Authored by: hardmath on Thursday, November 01 2012 @ 09:55 AM EDT |
The Day Before Halloween I posted a suggestion about having
a new canonical
thread, Picking Your Brains, for soliciting
ideas and information (as
Groklawsleuthians are known to be
generous with).
It was in an Anonymous
version of the Off-topic Thread
there, and drew only one (favorable) reply, so
for now I'll
try posting just a subthread to this one.
regards,
hm
--- Recursion is the opiate of the mathists. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, November 01 2012 @ 10:14 AM EDT |
This is especially relevant in Germany.
Siôn[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, November 01 2012 @ 10:28 AM EDT |
Over in the sidebar, PJ points to the Village Voice suing Yelp for violating a
trademark on "best of"; and wonders "why the USPTO granting nonsense like
this"?
Not to defend the USPTO, or Village Voice for its ridiculous land-grab,
but it's a TRADEMARK application, not a patent--and as such, the PTO gives such
applications little scrutiny (they check for conflicting marks in their
database--see here;
but they don't look up common-law marks or audit registrations for genericity).
Registering a trademark doesn't imply any sort of government endorsement that
the mark is valid, it just means that you've filled out paperwork and complied
with a legal formality, and nobody else has previously registered the same or
similar.
Now, were a judge to UPHOLD this line of action, then we can be
worried. But my prediction is that VV gets told by the judge to stuff it. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, November 01 2012 @ 10:44 AM EDT |
A Danish author had his work rejected by Apples gatekeepers because it included
pictures of nudity and bare breasts (It's a book on hippies, so it's not with
erotic intent).
After having it rejected, his publishers placed pictures of apples(!) over
sensitive areas and the work was accepted.
The author has asked the Danish minister for cultural affairs to act in what is
seen as censorship on Apples part.
Of course, Apple fans are cheering Apple's stand against smut and telling people
to use a Samsung 'copy' (yes, they said that) if it is freedom to indulge their
immoral urges they want.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, November 01 2012 @ 12:56 PM EDT |
These days, most home applicances, heating systems, etc are all with some kind
of computer board inside.
Word to the wise - if getting a generator, buy a "Pure Sine-Wave
generator" if planning to operate your modern electronics when you can't
depend on the "grid".
Not all generators are equal. Some insurance companies do not cover surges
from electric grid or your power generator.
So, buy quality, not price.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, November 01 2012 @ 01:32 PM EDT |
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57543535-94/nokia-not-blocking-multiple-users-o
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, November 01 2012 @ 01:52 PM EDT |
Apple's Siri assistant thinks Hurricane Sandy is a sports team:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2012/10/31/siri_vs_google_voice_search_h
urricane_sandy_baffles_apple_assistant.html[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: SilverWave on Thursday, November 01 2012 @ 02:00 PM EDT |
Ana
lyst: Half of iPad Mini sales will be cannibalizations --- RMS: The 4
Freedoms
0 run the program for any purpose
1 study the source code and change it
2 make copies and distribute them
3 publish modified versions
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Authored by: SilverWave on Thursday, November 01 2012 @ 02:07 PM EDT |
Your Cosplay
Headquarters
Hilarious but language warning! --- RMS: The 4 Freedoms
0 run the program for any purpose
1 study the source code and change it
2 make copies and distribute them
3 publish modified versions
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Authored by: SilverWave on Thursday, November 01 2012 @ 04:02 PM EDT |
Apple offers to pay Google $1 per device --- RMS: The 4
Freedoms
0 run the program for any purpose
1 study the source code and change it
2 make copies and distribute them
3 publish modified versions
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, November 01 2012 @ 04:57 PM EDT |
Now that Steve Jobs has passed on, his Reality Distortin Field is collapsing and
Apple is no longer able to maintain the fiction that "In the beginning,
Apple created God, and everything after that is a derivative work."[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, November 01 2012 @ 05:00 PM EDT |
Article at geek.com: Apple offers to pay Google $1 per device
Slashdot story about it. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, November 01 2012 @ 06:38 PM EDT |
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-11-01/ftc-staff-said-to-
formally-recommend-google-patent-suit.html
I think this is wrong. How can we respond? Write to the FTC
anti-trust? Anything else we can do?[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, November 01 2012 @ 09:09 PM EDT |
Version 2 , BBC.
And the
inevitable protest.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, November 02 2012 @ 07:03 AM EDT |
filed under: it might be cheaper for Apple to buy the
company
It’s not actually clear what Apple was thinking
this
time around – the iFone trademark was filed in Mexico
in 2003, a full four
years before Apple filed to trademark
the iPhone.
Despite the rather
obvious priority issue, Apple
decided to sue iFone in 2009 in an attempt to
invalidate the
company’s name for being too similar to the iPhone. The
predictable response was a countersuit by iFone, and the
court battles have
been swinging in iFone’s favor ever
since.
The move could prove costly to
Apple in more ways than one.
In addition to losing the ability to sell devices
under the
iPhone trademark in Mexico, iFone is also suing for damages
for past
infringement, asking for a minimum of 40% of all
iPhone sales to date in the
Mexican market.
phoneArena.com[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: AlexWright on Friday, November 02 2012 @ 11:03 AM EDT |
For those interested in the history of English Law, I'd
highly recommend
watching, if you can, a recent documentary
on the BBC called 'The Strange
Case of the Law' written by Harry Potter
QC.
For a more dramatised
account, try Garrow's
Law.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, November 02 2012 @ 12:08 PM EDT |
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/10/29/surface_windows_8_launch_fall_flat/ [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, November 02 2012 @ 12:10 PM EDT |
http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2012/10/26/microsoft-blames-hardware-for-shak
y-windows-8-demo-in-taiwan/[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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