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Comment on Douchebag’s Row Welcomes Jesus Diaz by JT

JT — Fri, 18 May 2012 14:59:55 +0000

It’s heartening to see that anyone looking to see how bad Diaz is can find my answer by asking Google. I still hold the fact that my DBR induction of Hamilton Nolan is on the first page of anyone Googling his name as one of my greatest accomplishments as a blogger.

Comment on Douchebag’s Row Welcomes Jesus Diaz by Fed Up With Loser Diaz

Fed Up With Loser Diaz — Fri, 18 May 2012 13:44:23 +0000

I found this page by typing ‘How does Jesus Diaz have a job?’ into google.

Every time I read an article, I then start reading comments, and I see the same thing. The readers commenting, are pointing out the errors in every story, whether it be poor grammar, or ‘facts’ which aren’t really facts. THEN, this ‘editor’ bans or removes the commenter! I bet he is a guy suffering from the tough guy syndrome in real life. Just a hot head who cannot take criticism in anyway. I rarely go back to the sight now. Such a shame.

Comment on Apple Running Out of Cats to Herd by BigLeagueJew

BigLeagueJew — Thu, 17 May 2012 14:26:52 +0000

not elen ocerot!

Comment on Imagine if Criminal Trials Were Treated the Way Patent Trials Are by Jim

Jim — Sat, 05 May 2012 04:59:03 +0000

Apple’s lawyer should have asked the judge, while putting away his briefcase, why the jury in 2013 will be more able to handle all these issues than the jury in 2012.

Comment on Imagine if Criminal Trials Were Treated the Way Patent Trials Are by JT

JT — Fri, 04 May 2012 13:30:26 +0000

IMO, the biggest problem with the patent litigation system as it currently stands is that the process cannot weigh the comparative value of claims. If you look at the Samsung litigation timeline, Apple filed 16 claims first and many of these claims were specific to Samsung’s slavish copying of everything from icons to the way Samsung’s products were packaged. But since Samsung (and every CE company of any scale) has patents, Samsung countersued based on far more generic patents that could apply to any telecommunication device, such as “Method and Apparatus for Data Transmission in a Mobile Telecommunication System Supporting Enhanced Uplink Service”. These claims are not responsive to Apple’s, but value is irrelevant to their use as a negotiating tool. This creates a pre-trial logjam of Apple’s specific claims and Samsung’s generic ones. Not only does this take time, it allows Samsung to negotiate with patents as if they are as “valuable” as Apple’s, which is clearly not the case.

Comment on Imagine if Criminal Trials Were Treated the Way Patent Trials Are by Bazz

Bazz — Fri, 04 May 2012 01:15:03 +0000

Something happened in USA legal circles between Polaroid’s victory over Kodak and the USA feds penalties for Microsoft.
The feds became criminal supporters with lax views of corporate criminality provided the Capones’ gave generiously to re-election contributions. SEE ENRON
Till votes are not bought or Apple contributes the most to the Republic Party there will be no justice in patent laws.
Apple should buy out Congress.

Comment on Imagine if Criminal Trials Were Treated the Way Patent Trials Are by JT

JT — Thu, 03 May 2012 23:29:20 +0000

LOL. I understand how the system works, and that this is how intellectual property is defended. As I replied to your comment on MDN, the point is that the system is failing Apple.

Comment on Imagine if Criminal Trials Were Treated the Way Patent Trials Are by Ken

Ken — Thu, 03 May 2012 22:19:25 +0000

Apparently the author doesn’t understand how the system works. If someone commits a felony (such as stealing your car or murdering your wife), you call the police and they take it from there. However, if someone steals your intellectual property, there is no patent police, no copyright police, no trademark police. You have to sue to bring it before a judge. If you don’t defend your intellectual property, you lose it.

Apple isn’t being particularly litigious. Others are being particularly larcenous. Apple is taking the only course of action that is possible.

Comment on Microsoft “Smoked by Windows Phone” Marketing: Still Doing It Wrong by George Frustrated the 3rd

George Frustrated the 3rd — Thu, 03 May 2012 20:53:00 +0000

I think that this competition in a nonsense in every sense (pun intended). If you’re going to compare phones by any reasonable criteria, I believe that finishing a given task in under 10 seconds would be enough. However they chose to split hairs and count milliseconds there. And that really is nonsense AND brings bad publicity. If I were Microsoft, I’d have rerouted some portion of the millions of $$$ Microsoft puts into marketing into the prize fund, and have given away tens if not hundreds of laptops and Windows Phones. That would maybe be received as bribing the customers, but it sure would have generated a lot of publicity, and that would have been good publicity.

Comment on TMemeA: Just Because by JT

JT — Wed, 02 May 2012 18:04:03 +0000

I’ve been told I’m a dead ringer for Rebecca Black.