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by throwawaykf02 13y ago
There was some credible speculation back then that Google bought up Mototorola because its CEO threatened patent warfare with other Android manufacturers, something Google really did not want happening. Along similar lines, I speculate th
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by throwawaykf02 13y ago
> I'm be curious if anyone can even name any "pure R&D" software companies that don't ship products, yet created meaningful advancements. There are many examples (in addition to ARM) -- just think "research
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by throwawaykf02 13y ago
It's not really double protection, because patents and copyright cover different things. Copyright only protects the exact expression of what some software does. Patents cover the functionality of that software. In fact, since softwa
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by throwawaykf02 13y ago
He disclosed his relationship with Oracle four months before the judge asked both companies to "name their shills" [1,2]. It was a highly unusual and controversial order [3], so it's not like Mueller, or indeed anybody, could
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by throwawaykf02 13y ago
"People die everyday in car accidents and safety is an illusion, so let's stop wearing seatbelts. Safety is not worth the indignity of driving around trussed up like a turkey." BTW, the government and the courts agree that wa
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by throwawaykf02 13y ago
While it's true that the independent claims try to be as broad as possible and dependent claims narrow them down, each claim is still evaluated -- and must be valid -- on an individual basis. And if infringement of a patent is to be de
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by throwawaykf02 13y ago
And the most important comment on that thread, which is unfortunately not at the top: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6249933
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by throwawaykf02 13y ago
You went wrong the moment you used the term "surveillance state". Before, we had no numbers, so that phrase might have been justified. But now we do: The declassified court document seems to say there were about a dozen million &q
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by throwawaykf02 13y ago
No. As long as people keep using the same online communications to plan inflicting harm on society as society does to exchange pictures of grandkids and recipes, those communications will keep being monitored, and thus we can have no expect
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by throwawaykf02 13y ago
I looked through that wikipedia article as well as citations and related articles, but I can't see any logical connection between freedom of speech and right to privacy. Even though the passage mentions both in adjacent sentences, ther
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by throwawaykf02 13y ago
If you read the claims in Apples rubber banding patent, they specifically include "displaying an area beyond the edge of the document" (in iOS, the gray linen background) when you over scroll. Thus, instead of jarringly stopping a
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by throwawaykf02 13y ago
Hasn't "Freedom of Speech" always been about public speech? You alluded to it yourself when you said "freedom or the press". I don't see what invasion of privacy has to do with freedom of speech as the consti
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by throwawaykf02 13y ago
Too late. Windows Phone uses similar "stretchiness" (but less cutesy) to indicate over-scroll. It cleverly presents an effect comparable to the rubber banding in iOS without, as far as I can tell, infringing Apple's patent. A
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by throwawaykf02 13y ago
> I hope HN doesn't have Slashdot levels of ignorance concerning Windows. Only Windows? HN also has Slashdot levels of ignorance concerning the legal system, patents, copyright, and the music industry, and these are only the topic
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by throwawaykf02 13y ago
I haven't even read TFA but I can bet you this: the felons would be those uploading the streams, not those downloading. How do I know this? Because copyright law targets, and always has targeted, those distributing copyrighted material
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by throwawaykf02 13y ago
> We know that the Eastern District of Texas handles a lot of patent troll cases because they happen to have the most favorable judges. Wrong, if you believe Mark Lemley [1, 2]. Apparently the plaintiff friendly days at EDT, if there e
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by throwawaykf02 13y ago
A Google recruiter, while doing his spiel, told me in a light-hearted, offhand manner that some engineers call it "120% time". Having lurked here long enough and read similar sentiments from ex- and current google employees, it wa
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by throwawaykf02 13y ago
Sorry for the late response, very infrequent logger-in: 1. No, we really don't know IV was behind Oasis. I am guessing you assume this because NPR reported IV gets 90% of profits. But note how they did not prove or even outright state
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by throwawaykf02 13y ago
In this context: At the point where one begins to be much, much more likely to be misplaced than the other.
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by throwawaykf02 13y ago
Agreed. I suspect there's no significant relationship at all. As another comment mentions, Lodsys used to have this page on their website, now only found on archive.org: http://web.archive.org/web/20110618140937&#x
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by throwawaykf02 13y ago
Real terrorists have already been using that for a long time. (For instance, remember those media blurbs about lots of porn being found in the raid on bin Laden?) As such I'd bet they have infrastructure in place to detect such communi
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by throwawaykf02 13y ago
> Sure, some people who refer to themselves as "sovereign individuals" have done things that would be considered terrorism... You mean like extremists ? Seems like you're agreeing with the bit that you love.
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by throwawaykf02 13y ago
Wait, so assuming any reasonable ratio of Surface to Surface Pro sales, they still sold more than a million devices? That's... more than I expected. Still far short of the "few million" they expected to sell, but a million se
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by throwawaykf02 13y ago
I'm loath to take this on faith without better description of the dataset. 150 companies sounds impressive, but, where are they based? What areas do they work in? How long have they been doing it? Have other factors, such as the health
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by throwawaykf02 13y ago
Step-by-step beginner's guide to determining the scope of patents: 1. Read the claims. :-)
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by throwawaykf02 13y ago
Fact is, in India, the poor are already oppressed, just nobody realizes it. They have no real rights, they have no food and they have no prospects. The only thing they have is votes, which are a sham, because they are given away willingly
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by throwawaykf02 13y ago
To give fuller context: Oliver Evans, one of America's earliest prolific inventors, wrote to Jefferson [1] discussing the extent of his patent rights and his concern that they were being misrepresented anonymously [2]. This quote is fr
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by throwawaykf02 13y ago
Actually, he did become quite a convert on the topic of patents. See my comment above to see his change in perspective in a letter dated a scant year after the one you cited: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6118931
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by throwawaykf02 13y ago
This, as with the patent comment, takes quotes out of context. The specific context relevant here is that while Jefferson was initially skeptical of patents, after only two months of being one of the first patent examiners, he became a fi
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by throwawaykf02 13y ago
Patents do not restrict rescues for research purposes, true. That is the one widely acknowledged exception to infringing use. That is why you can study an invention and then patent an improvement or novel enough variations thereof. But dist

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