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  1. You still go t work? on Ask Slashdot: Do You Still Need a Phone At Your Desk? · · Score: 0

    Dude you are OLD

  2. Re:Some of us are grown-ups on Richard Stallman: 'Apple Has Tightest Digital Handcuffs In History' · · Score: 1

    but you need a Mac and XCode

    I mean how evil is that. you need a computer from the same company that made your phone to write software for it

  3. Re:Straightjacket and RMS... on Richard Stallman: 'Apple Has Tightest Digital Handcuffs In History' · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    why don't geeks spend hours and hours tinkering with cars? I mean everyone should know how to do all the things needed to keep their car running.

    what is so useful about spending all your time tinkering with computers but not other things you use in your life?

  4. Re:That Is the Most Laughable Defense of IV Yet! on Google's Schmidt: Patent Wars Harm Startups · · Score: 1

    no, you're just dumb and believe the click bait nonsense on the internet

    samsung, apple and everyone else has design patents on every single product they sell. these are prefaced by the letter D before the patent number. the design patent covers the shape, color scheme and every detail you can see about the product. samsung has D patents on fridges and microwaves.

    the reason samsung got sued was the original galaxy shape and color scheme was almost exact to the iphone. they even had a huge internal document on how to copy apple and were warned by google. i can go to best buy and look at 10 different android phones where apple didn't sue the maker because the design and color scheme is different enough from the iphone even though its a rectangle with rounded corners.

    why is it i can go to home depot and all the appliances look similar to each other even though everyone has a design patent? if you look closely they all have slightly different designs and colors.

    don't believe the nonsense by the verge and all the other internet blogs. these rags are like the yellow press of the late 1800's and the NYC tabloid newspapers of today.

  5. Re:easy to license most of the patents on Google's Schmidt: Patent Wars Harm Startups · · Score: 1

    and you know what, some of us old farts have seen this tech since the 80's

    online? my parents were too poor to pay for AOL or Compuserve back in the day. otherwise these ideas are decades old
    online shopping? Amazon started in 1994. before that there were lots of catalog companies where you could pick up the phone and give them your CC and get your stuff in a week or two.
    OS patents? too bad for you MS and Apple did all the work for you over the last few decades
    mapping? Microsoft had online maps in the 90's

    lots of smart people saw these trends when you were still in diapers and worked out the basic tech. but just like other times in history, they did it too early and we're seeing the mass adoption part now. still doesn't change the fact that most of the tech that the kids try to pawn off as their own was created almost twenty years ago and sold off because the inventor couldn't make money off it at the time

    the last really killer tech startup i can remember is Google and that's only because they invented most of the Big Data technology. and lots of these so called patent trolls work out a few algorithms that will end up part of a standard or part of some product but not a standalone product

    most of the startups i read about now are like the dot bombs of the late 1990's or the founders are geek heads with no real world common sense

  6. Re:easy to license most of the patents on Google's Schmidt: Patent Wars Harm Startups · · Score: 1

    all the standards bodies will have the patents listed for that standard. and if you buy say a wifi chip for your product then the chip maker already paid the royalty

    but then you knew that since if you're shipping a product using some standard tech your company will be a member of that standards body or at least subscribe to their publications.

    or you're dealing with everyone except Apple who like to abuse FRAND and sue others for using standards essential patents

  7. Re:easy to license most of the patents on Google's Schmidt: Patent Wars Harm Startups · · Score: 2

    everyone has design patents and patents rectangles and other shapes. check the patent office.

    IV is just a mutual fund and all the big tech companies like apple, google, cisco and others invest in their patent pools

  8. Re:As a startup owner.. on Google's Schmidt: Patent Wars Harm Startups · · Score: 1

    really?

    that's how google built its business. taking the work of others and monetizing it. like say google news. aggregating news and making money from the ad revenue instead of the news organization

  9. easy to license most of the patents on Google's Schmidt: Patent Wars Harm Startups · · Score: 0, Troll

    most of the patents in a smartphone are Standards Essential and fairly easy and cheap to license. a few pennies per device per patent owner.

    not like you have to spend years in negotiations for tens of thousands of patents

    most of these patent articles are just FUD and click bait

  10. Re:If you volunteer, then you are not qualified... on Over 1000 Volunteers For 'Suicide' Mission To Mars · · Score: 1

    there was protein rich food in the grass, carcasses

    there is no food on Mars

  11. Re:One sided on Congressional Committee Casts a Harsh Eye On Vaccination Science · · Score: 1

    STD's are transmitted by liquids, sex is just a vector

    lots of conditions like blindness back in the old days were caused by infections that weren't controlled through drugs or vaccines. just because a pathogen doesn't kill you doesn't mean it can't hurt your body, especially with young children

  12. Re:Dumb fundie article on Congressional Committee Casts a Harsh Eye On Vaccination Science · · Score: 2

    the MMR vaccine is given at the point when autism would be first detectable. but there are always signs before hand that are ignored.

    i have 2 kids and the first was thought to maybe have aspergers and missed some milestones

    autism has nothing to do with MMR or vaccines because in the US autism is an upper middle class condition and clusters in areas where people are better off than most people. the latest theories are fertility treatments which a lot of upper middle class people use, having kids later in life or having a lot of chemicals around your kids. there was a study in northern europe that linked autism to some plastic flooring used in homes

    why is it that almost everyone gets vaccinated but autism is mostly found in middle class families with mothers who have kids later in life?

    want to lower your risk of having kids with autism? have kids in your twenties, don't party and get drunk every other day, keep healthy and have kids naturally without chlamid or invitro or any other procedure

  13. Re:Congress Sucks on Congressional Committee Casts a Harsh Eye On Vaccination Science · · Score: 1

    2 or 3 congress people out of 575 are spouting some nonsense

    this isn't congress holding a hearing, this is a subcommittee of some committee holding a hearing. chances are whatever is said will be forgotten before they have dinner

  14. is the game worth it? on But Can It Run Crysis 3? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    it seems the game consists of walking/running around with only part of your weapon visible on the screen and shooting stuff with the object to save the planet or the galaxy or something else. anything different then all the FPS games over the last 20 some years?

    or are people going to spend close to $1000 upgrading their computers just to be wowed by some extra graphical detail?

  15. Re:Um... on Senators Vow To Renew Bid For State Taxes On Remote Internet Sales · · Score: 1

    is that like in california where the people are always voting in new spending via ballot initiatives but then vote on laws to limit property tax increases?

  16. Re:What College Are You Talking About Here? on Just Say No To College · · Score: 1

    i used to frequent some other forums and this is how it happens. all schools have in state and out of state rates. if you're a resident of the state you pay a much lower rate.

    dumb parents would take their kids to look at schools around the country outside their home states. and these weren't ivy league or some top of their field schools, just your average state school. i asked the reason and the person said they were looking for a "good fit" for their kid

    most of these loan horror stories are from dumb shits that go to other states to your average school to learn something you can learn at home. meanwhile there are janitors at NYU pushing their kids to be in the top of their class because the kid of any NYU employee goes to school for free there

  17. so the founder did everything themselves? on Just Say No To College · · Score: 2

    Bill Gates had Steve Ballmer who also went to harvard and made lots of contacts
    Zuck hired a hardvard educated COO
    Michael Dell also hired a college educated COO when it was time to really grow the company

    same with all the other startups that made it big. they all hired college educated senior officers, gave up a lot of control and ownership in the company to have it grow. writing up some code on the weekends and renting space on amazon isn't going to turn your startup into a billion dollar company

    running a startup without someone who knows how to grow the company means you will always be some small fry and never make it

  18. Who pays the bills? on Should Inventions Be Automatically Owned By Your Employer? · · Score: 1

    In the past the individuals inventing stuff were rich people. In the 1800's knowing how to read was a huge accomplishment

    Having knowledge to invent something new was only possessed by a tiny minority of people

  19. because everything on the internet is true? on Khan Academy: the Future of Taxpayer Reeducation? · · Score: 1

    if you think that everyone will believe everything they see on the internet i have a bridge in brooklyn to sell you

  20. No Soju experience at business dinners? on Samsung Sets New Guidelines For Alcoholic Beverages · · Score: 1

    So all you are supposed to do is talk?

  21. Pay for your own infrastructure on Least-Cost Routing Threatens Rural Phone Call Completion · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The boonies are usually red areas that vote republican and spout off nonsense about being independent of Obama and the evil liberals who suck up all the money

    Here is your chance to practice what you preach
    Pay for your lifestyle

  22. Re:can't wipe a disk? on FBI Dad's Misadventures With Spyware Exposed School Principal's Child Porn · · Score: 1

    i've read most of the agents are lawyers, accountants or something similar

  23. Re:End the pyramid scheme on US Birthrate Plummets To Record Low · · Score: 2

    say you have a 401k with mutual funds. who is going to buy the stock from you when you're old if there are less people? what if there are less people to buy less products? less profits and less money for your retirement in your supposedly non-pyramid scheme plan

  24. Re:I'm still trying to wrap my brain around... on FBI Dad's Misadventures With Spyware Exposed School Principal's Child Porn · · Score: 1

    nope, Windows even has a little program that will automatically wipe the settings and computer account and boot windows like its fresh out of the box making you think its a new computer.

    don't have to delete anything manually

    forgot the name but years ago it was used for imaging to make sure the computer account was different

  25. Re:Basis of the US economy on US Birthrate Plummets To Record Low · · Score: 1

    kill off the old people?