>>I bet I could make big bucks just going to people's homes and carrying out basic upgrading and patching activities. $50/hr for running Windows Update, Ad-Aware and AVG, here I come...
My old landlord did that for a living. He charged $20/hour ($25 for the first half hour) though.
He wasn't very good at what he did, but it's not that hard to reinstall windows and put AVG on over and over again.
Patent laws apply to processes right? That's how they're able to apply to that stupid "one click" thing.
So how about applying for a patent towards various processes that various government beurocracies use? That way massive lawsuites could be launched against the government ordering them to cease and desist from using them, and causing the governments to run into huge problems. So the politicians will alter the patent laws, and thus many if not all of the software patents would become invalid.
Sure a valid patent even under the current rules couldn't exist, but there are plenty of invalid patents being given all the time. So all it would take is several filings of various properly obfuscated patents to get one of these.
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At how high up in the atmosphere? I'd be much more worried about the fuel on a commercial airliner.
>>I bet I could make big bucks just going to people's homes and carrying out basic upgrading and patching activities. $50/hr for running Windows Update, Ad-Aware and AVG, here I come... My old landlord did that for a living. He charged $20/hour ($25 for the first half hour) though. He wasn't very good at what he did, but it's not that hard to reinstall windows and put AVG on over and over again.
Patent laws apply to processes right? That's how they're able to apply to that stupid "one click" thing. So how about applying for a patent towards various processes that various government beurocracies use? That way massive lawsuites could be launched against the government ordering them to cease and desist from using them, and causing the governments to run into huge problems. So the politicians will alter the patent laws, and thus many if not all of the software patents would become invalid. Sure a valid patent even under the current rules couldn't exist, but there are plenty of invalid patents being given all the time. So all it would take is several filings of various properly obfuscated patents to get one of these.