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Comment: Re:Certainly has a legitimate track record (Score 1) 106

by Tontoman (#42100685) Attached to: Researcher Claims To Have Chrome Zero-Day, Google Says "Prove It"
Maybe not so legitimate, but he is certainly an active hacker. For example : http://laetitia-schlumberger.com/index0.php and http://horeblawski.eu/euricms/
Softpedia profiled this person in an article: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Hackers-Around-the-World-No-Flaws-Escape-This-Georgian-s-Longrifle0x-252180.shtml
However, a subsequent comment by the author says:
"When this article was published the researcher was a respected member of an important security research team. In the meantime, his work became more "controversial."

Comment: Re:Question (Score 1, Informative) 153

by Tontoman (#42098493) Attached to: Federal Officials Take Down 132 Websites In "Cyber Monday" Crackdown
"Intellectual property rights theft is not a victimless crime. It threatens U.S. businesses and robs hard-working Americans of their jobs, which negatively impacts the economy. It can also pose serious health and safety risks to consumers, and oftentimes, it fuels global organized crime." Here is a link to Homeland Security's rationale: http://www.dhs.gov/topic/intellectual-property-rights

Comment: Re:misconception ? (Score 2) 218

by Tontoman (#42085995) Attached to: Researchers Investigating Self-Boosting Vaccines
Some types of viruses, like AIDS and flu, mutate more rapidly because of their mechanism of making DNA from RNA which is error-prone. http://www.virology.ws/2009/05/10/the-error-prone-ways-of-rna-synthesis/ Other viruses are more stable may benefit from the idea in TFA. However, to me it seems dangerous to engineer viruses just reduce the number of required booster shots.

Comment: Safeguarding our privacy? (Score 1) 107

by Tontoman (#42048209) Attached to: That Was Fast: Leahy Drops Warrantless E-mail Surveillance Bill
This is especially ironic since Leahy is not only handling this warrantless wiretap issue, but he is also a man who has already has resigned from a Senate committee for his inability to keep secrets. http://www.nytimes.com/1987/07/29/us/iran-contra-hearings-senator-leahy-says-he-leaked-report-of-panel.html

Comment: Re:Wonder how much Apple stock he owns? (Score 3, Informative) 153

by Tontoman (#42046149) Attached to: USPTO Head: Current Patent Litigation Is 'Reasonable'

. . . if the head of the office is trying to use smartphones as an example of patents inspiring "innovation", he is... an idiot, quite frankly (or a liar, either way, not trustworthy).

On the other hand, the Patent system works well when viewed in its historical context. They have been a net benefit for innovation. . For example, there are many fewer patents lawsuits regarding Smart Phones than there were in the time the original telephone was invented. Here is a god article: http://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesleadershipforum/2012/02/09/no-the-patent-system-is-not-broken/2/
What we need is general legal reform so that disputes can be decided simply and inexpensively without Lawyers getting all the goodies.

Comment: Must be more to this story (Score 2) 237

by Tontoman (#42043775) Attached to: Meg Whitman Says HP Was Defrauded By Autonomy; HP Stock Plunges
Mike Lynch, the former CEO of Autonomy, has had a "midas touch" with respect to companies he has been associated with. He is commonly referred to as the "Bill Gates of the UK." The short time I worked for Autonomy (after they bought Verity, my former employer) my stock options showed surprising appreciation. Like google, their business is based on unstructured search algorithms. But their algorithm (Shannon's Information Theory) is published and peer reviewed.
