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IIRC, it takes just as much energy to reach L4 (or L5) as to reach the Moon--they're in the same orbit.

If you've got settlers on the Moon, or beyond the Earth-Moon system, L4 is probably a good place to build a commercial and industrial outpost; but, for your only space installation, something lower down is much cheaper.

That makes more sense, thanks.

Back at Netscape, Jim Barksdale hated the term "browser war", on the grounds that a war justifies extreme behavior. He didn't want us believing the browser war meant we should be breaking the normal rules.

>Seriously if AT&T doing this, there is no reason to believe that other providers do not.

The article says AT&T has the data for any telco that uses AT&T switches. This is a little odd, given that the company currently known as AT&T is not the same company that used to manufacture switches; but, if this has been going on for 26 years, I suppose the government would have insisted it continue across corporate splits and mergers.

ARM doesn't make anything physical--but neither do most software companies. ARM makes products that their customers actually want. Patent trolls don't.

If LR operated as described in the indictment, it didn't really have information about its customers, so those records might not have been all that useful.

paddy_m said browser engine, so Chromium doesn't count. And WebKit wasn't actually new; it was based on KHTML.

Isn't JS injection a copyright violation, since it creates a derived work? Or has that idea been shot down before?

Or as soon as the states close the loophole so that this program is treated the same as a lease.

It did have one, but it ablated.

"Neesh" is taught as Correct in the US, though it's not universally used.

I agree, except for the "focus" bit. The engineers that worked on this alleged feature would not have been much help signing new content distribution deals.

(Well. I'm generalizing. I'm an engineer, and I know I wouldn't be.)

My main Netflix player is a Blu-Ray player from 2009. I don't think Samsung is going to push an update to add the Don't Share This button. I'm just not going to connect my accounts.

Doesn't that run afoul of the same problem as Righthaven? There is no bare "right to sue" that can be transferred without transferring the copyright.

>I'd apply the same copyright principle as phone books

So would I—phone books are not subject to compilation copyright, because there's no editorial choice going on. That was settled in the _Feist_ case.