The Patent Office should have to foot the entire legal bill, and refund all previously collected fees, when a patent they grant is later found to be utterly ridiculous. They might actually read the submissions, then? Until the financial incentive for them to grant such rubbish is removed or reversed, this is what we're gonna get. The system demands it.
ooooh using the internet... well that makes it different! yes i'm sure the idea of using the internet to, ooh, communicate, well, that's pretty novel, too! wow. you must work at the patent office.
The GPS is actually clever. Thinking that it is a novel idea to use a map as, shock horror, a map, is well, typical of the delightful US Patent System.
Once I was working on a protocol stack... We had to not implement part of it because at the time Motorola had a patent on essentially saying "Excuse me, I didn't get that; could you say that again?" Seriously. Who grants this shit? It is clearly ridiculous.
While it remains in the patent office's financial interest to grant fscked up patents, fscked up patents will continue to be granted.
I once had a similar problem; endless spam coming from a trying-to-be-legitimate business despite numerous requests for them to stop it. Ultimately I emailed every administrative contact I could find for the company with something along the lines of:
"Thank you for trying the Robot Monster Unsolicited Email Processing Service. While your first email is processed for free, any additional emails are processed at a fee of $1000. A 10% discount is available if payment is received prior to the email. Any additional emails sent to this email address will be interpretted as an acceptance of these charges."
I was kinda disappointed I never heard from them again -- was looking forward to sending them invoices.
Seriously, can't we just round up all of the lawyers, executives, and directors and just fucking kill them already?
Shh, don't tell anyone, but it's all under control. That's what climate change is for. We're gradually raising the temperature of the planet until all the lawyers, executives, directors, used-car-salesman, boy-bands, etc all decide to build a giant spaceship and leave. Once they're gone, we'll set it back to where it was.
We tried starting a rumour about the planet being in danger of being eaten by a mutant star goat, but it didn't take.
that restricts the sale of 'sexually explicit' material to people under the age of 18 That's pretty mean. Does this mean I need to find a 16 year old to buy porn for me?
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The Patent Office should have to foot the entire legal bill, and refund all previously collected fees, when a patent they grant is later found to be utterly ridiculous.
They might actually read the submissions, then?
Until the financial incentive for them to grant such rubbish is removed or reversed, this is what we're gonna get. The system demands it.
If people don't realise that, that's not my problem.
What's annoying me now is that it is hard to have a discussion related to *programming* without going over all the Appzillionaire rubbish first.
Novel?!
Why we were all salivating as the GPS project gradually came on-line during the early 90's?
You think people didn't spend 5 seconds thinking about what they'd be able to do with location data once they had access to it?
Hahehhehehelalloll.
ooooh using the internet...
well that makes it different!
yes i'm sure the idea of using the internet to, ooh, communicate, well, that's pretty novel, too!
wow.
you must work at the patent office.
The GPS is actually clever.
Thinking that it is a novel idea to use a map as, shock horror, a map, is well, typical of the delightful US Patent System.
Once I was working on a protocol stack... We had to not implement part of it because at the time Motorola had a patent on essentially saying "Excuse me, I didn't get that; could you say that again?" Seriously. Who grants this shit? It is clearly ridiculous.
While it remains in the patent office's financial interest to grant fscked up patents, fscked up patents will continue to be granted.
If we all just ignore it it will go away?
And really, if using a map for the purpose that was intended isn't a novel invention, I don't know what is!
Hand in your eyeballs - they can be used to acquire information specific to the location the eyeballs are in.
You wouldn't steal a car -- violating someone else's laughable intellectual property is theft!
Stenography this is not.
That's how brains work.
If the researchers used their brains, they might be able to induce enough change for them to realise this for themselves!
I know these aren't Hollywood -- Hollywood would have done much, much worse.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Who_(1996_film)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Who_and_the_Daleks
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daleks'_Invasion_Earth:_2150_A.D.
I once had a similar problem; endless spam coming from a trying-to-be-legitimate business despite numerous requests for them to stop it.
Ultimately I emailed every administrative contact I could find for the company with something along the lines of:
"Thank you for trying the Robot Monster Unsolicited Email Processing Service.
While your first email is processed for free, any additional emails are processed at a fee of $1000.
A 10% discount is available if payment is received prior to the email.
Any additional emails sent to this email address will be interpretted as an acceptance of these charges."
I was kinda disappointed I never heard from them again -- was looking forward to sending them invoices.
Susan lost her grip on rational thinking quite a while ago now.
I suspect it had something to do with being made a Baroness...
If linking is publishing, then addressing should be ownership.
I must own the bank down the street, as I've just written down its address.
Finally Phase 3 is here! -- Profit!
Seriously, can't we just round up all of the lawyers, executives, and directors and just fucking kill them already?
Shh, don't tell anyone, but it's all under control. That's what climate change is for. We're gradually raising the temperature of the planet until all the lawyers, executives, directors, used-car-salesman, boy-bands, etc all decide to build a giant spaceship and leave. Once they're gone, we'll set it back to where it was. We tried starting a rumour about the planet being in danger of being eaten by a mutant star goat, but it didn't take.
Excuse me, but those don't appear to be your cells. You must have downloaded them, and therefore you owe the RIAA money.
Mars having 1/3 the gravity has more to do with its thin atmosphere than any lack of magnetic field.
Silly me thought the lower gravity had something to do with Mars having less mass than the Earth... But the thin atmosphere theory works too...