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Home › 2008 › July

Month: July 2008

Military Experience

By Phil Mayes Posted on July 28, 2008 Posted in Humor, Politics No Comments

Christopher Hitchens amused me today… “The right wing had no interest in highlighting Obama’s nuanced position in Austin, either, because there was (and is) a conservative interest in painting Obama as a heedless and irresponsible pacifist, with absolutely no experience …

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Software patents invalidated?!

By Phil Mayes Posted on July 24, 2008 Posted in Computers, Intellectual Property No Comments

PatentlyO reports that the Patent and trademark Office has ruled that “A general purpose computer is not a particular machine, and thus innovative software processes are unpatentable if they are tied only to a general purpose computer”. But apparently, a …

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Bad Computer Design #1 – stupid key combinations

By Phil Mayes Posted on July 24, 2008 Posted in Computers No Comments

How do you close a program in Windows? Alt-F4, of course. How do you switch between documents? Ctrl-F6, stupid! Who picked these finger-bending choices?  To answer this we must go back, back, back in time, to the earliest days of …

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MSM Notices Patents are Stupid

By Phil Mayes Posted on July 22, 2008 Posted in Intellectual Property, Media No Comments

The Wall Street Journal writes that “Patent Gridlock Suppresses Innovation“.  Finally, the message is reaching the establishment.  Latest example: Channel Intelligence is suing everybody (if they’re small) for wishlists in a database.  Sheesh.  How does the USPTO let this kind …

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Stranger than Fiction

By Phil Mayes Posted on July 17, 2008 Posted in Religion No Comments

Wow, you can’t make this kind of stuff up. A UCF student took a wafer at a Catholic Mass, upsetting the clergy who believe that it is the actual Body of Christ and hence must be consumed immediately. An atheist …

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The Path to Torture

By Phil Mayes Posted on July 16, 2008 Posted in Politics No Comments

Interesting post by Glenn Greenwald on Jane Mayer’s book The Dark Side where he points out that on torture, a reason that Congress has been reluctant to act is that many of its members were themselves compromised. I imagine them …

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The Flag

By Phil Mayes Posted on July 4, 2008 Posted in Politics, Society No Comments

Independence day is a great time to (re)start a blog on independent thinking, and what better subject than the flag. If you see an American flag outside a house, odds are the owners are Republican. In Britain, the ultra-right National …

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