You know the one; just cut it out; I'm not going to tell you again.

Yeah, but he wasn't black he was Klingon.

It would be nice if finally they made a Star Trek that wasn't male dominated for a change. Or use all black actors to play the Klingons

Oh you mean like Lursa and B'Etor the Klingon sisters ?

How about Gowron ? The actor who played him, Robert O'Reilly is white; in fact all these actors are white.

The core of the summary is this:

Patent attorney Michael Bates of 1Place agreed that developers could use the patent system to ensure their inventions remained open source. “If a group of open source collaborators can secure a patent, it can choose to grant a royalty-free licence to the open source community to use it just as open source software is licensed,” Bates noted.

What a joke! Let me guess, Bates wants people to pay him to check patent applications for OSS. Prior art invalidates a patent. Simply publishing or releasing your software open source makes it prior art therefore preventing someone from claiming an "inventive step" - the usual requirement for a patent. Save your money.

You only created your account here on slashdot to write comments on this thread and all of them are excuses. Yes, replying directly after a troll post and addressing the subject of the troll *is* feeding the trolls. Have you ever heard of PR ? When someone says "All MacDonalds food is unhealthy" they (MacDonalds) don't immediately make a statement saying "Ignore that guy".

This girl is clearly an attention seeker. No one gets stalked for 10 years and not gather enough evidence to take some action.

While I think that Kickstarter could have handled it better; read the article on her website.

She got spam comments and she replied to them. She claims that she was being stalked and she recognised the stalker: why reply ? Just report them. You're not supposed to feed trolls.

It is clear the reason she got kicked off because she got interacted with the spammer and was part of the problem.

And WTF is a "transmedia artist" ? She uses various media, multimedia ?

People used to say the iPod would bomb, it's done well. People said the iPhone would bomb, it's done well. People used to say the iPad... well, you get the point.

No, not really.

When the iPod was launched mp3 players were already tiny and popular. The innovation was that iPod had a tiny hard drive (and it wasn't the first to do that). No one said iPod would bomb.

Then the iPod touch came out and everyone said what an awesome phone it could be; no one said the iPhone would bomb. In fact the hype was so strong at the time, Apple could have made almost any phone and it would have been popular.

Before the iPad came out, everyone said it would be awesome. Steve Jobs was the only one saying that they had tried large scale touch UI but it "didn't work".

If Apple is saying that the Galaxy Tab looks too similar to the iPad then they really should find some new designers because there is nothing visually innovative about the iPad since the iPod touch.

There's no point getting irate about freedom of speech. The whole point of domain names is to make money. The only reason .xxx was introduced was to "offer a new product", i.e. another TLD that could be subdivided and sold. Who would have thought it, people would pay money for the equivalent of a memorable telephone number.

Paul Mockapetris, inventor of DNS, said that "The DNS was built to be simple and predictable" so why is it handled by an organisational committee who make political decisions ? If it was only about ease of use then .xxx would have been decided years ago. And why do you have to pay more than a nominal admin fee to have your details entered into the DNS database ? It's all about money.

WP7 gives them a ready to go, high-end OS

By "ready to go" I take it you mean "economical in functionality but with glossy social networking stuff" and for "high-end" you mean "without multitasking" ?

What makes you think partnering with Microsoft will remove delays ? Are you thinking of another company named Microsoft ?

Think of the children - they might see a nipple and then they would have serious psychological issues. For life. Thanks for the link, tuomasb.

Now I feel like YouTube is evil. I hate advertising masquerading as normal content. It seems like YouTube is party to this; maybe this was their Faustian pact, put up with this crap or we'll sue you for every violation we ever find. People who *try* to make a "viral" video are the epitome of uncool. Especially the fake ones; cellphones cooking popcorn, etc etc. I thought marketing departments were supposed to "get" people. Overpaid idiots.

The problem can be simply stated as that the camera is 4D, because it is a 2D array of 2D cameras, while the image is 3D.

You cannot simply add the dimensions, it depends on how you integrate the image data together. Us people who don't know very much call this integration 3D reconstruction. "The image is 3D" - do you mean the real world is 3D ? The image, as you put it, is a projection from 3D onto a 2D plane and is most definitely 2D.

Humans possess a stereoscopic vision system, each eye is capturing a 2D image at any moment in time. I expect you would call that a 4D vision system ?

SOLUTIONS: All solutions rely on making the camera 3D instead of 4D. 1. Take a short movie while changing focus on a 2D camera.

So now you add a third dimension - time. And the concept of Depth from Focus is not your idea at all, it has been around for a very long time.

Your other idea involving "somehow" doing something cannot be considered prior art. In the grand scheme of things an invention has to be realisable.

I also consider it to be evidence that I am better at this stuff than almost all 3D camera engineers.

If I could see a smiley on the above line I wouldn't think you are an idiot.

What licence is this ? http://www.bipp.com/Default.aspx?tabid=203&search=licence produces zero hits.

I regularly take high resolution photos, HD video, etc in London and I have never been stopped by anyone.

Every time I am in London I see tourists carrying DSLRs but I have never seen anyone being harrassed by the police.

Don't get your hopes up. This is regarding some action being taken by a watchdog body. We don't know what the outcome is yet, we don't know if they will take any action or how strong any reprimand, if any, will be given. Furthermore, this won't be enshrined in law or necessarily have any relevance to future cases. I believe there is a very high chance they will get a light slap on the wrists and a don't do it again.