I know what you meant. Believe me businesses will do anything and everything to protect their image with the shareholders. If someone were to leak this to the media, VISA, etc. and the company found out who it was, they'd have their lawyers, and the FBI pounding down that person's door. Go direct to jail, do not pass "go," do not collect $200.
The only way you could possibly approach this from a legal "high-ground" would be to have jurisdiction and sue for negligence.
Temporarily benefit/protect the innocents but send your a** straight to jail. You'll be fortunate if they don't try pasting the cyber-terrorist label on you and come at you with the full force of the Patriot Act.
If you "blow it up" you WILL risk very SEVERE consequences. There's no room for the good Samaritan outsider esp. where it concerns security. I'm not sure if there's a reasonable answer that will put a stop to their negligence but I would most definitely tread lightly.
And yet insight into the "good" side is neither shared nor explained. While I might have been being snarky in my comment on this occasion I have never really received an adequate/helpful answer just a bunch of snobbery.
No, they are location based perhaps, but this patent is for reminding you when you get "near" the grocery store, not after you've already arrived home...
If the nation's first patent officer, Thomas Jefferson, knew what his beloved system has been turned into, he'd have abandoned the idea entirely, I believe.
I know that's the argument given, but honestly? Who the hell is going to benefit from a technology invented 20 years ago that hasn't long since been worked around because of some stupid patent forcing everyone to come up with an alternative implementation? Further, when was the last time you came across a patent from which a technology could actually be reproduced? Patents aren't blueprints. They're legalese to trip up as many people as possible in hopes of either wining money or defending against loss from other companies using their patents offensively. All patents are doing is hindering innovation and raising consumer costs.
Actually this is rather like poker. They're just trying to bluff other companies into believing their defensive patent portfolio is stronger than it really is so they won't be sued.
Companies will not stop unless and until they are abolished outright. It's the classic "drop your gun", "no you drop yours" type scenario. Aside from the trolls, most everyone else is simply doing it because they won't be in business for long if they don't.
Ban the damn things outright. It was a stupid idea conceived in the time of the horse and buggy and enshrined by patriarchs I'd really like to b*tch slap for a great many things.
Sure. "turn right at the next light" from your car's nav device is a thing of the past. So are "you are here" with longitude-latitude coordinate display markers. Get with the times.
No damnit, round corners are NOT obvious! If it wasn't for Apples ingenuity we'd still be running around with sharp pokey things in our pockets. Genius I tell you, genius.
Unfortunately I don't think we can really blame these companies for these patents. This is simple yet another case of "doing it to them before they do it to us" mentality. Aside from the trolls, many of these companies filing and unfortunately receiving patents for things painfully obvious or otherwise aren't really leveraging them except when another company decides it would be a grand idea to break out their lawyers because they cannot compete on the merits of their product. In other words these are all ammunition being held in reserve in case of attack. We are merely witnessing a symptom of the disease know as patents.
No he just happened to graduate from Harvard with degrees in physics and applied mathematics. You folks do realize that there is a huge difference between a code monkey and an engineer or research scientist right?.
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I know what you meant. Believe me businesses will do anything and everything to protect their image with the shareholders. If someone were to leak this to the media, VISA, etc. and the company found out who it was, they'd have their lawyers, and the FBI pounding down that person's door. Go direct to jail, do not pass "go," do not collect $200.
The only way you could possibly approach this from a legal "high-ground" would be to have jurisdiction and sue for negligence.
Temporarily benefit/protect the innocents but send your a** straight to jail. You'll be fortunate if they don't try pasting the cyber-terrorist label on you and come at you with the full force of the Patriot Act.
No they won't.
If you "blow it up" you WILL risk very SEVERE consequences. There's no room for the good Samaritan outsider esp. where it concerns security. I'm not sure if there's a reasonable answer that will put a stop to their negligence but I would most definitely tread lightly.
And yet insight into the "good" side is neither shared nor explained. While I might have been being snarky in my comment on this occasion I have never really received an adequate/helpful answer just a bunch of snobbery.
Hmm. Modded down... I prove my point.
That's ok. According to Data...
That particular form of entertainment did not last much beyond the year Two Thousand Forty.
There's a "good" side to mac-like behavior?
I thought they were just looking for the "ANY" key...
Don't worry clarification is only 20 years away.
If the average junior higher is any indicator then no, it'd just look like "G3t m!|_I" instead.
No, they are location based perhaps, but this patent is for reminding you when you get "near" the grocery store, not after you've already arrived home...
Does your log cabin consist of round logs? If yes, then surely you must realize it is in violation of several patents.
If the nation's first patent officer, Thomas Jefferson, knew what his beloved system has been turned into, he'd have abandoned the idea entirely, I believe.
I and countless other wish he would have...
I know that's the argument given, but honestly? Who the hell is going to benefit from a technology invented 20 years ago that hasn't long since been worked around because of some stupid patent forcing everyone to come up with an alternative implementation? Further, when was the last time you came across a patent from which a technology could actually be reproduced? Patents aren't blueprints. They're legalese to trip up as many people as possible in hopes of either wining money or defending against loss from other companies using their patents offensively. All patents are doing is hindering innovation and raising consumer costs.
Actually this is rather like poker. They're just trying to bluff other companies into believing their defensive patent portfolio is stronger than it really is so they won't be sued.
Now add longitude and latitude to that so you can get two for the price of one.
That's alright, I just filed the "in a cloud version" of both Apple and Amazon's mobile patents...
Companies will not stop unless and until they are abolished outright. It's the classic "drop your gun", "no you drop yours" type scenario. Aside from the trolls, most everyone else is simply doing it because they won't be in business for long if they don't.
Ban the damn things outright. It was a stupid idea conceived in the time of the horse and buggy and enshrined by patriarchs I'd really like to b*tch slap for a great many things.
Sure. "turn right at the next light" from your car's nav device is a thing of the past. So are "you are here" with longitude-latitude coordinate display markers. Get with the times.
Lawyers will sell their own mothers into slavery if the price is right. That's why.
No damnit, round corners are NOT obvious! If it wasn't for Apples ingenuity we'd still be running around with sharp pokey things in our pockets. Genius I tell you, genius.
Unfortunately I don't think we can really blame these companies for these patents. This is simple yet another case of "doing it to them before they do it to us" mentality. Aside from the trolls, many of these companies filing and unfortunately receiving patents for things painfully obvious or otherwise aren't really leveraging them except when another company decides it would be a grand idea to break out their lawyers because they cannot compete on the merits of their product. In other words these are all ammunition being held in reserve in case of attack. We are merely witnessing a symptom of the disease know as patents.
No he just happened to graduate from Harvard with degrees in physics and applied mathematics. You folks do realize that there is a huge difference between a code monkey and an engineer or research scientist right?.