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As someone who is extremely cautious about any medical information found on the Internet, I would wonder whether that cautiousness is heightened or lessened when talking about rare diseases. How do these power users know who to trust?

The fact that some are managing to make a put-their-kids-through-college living doesn't undermine his point in the least. The fact of the matter is that the number of content creators who can meet that threshold continues to plummet at an alarming rate. Those who speak so glowingly of the promise of "the new models" are almost inevitably either succeeding with one already (at least temporarily) or not at all personally dependent on doing so. Not only are new models needed, but they need to scale or the number of content creators sending their kids to college will continue to dwindle.

Patent attorney at link below explains why this stick patent is useless in addition to being silly. He also notes that it is no longer held because the "inventor" failed failed to pay a fee.

http://ipwatchdog.com/2010/10/06/animal-toy-patent/id=12711/

Those who are blaming the victim here illustrate the problem perfectly: some of them either do or will get to run their own businesses and their screw-the-guy-he-didn't-read-the-fine-print attitudes will surely result in similar customer experiences. And business failures.

A fascinating inside look but the guy is far too quick to excuse his leading role in what is unquestionably an unethical enterprise. Drug dealers, too, say they're just fulfilling a demand that someone is going to fulfill ... and they show equal contempt for their customers.

There's a reason it's called work.

I like the camera idea. It would probably work just as well if the unauthorized user merely believed a picture was being taken; just have a pop-up message saying so before the transaction is finalized and skip the picture altogether.

20 to 30 minutes doesn't seem sufficient to make a big difference, especially if you're not able to drop right off. And exactly where is your typical office worker supposed to take this nap?

Not a day goes by when I don't see some no-name blog or other scraping a post of mine word-for-word. That's plagiarism. Unless there's more to it, this complaint seems entirely without merit.

The guy does have a point worth making, but didn't someone already beat him to it using only four words? "Don't feed the trolls."

Modern technology makes it so much easier to flirt with burnout without even realizing it. The laptop is always open on the kitchen table. The cell is never out of reach. There's no conscious thought to the work day or work week having a beginning and an end. It's amazing how easily all of this just becomes "normal."

My daughter at bedtime says she's giving me infinity times infinity time infinity kisses. That's the biggest number, I don't care what any of you math whizzes have to say about the matter. ... OK, let's call it the best not the biggest.

These prosecutions aren't just wrong, they're un-American. How police and prosecutors sworn to uphold the law can abuse it to this extent boggles the mind.

Allow me to be the first to call BS. (Am I allowed to do that with Google?)

If Coke had simply let Honest Tea be Honest Tea, there's a strong likelihood that no one would have ever even made an issue of their differing stances on corn syrup. By attempting to impose its will, however, Coke all but guaranteed that it would become a public matter and that the company would look bad in the process. And along comes the New York Times to stir the drink.

Spending all of this money and having an allegedly free society subjected to this level of government secrecy would be difficult to justify under the best of circumstances. Given that no one knows if it's helping -- or even necessary -- nudges difficult pretty darn close to impossible.