What happens when it is Little Guy trying to sue VastCorp? VastCorp can claim that they had dozens of lightbulb projects on the go, and knew nothing about Little Guy's invention. (The most promising of these projects involved catching garden fairies in a bottle, but Little Guy can't prove that and VastCorp has lots of lawyers.)
I don't think putting the burden of proof on the patent holder is the answer to patents of the obvious kind.
Don't worry. It's like those movies where part way through we get a look at the evil bad guy's reasons and justifications for acting that way and we feel some sympathy. It makes a good setup for when we find out that he really is an evil prick and cheer when he gets pushed into a volcano or something.
Scientology's OT-III story wasn't really removed, just modded down to -1. And in return, Slashdot did a story with links to most critical sites. T'was a famous victory...
It's surprisingly honest. "in the end we're still dead in the water" implies that they are currently dead in the water. Surly overpriced service with bogus invoices, yes, "dead in the water" is a good start.
That's just Google trying to be helpful. My IP address is from Toronto Canada, so Google routes me to google.ca and gives me sponsored links for Toronto-centric advertising.
Google knows you hate XML, so it's just giving you the results that you're looking for. Mystery solved!
20 years ago, everyone used yacc/lex when they needed to parse something. They were handy tools and they were there. Now people need to parse a whole lot of stuff and the tools for XML are there.
XML is handy, and it's a lovely big hammer. Ooo, look at all the nails!
Lately a few people on alt.religion.scientology have been tracking an increase in cookie-cutter mass-produced pro-$cientology blogs. Could it be that $cientology found that blog comment spamming no longer worked, and are now creating actual throw-away blogs to see if they can gimick the results again?
Okay, I didn't want to read through the naked patent office article, so I looked for a news story synopsis. Went to news.google.com, looked for "patent microsoft pager".. and all it gave me was a link.. back to Slashdot. We're doomed.
Oh? Someone was able to send me a wonderful mortgage offer several days ago:
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Not as bad as comcast, but still a significant number of spams direct from end-user IPs. As for web servers, change the port to one popular with p2p apps -- That way your bandwidth use will blend in with the swarm. Port 80 is just the default.
Most of their definitions of server are usually flawed too. A p2p app that's sharing is a server. When my box answers a ping, that's a server. An infested box with MyDumb.Eh is a server. As much as they'd like to, I doubt they'll be banning p2p (although some have tried).
Like Humpty-Dumpty, server means whatever they want it to mean this week. So long as it flys under their bandwidth radar, they don't seem to mind too much. A small web server (especially off port 80) isn't going to attract their notice.
They'll regret such foolish generousity when Darl and SCO bitch-slap them with a law-suit and a request for n*$699 (for secret values of n).
[Bugs voice] Please Jacques, not this distro!
In the local junk/surplus shop (the one with the gorilla) they had parts of a tank periscope with a 6" high-quality prism. Getting it out and removing the aluminum coating was fun. (Soak in vinegar or stonger overnight to remove the aluminum.)
Fix it (cat proof!) in a southern window and you get a large rainbow that sweeps across the room on sunny days. Very nice for improving the mood. (You could buy one, but it wouldn't be a hack.) Great for bugging anal managers at the office.
I knew someone did styrofoam wing sections for his R/C planes by sliding a chunk through a thick hot wire shaped to the cross-section. It cut and melted the surface to a nice finish. Should be easy to do after fiddling a bit with the power supply to get the right current/heat. Hell, someone's probably got a page on how to do it.
When I was working on arcade games, we had a sure-fire method of making bugs go away. However, shipping each coin-op game with an engineer and $40k worth of testing equipment connected to it wasn't really cost-effective.
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I don't think putting the burden of proof on the patent holder is the answer to patents of the obvious kind.
What? Oh no no, it's just a little dusty, that's all. Look! (blows) "To serve man with a lawsuit"
Pass the popcorn?
Scientology's OT-III story wasn't really removed, just modded down to -1. And in return, Slashdot did a story with links to most critical sites. T'was a famous victory...
It's surprisingly honest. "in the end we're still dead in the water" implies that they are currently dead in the water. Surly overpriced service with bogus invoices, yes, "dead in the water" is a good start.
Don't some of the open source agreements have similar clauses for "patent free zones"?
I didn't realize that. I thought using only LF as a "newline" character was Bell Labs'ism.
Google knows you hate XML, so it's just giving you the results that you're looking for. Mystery solved!
XML is handy, and it's a lovely big hammer. Ooo, look at all the nails!
A web site where this is covered. (Sifting through ars takes practice and training. :)
Lately a few people on alt.religion.scientology have been tracking an increase in cookie-cutter mass-produced pro-$cientology blogs. Could it be that $cientology found that blog comment spamming no longer worked, and are now creating actual throw-away blogs to see if they can gimick the results again?
Just make sure granny never submits your URL to Slashdot!
I currently have Borland C++ 3.1 installed. (Don't ask.) If you you give me an idea where to look, I will.
Okay, I didn't want to read through the naked patent office article, so I looked for a news story synopsis. Went to news.google.com, looked for "patent microsoft pager" .. and all it gave me was a link .. back to Slashdot. We're doomed.
Oh? Someone was able to send me a wonderful mortgage offer several days ago:
Not as bad as comcast, but still a significant number of spams direct from end-user IPs. As for web servers, change the port to one popular with p2p apps -- That way your bandwidth use will blend in with the swarm. Port 80 is just the default.Like Humpty-Dumpty, server means whatever they want it to mean this week. So long as it flys under their bandwidth radar, they don't seem to mind too much. A small web server (especially off port 80) isn't going to attract their notice.
Don't ask, don't tell.
Of course, "Proof by Google" is always right. After all, if it's on a web page and Google finds it, then it must be true .. right? :^P
And TWAIN will either worry or relax him.
They'll regret such foolish generousity when Darl and SCO bitch-slap them with a law-suit and a request for n*$699 (for secret values of n). [Bugs voice] Please Jacques, not this distro!
Fix it (cat proof!) in a southern window and you get a large rainbow that sweeps across the room on sunny days. Very nice for improving the mood. (You could buy one, but it wouldn't be a hack.) Great for bugging anal managers at the office.
I knew someone did styrofoam wing sections for his R/C planes by sliding a chunk through a thick hot wire shaped to the cross-section. It cut and melted the surface to a nice finish. Should be easy to do after fiddling a bit with the power supply to get the right current/heat. Hell, someone's probably got a page on how to do it.
I wonder if the M&M candy people have thought it?
Even in those days, not everyone did things half-ASCII.
When I was working on arcade games, we had a sure-fire method of making bugs go away. However, shipping each coin-op game with an engineer and $40k worth of testing equipment connected to it wasn't really cost-effective.