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  • On the post: Merck 'Evergreens' Off-Patent Lipitor By Creating Combination Drug With No Additional Benefit

    Anonymoose Custard ( profile ), 09 Jul, 2013 @ 09:51am

    This tells me we need to change the drug approval process.

    Clearly, the FDA is at fault for a lot of this, and the Patent Office is clearly at fault for allowing the patent to be extended in this way.

    What needs to happen, in my mind, is that the structure of the approval process needs to be inverted a little: When a pharma comes to the FDA with a new drug, making claims that it improves over another drug, then the FDA should have the resources from its own budget to perform the study and evaluation for efficacy, safety, etc., and then if the drug doesn't meet expectations, then the pharma should pay a fine for wasting the FDA's time, in addition to getting the approval denied.

    In this way, the impetus is less on producing more drugs to extend patents and massive earnings and more on making more efficacious and safer drugs.

    Getting rid of the shareholders' opinions in this matter would also be of great benefit.

  • On the post: W3C Chief: To Prevent Parts Of The Web From Being Walled Off, We Need To Wall It Off Ourselves

    Anonymoose Custard ( profile ), 04 Jul, 2013 @ 08:14am

    Re: Re: Re: You're presupposing, as usual, that piracy is small.

    Well, not always.

    There was a time before middlemen. In those days, in the age of monarchies, IPR benefited the monarchies, by giving the monarchy or aristocracy authority over who was permitted to be published, by their whims.

    So really, it'a always been about the control over culture.

  • On the post: Why The NSA's Surveillance Program Is Illegal And Unconstitutional

    Anonymoose Custard ( profile ), 28 Jun, 2013 @ 04:09pm

    That this must even be explained is what is alarming.

    It is not so alarming that the NSA is spying so broadly, nor that they have been authorized to do it. It is alarming that its unconstitutionality must be explained.

  • On the post: Restaurant's Facebook Goes Nuclear Over Reviews & Gordon Ramsay; Owners Cry Hack

    Anonymoose Custard ( profile ), 15 May, 2013 @ 07:58pm

    Re: Amy is bi-polar

    Someone on reddit pointed out that Amy likely has Oppositional Defiant Disorder, and is not necessarily bipolar.

    ODD is characterized by four or more of the following behaviors for a period of at least 6 months:
    (1) often loses temper
    (2) often argues with adults
    (3) often actively defies or refuses to comply with adults' requests or rules
    (4) often deliberately annoys people
    (5) often blames others for his or her mistakes or misbehavior
    (6) is often touchy or easily annoyed by others (7) is often angry and resentful
    (8) is often spiteful or vindictive

    She's eight for eight.

  • On the post: Restaurant's Facebook Goes Nuclear Over Reviews & Gordon Ramsay; Owners Cry Hack

    Anonymoose Custard ( profile ), 15 May, 2013 @ 07:40pm

    Re:

    It took me the whole afternoon to watch it. I couldn't handle how awful that woman is.

  • On the post: Restaurant's Facebook Goes Nuclear Over Reviews & Gordon Ramsay; Owners Cry Hack

    Anonymoose Custard ( profile ), 15 May, 2013 @ 07:38pm

    Re:

    Regardless of what you think about the show, this episode is a stark departure from the usual fare.

    Right from the start, Gordon praises them for their spotless kitchen and well-organized fridge.

    He then samples some of the menu only to discover that it's improperly prepared, that the recipes are confused, that the wait staff is regularly mistreated, and that everything goes into the trash, untouched by customers who wait literally hours for the food they ordered.

    The problem in this kitchen is the people, and he gave up on them.

  • On the post: Patent Office, Perhaps Forgetting What Year It Is, Locks Down Mobile App Development Platforms

    Anonymoose Custard ( profile ), 18 Nov, 2012 @ 02:18pm

    Re: Re: We need to challenge it

    It's not enough. We need to actually challenge the validity of those patents even after they're granted; because all too often, they're still granted without enough review.

  • On the post: Patent Office, Perhaps Forgetting What Year It Is, Locks Down Mobile App Development Platforms

    Anonymoose Custard ( profile ), 16 Nov, 2012 @ 10:42am

    We need to challenge it

    We ought to set up some kind of public fund that goes into researching prior art and filing challenges with the patent office to have the patents overturned as they are approved.

    If we can get upwards of 70% of patents thrown out or rewritten within the first year, surely it will affect the change the patent office so desperately needs in the short term, so we can work toward reform (and perhaps abolition) in the long term.

  • On the post: UN: The Problem With The Internet Today Is It's Just Too Open & Terrorists Might Use It

    Anonymoose Custard ( profile ), 24 Oct, 2012 @ 09:36pm

    Re:

    Any person who would spread fear - terror - is engaging in terrorism.

    People who detonate explosives in public places to destroy and cause death and chaos do it not to kill people, but to instill fear. Terror.

    People who tell us who we should fear, instill fear in those who listen to them. Terror.

    Terrorism is fear-mongering, whatever its form.

  • On the post: UN: The Problem With The Internet Today Is It's Just Too Open & Terrorists Might Use It

    Anonymoose Custard ( profile ), 24 Oct, 2012 @ 09:29pm

    Re: Re: But, I thought...

    .... Which is terrorism.

  • On the post: UN: The Problem With The Internet Today Is It's Just Too Open & Terrorists Might Use It

    Anonymoose Custard ( profile ), 24 Oct, 2012 @ 09:32am

    But, I thought...

    Isn't the Counter-Terrorism Task Force supposed to protect us from fear-mongering, and not behave like terrorists themselves?

  • On the post: CISPA Author Ramps Up The FUD: Claims He Can't Sleep At Night Due To 'Unusual Source' Threatening Us

    Anonymoose Custard ( profile ), 06 Oct, 2012 @ 11:06am

    We really need to do something about these terrorists.

    Spreading needless fear and discord within Congress should be a crime.

    We shouldn't tolerate terrorists like Mr. Mike Rogers. Not within this land!

  • On the post: Hotel Lock Company Wants Hotels To Pay For Fixing Their Hackable Product

    Anonymoose Custard ( profile ), 29 Aug, 2012 @ 11:03pm

    Re:

    According to Brocious himself, the company has known about this vulnerability for at least 3 years.

    That's three years that they had to issue a fix.

    And this vulnerability is so trivial, that anyone with even a modicum of electrical knowledge and minimal programming experience can overcome it. There is, simply, no reason this vulnerability should still be in shipping locks.

    Three. Years.

    They have no excuses. They should be paying for this.

  • On the post: Hotel Lock Company Wants Hotels To Pay For Fixing Their Hackable Product

    Anonymoose Custard ( profile ), 29 Aug, 2012 @ 10:59pm

    Re:

    It sounds simple, because it is.

    The lock itself doesn't use any encryption, and the cards use a very weak 32-bit encryption based on the site code. The lock itself exposes everything via the programming port on the bottom. When I say everything, I mean that includes the site code (the unique code for the hotel) and everything that's in active memory.

    Unlocking it is a simple matter of finding the sitecode and issuing an unlock request.

  • On the post: Dear Judge Koh: Competition Is No Reason To Ban A Phone

    Anonymoose Custard ( profile ), 02 Jul, 2012 @ 04:22pm

    Re: Re:

    But then Jobs said, "Android is stealing from us," and that he would "bury" Google for daring to do so.

    We have a word for that: Hypocrisy.

  • On the post: Dear Judge Koh: Competition Is No Reason To Ban A Phone

    Anonymoose Custard ( profile ), 02 Jul, 2012 @ 04:19pm

    Koh's decision is strange...

    Especially in light of Judge Posner's recent dismissal of Apple v. Motorola, wherein he said that competition is a legally permissible harm and was not valid justification for an injunction.

  • On the post: Latest Humble Bundle Of Pay-What-You-Want Indie Games Raises $1-Million In Five Hours

    Anonymoose Custard ( profile ), 01 Jun, 2012 @ 12:36pm

    Re: Lets not forget...

    They also don't often have Linux support.

    At least with the Humble Bundle, I'm guaranteed that all or nearly all of the games will have native Linux ports. With Indie Royale, it's a crapshoot - if I'm not lucky enough to get a Linux port of a game, there's a good chance it won't work in Wine either.

  • On the post: Old Habits Or New Envy? Microsoft Bans 3rd Party Browsers On Windows RT

    Anonymoose Custard ( profile ), 12 May, 2012 @ 11:45am

    It's more of a technical reason for them to disallow other browsers

    According to Mike Pall, they're disabling the executable virtual memory APIs on Win32/ARM, and restricting all new apps to a trusted sandbox.

    As a technical restriction, that does unfortunately mean that none of the modern JavaScript interpreters (or any JIT component) will be able to function. Therefore, no Mozilla Firefox.

    I can understand their motivations here (ARM is quite a different beast from x86, and the APIs do need to evolve for these other platforms), but it's far less nefarious than anyone is suggesting.

    As much as I hate to admit that.

  • On the post: ICE & FBI Hatch Ingenious Plan To Make DVD Piracy Warnings Longer

    Anonymoose Custard ( profile ), 10 May, 2012 @ 11:03am

    Double the warnings

    Double the reasons not to buy!

    Now I have even more reasons to save my money and not consume video! Thanks DHS!

  • On the post: South Korea Still Paying The Price For Embracing Internet Explorer A Decade Ago

    Anonymoose Custard ( profile ), 09 May, 2012 @ 01:37pm

    Re: And that's why Korean internet sucks so much.

    It seems to me that they should dump SEED and use the SSL or TLS standards. They work well enough, and the export restrictions no longer apply to them.

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