Facebook, Google, Zynga Ask Courts To Reject Patents On Abstract Ideas

Re:Facebook, Google, Zynga Ask Courts To Reject Patents On A... by ilaksh on Sunday December 09, 2012 @11:04PM (#4897440)

It is becoming increasingly obvious (to some people such as myself) that the law, government, and other social institutions are obsolescent and actually restricting progress, which is always made through technology.

It won't be too many decades before all human activity is irrelevant. (I make the distinction between humans and the ultra-intelligent life forms that we will shortly invent because I think that they are fundamentally different things.)

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Re:Facebook, Google, Zynga Ask Courts To Reject Patents On A... by rayiner on Sunday December 09, 2012 @11:40PM (#4897546)

Meh. There were 30 million e-mails being sent every month by the early 1970's (four decades ago). Heck, technology has almost not advanced at all in this decade, even in the computer sector (I don't consider Facebook, etc, to be advancements in technology in the relevant sense).

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Re:Facebook, Google, Zynga Ask Courts To Reject Patents On A... by ilaksh on Monday December 10, 2012 @02:15AM (#4897908)

Seriously? This is the only comment?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000s_in_science_and_technology

Why do I even bother trying to communicate with people anymore.

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