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Microsoft Patents Frustration-Detection System
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Microsoft has patented a frustration-detection help system that would monitor your computer use and biometrics to figure out when you were frustrated. It could then offer to pair you up with someone else doing exactly the same thing who might be able to help you out. Interestingly, they don't appear to use speech recognition to detect abnormal levels of swear words, but that could be due to their past difficulties with speech recognition. 'Physical responses aren't the only things that could trigger this event--taking an abnormally long time to complete a task would do so also--but the biometric aspect is certainly the most unusual. Is this patent a harbinger of a dystopian future where computer users' biorhythms will be monitored to increase efficiency? Unlikely. The idea, which was birthed at Microsoft Research, is simply a more advanced version of user focus group testing that Microsoft (and most other software companies) have been doing for years now.'"
No doubt this would ADD to my frustration, because I'm sure it'd be so badly written that it'd memory leak and cause any other application to halt operation while it works out what it's doing. ARGH!
Wait, that sounds like something else I know...
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Microsoft's Research dept? What's that? Oooh yeeaah...that's right. It's usually called "Mergers and Acquisitions" in most companies.
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If it's been patented by M$, then I know I won't be seeing it on my Macs and Linux boxes any time soon. What a stupid, sad system that shouldn't have a reason to exist in the first place.
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Falmebait?!?! Are you serious? Its a play on words, a joke, its funny, laugh. The M$ schills have taken over the mod system.