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Blue Jeans Cable Calls BS on Monster Cable Patent Suit, Vows to Fight to Bloody Death

Bullshit patent suits are annoying when it's a do-nothing patent holder trying to extract cash from fat corporate wallets, but even more so when it's a bigger company trying to muscle over little ones. Like Monster Cable suing Blue Jeans Cable for having connectors that looked like theirs. Blue Jeans' CEO, a former evil lawyer, has issued a ripping rebuttal, pointing out that "the gross morphology of the RCA plug is pretty well dictated by function" before throwing down, "I would rather spend fifty thousand dollars on defense than give you a dollar of unmerited settlement funds." Here's the whole ballsy letter: More »

3:30 PM on Tue Apr 15 2008
By matt buchanan
16,502 views, 119 comments

Latest by bpapa9013: Oh, and; YAY FREE ADVERTISING FOR TARTAN CABLE, Thanks Monster! more »

robots

Carnegie-Mellon Wins $2 Million Robot Car Urban Challenge

Carnegie Mellon University's Tartan Racing Team showed us who's boss on Saturday with a winning truck named Boss. The Chevy Tahoe robot SUV was bristling with PCs and sensors that steered it safely through a complicated city street course, winning the $2 million Urban Challenge prize from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). More »

8:47 AM on Mon Nov 5 2007
By Charlie White
3,752 views, 12 comments

Latest by skurtis.1: Wonder how well it will do in the chute... Go Tartan Plaid more »