Recent content by jaybus

An investigation is needed. If there is any question that "copying or distributing personal information from smartphones, without a user’s consent, constitutes an unfair or deceptive trade practice", then Mr. Schumer and his fellow lawmakers have not done their jobs very well. In addition to the...

silver565As a New Zealander I can tell you that our government was whipped into doing this. No one in NZ gives a toss about copyright, however the U.S leaned on us and made the police work with the FBI And they also don't care about the money laundering, conspiracy, and etc.?? Must be a great...

How it sounds on current, average, high end, etc. etc. playback systems is not the issue. Most people cannot tell the difference? Nonsense. I think most people can tell the difference between live music versus music played back on a sound system, no? The point is, someday the playback equipment...

ThunderfoxHow can someone as old as Niel Young have the hearing capacity to distinguish between an MP3 and anything else? Sorry, but people are not created with equal hearing. Perhaps there is a reason some people are such accomplished musicians. Perhaps they are so good with music precisely...

I don't blame the PTO for delaying on this one. I mean, really? Does anyone care if a menu is semi-transparent? How does this advance the technology in any useful way? I believe Apple, Microsoft, and a few others are implementing a denial of service attack against the PTO for the very reason of...

pjmelectThe patent system is patently broken with big companies patenting obvious ideas to prevent the competition product and others to patent an obvious idea to steal money from companies that actually make things. Two of the criteria for a patent to be awarded is that it should be a new idea...

StickywulfGreat idea until the enemy gives their missiles a reflective coating. Not all missiles are painted black. Of course it is true. This concept is easily seen with a flashlight. Hold a hand over one eye and slowly move a flashlight beam toward that hand with you other hand. When the...

If I find a door key on the street (a security hole) and then try the key in every door up and down the street (security research), I may find the door that the key opens. If I inform the owner I found their key, then they can change the locks (security hole fixed). They may give me a reward. If...

PyrofleaI'm sorry, but who allowed them to build this rig without a backup plan or two. In Canada we use half-a-billion dollar emergency shutoff valves on our rigs, and drill emergency reserve wells as well. I don't understand how you can drill a mile below the ocean for oil and not even take...

Back in the late 80's, I worked as a programmer with ATMs and other ETF. It is easy for a programmer to put a backdoor into the ATM software. However, once it is discovered, it is equally easy to determine who did it, because software changes (and who was involved with them) are carefully...

This is not a question of whether or not the ISPs knew there was copyrighted material being transmitted across their network. Of course they knew. The entire planet knows. AFACT's own lawyers pulled a fast one on them and lined their pockets "proving" that. And of course, it is beside the point...

Apparently, you did. When they deployed Unimate in 1961, the first industrial robot ever created.

How so? Public libraries won't start lending e-books anytime soon. Could you imagine the uproar the publishers would make over that? If you mean they have paper books, then that's like saying scrubbing your closes with with sand and water beside a creek is a viable alternative to a washing machine.

You must take the loaded gun explanation a little further, else it is not a very accurate analogy. This case is saying "You have a loaded gun, and therefore you must have assassinated both JFK and Martin Luther King".

So the next losers will now know to take the wrappers off the stacks of bills and leave the wrappers and bags on a bus.