http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&id=*

I’ll click through if I feel the need to read or spend karma.

Wired also talked to the creator, Katie King.

Steve Jobs, 2010:

“We can sit by and watch competitors steal our patented inventions, or we can do something about it. We’ve decided to do something about it. We think competition is healthy, but competitors should create their own original technology, not steal ours.”

I love your products, Apple, but it’s hard to continue promoting your stuff when your strategy for a market is to patent-troll everyone else. If you can’t beat Androids on your own, maybe it’s time to innovate. And stop acting like that other huge monopoly; remember how that worked out for them?

Apple Sues HTC

The Apple Patents Cockpunching All Smart Phones: An Illustrated Guide
(best headline of the year so far)

I had started a long, whiny rant, but I’ll just recycle/re-purpose a comment I made somewhere else here as a commentary.

Holland has a special flavor of suck. It’s comprised predominately of middle-aged Internet noobs who think a “funny” username (e.g. HesAKenyanLOL) is cover for any racist, homophobic, fundamentalist bullshit they care to peck out with their ham-sized fingers into the comments section of a news article (see MLive, GR). They’ll invoke Ronald Reagan, the Bible, or Jesus H. Christ himself as they attempt to justify not helping someone because a single representative of that lower caste committed a crime, isn’t Christian, or is a Commie. It’s the land of not just the blatant double standard, but the land of reveling in your own hypocrisy. The area is a breeding ground of Palin-esque ignorance, the variety that smirks at its own stupidity, daring you to stoop to its level.

tldr; Living in Holland is like living inside Idiocracy.