DustyShadow - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Plan B (Score 1) 241

by DustyShadow on Monday October 24, 2011 @10:34PM (#37827294) Attached to: Microsoft Now Collects Royalties From Over Half of All Android Devices

It is often cheaper to sign the license than deal with a patent lawsuit that you know you will defeat.

Comment Re:This is potentially disastrous (Score 1) 370

by DustyShadow on Friday October 07, 2011 @11:17PM (#37645766) Attached to: US Drone Fleet Hit By Computer Virus

Where did you see that these are Windows based computers? I don't have experience with the Predator system but I do with other military drones and to be honest, I would be shocked if the flight computers run windows.

Comment Re:dumb summary again (Score 1) 353

by DustyShadow on Tuesday April 26, 2011 @03:06PM (#35945422) Attached to: iPhone Tracking Ruckus Ongoing

Airplanes have been doing for a long time what this invention claims:

"1. A computer-implemented method performed by a location aware device, the method comprising: configuring a processor of the location aware device to collect network information broadcast from a number of network transmitters over a time span; and storing the network information and corresponding timestamps in a database as location history data. "

Submission + - GoDaddy Suspends RightHaven Domain (torrentfreak.com)

Submitted by DustyShadow on Sunday April 24, 2011 @10:14PM

DustyShadow writes: It appears that someone has reported Righthaven for having an invalid WHOIS entry on their Righthaven.com domain. Their registrar, the ever vigilant GoDaddy, then took control of the domain, taking Righthaven completely offline. Righthaven has made a business out of scouring the net for websites that have used even the smallest parts of their partner newspapers’ materials and then threatening them with legal action. Very often this results in their victims having to pay thousands of dollars in settlements and in some cases even being forced to hand over their domain names. Today, this copyright troll company is getting a sweet taste of their own medicine.

Comment Re:Can this judge reverse all previous cases? (IAN (Score 1) 130

by DustyShadow on Sunday April 17, 2011 @06:48PM (#35850814) Attached to: Judge Reveals Secret Righthaven Copyright Contract

No. The plaintiff must choose either actual or statutory damages. Can't get both.

Comment Re:Workaround (Score 1) 130

by DustyShadow on Sunday April 17, 2011 @02:36PM (#35849290) Attached to: Judge Reveals Secret Righthaven Copyright Contract

No no no. A copyright owner may assign the right to sue for past infringement if the assignor also assigns the exclusive right that was infringed. The problem with righthaven and the plaintiff in the silvers case is that the assignee/plaintiff was not assigned one of the exclusive rights.

Comment Re:And Who is Stevens? (Score 1) 130

by DustyShadow on Sunday April 17, 2011 @10:11AM (#35847494) Attached to: Judge Reveals Secret Righthaven Copyright Contract

what??

Comment Re:Can this judge reverse all previous cases? (IAN (Score 1) 130

by DustyShadow on Sunday April 17, 2011 @09:43AM (#35847356) Attached to: Judge Reveals Secret Righthaven Copyright Contract

how do you prove the contract is the same in all cases?

Comment Re:Forget Harrier Jump Jets (Score 1) 152

by DustyShadow on Monday March 28, 2011 @03:15PM (#35643396) Attached to: Flying Robot Bird Unveiled

The Global Hawk is generally fully autonomous. The operators just upload a flight plan into it and it goes. As far as I know, Predators still require an operator to control it the entire time it is in flight.

Comment Re:A bit confused... (Score 2) 898

by DustyShadow on Sunday March 27, 2011 @08:19PM (#35633810) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: How Do You Choose a Windows Laptop?

The grammar in the post is correct. The commas are correct and it is a correct use of which.

Comment Re:Remember the vast innovation in the baroque per (Score 1) 348

by DustyShadow on Friday February 11, 2011 @10:25PM (#35182980) Attached to: Why IP Laws Are Blocking Innovation

Yes because this stuff is not patented!

Tax strategies are and have been patentable for awhile. I wrote a paper that discusses them but it is a bit outdated now. There is a strong movement against them but I don't really see Congress doing anything in the near future.

Submission + - Websites Don't Have to Remove Defamatory Comments (internetcases.com)

Submitted by DustyShadow on Tuesday December 28, 2010 @03:37PM

DustyShadow writes: In the case of Blockowicz v. Williams, The US Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals refused to force Ripoff Report to remove allegedly defamatory comments posted by a user. The Ripoff Report has a well-publicized no-takedown policy, even if the author wants to remove his/her post, so the Ripoff Report refused. The Blockowiczs then claimed that the Ripoff Report violated FRCP 65(d) because the Ripoff Report was "in active concert or participation" with the initial posters by refusing the injunction's removal order. The district court (and the Court of Appeals) disagreed with the Blockowiczs. Absent the "active concert or participation," the website was outside the court's control. Ripoff Report has released a statement concerning this case: "In keeping with our core mission of protecting speech to the fullest extent of the law, we decided that it was not just our right but also our duty to ask questions and dig deeper before we could comply with such an order. Other sites claim they support free speech, but when the going gets rough, they will usually protect their bottom line rather than the Constitutional rights and freedoms this country was founded upon. Unlike other sites, even when the speech involved is harsh or negative and even if our position sometimes generates negative press for us, we think that the First Amendment requires us to put our principles before our pocketbook and fight against censorship."

Comment Re:Domain seizure? (Score 1) 161

by DustyShadow on Monday December 13, 2010 @05:26PM (#34539322) Attached to: Righthaven Sues For Control of Drudge Report Domain

Do they really think transferring the domain into their control is even remotely likely? It's one thing when you're talking about a torrent tracker where an injunction alone is unlikely to prevent future infringement. But if the court tells Matt Drudge to take down that photo, I'm pretty sure he'll take it down (once his appeals are exhausted).

Judges have been known to do even dumber things. Why not try it out and hope you got a dumb one?

Comment Re:Copyrighted Image (Score 1) 161

by DustyShadow on Monday December 13, 2010 @05:20PM (#34539224) Attached to: Righthaven Sues For Control of Drudge Report Domain

The image may very well be copyrighted. However, since both sides are news outlets, Drudge has more than valid claim to fair use of the image. Especially considering that the image was likely only one small part of the article that he linked to. If Righthaven wins on this case, then it may as well go after Google News next (it has snippits AND images). But hasn't that already been tried??

Comment Re:He picked a fight with the wrong website (Score 0) 161

by DustyShadow on Monday December 13, 2010 @05:17PM (#34539168) Attached to: Righthaven Sues For Control of Drudge Report Domain

Not nearly as scary as Barney Frank's rentboys. Or the drugs and sex they sell out of his apartment.

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