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  1. Software is not of patentable subject matter.... on Software Patent Sanity on the Way? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    .... it is abstact matter with a definable physics supporting its use.

    To bad there is not stock to invest in on this overall debate as the outcome is certain. Software patents will become a thing of the past. An embarrassing thing at that.

  2. Learn more about bullying..... on How To Deal With Internet Bullies? · · Score: 1
  3. If these cases are influencing the fall of.... on The Death of Nearly All Software Patents? · · Score: 1

    ...software patents then what is common factor? Abstraction Physics!

  4. Don't nobody tell MS or ..... on Linux Needs More Haters · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ... be sure to get paid for your complaints about MS Windows. (as opposed to paying them to listen to you).

  5. Thats because once you patch.... on Estimating the Time-To-Own of an Unpatched Windows PC · · Score: 1

    ... you are infected and there is no more "time to infection".

  6. Lets not forget... on 20 Features Windows 7 Should Include · · Score: 1

    ....including the ANTI- integrated pervasive user frustration function.

  7. But did they use any...... on New Map IDs the Core of the Human Brain · · Score: 1

    ...Artificial Intelligence programming to come to these results?

  8. Governments need to grow up.... on Sourceforge.net Blocked In Mainland China · · Score: 1

    .. .and let people live their lives

  9. What seems obvious and second nature to us... on Cutting-Edge AI Projects? · · Score: 1

    ... is not so obvious and second nature to a machine/computer.

    Abstraction Physics where A.I. can be shown to be a byproduct of simply automating enough to create the illusion of intelligence.

    Consider people you might know but think they are "artificial" in their knowledge presentation... that they don't fully understand what they claim to know.

  10. Isn't it time to read again, the.... on FISA Bill Vote Today, With Telco Immunity · · Score: 1

    Declaration of Independence ???

    When was the last time you read it?

  11. ctually what MS does is.... on Bill Gates Reveals Secret of Microsoft's Success · · Score: 4, Insightful

    First and foremost MS is a marketing company. A company that realized early on, quantity is better then quality as it get you onto the consumers/businesses systems.
    Second they are a legal firm that applies a chess strategy of sacrifice the pawn to more the knight forward.
    Or in other words, what is the risk vs. payoff of breaking teh law?
    Third they are, by the court decisions of court around the world, a trust breaking law breaker, a company run in part with anti-trust law breaking tactics.
    Fourth, what development they do, it is with intent to dumb down the users and always leave them coming back for improvements but never really doing a complete job.

    "The way to be successful is to make people need you" which is achieved by consumer entrapment abuse.

    The reason for concern MS has had over open source and its halloween documents evidence is because Open Source, though not a freeing of the consumers is in fact a big step in that direction.
         

  12. GODs don't make mistakes.... on Bone-Headed IT Mistakes · · Score: 1

    ... they do features....

  13. Zip cord.... on Denon's $499 Ethernet Cable · · Score: 2, Informative

    the copper wire lamp cord that you can split with your hands once you get it started, is as capable a cable as any high cost audio speaker cable.

  14. Maybe the matrix architect was right.... on Genetic Building Blocks Found In Meteorite · · Score: 1

    we are a virus.

  15. It was on the Ubuntui update last nite.... on Firefox 3 Release On Tuesday · · Score: 1, Redundant

    .... or was this release canadate 3? I looked in the "about" box and unlike the previous version showing the release canidate number, this was simply version 3.0

    I'm confused?

  16. Re:UN Expert Calls Biofuel 'Crime Against Humanity on SwiftFuel Alternative To Alternative Fuels · · Score: 1
  17. Site ran out of fuel.... on SwiftFuel Alternative To Alternative Fuels · · Score: 1

    ...seems the site was slashdotted...

  18. And the option to such a patent is..... on Microsoft Applies For "Digital Manners" Patent · · Score: 1

    .... don't use it.

    So whats the problem?

  19. Vote for CowboyNeal, that way we can ..... on Community Choice Award "Most Likely to be Shut Down By Govt" · · Score: 2, Funny

    confuse and throw the gov. off the Wikileaks trail.

  20. Seems to me thay have other bullying issues.... on Proposed Legislation Would Outlaw "Cyberbullying" in US · · Score: 1

    ... to deal with first

    Bullying Institute

  21. Ctrl-Alt-Del...... on Microsoft Study Says Repetitive Strain Injury Costs $600m · · Score: 2, Funny

    go figure...

  22. The act of observation changes the .... on Data Retention Proven to Change Citizen Behavior · · Score: 1

    ....outcome.

    Sound familiar?

    its quantum physics. I forget the name of the experiment that proves this, but on the other hand we have other examples of which we can better understand the why behind it.

    Perhaps there is a clue here for quantum physics to understand.

    Conscious awareness does influence physical reality.

  23. The story of why the leaning tower of pisa was.... on Leaning Tower of Pisa Secure For 300 More Years · · Score: 1, Funny

    ...built.

    There was a baker who had become rather popular with his breads, sandwiches and soups. He experimented with new and wonderful, and sometimes not so wonderful meal idea. By accident one day a shelf bracket in his kitchen gave way and though nothing had gotten broken various item spilled onto the counter where he was making various products. In cleaning up the mess he scoped meats and chesses and sauces onto a flatten, by the shelf, bread dough. Being the experimental type and not wanting to waste his supplies he decided to put the results in the oven instead of throwing it out.

    This was the first pizza, but it wasn't perfected as the dough seemed to be a problem. Regardless he found the meal was good and decided to offer it to his customers, one of which was a close friend and building contractor who had been given a contract for a tower. These fluffy pies were selling well but the bread was still a problem and he couldn't figure out what had gotten mixed in the accident to cause the bread to stay flat rather than rise and spill the toppings.

    He got to talking with his building contractor friend and explored ideas as to how to make the dough stay flat. They thought they figured it out, with a hard object (shelf) suddenly against the bread dough to flatten it. The contractor had an idea, that he'd build the building just slightly off level so his good friend could drop the dough from a height that would flatten the dough as it hit he hard ground. And once the building was built they tried it, and it worked. They were going to many many such pies and become rich. Teh lower they dropped the dough, teh thicker the crust, the higher the thinner.

    So theu went to work, moving dough ingredients and tools to make it and lots of water up the tower. Of course teh overflow of water that had to keep away from teh spot where they woudl drop teh dough, so the contractor made a drain that diverted the drained water to under the building. This pie production went on for a few months but another problem was discovered, a seasonal one... birds and more specifically bird poop. Seems the bread also attracted birds and the slight tilted angle of the building, upon which teh birds would purch, was also contributing to the collection of bird poop on the ground right where they would drop the dough.

    Customer began to notice the underside of the pies and questionable taste. and there were many such customer and notables.

    Anyways Italy started to become embarrassed with this "bakers invention" and decided to put a stop to it but realized it word had spread far about this new and wonderful pie invention. So they had to cover it up and deny it ever existed. So they renamed the tower of pizza to Pisa. As things were, teh water being directed under the building weakened the foundation and teh building has ever since continued to tilt more and more.

    But the custom of dropping the dough from a height to flatten it, still exist today and some still do it outside, so check the bottom of any pizza you by for white spots.

    This story details may be expanded by any other in the know...

  24. price hikes..... on Bye Bye Bananas — the Return of Panama Disease · · Score: 1

    Knowing this will obviously lead to price hikes for bananas, which contains potassium that helps hold off mussel cramps caused by anti-cholesterol meds, taken by millions....

    Anyway, what can I do to give cause for a price hike in my salary, so to afford all these other price hikes?

    Its not a matter of inflation which is always going to happen given the game it is, but rather a matter of at which end of the inflation spectrum are you positioned at. The side they gives you a financial advantage or the larger side that gives you a disadvantage.

  25. I need a new brain... its malfunctioning... on The Neuroscience of Illusions and Dictionaries · · Score: 1

    ... of the fifteen optical illusions only about a third of them did I see the optical illusion without first reading the caption.
    After reading the caption and looking fo rthe illusion I was able to see more.