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Yes, but I'm assuming the UK didn't draft a law in the mid 90s to prevent Islamic attacks on the US. The fact that their plans would be written in a foreign language (never mind a …

You don't need mailing lists - it works for bricks and mortar stores. I bought a groupon 1/2 price coupon for a fancy clothes store (Gap). I wouldn't normally go in there but for $…

So one business model = Apple Another = Unisys Looks like the beginning of the end....

Isn't this like taking out a giant ad saying win7-mobile is so technically poor - we have decided the only way to compete with Apple and Android is in court with software patents?

No offence to the above - but it's the same reason you don't find knowledgeable people working in the Software section of the bookstore. Go into the english-lit / history section o…

+-5 years in 2000years of German history ;-) Sorry, I had thought the hyperinflation + general chaos led directly to the rather unpleasant party seizing power in 1933 and so assume…

I'm a CS not a historian I thought the Weimar republic was 1930s In 2000 years of history that's only an error of 1%

No - IIRC it's 5years for 'normal' crimes or 7 years for terrorist cases. The whole law is ridiculous, it also includes unlimited spying by the security services with the bizarre K…

I was a grad student in CS at Cambridge when this law was introduced. A nice man from the police came to lecture us about it. We asked about proving that say the results from a Mon…

People did that as a protest when the law was introduced - they emailed random numbers to the then home secretary (the minister in charge of the police in the UK)

Thats what we do - your problem is to get a certain signal level in as small as space on the PCB as possible. We use our 20years each of studying physics, software we spent a lot o…

I think there was a tiny little bit of hyperinflation in Germany in the 20-30s. IIRC the exchange rate was 1,000,000,000,000 Mark = 1 Reichsmark

Trouble is that there is a knee in the learning curve. Everybody works with electrical equipement - it would be helpful if some of the 'non-technical' employees here understood abo…

If I only I could get a patent on irony - unfortunately it would mean getting Americans to understand it.

>you intend to commercialize it The problem then is that cell phone makers would have a monopoly, since no small company could come up with a better antennae, or better screen etc …

No - it was a requirement a century ago. You do have to describe a workable implementation, you can't just patent 'a time machine' - but you don't have to show that it is practical…

No it represents what a market maker thought the value of the patent was multiplied by the chance of collecting on it. What would the idea of the iPod have been worth in the 90s? T…

Simple - Patent trolls file suits against cool hip trendy geek friendly companies like Apple and Google. IP companies protect their investment when it's stolen by big evil companie…

I believe Germany did in the late 1930s but for other reasons the Reichmark didn't quite end up as the world currency they wee hoping for. You can decide to peg your currency again…

It was when I was at school 20years ago. And the ability to write 10 print "I am great" 20 goto 10 has led directly to the wide understanding of technology and the rational approac…

I don't think you understand the difference between a patent troll and an IP company. The company I work for designs antennae for cell phones, wifi, GPS receivers etc. We barely ha…