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Donald Knuth to European Patent Office: algorithms not to be patentable

Thursday, June 11, 2009

Article at Groklaw.
My random pick:
“If Europe leads the way in this [allowing algorithms to be patented], I expect many Americans would want to emigrate so that they could continue to innovate in peace.”

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Example of bullshit

Friday, January 18, 2008

Last years, I was not much exposed to bullshit at work. In fact, almost not at all. Now I received an email with a brilliant example of the subject. A person has an email signature, which ends like this:

[MyCompany] is one of the global leading suppliers of Information Logistics
Solutions and Product Information. Our customers are [...]

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Ursula K. Le Guin on modern fantasy

Friday, April 13, 2007

“In modern fantasy (literary or governmental), killing people is the usual solution to the so-called war between good and evil.”
This is from a response to “Gedo Senki,” the Earthsea film made by Goro Miyazaki for Studio Ghibli; but this citation deserves much wider audience than fans of Ursula’s books.

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Locking mobile phones in the USA

Wednesday, January 17, 2007

The practice of locking mobile phones to a single mobile provider has become quite annoying in the United States. While the rest of the world can freely change providers by simply swapping out a SIM card, US customers are usually stuck with multi-year contracts and locked phones. Apple is continuing this tradition by locking all [...]

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