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QUOTE (Y2HH @ Nov 1, 2013 -> 10:01 AM) Yes, some of them need to be banned, but not all...there are some great things being done with software, and to outright ban patents on it doesn't make sense, either. As for those Nortel patents, many of them aren't software patents. Not all of the patents in the portfolio are software, but the main ones used against Google/Samsung/Huawei are software related.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Nov 1, 2013 -> 09:16 AM) You cant ban software patents, that would be crazy. It would destroy a great bit of the software industry. A lot of software patents these days are so freaking trivial that they shouldn't be patents. From a financial standpoint, I don't want them to be banned. I can make a lot of money in the future off of them as a software engineer. But they're being abused so much that I don't think they should even exist anymore. At the very least, how long you can hold a patent and what you can do with it must be reformed. Plus it takes forever to get a software patent approved, the process is a joke.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Nov 1, 2013 -> 08:23 AM) Knew this was coming eventually, was hoping major reforms were in place before it would come to this... Rockstar (Microsoft/Apple/Sony/RIM/Ericsson) launch nuclear patent attack on Google/Android using the dangerous LTE/4G/Search patent portfolio they bought as a consortium off of Nortel for almost 5 billion dollars. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/10...ar-sues-google/ The fact that you can buy a patent portfolio just to sue other people after the fact is just...so mindbogglingly stupid. New Zealand banned software patents and I agree 100% with that decision. Either don't have them or reform the rules.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Oct 31, 2013 -> 04:01 PM) They dont do that because I did an upgrade from 4s-5 with the 2 year agreement I guess what you COULD do is take the iPhone 5C and flip it on eBay for $500-550. Then use that money to buy a 5S without the subsidy. Or buy a new 5 off eBay or Amazon.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Oct 31, 2013 -> 09:55 PM) Blah. Not impressive at all. Especially with JR smith out. Nobody said it was. It was downright ugly actually. The Bulls seemed to have dominated for the majority of the game, but the score was close the whole night. Then they forgot how to shoot in the fourth.

lol why did Melo take a 3?

That's a big shot for Rose.

QUOTE (Jake @ Oct 31, 2013 -> 09:47 PM) Joakim had nothing to do with Chandler falling down He had no shot at that rebound. That ball was way behind him.

Lots of contact on these drives. You know any superstar except Rose would be getting these calls.

All Derrick is doing is dribbling the ball for 12 seconds, giving up his dribble, and passing the ball to a player in a bad position.

Hopefully the 3s get Rose going.

f*** all these Samsung commercials showing LeBron being a real person. It makes it harder for me to dislike him.

These delay of game calls are f***ing absurd.

Come on DRose...what happened to your ability to finish at the rim?

Kirk with the spin cycle.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Oct 31, 2013 -> 07:26 PM) Rose should have at least 4 foul shots by now. He complained about it and got a delay of game call.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Oct 31, 2013 -> 04:15 PM) Chances both could take that? I think Drew might take it. No chance Napoli does.

QUOTE (SleepyWhiteSox @ Oct 31, 2013 -> 04:17 PM) I got the black 16GB. As a poor grad student with a crappy job and unpaid internship, had to limit myself at under $400. Also ordered a Diztronic case...waiting for Clarivue to make a screen protector for it. Got the Spigen screen protectors to hold me over in the meantime, along with a white Ringke case in case I ever wish I woulda gotten the white one. I just couldn't wait to see when Amazon got it. I need it now since my Galaxy Nexus is dying and didn't wanna risk waiting a long time. I got the SGP Neo Hybrid case off Amazon. I'm contemplating a screen protector, but I'll have to wait and see. Surprisingly, my GN never scratched, but my Nexus 4 screen had a deep scratch on it from what seemed to be nothing.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Oct 31, 2013 -> 03:58 PM) Verizon-> Asurion Can you not pay the extra $100 and upgrade to a 5S instead?

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Oct 31, 2013 -> 03:39 PM) So finally filing a claim about my cracked Iphone 5 and since its discontinued I can only be given the 5c as a replacement. Kind of f***ed up if you ask me. I dont want a lime green phone. That sucks.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Oct 31, 2013 -> 02:16 PM) Congrats! Go with the black or white? Black 32 GB. I first went with white, then I realized the earpiece was white on the white version, which doesn't really match up with the black front.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Oct 31, 2013 -> 01:16 PM) Nexus 5 available at the Play Store. http://goo.gl/UJLp7W I'm $440 poorer.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Oct 31, 2013 -> 11:30 AM) Derrick might not play. f***. WTF? Why?

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Oct 30, 2013 -> 11:38 PM) Who are three guys that contributed little to nothing to their team's championship? Peavy did win game 4 in Tampa and wasn't awful in game 3. The other two didn't do jack though. And I thought you were just listing former White Sox on the team.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Oct 30, 2013 -> 11:13 PM) Jake Peavy. Matt Thornton, and Ryan Dempster are all World Series champions Why was Ryan Dempster included in that list...?