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by slapshot 14y ago
Because it would be nothing other than a subsidy for lawyers and a further drain on the court system. There are many thousands of disputes every day that are settled with informal settlement offers, and many hundreds that are settled with
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by slapshot 14y ago
Indeed. But it looks like the actual patent [1] was not for "digital television." It was for a particular means to do frame interpolation, error correction, and motion compression. And it was issued in 1996, when presumably those methods
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by slapshot 14y ago
Well, the GSM patents [1] are a series of patents on particular ways to send wireless signals between handsets and base stations. I'm pretty sure that wireless radio is the only way to send signals from a cell phone, but that hasn't invali
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by slapshot 14y ago
The machines and people sending the commands are on in the U.S. Even if they weren't, it doesn't make the patent invalid, it would just be a defense to infringement in this particular case.
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by slapshot 14y ago
Why? I don't mean that sarcastically. The patent is not on the existence of a particular trajectory, nor on a basic law of physics. It's a patent on a process to move a spacecraft from one orbit to another by firing rockets at precise tim
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by slapshot 14y ago
To be clear, this is a discussion of "net neutrality" in that the author alleges that Comcast is prioritizing (and not charging for) traffic for its Xbox streaming media application, which works like a Video-on-Demand service. Comcast clai
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Portland pounces on Groupon (at least for limo services)(weeklystandard.com)
2 points by slapshot 14y ago|1 comments
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by slapshot 14y ago
It is possible to live life at a higher standard than simply the minimum legal standard. In many communities, norms of attribution go well beyond what is required by the copyright law. For example, in academic writing, it is still conside
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Federal regulators want brake override systems in all cars(latimes.com)
2 points by slapshot 15y ago|0 comments
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by slapshot 15y ago
The lawsuit is mentioned in the title, but glossed over in the blog post. The blog post claims that the publishers are trying to "copyright facts." But the actual complaint ( http://docs.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/new-yor...
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by slapshot 15y ago
So far, I don't see the value proposition. People who don't like big banks use credit unions. Credit union deposits are insured to $250,000, so any risk created by lending is not borne by the consumer. There are plenty of credit unions t
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by slapshot 15y ago
> Is there a service where you can deposit money that doesn't increase a bank's power to lend? That's the most significant way banks make money. It costs money to have branches, tellers, and armed guards (let alone websites, security t
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by slapshot 15y ago
This solves half (and only half) of the problem that Uber is trying to solve. A feedback/rating system is fantastic if the consumer has choice. Unfortunately, the iPhone app does not have the ability to help consumers choose a taxi driver
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by slapshot 15y ago
Wikipedia quoted only the first paragraph of the opinion. The full thing is here: http://www.ca8.uscourts.gov/opndir/06/08/053295P.pdf
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by slapshot 15y ago
Previous discussion (before the reinstatement of the operation): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3184517 Most of the pro/con arguments are in there.
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by slapshot 15y ago
Looks like it's connected with the ad agency Evolution Bureau ("EVB") (clients: [1]), the same people who did the Office Depot-braded "Elf Yourself" sensation [2]. Why do I think it's EVB? This is the only other site on the same IP as mani
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by slapshot 15y ago
There is a doctrine in patent law called the "doctrine of equivalents." [1] In short, it limits the ways you can use obvious work-arounds. In practice, it's very complex because there are often good reasons why they specified an "increment
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by slapshot 15y ago
Be careful with using Wikipedia for law. If you follow to the original source[1], the "duty to rescue" law exists in most states as a duty to report rape and murder, not a duty to report car crashes. And the penalty in some states is as l
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by slapshot 15y ago
This looks like a longer rehash of Krugman on Bitcoin [1], until you realize that it was first published in August and was actually Krugman's inspiration. [1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2969568
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Why Inspirational Talks Don't Work(sfgate.com)
40 points by slapshot 15y ago|10 comments
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by slapshot 15y ago
> faster DeltaView has right-click integration; that will always be faster than opening a web browser, logging in, and transmitting files into the cloud. > easier to use It's a tie at best. See the right-click integration point, ab
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by slapshot 15y ago
For lawyers, how is this superior to software like Workshare Compare (formerly DeltaView) that runs on the desktop, integrates with Outlook and document management systems, and doesn't require sending legal docs to the cloud? DeltaView (an
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by slapshot 15y ago
Net income is negative, so it's another growth-plus-revenue deal, with the hope that the revenue line will cross above the expense line soon. Pricing is about 12 times 2010 revenue, with growth at 71% year-over-year growth from 2009 to 2010
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Zillow prices IPO at nearly $400mm valuation, to raise $55 million(venturebeat.com)
5 points by slapshot 15y ago|2 comments
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by slapshot 15y ago
This is perhaps an unintentional demonstration that "insecure against absurdly complex and specific attacks" does not always mean "insecure." For a web system that is under attack 24/7 from 255^4 different attack vectors, you need "secure a
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by slapshot 15y ago
> so any photography of any vaguely new buildings/structures is an infringement. (Sculptures have long been protected.) Give it another 50 years and it won't be possible to legally take a photograph outdoors in any location where humans
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by slapshot 15y ago
This is on revenue of $50 million in Q1 2011 (~$200 million annualized) [1] and a net operating loss. Revenue for Q1 2011 was almost as high as for all of 2010 ($55 million) [2], making this look like a growth bet. [1] http://www.adweek.c
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Pandora prices IPO at $16 ($2.6 bln valuation)(venturebeat.com)
3 points by slapshot 15y ago|1 comments
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by slapshot 15y ago
But would you have known the significance at the time? Google at 10 employees consisted of a handful of scraggly guys* typing on a computer all day, and a couple other scraggly guys talking on the phone all day to get deals done (hosting c
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by slapshot 15y ago
LA is no Silicon Valley, but there is more money floating around SoCal than you think. I assume you've checked in with the Tech Coast Angels ( http://www.techcoastangels.com/ ) and some of Frank Peters' contacts? There's also an event next

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