It is very disheartening to see that something like privacy settings have not exempted from this 'lets patent everything we can get our hands On' mentality. Su

It is very disheartening to see that something like privacy settings have not exempted from this 'lets patent everything we can get our hands On' mentality. Sure these patents may be used today only for defence but in the future when Facebook in Yahoo's shoes, who is to say they wont try to sue their competitors out of the market?