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Mark Zuckerberg, Inventor

Posted by kdawson on from the seventeen-year-monopoly dept.

theodp writes "Move over, Thomas Edison. Here comes Mark Zuckerberg, inventor extraordinaire. Zuck's still waiting for that elusive first patent to be issued, but take a gander at the Facebook founder's patent application for Dynamically Generating a Privacy Summary to get an idea of what's in the works. After you check boxes on a form to indicate that 'Everyone from San Francisco, CA, Social Network Provider, and Harvard' can see your profile, Zuckerberg's 'invention' will miraculously display: 'People from San Francisco, CA, Social Network Provider, and Harvard can see your profile.' How dare Rolling Stone question his inventiveness!"

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  1. Re:Slashdot stories have gotten very sarcastic lat by Enoxice · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Bloody hell, I clicked the wrong reply button. Sorry.

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  2. Re:Slashdot stories have gotten very sarcastic lat by Enoxice · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    No wait, no I didn't. /. just displayed it strange until I refreshed. Feel free to take all of my karma now.

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  3. Re:Grapes Taste Bitter To You? by hackstraw · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I don't see the "value" in these things either. Same goes with text messaging. A coworker of mine is glued to his phone texting all the time. And he's the same age as me.

    Maybe its because I'm introverted, and prefer fewer close relationships to millions of bffs that I've never met, and probably wouldn't want to.

    I actually learn things here on slashdot that help me in my life. Its not just idle chit chat.

    However, there is clearly a need for things like twitter, myspace, facebook, and these things, but maybe it was a fad like the elderly people that needed a 4x4 SUV to go to church and grocery store.

  4. Re:He is going to get it. by willyhill · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    For the record, this is not me. Someone (and by now I'm starting to have a pretty good idea of who it is) has been creating accounts with variations of my alias, and using them to troll Slashdot:

    http://slashdot.org/~willlyhill
    http://slashdot.org/~wi11yhill
    http://slashdot.org/~willyhilll
    http://slashdot.org/~willyhlll

    This is not the first time this has happened, but it seems that the point now is to disrupt rather than merely game the moderation system.

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