IBM Patents Predator Identification

[zulutech]

[citation][nom]spasmolytic46[/nom]HAL = IBMThink about it.[/citation]
i -1 = h etc.

 

[JOSHSKORN]

Oh boy...whatever happened to parenting? Oh, that's right. No one raises their own children, anymore. They allow technology and all of these "self-help" books to do it for them. Common sense is unnecessary in today's world.

/sarcasm

 

[gto127]

I would just get off the internet if it gets to this point of invading your privacy. I don't even play those avatar games but see how someone could be wrongfully accused just by trying to win a game. Just have age limits that can play withing the same game. Problem solved.

 

[blazorthon]

Wow IBM, just wow. This is one of the worst patents I've ever heard of and we've all seen some ridiculous patents. At least this one has little chance of becoming a patent trolling legal problem with other companies although it really doesn't help my, nor any other intelligent person's impression of IBM.

Besides that, how can you patent taking action against a predator of any kind? That is just retarded. If someone I know has a problem with a predator and I/they call the police or another authority will we get sued by IBM? I really don't think this patent is sanctioned even by the very constitution of the USA and should have been stopped anyway.

 

[puddleglum]

[citation][nom]freggo[/nom]I don't see anything 'patentable' here.[/citation]
That doesn't stop anyone these days. It won't be long before a company tries to patent breathing.

 

[coldmast]

I patent all that with "real" instead of "virtual";

 

[del35]

Thanks to new standards introduced by iCrap we will soon hear of patents on the most absurd of things. I have said it before Apple and its insincere standards of competition are a threat to the march of technology. The sooner iCrap follows con-artist Steve Jobs, the sooner we will see new light in technology.

 

[JonnyDough]

[citation][nom]ojas[/nom]Lol and i thought this was something to be used for identifying and recording wildlife...you know, to aid in conservation of endangered predators...[/citation]

Unless you live in a specific part of Africa, or a rather cold climate - you don't need to be concerned with predators. Humans are more sparse in extreme climates, which is the last bastion for any real predators that would feed on us. Its estimated that something like a mere 35% of earth is uninhabited by man, and that is almost all Antarctica.

 

[back_by_demand]

[citation][nom]freggo[/nom]I don't see anything 'patentable' here.Hope there is more behind it than just a flow chart outlining common sense actions to inappropriate behavior."such as an attack by another avatar, rude gestures by another avatar, stalking"Can I sue an Avatar ?Do we deport misbehaving avatars ?[/citation]
There are about 300 pages of technical crap that are submitted, go check it out because this is the kind of thing that is going to make being a paedophile on the internet a non-starter.
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If predator behaviour is spotted you can get an AG waiver to track the IP and have a quiet chat with them, if the software has registered a false positive then no harm done, if however the cops turn up and there is a porn dungeon and a dead 7 year old in the basement then that's one less scumbag in the world.

 

[ojas]

[citation][nom]JonnyDough[/nom]Unless you live in a specific part of Africa, or a rather cold climate - you don't need to be concerned with predators. Humans are more sparse in extreme climates, which is the last bastion for any real predators that would feed on us. Its estimated that something like a mere 35% of earth is uninhabited by man, and that is almost all Antarctica.[/citation]
What? Didn't get you at all bro!

Anyway, I live in India, and We have everything: tigers and lions to bears, snakes, leopards, eagles...and they interact frequently with humans, and nearly all of them are endangered.

It's a very real problem in most of the world, my friend.

 

[back_by_demand]

[citation][nom]ojas[/nom]We have everything: tigers and lions to bears, snakes, leopards, eagles...and they interact frequently with humans[/citation]
Where did you say you lived again?
The Jungle Book?
Is that you Mowgli?

 

[ojas]

[citation][nom]back_by_demand[/nom]Where did you say you lived again?The Jungle Book?Is that you Mowgli?[/citation]
:lol: i'm not, but jungle book was based on an Indian village boy, so...animals are the same 😛