But you can bet your bottom dollar that those gestures are being patented right now... "A method of unlocking a door based on gesture recognition", "A method of xxxxxxx using gesture recognition"
The real patentable thing here is the multi-frequency touch sensor itself... the uses that spring from it should not be patentable...
What rights... for starters the border areas are constitution free zones... and secondly the constitution has been suspended since 1933 after FDR took emergency powers. Those emergency powers have not been rescinded and the constitution is still in abeyance. google it, it's true...
I posted a youtube link that was on topic to someone elses youtube link on their status update and I got hit with a captcha challenge to prove I was human...
A real threat to the US is Type II Diabetes. North Korean missile attacks are science fiction. So why are they spending money on the wrong one?
if there were any real thinking being applied, the search would be on for a cure for this condition... instead, big pharma merely seem to be content with controlling the condition with medication/insulin... there's no real money in a cure... tw@ts...
PS. I'm a bit jaded about this as I've just been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes... and just setting off on the wonderful world of endless tests and regimens to control it
idiots... all software patents should be void as they're just mathematical algorythms when it gets down to it... your stupid patents office should be disbanded for the harm they've caused by allowing both software and method patents...
Also, the safeguard offered to depersonalize the data isn't worth the paper it's signed on... it's electronic info... and as we all know here, it's very easy to make copies of it. The Three Letter Agencies will be having wet dreams over this data and will insist on handling it themselves, thus being able to preserve the personal data in their own databases.
The patent in question should never have been issued in the first place... Software should NOT be patentable subject matter as it is purely mathematical expressions and statements.
not only is it open... the fools haven't prevented directory crawling either... there's scads of pdfs in that directory... but then again, there's an actual index of them all with some clues of their contents here
The US has a tolerable record of not threatening, taunting, and insulting other countries.
Come off it... you lot just invade them on false pretences instead... and if you can't get away with it, you force loans upon them with provisos that the money be spent on things sourced from USA and paid back at rip off rates and also leverage the loans to get preferential treatment... google "confessions of an economic hitman", watch the video and marvel at just what dirty tricks are being carried out behind your backs...
the ONLY touch screen patents I'd consider valid are purely those on how to make a touch screen... anything that involves gestures and other Apple bullcarp should NOT be valid as they are pure software and should NOT be patentable... adding "with a touchscreen" should NOT be grounds for a patent being granted...
to put it plainly... I'm fscking p1ssed off with you Yanks and your stupid software patents... I'm waiting for someone to come up with the cajones to actually get software patents per se outlawed and all revoked... currently, all the software patent litigation going on is NOT attacking the root problem... they're all pussyfooting around trying to invalidate patents on technicalities or else get non-infringement judgements...
This would be because they all want to keep their existing software patents in reserve for use in litigation and/or cross-licensing deals...
yup... you're not allowed to kill them, or cause them to commit suicide... this is why Foxxcon installed anti-suicide nets... it doesn't really stop them from killing themselves, but they're not doing it on company property so it doesn't count against the company
yup... just look at how much trouble SCO were able to cause (and still do) when they did a strategic Chapter 11 4 1/2 years ago when they lost a lawsuit...
Blowing MOD points here, but yes... there's NO way someone should be deprived of liberty without having been found guilty by a jury of his peers... this legislation introduced by the previous establishment is disgracefull... yet I don't see the current one making any steps to repeal it... apparently it's just too handy for them as it is now...
In Europe they are outlawed... rather than do the right thing and insist on a minimum efficiency standard, they just banned the higher wattage incandescents first and basically rammed CFLs down our throats... I strongly suspect some kickbacks from the CFL manufacturers helped this... Same thing happened with catalytic convertors for autos... the technology was mandated rather than a standard set for emissions that could be met by any tech that could get there... again, someone with connections had positioned themselves to corner the market for Platinum... Catalytic convertors are useless for most short journeys as they haven't got up to operating temperature by the time the journey is completed...
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The real patentable thing here is the multi-frequency touch sensor itself... the uses that spring from it should not be patentable...
What rights... for starters the border areas are constitution free zones... and secondly the constitution has been suspended since 1933 after FDR took emergency powers. Those emergency powers have not been rescinded and the constitution is still in abeyance. google it, it's true...
I posted a youtube link that was on topic to someone elses youtube link on their status update and I got hit with a captcha challenge to prove I was human...
if there were any real thinking being applied, the search would be on for a cure for this condition... instead, big pharma merely seem to be content with controlling the condition with medication/insulin... there's no real money in a cure... tw@ts...
PS. I'm a bit jaded about this as I've just been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes... and just setting off on the wonderful world of endless tests and regimens to control it
UK, they bring the portable reader to you for you to enter the PIN to authorise the transaction... manual swiping is very rare...
and it stops them from being bought up by Google or else growing into a competitor to Facebook...
WTF... you've been defeated from within... one day the real truth about 911 will get out and you will be howling with rage...
Siri is a function of the iPhone, Google is merely a web page... the comparable thing to Siri is Evi etc. on Android phones, not a web page...
idiots... all software patents should be void as they're just mathematical algorythms when it gets down to it... your stupid patents office should be disbanded for the harm they've caused by allowing both software and method patents...
they're being given to us instead...
Not just those going to/from USA...
Also, the safeguard offered to depersonalize the data isn't worth the paper it's signed on... it's electronic info... and as we all know here, it's very easy to make copies of it. The Three Letter Agencies will be having wet dreams over this data and will insist on handling it themselves, thus being able to preserve the personal data in their own databases.
The patent in question should never have been issued in the first place... Software should NOT be patentable subject matter as it is purely mathematical expressions and statements.
not only is it open... the fools haven't prevented directory crawling either... there's scads of pdfs in that directory... but then again, there's an actual index of them all with some clues of their contents here
Come off it... you lot just invade them on false pretences instead... and if you can't get away with it, you force loans upon them with provisos that the money be spent on things sourced from USA and paid back at rip off rates and also leverage the loans to get preferential treatment... google "confessions of an economic hitman", watch the video and marvel at just what dirty tricks are being carried out behind your backs...
to put it plainly... I'm fscking p1ssed off with you Yanks and your stupid software patents... I'm waiting for someone to come up with the cajones to actually get software patents per se outlawed and all revoked... currently, all the software patent litigation going on is NOT attacking the root problem... they're all pussyfooting around trying to invalidate patents on technicalities or else get non-infringement judgements...
This would be because they all want to keep their existing software patents in reserve for use in litigation and/or cross-licensing deals...
yup... you're not allowed to kill them, or cause them to commit suicide... this is why Foxxcon installed anti-suicide nets... it doesn't really stop them from killing themselves, but they're not doing it on company property so it doesn't count against the company
yup... just look at how much trouble SCO were able to cause (and still do) when they did a strategic Chapter 11 4 1/2 years ago when they lost a lawsuit...
Blowing MOD points here, but yes... there's NO way someone should be deprived of liberty without having been found guilty by a jury of his peers... this legislation introduced by the previous establishment is disgracefull... yet I don't see the current one making any steps to repeal it... apparently it's just too handy for them as it is now...
One does not simply walk into Mordor...
there was a "The Lord Of The Rings" movie done before then, 1978 it was released... was filmed, but rotoscoped to look like animation...
I can concur that brasero does indeed burn DVDs on the fly... and very well indeed I might say so... :)
like the small one in Gloucester did last year... not only did they lose track of where it was, when they finally restarted it back on the correct path, it cut through a major telephone cable that hadn't been correctly identified on the maps they based the route on... (oh for heck's sake, my google fu is poor this afternoon... it was a major local news topic about it being lost, yet I can't find any of the articles now...)
by simply using false numberplates that match an insured vehicle...
In Europe they are outlawed... rather than do the right thing and insist on a minimum efficiency standard, they just banned the higher wattage incandescents first and basically rammed CFLs down our throats... I strongly suspect some kickbacks from the CFL manufacturers helped this... Same thing happened with catalytic convertors for autos... the technology was mandated rather than a standard set for emissions that could be met by any tech that could get there... again, someone with connections had positioned themselves to corner the market for Platinum... Catalytic convertors are useless for most short journeys as they haven't got up to operating temperature by the time the journey is completed...