I was lucky enough to have a lunch hour where I could see the ATLAS results presentation.

The actual bump on the ATLAS graph was about 126 GeV, and the local sigma was 3.6 which is pretty good. The overall was only 2.4, which IIRC is about 95% certainty. I like the odds of finding it there.

amount of information is measured in inverse femptobarns, surely?

... said: "Being an elf doesn't make you turn off the rational economic calculator part of your brain."

But I agree with the license part. Since any virtual property is a construct dependant on the underlying servers (eg Everquest, Second Life etc), then you are bound by the EULA, which usually dresses everything up as a license which can be withdrawn at the whim of the owner of the server.

Copyright is a different protection to patent.

A patent could protect a novel method of cloning. Ie, the specific way the geneticist uses his or her test tubes etc in the lab to get the clone. Wouldn't stop anyone breeding a sniffer dog.

A copyright cannot protect the clone. Unless the scientist actually wrote out the genome from his or her mind in some inspired supergenius way: GTTACCAATGCA....... Which is impossible.

And I hope there isn't a horrible accident with a 526 B30.

what about the standard deviation of the duration between frames?

There is a very strong correlation indeed.

The equation:
y = 951809x^(-0.4086)

The R^2 value:
R2 = 0.9791

As you can see the correlation is very good.

Copyright != Designs

The Copyright Designs and Patents Act protects them differently. Section 216 gives 15 years for designs, section 12 gives 70 years for sculpture. Confusingly you also get copyright in a design, but it isn't an infringement of that design to make a 3D model from it (ss51, 52). Critically the court found that stormtrooper outfits are not art, they are utilitarian objects.

Of course he was.

I find your lack of faith... disturbing...

All you need to do is wear a welding mask as your Pastafarian religous headwear.

It works in Austria. G'day mate.

I read the Claim specifications. IAAL.

It isn't right to say that apple have patented portrait-landscape rotation.

It has patented a finger gesture, a view lock based on that and the info from various sensors.

A subtle distinction, I appreciate. But probably novel, and thereby patentable.

Lets just say that a baker has 13 loaves of bread, and I steal one.

The baker now has only a conventional dozen, and will be angry because of that, as he is now only able to sell 12, not the original 13. Loss in potential profits of about 8%.

Imagine the bread is digital, and I copy one of those loaves.

The baker still has 13 loaves, and can still sell them. Repeatedly. His anger is now because his marketplace has diminished by one. Loss in potential profits of 0.000000001%

It is still wrong, from the baker's perspective, but it's less damaging.

Given that 1% of any population are criminals, the sheer size of the population of pirates tells you that the current business models are broken.

It must be true that there is a market between the current crazy prices for media, and nothing. I'd buy a "pirate bundle" off my ISP that lets me pirate my ass off, so that some royalties went the right way.

Came here to say this.

It was used in Australia in a place called Robe. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robe,_South_Australia

I can imagine that drowning mariners would have been disheartened to find people on the shore firing rockets at them...

What happens if you accidentally drop the bazooka in the water?

no, no! its total lack of movement is due to it bein' tired and shagged out following a prolonged squawk