Posts by Ian 12

Hefty physicist: Global warming is 'pseudoscientific fraud'

APS attack

I think that some of the commentards above missed the point of his letter. He wasn't trying to provide great reasoned scientific arguments for or against climate change. He is a sceptic and wanted the APS to abide by its constitution and have a debate. He couldn't get that debate so has publicly resigned.

I assume if had got that debate he may brought up some sciency type arguments.

Google cools data center with bottom of Baltic Sea

Floating data centres...

Have already, of course, been thought of - by Google!

http://tiny.cc/t5g8y

Paul Allen's patent madness not worth single penny

Slight Mixed message in the first para???

"Businesses aren't built on ideas"

and

"It won because it did search better than anyone else"

Just making the point that they did have a new idea (no idea if they tried to patent it), a different way to rank web pages, which turned out to be much better.

I think that the whole monetizing came later, as a result of being so popular as a search engine. So, absolutely agree that an idea is nothing without the people to do something with it. Just not sure you're comments are "what makes the US patent system ... so broken".

I think it the US system is not good but I think it is more to do with incentives to sue such as "triple damages" if the person you are suing were aware (or should have been aware) of the patent.

Whilst the US patent system is quite different to other countries, I think it is the difference in the court process which really creates the trolls.