Just had a little earthquake – Natural Resources Canada is reporting an automatic detection of a 4.8 magnitude earthquake at Braeside, Ontario, at 9:43 EDT, May 17th, 2013.
I’ve heard it said that animals are ‘sensitive’ to this sort of thing – my dog is oblivious…
“There’s good news and there’s bad news,” said Cheng in an interview with Ars. “The good news is, we won this case on every point. The bad news is, we’re running out of lawsuits. There are fewer trolls for us to fight. I’ve spent a lot of time over the last seven years figuring out what to do with these guys. There are strategies I think would be really neat and effective that I literally can’t execute. I can’t make good law because I don’t have any appellate cases left. They [the trolls] are dismissing cases against us before any dispositive motions.”
Newegg Chief Legal Officer Lee Cheng
Newegg
Newegg has already won two other patent appeals this year from Kelora Systems and Soverain Software. Even though Alcatel-Lucent has billions in revenue from real businesses, when it comes to patent battles Cheng doesn’t see them as being so different. Since Alcatel is asserting patents in markets it’s nowhere near actually participating in he sees them as a kind of “corporate troll.”
I’m celebrating by heading over to Newegg and buying something!
Not that I know that much about them, but my older son is rather fascinated with them and is actively focusing his education so as to work with them. As a matter of fact, he recently started his first research job in Mathematics – and, yes, it is in the field of combinatorics.
It will be shared by Google, Nasa, and other scientists, providing access to a machine said to be up to 3,600 times faster than conventional computers.
Unlike standard machines, the D-Wave Two processor appears to make use of an effect called quantum tunnelling.
This allows it to reach solutions to certain types of mathematical problems in fractions of a second.
Came across a short but intriguing story today: a man was the victim of a very, very cruel trick indeed!
Robbing bank and getting away with it is getting harder and harder, because they have all these pesky cameras installed all over the place. What to do, what to do…
The solution is simple – become invisible!
So, this is exactly what one genius would-be bank robber in Tehran decided to do. All he needed to do is find a real wizard, buy an invisibility spell from him and voila, he could rob banks with impunity.
The only thing to have foiled his brilliant plan was that the wizard he bought the spell from turned out to be a fake wizard, and when he started snatching money from people’s hands at the bank, instead of being terrified, they beat him up and handed him over to the police…
Can’t really blame him, can you, as he’s been raised with ‘magical thinking’ – Saudi Arabia’s been executing witches, so why not believe there are sorcerers in Iran? This is what religious education does to people!
Like thousands of other Ottawans, I went to ComicCon this past weekend. And while I only lasted a few hours, it was immensely fun!
My favourite part (predictably) was to sit back and watch the people walking by…some of the costumes were awesome!
And it seemed like everybody there seemed very, very happy: despite the crowds and line-ups to go see people and events, I don’t think I saw a single grumpy person there.
One thing I noticed, though, was very interesting: among the booths of artists of all stripes and metal-smiths and guilds and steam-punk accessory stands and t-shirt vendors and and and…there was a CSIS (Canadian Security Intelligence Agency) booth!
Of course, I had to know what they were doing there: recruiting!!!
They were looking for computer-skilled people – and ‘reading between the lines’, it became clear that they were looking to recruit people with some hacking skills.
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