extends is a matter of balance, between what is private and what is publics, the difference between the decisions of adults and the manipulation of minors, and of course the use to which that data is put. The most dangerous being the automated psychoanalysis of the data to manipulate the choices of the victims of targeted marketing, especially minors. Target adds at content not at individuals.
Not only that but Miss Nancy is creating a future generation of bubble terrorists. Get her now before she does more damage. Face it office bubbles was an arrogant dickwad and anybody that tries to defend him is an assclown either that or a swat team needs to put Miss Nancy down.
No politician want's to be associated with a joke where they are the tutu clad butt of it. The reality is, it is popular because of the negative connotations associated with it and a lot of people want to see her in a bad light. A popularity poll certainly but a negative one.
Well there is one way to save significant amounts of money, volunteer labour. One of the greatest expenses in the space program is the custom production of limited numbers of items which all must be hand made to exacting specifications. Seek people to make this items for free, individuals, companies and countries can all contribute to an open space program.
Some big ticket items still need to be paid for but there are likely billions of savings in all those bits and pieces, just put the specs up on line and see who will supply it for free.
You do have the choice of thousands if not millions of sites to express your opinion and it has be proven time and time again when sites heavily censor posting to match their marketing and business goals participation dies rapidly and often permanently.
The internet however always hits numerous choke points starting at possible reasonably priced kerb connections to main backbone trunks and on global issues undersea cables.
Then there is slowing opposition response for day and, weeks while the for profit propaganda continues.
No add random regular disconnects and slow downs to drive away users with frustration and even those some tactics for individuals to effectively silence them. Years ago this was too hard to do manually on a large scale but with computers you can silence a population of hundreds of millions automatically, say or write the wrong word and your connection mysteriously temporarily dies, whether it be a local, national or international connection.
So rules are created, laws are legislated to ensure equal access on critical infrastructure, to imprison tyrants not glorify them. So landlord can't extort unreasonable and humiliating demands upon the basis of being the owner and a tyrant and being immediately able to evict you from his property, so the power company can't disconnect you from the grid in the middle of winter because they didn't like your public complaint, so water company can't cut of your mains because they thought it would be fun to do so.
So basically bugger the tyrants, we together make the rules if you don't want to operate within the rules we define for net neutrality then you are not fit for the business, so basically you and your money can get lost and find another type of business to be a little hitler in.
The issue really seems to be the lack of a space race. So how do why drive the Russian and Chinese to compete in space and forget this competing militarily crap. Perhaps the meme driven over and over again, he who dominates in space dominates the world, driven over and over again might work.
You know, the first country with a manned expedition to Mars get to keep it along with the idea that Terra forming Mars would not be all that difficult.
Changes to the law are exactly for that, to make it more accessible, to eliminate flaws, to remove misinterpretations, to ensure the law follows the idea of justice. In this case the resolution for an unfair take down notice needs to be simplified to a stated penalty, say minimum of $10,000 dollars per act (plus legal costs) considering both the defamation and freedom of speech aspect, When it is clearly laid out pursuit or remedial action is simplified and readily achieved (going for the minimum, of course going for more than that is still complex).
Now you might say $10,000.00 might not be enough to tame a billion dollar industry but they don't tend to do it once but thousands of times and adding those three zeros on $10,000.00 really starts to hurt and quite a few people would be quite happy to pick up that cheque for somebody else's arrogance. Net result, no point making a false claims, people will fight it to pick up $10,000.00, plus legal costs and what ever you tried to block re-appears.
I am thinking in terms of hundreds and even thousands of missions, a combination of commercial and science missions ie many launches every day and hence regular dockings. Real focus should be upon an open research upon the whole gravity problem, how to get by it and how to use it.
It is arguably the most long lived 'introvert' computer geek/nerd web site, quite a few of whom find other forms of social interaction far too onerous.
No one should buy facebook, it is a fad product no different to myspace. Apple is more creative than that and should simply tackle social networking directly with a socially networked product.
Catch is Google is also working in that direction with Android. For Apple to get past that, they simple need too take a bold step and go with an internet only product not tied to any particular hardware at all. Steve Jobs needs to take a step back and be as content to run the social network on Android, windows or Apple products, it will be a hard step for him to take.
Lets be accurate. Officer egoist dickwad was claiming that if a bubble touched him, he would treat it as assault.
So his response would have been to force the girl to the ground, put his knee into her back, twist her arms behind her back and handcuff her and then forcefully lift her by her arms whilst they were now restrained behind her back. It of course would not stop there, they would then detain her, put her in a wire mesh cage for 24 hours, threaten her and feed her one cheese sandwich (it happened to many others), deny her toilet facilities and only provide limited water. That's if she doesn't resist his assault, of she does it get's far worse.
It still doesn't stop there, they would also demand she takes time off work, attend court at her expense and pay for a lawyer if she feels threatened by extended imprisonment for assaulting a police officer (possibly years in prison). The case would then be dropped. All with no charges for the police assault her and, illegally detaining her.
So your telling me a bubble assault warrants that police and legal assault an extremely violent and threatening assault, possibly lethal. Face it bubbles career is over and it would be an embarrassment to be associated with him, now the question is it justified, well that is for each person to individually decide. Personally I think he would do quite well in the US but he is not really fit for a more civilised police force (where the emphasis is on policing no law en"FORCEMENT").
This civil suit will only ensure those cartoons get more gloabl airplay then they ever had before. Officer bubbles ego has obviously gotten ahead of his common sense yet again.
Of course the Steve Jobs rant of course indicates the writing is on the wall. So what has Jobs shorts in such a twist, iJunk with bloated iProfit margins, is now iOld and no longer iCool whilst of course Android devices are the new cool.
Whilst everyone with an ounce of experience realises it is quite normal for consumer products rangers targeted at teens to cycle from popularity to obscurity, those profiting by always refuse to accept it, very iLame. Public tantrum displays that get through to the target audience of those products only accelerates the process. There is something very, I own those customers, they must buy my product, they must love me, about it all that puts people off.
That different manufacturers can tweak their Android products to suit themselves is proof of openness. That users can go on to tweak those manufacturers products to suit themselves is further proof of openness. Android is the current cool product, get over it apple marketdroids, in five years time who knows what will be the next cool tech item, it could even be an over price under performing apple product;D (you deserve that for your aggressive forum marketing efforts).
Well it is high time to start aggressively campaigning for an amendment to the DMCA setting out substantive penalties for false claims with significant payments to the party who were defamed and who had their constitutional rights to free speech infringed.
There has been a lot of complaints about abuses of the DMCA but as yet seemingly little action to force an amendment for false claims.
Nitrogen is not an inert gas (helium, neon, argon, krypton, xenon, radon). More accurate to say humans do not respire nitrogen whilst they definitely do consume it in various forms. Nitric acid is of course very reactive and the organic nitrates are even more reactive nitroglycerine.
A standardised docking station should of course be unencumbered by any patents, keeping in mind it is not just used in space but also on the ground to control the exchange of atmosphere when astronauts enter the craft.
With joint missions being relatively rare, along of course with all manned missions, the standardised docking has more to do with global space cooperation rather than real current need, along with the avoidance of further expanding warfare into space, further growth of that could have very severe consequences.
The currently unprofitable businesses are hamstrung by a lack of creative management. There is no reason that MSN and Live Gaming should be very profitable apart from management style, basically an insurance salesman handling a monopoly attempting to bolster their ego with alchohol and arrogance.
Split the company in two, one the entertainment division based around MSN and XBOX which none of the existing board having much control over and especially which Ballmer can not influence in any way shape or form (medium and long term returns with a real future). The other the OS and Office, which MS stops developing and screw the customers over for as much as possible (maximum short to medium term returns with no real future).
That MSN lost every market to it's competitors and continues to lose money is a criminal shame and a true testament to the incompetence and arrogance of Ballmer and his cronies. Realistically by now MSN should be worth far more than Google but it is dead whilst it remains under it's current uncreative arrogant leadership.
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They could also do what Google did and create their own Linux based operating system and maintaining compatibility in applications. Far more sensible than to get squeezed out in the Apple, M$ and Android battle. The catch with Android the battle of cost versus performance will be pretty fierce between manufacturers, as there is no real identity difference to ramp up margins with B$ advertising (the same for M$ offerings just that the prices are already loaded plus manufacturers lose control) as for Apple.
The next big push will be interconnectivity smart phone connects to the smart book connects to the smart TV and Nokia is a limited electronics manufacturer and lacks the ability to produce a complete package deal.
As IQ is an average, it could just mean the sub-twenties are slipping into the sub-100s and the seventies are seeming smarter in comparison. There are of course plenty of studies that show the elderly who use computers maintain higher intellectual skills as they age. The internet versus the idiot box, they call it an idiot box http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiot_box for a reason, just look at the Fox not-News Channel the idiots channel, beckerheads one and all.
The biggest saving for hybrids will always be in regenerative braking in city driving. No has really gone all the way with hybrid, a combustion engine driving a generator at maximum operating efficiency (no transmission losses), charging a battery, that drives electric motors in the wheels (compact engine compartment). Then add in solar panels to pick up a bit extra when parked.
There seems to be some resistance for the extra investment in the development of hybrids as advances in battery technology will likely make it pointless with the preference for all electric and the detoxifying of cities.
You want old prior art. A lot of you young fellas might never have seen them but thirty odd years ago electronic card poker machines were all the rage. Put multiples of twenty cents in and it would convert it into a non-refundable credit allowing you to play until your credits ran out. Although is was legal is some locations for them to payout, it was illegal in many locations hence you just played to play not to win http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_poker
So your saying you can aim bubbles, a bubble ring with a telescopic sight perhaps.
Especially when that minority wants to sell off the only real asset of that company the domain name. So a minority basically wants to destroy the company and it's long term value so that he can accrue a possible short term gain.
First off Wikipedia only represents a small percentage of the population, with a significant proportion being US residents. The US population has a bias towards competition due to a lack of a fully featured social welfare net which does reduce the stress of a modern life by reducing the impact of losing. The competitiveness reflects in the desire to win with a contribution and to protect it regardless of the validity of doing so.
This is balanced out by a global exchange and the creation of a more psychologically supportive environment where the emphasis is on intellectual exchange rather than competitiveness, hence wikipedia can be an escape from competition for US residence, enabling consensus to more readily occur.
Consensus requires the autonomic biological constraint of empathy, where emotions when recognised are shared. These feelings can be ignored and often are where winning and losing have a more significant impact than greater personal influence on a largely anonymous article, especially when competing in socio economic climates contaminated by psychopaths and actual narcissists (both of whom have a biological lack of empathic ability), which of course excludes any possibility of consensus except as a sham to lull gullible.
Soldiers are not just soldiers, they are what they are trained to be, those that fail the training are unsuitable and are discharged. You can train a honourable army that operates upon a basis of integrity and a resistance to killing, with a preference for capturing. The US instead appears to have abandoned honour and integrity and gone for an unbalanced desire to destroy and kill, creating a psychopathic military not by accident but as a desired goal and then going on to release those unstable service personnel back into the civilian population many of whom go on to be law en'FORCE'ment officers with a history police brutality.
The US military apparently have a secret history of using brutality, torture and random slaughter to subjugate troublesome populations all artfully hidden by propaganda distributed by a willing accomplice in mass media, where slaughter is reported like a sports score and any hint of scandal apart from the random scapegoat is hidden and not discussed.
It is now pretty clear why the US government wanted to hide the last of the documents, it should also be pretty clear to the rest of the democratic world why the documents had to get out and why the rest of humanity was entitled to know exactly why kind of threat is presented by the US military.
Was he using 'https' to log into his bank account via, does he use Firefox and use the get add-ons, see all recommended add-ons which takes you to an encrypted https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/featured page.
As for virus free, they should simply have pointed the court to M$'s non-warranty and the bit where they don't guarantee their software to be free of viruses.
Of course as a teenager it is very likely that the computer uses might be a family computer and the court has not right to pass restrictions of this kind onto the rest of the family if they did not commit a crime.
Next up the definition of what is and is not a computer was left un-clarified. Is the minor not allowed to use a game console, a mobile phone or, even a microwave oven. As for hacking software, again a ludicrously vague title, any coding software is hacking software and it is embedded in all office suits whether visual basic or java. Scanning software, wireless connection require scanning of the airwaves to gain a connection.
It is pretty clear the courts need to sit and pre-prepare a list of predefined titles to cover illicit activities or activities they wish to prohibit rather than firing off with some really ignorant rulings.
Rich people want privacy too and the way the laws work one in all in, it means there will be a lot of people that will demand far stronger privacy laws, anti-data mining laws and, protection of minors privacy and identities. Additionally held data reports to individuals, corporations should be required to report to all individuals for who they have information on, the nature of that information, the details contained therein and, give the individuals the right to correct and or delete that data and, this should be done upon an annual basis.
It should always be the right of an individual to live a private life and where they have at times surrendered elements of their privacy the ability to reinstate a private life at any time the choose. It should not be the right of corporations to invade the privacy of individuals, to not report the nature of information they have about individuals, to hold incorrect and possibly defamatory information about individuals and to deny individuals the right to have that information deleted at any time the individual chooses.
Now how far that extends is a matter of balance, between what is private and what is publics, the difference between the decisions of adults and the manipulation of minors, and of course the use to which that data is put. The most dangerous being the automated psychoanalysis of the data to manipulate the choices of the victims of targeted marketing, especially minors. Target adds at content not at individuals.
My God, then Miss Nancy should be tasered, pepper sprayed and prosecuted for reckless child endangerment. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDOYOI-L8Zs.
Not only that but Miss Nancy is creating a future generation of bubble terrorists. Get her now before she does more damage. Face it office bubbles was an arrogant dickwad and anybody that tries to defend him is an assclown either that or a swat team needs to put Miss Nancy down.
No politician want's to be associated with a joke where they are the tutu clad butt of it. The reality is, it is popular because of the negative connotations associated with it and a lot of people want to see her in a bad light. A popularity poll certainly but a negative one.
Well there is one way to save significant amounts of money, volunteer labour. One of the greatest expenses in the space program is the custom production of limited numbers of items which all must be hand made to exacting specifications. Seek people to make this items for free, individuals, companies and countries can all contribute to an open space program.
Some big ticket items still need to be paid for but there are likely billions of savings in all those bits and pieces, just put the specs up on line and see who will supply it for free.
You do have the choice of thousands if not millions of sites to express your opinion and it has be proven time and time again when sites heavily censor posting to match their marketing and business goals participation dies rapidly and often permanently.
The internet however always hits numerous choke points starting at possible reasonably priced kerb connections to main backbone trunks and on global issues undersea cables.
Then there is slowing opposition response for day and, weeks while the for profit propaganda continues.
No add random regular disconnects and slow downs to drive away users with frustration and even those some tactics for individuals to effectively silence them. Years ago this was too hard to do manually on a large scale but with computers you can silence a population of hundreds of millions automatically, say or write the wrong word and your connection mysteriously temporarily dies, whether it be a local, national or international connection.
So rules are created, laws are legislated to ensure equal access on critical infrastructure, to imprison tyrants not glorify them. So landlord can't extort unreasonable and humiliating demands upon the basis of being the owner and a tyrant and being immediately able to evict you from his property, so the power company can't disconnect you from the grid in the middle of winter because they didn't like your public complaint, so water company can't cut of your mains because they thought it would be fun to do so.
So basically bugger the tyrants, we together make the rules if you don't want to operate within the rules we define for net neutrality then you are not fit for the business, so basically you and your money can get lost and find another type of business to be a little hitler in.
The issue really seems to be the lack of a space race. So how do why drive the Russian and Chinese to compete in space and forget this competing militarily crap. Perhaps the meme driven over and over again, he who dominates in space dominates the world, driven over and over again might work.
You know, the first country with a manned expedition to Mars get to keep it along with the idea that Terra forming Mars would not be all that difficult.
Changes to the law are exactly for that, to make it more accessible, to eliminate flaws, to remove misinterpretations, to ensure the law follows the idea of justice. In this case the resolution for an unfair take down notice needs to be simplified to a stated penalty, say minimum of $10,000 dollars per act (plus legal costs) considering both the defamation and freedom of speech aspect, When it is clearly laid out pursuit or remedial action is simplified and readily achieved (going for the minimum, of course going for more than that is still complex).
Now you might say $10,000.00 might not be enough to tame a billion dollar industry but they don't tend to do it once but thousands of times and adding those three zeros on $10,000.00 really starts to hurt and quite a few people would be quite happy to pick up that cheque for somebody else's arrogance. Net result, no point making a false claims, people will fight it to pick up $10,000.00, plus legal costs and what ever you tried to block re-appears.
I am thinking in terms of hundreds and even thousands of missions, a combination of commercial and science missions ie many launches every day and hence regular dockings. Real focus should be upon an open research upon the whole gravity problem, how to get by it and how to use it.
Humblest apologies.
It is arguably the most long lived 'introvert' computer geek/nerd web site, quite a few of whom find other forms of social interaction far too onerous.
No one should buy facebook, it is a fad product no different to myspace. Apple is more creative than that and should simply tackle social networking directly with a socially networked product.
Catch is Google is also working in that direction with Android. For Apple to get past that, they simple need too take a bold step and go with an internet only product not tied to any particular hardware at all. Steve Jobs needs to take a step back and be as content to run the social network on Android, windows or Apple products, it will be a hard step for him to take.
Lets be accurate. Officer egoist dickwad was claiming that if a bubble touched him, he would treat it as assault.
So his response would have been to force the girl to the ground, put his knee into her back, twist her arms behind her back and handcuff her and then forcefully lift her by her arms whilst they were now restrained behind her back. It of course would not stop there, they would then detain her, put her in a wire mesh cage for 24 hours, threaten her and feed her one cheese sandwich (it happened to many others), deny her toilet facilities and only provide limited water. That's if she doesn't resist his assault, of she does it get's far worse.
It still doesn't stop there, they would also demand she takes time off work, attend court at her expense and pay for a lawyer if she feels threatened by extended imprisonment for assaulting a police officer (possibly years in prison). The case would then be dropped. All with no charges for the police assault her and, illegally detaining her.
So your telling me a bubble assault warrants that police and legal assault an extremely violent and threatening assault, possibly lethal. Face it bubbles career is over and it would be an embarrassment to be associated with him, now the question is it justified, well that is for each person to individually decide. Personally I think he would do quite well in the US but he is not really fit for a more civilised police force (where the emphasis is on policing no law en"FORCEMENT").
This civil suit will only ensure those cartoons get more gloabl airplay then they ever had before. Officer bubbles ego has obviously gotten ahead of his common sense yet again.
Of course the Steve Jobs rant of course indicates the writing is on the wall. So what has Jobs shorts in such a twist, iJunk with bloated iProfit margins, is now iOld and no longer iCool whilst of course Android devices are the new cool.
Whilst everyone with an ounce of experience realises it is quite normal for consumer products rangers targeted at teens to cycle from popularity to obscurity, those profiting by always refuse to accept it, very iLame. Public tantrum displays that get through to the target audience of those products only accelerates the process. There is something very, I own those customers, they must buy my product, they must love me, about it all that puts people off.
That different manufacturers can tweak their Android products to suit themselves is proof of openness. That users can go on to tweak those manufacturers products to suit themselves is further proof of openness. Android is the current cool product, get over it apple marketdroids, in five years time who knows what will be the next cool tech item, it could even be an over price under performing apple product ;D (you deserve that for your aggressive forum marketing efforts).
Well it is high time to start aggressively campaigning for an amendment to the DMCA setting out substantive penalties for false claims with significant payments to the party who were defamed and who had their constitutional rights to free speech infringed.
There has been a lot of complaints about abuses of the DMCA but as yet seemingly little action to force an amendment for false claims.
Nitrogen is not an inert gas (helium, neon, argon, krypton, xenon, radon). More accurate to say humans do not respire nitrogen whilst they definitely do consume it in various forms. Nitric acid is of course very reactive and the organic nitrates are even more reactive nitroglycerine.
A standardised docking station should of course be unencumbered by any patents, keeping in mind it is not just used in space but also on the ground to control the exchange of atmosphere when astronauts enter the craft.
With joint missions being relatively rare, along of course with all manned missions, the standardised docking has more to do with global space cooperation rather than real current need, along with the avoidance of further expanding warfare into space, further growth of that could have very severe consequences.
The currently unprofitable businesses are hamstrung by a lack of creative management. There is no reason that MSN and Live Gaming should be very profitable apart from management style, basically an insurance salesman handling a monopoly attempting to bolster their ego with alchohol and arrogance.
Split the company in two, one the entertainment division based around MSN and XBOX which none of the existing board having much control over and especially which Ballmer can not influence in any way shape or form (medium and long term returns with a real future). The other the OS and Office, which MS stops developing and screw the customers over for as much as possible (maximum short to medium term returns with no real future).
That MSN lost every market to it's competitors and continues to lose money is a criminal shame and a true testament to the incompetence and arrogance of Ballmer and his cronies. Realistically by now MSN should be worth far more than Google but it is dead whilst it remains under it's current uncreative arrogant leadership.