Microsoft cofounder drops patent bomb on Apple, Google, Facebook
Only about 40% of Congress are lawyers. With the House at about 36% and the Senate at 54%. More than enough but not "almost entirely comprised of lawyers".
View ArticleApple Wants to Remove "Pod" From English Language
I think you will find differently. I have an Inside Line on this. Apple's offense will be very simple: They had originally been involved, suggesting Adam name the Apple (fruit) when God asked Adam what...
View ArticleAs USPTO evaluates Bilski, Red Hat says end software patents
Yeah, no room for those types. There'll be a form to fill out before a visitor's visa will be issued, which should filter out most of the emotionally defective types <grin>
View ArticleRollover image on your website? That will be $80,000 (please)
Rollover image on your website? That will be $80,000 (please) By Matthew Lasar, Ars Technica October 14, 2010 "Dear website owner, congratulations on your excellent site, which includes features...
View ArticleRambus? I thought they were dead?
Rambus reminds me of the annoying kid on the block no one can stand but everyone sort of tolerates. Usually it's because they have a few cool toys. Every so often people play with them but the rest of...
View ArticleJudge In Limewire Case
For a billion dollars, they should be willing to do a LITTLE work. Or are they expecting someone to just hand them a $Billion? No, don't answer. That was a rhetorical question.
View ArticleNet neutrality fight: GOP wields garlic against FCC "vampires"
They're going to screw this up. I'm sure of it. I can feel it.
View ArticleInfamous antipiracy lawyer gives up, abandons P2P cases
They are, if they are self-righteous prigs.
View ArticleHow many Internet pirates are there, anyway?
::::Walks around Underground Lair singing::::: Yo ho yo ho, a pirate's life for me... Drink up me hearties yo ho! :-P
View ArticlePatently Ridiculous
One of Mark Twain's comments re pigs and politicians (with my apologies to the pigs): "Never wrestle in the mud with a pig. You will only get covered with stinking muck and the pig will enjoy it."
View ArticleBest Buy tries to do Apple act with "Geek"
She's still in jail after 4 days in the hospital, this was 5 months ago, pretty sad, she lives one block over and planted her drunk ass in our drive not hers. Just glad it was our car she hit not the...
View ArticleCourts impale SCO zombie
"Finally, a stake through the heart, buried at crossroads, during a full moon". I might normally say "finally, thank God". But just you wait and see. <g> Just like those horror films, where you...
View ArticleGood News—SCOTUS Sez 'Downloads Not Performances'
See: SCOTUS lets stand ruling that downloads are not performances You can all cut back your Prozac doses by half. <g>
View ArticleBad News—U.S. signs ACTA
G'Dayquote: So I take it that you don't have wines like our "Two Buck Chuck," which sells for just a fuzz less than $3 a bottle?Yeah, we have those as well, but I doubt any of them are exported - the...
View ArticleISP's can't be forced to play copyright cop
2008 to 2012. Bosh, In the U.S. we drag it on much longer. Lawyers need to get paid. (grin, smile, shudder)
View ArticleSCO keeps dying, and dying, and dying
quote: I think somebody forgot the burial at crossroads on a moonless night (or is it full moon?). They also forgot the garlic.
View ArticleThe Patent Conspiracy
quote: How many patents does Microsoft, Apple, GE, 3M, Sony, Verizon or any big ass Corporation have? Don't you think that the number of patents a company holds is a factor of how many people they...
View ArticleApple trademarks design of its retail stores
If "Apple" an patent a store, maybe I should patent "nose picking", the left hand method, using only the index finger, or pinky finger. The "descriptions" would be long and involved. If that doesn't...
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