Authored by: jplatt39 on Tuesday, November 27 2012 @ 03:31 PM EST |
I didn't expect to see this in Forbes
and CNBC gets called out (story from Cnet). [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: AntiFUD on Tuesday, November 27 2012 @ 03:32 PM EST |
Any transgressors will have to count the number of references to FM in the
HTC-Apple Stipulation Article, if that doesn't make said transgressor sick;
nothing will.
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IANAL - Free to Fight FUD - "to this very day"
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Authored by: UncleVom on Tuesday, November 27 2012 @ 04:30 PM EST |
I find it hard to control my disgust.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/11/27/siri_icon_design_patent/
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Authored by: charlie Turner on Tuesday, November 27 2012 @ 06:39 PM EST |
Anyone who posts on topic in this thread shall have their little fingers run in
the pencil sharpener until they get the point of this thread. (?)[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, November 28 2012 @ 02:14 AM EST |
http://mashable.com/2012/11/27/curiosity-rover-discovery-npr/ [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, November 28 2012 @ 02:25 AM EST |
ABSTRACT
One explanation advanced
for the persistent gender pay differences in labor markets is that women
avoid
salary negotiations. By using a natural field experiment that randomizes nearly
2,500 job-seekers
into jobs that vary important details of the labor contract,
we are able to observe both the nature of
sorting and the extent of salary
negotiations. We observe interesting data patterns. For example, we
find that
when there is no explicit statement that wages are negotiable, men are more
likely to negotiate
than women. However, when we explicitly mention the
possibility that wages are negotiable, this difference
disappears, and even
tends to reverse. In terms of sorting, we find that men in contrast to women
prefer
job environments where the ‘rules of wage determination’ are ambiguous.
This leads to the gender
gap being much more pronounced in jobs that leave
negotiation of wage ambiguous.
Andreas Leibbrandt, Monash
University
John A. List, University of Chicago
.PDF
FieldExperiments.com [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, November 28 2012 @ 04:08 AM EST |
Link
Wonder who the next software patent
friendly appointee will be [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, November 28 2012 @ 10:24 AM EST |
link
Wayne
http://madhatter.ca
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Authored by: Gringo_ on Wednesday, November 28 2012 @ 10:59 AM EST |
Nokia has asked
courts in the US, UK and Canada to block
sales of rival Blackberry
smartphones.
Nokia/Microsoft can't compete in the market on merit,
so
they will use patents to kick RIM in the teeth while they
are down, hoping
for a fatal blow. Nokia/Microsoft believe
they can force us to use their crappy
products if they
manage to restrict our choice by knocking out the
competition, but this only strengthens my resolve to never
buy their
devices. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: FreeChief on Wednesday, November 28 2012 @ 12:00 PM EST |
I suppose most of you already know this, but I just followed some links and
discovered that I had a misconception, I think. Or maybe I should call it a
misnomer.
Timothy B.
Lee
covers tech policy for Ars, with a particular focus on patent and
copyright law, privacy, free speech, and open government.
Tim Berners-Lee
aka:
Sir Timothy John "Tim" Berners-Lee, OM, KBE, FRS, FREng, FRSA, also known as
"TimBL", is a British computer scientist and the inventor of the World Wide
Web.
These are not the same person, even though they both frequently appear
in Groklaw articles and newspicks.
— Programmer in
Chief
PS: Some people call misconceptions "misnomers" this is a misnomer.
Some people think that misnomers really are misconceptions, this is a
misconception.
PPS: There are also misspellings. I took about six out of
this message before I posted it, and apologize for any that remain. (There is
one "P" in apologize, I looked it up and removed one. Two "S"s in
"misspelling", obviously, but I got paranoid and looked it up anyway.)
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Authored by: ByteJuggler on Wednesday, November 28 2012 @ 12:18 PM EST |
Very well put. This is one aspect of what frustrates me (nay, infuriates me)
about most if not all software patents, the triviality of most of them: That the
things being patented generally are not really novel and are in fact nearly
trivial, as put here, "five-minute propositions" for any semi
competent programmer. As programmers we're in the business of coming up with
problems, solutions to sometimes really simple and sometims really complicated
problems and/or situations. To then see some small aspects of some of the
problems one is expected to solve as a matter of course as a programmer (think
bounce back patent, I mean, really???) be patented and fought over for millions
and billions of dollars is galling and infuriating in the extreme. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Wednesday, November 28 2012 @ 01:07 PM EST |
Two tools will do the trick.
ClassicShell and Metro UI Switcher.
Highly recommended if you have to use win8.
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You are being MICROattacked, from various angles, in a SOFT manner.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Gringo_ on Wednesday, November 28 2012 @ 01:38 PM EST |
Apple has managed to get a
ban on Samsung Galaxy products running
Android 2.2.1 to 2.3.7 - the Galaxy
S, SII and Ace - in the
Netherlands because of what Kappos, Director of USPTO
would
call Apple's "breakthrough technologies" which are "a form
of innovation
currency", "ecosystem enablers", "job
creators" "pro-consumer solutions",
"innovation protected by
software patents".
Specifically, we would know
it as the "bounce patent".
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, November 28 2012 @ 03:07 PM EST |
They cry crocodilian tears == HAVE YOU BEEN SCOGGLED?
Remember BALL MER loves U!! Click for love
SCROOGLED ALERT:
"But we believe the issue of advertising causes enough
mixed incentives that it is crucial to have a competitive search engine that is
transparent and in the academic realm."
—Google Founders Sergey Brin and Larry
Page
SCROOGLED ALERT:
"Since it is very difficult even for experts to evaluate
search engines, search engine bias is particularly insidious."
—Google Founders
Sergey Brin and Larry Page
I may have been SCROOGLED.
But Never BINGed yet. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, November 28 2012 @ 07:13 PM EST |
The Hon. Mr Justice Arnold in Chancery declares a square tile with a letter and
a
number engraved thereon is too vague to
qualify for a
Trade Mark . Thanks to
The
IPKat
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