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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, December 19 2012 @ 07:02 PM EST |
If you post On Topic, we will make you defend rounded corners
as a novel idea
which is not obvious to a skilled
practitioner of the art.
Ah, but
rounded corners on a rectangle is a novel idea to at least one
practitioner of the art... the art of approving patents no matter how trivial,
that is.
John Macdonald
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Authored by: kg on Wednesday, December 19 2012 @ 09:59 PM EST |
Great satire article by Andy
Borowitz in the New Yorker. --- IANAL
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- Do No Evil - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, December 19 2012 @ 11:29 PM EST
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, December 20 2012 @ 01:24 AM EST |
The “Go
lden Eagle Snatches Kid” video, uploaded to YouTube on the evening of
December 18, was made by Normand Archambault, Loïc Mireault and Félix
Marquis-Poulin, students at Centre NAD, in the production simulation workshop
class of the Bachelors degree in 3D Animation and Digital
Design.
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Authored by: tiger99 on Thursday, December 20 2012 @ 06:12 AM EST |
BBC Note that the
bad guys are very much involved here: Kodak said 12 intellectual
property licensees led by Intellectual Ventures (IV) and RPX Corp bought the
patents. And:Companies participating in the consortium
buying the patents include Apple, Microsoft, Google, Samsung, Adobe, Facebook,
Amazon, Shutterfly, BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion, Fujifilm, HTC and
Huawei Technologies. Kodak did not do very well:The bids
for the roughly 1,100 patents up for sale fell short of a $2.6bn
target. This will result in umpteen lawsuits:The patent
portfolios on sale include ways to let devices capture, process, edit and
transmit images. Would it not be a very appropriate time for the
government to decide to ban software patents, before we have total patent
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Authored by: tiger99 on Thursday, December 20 2012 @ 07:36 AM EST |
The H Well, perhaps few of us here have a
positive view of Oracle, but this runs on the Raspberry Pi, so it is probably
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Authored by: tiger99 on Thursday, December 20 2012 @ 07:43 AM EST |
For those of you who play games, that is. I rarely play games, but know from
previous posts that many here do, and it was reported earlier that Steam were
porting their platform to Linux. This is the next phase of that process. Steam for Linux beta open for all [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: tiger99 on Thursday, December 20 2012 @ 07:58 AM EST |
The H I think the project is the same one which
was reported here earlier, but this article tells us a bit more about who he is.
I had no idea that he was the same guy as the Chumby designer. This project is
an order of magnitude bigger. I like all the I/O on the board. What we need
now is a larger than normal 3D printer (The RepRap could probably be stretched),
so we can make out own laptop cases, styled the way we want. Obviously a Pixel
Qi screen is a must, for a high end, individually customised, product. I think
that there is going to be scope for a new small-scale localised industry here.
In many parts of the developed world there are small businesses who will
custom-build things like furniture, so why not do the same with laptops? Many
people will pay considerably extra just to get things the way they want, instead
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, December 20 2012 @ 12:19 PM EST |
Four thieves have been arrested in connection with a massive maple
syrup heist. The heist took place at a Canadian warehouse and reportedly spanned
almost a year.
The thieves were able to make off with about six billion
pounds of syrup, which amounts to about $18 million in total market
value.
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Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Thursday, December 20 2012 @ 12:32 PM EST |
They say that Samsung broke some rules because they
sued Apple over patents.
This is some serious insanity if true.
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- Your source? - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, December 20 2012 @ 01:00 PM EST
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, December 20 2012 @ 01:59 PM EST |
In the same way that no one has actually ever seen Keyser Söze, the
ficticious Hungarian mafioso described in the film The Usual Suspects,
few companies have been sued by Intellectual Ventures. But its agents, or in
this case, shell corporations, are legendary. Everyone knows they are out there,
but no one seems to know who they
are.
That is because to the best of our
knowledge, until now, there has been no publicly available list of Intellectual
Ventures shell corporations, unless you count the USPTO assignment database,
which contains millions of other records as well. In fact, in response to recent
queries about their shell corporations, Intellectual Ventues stated, "Those interested in
viewing granted patents and patent applications can search the USPTO's public
database."
So that's what we
did.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, December 20 2012 @ 02:44 PM EST |
National Strategy For Information Sharing And Safeguarding PDF,
whitehouse.gov
Comment at isc.sans.edu
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, December 20 2012 @ 05:43 PM EST |
The Register delights in its typical toilet humor with this review of the
latest Japanese
hygeine technology .
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