Posts by ratfox

Hurray, he won!

So instead of going in his flight, he had the great pleasure of hiring a lawyer to defend himself! What fun!

...And the next time he tries this, the TSA goons will act exactly the same as before. Score one for freedom.

Impressive

Considering the amount of resources that must be involved, the anonymity of the system used by WikiLeaks seems to be the real thing.

Storing energy

Why don't we store energy when we have too much of it by using the rotors to create wind we can harvest later?

Once again, all together:

PRIOR ART

OBVIOUS APPLICATION

STUPID USPTO

EVIL APPLE

I believe that will be all.

Yeah, right

Sometimes, I have a hard time understanding how people can make some preposterous claims.

I love how they state that the first documents were searched for by Swedish IPs, then do not make any such claim for the other documents.

The first accusation logically implies that WikiLeaks owns the only computers in Sweden.

The second accusation logically implies that WikiLeaks owns the only computers in the WORLD.

Credulity

I wonder how many people actually paid.

I don't know what to say

I feel sorry when large companies do moves that seem so full of fail. I suppose they are doing their best, but it does seem so woefully inadequate...

Better than nothing I suppose. If a company has for policy to only buy HP, they will eventually buy those. But they have acted way too late to be significant players in any way.

Scaled-up smartphone

"Basically you end up with kind of a scaled-up smartphone – which is a bizarre product, in our view."

Something the iPad is not, clearly... Right?

I hope the data is juicy

WikiLeaks is hardly mentioned any more, even though they are still releasing cables... Truly, the interest of the public is fleeting.

What about that American bank? I would like to see it too!

Great

The cannon should shake the can a bit more, just to make sure it explodes in your face when you open it.

At CES?

What would it be doing there, since Apple was not?

Why would an accessory manufacturer bring something like that to a show, since they are obviously not allowed to show it?

Good call on the reaction from Apple. If this video is still on Youtube at the end of the day, it is fake.

Endless comedy

And all thanks to the USPTO.

I would actually trust the Sweden justice...

I would not be surprised if the whole thing was just about "following the rules". I.e. they are absolutely unwilling to change the way things would be done if he was just Joe Nobody. It is quite likely that they would refuse interrogating him at his convenience, be it in the UK or by video. So, following the rules, they ask for extradition the way they would with anybody else.

In that case, all this grandstanding about rendition would be nothing but paranoia from his part. Of course, you have good reasons to be paranoid when you pissed off the US so much...

I hope he gets extradited, then receives a fine and a few months with probation, as one would expect for such conduct. I would be laughing long and loud.

Wow

I didn't know that there was a city called Naples in the Middle East. It is a good thing that stupid behaviors like shooting at random for celebrating the new year would never occur on our civilized European continent.

...Right?

Another variation

A different joke is about a man working in a Chinese bicycle factory, trying to steal a bicycle piece by piece... Problem is, for some reason, every time he assembles the pieces he gets a machine gun.

You ain't seen nothing yet

Considering the way business seems to be done nowadays, the number of patent is going to double... It's going to increase and increase... UNTIL IT BLOWS!!1!!

PH, she knows how to blow, too.

Yes, but...

Can you put the laptop case in a docking station so as to have a desktop?

Lawyers have it bad too, it seems

Is Law School a Losing Game?

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/09/business/09law.html?hpw

Schadenfreude ist die reinste Freude.

What? No comment yet about the awesome title and subtitle to the article?

Fair enough

They kick him out, and forbid him from coming back, but he gets to keep the money. I have no idea how they intend to claim that what he did was illegal...

Wait, hang on. This might be construed as a way to circumvent a security feature, forbidden by the DMCA?

Cricket

Is the result of English people inventing games with more and more complex rules every time another country gets better than them at existing ones.

Developers, developers...

Hmmm... I am not quite sure why developers would peddle their wares there, considering they will have to pay a quite fat percentage to Apple.

I know it works for the iPhones, but that is really because there is no other way, isn't it?

Huh?

Hotmail still has that many users?

Good for them

They came out with the explanation pretty fast and without finger-pointing.

If only all companies acted that way...

I've always wondered

What happens when you push such a guard too far? Not much, it seems.

I remember hearing from the militia soldiers guarding embassies in Switzerland after 9/11. Their gun was sometimes loaded, but their instructions pretty much were that no matter what happened, they should not shoot. Now think carefully: What is the point of the gun being loaded in this case? Does it make for a more secure or a less secure world?

By the way

Assange must really regret not keeping it in his pants these days...

But whether he is Jim/Joe Leaks or not, I bet that Manning is regretting his compulsion to look cool on the web. Oh My God. Fifty years of your life for fifteen minutes of fame in a chat room.

It brings up True Lies' definition of kids: 10 seconds of joy, 30 years of misery.

Sounds good to me

Of course, they cannot make accusations, but they certainly indicated that they are more worried about the US government going too far than about WikiLeaks going too far.

Not that the US needs to pay attention to UN if they do not want to.

Dastardly plan fomented by Google

Now they'll be able to bring street view to staircases!

Stirring music indeed

Nevertheless, the $2 price soundly indicates that this is a for-profit outfit.

Video Games after Nature/Animal?

WTF? I would have thought games would be at the top...

It's the thrusters

Their strength should be in Newtons, not pound force

...The one with the Martian Chronicles book in the pocket...