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Off Topic Thread
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, December 19 2012 @ 07:02 PM EST
If you post On Topic, we will make you defend rounded corners as a novel idea which is not obvious to a skilled practitioner of the art.

Ah, but rounded corners on a rectangle is a novel idea to at least one practitioner of the art... the art of approving patents no matter how trivial, that is.

John Macdonald

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"As long as it also means the end of Apple and Microsoft, I’m fine with that."
Authored by: kg on Wednesday, December 19 2012 @ 09:59 PM EST
Great satire article by Andy Borowitz in the New Yorker.

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denouement - Montrealers: no danger of being snatched by a royal eagle
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, December 20 2012 @ 01:24 AM EST
The “Go lden Eagle Snatches Kid” video, uploaded to YouTube on the evening of December 18, was made by Normand Archambault, Loïc Mireault and Félix Marquis-Poulin, students at Centre NAD, in the production simulation workshop class of the Bachelors degree in 3D Animation and Digital Design.
Chantal, Centre NAD

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Bankrupt Kodak sells off patents to investors for $525m
Authored by: tiger99 on Thursday, December 20 2012 @ 06:12 AM EST
BBC

Note that the bad guys are very much involved here:

Kodak said 12 intellectual property licensees led by Intellectual Ventures (IV) and RPX Corp bought the patents.
And:
Companies participating in the consortium buying the patents include Apple, Microsoft, Google, Samsung, Adobe, Facebook, Amazon, Shutterfly, BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion, Fujifilm, HTC and Huawei Technologies.
Kodak did not do very well:
The bids for the roughly 1,100 patents up for sale fell short of a $2.6bn target.
This will result in umpteen lawsuits:
The patent portfolios on sale include ways to let devices capture, process, edit and transmit images.
Would it not be a very appropriate time for the government to decide to ban software patents, before we have total patent Armageddon?

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Developer preview of Java SE 8 for ARM now available
Authored by: tiger99 on Thursday, December 20 2012 @ 07:36 AM EST
The H

Well, perhaps few of us here have a positive view of Oracle, but this runs on the Raspberry Pi, so it is probably quite important.

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This one is a lot more fun!
Authored by: tiger99 on Thursday, December 20 2012 @ 07:43 AM EST
For those of you who play games, that is. I rarely play games, but know from previous posts that many here do, and it was reported earlier that Steam were porting their platform to Linux. This is the next phase of that process.

Steam for Linux beta open for all

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Chumby developer building open source laptop
Authored by: tiger99 on Thursday, December 20 2012 @ 07:58 AM EST
The H

I think the project is the same one which was reported here earlier, but this article tells us a bit more about who he is. I had no idea that he was the same guy as the Chumby designer. This project is an order of magnitude bigger.

I like all the I/O on the board. What we need now is a larger than normal 3D printer (The RepRap could probably be stretched), so we can make out own laptop cases, styled the way we want. Obviously a Pixel Qi screen is a must, for a high end, individually customised, product.

I think that there is going to be scope for a new small-scale localised industry here. In many parts of the developed world there are small businesses who will custom-build things like furniture, so why not do the same with laptops? Many people will pay considerably extra just to get things the way they want, instead of how some mass-market designer envisaged.

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Syrup Rustlers Arrested
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, December 20 2012 @ 12:19 PM EST
Four thieves have been arrested in connection with a massive maple syrup heist. The heist took place at a Canadian warehouse and reportedly spanned almost a year.

The thieves were able to make off with about six billion pounds of syrup, which amounts to about $18 million in total market value.

Melissa Stusinski, The Inquisitr

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EU to charge Samsung
Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Thursday, December 20 2012 @ 12:32 PM EST
They say that Samsung broke some rules because they
sued Apple over patents.

This is some serious insanity if true.


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You are being MICROattacked, from various angles, in a SOFT manner.

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Method and System for Exposing Multi-Billion Dollar Patent Racketeering Scheme
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, December 20 2012 @ 01:59 PM EST
In the same way that no one has actually ever seen Keyser Söze, the ficticious Hungarian mafioso described in the film The Usual Suspects, few companies have been sued by Intellectual Ventures. But its agents, or in this case, shell corporations, are legendary. Everyone knows they are out there, but no one seems to know who they are.

That is because to the best of our knowledge, until now, there has been no publicly available list of Intellectual Ventures shell corporations, unless you count the USPTO assignment database, which contains millions of other records as well. In fact, in response to recent queries about their shell corporations, Intellectual Ventues stated, "Those interested in viewing granted patents and patent applications can search the USPTO's public database."

So that's what we did.

http://www.plainsite.org/articles/article.html?id=2

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National Strategy For Information Sharing And Safeguarding
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, December 20 2012 @ 02:44 PM EST
National Strategy For Information Sharing And Safeguarding PDF, whitehouse.gov

Comment at isc.sans.edu

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Android Phone as Toilet Remote
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, December 20 2012 @ 05:43 PM EST
The Register delights in its typical toilet humor
with this review of the latest Japanese hygeine technology .

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