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    Hobo Hut Features Solar Power, Is Nicer Than My Apartment

    IBM First Company to Win 4,000 Patents in a Year, More Than Microsoft and Intel Combined

    Guy Invents Potential Cancer Cure With Radio Machine Built Out of Pie Pans... and Hot Dogs

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    Image of Software_Goddess Software_Goddess
    05/01/09

    In reply to Hobo Hut Features Solar Power, Is Nicer Than My Apartment
    This brings back memories of my fort building days as a child. We dragged everything but the refrigerator into our forts.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee
    05/01/09

    @Software_Goddess: When I was a kid, we'd build our fort FROM old refrigerators! And we'd stay in them until we passed out from lack of air and Henry had to find us.
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    Image of Curves Curves
    05/01/09

    @Software_Goddess: I had one as well, full of childhood treasures. I got a huge pallet sized box and made a house for my daughter. That was her fortress/castle for the longest time. I was the only one honored enough to be asked in, and that was just ONCE to have tea with her rag dolls and dinosaurs. When the box, um fortress, got wet and we had to throw it away she cried and cried. I replaced it with a pup tent that is waterproof and moved inside and out depending on season.


    Being an adult isnt as much fun as I thought it was going to be.....

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    Image of bosskev bosskev
    05/01/09

    @Curves: So I keep hearing, which is why I never will become one.
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    05/01/09

    In reply to Hobo Hut Features Solar Power, Is Nicer Than My Apartment
    Look, it's obviously John Connor living off the grid. I don't know about you, but I'm off to Japan once the bombs start to fly.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    05/01/09

    In reply to Hobo Hut Features Solar Power, Is Nicer Than My Apartment
    I can see this as part of a Shantytown in Blade Runner.
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    Image of UnderLoK UnderLoK
    05/01/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: Looks more like something for the next FEMA rescue.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    05/01/09

    @UnderLoK: How's that? There isn't a drown victim in sight.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee
    05/01/09

    In reply to Hobo Hut Features Solar Power, Is Nicer Than My Apartment
    So will today's hobomodo feature plans for building a gadget filled hobo shack?
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    Image of Curves Curves
    05/01/09

    In reply to Hobo Hut Features Solar Power, Is Nicer Than My Apartment
    No Wifi?!?!
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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    05/01/09

    @Curves: No PS3?!?!
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    Image of Rabid Penguin Rabid Penguin
    05/01/09

    @ripfire: The PS3 is pretty large. I wouldn't be surprised if this guy's homeless neighbor was living inside one... and using an XBOX to heat his "home."
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    05/01/09

    @Curves: No way! Do you want all those neighbors to steal bandwidth (from a hobo)?
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    Image of bosskev bosskev
    05/01/09

    In reply to Hobo Hut Features Solar Power, Is Nicer Than My Apartment
    Looking at the illustration showing the TV and other creature comforts, it's more like how I've always pictured the interior of Snoopy's dog house.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee
    05/01/09

    @bosskev: I just realized I don't have a photo of it, but I installed a dish on top of my dog's Doghouse, and tell people that it's so he can watch Lassie movies on demand.
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    Image of weatherman weatherman
    05/01/09

    @bosskev: really? I always thought that Snoopy's dog house was more like the Tardis or one of those tents in Harry Potter - much larger inside than physically possible from the outside, outfitted with an opulent interior, plush carpeting, velvet spinning dog bed...
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    05/01/09

    @H1N1_GitEmSteveDave: Real dogs watch Rin Tin Tin, despite his Nazi affiliations.
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    Image of kleptoman kleptoman
    01/14/09

    In reply to IBM First Company to Win 4,000 Patents in a Year, More Than Microsoft and Intel Combined
    4,000 patents probably translates to about 4,000,000 hours of legal counsel. As usual, the only people who benefit from this ingenuity are the lawyers...
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    Image of N@tedog N@tedog
    01/14/09

    @kleptoman: I was gonna say... Their legal council must be the same size as R&D.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    01/14/09

    In reply to IBM First Company to Win 4,000 Patents in a Year, More Than Microsoft and Intel Combined
    For the record, I am the world's first supercomputer sex machine.
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    Image of Monty Monty
    01/14/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: Time for a firmware upgrade?
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    Image of damnelantra™ damnelantra™
    01/14/09

    In reply to IBM First Company to Win 4,000 Patents in a Year, More Than Microsoft and Intel Combined
    any top picks from that list of 4k. im sure there are some real eyeopeners
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    Image of Monty Monty
    01/14/09

    In reply to IBM First Company to Win 4,000 Patents in a Year, More Than Microsoft and Intel Combined
    I assume this is the nuclear missile philosophy thrown into the patent world. We need thousands of them because they have thousands of them, and if any of us ever use them, we're all fucked.
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    Image of damnelantra™ damnelantra™
    01/14/09

    @Monty: mutually assured lawsuit?

    or M.A.L.
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    Image of Mpls_Mikey Mpls_Mikey
    01/14/09

    @Monty: Actually, IBM is slightly different. They get a lot of patents so they can earn a lot in licensing revenues. I believe it was also the first company to earn $1 Billion in IP licensing revenues. So IBM looks at patents sort of like blue chip stocks.


    That being said, I am sure they also are known to get into litigation over their core business.

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    Image of Monty Monty
    01/14/09

    @Mpls_Mikey: They had a little known case against SCO that says they may be more than willing to litigate to protect their property. That said, I understand what you are saying. They certainly are a number of steps above the businesses that do nothing but buy patents.
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