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Submission + - Facebook Sued for Patent Infringement (baltimoresun.com)

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WhatDoIKnow

on Thursday September 24, 2009 @10:02AM

WhatDoIKnow writes: "A 5 person Baltimore company has brought suit against Facebook for infringing their patent that includes a method for ""facilitating communications between user members of an online network." The patent application was submitted in 2001, before Facebook existed, and approved in 2007"

Comment Re:Less that 20 second reboot. (Score 1) 211

by WhatDoIKnow on Sunday June 28, 2009 @06:04PM (#28507381) Attached to: Ksplice Offers Rebootless Updates For Ubuntu Systems

If you're using jaunty it's pretty likely rebooting will be required about once a day anyway, so I agree, it is pointless.

Comment Re:Why a secret ballot? (Score 3, Insightful) 100

by WhatDoIKnow on Sunday June 07, 2009 @10:58AM (#28241345) Attached to: Sequoia Disclosing Voting System Source To DC

No one is getting executed or persecuted based on their vote.

You think maybe that's because the vote is secret?

Comment Re:The slashdot effect strikes again (Score 4, Informative) 143

by WhatDoIKnow on Sunday May 10, 2009 @11:45AM (#27897045) Attached to: A Look Back At the World's First Netbook

What about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gateway_Handbook

Comment Please let's not exclude my personal favorite, (Score 2, Funny) 57

by WhatDoIKnow on Sunday January 18, 2009 @01:43PM (#26507389) Attached to: The Best Robots of 2008

the Adrienne Barbeaubot

Comment Re:Your Goal: One Second or Less (Score 1) 654

by WhatDoIKnow on Thursday January 15, 2009 @01:08AM (#26461699) Attached to: Ubuntu 9.04 Daily Build Boots In 21.4 Seconds

If the server doesn't respond in 10 seconds, it's not going to respond

Unless maybe you are connected to the internet over cell phone based broadband .

Comment Re:Don't see how it's worth the main page. (Score 1) 654

by WhatDoIKnow on Wednesday January 14, 2009 @10:52PM (#26460429) Attached to: Ubuntu 9.04 Daily Build Boots In 21.4 Seconds

I also don't see what the big deal is for a 20-some second boot to LOGIN MANAGER! I have an old 1.4Ghz Pentium M notebook with an equally old hard drive and and it boots ubuntu 8.04 to gdm login in about 25 seconds. (I must admit that this was with a little tweaking, in a fresh install as I recall it was in the low thirty second range)

Comment Four times what? (Score 2, Insightful) 663

by WhatDoIKnow on Monday October 06, 2008 @04:34AM (#25268661) Attached to: Netbook Return Rates Much Higher For Linux Than Windows

Four times higher? That could mean 4 in a thousand are returned instead of 1 in a thousand. Doesn't really mean much without knowing the absolute percentages.

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