1) Buy company that "invents" un-patented technology everyone is using.
2) Patent said technology yourself, because the USPTO can't be bothered to actually think about what they are doing.
3) Wait for the other users of "your" technology to make a substantial amount of money.
4) Profit!
That is far too complicated. 1) Buy company who owns patent on obvious technology many companies are using. 2) Sue and Profit!
Patent pending on "Sarcastic comments made on an internet forum technology."
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And speaking of being at a loss for words....
I just played this game called Gears of War 2.
I had that game on a computer running DOS in 1985. I got it on a floppy from a shareware bulletin board.
You had a gun. Things came at you. You shot them. The end.
Later on they remade this game a few thousand times.
You shot Nazis, aliens, Bond villain henchmen, etc. If you got shot enough times, you would die.
The only difference here is that the graphics are better and the controls are more complicated.
I can't believe this is what all the fuss is over. People pay HOW MUCH for this? You can seriously regain all your health by SITTING STILL???
Okay. Thanks for that. I enjoy a good satirical rant. Cheers.:)
My friend and I played a drinking game to/. once. One person clicks on a story involving Microsoft or Apple or Linux or polotics and the other person has to take a drink for every bullsh*t post about "M$" or Apple's App Store or Android FTW and everything else completely unrelated to what the actual post is about. Let me just say, don't attempt this in the morning...
ps. Slashdot community, I love you all but some days you make me pull my hair out.:)
I don't believe it. Next you'll be telling me that smoking a cigarette doesn't actually calm me down, it just reverses the effects of nicotine withdraw!
I have climbed through their jungle gym and I must say it is quite scary. You definitely feel right on the edge of safe. Yet it stands out like no other "museum" I've been to. As such, it is quite provocative and truly unique, but contains minimal content and only satiates perhaps an hour of curiosity.
"...only satiates perhaps an hour of curiosity" Only an hour??? I went there with a group of friends as a senior in college and it was the most fun I've had in my adult life! We spent about 6 hours running, climbing, sliding, jumping, and generally laughing like children. It's one of the few places where there are no rules to be followed, and the whole point is to remember what it was like to climb on everything.
Tacky that his first point is that Flash is proprietary, when Apple restricts the apps that can be installed on the phone. Pot, meet kettle.
That's kind of the whole point. Jobs admits that Apple has a closed system, when Adobe is claiming theirs is open. When he talks about open, he's referring to HTML5/CSS/JavaScript, which you DO NOT need to submit to the app store.
That's not why the OP called him tacky. Consider a vegetarian giving many reasons for not wanting to eat a cheeseburger, like "it's too greasy" or "it comes with the wrong kind of cheese" or "the chef burned the meat". Those reasons are silly because a vegetarian is not going to eat meat!
The game designers had a few beers, then turned the M upside down.
"Wario" is actually a combination of the Japanese word for "bad" (Warui) and Mario's name. Because he is the "Bad" Mario.
As for Waluigi, if you change the "R" sound to an "L" sound (as often happens in Japanese-English translations) you get "Walui". Combine that with "Luigi" and you get "Waluigi!"
Please stop these stupid articles about someone fucking up or planting a phone.
Stop it.
Stop advertising for them.
Oh, Sorry. I guess I should take off my t-shirt that says "Extra! Extra! Prominent Technology Company is Preparing a Newer, More Powerful Version of a Successful Product!! Read All About It!"
I'm still not convinced that this isn't a marketing ploy.
Yes, but you're missing the point. This story is 100% marketing, just not likely from Apple directly. It's marketing for Gizmodo, it's marketing for technology, it's marketing for hype in general. It's exactly what the link says it is: "First pictures of what is most likely the next iPhone." It's all designed to get you excited and interested to click links and buy things so people get paid. But no, I don't think Apple's marketing department was like "I'm going to leave this bar now, and hope that nobody finds my super-secret phone prototype, wink, wink, wink." That's just silly.
Seems to me that it's all part of Steve's marketing campaign... This guy probably never existed in real life and the guy playing his role will soon start shooting videos threatening to disclose more information, prototypes, etc a la Bin Laden and leaking them to Arab news networks from time to time so everyone at Apple is scared and work harder...
Wow you went from rational skeptic to tin-foil-hat loony in less than 2 sentences! My hat is off to you, sir.
My guess is the browser will be come the desktop for operating systems. The browser will no longer be a separate program you have to launch, but rather just a layer of the operating system. Think about when the last time was you used a computer and didn't open a browser window.
From TFA:
> So I called around, and I now believe this is an actual unit from Apple -- a unit Apple is very interested in getting back.
If it's so important for Apple to get this phone back, I wonder why there's no reward...
How do you read the sentence a unit Apple is very interested in getting back. and NOT think Apple offered Gizmodo something in return for the phone? Information, maybe, if not direct money. I'm aware the sentence didn't contain the word "reward" but you can read between the lines.
Checks and balances. The Supreme Court isn't the ultimate arbiter of anything. Their power is balanced by the Executive and Legislative branches.
I think the State Legislatures, acting on behalf of the people, should be given the power to nullify acts of congress.
Hoo boy would that be a bad idea! Our government is a balance. Legislative/Executive/Judicial, State/Fed. If individual states could undo any law, where is the balance there?
As has alreay been pointed out, the worst this "exploit" can do is elevate to the same rights as the user. As anyone with a CS degree (or even any true IT experience) would know, these rights should be limited.
Now, Microsoft has for DECADES pushed the paradigm of giving the user administrative rights. Sure, they are making solf half-hearted attempts now to change this. But they created an environment of 3rd party software relying on this full rights model... and it is biting us all on the butt.
So, as usual, Microsoft is to blame.
As anyone who checks/. (or has even been on the internet) would know, every time a vulnerability surfaces that affects Windows systems, the "M$ h8ers" come out of the woodwork.
Now these teenagers have for DECADES pushed the paradigm that if not for Microsoft and Windows, there would be no viruses or exploits, and the computing world would be a carefree, happy, command-line pleasure paradise. Sure, they make half-hearted excuses about Windows's bloated codebase and it's market penetration, and tech-un-savyy users. But every time I open a Slashdot article I have to slog through ignorant and off-topic comments blaming the big M for every botnet and script kiddie and nigerian phisher.
I guess I don't know much about Scrabble. Do you really need to buy a new version of the game to allow proper nouns? Is there more to it than Mattel saying "Btdubs, in case you hadn't made a house rule about this already, it's okay to use proper nouns."
When iPhone came on board with games, etc, I knew there will be potentially improved products from Nintendo and eventually Sony/Microsoft.
So Nintendo is only innovating their handheld because of competition from the iPhone? What about the Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, Game Boy Advance SP, Game Boy Pocket, Game Boy Light, Game Boy Micro, DS, DS Lite, DSi, DS XL....?
Hmmm... that's a pretty good shock-headline-mostly-unrelated-to-the-facts, but I bet I can do better.
"Levi Jeans are Murdering Texans"
In a whopping 80% of deaths in the state of Texas, the deceased was wearing denim jeans - says a study conducted by the University of Jumping-to-Silly-Conclusions.
Refusing to fill out the Census is ridiculous. It is in your own best interest to let the local and national govt. know as much about the people they represent as possible. If they don't know facts about, say, the social and financial background of their constituents, how can they govern effectively?
To give a hypothetical example, it would be like if you were a neilsen family but refused to fill out info about the tv shows that you liked and then complained when they got canceled.
FFS is that your answer to everything? In case you haven't heard, the entire history of computer technology has been copying and adding to someone else's idea. Now go run and cry home to Torvalds.
There are 2 responses to this video:
1) "Holy shit that could really be cool! I'm going to look into this!" 2) If it doesn't work 100% of the time on every pixel in the entire picture while massaging my back, I'm NOT buying it!!"
Hopefully it will fade out the irrelevant parts of the porn that I'm not paying attention to. This could make my jerking off twice as productive! (/sarcasm)
This looks to me like an attempt to win an ignoble prize.
No it just looks like an attempt to get a scientific paper published with doing as little work as possible.
"My plan is to take a ruler to some old paintings and then publish the findings! Oh I can't get access to the works? Well then I'll just use google images and measure them with my com-pu-tor! Prize money please!"
Is stuff like this malicious? Like someone at the memory card plant put the virus executables on the hardware? Or is it just a case of the worker having an infected computer, which then infected the memory cards?
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1) Buy company that "invents" un-patented technology everyone is using. 2) Patent said technology yourself, because the USPTO can't be bothered to actually think about what they are doing. 3) Wait for the other users of "your" technology to make a substantial amount of money. 4) Profit!
That is far too complicated.
1) Buy company who owns patent on obvious technology many companies are using.
2) Sue and Profit!
Patent pending on "Sarcastic comments made on an internet forum technology."
And speaking of being at a loss for words....
:)
I just played this game called Gears of War 2.
I had that game on a computer running DOS in 1985. I got it on a floppy from a shareware bulletin board.
You had a gun. Things came at you. You shot them. The end.
Later on they remade this game a few thousand times.
You shot Nazis, aliens, Bond villain henchmen, etc. If you got shot enough times, you would die.
The only difference here is that the graphics are better and the controls are more complicated.
I can't believe this is what all the fuss is over. People pay HOW MUCH for this? You can seriously regain all your health by SITTING STILL???
Okay. Thanks for that. I enjoy a good satirical rant. Cheers.
My friend and I played a drinking game to /. once. One person clicks on a story involving Microsoft or Apple or Linux or polotics and the other person has to take a drink for every bullsh*t post about "M$" or Apple's App Store or Android FTW and everything else completely unrelated to what the actual post is about. Let me just say, don't attempt this in the morning...
:)
ps. Slashdot community, I love you all but some days you make me pull my hair out.
I don't believe it. Next you'll be telling me that smoking a cigarette doesn't actually calm me down, it just reverses the effects of nicotine withdraw!
I have climbed through their jungle gym and I must say it is quite scary. You definitely feel right on the edge of safe. Yet it stands out like no other "museum" I've been to. As such, it is quite provocative and truly unique, but contains minimal content and only satiates perhaps an hour of curiosity.
"...only satiates perhaps an hour of curiosity" Only an hour??? I went there with a group of friends as a senior in college and it was the most fun I've had in my adult life! We spent about 6 hours running, climbing, sliding, jumping, and generally laughing like children. It's one of the few places where there are no rules to be followed, and the whole point is to remember what it was like to climb on everything.
Tacky that his first point is that Flash is proprietary, when Apple restricts the apps that can be installed on the phone. Pot, meet kettle.
That's kind of the whole point. Jobs admits that Apple has a closed system, when Adobe is claiming theirs is open. When he talks about open, he's referring to HTML5/CSS/JavaScript, which you DO NOT need to submit to the app store.
That's not why the OP called him tacky. Consider a vegetarian giving many reasons for not wanting to eat a cheeseburger, like "it's too greasy" or "it comes with the wrong kind of cheese" or "the chef burned the meat". Those reasons are silly because a vegetarian is not going to eat meat!
The game designers had a few beers, then turned the M upside down.
"Wario" is actually a combination of the Japanese word for "bad" (Warui) and Mario's name. Because he is the "Bad" Mario.
As for Waluigi, if you change the "R" sound to an "L" sound (as often happens in Japanese-English translations) you get "Walui". Combine that with "Luigi" and you get "Waluigi!"
Please stop these stupid articles about someone fucking up or planting a phone.
Stop it.
Stop advertising for them.
Oh, Sorry. I guess I should take off my t-shirt that says "Extra! Extra! Prominent Technology Company is Preparing a Newer, More Powerful Version of a Successful Product!! Read All About It!"
I'm still not convinced that this isn't a marketing ploy.
Yes, but you're missing the point. This story is 100% marketing, just not likely from Apple directly. It's marketing for Gizmodo, it's marketing for technology, it's marketing for hype in general. It's exactly what the link says it is: "First pictures of what is most likely the next iPhone." It's all designed to get you excited and interested to click links and buy things so people get paid. But no, I don't think Apple's marketing department was like "I'm going to leave this bar now, and hope that nobody finds my super-secret phone prototype, wink, wink, wink." That's just silly.
Seems to me that it's all part of Steve's marketing campaign... This guy probably never existed in real life and the guy playing his role will soon start shooting videos threatening to disclose more information, prototypes, etc a la Bin Laden and leaking them to Arab news networks from time to time so everyone at Apple is scared and work harder...
Wow you went from rational skeptic to tin-foil-hat loony in less than 2 sentences! My hat is off to you, sir.
My guess is the browser will be come the desktop for operating systems. The browser will no longer be a separate program you have to launch, but rather just a layer of the operating system. Think about when the last time was you used a computer and didn't open a browser window.
From TFA: > So I called around, and I now believe this is an actual unit from Apple -- a unit Apple is very interested in getting back. If it's so important for Apple to get this phone back, I wonder why there's no reward...
How do you read the sentence a unit Apple is very interested in getting back. and NOT think Apple offered Gizmodo something in return for the phone? Information, maybe, if not direct money. I'm aware the sentence didn't contain the word "reward" but you can read between the lines.
I think the State Legislatures, acting on behalf of the people, should be given the power to nullify acts of congress.
Hoo boy would that be a bad idea! Our government is a balance. Legislative/Executive/Judicial, State/Fed. If individual states could undo any law, where is the balance there?
As has alreay been pointed out, the worst this "exploit" can do is elevate to the same rights as the user. As anyone with a CS degree (or even any true IT experience) would know, these rights should be limited.
Now, Microsoft has for DECADES pushed the paradigm of giving the user administrative rights. Sure, they are making solf half-hearted attempts now to change this. But they created an environment of 3rd party software relying on this full rights model... and it is biting us all on the butt.
So, as usual, Microsoft is to blame.
As anyone who checks /. (or has even been on the internet) would know, every time a vulnerability surfaces that affects Windows systems, the "M$ h8ers" come out of the woodwork.
Now these teenagers have for DECADES pushed the paradigm that if not for Microsoft and Windows, there would be no viruses or exploits, and the computing world would be a carefree, happy, command-line pleasure paradise. Sure, they make half-hearted excuses about Windows's bloated codebase and it's market penetration, and tech-un-savyy users. But every time I open a Slashdot article I have to slog through ignorant and off-topic comments blaming the big M for every botnet and script kiddie and nigerian phisher.
So, as usual, Linux is to blame.
I guess I don't know much about Scrabble. Do you really need to buy a new version of the game to allow proper nouns? Is there more to it than Mattel saying "Btdubs, in case you hadn't made a house rule about this already, it's okay to use proper nouns."
Is /. going to start posting vids from Funny or Die and College Humor now?
When iPhone came on board with games, etc, I knew there will be potentially improved products from Nintendo and eventually Sony/Microsoft.
So Nintendo is only innovating their handheld because of competition from the iPhone? What about the Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, Game Boy Advance SP, Game Boy Pocket, Game Boy Light, Game Boy Micro, DS, DS Lite, DSi, DS XL....?
Hmmm... that's a pretty good shock-headline-mostly-unrelated-to-the-facts, but I bet I can do better.
"Levi Jeans are Murdering Texans"
In a whopping 80% of deaths in the state of Texas, the deceased was wearing denim jeans - says a study conducted by the University of Jumping-to-Silly-Conclusions.
To give a hypothetical example, it would be like if you were a neilsen family but refused to fill out info about the tv shows that you liked and then complained when they got canceled.
About time..how long has Linux been doing this?
FFS is that your answer to everything? In case you haven't heard, the entire history of computer technology has been copying and adding to someone else's idea. Now go run and cry home to Torvalds.
There are 2 responses to this video:
1) "Holy shit that could really be cool! I'm going to look into this!"
2) If it doesn't work 100% of the time on every pixel in the entire picture while massaging my back, I'm NOT buying it!!"
Hopefully it will fade out the irrelevant parts of the porn that I'm not paying attention to. This could make my jerking off twice as productive! (/sarcasm)
Interesting. Hard drives replace tape backup. GOOGLE replace hard drives.
There, I fixed that for you.
This looks to me like an attempt to win an ignoble prize.
No it just looks like an attempt to get a scientific paper published with doing as little work as possible.
"My plan is to take a ruler to some old paintings and then publish the findings! Oh I can't get access to the works? Well then I'll just use google images and measure them with my com-pu-tor! Prize money please!"
Is stuff like this malicious? Like someone at the memory card plant put the virus executables on the hardware? Or is it just a case of the worker having an infected computer, which then infected the memory cards?