time to reform the patent review process. there is so much energy wasted fighting patent trolls. furthermore, this produces nothing, it just leaches on the wealth creation efforts of others.
I love a good beer story. This said, if Google keeps diluting its focus and its brand with these somewhat unrelated moves, I am going to start believing those who read these as early signs of its future demise.
interesting use of punitive downrating - maybe HN is just to full of Google employees and stockholders to entertain an objective critic of the company.
Heard about this. Sounds like Kelora is fishing for money.
Good luck upholding this in court. I hate what these patent trolls are doing to the industry! Time for government involvement.
Interesting paper. This is a big problem that I only see solved when public dollars start to pour again in research as opposed to the corporate sponsorships that have replaced them and demand applied science and quick profits in return for their investments.
Best minds of any generation have always thought about ways to make money.
Yes but making money by building things that truely further the good of humanity is very different from doing so while trying to separate more consumers from their cash
your view is a bit dramatic but probably closer to reality than anything else I have read in this thread. The so called A-players taking B and C outcomes also gradually increase their power and influence in the infrastructure of what the net economy has become because they are able to win in almost every cycle. The hipsters, usually only win once and then fade away from fame ;-)
My take on this is that the sly Putin loves to play Mr Democracy by outlining the failures of Western Democracies which Wikileaks has brought to light, not because he loves democracy but because it's that much difficult for the US and Euro democrats to criticize his constant censorship of dissenters in Russia once he can also finger their own totalitarian leanings.
