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We foreigners - bloody are otherwise - simply enjoy special privileges exclusively for a (short) while, before they are also brought to residents of the United States. Take drone surveillance as an example, now common place inside that country as well. I predict that drone bombing will be next. All in...
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Have to agree with Joel Hruska here ; this trend definitely predates Messrs Bush and Obama and to my mind, is more a reflection of the technical means now available to keep people under surveillance without detailing a chap in a trench coat and fedora to trail them than something that suddenly was dreamed...
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For some odd reason, I have far more confidence in an application or device dreamed up and designed by engineers and which competes in the market place than in one conceived by «designers»/marketing people, which competes in the courtroom.... Henri
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Without your asking it ?!! Brrrrrr.... Henri
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Sounds spooky - and, indeed, more than a little overbearing - to me. Do people really want their «phones» (minicomputers) to «autonomously» offer them suggestions as to what they should do and where they should go ? Without having been asked ?... Henri
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See this Atlantic article on the case for abolishing patents (with a link to the working paper, commissioned by that radical institution, the Federal Reserve Bank of Saint Louis). Article I, Section 8(8) of the US Constitution provides that : «[The Congress shall have power ...] To promote the...
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I owe you one - put it on the tab !... Henri
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3vi1 ... I have yet to see one of these patent lawsuits where I didn't think the 'invention' (idea, really, as many of these patents aren't associated with a specific product) was completely obvious to anyone practicing in the field of design or implementation. But you have to admit that...
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For my part, I certainly hope that those «people who get even less done than those hard working civil servants we have in Washington» do manage to get something done about the disgusting circus of absurd patents and still more absurd patent litigation we are now witnessing - Judge Posner's...
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That the patent system in the US, like that country's (in)justice system, is broken is obvious. But I am a bit surprised that more users don't seem to react to the manner in which Apple in particular takes advantage of the system and rather more or less excuse the company by saying that «everybody...