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Patent Troll Says Anyone Using Wi-Fi Infringes
akahige sends this excerpt from an article at TechDirt:
"The Patent Examiner blog has the incredible story of Innovatio IP, a patent troll that recently acquired a portfolio of patents that its lawyers (what, you think there are any employees?) appear to believe cover pretty much any Wi-Fi implementation. They've been suing coffee shops, grocery stores, restaurants and hotels first — including Caribou Coffee, Cosi, Panera Bread Co, certain Marriotts, Best Westerns, Comfort Inns and more. ... The lawyer representing the company, Matthew McAndrews, seems to imply that the company believes the patents cover everyone who has a home Wi-Fi setup, but they don't plan to go after such folks right now, for 'strategic' reasons."
Hey! You! Stop that right now! You leave your logic out of this! This is the patent system we're talking about!
what, avoiding a lynch mob?
Not enough. These aren't your run of the mill D&D trolls that can be killed by fire.
Nuke from orbit to be sure.
Ask to meet all their top executives of this cesspool, take them out on a rented yacht. Insure it to high hell. Take it off the coast of Mexico, and inform the local drug cartel that a bunch of wealthy gringos are meeting to figure out a way bomb them off the face of the earth, then over take their drug business. After the smoke, screaming and mutilation stop... go collect your insurance, pay off the boat owner, and pocket the remainder. Inform the U.S. justice system that Mexican Drug Lords have murdered American national. Let Karma play out and consider justice has been dispensed on all fronts. Building a better world one elimination at a time!
Admit it; you're Randall Munroe's man in a hat aren't you?
Have them go out on a hunting trip with Dick Cheney.
Nonaggression works!
This solves one problem only once. Then the portfolios passes to the next person and the problem repeats itself.
So does the solution. Repeat as necessary
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face
“We want you to continue to use this technology, we just want our client to get his due share,” McAndrews said. “This is not a seat-of-the-pants, fly-by-night shakedown.”
Well, they admitted that it's a professional shakedown. A professional hit seems only fair.
The ______ Agenda
Burn down their house, enslave their children, forcibly sell their wives into slavery. Napalm the suburb, nuke the capital. Use waterboarding, electric shock, exposure and "pressure points". Rape their dog, garrot their parents, and TNT the homes of their high school sweethearts.
But please, we live in a civilized world, lets not debase ourselves with such barbarianism as asking our enemys go on hunting trips with Dick cheney.
Excuse the Unicode crap in my posts. That's an apostrophe, and slashdot is busted.