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Software Installation/Update via Internet Patented

RKBA writes "My wife just handed me an article from the Wednesday, October 22, 2003 issue of the Wall Street Journal about a tiny Austin, TX company called Bluecurrent that has been awarded patent No. 6,636,857 covering the Internet installation of any software or settings on new computers. The patent was granted by the USPTO on October 21, 2003. It will be interesting to see if it can be enforced. I think it's time for someone to file a patent on Earth, Fire, and Water. ;-)"

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  1. WILDCAT IS ON TEH SPOKE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    1. Re:WILDCAT IS ON TEH SPOKE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      i want to have teh sex with every woman on g4tv. is that wrong?

  2. FP! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    FP! Eat it, bitches!

  3. I DO IT WRONG!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I do it wrong

    Laying here in the shadows of my room, I squint up at my love. My Ms. Portman. I am sore and tired after fucking her for eight solid hours. My chapped and aching dick is soaking in grits to relieve the pain. She gets on her knees and starts lapping the grits up out of the bowl. She places her beautiful hands on my penis and starts to lick the grits off my achy piece.
    Massaging my nutsack she....

    WAIT, I DO IT WRONG!!!!

    Yanking my dick out of her mouth I throw her to the ground and shove it in to her gaping freshly fisted ass. [goatse.cx]

    "OH BIG ASS SPORK!! Fuck my ass, fuck my ass good. DEEPER, my stallion, deeper!! Make a Beowulf cluster of sperm on my back!!"

    "Imagine a Beowulf cluster of this baby!"

    I DO IT WRONG!!!!

    I continue to hump her alabaster form. Glistening with beads of sweat, she bites her lip in delight as I tear her ass open with my engorged dick.

    "Queen Amidala!!" I shreik as I near climax.

    She looks up at me and screams, "You are so alive in me, unlike *BSD or VA Software!!! Fill me with seed!! Yes, Yes, Yess!!!!"

    "For me you are calling, hhhmmm?"

    "YODA?!? What the fuck, can't you see I am using the force here?"

    He savagely kicks my Natalie aside, he pulls out his large green penis and impales me...

    I DO IT WRONG!!

    All your sporkz are belong to the dead homiez!!

    1. Re:I DO IT WRONG!!! by node159 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Dood!

      You REALY need to get out more!

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  4. Re:RTFA! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Any patent that includes any reference to the "World Wide Web" or "Internet" should be immediately discarded.

    Any post that makes a mind-numbingly retarded blanket statement should be immediately modded down.

    Including this one.

  5. Re:MOD PARENT DOWN by jcr · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Sig-lines like this should warrant posts automatically being modded down as off-topic or troll.

    If I had the points, I'd mod YOU down for flamebait.

    -jcr

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    The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
  6. Also: by autopr0n · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    vast majority ( 85%) want a mutual ceasefire, ... If the two sides agree on a mutual cessation of violence, 59% (compared to 50% last June) would support taking measures by the PA to prevent attacks on Israelis. The poll found that the popularity of PA Chairman Yasser Arafat has shapely increased from 35% last June to 50% in October, mainly due to Israeli threats against him, yet 82% believes the PA is corrupt.90% support internal and external calls for extensive political reforms. 89% of those polled thought Arafat's sudden increase in popularity was due to Israeli threats to kill or deport him. His popularity is at the highest in five years.

    78% believe that current Israeli measures, including the building of the separation fence reduce the chances for the establishment of a Palestinian state.

    But, you did make good use of selective statistics to make asinine empty points. How many Israelis support "assassinations" that take out 10-20 civilians in the process? Enough to keep the assassins in power, anyway More palistinan women and children have been killed then isreali's in total. What diffrence does the tactic make?

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    autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
  7. Re:It's official by lord_nightrose · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Why exactly is this meaningless post modded 'informative'? Please explain.

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    This is not part of my post. It's my signature. I bet you're disappointed.
  8. Lets Patent: method of filing bogus patents claims by cdn-programmer · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Since business methods seemingly can now be patented, why don't we patent "AA moethod of doing business by filing bogus patent claims".

    Then when ever one of these bullshit patents gets granted we can send cease and disceast letters and demand licensing fees and so forth.

    This way we'll be able to tax every company that loses a patent case in court, right?

    This is a new business model? This is non-obvious right?