Will find a way?
This is the way.
Step 1 - Announce over and over that your going to "De-Orbit".
Step 2 - Wait for public outcry.
Step 3 - Cash ISS Stimulus check before the government runs out of paper to print money on.
It really isn't fair to mod someone down as redundant when you can clearly see the time stamp on their post is exactly one minute after the original post... which is more likely, they intentionally said almost the exact same thing changing only one of the five words, or that the took a few seconds longer to review and submit a post than the first person did?
If only there were a way to mod down the modders who waste mod points...
Patent Acquisition and Assertion by a (Non-Inventor) First Party Against a Second Party
Abstract
Methods for a first party to acquire and assert a patent property against a second party are disclosed. The methods include obtaining an equity interest in the patent property. The methods further include writing a claim within the scope of the patent property. The claim is written to cover a product of the second party where the product includes a secret aspect. The methods further include filing the claim with a patent office. The methods sometimes include offering a license of the patent property to the second party after the patent property issues as a patent with the claim. The methods sometimes include asserting infringement of the claim by the second party after the patent property issues as a patent with the claim. The methods sometimes include negotiating a cross-license with the second party based on the assertion of infringement of the claim, where under the cross-license the first party obtains a license to an intellectual property right from the second party. The methods sometime include attempting to obtain a monetary settlement from the second party based on the assertion of infringement of the claim.
Since when does idiocy get modded interesting?
They dogs are not sniffing out DVD-R discs, they are sniffing out Pirated DVD's... mass produced in nearly the same way as legit DVD's, with the intent of being sold to large numbers of end consumers, either as a cheaper alternative, or because the real thing is not available in that region yet, often because they are new theater releases.
So you can put away the tin foil, your "Pirated", and then burnt to DVD-R copy of The Hannah Montana Movie is safe from the dogs.
That or living much much closer to the equator in which case you may not have ever needed heat...
Then again being
Power being more expensive in the winter is only common sense if you pay your own power bill...
Something he probably doesn't have to do living in his mother's basement...
Payload Race - When you and a co-worker return to work from lunch at the same time and have to race to the single bathroom.
So there is a potential privacy threat that is not currently being exploited. If it were to be exploited it would by at the ISP level, most of whom do not care one bit about copyright. They do however care about the huge amount of data transfer across their networks for BitTorrent.
So the solution to a "potential" threat the ISPs do not care about exploiting is to create a system that will increase data transfer amounts by X depending on the level you select. Which is something the ISPs WILL care about, and WILL do something about.
Maybe someone can develop a plug-in that will just paint a big bulls eye on my front door too... oh wait...
If that alone were not bad enough what about the harm this will do to BitTorrent directly? Random Idiot wants to download a single new release movie so they turn this POS on and start downloading another 10 "Cover Torrents"... great, now the extra load starts swamping trackers and real users can not connect to the tracker, at least not until the tracker forks over a bunch of cash for server upgrades. Then the swarms start to suffer because X percent of what everyone is seeding back is going to those "Cover Torrents" instead of to real users who may at least attempt to be good users and keep seeding a torrent back for some time.
Someone remind me what the point of this plug-in is again?
Global Warming due to industry and emissions is a hoax...
The truth is the planet keeps getting warmer the closer we get to Hell.
Already been done.
United States Patent Application - 20080270152 - October 30, 2008
http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=/netahtml/PTO/search-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PG01&s1=20080270152&OS=20080270152&RS=20080270152
Patent Acquisition and Assertion by a (Non-Inventor) First Party Against a Second Party
Abstract
Methods for a first party to acquire and assert a patent property against a second party are disclosed. The methods include obtaining an equity interest in the patent property. The methods further include writing a claim within the scope of the patent property. The claim is written to cover a product of the second party where the product includes a secret aspect. The methods further include filing the claim with a patent office. The methods sometimes include offering a license of the patent property to the second party after the patent property issues as a patent with the claim. The methods sometimes include asserting infringement of the claim by the second party after the patent property issues as a patent with the claim. The methods sometimes include negotiating a cross-license with the second party based on the assertion of infringement of the claim, where under the cross-license the first party obtains a license to an intellectual property right from the second party. The methods sometime include attempting to obtain a monetary settlement from the second party based on the assertion of infringement of the claim.
From the article
""10-foot television viewing experience through a streamlined interface that enables you to discover, watch and share YouTube videos on any TV screen with just a few quick clicks of your remote control. With enlarged text and simplified navigation, it makes watching YouTube on your TV as easy and intuitive as possible.""
In short it will provide the PS3 and Wii the exact same non-browser based setup that most quality HTPC software has had for years. Except that with most HTPC software now you also have add-ons for most of the popular video sites, not just YouTube.
If your generating enough income from "virtual worlds" that it needs to be taxed...
Well, taxes are probably the LEAST of your problems.
Yes, but the concern is that a game publisher will not use 2 different teams to write the same game at the same time.
Instead we may end up getting PS3/360 games that have been dumbed down, or made to be more chield friendly in order to make the game available on all platforms at the same time.
I also own and use all three systems but I have a very clear expectations as to what each system is for. The Wii is used for family entertainment, or for playing with a larger group of adults as light entertainment. The PS3/360 are used for "Hardcore" gaming.
The original post was about games along the lines of GTA and other M rated games. If those games are made available on a Kid-Friendly console the fear is that the "Hardcore" gaming systems will end up with fluffy Kid-Friendly games.
Remember, many of those millions of Wii systems come with soccer moms who have nothing better to do than write emails to Nintendo to complain about content their kids are being forced into seeing. Just look back at the BEER-PONG game. In the last couple of days before it was made available for download on the Wii Nintendo was pressured into changing the name, and modifying the color of the beverage in game... so as to be more Kid-Friendly.
I program, therefore I am.
