Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

>Companies owning Copyright is a ridiculous idea and will soon suppress creativity altogether.

Might make it difficult to get funding for films, especially films which aren't opening weekend blockbusters.

With no copyright, or very short copyright, I have no foreign TV, or streaming sales. I can only make money for the initial cinema run, and even then I no longer get any licencing fee from the toys, t-shirt and fast-food tie-ins.

>Allowing Patents to be held by anyone other than the original creator(s) is equally ridiculous.

Then they have no value to the original creator if they can't be sold.

I have a patent on an improvement to MRI machines. It's assigned to the consultancy company I worked for at the time. It's only of value to them because they can sell/licence the technology to makers of MRI machines. Neither me nor the company can make an MRI machine so if the patent couldn't be sold it would never be produced.

Re: Patent the bloody obvious!

>otherwise many more businesses would have signed up to OIN sooner

It only really protects you from being sued by someone else in the business.

eg if Oracle tries to sue say Redhat then they can bring down all of the patents of all the OIN members onto Larry

If you are being sued by Bermuda Patent Troll #123 Ltd whose only asset is this single patent - it doesn't do much good

Re: Footfallcam (formerly known as Nurserycam formerly known as Nannycam) Companies House Listing

I think this is going to be the standard for dodgy ad-tech companies - like the double-glazing that offered 20year guarantees but closed and reopened under a new name every year.

Sleezy-tech_123 is hit by a twitter storm for it selling video from its line of embedded underwear cameras.

Sleezy-tech_124 is spun up by the Bermudaa Chamber of Commerce equivalent of a Docker container 20ms later

Re: So will be now need to press the "Start" button

Updating Volkswagon

don't turn off your car

1 % .........

Re: Habitable-zone exoplanet potentially spotted just around the corner in Alpha Centauri...

Doing someones Horoscope on those planets is going to be seriously complicated

2.99M of those were either Global-Mega-Corp registering their name so they don't get domain squatted, or domain squatters registering Global-Mega-Corp.eu

Re: We are still in "Europe"

We should create a .eur and allow Russia and Turkey to use it

Especially since any EU address actually being used is probably by some pro-eu group, the others are just companies paying to protect their name, it seems a bit counter productive

Wouldn't Microsoft's purchase of Linkedin mean it would be blocked at every other software company?

I can't imagine google allows it's devs to effectively tell MSFT who is logged in working late and linked with which other devs and what their backgrounds are

Re: @ The cur ... For the love of the wee man

Our small town of 1000 people solves this by having the water system totally air-gapped, off-line and controlled by a dedicated 24x7 team of on site engineers operating from an earthquake and forest fire proof bunker surrounded by anti-terrorist fences and armed security. Of course it does mean our water bill is about $1M/year

Actually I think there is no equipment connected to the internet because there is no equipment, I think Bill goes and tips a sack of chlorine into the tank on thursdays if he isn't busy.

We could do with a computer to detect the occasional dead beaver stuck in the inlet. Unfortunately Googling 'beaver stuffed into my pipe' got the last council fired.

Re: This is why they should be banned.

Well if someone shot the guy doing the POTUS stunt we would be better off

Re: Never understood some names

>Because it's not really "my" local team, it belongs wholly to the ownership group.

What you need in America is more sectarian hatred

Have you tried having historically Catholic and Protestant football team in each city?

That can build extremely strong brand loyalty over centuries

Re: But also recommended Hockey as the way of peace.

In liberal pussy Canada you aren't even allowed guns on the ice.

You can duel with Zambonis like real men

Re: It's all homoerotic crap.

Great serious of youtube talks by the doctor for the TT race (*)

"at scene of accident count the number of bikes, then look for that number of casualties"

* Later killed in a bike racing accident

Re: But also recommended Hockey as the way of peace.

>How many death certificates mention "hockey" in the cause of death box?

In Canada it's "natural causes"

Seriously they want to end fighting in under 16 leagues. Political correctness gone mad

Re: It's all homoerotic crap.

>And how would they have coped with a low flying Jonah Lomu?

The Americans ?, obviously

Re: Never understood some names - MK Dons

Mönchengladbach's attempt to move to Krakow also failed for similar reasons

Re: Never understood some names

In the UK it's much more sensible, keep the team in the same northern city but move the ownership between Gulf states and leave all the fans in India

Re: Next legal argument:

The photon has a non-zero probability amplitude at any distance.

So the photon 'existed' in the police station, so they didn't intercept it, it came to them.

Re: In storage...or in transit....

No need - you get 5years for not telling us what it means,

ps we don't have to believe you that you don't have another secret key that you haven't told us.

Re: Australia should pull the Plug on Google...

>Google does not deserve the power to dictate to the entire world.

That's Murdoch's job

Re: Strawman

>Because they refuse to hire enough people to actually monitor the traffic

We should employ Google operators just like in the days of 'directory enquiries'

Of course with 40,000 queries/second you might have a bit of a wait - but it would solve unemployment

Re: Trust nothing, check your data, use various sources.

But before the internet you could trust it is tribal elder said eating mammoth with cloven hoof make sky God mad, now people are expected to do their own research

Re: That's the sort of thing

You can't trust wiki to be authoritative on serious matters. That's why you should always check the Journal of Clanger research if you can't remember the details of the soup dragon

Re: since they’re all publicly available anyway

There is also some applied permission once you publish it.

For example this message is copyright and you owe me one first born son, 3 Cadburys creme eggs and a million $ for copying it to your browser cache.

>These morons thought that they were free to lie as much as they liked,

They didn't 'lie', they are a satirical comedy show

Rudy is just doing a Sacha Baron Cohen (possibly Rudy is Sacha Baron Cohen!)

Re: Go for it

Because you aren't going to get convicted from just the timestamp on a home CCTV.

But $Rich_Bastard$ is going to get off a drink driving charge because the police can't produce the wafer masks for the ARM core in the breathalyser

Re: "You mean every cheap surveillance camera..."

Famous Italian structural engineer author (forgot name)

Writing about appearing as an expert witness in a building collapse case in New York.

The lawyers spent all the time objecting to him being called professor because he was only a visiting professor in the USA and only a full professor in somewhere called Rome, and what did they know about buildings, and nothing asking him about the actual cause of the collapse.