The interesting part of all of this is that everyone is sue happy except Google. For the most part Google acquires patents as a defense against lawsuits, and the technology that those patents do cover is often given away or licensed for free.

Most likely they would have just tracked who the owner of the phone was and sued them. An iPhone falling 13,500 feet could kill a person on impact.

Since this case seems to cover the back and at least part of the sides of the tablet without using a gimmicky magnetic attachment it seems to be all-around superior to Apple's original smart cover.

I don't know how many people are going to outright quit the service due to the price increase. I guess if they weren't happy with the service before they will take this opportunity to leave, but everyone I have talked to (still a small sampling) have indicated that they will either switch to DVD Only, Stream Only or…

You are correct, I talked to far less than 4-500 people. But none of the people I did talk to (10 or 12) seemed to really care that Netflix was changing how their service is priced.

I understand what patents are. But if you read the patents in dispute most could apply to nearly every computing device made in the last 40 years, involving technology in a lot of cases that Apple didn't create. I can understand protecting your own in-house created intellectual property as well as the properties of…

In other news, if you have never seen a car before you will be confused by the pedal/steering wheel combination. And putting the car into gear? Forget about it.

So this patent means that software can detect common "structures" in a strong of text and interpret them as a link? You mean, something every web browser, most email clients (including Outlook, Gmail, Yahoo, etc) and nearly every example of comment/blog/forum software has been able to do for more than a decade now?

60,000+ comments by probably 4-500 people which is an insignificant portion of Netflix's customer bases. Just as many people complained when Netflix raised their prices by $2 in order to add streaming content.

Well, you could go with a DVD-only plan if everything you want to see is on DVD. If streaming isn't a huge portion of your Netflix viewing, would you seriously miss if you went DVD only?

I actually enjoyed New Vegas quite a bit. And if you are going to complain about bugs, you shouldn't bother playing any Bethesda games. Arena, Daggerfall, Morrowind, Oblivion, Fallout 3, etc... each of Bethesda's most excellent titles have had day 1 breaking (in many cases game-breaking) bugs. Each has been worth…

who's outraged? Practically no one I have spoken with even cares that Netflix changed how their plans work. Everyone mainly uses Netflix for streaming and like me they only get a DVD because they had to with their current plans. Unless they are die-hard BluRay borrowers, most people I have spoken to are just going to…

I am pretty sure that Google Maps does give you an estimate based on your current speed. I do 80mph on the highway almost as a rule, and my arrival estimates are always accurate to within a minute or two. So either the estimates Google Maps is giving me is factoring in my speed, or else it is incredibly underestimates…

I always found Google's traffic estimates relatively accurate. It is sad that they took this service out, especially since it is an estimate and it was never suggested that it was 100% accurate.

I am not sure why the Voice Recognition one is in here. All of your examples (you forgot the computers in Start Trek as well) take place well in the future. If Google's Android voice control is any indication, by the time we get to the dates those shows take place in (well, not 2001) we very well might have extremely…

It actually is expensive to expand service into a new area. You need new cable, personnel, facilities to work from, fleet expansion and in a lot of cases new poles or underground conduits to hold the wires. It adds up very fast.

Comcast and other large companies cannot block regional providers, and there actually are a lot of regional providers. However since regional providers are by definition smaller, with smaller customer bases, in order to expand their networks they need to charge their customers slightly higher prices than Comcast could…

Sweden is geographically small.

I am curious who actually said it was OK to grope a child. Certainly no one here has said that.

The only downside I have found so far, is that Google re-arranged the settings and I cannot find out how to set updates to "never notify."