Maybe they should put a clause in patents which effectively says "do something with the idea in this timespace or have the patent nullified". That would stop idiots from wasting money patenting ideas that they aren't going to use and it would probably help industry in general, rather than just the computing sector. It should also be required that they make patented concepts more exact - ie (No pun intended;) give a specific potential use and implementation of the idea rather than just the idea.
Just make them stackable. I've got a pair of speakers which runs of my box's power supply the way a monitor would normally do, 'cept it has a port in the back identical to the one on the back of my box. Its not difficult to do.
However the younger generations are getting progressively bad at letter writing and we all know how important it is to be able to do that in the e-mail age. Come to think of it, thats all Clippy ever asks... *Starts guitar tab*
Would you like help writing a letter? *Starts perl script*
Would you like help writing a letter? *Clicks "Hide Assistant"*
You sure look like you need help writing a letter... *Clicks power switch and starts searching for a pencil*
Because that results in bloatware. Does everyone want the Microsoft Personal Webserver, the Character Map, Clipboard viewer and... o_0... MSN explorer... *Is off to clear his so called OS components*
[/Offtopic Anti-MS rant]
According to Title 35, Part 2, Chapter 10, then yes: A person shall be entitled to a patent unless - (a)the invention was known or used by others in this country, or patented or described in a printed publication in this or a foreign country, before the invention thereof by the applicant for patent
And, if we are going to madly overgeneralize, why not offer up the credit card itself as a prior art? Its credit card sized, it stores credit card data...
"Judge Jensen's ruling essentially centred on argument that the term 'credit card-sized', when applied to electronic devices, was intended to be generic rather than to refer specifically to the industry standard length, breadth and thickness of a credit card."
The above quote totally backs that idea up. How can you be any less generic than to state a specific size of a common object which cannot vary in size? Either this judge is completely daft our he's never tried to put a PDA through a credit-card reader o_0
Ok, I may be falling into a trolling trap, but take a look at the 4th amendment:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures
How is it unreasonable to search the computer/network of an individual who is suspected it of nearly bringing the windows community to its knees? If you didn't write any malware then you have nothing to hide - its not unreasonable to eliminate someone from a case by proving that they had no part in it is it?
That has been discussed before in various media and the general concensus seems to be that it may in fact be switching itself off to make way for a bigger virus with a bigger payload which in a sick way justifies the term "cyber terrorism". Of course, the chance is that this is just a date of significance chosen to make people forget about it quickly (using the UK government's idea that Sept11 was a good day to hide bad news).
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What do you mean "should the microsoft-backed SCO lawsuit fail to destroy it?" >.
Maybe they should put a clause in patents which effectively says "do something with the idea in this timespace or have the patent nullified". That would stop idiots from wasting money patenting ideas that they aren't going to use and it would probably help industry in general, rather than just the computing sector. It should also be required that they make patented concepts more exact - ie (No pun intended ;) give a specific potential use and implementation of the idea rather than just the idea.
Just make them stackable. I've got a pair of speakers which runs of my box's power supply the way a monitor would normally do, 'cept it has a port in the back identical to the one on the back of my box. Its not difficult to do.
However the younger generations are getting progressively bad at letter writing and we all know how important it is to be able to do that in the e-mail age. Come to think of it, thats all Clippy ever asks...
*Starts guitar tab*
Would you like help writing a letter?
*Starts perl script*
Would you like help writing a letter?
*Clicks "Hide Assistant"*
You sure look like you need help writing a letter...
*Clicks power switch and starts searching for a pencil*
Perhaps the fact that you are posting on the same topic as you are trying to moderate? Thats clearly stated in the /. FAQ ;)
Why Maddox is better than your kids
The problem is most things just get straight to the killing o_0
Either that or it's immune system doesn't learn from its mistakes ;)
It is an offence to drive without insurance over here.
Then I have to say that we live in a horribly retarded nation o_0
If I have any friends that know what CSS is then I'll give them that URL ;)
So you couldn't figure out where the *block* button was then either? ;)
Bring on the lessons in hypertext! Maybe it will stop my "savvy" friends from using deprecated tags and trying to "compile" HTML in the VB6 IDE o_0
1. Potential nuking of dial-ups o_0 2. How does this help when we have all reached enlightenment and are running Jabber clients on *nix?
Because that results in bloatware. Does everyone want the Microsoft Personal Webserver, the Character Map, Clipboard viewer and... o_0 ... MSN explorer... *Is off to clear his so called OS components*
[/Offtopic Anti-MS rant]
Question: If slashdot can divert a significant amount of traffic to Microsoft's search engine, how long will it survive?
According to Title 35, Part 2, Chapter 10, then yes:
A person shall be entitled to a patent unless -
(a)the invention was known or used by others in this country, or patented or described in a printed publication in this or a foreign country, before the invention thereof by the applicant for patent
And, if we are going to madly overgeneralize, why not offer up the credit card itself as a prior art? Its credit card sized, it stores credit card data...
"Judge Jensen's ruling essentially centred on argument that the term 'credit card-sized', when applied to electronic devices, was intended to be generic rather than to refer specifically to the industry standard length, breadth and thickness of a credit card."
The above quote totally backs that idea up. How can you be any less generic than to state a specific size of a common object which cannot vary in size? Either this judge is completely daft our he's never tried to put a PDA through a credit-card reader o_0
Put it this way, if Monty python episodes are available, the slight will be /.ed in minutes ;)
How about a line of painkillers for Windows?
Some of us are already going cold turkey over the lack of our daily SCO story then I see *rollseyes*
So we need active X and scripting vulnerabilities? o_0
Ok, I may be falling into a trolling trap, but take a look at the 4th amendment: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures How is it unreasonable to search the computer/network of an individual who is suspected it of nearly bringing the windows community to its knees? If you didn't write any malware then you have nothing to hide - its not unreasonable to eliminate someone from a case by proving that they had no part in it is it?
That has been discussed before in various media and the general concensus seems to be that it may in fact be switching itself off to make way for a bigger virus with a bigger payload which in a sick way justifies the term "cyber terrorism". Of course, the chance is that this is just a date of significance chosen to make people forget about it quickly (using the UK government's idea that Sept11 was a good day to hide bad news).
Is the address of the NTP server hardcoded? ^_^