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  1. Re:Prior Art? on Company Claims Ownership of Digital Messaging · · Score: 1

    I work with Indians a lot and I've done reviews of patents. This is very much like an edited version of Indglish. Though sometimes Indglish can be as complicated to understand as patentspeak.

  2. Re:The Apple solution on 8% of Android Apps Are Leaking Private Information · · Score: 2

    And you're better off with remote PDF security bugs that can result in total takeover of you device. And it will all be hushed up to maintain the mantra that "Macs don't get malware and viruses"...

  3. Re:Permissions on 8% of Android Apps Are Leaking Private Information · · Score: 1

    Really? The real phone number is pretty much the most unreliable piece of information you can get from the phone identity. I've seen wrong numbers, no numbers, garbage data and so on stored in the field.

  4. Re:Yeah, right on Linux Receives 20th Birthday Video From Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Have you read the patents asserted against Moto? 8 out of 9 are infringed by the kernel...

  5. Re:Everybody aboard the tinfoilhat-train! on Linux Receives 20th Birthday Video From Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Lobbyists! And IBM is so entrenched in US government, that if tomorrow they stop selling their 20 y/o software on 5.25" floppies half of US government institutions would stop!

  6. Re:Pen input? on Lenovo Unveils Android ThinkPad and IdeaPad Slates · · Score: 1

    ThinkPad Tablet will have NTrig based pressure sensitive stylus.
    iPad2 also suffers huge battery life loss when playing games(a.k.a "under full use"). Those 10 hours are based on video playing at 65% of the screen brightness with WiFi on.

  7. Re:Why hasn't it clicked yet? on ISP Refuses To Block the Pirate Bay · · Score: 1

    I would do the same, as long as they just introduce such a service!!!

  8. Re:Why hasn't it clicked yet? on ISP Refuses To Block the Pirate Bay · · Score: 1

    And where are teh movies? That is the biggest thing that people go to TBP. Music piracy has gone down with legal sales channels becoming available...


    When the industry stops partitioning their customers like they do today, then we can talk...
    Could you tell me, why are they demanding more from Amazon MP3 store for the ability to sell MP3s at higher EU rates to new EU members? How about movies? Movie streaming services are essentially non-existent outside US. Digital downloads are also stupidly limited...

  9. Re:Perhaps the patents are legit, valid patents? on Why No War Over MS's Android Patent Shakedown? · · Score: 1

    I am 99.99% sure that lobbying applies only to legislature when it comes to laws... I never heard of lobbying in other branches of government.

  10. Re:World without FOSS? on IBM Donates Symphony Code To Apache Software Foundation · · Score: 1

    What were the cheap dev tools for Unix prior to GCC? Or did they come with dev tools by default? I'm not that old.
    However, me starting with Pascal in late 90ies there were definitely no free dev tools and $200 was the yearly tuition for a University in my country... Moving onto Java in 1999, cheap IDE's didn't exist(essentially)

  11. Re:7,991,764 issuing 08/02/2011 on Company Claims Ownership of Digital Messaging · · Score: 1

    It's not technically granted yet, but it's in the last stages. They also filed an application with EPO and that will be challenged, since Florian Mueller raised that as an issue.

  12. Re:My eyes! on Company Claims Ownership of Digital Messaging · · Score: 1

    You have to apply the method recursively - "Method and apparatus for declearaficiation of mentally produced property descriptive collection of characters."

  13. Re:Prior Art? on Company Claims Ownership of Digital Messaging · · Score: 2

    The abstract in the patent application is so ass-backwards and contorted that nobody could make heads or tails of what the actual invention is.

    My favorite part has to be "knowledge packets"...

    Oh! That is Indglish - English spoken by an moderately* educated Indian guy. The perfect English mangling scheme for patents. Seriously, a lot of Indians do speak like that...

    *- And I use "moderately" in a very loose sense...

  14. Re:Perhaps the patents are legit, valid patents? on Why No War Over MS's Android Patent Shakedown? · · Score: 1

    Even though, Microsoft is an ally in making adequate amendments a reality. You can't really push that kind of change without one of the biggest IP law lobbying organisations, now can you?

  15. Re:Not Sco at all on Why No War Over MS's Android Patent Shakedown? · · Score: 1

    Microsoft is NOT under any oversight in EU. They were ordered to comply with requirements and very limited monitoring was instituted(that they release the right stuff, nothing else). And even that was stopped in 2009.
    PS: Microsoft is not an "illegal monopoly", it's very much a legal monopoly. Abuse of such monopoly is very different...

  16. Re:What kind of threat is that? on Why No War Over MS's Android Patent Shakedown? · · Score: 1

    The mobile phone makers that are being shaken down have a lot to loose in US market or are US companies(which means they are screwed either way). Everyone else has a PC business also. Dell is probably paying, Samsung is already in negotiations. While Sony(Sony VAIO laptops), ASUS(PCs and laptops) and Acer(laptops) are probably next in sight for MS.
    I'm baffled, how did they get ZTE to get on board !??!?!?!

  17. Re:World without FOSS? on IBM Donates Symphony Code To Apache Software Foundation · · Score: 1

    If it weren't for FOSS, the development tools would have still been expensive. And with expensive dev tools, you get little innovation and/or small number of applications.

  18. Re:Not a moment too soon! on Microsoft Pulling the Plug On Windows XP In Three Years · · Score: 1

    I bet your house\s walls and roof are from the 60'ies. But everything else should be no older than 20 years, unless the pipes are really really good...
    But then again, if the seller of your house told you the house was new, then that's another story. And that is exactly what MS resellers were telling. They weren't selling a 10 y/o refurbished computer...

  19. Re:I have no idea but.. on Why No War Over MS's Android Patent Shakedown? · · Score: 1

    Why are they attacking Linux kernel features in MS vs Moto lawsuit?

  20. Re:Perhaps the patents are legit, valid patents? on Why No War Over MS's Android Patent Shakedown? · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure that winning a case against MS, when you are making Windows PCs will put your PC business out of business.

  21. Re:Perhaps the patents are legit, valid patents? on Why No War Over MS's Android Patent Shakedown? · · Score: 1

    Show it to a mathematician, he'll put them back into place they deserve.

  22. Re:Perhaps the patents are legit, valid patents? on Why No War Over MS's Android Patent Shakedown? · · Score: 1

    First they need to put Oracle back in place. Then push though easier patent invalidation, where Microsoft is one of their allies. And then they can use the ease of patent invalidation, to invalidate patents.

  23. Re:Not Sco at all on Why No War Over MS's Android Patent Shakedown? · · Score: 1

    Wha...!?!?! Since when was MS outside US under any supervision? MS did and still do predatory pricing.

  24. Re:Not Sco at all on Why No War Over MS's Android Patent Shakedown? · · Score: 1

    In this case, careful review by a number of hardware makers has led them to pay Microsoft to license the patents. We may not know exactly what they are using but you can bet the companies paying Microsoft had to have pretty good proof before they simply handed over per-device fees to another company.

    Do you know what kind of review they did? Either we comply with MS or we loose access to MS Windows and WP7 licenses and face litigation in US.
    And in business terms complying with MS is their best option... Though it would really make me, in place of an executive, doubt how MS can possibly be called a partner.

  25. Re:Perhaps the patents are legit, valid patents? on Why No War Over MS's Android Patent Shakedown? · · Score: 1

    MS uses just 9 against Moto.