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Comment Again, Slashdot Buthcers The Facts (Score 1) 1034

This is the second legal story this week -- actually it's the second Google Glass legal story this week -- in which Slashdot has got many of the key facts embarrassingly wrong.

Does Slashdot want to be taken seriously, or respected, as a media outlet? Then do fact checking.

In the context of a legal story this means having the story reviewed by someone with formal legal training.

Submission + - Software Developer Beats Rap For Driving While Wearing Google Glass

mbstone writes: California motorist and software developer Cecilia Abadie was found not guilty by a San Diego Superior Court commissioner Thursday (16) of charges of both speeding, and of driving with a video monitor visible. The California Highway Patrol had cited her based on her wearing Google Glass when pulled over; however, the commissioner ruled that the prosecution could not prove, beyond a reasonable doubt, that the device was activated.

Comment Obviousness (Score 3, Insightful) 226

They shamelessly copied the look of the BlackBerry keyboard. So what. The design of a QWERTY keyboard isn't an original work of authorship, nor is it nonobvious, nor are QWERTY keyboards associated with BB in the minds of members of the public.. No copyright, no patent, no trademark.

Case dismissed.

BB should buy the thing if it has any money left.

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