patent of the day

[John Levine]

In article <87zluxfccw.fsf at snark.cb.piermont.com> you write:
>
>http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT6993661

Gee, the inventor is Simson Garfinkel, who's written a bunch of books
including Database Nation, published in 2000 by O'Reilly, about all
the way the public and private actors are spying on us.

I wonder whether this was research to see how hard it was to
get the PTO to grant an absurd patent.

R's,
John

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