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  1. Re:Not exactly standard... on New Speed Record For Hybrid Cars · · Score: 1
    let's not forget most modern vehicles easily reach that speed stock. So forgive me if I'm not all that impressed.

    Indeed, most modern vehicles need to be limited for that to be their max speed.

  2. Prior Art - The Graffiti Tutor on MS Seeks To Patent Education-Feedback Software · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The PalmOS Graffiti tutor - very structured, obviously it's not prior art!

    And, these much older teaching tools are also obviously too structured and not prior art!

    Madlibs, a game from the Apple II days! - Obviously too structured.

    Lemonade stand - Apple II

    . . . Other examples, too numerous to waste time on! There is so much prior art on this, that maybe it will wake someone at the US Patent Office up!

  3. Re:Foreign Invasion? on Escape from Data Alcatraz · · Score: 1

    WHY????
    If you're being invaded, you've got more important things to worry about than if your company's web site will stay up!

    Well, for one thing, not every web site is a .com web site selling something to the populous under attack. For another, there are businesses that maintain financial and other resources that are needed to fight back in the event of an attack. Information is also a currency, even excluding the 'financial' markets, in the current world.

    As to the point of:
    What if the invasion is an invasion of illegal immigrant workers? Can this thing survive having a janitor who's been slipped a hundred bucks (three weeks pay) to pull out a wire here and there?

    Do janitors making a hundred bucks in three weeks have access to your data center? One would hope that since the physical access to the data center is at least as important as the network access to it, the only people cleaning up in the data center are those that are being paid, and therefore have accountability for, maintaining the integrity of that data. Are you aware that the people with the highest clearance requirements in many of the government facilities, at least in the U.S., are for those responsible for the trash and cleaning of those facilities? Who is more capable of walking off with a garbage bag full of papers, the person working in the cubicle with no printer, floppy drive or outside net connection, or the person paid to separate and carry out bags of trash?