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  • On the post: Lindsay Lohan's Lawyer's Loopy Legal Argument Laced With Lifted Language?

    slacker525600 ( profile ), 23 Mar, 2012 @ 11:37am

    re: the article's title

    Id have said legalese instead of legal argument, to continue the alliteration ... and to point out the fact that the filing does not appear to actually contain an argument.

  • On the post: Guy Claims Google Owes Him $500 Billion

    slacker525600 ( profile ), 18 Aug, 2011 @ 05:38am

    as much as he is crazy

    Isn't his point a valid one. As far as I am aware contract law is pretty clear that you cant unilaterally change the terms of a contract and the way websites do it nowadays they dont even give any form of notification. The boilerplate on most websites nowadays appear to me to be unenforceable and invalid contracts, and somebody needs to bring the issue to court. The last I remember reading about it, some judge claimed it was fine as long as there was a link to the terms somewhere you would see it while logging into the site and the hyperlink to the contract was a different color(maybe he said something about it being underlined). The methodology he is trying to use is silly and a waste of everybody's time, but if he is just trying to point out an issue with contracts on the internet I have to say I think he has a point.

  • On the post: We've Trained The TSA To Search For Liquid Instead Of Bombs

    slacker525600 ( profile ), 27 Apr, 2011 @ 11:24am

    I traveled with ice cream...

    in a cooler filled with ice (actually those freezable packets of ice). they let me through. since everything was frozen. I didnt have any liquids. Security theater at its finest.

  • On the post: Want To Grope People At Random In Airports (Not Just At Security)? Join The TSA!

    slacker525600 ( profile ), 29 Mar, 2011 @ 12:31pm

    Re: happened to me at midway friday afternoon

    I guess I should clarify, Im a guy, didnt get my chest groped, had the inner part of my leg felt, and had to lift up my shirt so the guy could check around the inner part of my belt loops.

  • On the post: Want To Grope People At Random In Airports (Not Just At Security)? Join The TSA!

    slacker525600 ( profile ), 29 Mar, 2011 @ 12:15pm

    happened to me at midway friday afternoon

    I assume there was some heightened state of security this past weekend.
    A guy in my row commented to me that he would have gotten pissed if it had been him.

  • On the post: If You Think Writing For Free Undermines Your Profession, Just Don't Do It!

    slacker525600 ( profile ), 21 Mar, 2011 @ 09:10am

    I dont know if I believe this one

    "there are literally billions of other websites to go write for"

  • On the post: Maintenance Report Shows Radiation Levels On Some TSA Scanners 10 Times Higher Than Promised

    slacker525600 ( profile ), 14 Mar, 2011 @ 12:18pm

    cue class action lawsuit 10 years from now

    erin brockovich comes to mind...

  • On the post: DailyDirt: Chemistry Isn't Just A Class Everyone Hated In High School….

    slacker525600 ( profile ), 03 Mar, 2011 @ 05:22pm

    as much as I think plastics are dangerous

    there is a point to be made claiming that the research is biased, as the lead researcher has a large stake in a company that produces competing products that do not leech estrogenic compounds.

  • On the post: Homeland Security Tries And Fails To Explain Why Seized Domains Are Different From Google

    slacker525600 ( profile ), 04 Feb, 2011 @ 11:35am

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

    this isnt nitpicking, it is a defense of the first, fourth, and fifth amendments to the constitution.

  • On the post: Homeland Security Tries And Fails To Explain Why Seized Domains Are Different From Google

    slacker525600 ( profile ), 04 Feb, 2011 @ 11:11am

    doublespeak

    "debunked talking points of the industry -- insisting that anyone watching a PPV event without paying represents lost revenue. Apparently all the studies that say this isn't the case don't matter, so long as someone who directly financially benefits from Hayes' actions tells him otherwise"

    correction: so long as someone who thinks they will directly financially benefit ...

    These seizures dont really accomplish anything as every site can go right back up with a different domain. And the seizures don't increase revenue because the sites in question take away from the customer base to begin with.

  • On the post: Erotic Art Museum Comes Up With Bizarre Justification For Suing Photographer For $2 Million

    slacker525600 ( profile ), 13 Jan, 2011 @ 12:57pm

    although his second article is down, he had an initial posting

    still up as of five seconds ago
    http://thomashawk.com/2010/12/miamis-world-erotic-art-museum-fraudulently-uses-the-dmca-to-take-down-items-in-their-collection-from-the-web.html

  • On the post: Guy Faces Five Years In Prison For Reading Wife's Email

    slacker525600 ( profile ), 29 Dec, 2010 @ 09:40am

    the analogous scenario

    being prosecuted for breaking into a safe and taking nothing, when the keys to the safe were left next to it... for charity

  • On the post: Study Suggests Placebos Don't Have To Be Secret To Work

    slacker525600 ( profile ), 27 Dec, 2010 @ 01:11pm

    wired had an interesting piece a while back

    http://www.wired.com/medtech/drugs/magazine/17-09/ff_placebo_effect?currentPage=all

  • On the post: Revealed: The Mysterious Cleavage-To-Age Effectiveness Ratio For Dating Sites

    slacker525600 ( profile ), 14 Dec, 2010 @ 08:47am

    I think my favorite stat from the blog was

    in the http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/gay-sex-vs-straight-sex/ article, if you search down to "I discovered one question with a surprising disparity, not between orientations, but between genders." Tis ... comical.

  • On the post: If Only Newspapers Put As Much Effort Into Correcting Errors That Didn't Involve Captain Kirk & Captain Picard

    slacker525600 ( profile ), 09 Nov, 2010 @ 12:22pm

    actually they just got trolled really hard,

    as noted above by other people their corrections were in fact massively flawed, but it is purely because the comments on the original article were more about screwing with the publication than fixing the errors.

    the correct info about star trek is here, http://www.reddit.com/r/scifi/comments/e0d13/newspaper_issues_star_trek_correction_makes_more/c149z1r and other comments on that thread are relevant.

  • On the post: US Patent Office Makes It Harder To Reject Patents For Obviousness

    slacker525600 ( profile ), 08 Nov, 2010 @ 01:45pm

    Re: Is your summary correct?

    I just read some of it, and your comment seems correct.

    The update seems to provide case law examples for the first three rules as teaching points but (from what I have read) does not imply that the other four rules are invalidated. Just that there have been significant rulings on the issue since that have helped to clarify the first three rules.

    "The first three groups correspond directly with three of the rationales identified in the 2007 KSR Guidelines. These rationales? combining prior art elements, substituting one known element for another, and obvious to try?have each been the subject of a significant number of post-KSR obviousness decisions."

    "Office personnel may use this 2010 KSR Guidelines Update in conjunction with the 2007 KSR Guidelines (incorporated into MPEP ?? 2141 and 2143) to provide a more complete view of the state of the law of obviousness.

    This 2010 KSR Guidelines Update provides a ?teaching point? for each discussed case. The ?teaching point? may be used to quickly determine the relevance of the discussed case, but should not be used as a substitute for reading the remainder of the discussion of the case in this 2010 KSR Guidelines Update. "

  • On the post: When Your CEO Suggests Moving In Response To Privacy Questions, Time For A New CEO

    slacker525600 ( profile ), 25 Oct, 2010 @ 07:09pm

    hooray soundbites

  • On the post: Once Again, Be Careful What You Wish For: China Learning To Use Other Country's Patent Systems

    slacker525600 ( profile ), 15 Oct, 2010 @ 05:19am

    do you really think an east texas jury will rule with a foreign company?

    I mean ... it's texas we are talking about here.
    all of a sudden the mindset will become, well, if a foreign company came up with it, of course it was obvious.
    just saying.

  • On the post: Meet The Patent Thicket: Who's Suing Who For Smartphone Patents

    slacker525600 ( profile ), 08 Oct, 2010 @ 10:39am

    Re:

    I agree, but dont think a circle is always the best.
    I would like to see a little spreadsheet of data instead of this mess.
    Id also like to know if the chart was done freehand or with a program designed to draw graphs. because there is free software out there for this sort of thing... my first thought is http://www.graphviz.org/

  • On the post: Surprise, Surprise: MPAA In Favor Of Current ACTA Text Before Anyone's Supposed To Have Seen It

    slacker525600 ( profile ), 05 Oct, 2010 @ 09:18am

    Hasn't it been said from the start

    that part of the reason some of the obvious irreconcilable differences have been left in so long is to gloss over the fact that the entire treaty is bad?
    The anti counterfeiting trade agreement covers far more than its title implies.
    Repeatedly telling somebody you are going to break their legs, and then rewarding them with a punch in the face is not a cause for thanks.

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