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  • On the post: Vonage Settles AT&T Patent Suit; Anyone Else Want To Squeeze Free Money Out Of Vonage?

    paintball barrels ( profile ), 08 Nov, 2007 @ 11:31pm

    Re: Re: First is First

    yes, and that cost includes damage to your reputation due to loss in stock value etc from having long-term unsettled disputes..

    lawyers are the new terrorists. none of this should be happening in a free country.

    It still blows my mind that the patent system put in place to give the small inventor a fighting change against large established competitors is the same one being used for exactly the opposite today. Deep pockets abuse the system to prevent any small startups from having a chance. But it is all because the patent system allows it.

  • On the post: Japan Is The Latest Country To Explore Copyright Term Extension

    paintball barrels ( profile ), 08 Nov, 2007 @ 11:23pm

    how bout

    another example of when lawmakers think they can do whatever they want. wonder if any have consulted the constitution on the matter? yes sorry, a shameless ron paul plug ;)

  • On the post: Professors Learning To Embrace, Not Hate, Wikipedia

    paintball barrels ( profile ), 01 Nov, 2007 @ 04:18pm

    Re: So nothing is citable?

    i think you need to know the author in order to cite material. Since wikipedia can be anonymous or many authors, i dont see how you can cite it directly... maybe?

  • On the post: ICANN Investigating Sites That Buy The Available Domain You Just Searched For

    paintball barrels ( profile ), 31 Oct, 2007 @ 01:27am

    registrar prices

    registrars pay 6.43 per .com domain name (up just recently from 6.00 which it was forever prior to that). So there's no 10 cent names for them. However, they are able to lock in names for 5 days, at (nearly) no cost. So if a name is locked out, check it in 5 days and see if its been released.
    Also, some discussions Ive seen suspected other parties of seeing the request that is apparently broadcast to other registrars.. and then capturing the name themselves. So it might not even be the reg you are using that is doing this.

    do a whois on the name to see who is actually holding it, you might be surprised. And, for the 5 day holding thing, check again in 5 days and it might even have a new owner.. they sometimes will bounce it around between owners to prolong the 5 free days.

  • On the post: Sun Notes That Both It And NetApp Are In California… So Why Is The Patent Lawsuit In East Texas?

    paintball barrels ( profile ), 30 Oct, 2007 @ 04:12pm

    Re: Texas has one interest to me

    Austin, were you trying to list reasons to or not to live here?

    oh and yall already have given us to mexico. thanks for leaving the door open.

  • On the post: Vonage Settles Verizon Patent Dispute; Next Up: AT&T

    paintball barrels ( profile ), 26 Oct, 2007 @ 06:46am

    not only

    not only is the patent system broken, it is ruining american business. personal experience. as a small biz, ive finally decided to quit trying to get my own patents because i dont have 6 million to defend them against (each)any infringers. and i sure dont have that money to defend myself. So Ill just pay licensing to whatever bully decides to come after me, and if my cost of business gets to be too high, ill just do something else. Maybe in another country.

  • On the post: Reminder: Patent Examiners Still Don't Scale

    paintball barrels ( profile ), 10 Oct, 2007 @ 08:01pm

    on that note

    i recently found a patent (i think i reff'ed it here once, cant find the linke now), that was issued as recently as a year ago...for a perpetual motion machine. honest-to-gawd motor spinning a generator and use the "excess" energy to power your stuff. seriously i think this one patent sums up just how bad it is. hell the patent office even has a short list of ( i think) 2 things that cannot be patented, and one of them is perpetual motion. friggin amazing

  • On the post: Do Virtual Aeron Chairs Violate The Rights Of Herman Miller?

    paintball barrels ( profile ), 10 Oct, 2007 @ 03:55pm

    heck yeah

    new nation with ron paul as president ;) ;)

    or wait... can you just move secondlife servers offshore somewhere? jurisdiction? hmm.

  • On the post: USPTO Panel Says Amazon's One-Click Patent Isn't Obvious

    paintball barrels ( profile ), 29 Sep, 2007 @ 07:02pm

    im on the hunt..

    this being just another reason im trying to decide which country to move to when my beloved USA falls upon itself... theres the UAE with no taxes, but no guanteed freedoms... theres china, with booming economy but a freaky form of communism. etc...

    its a choice of the US which constituionally guarantees freedoms but then ignores them frequently, or some other place that gives greater freedoms but with no guarantee they will continue (ie, dont piss them off). bleh.

    wow guess i got off topic ;)

  • On the post: OLPC Acting More Like What It Is: A (Non-profit) Tech Startup

    paintball barrels ( profile ), 26 Sep, 2007 @ 04:04pm

    this reminds me...

    i forgot i owned olpchack(er).com ;) sweet

  • On the post: OLPC Acting More Like What It Is: A (Non-profit) Tech Startup

    paintball barrels ( profile ), 26 Sep, 2007 @ 04:00pm

    ill take one!

    but since i pay too much taxes.. can i buy one and sponsor a po american kid and get a nice tax break?

  • On the post: How Much Taxpayer Money Is Wasted By Grandstanding Politicians On Unconstitutional 'For The Children' Laws?

    paintball barrels ( profile ), 26 Sep, 2007 @ 02:57pm

    constitution?

    did somebody say ron paul?

    amazing thing is he is prolly the only congressman who would have the cojones to vote against a fer the chillren bill stickly on the constitutionaliy of it. of course he would vote against it even if it were const. because it would be spending tax money.

    so lets put him in as president and enjoy the show. Id love to see his nickname switch from Dr. No to Dr. Veto

  • On the post: Class Action Lawsuit Filed By People Who Want A La Carte TV

    paintball barrels ( profile ), 20 Sep, 2007 @ 10:56pm

    if i

    if i had ala carte, i would prolly have 3 channels. hmm maybe 2. hmm and i dont even like those... why do i watch tv?

  • On the post: Company Betting On GPS-Based Driving Tax

    paintball barrels ( profile ), 16 Sep, 2007 @ 03:08pm

    exactly

    yep this cant just be an odometer setup, as i would assume this will charge you like tollroads. and tollroads are at different rates. so it has to be able to determine which road you are on. the varying rates of course are a method to try to de-congest areas- charge more in congested areas to influence drivers to go another cheaper route.

    big money maker + big brother watching your every move. brilliant!

  • On the post: GPS Maker Hopes To Harness The Power Of The Community

    paintball barrels ( profile ), 10 Sep, 2007 @ 09:33pm

    speed...

    Im considering patenting this, but id like to have radar detectors build into the gps and a method to commnunicate locations out to other users in the area.. if we keep a live map of all smokey's, the tickets shall no longer prevail.

    if its legal...

  • On the post: City Sends Spy Planes Out To Determine If Your Home Is Wasting Energy

    paintball barrels ( profile ), 08 Sep, 2007 @ 11:54am

    gubberment

    yep this is one step past too far. i pay for my energy so mind your own dam business.
    vote ron paul, suckas

  • On the post: MPAA Moves On To Making Up Stats About Camcording In The UK Market

    paintball barrels ( profile ), 06 Sep, 2007 @ 06:19pm

    wow

    the only time i download camcorder rips is if one is mislabelled as something else :) cam rips are annoying as @#$@ to watch.

    but really, most movies nowdays not only arent worth watching in the theatre, they arent even worth renting. so how you gonna stop people from sharing the vids once they come out for rent? hmm? your film aint that great, so i can wait ;)

  • On the post: Still Not Betting On An eBook Revolution

    paintball barrels ( profile ), 06 Sep, 2007 @ 12:35pm

    if i had time to read...

    i would likely do the e-ink thing and get a decent reader for it. anyone who has tried reading on a pda or (i)phone knows that it wears your eyes out, but not as fast as the battery. running that backlight for that long of time, aint gonna happen. and the screen is borderline too small, so you have to scroll too much or click too often. a nice e-ink pad that is a bit larger (book size?) would suit me fine.
    oh and make it cheap ;)

  • On the post: Dear Shaolin Monks: There Are People On The Internet Who Make Up Stories. Just Ignore Them

    paintball barrels ( profile ), 01 Sep, 2007 @ 03:19pm

    confused

    what about those poor confused ninjas who live in monasteries... not that there's anything wrong with that.

  • On the post: Microsoft, Eolas Settle: It's Still Cheaper To Pay Up Than Fight Bogus Patents

    paintball barrels ( profile ), 30 Aug, 2007 @ 08:48pm

    where

    oh where has my america gone to?

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