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Xybernaut Patents Collar Computer
igargoyle writes "Wearable Computer manufacturer, Xybernaut, has encouraged the kludge that is the patent office by patenting collar based wearable computers. Besides being extremely vague, the whole thing sounds likes the Slashdot article, 'A Linux Machine For Your Collar.' There are many references to this idea, and computer collars have been used as nomadic radios and animal tracking devices before. Please help encourage this company to stop wasting taxpayer's money and encourage innovation instead of preventing it."
You are the asshat. Like /. is really going to publish a blurb about any individual user's efforts to contact their public officials. Maybe you simply have no idea what other people are doing and you should just retract your bullshit remarks.
Encouraging people is fine. Acting like a holy roller and trying to shame people into seeing your argument is idiotic at best and threatens to have the opposite effect of your desired outcome at worst.
Laws are for people with no friends.