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  1. Re:No issue with my Lumia 920 on Windows Phone 8 Users Hit Some Snags · · Score: 0

    I call bovine fecal matter on your bovine fecal matter....

    Seriously, even with most things closed. I never get a day's charge with moderate use. Thankfully, I have chargers everywhere. Unthankfully, iPhone chargers are the most finicky pieces of crap. The cables fail often and cost a small fortune...

  2. Re:Samsung's accusations on Samsung Accuses Foreman Hogan of Misrepresentation · · Score: 1

    My understanding, is the expectation of the courts, is the whole truth, ...and that deliberately misleading with partial truth is considered to be lying.

    Wife: Have you been spending money again? What did you buy?

    Husband: A book...
    (not mentioning the HDTV, shotgun and harley, doesn't mean you weren't being deceptive).

  3. Re:Samsung's accusations on Samsung Accuses Foreman Hogan of Misrepresentation · · Score: 1

    Yes,....

  4. Re:Samsung's accusations on Samsung Accuses Foreman Hogan of Misrepresentation · · Score: 2

    Oh, it exists already. We have his public media testimony to the fact of it's existence.

    The issue is, that it judicially is not considered valid evidence or testimony. And that there is the crux of Samsung's gripe.

  5. Re:Very curiously... on Samsung Accuses Foreman Hogan of Misrepresentation · · Score: 2

    Well considering how almost all of the iPhone copied Palm, Prada and others...

    How much do you think Apple should be paying Palm right now?

  6. Re:Very curiously... on Samsung Accuses Foreman Hogan of Misrepresentation · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Actually, my understanding was that after the case was over, and names of jurors were out in the public. The spouse of a lawyer recognized his name from a prior case. And that's what triggered the revelation...

    So not sure how that wasn't answered?

  7. Re:Not so Fast on Samsung Accuses Foreman Hogan of Misrepresentation · · Score: 1

    I thought that was only during the trial. Not afterwards.

  8. Re:Samsung's accusations on Samsung Accuses Foreman Hogan of Misrepresentation · · Score: 3, Insightful

    1. Years before it was a subsidiary doesn't in any way negate holding a grudge.

    2. Well, he stated aspects of patents & prior art. Put forth to the jury "expert testimony", which I do consider evidence. While I am sure lawyers would have a bazillion terms to denote nuances. I think in layman's term the use of evidence was a fine term.

  9. Re:Not so Fast on Samsung Accuses Foreman Hogan of Misrepresentation · · Score: 1

    Why not?

  10. Re:Samsung's accusations on Samsung Accuses Foreman Hogan of Misrepresentation · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The issue is thus:

    a) did not disclose fully the extent of his patent dealings, referenced one more recent issue but failed to disclose the more serious prior issues

    b) provided false, misleading evidence contrary to judges instructions to manipulate the jury

    c) had prior conflict with subsidiary of Samsung

    d) was a flat out stupid moron (the latter doesn't affect the case decision, but the first three very much do so)

  11. Oh...if we could only... on In Mississippi: 15-Year Jail Sentence For Selling Pirated Movies and Music · · Score: 1

    Get these sentences for rape, armed robber and other violent crimes.

    The proof is in the pudding. Our judicial system is concerned about profits, and not protecting society.

  12. Re:Sad - even if I dislike Apple on Samsung Hits Apple With 20% Price Increase · · Score: 1

    Why should Samsung not start to remove it's "favored partner" status discounts?

    Seriously, if I were Samsung, I'd say...hey...sorry for the delay. But a worker at the factory that builds your screens destroyed vital equipment over his duress at your lawsuit. We can't produce anything for a year.

  13. Going against the /. grain on Little Miss Sunshine Screenwriter Gets Nod For Star Wars: Episode VII · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'm actually for this, if they incorporate a story involving Hammil, Fisher, & Ford. I feel it needs that, just as Leonard Nimoy added to the the revisioned Star Trek.

  14. I say.... on Google Doubts Apple Will Approve Its New Maps Application · · Score: 0

    FUCK them over with a nice anti-trust lawsuit. Seems like a clear cut case if I've ever seen one.

  15. Re:So tell me, Obama fans... on Federal Judge Approves Warrantless, Covert Video Surveillance · · Score: 1

    No, but at least the media would bitch about it and point every single instance out to blame Romney on. (Kind of like when gas was $2.50 and every day there were 5 new articles on how bad gas prices were. It reached $4+ and scant one or two articles for the whole month.)

  16. Constitution... on Federal Judge Approves Warrantless, Covert Video Surveillance · · Score: 1

    America, rolled D20 for her Constitution. Alas, government has permanently cursed you, and now your Constitution is only a 4.

  17. Re:TROLL on Surfcast Sues Microsoft Over Tile Patent · · Score: 1

    Seriously, go look at these "screenshots" of product. And tell me how their product was anything different than all the horrible 1990's websites built with frames, that continually refreshed.

    Seriously, this shouldn't even go to court....

    http://web.archive.org/web/20070420033547/http://www.surfcast.com/images/bloom.jpg [archive.org]

    http://web.archive.org/web/20070101195114/http://surfcast.com/images/trading.jpg [archive.org]

    http://web.archive.org/web/20070101163517/http://surfcast.com/images/weather.jpg [archive.org]

    http://web.archive.org/web/20070126130038/http://www.surfcast.com/images/word_doc.jpg [archive.org]

  18. Re:No Xbox 360? on Surfcast Sues Microsoft Over Tile Patent · · Score: 1

    Yes it is....it's Xbox Live!!! :-P

  19. Total TROLLL on Surfcast Sues Microsoft Over Tile Patent · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Seriously, go look at these "screenshots" of product. And tell me how their product was anything different than all the horrible 1990's websites built with frames, that continually refreshed.

    Seriously, this shouldn't even go to court....

    http://web.archive.org/web/20070420033547/http://www.surfcast.com/images/bloom.jpg

    http://web.archive.org/web/20070101195114/http://surfcast.com/images/trading.jpg

    http://web.archive.org/web/20070101163517/http://surfcast.com/images/weather.jpg

    http://web.archive.org/web/20070126130038/http://www.surfcast.com/images/word_doc.jpg

  20. TROLL on Surfcast Sues Microsoft Over Tile Patent · · Score: 1

    Seriously, if I go visit friends in Portland, ME...I am so egging the hell out that place.

    First off, their website is a POS with next to no content other than "We're a patent troll!"

    Second, 2000???

    Sorry, frankly, I feel there was prior art for Microsoft Surface tiles. Don't people remember those late 90's websites with all the square tables boxes that kept refreshing and showing updates for stocks and what not.

    So the idea was done...it's not novel. Lame...

  21. Re:Laugh it up fuzzball... on Disney to Acquire Lucasfilm, Star Wars Episode 7 Due In 2015 · · Score: 1

    Ratatouille was completed before the Disney purchase. I believe Wall-E and Up were both green lit and in production before the the purchase.

    Toy Story 3 was the first post-Disney Pixar film. It was good, but got a touch outlandish with the whole "burning inferno scene". Cars 2, eh...Mater's Revenge. Lots of stupid Disney style humor without the classiness of the first one. Brave, I have not seen. But the one scene where the woman/maid/whatever she is runs into the wall of the castle was very Disney-esque. And made me fear it was leaning toward Disney's stupid non-funny over play slapstick. (Mind you, I enjoy slapstick, just Disney seems to do it in a really unfunny way. (versus Shrek or Kung Fu Panda)

  22. Re:Why was boat out to sea on Sandy Sinks HMS Bounty, Knocks Off Gawker Websites · · Score: 1

    It's election season...I'm practicing.

  23. Laugh it up fuzzball... on Disney to Acquire Lucasfilm, Star Wars Episode 7 Due In 2015 · · Score: 1

    Wait, didn't Disney do a Star Wars film that flopped and millions of dollars went into a "Black Hole"
    (Granted, I still like Vincent & Old B.O.B.)

    ***

    The Good:
    - George Lucas to not write or direct.
    - Star Wars 7 (maybe)
    - Whedon

    The Bad:
    - Disney's influence on Pixar of dumb idiotic humor, we hates it, we do. (Cars 2)
    - Star Wars 7 (maybe)

  24. Re:The math doesn't work on Ask Slashdot: What Stands In the Way of a Truly Solar-Powered Airliner? · · Score: 1

    Large, blimb cruise ship style vessels that stay in the currents with solar powered adjustment engines...and land on water. Possible (eventually).

    But hey, that doesn't get you from LA to NY and back in a day.

  25. Gravity.... on Ask Slashdot: What Stands In the Way of a Truly Solar-Powered Airliner? · · Score: 2

    Truthfully, I think the only viable solar powered option is a huge giant blimp wing semi-dirigible. And that having a light weight spray on solar conductor.