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  1. Intel Owns Patent on Distributed Computing

    Intel · · posted by ryuzaki0 · from the patent-office-follies dept. · 176 comments
    GnrcMan writes "Now here is something frightening: This patent describes a method of using an ISP subscriber's CPU cycles to process the ISP's data." As if Distributed.net, SETI@home, and other, similar projects hadn't been doing essentially the same thing all along, eh?

  2. Popular (& Common Sense) Y2k Fix Patented

    Yro · Court · · posted by Hemos · from the yet-another-wonderful-move-by-the-uspto dept. · 319 comments
    GnrcMan writes "According to this news.com article, "windowing", a method of fixing Y2K bugs where there is a window (IE 00-39) of years recognized as being 20xx years, has been patented by McDonnell-Douglas. They are now threatening to sue Fortune 500 companies using this popular (and common sense) technique." The years not updated are considered to be 19xx for those systems. *sigh* I love patents. Honest. Really.