Getting credit without patents

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85% of Americans are Trapped in Debt
because of Bad Personal Credit Credit
Repair Company Raises Poor Credit Scores
in 90 days - Guaranteed

85% of Americans are Trapped in Debt
because of Bad Personal Credit Credit
Repair Company Raises Poor Credit Scores
in 90 days - Guaranteed 01/05/2005 04:34 AM
DreamLife,LLC is a credit repair company that guarantees it will erase all negative lines of credit from the 3 major credit bureaus in 90 days or your money back. No other credit repair company uses the techniques to delete bad credit the way DreamLife does. [PRWEB Jan 5, 2005]

MERit Credit Engine Provides
Simultaneous Internet Connections to the
Three US Credit Bureaus and Two Canadian
Credit Bureaus

MERit Credit Engine Provides
Simultaneous Internet Connections to the
Three US Credit Bureaus and Two Canadian
Credit Bureaus 01/05/2005 03:43 AM
With simultaneous connections to all three credit bureaus and support for multiple threads and multiple sockets, the MERit Credit Engine provides quick response for interactive credit applications, and impressive throughput for high-volume and batch credit report retrieval applications. [PRWEB Jan 5, 2005]

Credit Report Toolkit Released by MERit
Credit Systems

Credit Report Toolkit Released by MERit
Credit Systems 09/22/2004 02:28 AM
Equifax, Experian, and Trans Union credit report toolkit for developers of credit systems. Tools for integrating credit report access, decisioning, analysis, scoring and merging, using XML, SQL, and other technologies. [PRWEB Sep 22, 2004]

SIA Says R&D Tax Credit Extension is
Vital to U.S. Technology Leadership; R&D
Tax Credit Should Be Broadened a

SIA Says R&D Tax Credit Extension is
Vital to U.S. Technology Leadership; R&D
Tax Credit Should Be Broadened a 06/17/2005 04:26 PM
dBusinessNews.com Jun 17 2005 9:17AM GMT

Software patents are bad for coders like
literary patents would be for writers

Software patents are bad for coders like
literary patents would be for writers 06/22/2005 01:49 AM
Cory Doctorow: Richard Stallman, creator of the Free Software movement, has written a tremendous essay for the Guardian on the risks of software patents. Richard undertakes a gedankenexperiment about "literary patents" and the impact they would have had on Victor Hugo as he sat down to pen Les Miserables.

Now consider this hypothetical literary patent: Claim 1: a communication process that represents, in the mind of a reader, the concept of a character who has been in jail for a long time and subsequently changes his name...

These patents would all cover the story of one character in a novel. They overlap, but they do not precisely duplicate each other, so they could all be valid simultaneously - all the patent holders could have sued Victor Hugo. Any one of them could have prohibited publication of Les Misérables.

You might think these ideas are so simple that no patent office would have issued them. We programmers are often amazed by the simplicity of the ideas that real software patents cover - for instance, the European Patent Office has issued a patent on the progress bar, and one on accepting payment via credit cards. These would be laughable if they were not so dangerous.

Link (Thanks, Phil and Eloisa!)

Munich OSS switch to go ahead, patents
or no patents

Munich OSS switch to go ahead, patents
or no patents 08/12/2004 09:52 AM
Merely paused for thought, says mayor

Consumer Credit / Credit Cards

Consumer Credit / Credit Cards 06/04/2004 01:55 PM
The success of being debt-free is sweet, indeed.

Taking Credit Where Credit Isn't Due

Taking Credit Where Credit Isn't Due 05/12/2004 05:28 AM
Techfocus May 12 2004 9:23AM GMT

At last, SOA gets some credit

At last, SOA gets some credit 04/01/2005 08:32 PM
ZDNet Apr 1 2005 11:50PM GMT

GayPatriot: Credit where it's due

GayPatriot: Credit where it's due 02/01/2005 09:11 PM
GayPatriot: Credit where it's due .. bravo for Barney Frank .. GayPatriot

gaypatriot.blogspot.com/2005/01/credit-where-its-due.html
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FC Now: Extra Credit

FC Now: Extra Credit 12/22/2004 01:08 AM
Ever been curious about the emergence of the credit card industry? Frontline and the New York Times have joined up to develop a documentary about the secret history of the credit card. The program has come at a good time,...

Crazy on Credit

Crazy on Credit 02/13/2004 05:10 PM
Warren Buffett's comments on manufactured housing ring true in a time of easy credit.

What's Your Credit Karma?

What's Your Credit Karma? 12/29/2004 12:23 PM
Know your credit score -- it's important and affects your life.

I'm in Credit La La Land

I'm in Credit La La Land 08/11/2004 05:04 PM
Do you know your FICO score? Dayana Yochim doesn't -- yet.

Geek Credit 0.018

Geek Credit 0.018 04/09/2004 04:10 PM
A secure peer-to-peer digital currency.

Your Credit Stinks

Your Credit Stinks 05/25/2004 01:23 PM
Common credit conundrums that make lenders say, "No thank you."

HP extends credit

HP extends credit 08/30/2004 12:09 PM
ZDNet Aug 30 2004 4:38PM GMT

"Credit Reports"

"Credit Reports" 06/03/2004 12:52 AM

Credit Reports

Credit Reports 12/11/2002 08:09 AM
It looks like Don is having some bad luck with a credit agency. I know what that's like. I hate those companies. They're such idiots and they're always on the side of the company, not the consumer. Always....

Credit for links

Credit for links 07/06/2004 08:26 AM

Dave. Thanks for giving me credit for the Edwards as VP rumor link. You could have linked directly, credited only Metafilter or anything really. Actually, this is something that I struggle with every morning when I open Net News Wire and go through my news feeds. Some people take the position that it's not important where you get the link. I don't think this is true. The dilemma happens when you find links to the same interesting article on several blogs. Do you credit the first link you see? Do you credit the first person who posted it? Do you credit the most authoritative? I notice most people don't usually credit Blogdex or Daypop. You can always go to Technorati and see who first linked to it and who is the most authoritative link.

I don't think we need any global standard for link credits, but it's nice when someone gives it to you and it's something I try to do when I can. So thanks Dave.

PayPal gives credit

PayPal gives credit 06/25/2004 01:42 PM

Does J.Lo Have Lousy Credit?

Does J.Lo Have Lousy Credit? 09/03/2004 10:01 AM
Being rich and famous can hurt your credit. You, however, can achieve perfection.

Do You Deserve More Credit?

Do You Deserve More Credit? 09/17/2004 04:23 PM
Sometimes you should say "no" when your lender gives you more room to spend.

"credit repair"

"credit repair" 09/19/2004 09:35 AM

Couples and Credit

Couples and Credit 01/23/2004 04:14 PM
How should newlyweds comingle their credit cards?

Credit report

Credit report 06/17/2005 04:50 PM
I was amused recently by an ironic juxtaposition of two blog posts.

First, there was Jason Calacanis complaining that CNET had failed to credit Om Malik for "breaking" the story that the RSS aggregator FeedDemon had been bought by Newsgator. Business 2.0's Malik had posted the news at 5:31 PM on Monday, May 16. CNet ran a story at 9:27 AM on Tuesday, May 17.

A few weeks later, the esteemed Dan Gillmor complained about how the Wall Street Journal, in its coverage of the Apple/Intel deal, self-servingly quoted a line from Steve Jobs implying that the Journal had the story first, when, in fact, CNET had it well before the Journal.

There's no older complaint in the world of journalism than a reporter (or publication) that believes it broke a story feeling "ripped off" by another reporter (or publication) that follows on. Inevitably, this sort of complaint flows up the journalism food chain. CNET gets carped at for failing to credit a blog; the Journal gets carped at for failing to credit CNET.

Big fish eat little fishes' stories -- stop the presses!

I've seen this in action for a good 25 years now, ever since my days on the Harvard Crimson, where we believed we "owned" the university beat, and resented how national papers and magazines would swoop in to gather the fruits of our reporting labors -- almost never giving us striplings credit.

Maybe I've mellowed, or maybe I'm just callused, but I've come to view this species of complaint as a waste of time. I can't count the number of times over the past decade that Salon has broken real news and not been credited. Ultimately, so what? Whining doesn't get you very far, and if you're doing your job, you should be onto the next story anyway.

The type of story matters, too. If you invest the time and energy to do a long-term investigation of some scandal or underreported problem or issue, and emerge with something extraordinary that's never been reported before and that wouldn't be known if you hadn't chosen to pursue it, it's reasonable to expect some credit. But if you get wind of a business deal a handful of hours ahead of the competition, and the news is about to break wide anyway, well, okay, you've served your readers well, good work -- but don't expect a Pulitzer, or think you "own" the story.

Where Do They Come Up With These
Patents?

Where Do They Come Up With These
Patents? 01/16/2004 01:03 PM
Wouldn't it be nice if we could have a day go by without one of these silly patent cases where a "company" (usually consisting of one or two lawyers) gets a patent on something that shouldn't be patentable, doesn't do anything with the patent, and then sues companies that are doing something similar? How is it possibly a "patentable" idea to take the domain name john.smith.name and assign the user an email address john@smith.name? Why is that something that should be patented? Apparently, though, it is patentable, and because of that, Network Solutions and Register.com are being sued. Of course, it's Global Name Registry that runs the .name registry - so it's not entirely clear as to why the suit is focused on the other two players (except, of course, that they probably have a lot more money). I'm curious if someone can explain to me how this patent (and the resulting lawsuit) encourages "innovation"?

We Need More Patents?

We Need More Patents? 01/05/2004 01:44 PM
When I was an undergrad, Lester Thurow's book Head to Head had just come out and was incredibly popular. I was forced to read it for three different classes. In it, he talks about the forces of globalization and how the US, Japan, and Europe (mainly Germany) would compete for world economic supremacy in the nineties. It's been a decade since I last read the book, but what I remember from it was that he was a big fan of government intervention in industry and believed that Germany was clearly poised to beat the US throughout the nineties. Of course, that didn't happen. Now, Thurow is back and saying that the world needs more patents and stronger patent enforcement - but that governments should buy up all those patents. In other words, more big government incentives. It didn't work a decade ago, and I don't see why it should work now either. In the interview linked above, he says that without copyright enforcement there would be no music. Of course, that's not true. First of all, there was music before there was copyright protection for it. More importantly, though, it assumes that there simply can't be any business model for music or intellectual property that doesn't involve copyright protection. That's very uncreative. There are other business models (some of which we've discussed before) and forcing everyone to adopt an obsolete one is only going to hinder, not help, innovation.

IBM gives away 500 patents

IBM gives away 500 patents 02/01/2005 09:47 PM

In a bold move in the field of intellectual property , IBM announced the donation of 500 patents .

(thanks to Jamie Carroll )

Bad Patents

Bad Patents 06/12/2004 09:38 PM

I can't decide whether the EFF's "Patent Busting" project is too clever by half. Will it really do any good? The big problem in patents isn't that bad ones can be overturned -- especially given how difficult and expensive it can be to do so. The problem is the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and its abysmally lousy record for issuing lousy patents. Until someone -- namely Congress -- tackles the issue of patent quality, getting lousy ones overturned is only working at the margins of a much bigger mess.

NO MORE PATENTS

NO MORE PATENTS 04/23/2004 01:26 AM

JPEG Hits New Patent-Infringement Snag. Forgent Networks slaps 31 companies with lawsuits alleging patent infringement over compression technology it claims is core to the JPEG image standard. [eWEEK Technology News]

STOP THE MADNESS!  I say anybody who tries to enforce patents on open standards should be shot or put in jail.  Well maybe only shot in the arm or leg - but definitely hurt!

PayPal, The Fifth Credit Card?

PayPal, The Fifth Credit Card? 05/03/2004 06:01 PM
Not quite. But the popular online payment company's new Web services platform adds more detail to credit card purchases online.

Avon Credit Calling

Avon Credit Calling 01/08/2004 07:11 PM
The purveyors of petal pink lipstick are peddling rewards cards.

Cash, Credit, Crudites?

Cash, Credit, Crudites? 05/03/2004 11:37 PM
Brokers are offering a feast of freebies. Here's what's catching our eye.

Wendy's Success With Credit

Wendy's Success With Credit 08/05/2004 10:50 AM
Wendy's July was solid as the burger joint benefits from cashless transactions.

Paying by credit or debit?

Paying by credit or debit? 05/06/2004 02:51 AM
CNET Asia May 6 2004 6:36AM GMT

Credit Card Fraud

Credit Card Fraud 06/14/2004 12:51 AM
My wife was hit by credit card fraud last week - somehow, someone managed to get her credit card number and used it to make charges to AOL - setting up an email account in my wife's name that even used our actual address, phone number etc. Register.com - two charges were made here which were subsequently reimbursed before we... (328 words)

Googling your credit card

Googling your credit card 08/04/2004 11:54 AM
Source: News.com - Simple queries using the Google search engine can turn up a handful of sites that have posted credit card information to the Web, CNET News.com learned on Tuesday....

Maximize Your Credit Rating

Maximize Your Credit Rating 08/03/2004 09:25 AM
You don't have to be a so-so credit risk. Impress your lenders!
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