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Renegade:
Get ready to puke your brains out, this is certain to make you freak out:

http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2011/12/26/high_stakes_fueling_patent_wars/?p1=News_links

For example, Android phones can automatically decide whether to download data over a cellular network or over a local Wi-Fi network. British Telecommunications claims that it earned a US patent on the underlying technology in 2000. If the company prevails in this suit, instead of having the phone automatically begin downloads from the network the user would have to manually make the choice instead, switching from 3G or 4G cellular data on the road to Wi-Fi at home.
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Please allow me to explain what took me less than a second to figure out:


--- Code: C# ---bool wifi = WifiIsConnected();bool carrier = DumbAssCarrierIsConnected(); if (wifi){    connection = UseConnection(wifi_constant);}else if (!wifi && carrier){    connection = UseConnection(carrier_constant);}else{    // error as no connection is available..    connection = UseConnection(null);}
Just how retarded are these people?

And that's just small 1 part of the insanity...

This stuff isn't rocket science.


Lesson learned (NSFW)
Lesson learned:

1) THE CARRIERS ARE TRYING TO FUCK YOU AS HARD AS POSSIBLE.
2) IF YOU CAN'T TASTE THEIR COCK, IT'S BECAUSE IT'S IN YOUR ASS.

rgdot:
Who are these people in the patent office? supposedly following some law that allows these stuff? If decisions can be patented this is even more hilarious than usual. It's like saying the thermostat switching off when it's 70F can be patented

Renegade:
Who are these people in the patent office? supposedly following some law that allows these stuff? If decisions can be patented this is even more hilarious than usual. It's like saying the thermostat switching off when it's 70F can be patented
-rgdot (December 26, 2011, 12:36 PM)
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Exactly. This stuff is just off the hook nutty.

mahesh2k:
What the eff?

Carol Haynes:
The bigger irony is that BT don't even make/sell mobile technology any more - so they are effectively saying 'we don't use this and neither can anyone else'.

You have to laugh though - at last a British company has finally realised that there is a quick buck to be made from this scam.

Soon no one will be able to do anything as all the tech companies are locked out of their own products and the lawyers have one giant worldwide orgasm - maybe the solution to dwindling fossil fuels if someone can harness that energy. Now where is my patent application form ...

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