http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-...DN/20070157227
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http://mattscuppa.wordpress.com/2007...ection-center/
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http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&c...ork%22&spell=1
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No..............it is the America you know and love?Quote:
OMFG Is this a joke?
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Only in America
i wonder if microsoft gave the person who came up with this a raise. if that is the case then im pretty sure this guy thinks he should come to work high more often
I've always thought M$'s best programmers were in legal...
Actually the patent will fail because the CIA filed it years ago :D
I don't bloody believe it, how the feck are they going to get away with that!
It's a patent... Nothing more, nothing less.. We'll have to wait and see if MS is really going to implement it or not.
They are already mining personal data stuff from Vista, now they want to get this crap slapped on your screen to.
I can see a lot of people giving up and just going to the *nix option.
Well there could be an upside, I doubt Micro$oft is benign enough to do it, but couldn't they sue or whatever since a lot of malware could fit the description?
I am pretty sure that MSXP will be the last Microsoft OS I own.
I think this could be really bad for PR... but hey, they're microsoft... and the masses love them.Quote:
The adware framework would leave almost no data untouched in its quest
to sell you stuff. It would inspect “user document files, user e-mail
files, user music files, downloaded podcasts, computer settings,
computer status messages (e.g., a low memory status or low printer
ink),” and more.
It will be fun to see what happens in the EU............ we don't grant patents for criminal activities and we have some brains.......... no lawyer and other reptile smallprint gets around that.
A contract condoning an illegal act is in itself illegal, and therefore unenforceable .........
Without my specific and knowledgeable permission (in writing or verbally infront of witnesses) we have:
1. "Inspecting user document files"................a crime
2. "Inspecting user e-mail files" .......... a crime
3. "Inspecting user music files" ..........a crime
4. "Inspecting downloaded podcasts ....... a crime
5. "Inspecting computer settings & computer status messages ........ a crime
Kind of behaviour I would expect of a drug baron? ............. hmmmm, doesn't a certain WGIII have a conviction for narcotics? ................
Seems he wants to re-write your bloody constitution now?
As ever, my offer to endorse your application to rejoin the Commonwealth stands............. :D
Nihil, Show me where to sign :)Quote:
As ever, my offer to endorse your application to rejoin the Commonwealth stands.............
Im guessing that, since they are trying to get this patent approved, they will probably be sneaky in how you accept the terms and conditions. Such as the EULA when you install the OS or something. I however don't think that it will be approved because it was filed last year and it hasn't gone through yet. Thats not really saying much but all of the patents I've heard going through usually took less than 6 months.
Way to go MS, just take advantage of the fact that you control most of the OS market.
So...... If they do this..... Does that mean that they will be able to look into companies databases and target ads based on their data? Yeah right this isn't gonna happen.... Right?
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No..............it is the America you know and love?
Indeed, thank God I live in Britian.[sic]:rolleyes:Quote:
Only in America
Here are some more wacky patents from you crazy Americans:
Reminder and Enforcer Apparatus <- Reminding kids to wear there braces - by implanting an alarm in ther mouths!
Or how about the
Apparatus for Facilitating the Birth of a Child by Centrifugal Force. You know when your spinning around and you feel dizzy? Try giving birth at the same time!
Found these at www.bpmlegal.com/weird.html
As for Microsoft - tut tut. O well, I use linux.
:D
Now think of movies like Minority Report where advertising is exactly this; gathering information about who you are in order to sell you a product successfully!Quote:
It's a patent... Nothing more, nothing less..
The patent simply means that in one of the many possible futures IF.... IF the idea becomes real then the patent holder owns all the rights and profits. Even if the patent was filed for a far out idea that seems impossible, but just so happened to used some time in the future for futuristic reasons...... get my drift? I found it hard to put in words :p
[edit]In summary. If you have a patent on an idea, you own the rights to it. My thoughts would be that M$ will be patenting any lop sided ideas from their staff and "other" sources, Just In Case - for money! [/edit]
Only in America?
This ain't the only place one can buy justice.
Yar!, it just costs more here! :)
So let me get this straight...I'm kind of slow.
Microsoft now has a patented way to invade my privacy?
Freakin' outstanding!
And since it's "patented", everyone else that wants to do it has to pay royalties?
The line between genius and madness just got thinner.