Lodsys, a company that licenses patents but does not have any other business, added five new defendants to a suit filed in May with a US district court in Texas.
Along with Rovio, it named Electronic Arts, Take-Two Interactive which makes Grand Theft Auto, Atari and others in the list of companies it says are violating its patents.
Sigh. Yeah, software patents are a great idea. Really promotes the useful arts. If you're a lawyer, that is.
It's really nice to see this judge cutting through most of the crap without endless cycles of discovery, but he's WAY off base here:
"Is there a single Sun executive you have found who will come forward -- who's not on the payroll, by the way -- and say fragmentation is terrible"? Alsup asked Oracle's attorney.
My god, avoiding Java fragmentation was a cult religion at Sun (witness the Microsoft Java suit). Keeping Java under one umbrella was pretty much ALL Sun cared about for the last ten years of its life.
Either way, I'm starting to get as many lulz from this as from SCO vs IBM. That these lawyers don't bust out laughing while they're spouting this shit is a wonderment to me.
The man is a genius. You'll note that only the first sentence and the first few words of the second paragraph actually refer to the TSA scanners, the rest is simply about "radiation" - and a frist psot, at that - pure genius.
Annnnd... we have a winner. GalaxyZoo uses tens of thousands of underutilized, superfluous, non-specialized 'carbon units' for pattern recognition, which they're really really really good at, that is, 800mS after looking at an image -> elliptical, spiral, irregular... "Hmmm, hey, that's funny... wait... WTF --- let's post this to the forum, where hundreds of other random carbon units will weigh it, and a For Really Astronomer(TM) will be checking it out inside 24 hours if it creates enough buzz..." see Hanny's Voorwerp for the quintessential example.
Software that could 'be surprised' would be nice, but it's a long, long way off.
I've tried to use it four or five times through the years, and I always end up removing it almost immediately. I find the UI to be confusing (and just plain bad) to the point of uselessness, and the damn thing wastes more CPU cycles running than the wild JavaScript it purports to block.
I'd like it much better if browsers themselves simply didn't execute any JavaScript from any inactive tabs/minimized windows.
(same AC as GP) Everyone knows the "bury the researchers in millions of bogus, frivolous FOIA requests" is simply a tactic of the oil-industry shills - about as intellectually honest as "teach the controversy" from the anti-evolution tards - or, more to the point, about the same as the tobacco industry's decades of stonewalling that no evidence existed for a link between smoking and cancer.
Actually, it's the other way around. When taxes on the rich are low, business owners take the profits out of the business for "job-creating" items like big houses, cars, boats and bribes^Wpolitical contributions. As tax rates rise, owners leave more and more money in the business, spending more on hiring and R&D. But keep up the noble work of shilling for your plutocrat masters. I'm sure one day one of them will pat you on the head for your loyalty.
If you think that smartphones (and their seizure by police) present the gravest danger to the Constitution, you haven't been paying attention since Reagan was elected.
No. Accepting both groups is not "more fair", it's still skewed. All they originally purported to offer was an equal opportunity to be selected. They found that they hadn't provided that, so they voided the results and tried again, this time ensuring that every applicant had an equal probability of being selected.
NOTE: Real Life sometimes contains disappointments.
It's pretty obvious that it wasn't a question of logic and reason, it was a question of fairness - either every applicant had an equal opportunity to be selected, or they didn't. As first run, the lottery didn't provide that, which is why they voided the results in the first place, and why the court agreed with them.
That's not a bad idea. My point was to send a response of some kind back, rather than just simply not answering. Your way probably involves sending fewer bytes.
Slashdot Mirror
Nope, never played a roll, but I have baked them.
Sigh. Yeah, software patents are a great idea. Really promotes the useful arts. If you're a lawyer, that is.
My god, avoiding Java fragmentation was a cult religion at Sun (witness the Microsoft Java suit). Keeping Java under one umbrella was pretty much ALL Sun cared about for the last ten years of its life.
Either way, I'm starting to get as many lulz from this as from SCO vs IBM. That these lawyers don't bust out laughing while they're spouting this shit is a wonderment to me.
And there's the rub. "They're a company, so, of course they're just a big sociopath" isn't really an excuse, is it?
Have you ever noticed the "WHOOSH"ing sound mass transit vehicles make?
The same company that's all but leading the charge to lower the corporate tax rate in the US, while simultaneously shipping jobs overseas?
Whatever for?
The man is a genius. You'll note that only the first sentence and the first few words of the second paragraph actually refer to the TSA scanners, the rest is simply about "radiation" - and a frist psot, at that - pure genius.
What're you, Dan fucking Quayle???
OK, OK, It's totally a "get off my lawn joke"...
Annnnd... we have a winner. GalaxyZoo uses tens of thousands of underutilized, superfluous, non-specialized 'carbon units' for pattern recognition, which they're really really really good at, that is, 800mS after looking at an image -> elliptical, spiral, irregular... "Hmmm, hey, that's funny... wait... WTF --- let's post this to the forum, where hundreds of other random carbon units will weigh it, and a For Really Astronomer(TM) will be checking it out inside 24 hours if it creates enough buzz..." see Hanny's Voorwerp for the quintessential example.
Software that could 'be surprised' would be nice, but it's a long, long way off.
I've tried to use it four or five times through the years, and I always end up removing it almost immediately. I find the UI to be confusing (and just plain bad) to the point of uselessness, and the damn thing wastes more CPU cycles running than the wild JavaScript it purports to block.
I'd like it much better if browsers themselves simply didn't execute any JavaScript from any inactive tabs/minimized windows.
I hate the silent ones. Especially in elevators.
You too? I had a special character in my nick, and my old account has been broken for several months. Hence, the new name.
Your project managers make you get a completely clean build before you ship? How do you guys stay on schedule?
Yes. Many of them (Neanderthals) are in Congress, even as we speak.
(same AC as GP) Everyone knows the "bury the researchers in millions of bogus, frivolous FOIA requests" is simply a tactic of the oil-industry shills - about as intellectually honest as "teach the controversy" from the anti-evolution tards - or, more to the point, about the same as the tobacco industry's decades of stonewalling that no evidence existed for a link between smoking and cancer.
Actually, it's the other way around. When taxes on the rich are low, business owners take the profits out of the business for "job-creating" items like big houses, cars, boats and bribes^Wpolitical contributions. As tax rates rise, owners leave more and more money in the business, spending more on hiring and R&D. But keep up the noble work of shilling for your plutocrat masters. I'm sure one day one of them will pat you on the head for your loyalty.
Irregardless, "could care less" is incorrect because it's logically flawed.
Because he has kernel Commit privs and that's why Microsoft hired him??? Nah. Too logical. Probably a conspiracy instead.
361 new buffer overflow possibilities, regressions and invalid assumptions.
If you think that smartphones (and their seizure by police) present the gravest danger to the Constitution, you haven't been paying attention since Reagan was elected.
No. Accepting both groups is not "more fair", it's still skewed. All they originally purported to offer was an equal opportunity to be selected. They found that they hadn't provided that, so they voided the results and tried again, this time ensuring that every applicant had an equal probability of being selected.
NOTE: Real Life sometimes contains disappointments.
It's pretty obvious that it wasn't a question of logic and reason, it was a question of fairness - either every applicant had an equal opportunity to be selected, or they didn't. As first run, the lottery didn't provide that, which is why they voided the results in the first place, and why the court agreed with them.
OOOHH!! OOOHH! Yes! Or aroma therapy!!!
That's not a bad idea. My point was to send a response of some kind back, rather than just simply not answering. Your way probably involves sending fewer bytes.