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How soon until we hit the patent abuse endgame, where all technology companies lay off everybody but the lawyers and just sue each other into oblivion?

"random .exe files from "HaKerD00dz" with animated gif avatars from some PHP forum that you have to trust" LOL!

Rankings are inherently mutually exclusive. Not everybody can be a winner. Tell me how Bing is better at solving this problem.

How is WP8 going to break the web? They have something like 2% of the market, which is hardly a monopoly that can be swing around. Also, are the IE shenanigans news to anybody? The…

"Yeah you Android fanbois are jealous about that sweet AirPower technology, huh?" "Android has had it for two years now!" "Yeah... you're jealous."

I flagged this content-free spec "article".

Clever. I wonder if the illusion is broken if you actually speak Korean. I would definitely notice if someone chopped and reassembled random words in English.

Multiline support, please.

"Consumer Watchdog" is more shrill and even more opaque.

Microsoft invests an amazing amount of resources into the creation and dissemination of FUD. Here's their internal manifesto: http://techrights.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/comes…

Waving my hands about the syntax and myriad literary devices in the book to distract the teacher from the fact that I had no idea what was actually going on. :)

Why can't the "privileged classes" discuss these issues and have open discourse with women? As long as both parties have open minds, it seems like a far better way to walk in someo…

1997

When I went on a foreign exchange trip to China in HS, I brought along a bunch of coursework for my other classes back home. Of all the books I chose to write a report about, I cho…

Smooth! I loved the little touches, like the parallax effects on the previous panes as the window stretched vertically.

LOL!

What sucks is that a lot of good places like The Atlantic and Wired are also applying their brands on link-laden blogs with no editorial standards whatsoever. It's short term gains…

And the rebuttal, "Yes, I want to be writing Game of Life easter eggs"

It's heartening that their business model is failing. I hope it means that it keeps ever more developers from falling into that short-term trap of extracting value through psycholo…

I would like to pay the folks that manage the wonderful apt software repository. Not one red cent to the Unity team, though. I don't like where they are taking Linux.

Unbelievable. Unnnnbelievable.

I went to the Sony store to savor the first OLED television available for purchase. Oh man, it was sweet.