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  1. Re:"Sold" abroad, not "made" on Supreme Court To Decide Whether Or Not You Own What You Own · · Score: 1

    So where are the components of electronic devices purchased? Are we able to re-sell our cell phones, just not the microchips inside?

    How about this? When Apple sells you an iPhone. Are you the first purchaser? Didn't Apple have to essentially "purchase" them from Foxconn?

  2. Re:The linked article is full of misunderstandings on Supreme Court To Decide Whether Or Not You Own What You Own · · Score: 1

    I believe this is related to the Costco importation of watches. Where they're trying to use "copyrights" on logos to prevent sale of items.

  3. What this would mean... on Supreme Court To Decide Whether Or Not You Own What You Own · · Score: 2

    As I recall, we no longer make transistors in the U.S. So don't just think of used foreign merchandise. Think of EVERY product that uses an Asian made transister or microchip.

    - No used cars
    - No used computers
    - No used cell phones
    - No used electronics
    - Very few used toys

    Yes, there are few decisions that would cause a revolution and the mass murder of politicians. But if the Supreme Court decided in favor of the apellate court's decision. I'd wager the result of enforcing such a decision would be the end of the American political system.

    I am pretty sure that the Supreme Court will give this an easy slap down.

  4. Re:How does the rest of the jury feel? on Unredacted Filings Reveal Claims of Juror Misconduct in Apple vs Samsung Trial · · Score: 1

    Exactly

  5. Re:True on Ask Slashdot: Best Cell Phone Carrier In the US? · · Score: 1

    2720mb (so I'm using about 2G-5GB a month, plus my wife's usage)

  6. Re:Glenn Beck is a fucking moron. on Glenn Beck Reports CIA Plot Between Embassy Killing and Something Awful · · Score: 1

    If it's so foreseeable...why did everyone's retirement funds lose thousands of dollars?

    Granted mine did not...and I wager your's probably did not. But for most people, for whatever reason (normalcy bias) it was not foreseeable.

  7. Re:Printing Presses on You Can't Print a Gun If You Have No 3D Printer · · Score: 1

    Most of the thousands are killed with bombs and missiles !guns.

  8. Re:How does the rest of the jury feel? on Unredacted Filings Reveal Claims of Juror Misconduct in Apple vs Samsung Trial · · Score: 1

    Yes, but you cannot have a jury decision which decides that the patent is invalidated by prior art, and then find infringment.

  9. Re:True on Ask Slashdot: Best Cell Phone Carrier In the US? · · Score: 1

    Yes, that's two smartphones + data plan and a 24% work discount.

    Scary ain't it?

  10. Re:Hard to see Samsung succeeding on LTE suit on Galaxy Tab Sales Ban Lifted, Samsung Sues Apple Over iPhone 5 · · Score: 1

    It has a trade dress...which are now being used as perpetual patents you moron. :-P

  11. Re:How does the rest of the jury feel? on Unredacted Filings Reveal Claims of Juror Misconduct in Apple vs Samsung Trial · · Score: 1

    The question is not whether Apple infringed prior art. That is not the point of prior art. Prior art says, that if it exists, than Samsung did not infringe Apple.

  12. Re:I think for lying during selection on Unredacted Filings Reveal Claims of Juror Misconduct in Apple vs Samsung Trial · · Score: 1

    He was asked about lawsuits. He did not disclose them. I am pretty sure he was aware of the lawsuits he has been in. Therefore, yes, we have proof that he intentionally lied.

    Whether it was to enact revenge on Seagate or not is irrelevant.

  13. Re:True on Ask Slashdot: Best Cell Phone Carrier In the US? · · Score: 1

    I never understand this. Because whenever I compare plans between Verizon, AT&T, and Sprint. They're usually within $10.

    Right now I'm looking at $160 for Verizon, or $150 for AT&T/Sprint.

  14. Re:Karma Whore on Ask Steve Wozniak Anything · · Score: 2

    Woz,

    Please ignore the stop posting comments. Truly, this is one of the most beautiful things I've seen on the web in many years.

    Gracias...

  15. Re:Hard to see Samsung succeeding on LTE suit on Galaxy Tab Sales Ban Lifted, Samsung Sues Apple Over iPhone 5 · · Score: 1

    Well rounded corners and a flat screen means no one else can make a phone either. So if that stands, so should Samsung FRAND

    Frankly, Palm should be suing the !@#$% out of all of them. Grid of icon on mobile device.

  16. Re:Not going to happen...my plan is better on Another Call For Abolishing Patents, This One From the St. Louis Fed · · Score: 1

    Problem is, 20 years later, that publication is gone. That's why the prior art needs to be recorded in the Patent Office.

  17. Re:Not going to happen...my plan is better on Another Call For Abolishing Patents, This One From the St. Louis Fed · · Score: 1

    Agreed...that's why I am going to email & call them regularly. And schedule a repeat visit.

  18. Re:Glenn Beck is a fucking moron. on Glenn Beck Reports CIA Plot Between Embassy Killing and Something Awful · · Score: 2

    Ford, and they've even admitted this themselves, were just lucky. They had just taken a big re-structuring loan out right before rates and credit availabity tanked. They did well because that allowd them to be the only American auto maker not needing a bail out.

  19. Re:Printing Presses on You Can't Print a Gun If You Have No 3D Printer · · Score: 1

    With a gun, you can kill a man.

    With a pen, our Presidents kills thousands of people.

    Clearly the pen is far more dangerous than the Glock.

  20. Re:Printing Money on You Can't Print a Gun If You Have No 3D Printer · · Score: 1

    Yes, but that's ILLEGAL. This was not.

    This is akin to them pulling your printer because you printed some of your own currency to use at your kids carnival.

  21. Re:Politics on You Can't Print a Gun If You Have No 3D Printer · · Score: 1

    There is no liability in this....

    Car manufacturers aren't liable for drunk drivers.

  22. Re:Politics on You Can't Print a Gun If You Have No 3D Printer · · Score: 4, Informative

    Actually, it's not...

    As long as they are spec'd legal. They just cannot be transferred.

  23. Re:Is Apple evil nowadays? on Ask Steve Wozniak Anything · · Score: 1

    Yes, it is...sadly...

  24. Visionaries and Engineers on Ask Steve Wozniak Anything · · Score: 1

    It seems to me that there are two types that lead to the future. Visionaries and Engineers. Steve Jobs, was a visionary, he had ideas, he saw where to go. But from what I seem to read and hear, he was a mediocre developer/engineer with yourself, Steve Wozniak, being far more the engineer.

    Progress seems to be greatest when these two are paired together. What do you think regarding the pairing of visionaries and engineers?

  25. Re:One thing is missing: on Supreme Court Won't Hear Body-Scanner Appeal · · Score: 2

    How come jurisdiction seems to play here, but it always seems like patent suits are filed in that Texas jurisdiction that keeps patent trolls well fed?