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Comment Re:It will never fly in the US (Score 1) 914

Intentionally driving people mad is torture. Rearranging people's brains to make them docile servants of the state is Stalinist.

Anybody who thinks this kind of torture would be limited to time dilation is a moron. Think pain dilation. Anybody who thinks this would be limited to child rapists is an even bigger moron. Think dissidents.

Everything about this stinks. The author would have made a sweet servant of Henry VIII....

Comment Instruction (Type A) and Instruction (Type B) (Score 1) 105

Person A independently devises a set of computer instructions that make it possible for any person with a cheap 3D printer to create a unique and specific product that, if created, would be patentable. The product is not created.

Person B independently does exactly the same thing--except that the instructions are written in English.

B is not patentable under patent law (and it shouldn't be). A shouldn't be patentable, either. Otherwise, we'll get people who'll write instructions for making old, patent-expired stuff and expect to get a patent for their instructions.

Software patents are garbage.

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