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USPTO Grants CA Lawyer Domain-Naming Patent
SpecialAgentXXX writes "Geek.com reports
that as of Dec 30, 2003, CA lawyer Frank Weyer holds patent #6,671,714
which is 'a method for assigning URL's and e-mail addresses to members of a group comprising the steps of: assigning
each member of said group a URL of the form name.subdomain.domain and assigning each member of said group an e-mail
address of the form name@subdomain.domain.' He's now, in SCO-like fashion, suing Network
Solutions and Register.com for infringing on his patent. This is
nonsense. My friend who ran for political office in 2000 used this exact naming scheme for his web site. All of us here
can see how asinine this is. Will our legal system?"
Hey! Did you hear that some stupid woman sued McDonalds because she fell down at Walmart and spilt hot goatse all over some litigious bastards?
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No it was not above boiling, if that were the case they would have sold hot coffee vapor.
Actually, it is when the coffee is brewed. When you have water under pressure, you can superheat it far above boiling (up to the structural limits of the pressurizer). As a result, the coffee is pretty close to boiling when it first hits the pot.
FWIW, I was a kid working at McD's at the time of the suit. I've dumped hot coffee on myself many, many times and didn't get anything worse than a red patch of skin. The reason is that coffee doesn't stick like grease. When you spill coffee on yourself, you wave your arms/jump around a bit from the pain, and end up cooling the coffee to a luke warm temperature. I can understand that this lady was older, but moving quickly is a natural reaction. To get third degree burns you must have either the weakest skin in existence, or the slowest reaction time I've ever seen.
(BTW fahrenheid sucks, you should start using celsius)
I agree. Fahrenheid [sic] does suck. So does celsius and kelvin. We should all move the the superior system of Fahrenheit! Instead of some arbitrary numbers like 0 for freezing and 100 for boiling, we can use easy to remember numbers like 32F is freezing and 220F is boiling (subject to change based on your altitude). Conversion couldn't be easier! Just take your Celsius temperature, multiply by 9, divide by 5, add 32, wave a rubber chicken, howl at the moon, write an essay on why Fahrenheit is better, and you're done!
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The lady got it in a plastic cup, superheating was not an issue I presume.....
:)
1. It's styrofoam, not simple plastic. A plastic cup would melt.
2. When sitting, some water may remain superheated from the pressure of the water above. i.e. "Pockets" of superheating can develop.
Even in the case of superheating one could argue that since the boiling point itself rises it is still under it, just above the standard defined boiling point (which really is nonsense).
Actually, the water is already is a vaporous state, it just doesn't have the space to vaporize. Thus is remains in a pseudo-liquid form.
The reason I added that point was that one of the previous times this thread came up someone actually said it was sold above boiling......
Most certainly not. Coffee cools far to quickly for it to make it from the coffee machine to the customer without cooling to about 190-200 degrees. Most of your heat is lost in the dripping process (if you can call the constant flow of coffee, "dripping"). More heat is lost while in the pot, then even more during pouring.
One more point on the Fahrenheit (sorry for the spellin on the prev. post, we use Celsius):
The guy must have had a big ego using his own ass in defining the scale
No idea what you're talking about. However, the added precision of the Fahrenheit scale does allow us yanks to be better in tune with the actual temperature outside. We can do things like say "it's in the 60s" instead of worrying about the difference between 20 and 24.
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I am not sure if the following can be done but things are getting a little too annoying.
SCO still has the 250K bounty for the MyDoom creator. Let us all start digging around for clues and have a central repository somewhere for the info gathered. Finally, if we can really trace the idiot down, Slashdot.org (cmdrTaco??) can ask for the 250K check from Darl. Start an Ask Slashdot thread about the ideas that we should look into patenting that are already out there but haven't been patented yet. Highest moderated ideas get a consideration. The money can be used to file the patents/lawyer fees/misc etc.
What does this do? Give more assurance to the rest of the world that OSS is not a bad community and we did help in tracking down the creator of MyDoom sucker. Get money from SCO!! And importantly, if we do get the patents, leave them in the open to be used (not abused).
Am I talking out of my a$$? Probably yes. But SCO, MyDoom, Patent Office et al are getting too irritating.
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