-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Paul Johnson wrote: > The good news: You might be able to still stop it. > > The bad news: Time is limited. > > Patent application is here: > http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=%2220050022023%22.PGNR.&OS=DN/20050022023&RS=DN/20050022023 > > How you can help is here: > http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=190534&cid=15675770 > > Sorry for the long link, USPTO's website isn't good for 80-column URLs and > tinyurl is tacky. > > So if you're a US resident or citizen (by choice or otherwise), act now, or > forever hold your peace. If you need motivation, think back to how annoyed > you were when Amazon patented the browser cookie ("one-click checkout").
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/07/us_navy_patents.html#c85119 Bruce, I'm disappointed with the over the top tone here. Anyone with any experience in the classified information area of the DoD knows that this is not a firewall, but a method to exchange information between networks of different classification levels. It is a very important and non-trivial issue. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is "common sense" really valid? For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins are mud people. However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFErqV4S9HxQb37XmcRAu9VAJ9lMl4SPu3Dz0yU3lNTPzuCTI5buwCfTjbX pt6u13nP9PLxOW0n1yhven8= =gZQ3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
