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- Will you be victimized by a patent terrorist?
- Although he doesn't come right out and say it, Richard Wilder, who is a partner with law firm Sidley Austin Brown & Wood and is also an intellectual-property counsel for the Association for Competitive Technology has labeled SCO as a "patent terrorist." Wilder's definition of a patent terrorists is...
- Tags: patent terrorist, Richard Wilder
- Blog posts 2005-01-06
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- Google makes waves and may have solved the data center conundrum
- Google makes waves and may have solved the data center conundrumEasy Terrorism Target?As we rely more and more on the Net, who will defend these floating farms in a no jurisdiction, no taxes, etc, area?Any protection from pirates and terrorist?Firstly, I think this google 'solution' is cool. However as my...
- Tags: Data centers, Storage, Google Makes, Google Inc., data center
- Discussion threads 2008-09-08
- Senate panel backs development of super V-chip
- Senate panel backs development of super V-chipRegulation of the airwaves is the reason for a Federal GovernmentLets not sell any air waives to multi-national corporations. Take for example the universal access possible by air waives currently dedicated to TV channels 60 through 68. That air is about to be sold...
- Tags: Federal government, TV & Home Theater, TVs, Cellular phones, V-chip, Clipper Chip, U.S. Senate
- Discussion threads 2007-08-03
- New ooma service works with standard home phones
- New ooma service works with standard home phonesI don't get it... someone help me understand this..How would this be a benefit to someone like me?The call is routed through another person's land line? is that the deal?Okay... so I share a landline with other people sharing their landline. ...
- Tags: Telephony, VOIP, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, SECURITY, service work, home phone
- Discussion threads 2007-07-19
- Linux leaders plot counterattack on Microsoft
- Linux leaders plot counterattack on MicrosoftLinux leaders plot counterattack on MicrosoftLOL! Microsoft has the whole linux movement running scared now. That's power! There leaders are so scared they have to resort to plot an attack. Its too bad they are wasting their time with such nonsense. ...
- Tags: UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., Linux, Linux Leaders Plot Counterattack
- Discussion threads 2007-06-14
- News to know: Yahoo Photos out; Google vs. Sharepoint; Microsoft patches coming
- Notable headlines: TechCrunch: Yahoo To Shut Down Yahoo Photos In Favor Of Flickr. Dan Farber: Yahoo Photos out, Flickr in, Flickr video coming soon.NewTeeVee: YouTube starts paying star users. Dan Farber and Donna Bogatin on YouTubeMatthew Miller: T-Mobile offers free Windows Mobile 6 upgrade to Dash owners. Gallery left.David Berlind:...
- Tags: General
- Blog posts 2007-05-04
- Supreme Court sides with Microsoft in patent spat
- Supreme Court sides with Microsoft in patent spatEC Looks at Breaking Up Microsofthttp://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/djf500/200704231401DOWJONESDJONLINE000574_FORTUNE5.htmThe Supreme Court is giving LOUD signals that they intend to limit patentsAnd this is VERY good news! Their will likely be more challenges to overreaching IP claims and this court appears prepared to pare them down...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Corp., software
- Discussion threads 2007-04-30
- Black Hat RFID hacking demo threatened
- Black Hat RFID hacking demo threatenedSecurity through obscurity never works...They should have learned that by now one would hope. It doesnt matter if he talks about it or not, there are lots of people who already know it's weakness and how to profit by them !!!!!Call me confusedI don't get...
- Tags: SECURITY, RFID, Carroll, hacking, Black Hat
- Discussion threads 2007-02-27
- MS anti-piracy tools phone home, raising consent, disclosure and security questions
- MS anti-piracy tools phone home, raising consent, disclosure and security questionsGood thing.....I use Linux.Aren't you Windows people tired of all of the abuse yet?http://en.opensuse.org/Welcome_to_openSUSE.orgIntrusion is the QuestionI am not surprised that the O/S has been modified to report back daily...but frankly, what doesn't sound logical or rational is this:If Microsoft...
- Tags: Government, PRODUCTIVITY, Vertical industries, Operating systems, tool, intrusion, Microsoft Corp., O/S, MICROSOFT HAS, security, phone
- Discussion threads 2006-06-08
- What port security, patents, and out-sourcing have in common
- In March of 2000 "Patently Absurd", an article by James Glieck, appeared in the New York Times Magazine. Here's part of his description of the original rationale for the patent system: Patents long served as a fundamental cog in the American machine, cherished in our national...
- Tags: inventor
- Blog posts 2006-03-03
- Government Web sites follow visitors' movements
- Government Web sites follow visitors' movementsAw, heck:"There are no cookies being placed either on the Web site, from the White House or from WebTrends."Shucks, why do we need these silly cookies on the web site? Dubya just jingles the fellas over at the NSA and they can have a...
- Tags: Web site development, Web technology, cooky, Web site
- Discussion threads 2006-01-05
- A blood test to detect anxiety
- According to IsraCast, a team of Israeli scientists has discovered a very innovative way to detect people suffering from anxiety disorders but who appear to be healthy. A simple blood test will reveal if you're unable to handle stress and if you need a medical treatment without the need for...
- Tags: anxiety, ACh
- Blog posts 2005-10-12
- Crave privacy? New tech knocks out digital cameras
- Crave privacy? New tech knocks out digital camerasWild Weasel mission for digital cameras?Camera jamming technology will likely result in anti-jamming technology. It's spy vs spy in a digital camera smack down!The terrorists will love this technology.Yes, just what we need : a system for countering surveillance at airports and...
- Tags: camera, digital camera
- Discussion threads 2005-09-19
- Homeland Security calls for tech industry involvement
- Homeland Security calls for tech industry involvementCould that be becausethere is no credible threat to us!? Naw, not possible. Homeland security is a nothing more than smoke and mirrors to buffalo the free people into giving up thier freedoms. To allow themselves to be tagged and tracked at will.Did homeland...
- Tags: Stealing Idea, homeland security, activist, security
- Discussion threads 2005-08-01
- Bush budget boosts tech spending
- Bush budget boosts tech spendingIt's the end of the world"...Nasa would receive a budget increase, but not enough to save the Hubble Space Telescope...""..Bush has cited manned missions as a priority..""..defense comes at the expense of domestic social spending,..Education .. Agriculture...""..White House found millions of dollars in handouts to politically...
- Tags: flower, diplomacy
- Discussion threads 2005-02-07
- Chip designer notifies firms of possible patent suits
- Chip designer notifies firms of possible patent suitswe need a time limit to claim infingmentwaiting this long to make a claim should void the patent altogetherNT Today's business model: Don't innovate. Don't create. SUE!.Well, there ya go..."Revenue came to $3,384 in the quarter ending in February,...
- Tags: Semiconductors, patent, chip, crystal, Patents DO, Chip designer, utility patent
- Discussion threads 2004-04-23
- Firm invites experts to punch holes in ballot software
- Firm invites experts to punch holes in ballot softwareSo, they are releasing the source code .......... so that they can later sue any new comers?? I don't see any other reason why show the code without an Open Source type license.What happens after 60 days?When the source code license...
- Tags: E-voting, ballot, ballot software, VoteHere Inc.
- Discussion threads 2004-04-06
- SCO's next target? Pick from the list
- SCO's next target? Pick from the listis this journalism?Is UK full of children ranting all day long in public, because somebody took their free toy?LOL"the legal firm--sorry, software company"LOL. Even ZDNet is poking fun at SCO now :D.But, seriously, I'm more than willing to remove their code from my...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, SCO Group Inc., Computer Associates International Inc.
- Discussion threads 2004-03-04
- W3C risks patent tussle in standard push
- W3C risks patent tussle in standard pushgive it up Rutgers!i grew up and attended college in central Jersey. Rutgers is the state university of New Jersey but as for higher education, they are well below the standards of even the local junior college JC, (Middlesex County College [MCC]- Edison, NJ)....
- Tags: software development, patent, Rutgers, W3C
- Discussion threads 2004-02-19
- Microsoft snags XML-related patent
- Microsoft snags XML-related patentPatents are a MESSPatents are the only way I know of of creating something *original* and still getting slammed for it - just because you unknowingly came with the same idea somebody else did.IMHO, patents need to be revamped or thrown away. The original intent of...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., patent, XML
- Discussion threads 2004-02-12
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