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Comment: Slashvertisement (Score 3, Insightful) 173

by Hobadee (#43559829) Attached to: From 'Quantified Self' To 'Quantified Car'
How is this news? I got a ODB2 -> Bluetooth adapter last year, and that was after a year or two of thinking about it. I use Torque on my Android to track my mileage, chirp at me when I go over a speed I set, and track engine performance.

The only thing here that *might* be news is the gamification of ODB2 stats, but who really cares about that?

Oh, and my dad just picked up a ODB2 -> Bluetooth adapter for about $25 and it works great, so why would anyone want to spend $70 on one!?

Comment: Re:Playing back a recording (Score 1) 107

by Hobadee (#43548969) Attached to: Aereo Ruling Could Impact Pandora
Everyone quotes "education" as a copyright exemption, but the education exemption is actually quite narrow. There must be NO other (non-copyrighted) way of showing/demonstrating what you are using, and you must use the LEAST amount of it possible to successfully show/demonstrate what you are teaching.

If you are teaching music, you can't just start playing every album ever made and say "it's education, it's exempt!" You can't even play an entire song and say "did you hear that cord progression at the beginning?". What you CAN do is play the part of the song with said progression. If you were teaching about song structure, then you could use the whole song. Both of these examples still assume there was no other source of non-copyrighted work you could have used instead.

Comment: Trade Schools (Score 1) 351

by Hobadee (#42787751) Attached to: School Board Considers Copyright Ownership of Student and Teacher Works
Many trade schools have a right to their students work. I went to one and part of the student agreement I signed was a perpetual license to use my work created there royalty-free for advertising purposes. I saw no problem with that, especially since the agreement specifically said that I still owned the copyright to the work.
Android

+ - Laminar Research are suied for use of Google-provided code in Android app->

Submitted by Nemo1024
Nemo1024 writes " Holding a patent does not mean that you actually did anything. It only means that you claim that you thought of something that you can sue other people for actually doing. I learned this first-hand in September 2012, when I was informed that I and a handful of other developers of Android apps were facing millions of dollars in litigation for using a copy protection technology present in virtually every Android application ever developed. In our Android app (X-Plane), we used the same copy protection Google provides to everyone that is making a game for Android! (That I know of.)

Austin Meyer has decided to fight back and need every help he can get, including signing a petition at the White House to change the paten laws so that they don't stifle innovation as much as they do now. Follow the post link for more details on the petition."

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Games

+ - X-Plane Starts Petition Against Patent Trolls->

Submitted by Hobadee
Hobadee writes "As previously reported, X-Plane and it's developer Austin Meyer, are being sued by a patent troll for using Google's copy-protection SDK for Android. They have now created a Whitehouse.gov petition to "Make Patent Trolls Pay All Costs Associated With Their Frivolous Lawsuits If They Lose" and are asking the community to sign it. It currently has almost 2500 signatures, but needs many more before the Whitehouse responds to this very important issue."
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+ - All backscatter X-ray scanners to be removed from U.S. airports!->

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uigrad_2000
uigrad_2000 writes "If this scoop from Arstechnica is accurate, then we are about to see the end of backscatter X-rays in airports in the U.S. Interestingly, it is not because a congressional committee found them to be unsafe, but because the manufacturer (Rapiscan Systems) failed to provide updated software by a previously agreed upon date."
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