The Zeitgeist

Société Général (SG) announced yesterday that a ”rogue trader” had racked up US$7.2 Billion in losses.  The NYTimes reporting of this story reported that this “trader” identified as Jerome Kerviel had “managed to evade multiple layers of computer controls and audits for as long as a year.”  Kerviel is described as a “mid-level” employee who was, [...]

Here we go again… yet another Patent Troll is going after someone — in this case Apple — for something that so obvious and in fact generic, you’d have to have to be from some other planet not to see that it’s not patentable.
At issue is something known as the “783″ patent, US Patent #7,321,783, [...]

I know how to program in a bunch of languages… some really, really old, like Algol-68, PL/1, Pascal, Modula-2 and MC680×0 Assembly Language. Some as mainstream as you can get, like C, Objective-C, Java, Perl and PHP. I’m a Unix guy so I also know several “shell” languages found in things like the [...]

[Update: I totally missed Ms. Stacie Somers of San Diego County, another gold-digger wanna be... Macalope covers it nicely...]

It’s interesting how Apple has become everyone’s favorite whipping boy lately. The latest salvo in the “If I sue Apple maybe I’ll get rich” war has been fired by a Florida resident named “Frederick [...]