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Six years later, Microsoft tries patenting a spoof from BBSpot

The concept of mashups has reached a new pinnacle. We’ve gone governments reporting Onion articles as truth.  We’ve gone beyond ridiculous patents.  Now we have large software companies applying to patent ideas from satirical sites. And yes, this probably counts as prior art–not that it’s any guarantee to stop the patent from being awarded.

Copyright Industry Madness Takes Six Years To Catch Up With The Worst Satire Of It – Falkvinge on Infopolicy

Six years ago, a satire site wrote a story about how the copyright industry wanted more money if you invited friends to watch a movie in your living room. This notion has now been patented in new technology: automated headcounts coming to a living room near you, to enable new forms of restrictions. Apparently, the copyright industry takes six years to catch up with the very worst satire of it.

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Garlic.js

This seems like a natural addon to most forms. It persists the value in the text fields until the form successfully submits. Since it’s using local storage, it will survive even rebooting your computer.

Garlic.js

Garlic.js allows you to automatically persist your forms’ text field values locally, until the form is submitted. This way, your users don’t lose any precious data if they accidentally close their tab or browser.

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Chevron’s network infected by Stuxnet

How long until a virus is found to have infected computers that control large industrial machines in the U.S.? What if the virus authors already read everything written by the CIA? What if a botnet controlled drones and dropped bombs on Tel Aviv, New Delhi or Moscow?

Virus Aimed at Iran Infected Chevron’s Network – WSJ.com

Stuxnet, a computer virus that former U.S. officials say was created by the U.S. and Israel to attack Iran’s nuclear-enrichment facilities, also infected Chevron’s network in 2010, shortly after it escaped from its intended target

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How Barack Obama Secured the Most Important Voting Demographic: The Idiots

I have seen our future, and it’s a movie by Mike Judge.

How Barack Obama Secured the Most Important Voting Demographic: The Idiots

You Can’t Fix Stupid, But You Can Buy It For $8 Billion
The Peter Schiff Show (11/7/2012)
The founding fathers warned us years ago about the dangers inherent in democracy. They considered democracy to be tyranny of the majority. In fact, they actually referred to democracy as “mobocracry.” That is why they established the United States as a Republic. The Constitution guarantees to each state in the union a Republican form of government, and contains all sorts of safeguards to protect us from the evils of democracy. Unfortunately over the years, little by little, those safeguards have been torn down. The result has been every bit as disastrous as the founders feared.

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MS Messenger Gone in January

OK, whatever. I think have as many friends on MSN as I do on ICQ.

Microsoft and Skype to axe world’s most popular IM client early 2013 • The Register

Microsoft’s Instant Messenger will be sacrificed for Skype by the end of March 2013, it has finally emerged.

The software giant’s Skype business has blogged Windows Live Messenger will be “retired” in the first quarter of 2013, except in mainland China.

Skype said it will work with Windows Live Messenger users during the next few months to help with the transition and “offer information and help along the way”.

Microsoft began moving users with Skype 6.0 for Mac and Windows, which allows you to sign into the service using a Microsoft account.