MIT Sues Sony over digital TV

dfinney wrote to us with a story from The Tech, concerning MIT suing Sony. Basically, MIT claims to have a number of patents, has worked with other folks in the industry, sez they've talked with Sony for a year, no headway, don't want to sue, but have key claims - etc etc.

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What bullshit

[Anonymous Coward]

"Nothing for you to see here. Please move along."

what is the meaning of this???

Now unless you are logged into an account you cannot see the or post to the comments on a story until at least 5 comments are posted.

This is a load of fucking bullshit.

Your lame schemes to generate more and more accounts so you can get more advertising money are pathetic.

Slashdot is a fucking piece of nazi dogshit.

Re:What bullshit

[Anonymous Coward]

Assuming there were a legitimate reason for this (there isn't), you have to wonder at the child-like intelligence that considers informing the user of this condition with the message "Nothing for you to see here. Please move along."

Now, even in my complete joke college software engineering class in which every retard could easily get an A everyone was taught that error messages should inform the user what is wrong, and suggest a possible solution. This is nothing but some 'clever' and/or 'funny' remark. Good job guys. Nice to see the $90k/year that you're being payed is well deserved.

Re:What bullshit

[TheMidget]

Now unless you are logged into an account you cannot see the or post to the comments on a story until at least 5 comments are posted.

IMHO, this has nothing to do with boosting ad revenue, but rather is intended for making frist psots more difficult. But on the other hand, is this really necessary with the new Slashcode which uses global (i.e. huge) article numbers?

And is it really efficient? Indeed, throwaway Slash accounts are a dime a dozen: all you need is a hotmail address (of which you can create as many as you want...). And forcing trolls to log in is actually counterproductive: now it takes two mod-points instead of one to mod down the trolls into oblivion.

Re:This is fine

[Anonymous Coward]

Just like George Bush, everything evil in the world is caused by him. He has sold out on every decision he has ever made. In a single year he has caused so much damage that the entire country will be ruined in another month. And everyone knows that even though he was legitimately elected by the same system that has been in place for hundreds of years he is not a legitimate president because i didn't vote for him.

Re:lame /.

[Anonymous Coward]

You know that's not what he said, right? (if your joke light was flashing, I missed it... :)

So I sez to Mable, I sez...

[IvyMike]

sez they've talked with Sony for a year

U R IRCing 2 much when U think "sez" is OK. Drivz me nutz.

(Bonus points if you recognize the source of my subject line.)

Newsflash: MIT got sued over the idea of INSTITUTE

[Taco Cowboy]

Newsflash:

While MIT is preoccupied with suing Sony for
allerged intellectual property disputes, MIT
itself got sued by those who originate the
concept of INSTITUTION - in which, the word
INSTITUTE is part of it.

Great and dead Greek philosophers from ancient
time, such as Socrates are among those who
are trying to get back the INSTITUTION idea
from MIT.

If MIT lost the suit, MIT will have to drop
the word "INSTITUTE" from its namesake.

Therefore, it *IS* a possibility that we may
see MT to replace MIT. Or perhaps, MUT -
Massachusette *UNIVERSITY* of Technology.

But then.... the intellectual concept of
UNIVERSITY was not orginated from the campus
of MIT either.

Ah ... well.

Stay tuned for the result !

Re:First

[Anonymous Coward]

Hmm, it's really fine to see that the lameness filter is fixed, so ascii-art is no longer possible.

Re:Teee heee...

[Anonymous Coward]

Please die.

I wanted to go to MIT

[duffbeer703]

I'm glad I didn't get accepted to MIT. They've been officially declared 'evil' by the Slashbot collective.