a) He hasn't failed to be exempted from extradition - it's still being looked at by the Home Office b) He's not asking for a "get out of jail free" card - it's about being tried (and, if found guilty) imprisoned in the UK rather than the US c) The "Aspergers defence" only arose - some years after the event - because Simon Baron-Cohen saw an interview with him and suggested he may be suffering from the condition
"Interestingly, Nintendo did not patent any gestures at all in the creation of the Wii controller, instead focusing entirely on patenting facets of the device. Their patent covers a controller that contains an accelerometer, but not the gestures used to operate it."
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That line-up looks awfully familiar...
As Weebl and Bob might say...
...except...
a) He hasn't failed to be exempted from extradition - it's still being looked at by the Home Office
b) He's not asking for a "get out of jail free" card - it's about being tried (and, if found guilty) imprisoned in the UK rather than the US
c) The "Aspergers defence" only arose - some years after the event - because Simon Baron-Cohen saw an interview with him and suggested he may be suffering from the condition
And they do with paper records?
Just a thought...
Do you carry your entire health history around with you 24/7? Or can remember every little detail of every drug you've taken, what for, and when?
If so, fair enough - for the rest of us however, somebody (or thing) will have to do the remembering for us...
(I should mention at this point my first job was as a developer on a pathology system used mainly by NHS hospitals)
They're quite happy to save $10 on meals, believe me.
That does rather assume they can afford to pay for the rest of the meal as well, doesn't it?
TFA, on the other hand...
"Interestingly, Nintendo did not patent any gestures at all in the creation of the Wii controller, instead focusing entirely on patenting facets of the device. Their patent covers a controller that contains an accelerometer, but not the gestures used to operate it."
*rolls eyes*
Feeding time...
I take you you use a perfect OS then? Do tell us what it is...
That's standard NASA/Pentagon configuration since before 2001 isn't it? Just ask Gary McKinnon.
(Aside: Does that mean the "special" - or is it "essential" - relationship is void, and the US and UK should be at war too?)
Nuke the site from orbit... it's the only way to be sure.
...paper - in case somebody writes down the music in score form
Ah... the Icarus option...
Never stopped a patent troll...
Well done Amazon - you succeeded in failing
Anybody know if Virgin have put down any cable in, say, the last 5 years?
The block of flats I used to live in are no older than that... and not one of them is cabled, despite the other end of the street having it.
Didn't stop them putting leaflets in the post box every few weeks trying to get us to sign up though...
Or a linked list even?
You'd think after all the fuss made about Gary McKinnon accessing the system 10 years ago - they'd have done something about it by now
...there was a Plan A (other than corporate suicide)?
While the 100 million figure is right... the market share is plummeting...
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2011/02/gartneros-sales-2011.jpg
...she's going to copy Dave Gorman, find a bunch of other Sarah Palins, and write a book/tv show around her adventures...
I'll wager the exchanges are being told to block it right about now
...or "unlimited" (subject to "fair use")?
You missed the gratuitous goatse link ;^)
I'll wager that both will happen... probably the same week
Why is the site not called chicago2016discussion.com - or something similar - if that it what it is supposed to be about?