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Lodsys Sues Developers For Patent Infringement -- InformationWeek I find it amazing patents issued in the last 20 years. So much in software and other fields are the patenting of OBVIOUS solutions. http://www.lodsys.com/our-patents.html just look into these so called inventions..... I can only wonder where the money came to subsidize the lawyer fees and patent fees to push this crap through the system. I guess my new biz model is get seed money to subsidize patents, sell to patent trolls, subsidize more patents..... BROKEN....

The U.S. Postal Service Nears Collapse - BusinessWeek : "the agency’s union contracts prohibit layoffs." hmmm, what a joke...only government.... "the agency’s union contracts prohibit layoffs." The USPS has historically placed the interests of its unions first. That hasn't changed. In March it reached a four-and-a-half-year agreement with the 250,000-member American Postal Workers Union, which represents mail clerks, drivers, mechanics, and custodians. The pact extends the no-layoff provision and provides a 3.5 percent raise for APWU members over the period of the contract, along with seven upcapped cost-of-living increases. The union is happy. "Despite the fact that the postal service is on the edge of insolvency, the union and management have reached an agreement that is a 'win-win' proposition," said APWU President Cliff Guffey on the union's website. A USPS spokeswoman said the agency agreed to the raise because it feared the decision ...

  "System.BadImageFormatException was unhandled" is a nebulous error message. Oh, by the way, unhandled shows up as a miss-spelling on my spell checker. I really don't feel comfortable sharing how long I spent figuring this out but I am sharing the solution to possibly help someone else save some time. This error did not mean anything to me.  At first blush, I suspected a version issue, installation issue with the sdk or a licensing issue.  What a joy!  Now the jump here may have something to do with past experience with this particular sdk. After some time doing inspection and investigation and finding nothing I just happen click on the “Get General Help with this Exception”. Now I click on these things occasionally but experience has shown me to be a waste of time more often than not.   I usually go to world’s help desk aka “The Google Machine” and sometimes Bing.  But when on occasion when I am thinking I just click around.  Now the ...

Phillips Lighting CEO: Super-efficient light bulb prices will be cut in half by 2017 | Reuters 14watts for a 100watt of incandescent...pretty sweet

GE and EADS to Print Parts for Airplanes - Technology Review This is a amazing stuff. Technology that is so young, so many possibilities, so many problems to solve as it is applied to different manufacturing processes.

Russian dandelions could be new source for rubber | R&D Mag I bet tons of this stuff goes undiscovered. This is interesting.

iPad Horizontal Docking Patent [Apple Patents Horizontal Dock for the iPad; More Accessories to Come Soon?] | TFTS : "the patent system is broke if putting a port on the side of a ipad is deemed worthy of a patent" The patent system is broke if putting a port on the side of a ipad is deemed worthy of a patent