http://www.patentmonkey.com/PM/PatentID/7171414.aspx

found on http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/15/patent-monkey-yahoo-ready-to-smash-up-the-mash-ups/

 

Welcome to the American patent system. 

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/29130

http://crunchgear.com/2007/02/15/patent-monkey-yahoo-ready-to-smash-up-the-mash-ups/

Better explaination.
 
 

I'm going to patent: 'A method of performing a task by lowering the total energy content of one system while raising the entropy of the universe at large.' In other words, doing things.

Pap:

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/29130

Which means each and every one of us owes Microsoft twenty cents.

 

CDarklock:

Pap:

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/29130

Which means each and every one of us owes Microsoft twenty cents.

Hmmm... since every non-periodic real number consists by definition of an infinite amount of zeroes and since there is an infinite amount of such numbers, wouldn't that mean that in fact the universe itself is owing Microsoft <10*Infinity^2> cents ?

 

Boy, that is what I call a good investment... 

I'm just curious how this news means "We all work for Yahoo!" 

PSWorx:

CDarklock:

Pap:

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/29130

Which means each and every one of us owes Microsoft twenty cents.

Hmmm... since every non-periodic real number consists by definition of an infinite amount of zeroes and since there is an infinite amount of such numbers, wouldn't that mean that in fact the universe itself is owing Microsoft <10*Infinity^2> cents ?

 

Boy, that is what I call a good investment... 

arent't there only like 2^76 atoms in the universe?

GeneWitch:

arent't there only like 2^76 atoms in the universe?

But that's just 5% of everything! The other 95% are dark... stuff.
 

dhromed:

GeneWitch:

arent't there only like 2^76 atoms in the universe?

But that's just 5% of everything! The other 95% are dark... stuff.
 

Dark matter and dark energy to be precise. 

Quincy5:

dhromed:

GeneWitch:

arent't there only like 2^76 atoms in the universe?

But that's just 5% of everything! The other 95% are dark... stuff.
 

Dark matter and dark energy to be precise. 

DarkWing Duck, to be more precise. He is the terror that flaps in the night, after all. Night's pretty dark.

sycro:

I'm just curious how this news means "We all work for Yahoo!" 

 

sorry, I work in the web development realm and forget that there are other programming worlds! I was just blown away at how stupid the US Patent office can be. 

mrsticks1982:

sycro:

I'm just curious how this news means "We all work for Yahoo!" 

 

sorry, I work in the web development realm and forget that there are other programming worlds! I was just blown away at how stupid the US Patent office can be. 

That wasn't quite my point. Just because they have this technique patented does not mean you are working for them. They can force you to stop doing it, but they can't take your work. 

sycro:

mrsticks1982:

sycro:

I'm just curious how this news means "We all work for Yahoo!" 

 

sorry, I work in the web development realm and forget that there are other programming worlds! I was just blown away at how stupid the US Patent office can be. 

That wasn't quite my point. Just because they have this technique patented does not mean you are working for them. They can force you to stop doing it, but they can't take your work. 

 

It got you to read it, right? Otherwise you would've just past right over this thread.

 
It now gives Yahoo the power to sue every other company that produces for the web because they are infringing on a patent. Honestly, I don't think yahoo will do anything with this new power except brag about how they created they created the "web".

 

mrsticks1982:

It got you to read it, right? Otherwise you would've just past right over this thread.

Other acceptable "click me" titles would have been:

"Happy funbags yay, click here"

"CPound pictures, watch what he really wears to work"

"No, you're a dumb-dumb head"

"Ruby sucks"

"If you don't click me, you're a fanboy"

"If this text is clickable, you may be our $1,000,000 winner"

mrsticks1982:

It now gives Yahoo the power to sue every other company that produces for the web because they are infringing on a patent.

Don't you mean 'the power to sue every other USA-based company that produces for the web'? European web developers, present company included, would laugh at this, I bet.
 

mrsticks1982:

It got you to read it, right? Otherwise you would've just past right over this thread.

 Actually, I generally read at least the first post of all of these. I then decide whether or not to come back from there.