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On the post: Study Confirms That Revealing Secrets, Rather Than Hoarding Info, Is Good For Inventors

JesseJ ( profile ), 11 Feb, 2015 @ 01:54pm

revealing inventions before patent issues

I was puzzling over the 85%/15% 'data' that was mentioned, when I saw NOTHING otherwise to support it. HOW did the inventors define their inventions 'VALUE'? This article is a simple teaser . . . like 'news' headlines. Just words, no meat . . .

On the post: Huffington Post Doubles Down, Has MIT Professor Spread Blatant Falsehoods About Creation Of Email

JesseJ ( profile ), 03 Sep, 2014 @ 04:36pm

And, Al Gohr invented the internet

Somehow, these little myths seem to persist in spite the facts. Have no idea why this is.

On the post: Health And Human Services Ex-Cybersecurity Director Convicted Of Kiddy Porn

JesseJ ( profile ), 27 Aug, 2014 @ 05:36pm

Guarding the chicken coop

From the tone of the above comments, it is now being recognized that we are being governed by corrupt officials, and have been so for a long time. The usual push back for doing a 're-start' on the government is that we will create more problems because we lose all that 'institutional knowledge and experience', but the reality is that it is that 'knowledge and experience' which is at the heart of the problem! We desperately need a clean slate, new players and new rules. To BOTH political parties: THE PARTY IS OVER! Go home!

On the post: The Math Says HBO Shouldn't Go Direct, But They Left Innovation Out Of The Equation

JesseJ ( profile ), 12 Sep, 2012 @ 02:28pm

Eat it's Own

It always seems like Apple automatically gets the most credit, but I think I recall Andy Grove (Intel) commenting once that "If we don't eat our young, somebody else will".
(probably a little off, but the same idea)

On the post: Apparently Stripping Nude To Protest TSA Search Is Protected By The First Amendment

JesseJ ( profile ), 19 Jul, 2012 @ 01:49pm

Lady Godiva

As far as I can tell, this trend got started in England in about the year 1200 . . . using nudity as a form of protesting tyrrany. Hmmm . . . still works. Who would hav thought?

On the post: Senate Not Concerned About How Often NSA Spies On Americans, But Very Concerned That It Built Open Source Software To Do So

JesseJ ( profile ), 18 Jul, 2012 @ 01:57pm

I'm reminded of a book . . .

I read 'The First Circle' by A. Solzhenitsyn (sp?) back in the early 70's. He described Russian bureaucrats as always buying large 50 gal drums of black ink at the end of every fiscal year, to use up their budgets by getting a resource they could 'always use' and show the higher ups that they would need at least the same amount of cash for the next annual funding cycle. That was an old idea back then. Naturally, there were warehouses full of ink barrels . . .

On the post: Shouldn't We See It As A Problem When Patents Are The Product Itself?

JesseJ ( profile ), 05 Jun, 2012 @ 11:08am

Jerome Lemelson

I just scanned all the above comments and found no mention of Jerome Lemelson and his key invention of the 'submarine patent'. Basically, this 'new' viewpoint on patents is already very old. It's not even a new business model.

Uh, time to come up to speed folks. . .

On the post: Rolling Stone Highlights FBI's Fascination With Staging Its Own Terrorist Plots… While Ignoring Real Threats

JesseJ ( profile ), 31 May, 2012 @ 05:06pm

surprise

I'm surprised that any of you believe anything you read, see or hear any where, any more.

On the post: Some Data On How Much The Big Media Firms Are Donating To SOPA/PIPA Sponsors

JesseJ ( profile ), 05 Dec, 2011 @ 11:37am

controlling the internet

One phenomenon on the internet is having various items go "viral". This can be a good thing! Consider if millions of eligible voters caught up the notion which is presented on www.voidnow.org ? Specifically, we can make a huge change in Congress by Voting Out Incumbants. The old guard incumbants, who keep getting re-elected time after time are basically parasites preying off our voter laziness. The have EVERYTHING to lose if this notion were to go viral. Hence, they must get their clutches on the internet and control/stop it, any way they can.

On the post: The Many Killers Of The Film Industry: Volume One

JesseJ ( profile ), 24 Oct, 2011 @ 02:31pm

important missing details!

Spent three evenings this summer watching "Cal Shakes" and they make a point of bringing you up to speed on Shakespearean history. Along the way, they noted that Shakespeare's early works (read: Titus Andronicus") were a bloody tragedies because they had to compete with the prevailing entertainment that involved live bears battling to the death with other critters. Requirements for success included serious slaughter and blood - or so I'm told.
Might have foretold the future popularity of violent video games as being a natural inclination of mankind . . .

On the post: Worst Kept Secret Now Confirmed: Government Was Very Involved Helping RIAA/MPAA Negotiate Six Strikes

JesseJ ( profile ), 14 Oct, 2011 @ 11:55am

Another case of government transparancy

Hmmm . . . looks like the current administration is not living up to it's own standards. Surprise, surprise . ..

On the post: Kevin Smith Explains Why He Had To Waste $9,316 On Movie Ads That He Didn't Want Or Need

JesseJ ( profile ), 31 Aug, 2011 @ 04:49pm

Oscar

If the $9,316 results in an important Oscar, you can't buy that kind of publicity. I wouldn't worry about the loss. I'm sure it'll be written off in the taxes. However, is this the first time that Hollywood accounting was displayed in the moment? That's what I'd call transparency!

On the post: Swedish Teenager Turned Over To Police By School Headmaster For File Sharing Acquitted By Court

JesseJ ( profile ), 30 Aug, 2011 @ 01:48pm

Swedish Courts

Your description is fairly consistent with Stieg Larson's when they are trying Salander toward the end of "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest".

On the post: You Don't Own What You Thought You Bought: Verizon Breaks Phones; Turns Off Feature

JesseJ ( profile ), 12 Jul, 2011 @ 02:37pm

Baaaa Baaaa

Sheep. I first noticed that a large population of sheep were walking around America back in the mid 1970's. I presented a tech paper at a conference, where I detailed how I opened up a computer mainframe, hooked up my measuring equipment and made lengthy performance analysis measurements. The room was aghast, that a young grad student would violate the sanctity of the computer's innards without having the computer company's service rep present! I was aghast that they even thought this way. Thank goodness, I noted a sign at a recent "MakerFaire" stating if you can't open it, you don't own it. Sanity at last. Computers, cellphones, toasters, TV's are all meant to be tweaked. Go for it!

On the post: Copyright Reform

JesseJ ( profile ), 03 Jun, 2011 @ 02:01pm

Old School

I forget the details on the syllable count, but when I was first taught Haiku, there was a requirement to include a reference somewhere within to "nature" and also to the "seaon".

I grant it's cute, insightful, and fun.

Haiku, it's not.

On the post: Apple Sues Teen Who Sold Repair Parts To Make Your iPhone Into A Mythical White iPhone

JesseJ ( profile ), 31 May, 2011 @ 05:50pm

If you can't modify it, you don't own it

My wife and I have identical Weight Watcher point plus calculator. She marked the back of hers with a red nail polish splotch, so we can tell "whose is whose" - as if it matters. Nonetheless, this is along those lines . . . duh!

If you can't modify it, you don't own it!

On the post: Smartphones Make People Ignore Commercials Way More Than DVRs

JesseJ ( profile ), 27 May, 2011 @ 11:54am

Smart phones, DVR, whatever

It's kind of amusing, that they leave out the main video control resource that's been around much longer than any of this . . . the MUTE button. My mute button's nearly worn
out from all the use.

On the post: The Music Industry Is Desperate For A Few Good Technologists

JesseJ ( profile ), 10 May, 2011 @ 04:54pm

techies and music

hmmm . . . in like spirit. I'm nearly 63. Have played drums and other instruments since age 13. Have had a Phd. in Electrical Engineering since age 27. Worked with computers all my life. Still play drums. (DO NOT INSERT
musician/drummer joke here). Was surrounded by ARPA developers before there WAS an "internet". The internet was designed NOT to be destroyed. Anyway, I see the intersection of music and technology as resembling "Kurzweil". What's money got to do with it?

On the post: Leaked Documents Show How The RIAA Plans To Spend The Limewire Settlement

JesseJ ( profile ), 29 Apr, 2011 @ 11:14am

28 days?

Why would you sit on this blog entry for 28 days, and then release it on April 29th? Everybody knows that one of the main, important secrets to great comedy is great timing?
I know you can do better!

On the post: Banks Can't Figure Out How To Spell Gadhafi, So They Can't Freeze His Assets

JesseJ ( profile ), 19 Apr, 2011 @ 06:07pm

I can't resist . . .

They can't figure out which spelling to use? It's probably cultural. I remember that before the Iraq war, there were supposedly all these imitation Saddam Hussein's that went around in Iraq so people couldn't assassinate him. What happened to all of them? Where did they go? Hmmm . . .

In the Khaddafi case, we may just have it wrong. This might actually be a family whose last name is Ddafi, with triplet sons named: Kha, Gha and Qua . . .you never know!
Keep an open mind :)

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