Google's advert claims "The ultimate Android experience", not the "The minimum common set of features Android experience".

It is likely that Google's take on "The ultimate Android experience" is different to yours: i.e. "cloud-sync" rather than "mount/unmount SD cards".

FWIW - I'm pro-removable memory myself, for cost & convenience of data transfer

Your definition is not accurate. Just because one company raises more money than another does not make the company failing in the market place a patent troll. By this definition IBM is a patent troll.

I don't think amount raised has anything to do with it.

I'd say you are a patent troll anytime you are using a bullshit patent to extort a third party. The rub is what constitutes a bullshit patent, but "sending messages through a map UI" seems obviously in this camp. It sucks you have to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars for the courts to validate this logic though.

So by that definition, I'm sure IBM could be a patent troll, just like any other company with BS IP.

So your company doesn't own any patents?

There are patents and bullshit patents.

Because any sentiment other than "fuck those patent troll piece of shit douchbags, bro" will be voted down by the pro life360 cabal.

I think it is being downvoted because it doesn't address the real content here. We are being sued for having markers on a map. Who cares if the company is operating or not?

First thing you have to understand is that the ownership of a patent alone doesn't make an organization a "Patent Troll." It may be true that AGIS is struggling in the marketplace but they have full legal right to own patents and protect said patents as they deem appropriate and exercise that right whenever it is beneficial to them. I also agree others on this thread that your belligerent language only makes you seem childish and immature.

Patent holder ? Inventor ?

Honest question: Have you read their patent ? If so, why don't you think it has merit ?

Man, I gotta say I thought that that bit about karma was pretty calm and collected - if it was me I don't think I would have been able to resist using far stronger language

I don't think that blurry photos of a bearded guy is evidence to start a war... I mean, that guy looks more like Phil Robertson than some top Russian commando. This whole situation makes me think that eastern Ukraine is like the American South.

Clearly, Europe does not intend to defend itself, it's members, or it's neighbors against Russia, no. It is telling that this is coming from the US state department. Makes you wonder, in Brussels, are they so incompetent they don't know ? Or are they cowards, unwilling to even point out the obvious ?

I mean, it's not like we really need these pictures to tell us Putin is behind the destabilization of eastern Ukraine.

It is perfectly well known how Putin will respond to a show of weakness. It is equally clear that the military alliance known as NATO isn't worth the paper it's charter is written on.

This means that the Mexican drug cartels might already be using drones to traffic illicit drugs across the border...

I believe I heard they were, though I can't confirm that. It's only legitimate businesses that are affected by the drone ban, sadly.

Hollywood has a lot of stories like this, for recent example this year saw two movies about the White House being taken over by terrorist, Olympus Has Fallen and White House Down.

I also like the following: root@nsa.gov, admin@nsa.gov, ghost@nsa.gov

This article is very east coast biased. For someone that grew up in Northern California I always found Goya is too Spanish and not as common out here than it is in the East Coast. I tend to opt for El Mexicano products, especially since it has a more Mexican flavor and it is a Bay Area company.

One of the great things about the Bay Area is that there are a ton of ethnic grocery stores, such as Mi Pueblo and Ranch 99.

Definitely, but the paper it was in was the Washington Post. If they printed that in the Chron or LA Times, people would take it for a joke.