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Microsoft Patents The Task List

Posted by timothy on from the insanity-is-actually-rather-pleasant dept.

theodp writes "'Better not get too fancy with your grocery list, now that Microsoft has patented a glorified form of the to-do list.' Issued Tuesday, the patent covers the use of a 'task list' generated from 'TODO' comments in source code."

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  1. Re:Prior Art: Eclipse Project by Zugot · · Score: 1, Troll

    It doesn't matter. This is /. Microsoft=BAD and everything competing with Microsoft=GOOD.

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    -- Bryan
  2. The New and Possibly Last Dark Age by Baldrson · · Score: 0, Troll
    This is no joke. These patents aren't simply some abstraction -- "intellectual property" -- they are a symptom of the destruction of civilization.

    As discussed by the founder of neo-Darwinism, William D. Hamilton in "Innate Social Aptitudes of Man":

    the benefits to fitness, such as they are, go to a mass of individuals whose genetic correlation with the innovator must be slight indeed. Thus civilization probably slowly reduces its altruism of all kinds, including the kinds needed for cultural creativity (see also Eshel 1972).

    Until civilizations solve this problem of benefits not accruing to the genetic correlates of innovators, they will continue to oscillate. That is unless, during some cycle, such as the present, the consequences of a collapse are so great that it extinguishes the possibility of future recovery.

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    Seastead this.
  3. Re:Perfect Setup by KANEKEA · · Score: 0, Troll

    Microsoft is deplorable. What is one to do?

  4. Re:Perfect Setup by Minna+Kirai · · Score: 1, Troll

    Ever asked why no one in Germany resisted Hitler? They always thought "it's not gonna be THAT worse, calm down!". They didn't believe the thing about Auschwitz even if they saw it afterwards.

    Incorrect. They didn't resist Hitler because they supported him. They did believe about Auschwitz, and enjoyed it, because they hated Jews. (Judenhas was actually a policy that helped Hitler maintain popularity amoung the non-Nazi voters!)

    The myth of Hitler coercing the German public is designed to shield the people from their own guilt. They got the leader they wanted, and deserved.