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Comment Re:Only link that matters (Score 1) 191

by djmab on Wednesday July 07, 2010 @10:23PM (#32834800) Attached to: 'Robin Sage' Social Hoax Duped Military, Security Pros

...but the peppering of slightly naughty wall posts doesn't hurt either:
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"Robin likes hope.net and Morning Sex."
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Robin likes SLEEPING NAKED IS MORE COMFORTABLE.
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Robin likes Intelligent, classy, well-educated women who say "F*ck" a lot.
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Submission + - Is the Tide Turning on Patents? (computerworlduk.com)

Submitted by Glyn Moody on Friday April 16, 2010 @11:14AM

Glyn Moody writes: The FSF has funded a new video, “Patent Absurdity: how software patents broke the system”, freely available (of course) in Ogg Theora format (what else?). It comes at time when a lot is happening in the world of patents. Recent work from leading academics has called into question their basis: "The work in this paper and that of many others, suggests that this traditionally-struck ‘devil’s bargain’ may not be beneficial." A judge struck down Myriad Genetics's patents on two genes because they involved a law of Nature, and were thus “improperly granted”. Meanwhile, the imminent Supreme Court ruling In re Bilski is widely expected to have negative knock-on effects for business method and software patents. Is the tide beginning to turn?

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