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Monday, April 23, 2001

Another Idiot Patent -- 8:39 pm CST, Update by The Master

According to Yahoo News, a company called PumaTech (I've got a better name, but I'm not gonna go there) has gotten itself awarded a patent on checksumming of webpages to detect changes.

Wow-that's a completely unique idea. And windowing was a completely new idea when that stupid patent was done as well. Can we just nuke the patent office, or what?!? Thanks to Slashdot for this positive note in my day.

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