Posts by Thomas 18

Anticompetitive

So much for anticompetitive legislation

Start building those arcologies

that is all.

Patents promote growth?

"Other inventions that cannot be patented include 'a discovery, scientific theory or mathematical method'"

Well this has definitely stunted science and maths, when was the last time substantial money was invested in science? well except for the hadron collider... and the telescopes... and the ISS... and the supercomputers.

More More More!!!

We need more patent cases and more patent filings, we need 10 new cases for every case resolved, we need to clog the entire system up with so much paperwork and backlog that it collapses under its own weight.

Then in the aftermath we will have groundwork for a new system that actually works and several years supply of toilet roll.

Take this research...

with a grain of salt.

Colour 10 inch e-reader please

Then I will get one to read all those graphic novels and comics on.

Branding

90% of TVs basically look the same, 100% of cigars all look the same, that's why brand images and company seals were invented in the first place.

Hidden costs is the real problem

If your going to send a text, it should tell you how much it's going to cost. Likewise with phone calls. The technology is there it's just that hidden charges make the network money as well as the scammer so there's no drive to highlight them.

Wonder what thier profit is per device

If they are expecting to make a ton of cash on Amazon purchases and books etc through the device they can probably afford to go light on the initial mark-up. Getting a minimum £79/yr out of each punter that forgets to cancel the enhanced subscription after a year worth it alone.

$25,000,000

To be held by the FTC and invested by the FTC. Consumers can apply for refunds directly to the FTC by filling in all the necessary paperwork and paying all administrative fees.

Alternatively you can start paying lawyers and do it through the court.

Sound advice

Remove gender, name, religion, skin colour and any other distinguishing marks from all official records in any databases. Naturally we will need to replace these racist and discriminatory records with something more appropriate such as ocular implant ID chips and DNA databases.

Sounds like you need... an audit!

If you (Facebook) have the potential to track every user on every widget enabled page then you definitely need the services of the European Data Protection Commission. A short 5 year investigation comes at a low low price and can't be passed up... no really it can't, we need that private sector money now.

In other news

Apple is giving its patent lawyers a 25 per cent boost in workload from its December dividends, forking out $0.20 per share from its cash stockpile.

You now have to enable the iplayer domain in NoScript

That was the only change I noticed this morning but then it was pretty early.

Potential Goldmine

As long as we are going down this route we might as well end the violence in videogames argument by having folks waive the right to bear arms and waive freedom of speech (when it comes to sony criticism).

Video wouldn't play with NoScript in firefox so...

Started downloading it with DownloadHelper. Stopped after the 2GB mark (unknown max file size). I'm interested in Windows 8, but not 2GB interested.

audio file samples

Would be nice to have sample audio files to listen to of knocks, echoes etc.

Nothing left to do

It probably took about 12 hours to program the entire of twitter. Add in a couple of months of setting up the hardware to support the crazy demand and you've got yourself a lot of spare time on employee hands - time to diversify into the trolling industry.

"...reasonably efficient software that doesn’t waste processor cycles doing not much."

So... uninstalling Norton then?

Good stuff

Nice to see somone slapping down a city council. Now lets talk compensation. How about they have to grant the next 50 FOI requests without question.

I recommend using nails

Just hammer the little guys through the front of the display and into the surface behind.

Thanks for all the fish

and the news stories

Fail

Testosterone increases when you are in a position of power. Making face structure a symptom of testosterone level which would both be a symptom of success not a predictor.

Why pay for a care home

When you can get a cushy stretch in minimum security day release prison for sending some emails.

I'll take a tank over a sports car any day

An alienware tank for that price.

"pleading guilty"

don't plead guilty if you're not guilty?

Facebook better be ready to take a hit then

Wonder how many children are using that.

twitter images owned by twitter?

I wonder what the twitter T&C says about uploading content and copyright. Wouldn't surprise me if they assert co-ownership or that the work become public.

Punitive Damages

How about we start making fines percentage based off your income with a guaranteed minimum. If the accused turns out to be innocent they now own 1% of your company. Might stop the bigwigs waving their patent cudgel and jumping out from under the bridge every 5 seconds to demand more toll.

I thought the storage of the future was graphene

http://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/2008/11/graphene-memory/

Back in 2008 anyway.

Nanystate or the old certificates racket

How about we let anyone fly any drone and prosecute them when they crash it into something or start strapping weapons on.

Simple

You need 95% certainty to have a statistical result so:

1. gather the EMF data

2. gather statistics on 30 health disorders

3. look for the false positive

4. report the false positive and don't mention any of the other statistics you investigated.

ID assurance

Surely they can come up with a less sinister names for this next round of ID cards

Alesis IO|2

Doesn't seem that different from the Alesis IO|2 I use which you can pick up for £80. It does 24bit recording, usb 1.1, stereo recording, phantom power etc etc.

It also has midi in/out which came in handy for updating a pedal firmware.

Though I did have to return mine for repairs once and after the preamp goes above 9 oclock it starts to hiss so maybe its worth paying twice the price.

The industrial revolution

all over again. I'm guessing there won't be much in the way of severance pay.

"...an intelligence-led operation..."

What other kinds of operations are there?