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BT Loses Case Over Hyperlink Patent
Tarkie sent in this Bloomberg blurb noting that British Telecom has lost their patent suit against Prodigy over an old patent that BT hoped would cover the use of hyperlinks on the modern WWW. See our original story or check out the court's decision.
Can I mod down a story as -1, Obvious?
BT sucks with anything remotely to do with the internet. They are slow at rolling out broadband, I can't see my area getting it within the next year, yet they claim to have rights to the hyperlink?
Makes ya think...
The hyper speed has yet to be determined but if it as slow as that link how did ENTERPRISE get anywhere?
I shook my long dong over the toilet because it was still dripping pee. Then I pee'ed some more. Then I posted a stupid message to slashdot.
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I'm pretty sure that this is a troll/flamebait, but I'll bite...
The two matters are completely separate. Just because we are interested in this doesn't mean we don't give a crap about poverty and terrorism and everything else, but it is unrelated. Life goes on. If you stay regretting something which has passed and don't move on then what's the point in living?
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MHO. YMMV. Any resemblance between this post and real persons, or reality in general, was accidental.
This world is about atrocity. Face it. Where the fuck were you when the genocide was taking place in Rwanda?
Your 11@m4 |*05t was an obvious attempt to get flamed, prolly because your momma never gave you 'nuff affection as a child. Fucking wah! I'm sure you love being the center of attention.
But when that shit went down in Rwanda, I certainly would hope, for the sake of the validity of your claim, that in that entire time you never watched a movie for entertainment purposes, read a work of fiction, listen to or enjoyed a piece of music, or took the time to fuck your girl/boyfriend or whatever the fuck it is you like to spew your sickly bodyfluids onto...No, not a righteous idealisitc fuck like you! You were in the thick of battle trying to stop the Tutsi massacre taking the guns out of the hands of the Hutu militia and handing them flowers in compensation. A job welldone there, you then moved onto Serbia to stop the slaughter of Muslims. Having a taste for saving human life, you then went personally to Chechnya to stop the Russians from doing the same thing there. Not once did you ever take the time to create or enjoy a creative work! You just took a fucking breather from all the good fucking work that you do to surf the web (which consumes energy which is sorely needed by the underpriviliged) to tell me how the fuck to live MY fucking life!
YOu are a fucking joke! Self righteous pussy!
I think it's the height of unmitigated arrogance for anyone -- including you! -- to state definitively the opinion of those souls. Perhaps the worst thing is when some self-appointed spokesperson appropriates their tragedy and horror to advance his/her own narrow and oft unsupportable cause...
Life goes on. If there is ever to be a victory in the "war" on terrorism -- if we as a species are ever to vanquish this psychosocial parasitic infection from the body politic -- then it will come about only because we remember that life goes on . That doesn't mean we forget. It doesn't mean we trivialize. But it does mean that we consciously decide not to obsess, to fixate, to mire ourselves in the unchangeable past.
Mourning is good. At times, even outrage is good. But you can't mourn forever. You can't maintain active outrage forever. It's simply not healthy. And I don't think psychological self-destruction is the proper way of honoring the worthy dead.
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I think that was supposed to be sarcasm....
Say it isn't so, say it isn't so.
How does this still get responses? Are the people responding trolls as well? I can't tell.