Marty200 - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Ideas want to be public (Score 1) 539

by Marty200 on Friday July 24, 2009 @02:12AM (#28803981) Attached to: How To Vet Clever Ideas Without Giving Them Away?

If the guy took his idea to every major car maker, he wasn't keeping it a secret. He had the proper protection in place. I don't think that many companies would try to steal an idea right out from under you now as they all know they are going to get sued, and if you have your patent in place then you ideas are protected.

Oh and before Apple made it big, Steve Wozniak was giving away plans for the Apple I and Microsoft got it start by developing BASIC and DOS, neither of which were actually originally Microsoft ideas.

Journal Journal: Whistle-blower Had to Fight NSA, LA Times to Tell Story.

Journal by twitter on Wednesday March 07, 2007 @10:51PM

Mark Klein, Whistle-blower and former AT&T technician, is telling us more about his disturbing find and fight to disclose it. Perhaps worse than the spy network itself was the LA Times decision to cover it up:

Digital Film Distribution System Coming 124

Posted by kdawson on Monday March 05, 2007 @11:33PM from the beam-me-a-hit dept.

aniyo~ writes with word of a collaboration of movie studios with distribution companies to come up with a system for rapid digital distribution of movie masters. Universal Pictures, Warner Bros., and a company called Digital Cinema Implementation Partners are working on technology that will allow much more responsive film distribution based on local needs. DCIP is wholly owned by the Regal, AMC, and Cinemark theater chains, which among them run 14,000 screens in North America. The new system would be available to those and other interested theater operators. About 2,200 U.S. theater screens currently show digital films, and today these are, by and large, delivered on hard drives.

Submission + - U.S. Senators Pressure Canada on Canadian DMCA

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 05, 2007 @11:04PM

An anonymous reader writes: The U.S. copyright lobby brought out some heavy artillery last week as it continued to pressure Canada to introduce a Canadian DMCA. U.S. Ambassador to Canada David Wilkins gave a public talk in which he described Canadian copyright law as the weakest in the G7, while Senators Dianne Feinstein and John Cornyn wrote to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper to urge him to bring in movie piracy legislation.

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