Re: Very Bad Things

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Mon Feb 18 2002 - 18:53:54 MST

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Josh Yotty wrote:
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> http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=PN/6341372
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> [Shiver]
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> Buried in this mound of text, I see Very Bad Things.

So? It's just another patent on the use of ASCII code 0x65 to enhance TCP/IP
communication links (using the letter 'e' on the Internet).

There are so many garbage patents out there that one more doesn't represent
much of an incremental worry.

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