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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."
But if you guys show up wearing tinfoil body wrap and bouffant hairdos, I'm gonna hurl.
Hokey statistics and ancient misconceptions are no match for a good thought in your head, kid!
In Soviet Russia collars wear you !!
Sort of not really. Warfighter is a term created to denote all active military personel.
Thus, while soldiers are warfighters, the term "warfighter" also includes (for the U.S.) sailors, airmen, and marines.
The difference may be academic to you, but it matters to the actual people represented above. They're proud of their branch, and the term "soldier" technically refers just to the Army.
If you don't believe me go find a Marine and call him a sailor.
- Sig
I'm a Marine, and nobody with a sense of self-preservation calls a Marine a sailor.
"What I cary in this box is your utter subjugation."
Nah. It's all them hamburgers that make women's butts look big.
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill