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  1. Re:Long history on 'The Hobbit' Pub Threatened With Lawsuit · · Score: 2

    I've just checked USPTO, but he clearly owns EU trademark(s) too.., these rich guys hand out this to lawyers that register the mark in all important regions. Also I am pretty sure "fire extinguisher" falls under a different category than UNIX (software), for a weird example you can claim and own trademark "UNIX" for lollipops without much of a problem - it's nearly certain AT&T have not registered it under that food product category.. A pub would fall under some service mark class so they might have a leg to stand on if Zaentz has not registered the mark under that service TM class in the UK.

  2. Re:Long history on 'The Hobbit' Pub Threatened With Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    Not correct, Zaentz really owns "Hobbit" US trademark, not only one but in multiple categories (besides the usual stuff also including rare things like "Play houses", "Storage sheds"). Might be a cunning move, if the upcoming film is any good he will command the merchandise revenue. If you own the trademark you own pretty much everything...

  3. Re:What I'm not looking forward to on Jimmy Wales To Become UK Government Adviser · · Score: 1

    The explicit content is the problem, there should be a pic, scheme or a decent drawing not some exhibitionist's snaps of his own wang.

  4. Re:What I'm not looking forward to on Jimmy Wales To Become UK Government Adviser · · Score: -1, Troll

    Has he removed that explicit Wikipedia shock page that thousands of unsuspecting girls open daily? You know what page I mean. Wait a moment, have to check it out.... oh! sweet jesus.. Is that Jimmy's own? Why such a resistance to remove it? It's still hanging there. Could we use some drawing or something more sensitive? Jimbo?

  5. Re:DPReview has a review on The Lytro Camera: Impressive Technology and Some Big Drawbacks · · Score: 2

    DPReview: we haven't 'got it'. So it is what we have suspected all the time, a VC trap. The game of Litro has only one winner, the guy who got the funding.

  6. Re:what about on Valve Switching Team Fortress 2 To Free-To-Play Increased Revenue Twelvefold · · Score: 1

    I would not be surprised to see this happen to Counter-Strike soon, lots of people play that game all the time and only paid once years ago. So you want that shiny AWP? Behold the paywall! In fact that game could be pretty stuffed with premium content.

  7. Re:Definition of Open on Chief Replicant Dev On Building a Truly Free Android · · Score: 0

    What more definitions you want? This project alone is a testament that Android is not an open OS, or at least not fully open.

  8. Re:Switch away from .com? on US Asserts Super-Jurisdiction Over Dot-Com, Dot-Net, and Dot-Org Domains · · Score: -1

    This affects only some "gray businesses" and if they relocate away from .com, the .com itself will only benefit as a legit business platform.

  9. Re:Fun to decode? on Video Captchas are Hard for Computers to Understand but Easy for Humans (Video) · · Score: 1

    hello.. only the important stuff is moving, making it even easier to differentiate from the background.. what were they thinking?

  10. Re:The details on World's First Biodegradable Joint Implant Grows New Joints · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I read TFA and they claim the damaged joint structure regenerates by itself, the copolymer is a scaffold that triggers stem cells to grow a brand new joint structure completely replacing the said copolymer with the body's own tissue after a while. In other words, that would be the holy grail of joint repair, of course, only if the stuff is really working as advertised.

  11. Re:POWER7 baby. on Sony Ditching Cell Architecture For Next PlayStation? · · Score: 1

    AMD could use IBM-POWER7 for CPU together with their own bleeding edge GPU, might look bizzare, but also makes sense..

  12. Re:can you hear me now? on Fraunhofer IIS Demos Full-HD Voice Over LTE On Android · · Score: 1

    When Fraunhofer IIS instroduced MP3 back in the 90', old establishments also ignored them.

  13. Like 0.0001% faster anyway on A Small Glimmer of Hope For Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Just to clarify, the FTL claim was bordering on a measurement error from the very start, it was painfully obvious that they were using a skewed meter and measured the same error many times with it, for me, this confirms more then it contradicts the constant.

  14. Re:"Not a major overhaul"? on Stroustrup Reveals What's New In C++ 11 · · Score: -1, Troll

    >> C++ is no longer that unsafe

    You can code safely in assembly, if you know what you are doing. Today's dumb hires dumber IT situation yielded some fascinating language restrictions that 'disarmed' the coder and traded performance for dubious safety, buzzwords like "managed code" emerged so the exec could have an easy time choosing platform - Sun mastered this kind of marketing with Java. The result is that you need a multi-gigahertz quad core to run a simple 2D text browser or a simple GET replier at decent speeds.

  15. Re:Sorry to repeat myself but... on Is the Government Scaring Web Businesses Out of the US? · · Score: 1

    US warrant will alert Europol and the local Switzerland/Luxembourg authorities in no time. I would think it is more important that the server guy is serving to US audience or US customers, where his server is physically located might be less important.

  16. Re:Developers Still Read Slashdot? Really? on Is the Government Scaring Web Businesses Out of the US? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Slashdot is enduring as the best technology oriented hive-mind on the whole Internet. Insights you get here are often rare and unparalleled. I bet lots of new devs and also industry veterans still around.

  17. Googorola's first bite on HP CEO Says Google-Motorola Deal Could Close-Source Android · · Score: 1

    HP has no reason to disparage a competitor for potential market gains, no reason at all. Nope.

    No fear Googorola will taste some fruit (company) soon enough.

  18. Leaked internal Zynga CEO memo to employees on Zynga Sues Brazilian Dev For Copying Its Games · · Score: 5, Informative

    Without this gem, the discussion is not really complete.


    “I don’t f***ing want innovation. “You’re not smarter than your competitor. Just copy what they do and do it until you get their numbers.”

  19. Re:Just hope they don't abandon Firefox on Linux Of the Future May Be About Which Environment, Not Which Distribution · · Score: 1

    Mozilla and their "web apps" only platform, they are making a very possible DOA product.

    You know, you can go "web apps" way on iOS too for example, but pretty much no dev would do it for plenty of good reasons. Apple and HP (webOS) has recently tried that approach too, anyone remember?

  20. Re:Question is... on Bad Guys Use Open Source, Too · · Score: 5, Funny

    FOSS purists even recommend to call it GNU/Zeus Trojan

  21. Re:Just Might Take Them Up On It on Google Offering Cash For Your Cache · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Does not matter what Google would do, just wait until all those data "leak" in some breach and the blackhats get their hands on it.

  22. Re:If selling is legal.. on Selling Used MP3s Found Legal In America · · Score: -1, Troll

    You can't, remember copyright? I have to give a "right to copy" a permission or a license to distribute my digital goods. Software, recordings, photos etc. are all covered here and copyright makes any second-hand market or distribution illegal by default unless authorized by the copyright holders.

  23. Re:Am I Supposed to Care? on Verisign Admits Company Was Hacked In 2010, Not Sure What Was Stolen · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Verisign is still the most important internet authority, they sell most of those SSL certificates that enable internet business. Also they manage .COM and .NET domain system. It has always been feared that if they get hacked the internet economy might collapse. Even now it is perhaps better just to play it down and figure out how to lower their influence..

  24. Re:Not Surprise for MegaUpload on Megaupload Drops Lawsuit Against Universal Music · · Score: 1

    No, what matters here is whether you are serving to US audience or not (the location of the server is irrelevant), they would need to block all US originating request IPs including Google bots.

  25. Re:So, they know of no fires on Chevy Volt Passes Safety Investigation · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The Volt is by far the best car that came out of America in recent times. They all know Chevrolet scored some seriously good car here and lots of people are driven mad about it. There is handful of competition and pressure from non-GM dealerships like Toyotas, Nissans etc. The car battery "catches fire" is just another bash line of theirs. The main point here is that the car needs no gasoline at all for trips up to 40 miles and the Voltec EV powertrain is just so sweet, it has torque like a sports car, all electric and whisper quiet. So it is not a hybrid, but full EV with assisted gasoline generator when the battery runs out. This is in my book the best solution to the EV range anxiety problem and lots of other EV related issues, avoidable gasoline engine, but gasoline range when needed -- the best of both worlds.