The Week in Review 44W2008
I knew bundling software patents and business processes was a good thing. That’s cause there’s a lot of money to get software patents going there’s even more money to get business processes patents not going. This was the case in this court case where a Federal Appeals Court made patents on non-material ideas against the law. So, as it stands, and untill it’s overturned again patents on methods to scam the IRS, speedy online shoping cart processing or double-clicks are unenforceable.
In a “strange” case of life imitates The Simpsons real life voting machines are switching votes from Obama to McCain. Turns it the touchscreen was not properly calibrated or something.
We knew my kid’s gokart is faster than IE7 but we didn’t know the PS3 browser is faster than IE7. I’m not sure how this benchmarks are achieved but they’re fun anyway.
On tech, nuclear powered planes are back to the drawingboard, a US based company developed coloured e-paper type stuff that looks promising, bot swarms will either settle Mars or kill us all.
Japanese rhino zoo emergency drill. ‘Nough said.
