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by unavoidable 11y ago
Once again proving that there are very few new _ideas_ out there. It's all about better execution.
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by unavoidable 11y ago
But Wikipedia as an encyclopedic repository is never going to be a good venue for controversial topics. That's not the purpose of an encyclopedia. It's a terrible forum for a debate, and that's the way it will always be. This
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by unavoidable 11y ago
Wikipedia gets a worse rap than it really deserves. If you ignore most of the pedantic self-important editors/trolls on WP, it's actually a great experience to contribute. I write a lot of articles on Canadian/British law and
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by unavoidable 11y ago
This claim would probably also run into issues regarding patentable subject matter post-Alice v CLS Bank. It's almost completely abstract... edit: nevermind, it's a patent application and not an issued patent. HN Posters: Please s
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by unavoidable 11y ago
Kim Dotcom is "kicking it" about as well as Julian Assange is. It's not like he's hidden somewhere. The authorities know exactly who he is, where he is, how much he owns, and how to get it. They're just sorting out
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by unavoidable 11y ago
Anyone else think that OP is doing a disservice to his children, which he describes as eating mac and cheese?
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by unavoidable 12y ago
Ah, free-range parents. Or as we used to call them, parents.
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by unavoidable 12y ago
To be absolutely clear, it is a patent application and not yet a granted patent. Claims can still change, or not be allowed, etc.
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by unavoidable 12y ago
Law librarians have been complaining for years about the expense of the old paper systems, especially since the companies who produce them keep increasing the price for updates every year. Almost everyone I know now uses equivalent digital
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by unavoidable 12y ago
Apple I?
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by unavoidable 13y ago
Motorola was bleeding money when Google purchased them. Google can deduct the operating losses from their profits to reduce their tax burden. In addition, Motorola likely has many depreciating capital assets, and when the loss was booked by
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by unavoidable 13y ago
The PTO is supposed to (and its employees are trained to) disallow trademark claims that do not meet the criteria for obtaining a trademark (for example, due to the term being generic, or because of descriptiveness). So a company that sells
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by unavoidable 13y ago
Does the fact that it's a poorly designed language change the fact that it's a useful one?
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by unavoidable 13y ago
I am curious - how do you think that these large groups will be able to set bitcoin policy? Technologically, they don't have much influence over the algorithms or the distribution of bitcoins as a whole. What meaningful policy decision
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Judge Richard A. Posner on Patent Litigation(srr.com)
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by unavoidable 13y ago
I suppose you have to come at it from the mindset of those actually using Linux. That is, if it already exists and can be glued together using open tools (as opposed to having to code it yourself), it is "trivial", since it has al
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by unavoidable 13y ago
This is actually very common in industry, especially with respect to manufacturing processes. For example, let's say you have a (presumably valid) patent on an improved manufacturing method for a drug. Maybe it's a really efficien
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by unavoidable 13y ago
Except that the lawyer is a partner and partners aren't just "fired".
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by unavoidable 13y ago
And he's an engineer, to boot.
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by unavoidable 13y ago
The part about introns and exons is very important. Normal ("naturally occurring") DNA has a bunch of extra stuff that is not coded for proteins (introns) and that may not serve much useful function for therapeutic research but ar
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by unavoidable 13y ago
The guidelines are actually pretty clear and the Canadian Patent Office mostly follows those. You will generally not be able to get a patent for a piece of software per se, although it is not very hard to attach it to a physical process to
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by unavoidable 14y ago
The thinking process behind both are very similar indeed. At the core of both is true problem solving. You are given a set of constraints and facts, and you have to apply some set of rules (man made laws, or algorithms) in order to take the
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by unavoidable 14y ago
I think this misses the central idea in the essay - it's not that nerds are arrogant for thinking they are above social games (they're not), but that nerds are "nerds" because they prioritize the pursuit of knowledge over the pursuit of pop
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by unavoidable 14y ago
Of course, Steam users tend to be power users and early adopters who need the latest and greatest. It's also still somewhat surprising to see how low OSX is on that list. I guess the games on offer are still not very good.
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by unavoidable 14y ago
Yep. Contract law.
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by unavoidable 14y ago
It's very interesting to see the hacker community turn on Google so abruptly over the last year or so. Not sure why, but it seems to me that Google itself has not actually changed its business model much, though its perception has turned ra
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by unavoidable 14y ago
Smart watches can succeed because they have different use cases than phones. Do people look at their phones because there is a clock on it, or for some other reason? I am using a Pebble now and since I have gotten it I no longer look at my
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by unavoidable 14y ago
Once you get used to charging it, it's no longer a problem. People were annoyed when smartphones came out and they had to charge them every night instead of once a week or so.
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by unavoidable 14y ago
The way I see it, this is a net positive development rather than a negative. Will it have some effect on the margins where developers who would rather be paid might not contribute to open source projects anymore? Probably. But the idea of F
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by unavoidable 14y ago
First to file actually reduces amount and cost of litigation. It removes the need to prove that you invented something 'first', which invariably involves a lot of wrangling over when an invention was 'invented' and at what point something c

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