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How to Become a Patent Millionaire

Posted by michael on Tuesday June 10, 2003 @06:56AM from the perpetual-motion-device dept.

An anonymous reader writes "SF Gate has an article about people who patent ideas for things they have no intentions of building, hoping to license technology or block competitors from doing something similar. As if the patent system weren't screwed up enough already."

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Re:Quick! by JohnFluxx · 2003-06-10 07:46 · Score: 1, Offtopic

It's probably better to use bluetooth.. Hmm scrap that - 802.11 combined with gps.. I'm forever loosing the mugs to flatmates - this way I can keep track of where it is. I can have it update a web page every few minutes. Then from work I can keep an eye on where it is.
Re:Quick! by occupant4 · 2003-06-10 08:00 · Score: 1, Offtopic

I'm sure I'll get tarred and feathered by the geek community for this, but I actually think the time-sensitive shading idea is pretty cool. Not sure how good it would be in practice, but I'm always up for some good eye candy. Especially my own (shameless unrelated plug). What's a little wasted CPU time if you can have your desktop reflect the time of day it is? Sounds a lot like xplanet, but cooler.