Posts by MrZoolook

Re: "....contact customer support for a replacement disc."

Indeed, you'd have thought they would recall the correctly labeled discs, and send out demo labeled replacements specifically to make reselling to a 2nd hand/trade ons dealer more difficult.

Re: Prior art

The patent examiner did exactly what he was paid to do... Rubber stamp Apple's application with no questions asked.

Re: Am I missing something here....

Quote: "or are they threatening to sue UK companies for something which would be in compliance with UK law?"

Worse, they are threatening it while hypocritically using their own laws to exempt themselves from international laws.

Re: They have "Greater Manchester Police branded memory stick"s?

Big difference between Joe Bloggs losing a stick with the AGM minutes or a corporate presentation on popular colours for cars, and the plod losing personally identifiable information on members of the public, which could include informants risking their lives to keep scum crims off the streets, and thus be used as a hit-list for drugs barons.

Re: "Hell, if they can get through the best security that tax dollars can buy... GIVE THEM ..."

"the best security that tax dollars can buy."

I wouldn't exactly call leaving the default password "the best security"... paid for or otherwise. Frankly, the fact I changed my systems password makes MY system more secure then theirs, and it didn't cost me a thing except 10 seconds of my time... They should be offering ME the job.

Re: How about the Reg doing the experiment under safe controlled cirumstances

Quote: "IMHO, the LASERs that are being shone at aeroplanes, and causing problems, are not the cheap five quid down the market types and more likely the few hundred quid types. There should probably be some sort of registry about the purchase of such devices."

You mean like a firearms registry? That works flawlessly in the US doesn't it? Not sure it will work with things that have non lethal uses though, especially considering the lack of control over things designed SPECIFICALLY to injure, maim and kill!

Re: dumb functionality and a dumb patent

Quote: I'm probably holding it wrong.

Apple already used holding a device to do different stuff on iPhone. Lay iPhone on table to use networking, hold iPhone to disconnect from network.

Paris because she's disconnected.

Re: Is their going to be an option in FB...

Thats because she lives un underground tunnels, rather then the fast food filled roll outlets.

Re: Eight?

The UK is 4 countries, so it still doesn't work.

Re: Probable Outcome

Quote: I assume Bruce can afford to hire top class lawyers that would give Apple a run for their money.

No amount of lawmanship will change the fact that the MPAA and RIAA have ownership over the government, and when the gov change the laws specifically to thwart any loopholes that may allow licence transfers, who do you think the court will side with?

Not least, this is Apple we're talking about, winners of a 1bn dollar lawsuit citing patents that have been issued retroactively for public domain and prior art. Proof positive right there how any Apple centric case is going to go down!

Paris, because she's always going to go down!

Re: Just 400 light years away

Quote: It's a matter of context.

Also a matter of who flies the space-craft. After all, Chuck Norris makes extra-solar planetary nebula come here!

Paris because, there's no better reason to learn how to fly these vast distances then her!

Re: It's just not cricket

Quote: last weeks episode of Corrie (for example) is never going to be broadcast again or feature in a "Greatest moments of Corrie" DVD or whatever they come out with. So what was the point of them serving notice, except to drive home the point that they're a bunch of worthless fecks.

Its not that simple. After the first showing, within minutes of the episode ending, it could be listed and available worldwide for download. Now, lets ignore the fact that it will be repeated on ITV1+1, ITV2 a few days later, ITV2+1 an hour after after that, there is normally a soap round-up with signing in the early hours at least once a week, a sunday showing used to be available (unsure if now, but certainly less then the 10 years ago that the site was running) and that you absolutely do not know for sure in any way that a scene isn't going to be re-used in a 'best of' in some way. Ignore all that, and you still have the fact that Corrie is a big cash generator in other countries, which are typically showing the episode a few days (some cases even weeks) after it is first broadcast here. Therefore, its still commercially viable for a while after its first screening here.

Which brings me to my next point. Everyone claims that UKNova wasn't listing content available in shops. Are they claiming that not one episode of "Only Fools and Horses", "Red Dwarf", "Soldier, Soldier" etc made it's way onto the site? That's a big claim, considering the booming 2nd hand market DVD box-sets are having nowadays. You can even still buy all the above (and pretty much anything from the last 20 years) brand new on digitally re-masterd and original DVD format on Amazon, eBay, HMV online, let alone them being sold in high street stores... Lets not forget either that a whole slew of DVD content is being transferred to Blu-Ray now also.

Paris, because her 'box-set' is in need of being re-mastered.

Re: I've got to say

Quote: This coward decide to set up camp in the Embassy he can rot there.

The UK should throw Equador's ambassador and Embassy out of the country for interfering in its legal system and allowing its premises to be used as a pulpit.

So we should just disregard somone seeking political asylum and hand then over to the regime they are fleeing, right?

Obviously by you are American and by taking that tone you are showing us WHY he wishes to avoid US justice, his rights, both human and legal, will be totally disregarded.

On the plus side, perhaps some kind of prisoner exchange can be negotiated. How about we give you Asange, you give us McKinnon?

Re: @Craigness

Quote: Imagine if LG produced TV sets all but identical to Samsung's top-of-the-range line...

With or without wi-fi connectability?

Paris because you mentioned Fujitsu... which sounds like a martial-arts discipline for a certain body part, of which hers gets plenty of practice!

Re: Flags

Quote: The American flag is being desecrated by being allow to touch the ground?!? We must immediately develop a program to return to correct this wrong!

Isn't the usual reaction to this kind of insubordination to just bomb the crap out of the offenders?

Re: @AC 1813hrs - "Never disclosed"? Really?

"Other than idle curiosity, can you tell me why an agreement between two companies should be made public? It's perfectly normal for other companies to carry out commercially sensitive agreements in secret, why isn't this ok for MS?"

How about to prevent a completely seperate body from unknowingly infringing those same patents, then after a few years MS needs a quick money fix and decides to claim on those patents that it could claimed 2 years ago. But in the interim, a huge user base is now using the offending code and you... YES YOU, now have higher usage costs to cover the company losses.

Say, if MS decide that the patent for monitor driver like software they had in the back drawer for 30 years is suddenly called in. Now you have a choice of paying MS for 30 years of patent infringement or not using your monitor as 'driver like software for monitors' is no longer allowed unless you pay.

And before you come up with statute of limitation or too vague bullshit, you know the point I am making.

Re: Which Star ?

Quote: Hessman et al's paper is a good reference for this: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1012.0707v1.pdf

Specifically the section called "Proposal" you mean? As in not yet implemented!

Re: Work Blunders

Comments like this are why I sometimes want to create extra accounts, so I can upvote again!