You actually want to end a persons life, with no means what so ever to undo your judgment if it happens that these circumstantial evidence are proven wrong?
Yep. That's about right. Stick the wires to his head, the plunger into his arm. Kill the son of a bitch. Guilty.
his kind of thought is the reason that we have the system that we do. Just because someone is a complete and utter dick doesn't mean that they're guilty of murder.
You need to educate yourself on this issue. We have this system the way we do because it is true. Dicks that abuse their wives are statistically likely to kill them. In fact, there's a better correlation for that than there is for linking manmade CO2 to global warming. Just look at it logically. If you so little regard the mother of your children that you beat her and ruin her life when she's trying to help you, why wouldn't you kill her if you think she actually betrayed her. It's total sociopathic logic - good == beating, bad == kill. Nina was bad, and so he killed her.
Even look at his whole defense argument - Nina was bad, Nina was bad... not one shred of remorse or loss for her. And really, honestly, you could probably make an argument that even if he wasn't even 90% guilty, he's just such a dick that he should be executed. The guy treated his whole family like shit, and his much hyped file system wasn't even all that original to begin with. PICK was doing his stuff way before he even thought of it.
This guy is guilty. He's a proven control freak with a track record of domestic abuse. He had to go to Russia to try and buy himself a subservient wife, because no American women in her right mind would put with up all of his bullshit, and when his Russian wife woke up, he killed her.
They've got Reiser with a cleaned up car and missing passenger seat, $9000 in cash to try and flee the country with. There's really no other rational way to look at this. Framed by the Russian Mafia - that's his story? If the Russian mafia, or any mafia, wanted to screw with him, they just would have killed him. No need for byzantine plots.
He's so guilty. And I hope the jury sends this guy to the death row he deserves.
I think it is a pretty clear cut case that Reiser is guilty. By his own admission, Reiser was a very controlling husband who dominated his wife. In all of his interviews, he doesn't even seem to grasp the sacrifices that he asked his wife to make. She's a non-person to him. He trashed her career so he could work on his, would disappear for months at a time in Russia, and then, by other witnesses, often screamed at her over the phone. No wonder she slept his with his best friend. Thus, you already have all the patterns of domestic abuse in place - and for that, there is overwhelming statistical evidence that predicts Reiser would in fact kill his wife.
I'm sure its easy to believe that Reiser's just "a little weird" and being persecuted, but what you have here is a control freak in his software, and ultimately, a control freak in his personal life, and when his wife slept with someone else, he flipped out and killed her.
His story doesn't add up at all. I've had to live in my car, but I've never been in a situation where I felt like I needed to remove the passenger seat. And, if I had $9000 in cash, I would think I would at least find myself a room. Usually, people with $9000 in cash can put together a place to stay. Even in the USA, Reiser could have rented a room for like $200-$300 a month, an apartment for $500-$600, if he was looking on the cheap. Finally, the most convenient way to put money in the hands of a Russian programmer is electronically.
Reiser killed Nina in the car, and cleaned it out thoroughly, which explains why it was wet, except for the seat she was sitting in, which had to be removed. The seat is probably with the body, most likely. The $9000 in cash and passport were to allow him to leave the country and go to Russia, and the reason he ran from the cops, to begin with, is that he knew that he did it.
REISER, wife abusing bastard who is guilty of first degree premeditated murder, and I'd say, that's a capital offense. Hell of a file system he made, but, he still ultimately must wind up on death row.
I love how the article introduces this author as if, he had some authority. Did he write Word Perfect? Doom? Word? Excel? Linux? Like, if he doesn't know assembly or at least C++ then what's his opinion really worth?
Rape may well be a basic human urge, in some people. From an evolutionary perspective, women's rights don't really matter so much, so long as the male gets his genes passed on. That doesn't say rape is right - it isn't. It's just that basic evolution is harsh, and those that argue that we should do "what's natural" to humanity are opening a door of rape and pillage and violence and war, to a lot of things that are very natural indeed.
Living proof that marijuana causes brain damage!...and by the way, when was the last time anyone saw a responsible Republican? There certainly haven't been any in office within my lifetime.
Given the way they've handled the war and the budget, I can't really argue with you. Republicans have spent the federal budget the same way a bunch of stoned guys with credit cards might at Best Buy.
Insert your favorite "Pass the bowl Dick" joke here!
. For instance it makes marijuana smokers as being driven to violence, however there is no scientific data to support this.
Obviously, you've never been high, and smashed someone's house down. I have. Yeah, there's a tendency to settle back when you are stoned, but, if you toss a bottle of white wine into the mix, being high and drunk gives you the imagination and energy to work great mischief. I would have lit off a nuclear weapon to watch it go off, for kicks, back in those days!
Now, I'm a responsible Republican. Isn't it amazing that for all the rap Liberals get about being parties, the guys that really drank the most and imbibed the most are now all Republicans?
While I'm sure that there are some people that like to have their networking links travel from place to place, I think this is a feature that is really designed to benefit on-line marketers more than end users. Developers that write for these APIs, are really sort of fools, because ultimately, they are giving away to Google and others information that they should really actually -pay for-. If I were lucky enough to put some social site together with millions of hits, the last thing I'd want to would be to give away all of my behavior information to Google. If they want it, then they can write me a fricking check.
I do not care much for lizards. They are big, stupid and slow, and they smell. All these dinosaurs are around, and I hated them all, but there's all sorts of stupid regulations about dinosaurs, thanks to Al Gore leading the save the dinosaur charge.
So I hopped into my time machine, gathered up some of the world's famous hunters, went back in time and killed the dinosaurs. Me and Buffalo Bill must have slaughtered 1,200 T-Rex's in what is now Montana, just in one night of drinking and hooting and hollering and a-shooting.
Those of you wonder what really happened to Jesse James, though, should know that he really did die 65 million years ago. We were playing cards one night after a big hunt and I drew a royal flush to his full house. Jesse probably wouldn't blown my head off in anger, but Buffalo Bill was quicker on the draw and he said, "Don't even do it Jesse." Jesse stuffed his revolver back into his holster, grabbed the bottle and went off in a huff. But as he was a stompin' away, he was set on by a pack of raptors and chewed up. It was a sad thing, but T.R. was able to go shoot two down with that pistol of his, and, thus, while we couldn't save Jesse, we at least saved the bottle of whiskey.
I reckon it took us a few months to kill all them dinosaurs. Since they all ate the biggest dinosaurs, we just took out all the brontos and crushed their eggs, and the rest all starved. We shot a bunch too. And then I dropped everyone back into their own times, and came back to this one, and there was not a dinosaur to be found.
Thank god!
So I called upon Mr. Gore to see if he remembered how much he liked dinosaurs in this adjusted timeline, and he said that he thought dinosaurs were ok in their own time, and said that, if we didn't do something about global warming, dinosaurs might come back.
So now, I gotta back in time and gather up the boys and go visit henry ford.
A 3D printer that lets you manufacture damn near anything you want, and you're talking D&D figurines? I don't want to be unkind and ask if you get out much, but surely we can think of better used for this
Yeah, you are right too. You could also have a whole fleet of Star Trek Universe ships if you want to play a SCI-FI Genre, rather than Fantasy...
The thing about DOS based, Win9x, is that, the guts of it are all written in pretty heavily hand optimized assembly language, whereas the guts of Windows NT flavors are written in C. I understand that its hard to think of Windows as "fast", but, if you look back on it, you'd find that Windows 9x did run pretty well on hardware that is positively cramped by today's standards. I remember jettisoning a lot of the junk and having Windows 95 run reasonably well on a 386DX33 (that's 33Mhz) with 4mb of RAM, and that's with a GUI. OS/2 Warp could barely move whereas Windows 9x ok, and after I put upgraded to a speedy 486, Windows 95 was pretty darned good. I had slackware back in those days, and, it too didn't really work on that hardware at all. Sure, it was -ok- with just the command line, but, X in that era was pretty rough!
I imagine that in a kiosk mode, if you did spec out the hardware for Win9x, what you could do is put the entire OS into ROM, and have it boot from that, and have a button on the box to just blow the hard drive and restore the machine to a ground zero state. That wouldn't be the most consumer friendly thing to do, but you'd always have a PC that worked, except for when it blew away all of your data - and for a web client, that doesn't really matter as much.
Some historians think it was because Germany's racial doctrine was so aggressively disparaging of 'Jewish' physics, and so their research and funding ended up being steered
The bigger problem was that an impurity in graphite during research caused German scientists to miscalculate the amount of uranium needed to have a sustainable fission reaction, causing them to estimate it at many hundreds of tons, rather than the small pounds that the Americans ultimately came up with. With so many other urgent priorities, it didn't seem possible so therefor, they didn't really pursue it!
A single parameter change to the "hdparm" command fixes the cause of this problem - sorry, but just how many of Windows numerous flaws are fixable by editing a single text file?
Before we turn this into a Vista vs Ubuntu flamewar, understand that I will be upgrading my Opteron with Ubuntu over SUSE 10 long before Vista even sees it.
The point is that this is the sort of behavior Microsoft would actually test for, and have. Check out there blog "old new thing", and see some of the hoops they've gone through in the past with respect to hardware compatibility. A lot of it, as some posters allude to, is in fact the fault of hardware manufacturers writing sloppy drivers... but a good one was a software bug. Evidentally a popular but unnamed third party application would use a device context after they released it, so, they actually put something into the OS so that that application would work. The point is not to slam Ubuntu, really, it is that OSS testing in some cases doesn't match what you can do when you have some money to put on the table... those fancy test labs do come in handy sometimes.
The downside is, really, the application had a bug and should be fixed, and, ironically, were the windows world open source, microsoft could have just spent a few bucks, fixed the application, and not have had to put in their closed source hack to fix someone else's broken closed source product.
Our kind lawyer has advised us to purchase 100,000 notebooks with Linux.... we have placed the funds of millions of dollars worth of gold for you in a Swiss account, but need you to advance us a small forwarding fee so that we can get that money to you..."
After hearing all of how Vista is terrible, and how users should get Ubuntu, we now have this.
Since Ubuntu is the greatest thing since sliced bread, it does seem rather remarkable that here Ubuntu is physically damaging hardware. One wonders what the response would be, if there were a similar bug in any Windows version.
I wonder if all of the developers of Ubuntu - everyone in the GPL, would be liable?
Ok, so let's look at the source URL of this... you go to the web page, and its a basically a left wing action site. I would be MORE than willing to bet that this is somehow the digital equivalent of the guy taking a dump in front of the white house while holding up an anti-war sign. He says he's getting hauled off to jail, to the media, because of his sign, and meanwhile the real issue is that he took the dump, so he could get hauled off to jail.
It's obvious from the get go that this isn't news... its a political news release, propaganda designed to rile people, and the dopes that bought into it, are well, just dopes. I wonder how much the original poster is either a zombie or an operative.
Factoring numbers is not known to be an NP-complete problem, so solving it in polynomial time doesn't automatically imply that P=NP
I thought FACTOR was NP-complete... if not, I think you could probably show it to be at least NP-complete by taking the selection of prime numbers as a sort of a napsack problem against a set of "special numbers" or, numbers that one could generate primes with.
Indeed, the one insight that I tried out but failed at was trying to see if I could arrive at what those special numbers were by recursively defining every integer as the addition of two fractions just to see if I could tease out some relationship. What I got was a remarkably inefficient way to create prime numbers.
I just do this for a hobby. I wonder if the problem is, really, that actually generating a prime number is NP-Complete?
That's the whole point. I'm not jealous of the guy at all. So what, he learned a bit of math by writing a symbol interpretor and now he thinks he's god's gift to humanity? Big deal... all Mathematica is, at the end of the day, is a big fricking tree transforming engine that is theoretically no more advanced than the lowly XSTL processor.
In my mind, if he wants to be god's gift to humanity, get on with a hard problem and quick dicking around with all this peripheral stuff. Find out if P=NP. Perfect nuclear fusion... or come up with a faster way to do fluid and plasma simulations. It's not like there aren't real problems.
Smarter people have done more, and have been more self effacing, and more humble.
So screw Wolfram, and his stupid Mathematica. It's the patent that protects that product, not his genius, for sure.
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You actually want to end a persons life, with no means what so ever to undo your judgment if it happens that these circumstantial evidence are proven wrong?
Yep. That's about right. Stick the wires to his head, the plunger into his arm. Kill the son of a bitch. Guilty.
his kind of thought is the reason that we have the system that we do. Just because someone is a complete and utter dick doesn't mean that they're guilty of murder.
You need to educate yourself on this issue. We have this system the way we do because it is true. Dicks that abuse their wives are statistically likely to kill them. In fact, there's a better correlation for that than there is for linking manmade CO2 to global warming. Just look at it logically. If you so little regard the mother of your children that you beat her and ruin her life when she's trying to help you, why wouldn't you kill her if you think she actually betrayed her. It's total sociopathic logic - good == beating, bad == kill. Nina was bad, and so he killed her.
Even look at his whole defense argument - Nina was bad, Nina was bad... not one shred of remorse or loss for her. And really, honestly, you could probably make an argument that even if he wasn't even 90% guilty, he's just such a dick that he should be executed. The guy treated his whole family like shit, and his much hyped file system wasn't even all that original to begin with. PICK was doing his stuff way before he even thought of it.
This guy is guilty. He's a proven control freak with a track record of domestic abuse. He had to go to Russia to try and buy himself a subservient wife, because no American women in her right mind would put with up all of his bullshit, and when his Russian wife woke up, he killed her.
They've got Reiser with a cleaned up car and missing passenger seat, $9000 in cash to try and flee the country with. There's really no other rational way to look at this. Framed by the Russian Mafia - that's his story? If the Russian mafia, or any mafia, wanted to screw with him, they just would have killed him. No need for byzantine plots.
He's so guilty. And I hope the jury sends this guy to the death row he deserves.
I think it is a pretty clear cut case that Reiser is guilty. By his own admission, Reiser was a very controlling husband who dominated his wife. In all of his interviews, he doesn't even seem to grasp the sacrifices that he asked his wife to make. She's a non-person to him. He trashed her career so he could work on his, would disappear for months at a time in Russia, and then, by other witnesses, often screamed at her over the phone. No wonder she slept his with his best friend. Thus, you already have all the patterns of domestic abuse in place - and for that, there is overwhelming statistical evidence that predicts Reiser would in fact kill his wife.
I'm sure its easy to believe that Reiser's just "a little weird" and being persecuted, but what you have here is a control freak in his software, and ultimately, a control freak in his personal life, and when his wife slept with someone else, he flipped out and killed her.
His story doesn't add up at all. I've had to live in my car, but I've never been in a situation where I felt like I needed to remove the passenger seat. And, if I had $9000 in cash, I would think I would at least find myself a room. Usually, people with $9000 in cash can put together a place to stay. Even in the USA, Reiser could have rented a room for like $200-$300 a month, an apartment for $500-$600, if he was looking on the cheap. Finally, the most convenient way to put money in the hands of a Russian programmer is electronically.
Reiser killed Nina in the car, and cleaned it out thoroughly, which explains why it was wet, except for the seat she was sitting in, which had to be removed. The seat is probably with the body, most likely. The $9000 in cash and passport were to allow him to leave the country and go to Russia, and the reason he ran from the cops, to begin with, is that he knew that he did it.
REISER, wife abusing bastard who is guilty of first degree premeditated murder, and I'd say, that's a capital offense. Hell of a file system he made, but, he still ultimately must wind up on death row.
I'd have no problem signing the warrant myself.
I love how the article introduces this author as if, he had some authority. Did he write Word Perfect? Doom? Word? Excel? Linux? Like, if he doesn't know assembly or at least C++ then what's his opinion really worth?
Of course sex is a basic human urge... but rape?
Rape may well be a basic human urge, in some people. From an evolutionary perspective, women's rights don't really matter so much, so long as the male gets his genes passed on. That doesn't say rape is right - it isn't. It's just that basic evolution is harsh, and those that argue that we should do "what's natural" to humanity are opening a door of rape and pillage and violence and war, to a lot of things that are very natural indeed.
Living proof that marijuana causes brain damage! ...and by the way, when was the last time anyone saw a responsible Republican? There certainly haven't been any in office within my lifetime.
Given the way they've handled the war and the budget, I can't really argue with you. Republicans have spent the federal budget the same way a bunch of stoned guys with credit cards might at Best Buy.
Insert your favorite "Pass the bowl Dick" joke here!
. For instance it makes marijuana smokers as being driven to violence, however there is no scientific data to support this.
Obviously, you've never been high, and smashed someone's house down. I have. Yeah, there's a tendency to settle back when you are stoned, but, if you toss a bottle of white wine into the mix, being high and drunk gives you the imagination and energy to work great mischief. I would have lit off a nuclear weapon to watch it go off, for kicks, back in those days!
Now, I'm a responsible Republican. Isn't it amazing that for all the rap Liberals get about being parties, the guys that really drank the most and imbibed the most are now all Republicans?
While I'm sure that there are some people that like to have their networking links travel from place to place, I think this is a feature that is really designed to benefit on-line marketers more than end users. Developers that write for these APIs, are really sort of fools, because ultimately, they are giving away to Google and others information that they should really actually -pay for-. If I were lucky enough to put some social site together with millions of hits, the last thing I'd want to would be to give away all of my behavior information to Google. If they want it, then they can write me a fricking check.
MY CUSTOMERS! MINE, MINE, MINE!
I do not care much for lizards. They are big, stupid and slow, and they smell. All these dinosaurs are around, and I hated them all, but there's all sorts of stupid regulations about dinosaurs, thanks to Al Gore leading the save the dinosaur charge.
So I hopped into my time machine, gathered up some of the world's famous hunters, went back in time and killed the dinosaurs. Me and Buffalo Bill must have slaughtered 1,200 T-Rex's in what is now Montana, just in one night of drinking and hooting and hollering and a-shooting.
Those of you wonder what really happened to Jesse James, though, should know that he really did die 65 million years ago. We were playing cards one night after a big hunt and I drew a royal flush to his full house. Jesse probably wouldn't blown my head off in anger, but Buffalo Bill was quicker on the draw and he said, "Don't even do it Jesse." Jesse stuffed his revolver back into his holster, grabbed the bottle and went off in a huff. But as he was a stompin' away, he was set on by a pack of raptors and chewed up. It was a sad thing, but T.R. was able to go shoot two down with that pistol of his, and, thus, while we couldn't save Jesse, we at least saved the bottle of whiskey.
I reckon it took us a few months to kill all them dinosaurs. Since they all ate the biggest dinosaurs, we just took out all the brontos and crushed their eggs, and the rest all starved. We shot a bunch too. And then I dropped everyone back into their own times, and came back to this one, and there was not a dinosaur to be found.
Thank god!
So I called upon Mr. Gore to see if he remembered how much he liked dinosaurs in this adjusted timeline, and he said that he thought dinosaurs were ok in their own time, and said that, if we didn't do something about global warming, dinosaurs might come back.
So now, I gotta back in time and gather up the boys and go visit henry ford.
Ah, the work that we do!
A 3D printer that lets you manufacture damn near anything you want, and you're talking D&D figurines? I don't want to be unkind and ask if you get out much, but surely we can think of better used for this
Yeah, you are right too. You could also have a whole fleet of Star Trek Universe ships if you want to play a SCI-FI Genre, rather than Fantasy...
Could make toys on demand!
The thing about DOS based, Win9x, is that, the guts of it are all written in pretty heavily hand optimized assembly language, whereas the guts of Windows NT flavors are written in C. I understand that its hard to think of Windows as "fast", but, if you look back on it, you'd find that Windows 9x did run pretty well on hardware that is positively cramped by today's standards. I remember jettisoning a lot of the junk and having Windows 95 run reasonably well on a 386DX33 (that's 33Mhz) with 4mb of RAM, and that's with a GUI. OS/2 Warp could barely move whereas Windows 9x ok, and after I put upgraded to a speedy 486, Windows 95 was pretty darned good. I had slackware back in those days, and, it too didn't really work on that hardware at all. Sure, it was -ok- with just the command line, but, X in that era was pretty rough!
I imagine that in a kiosk mode, if you did spec out the hardware for Win9x, what you could do is put the entire OS into ROM, and have it boot from that, and have a button on the box to just blow the hard drive and restore the machine to a ground zero state. That wouldn't be the most consumer friendly thing to do, but you'd always have a PC that worked, except for when it blew away all of your data - and for a web client, that doesn't really matter as much.
Some historians think it was because Germany's racial doctrine was so aggressively disparaging of 'Jewish' physics, and so their research and funding ended up being steered
The bigger problem was that an impurity in graphite during research caused German scientists to miscalculate the amount of uranium needed to have a sustainable fission reaction, causing them to estimate it at many hundreds of tons, rather than the small pounds that the Americans ultimately came up with. With so many other urgent priorities, it didn't seem possible so therefor, they didn't really pursue it!
Regarding whether FACTOR is NP-complete or not, most computer scientists don't think so.
Is there a proof though? I'm hardly a computer scientist, and honestly, I'm not terribly smart, but I think FACTOR really is NP-complete.
You know what though, I still think FACTOR is NP-COMPLETE. Is there a proof otherwise?
If you just give me a few hundred thousand dollars, I'll buy a little boat and just dump all your trash in the ocean.
signed,
Nigeria
A single parameter change to the "hdparm" command fixes the cause of this problem - sorry, but just how many of Windows numerous flaws are fixable by editing a single text file?
Before we turn this into a Vista vs Ubuntu flamewar, understand that I will be upgrading my Opteron with Ubuntu over SUSE 10 long before Vista even sees it.
The point is that this is the sort of behavior Microsoft would actually test for, and have. Check out there blog "old new thing", and see some of the hoops they've gone through in the past with respect to hardware compatibility. A lot of it, as some posters allude to, is in fact the fault of hardware manufacturers writing sloppy drivers... but a good one was a software bug. Evidentally a popular but unnamed third party application would use a device context after they released it, so, they actually put something into the OS so that that application would work. The point is not to slam Ubuntu, really, it is that OSS testing in some cases doesn't match what you can do when you have some money to put on the table... those fancy test labs do come in handy sometimes.
The downside is, really, the application had a bug and should be fixed, and, ironically, were the windows world open source, microsoft could have just spent a few bucks, fixed the application, and not have had to put in their closed source hack to fix someone else's broken closed source product.
"Dear SIR,
Our kind lawyer has advised us to purchase 100,000 notebooks with Linux....
we have placed the funds of millions of dollars worth of gold for you in a Swiss account, but need you to advance us a small forwarding fee so that we can get that money to you..."
After hearing all of how Vista is terrible, and how users should get Ubuntu, we now have this.
Since Ubuntu is the greatest thing since sliced bread, it does seem rather remarkable that here Ubuntu is physically damaging hardware. One wonders what the response would be, if there were a similar bug in any Windows version.
I wonder if all of the developers of Ubuntu - everyone in the GPL, would be liable?
Ok, so let's look at the source URL of this... you go to the web page, and its a basically a left wing action site. I would be MORE than willing to bet that this is somehow the digital equivalent of the guy taking a dump in front of the white house while holding up an anti-war sign. He says he's getting hauled off to jail, to the media, because of his sign, and meanwhile the real issue is that he took the dump, so he could get hauled off to jail.
It's obvious from the get go that this isn't news... its a political news release, propaganda designed to rile people, and the dopes that bought into it, are well, just dopes. I wonder how much the original poster is either a zombie or an operative.
Either way, the story is a joke.
NOW he feels like he's been completely wasting his time. Thanks so much.
LOL. If you are not afraid to be wrong, then learning is never a waste of time.
Thanks for taking a few minutes to educate me as to these things. You made my day!
Factoring numbers is not known to be an NP-complete problem, so solving it in polynomial time doesn't automatically imply that P=NP
I thought FACTOR was NP-complete... if not, I think you could probably show it to be at least NP-complete by taking the selection of prime numbers as a sort of a napsack problem against a set of "special numbers" or, numbers that one could generate primes with.
Indeed, the one insight that I tried out but failed at was trying to see if I could arrive at what those special numbers were by recursively defining every integer as the addition of two fractions just to see if I could tease out some relationship. What I got was a remarkably inefficient way to create prime numbers.
I just do this for a hobby. I wonder if the problem is, really, that actually generating a prime number is NP-Complete?
That's the whole point. I'm not jealous of the guy at all. So what, he learned a bit of math by writing a symbol interpretor and now he thinks he's god's gift to humanity? Big deal... all Mathematica is, at the end of the day, is a big fricking tree transforming engine that is theoretically no more advanced than the lowly XSTL processor.
In my mind, if he wants to be god's gift to humanity, get on with a hard problem and quick dicking around with all this peripheral stuff. Find out if P=NP. Perfect nuclear fusion... or come up with a faster way to do fluid and plasma simulations. It's not like there aren't real problems.
Smarter people have done more, and have been more self effacing, and more humble.
So screw Wolfram, and his stupid Mathematica. It's the patent that protects that product, not his genius, for sure.