Geeklawyer often spots stuff he wants to comment on but can’t get the time to work up a full post - so he has decided to introduce a short quick multiple item category with one(ish) liner comments.
So …
1) Geeklawyer is relieved that Alex and the dudes at impact resisted the faux pas of Second Life madness. Second Life is way over-hyped. Geeklawyer wandered around there for a bit and realised it was a bit like a Charades weekend with strangers - pointless and one wonders if really killing the others is acceptable (or possible). It might be good, dunno, but it really didn’t seem worth the extended effort finding out. As for wasting real money on a property comprised of nothing more than bits on a hard drive, well OK for the publicity but otherwise …
2) Open Wi-Fi connections seem to be a defence strategy for kiddy porn collectors and P2P filesharers. A recent US case demonstrated that over-confidence based on a deliberately open Wi-Fi connection may not be enough. Granted this was the US with their peculiar attachment to individual liberty, nonsense that Neo-Labour is thankfully doing away with, and the proper basis of searching criminal suspects. Geeklawyer maintains, though, that if, as he often does, one uses the Intarweb to collaborate with ones Al-Queda colleagues to kill the president, swap kiddy porn and copyrighted movie files then a public Wi-Fi access point is a good starting point for a defence: just remember to use a decent encrypted file-system and swap file/partition as well.
3) Astonished that Geeklawyer and Ilanah agree on copyright extradition. Bad bad bad: the American empire coming to a democracy near you real soon.
4) US patent reform: about fucking time. The US system is fucked. UK patent office civil servants have said as much to Geeklawyer on several occasions but believe that they are inherently superior and unlikely to succumb to the corruptions that have destroyed the credibility of the USPTO. Yea, dream on boys - wait till you have to deal with an extra 30,000 crap applications a year (some from Geeklawyer) with the concomitant political and commercial pressures …
5) Life elsewhere:
New Earth-like planet ‘581 c’ circling Gliese 581 seems to have the right temperatures size etc to support life. This is genuinely exciting news since it is the first time a real credible Earth like environment has been found. It is a mere 20 light years and therefore represents a real marketing opportunity to innovative law firms willing to send associates on a 40 light year round trip. 40 times 365 times 12 times �250 = �43.8 Million in billables. Schweeet.
1) 250 for travel time seems to me to be very cheap in 2047 value money, or do you think anyone will actually pay any interim Fee Notes
2) They are travelling 24 not 12 hours a day so DOUBLE to 87.6 mill
3) I’m disappointed I thought you aspired to class - real British professionals bill in Guineas not common and garden pounds so 91.98 mill
That is how you afford Ruthie to meet you on Thursdays
My commission only .1% of extra billings 91.98 - 43.8 = 48,180 plus VAT -
that makes me the owner of your website value four times over 
Oh, there’ll be an uplift for inflation. But I can’t in good conscience bill 24 hours a day that’d be ripping off the punter … er yea, fair point £87M it is.