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Comment: Re: How are those kind of things patentable? (Score 1) 397

by iamhassi (#46462309) Attached to: Apple Demands $40 Per Samsung Phone For 5 Software Patents
True, but there were many touchscreen phones before iPhones and none had the "obvious" slide to unlock feature. I had palm and windows mobile smartphones, both had touchscreens and neither unlocked like that. I love how no one does it until Apple but once Apple started doing that it's now "obvious" and shouldn't be patentable? That's BS, apple deserves the patent and to charge for it, if they don't like it then they can continue doing things the way palm and windows mobile did, which is press the power button to wake up the screen which seems pretty obvious to me.

Comment: Re: not in use? (Score 1) 921

by iamhassi (#46364981) Attached to: Woman Attacked In San Francisco Bar For Wearing Google Glass
You are right. Google glass is like walking around with a camcorder pointing at people all the time. Even if it appeared to not be recording I do not think I would trust the user and besides who wants to answer the "are you recording me??" question you're going to hear constantly? Don't even get me started if you try to wear them in a bathroom. Google is not perfect they have had many projects fail and glass is just one of many.

Comment: Re: Fly fishermen have used this property for year (Score 2) 111

by iamhassi (#46303755) Attached to: Fishing Line As Artificial "Muscle"
I'm sure someone figured it out long ago and I'm sure fishing line has probably already been used for this purpose. This is just the first time someone was willing to swallow their pride and publish it in a scientific journal. I'm sure there are scientists and engineers out there saying "no duh" and "thanks captian obvious" to this article.

Comment: Re:Wow.... (Score 2) 218

actually that doesn't sound unreasonable, you have to figure they got at least $100,000 of use from the photos and the rest is essentially free, putting him down as a sponsor, putting his name on the photos he took.... all sounds like reasonable requests. And that $100,000 provides royal free usage of all photos he has provided the color run from now until eternity, I would think that's a great deal for the color run.

Comment: Re: The brick builder's employees still get paid (Score 1) 716

by iamhassi (#46231457) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Should Developers Fix Bugs They Cause On Their Own Time?
Exactly. Brick builder is probably a contractor hired to build that wall and nothing else, so he (or his boss) is paid a set amount to build wall. Programmer that is hired hourly is paid for any work he does while working hourly, so just like any other hourly employee that makes a mistake at work the programmer is paid the same hourly whether a project takes 10 hours or 100 hours. Think McDonald's employee that drops soda, aren't they paid to clean up that soda?

Comment: Re: Alleged Apple patents on Android (Score 0) 249

by iamhassi (#46183575) Attached to: Wozniak To Apple: Consider Building an Android Phone
Exactly. Apple doesn't need android anymore then apple has needed windows for the past 25+ years. Apple will survive just fine for many years without Android.
Android is the one in trouble. With Samsung making their own smartphone OS and China moving away from Android we might see Android quickly fall to 3rd or 4th in the most popular new smartphones OS's sold.

Comment: Re: Normally I do not encourage piracy ... (Score 2) 385

by iamhassi (#46164295) Attached to: HP To Charge For Service Packs and Firmware For Out-of-Warranty Customers
But..... isn't this extortion? "Oh the thing we sold you has exploits? We can fix that right up.... for more money HAHAHA!!" That would be like buying a new car and finding out the air bags don't work and I have to pay manufacture to fix it, doesn't seem right.

Comment: Re: 50 cent (Score 1) 361

by iamhassi (#46164251) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Online News Is Worth Paying For?
Exactly. Problem is news has become a commodity, they're trying to sell us the news, and unfortunately most people only want to buy things that are interesting and fascinating or agrees with our political view. Therefore you get tons of articles about Justin bieber and very little about science.
