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- OBKenobi, on 10/13/2007, -22/+181Don't give me any of this dissipative ceramic bonding rigamarole. You can't ban nearly the entire supply of hard disks to the US. All we'd be left with would be Samsungs (which aren't too bad), and IBM/Hitachi Deathstars (which are very bad).
Maybe they should just abandon this primitive 20th century technology and start selling SSDs? (Solid state drives, not Super Star Destroyers. Although, I wouldn't mind having a Super Star Destroyer. I'd imagine a Super Star Destroyer would be a great chick magnet, with the tractor beam on board. Yeah, I know, I'd never be able to afford the insurance. That's like what, $10 trillion an hour?) - inactive, on 10/18/2007, -14/+117***** them, Seagate makes the only decent HDD in the world...I will gladly violate their ban to get hold of them too.
- Elranzer, on 10/13/2007, -1/+90So where can I buy these "Steve & Mary Reiber"-brand hard drives that the HDD manufacturers in question are seemingly violating the patents of???
- jspegele, on 10/13/2007, -13/+68This is an intervention. I need you to listen very carefully. Put down the Star Wars toys. No, seriousely, put them down. Now get up and walk up the stairs. Yes, leave your parents basement, you can do it. Now walk outside. Very good. That is called the Sun!!
- inactive, on 10/13/2007, -1/+50psssst hey kid want to buy a hard drive?
- AeonTorpor, on 10/13/2007, -0/+47Also known as the "day star."
- VinceNoir, on 10/13/2007, -1/+47Steve and Mary who? Should I know who these ***** are?
- inactive, on 10/13/2007, -0/+42It burns!!!!!!
- Alphateam, on 10/13/2007, -0/+42When Hard drives are outlawed only outlaws will own hard drives.
- diggitydoc, on 10/13/2007, -3/+44BUY YOUR 1 TERABYTE DRIVES NOW BEFORE THEY COST $5,000!!! NEWEGG CANNOT SAVE US!!!
- Pinhedd, on 10/13/2007, -0/+38Yes because the entire world knows that patents actually work as intended.
- divideby0, on 10/13/2007, -0/+35Dude, he knows about the sun. I mean, Tatooine has two of them...
- worminater, on 10/13/2007, -0/+32you do know that seagate owns maxtor now don't you.
- ArchangelZLT, on 10/13/2007, -1/+26Is the ITC speaker using English? That clearly violates the rights of the Anglo-Saxons.
- WoollyMittens, on 10/13/2007, -1/+24It's nice to see a nation litigating itsself into situations like this. Where's your intellectual property now?
- diggitydoc, on 10/15/2007, -1/+23S&M's?
- TheOther1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+22DVD, faster access. Important during spank-a-thons.
- crapmatic, on 10/13/2007, -0/+20I should just take out a ***** patent on Ohm Law's. From what I see, they let you patent math equations.
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/6778929.html - GMorgan, on 10/13/2007, -0/+20The ability to put out massive amounts of light is insignificant next to the power of the force.
- MiDri, on 10/13/2007, -0/+20Have the patent expire in 5-8 years, require a working prototype for patent...
- parsingphase, on 10/13/2007, -0/+20Only drives of 1000GB or greater will be affected - it's the War On Terrabytes.
- SteveMax, on 10/13/2007, -1/+21Maxtor was bought by Seagate.
- OmniMe, on 10/13/2007, -2/+22***** THE RIA.. REIBER!!!
- saisumimen, on 10/13/2007, -0/+19My mommy told me not to buy Chinese hard drives from strangers.
-Nah kid, these are from Taiwan! - inactive, on 10/13/2007, -1/+19My patent on oxygen just got approved. Everyone exhale or send me a check for $50.00
- solis365, on 10/13/2007, -3/+20hard drives could possibly be used to store illegal files! pirating files means you arent putting as much money into the economy as you could be! that means you want americas economy to fail! which means youre a TERRORIST!!! hard drives can also be used to store porn, and porn is immoral! all immoral people are TERRORISTS!
SEIZE THE HARDDRIVES! - BenWang, on 10/13/2007, -1/+18That's no sun. It's a space station.
- cbreaker, on 10/12/2007, -3/+19Since Maxtor purchased Quantum, I haven't had any big troubles with them. Not like before, when every single Maxtor I owned (I owned perhaps 8 of them) died before a single WD drive died. I've had two Seagate drives die; but to be fair I have a lot of Seagate drives now.
It's hit or miss. I think most consumer hard disks are build about equally as well these days. Sometimes they don't last. Sometimes they do. - VinceNoir, on 10/13/2007, -3/+19I agree but...
Come on! This is capitalist America in the 21st century! Without ***** patents, how the hell else are the talentless speculative hacks supposed to become millionaires overnight? If we were to reform patents, we'd be putting these people out of business and American capitalism would crumble in a matter of days!
/sarcasm - TheOther1, on 10/13/2007, -1/+17It hasn't curbed my enjoying of the occasional Cuban cigar, I can't see why it would stop my use of a good HDD...
- longzheng, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14Put them on tape instead!
- evilcaptain, on 10/13/2007, -1/+14Patents need reform, but I cannot see how to do it. People need rewards for innovation and patents change the world. They also give power to corporations and we all struggle to find ways to do things that already have acceptable solutions, but patent holders and patent trolls ruin it for everyone. Its like driving with the handbrake on!
- inactive, on 10/15/2007, -2/+14EXACTLY. There needs to be a law that if within five years no advancement has been made on your part or you haven't used the technology to it's potential, only for greed, then the patent is null and void
- woodcoxcb, on 10/13/2007, -1/+13pirates are already outlaws, so the shoe fits.
- Thater, on 10/13/2007, -0/+12Deskstar is just the brand name of Hitachi/IBM hard drives. It's not specifically 1 TB drives.
- junaru, on 10/13/2007, -3/+15digg needs a section "retarded patents"
- catfish182, on 10/13/2007, -1/+13I agree. Newegg had it listed in thier specials
it was like 10.99 or something - Machismo, on 10/13/2007, -0/+11Texas Memory Systems sells Solid State Drives. I think they are the ones that all the groups like Pixar use.
Even still, if you wanna spend ten grand on a storage media, be my guest.
For the rest of us without trust funds, we are gonna get raped. - Bleue, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11I would be extremely surprised if there were a ban on HDD imports. Worse case: a special levy to cover royalties to the patent holders on imported units. But the HDD is so deeply integrated into the American economy that a trade sanction would have dire consequences
- DJS2005, on 10/13/2007, -0/+9I don`t understand what Dell and HP are doing in this story. I get that they buy from toshiba and WD and so on but then why isn`t every big OEM who buys from there on that list?
- fkr3, on 10/13/2007, -0/+9I think it's maybe because Dell and HP, along with several drive manufacturers, are fighting the ban?
- Godlike, on 10/13/2007, -0/+9The problem is that in bureaucratic America, it doesn't matter what rules might be created for dissolving or overtaking a patent, if they exist at all then it will be utterly abused.
- subxero37, on 10/13/2007, -0/+9I think solid-state technology should mature a little more first -- with drives greater than a few GB being exponentially more expensive, it'd be troublesome to switch to that technology as of now. Also, given the limited number of erase/write cycles for solid-state memory, I'd imagine we'd better overcome that first. Hard disks are cheap, and they work well (I'm thinking Seagates, not Hitachis. I've seen Hitachis where the heads have literally scraped the metallic coating right off of the platters and left them spotless). The technology is still perfectly viable, and there's no way the US would suddenly stop importing hard disks from foreign countries. People would be pissed.
- GMorgan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8A good excuse will be when I can get a 500GB SSD for £60.
- fkr3, on 10/13/2007, -1/+9SSD, raped, either way it sounds like we win.
- surfacewound, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8I used to exclusively buy Seagate or IBM hard drives, but these days give me a Raptor any day. Yes it's way more expensive per GB, but I can't help it, I just love the damn things.
- dhughes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8 I patented the concept of two atoms forming a molecule, send me a cheque please, the license fee is $50/molecule per year.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+101- patent something you can't produce in a billion years because you are a *****
2- wait patiently until someone with a clue starts manufacturing
3- hire a patent attorney
4- ????
5- profit!!! -
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