It appears we have stunning commentary on the nature of software patents. If a company, "first posts," if you will, they get the right to license the patent to others and sue those that don't pay them royalties. Truly, parent is a modern genius of metaphor.
Well, the closed-source part might make it difficult to check for the whole back door thing. If Skype was open-source, though, I'd definitely be reading it's code, if you know what I mean.
This article makes it seem as if Sony is fueling African conflict in a similar fashion to the less reputable diamond dealers. However, coltan is used in so many electronic products that you can't really nail it down to one company like TFA appears to be trying to do.
But then again:
SONY IS EVIL AND IS KILLING INNOCENT AFRICANS
I, for one, welcome our "var computer" overlords.
Microsoft is also making 'Live Search' technology available to automakers to develop in-car search and navigation.
Why would I want that? I'll wait until Google makes an in-car search feature, thank you very much.
Yeah, this is what I'm thinking too. Slashdot is not exactly an obscure site, so this is sure to call massive amounts of attention to this.
L337-sp34k major here. It's pronounced tr-two-n, just like it's spelled.
Totally forgot about the existing prior art in this case. Mod parent up.
It appears we have stunning commentary on the nature of software patents. If a company, "first posts," if you will, they get the right to license the patent to others and sue those that don't pay them royalties. Truly, parent is a modern genius of metaphor.
Any idea why mods are calling parent insightful?
This article makes it seem as if Sony is fueling African conflict in a similar fashion to the less reputable diamond dealers. However, coltan is used in so many electronic products that you can't really nail it down to one company like TFA appears to be trying to do. But then again: SONY IS EVIL AND IS KILLING INNOCENT AFRICANS
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Apparently, you're not going to find privacy here. Perhaps parent should be modded funny?
I know for a fact that Eclipse has this feature as well.
They hacked an Oyster card that allows free travel for everyone?
And who doesn't use the acronym INPWRTUTWKAI? Absolutely ridiculous.