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WebSense Patents Censorware System
Matthew Skala writes "As reported in SiliconValley.internet.com, filtering-software vendor Websense has received US Patent 6,606,659 on a "System and method for controlling access to internet sites". The new features in the patented system seem to revolve around using time limits instead of filtering sites out entirely; offering users a choice of viewing a site and having it logged, or not viewing it; and a scheme for automatically categorizing sites that looks very much like the "Bayesian filters" we've heard so much about in recent weeks. You may be interested in the filtering company's press release about their patent, or my own view."
No longer will our children be hindered by censorware to discover the REAL face of mankind (pr0n)
...dont tell them about a firewall, its a super-secret secret.
Speaking at Defcon 12 - Credit Card Networks Revisted: Pen
Seems everything's patentable nowadays.
Can someone do me a favor and patent DRM? and closed-source? and antitrust? and that stupid L-shaped enter key?
Karma: Excellent (fuck, even in the future moderation doesn't work!)
but doesn't block goatse.cx. Go figure.
Imagine the look on the librarian's face. Honestly.
Anybody who goes there volluntarily is nuts, but in a library!!!???
-- If you try to fail and succeed, which have you done? - Uli's moose
U.S. Patent has just issued me Patent 6,606,660, which states that I now own exclusive rights to the following keyboard keys..
Enter, Spacebar, Ctrl, Alt, Esc, all function keys, Tab, Shift (both left & right), Caps Lock, all Page Scrolling fuctions, the Numeric Pad, and directional arrows. You are still free to use alphanumeric keys without my permission.
Obviously this is sarcasm, but it's heading there... Real fast..
Slashdot.. Land of nerds, trolls, and FlameBait..
Here is a patent application for a pepper shaker shaped like a dog where the pepper comes out of the dog's ass. That's what is being patented: the fact that the pepper comes out of the dog's ass and that it can be called a 'pooper shaker'.
I would love to read Matthew Skala's view but Websense at work here blocks it as "Non-Traditional Religions and Occult and Folklore"
They don't seem to like criticism, do they?
A day ago I received patent 6,606,659: The act of pressing the three keys Ctrl, Alt, & Delete on a keyboard simultaneously to achieve a desired effect.
:)
I believe your patent infringes on my patent so you must get permission to use those keys. In fact earlier I was issued patent 6,606,658, a patent that patents patent infringement. I will be expecting two big cheques.
Anybody who goes there volluntarily is nuts, but in a library!!!???
I wonder where the Goatse guy fits in the Dewey Decimal System... (Or, "In Soviet Russia," the Dewey Decimal System fits in the Goatse guy.)
What part of "shall not be infringed" is so hard to understand?