Comment Re:First PS (Score 1) 309
I heard about that one. The graphics were said to be mind blowing, but there was little replay value.
Comment Re:Wrong (Score 2, Funny) 324
Sorry, you'll have to try again. The standard quota is as follows:
- Child molestation accusation: x1 (check!)
- Racial Slurs: minimum 15% of total word count
- Governmental Conspiracy/Incompetence: 1x - can be omitted so long as the phrase "Obama Messiah" is present in the racial diatribe.
Comment Re:wtf is sexting? (Score 1) 711
Comment Where does the paycheck come from? (Score 5, Insightful) 206
How does google plan to make money off of this? TFA mentions that they'll be transcribing voicemail to text in near real-time. Will they also be sifting those voicemails for marketing keywords? If my buddy calls to brag about his new car, will I be seeing BMW ads next time I log into gmail?
*Pulling the tinfoil hat even lower over the brow now* Will Google Talk also have the ability to monitor calls made through their service for marketing info?
Yeah, it sounds like a great service, but what's the cost in privacy?
*Pulling the tinfoil hat even lower over the brow now* Will Google Talk also have the ability to monitor calls made through their service for marketing info?
Yeah, it sounds like a great service, but what's the cost in privacy?
Comment Re:Ya pretty much (Score 2, Funny) 600
well, at least you're not bitter about it.
Comment Re:Sorry Motorola (Score 4, Funny) 353
Can you condense that for me a bit? I don't have a lot of time for reading...
In binary: 0
EU Patent Staff Go On Strike 116
h4rm0ny writes "Last Friday, staff at the European Patent Office went on strike. They protested outside for several hours and issued a statement claiming that 'the organisation is decentralising and focusing on granting as many patents as possible to gain financially from fees generated.' They also declared this as being disastrous for innovation and that their campaign was not for better wages, but for better quality patents.
Meanwhile, an article on it discusses the US's own approach to dealing with the increasing flood of patent applications: a community patent project to help identify prior art. It might sound like a grass-roots scheme, and maybe it is, but those roots include such patent behemoths as IBM. So it looks like on both sides of the Atlantic, some signs of sanity might be emerging in the patent world from those people right in the thick of it." Note, this was a half-day strike, not ongoing.
