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English Court Allows Patents For "Complex" Software
jonbryce writes "The court of appeal in England has ruled that companies should be granted patents for 'complex' software products. In this particular case, Symbian had written something that makes mobile phones run faster. The court case has received very little attention because of the bank crisis, but it can be appealed to the House of Lords and then the European Court of Justice."
In legal context, it probably means "Any technology which you can successfully confuse a jury by explaining."
In other news, the Church-Turing thesis has been declared false by judicial fiat. Any algorithms which are discovered to be functionally identical to any others are to be rounded up and shot in order to protect freedom.
DRM: Terminator crops for your mind!
The diagram is outdated. I believe the British own Iceland now.
Are you saying that California has become a sovereign nation, or that England has become a state of the UK, and the UK has become a country.
A closer analogy is confusing England with the UK is like confusing Mexico with Northern America (the continent). The issue with that is that is that Northern America isn't a united kingdom.
The correct analogy is: confusing England with the UK is like confusing 'chassis' with 'car'.
I took it as meaning "any program that cannot be expressed as an integer, by means of a Turing Machine, but requires an imaginary component".
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
In legal context, it probably means "Any technology which you can successfully confuse a jury by explaining."
That's not so bad. I thought it might be any technology that a High Court Judge would be confused by.