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• On the post: Hollywood Studios Send DMCA Takedowns Over Kim Dotcom's Mega Service

  

  John Pettitt ( profile ), 29 May, 2013 @ 08:31am

  Google could solve the bad takedown issues.

  Google could easily solve this - they could rate the accuracy of DMCA takedown notices and negatively rank companies that send bogus ones as a penalty for wasting everybody's time. Watch how fast the studios clean up their act when their own sites stop showing up on page on.

• On the post: United Airlines Kicks Travel Writer Off Of Plane For Photographing His Seat

  

  John Pettitt ( profile ), 15 Mar, 2013 @ 04:21pm

  Nobody told the united social media team about this rule

  2 weeks before this happend I tweeted a pic of my United airlines meal while still in flight and @united responded positively. Clearly the left hand has not met the right hand.

• On the post: Pirated Buildings In China And The Rise Of Architectural Mashups

  

  John Pettitt ( profile ), 09 Jan, 2013 @ 11:44am

  Have you been to Las Vegas recently?

  Drive down the Vegas strip - building piracy is not exactly limited to China. Also every gothic cathedral in Europe.
  
  Now how ell engineered the copies in China are is a whole other issue...

• On the post: SurfTheChannel Founder Gets Extra Jail Time For Revealing Documents That Raised Questions About His Conviction

  

  John Pettitt ( profile ), 22 Nov, 2012 @ 10:12am

  The judge is, im my option, an idiot

  Hopefully on appeal this will get reversed and the judge will get suitably reprimanded. I do find myself mentally speculating what motivated the judge to be so intemperate. I'll leave the actual reasoning to your imagination because imagining judicial corruption isn't illegal yet.

• On the post: AT&T Tries To Tapdance Around Net Neutrality Regulations

  

  John Pettitt ( profile ), 23 Aug, 2012 @ 11:44am

  Material change?

  So does charging for facetime data constitute a material change to ATT's data plan (I have unlimited data grandfathered in, this is a limit on data, ergo a material change)? If it does then that means I'm off the hook for my contract and can dump AT&T when the iPhone 5 comes out ...
  
  This could be a huge issue for ATT if the idea catches on ...

• On the post: Network Analysis Reveals Apparent (And Legally Questionable) Attack On Torrent Networks

  

  John Pettitt ( profile ), 24 May, 2012 @ 07:11pm

  Forced dissconect

  *Speculation*
  
  If the forged uTP data backed contains the address of a legitimate uTP node and if the target uTP peer responds with a FIN, sent to the real node, due to the invalid sequence this would provide a mechanism to force peer disconnects which matches closely the Pirate Pay description. If this is the case it's very easily defeated by discarding invalid sequences instead of sending FIN. If it were a legitimate connection the a correct packed will eventually arrive and all will be good and if it's a spoof there is no harm done.
  
  End Speculation.

• On the post: 'What Idiot Wrote The Patent That Might Invalidate Software Patents? Oh, Wait, That Was Me'

  

  John Pettitt ( profile ), 23 Aug, 2011 @ 03:03pm

  Re: It's a complex issue = bull manure

  It's complex because the line as to what is software is not easy to define. If you build an analog device that does something and get a patent but if you build the exact same device using off the shelf programmable parts under the 'no software patents' logic it's not patentable.
  
  For example - there is an important patent on intermittent windshield wipers, one that was litigated for a long time and eventually the auto makers lost. But clearly it's just automating a manual process and if you use a gp micro to do it it would be considered a software patent but if you used a 555 timer it wouldn't - that's nuts. The invention itself should be what matters.
  
  The problem is not that inventions implemented in software are getting patents - it's that pretty much anything thrown at the patent office gets a patent - if the standard for examination and issue were higher we wouldn't be in this mess.

• On the post: Court Ruling Opens The Door To Rejecting Many Software Patents As Being Mere 'Mental Processes'

  

  John Pettitt ( profile ), 19 Aug, 2011 @ 02:02pm

  Well this is interesting

  So I was thinking - great they invalidated software patents, lets see what crappy patent written by an idiot they picked to do it - then I realized the idiot in question was me :-)
  
  Not sure how I feel about this.
  
  John - inventor of the patent in question.