This post topic, while relevant, the actual contents hardly were. No rigor at all in the testing. No wonder I'm reading slashdot less and less.

This is one of the more interesting Slashdot stories in a while. I can put myself in your position and feel you emotions on this potential theft. It looks as if IBM is claiming they've made a substantial enough modification to the code/process/design to warrant a patent for them. As far as the USPTO lately, ever since the patented '1 click checkout' , the office has been suspect in my eye. I wonder how big of a potential market this patent has? One thought that I haven't seen mentioned is that, while this might be the more evil of two evils, you could contact the companies/people that are buying companies just for their patents. If this patent had enough value this might be a place to obtain some backing, again the value of this patent is unknown to me. Other than that it's more of a personal pride and justice argument, in these days of the Mortgage crisis and unbridled greed, with seemingly absolutely no consequences, there seems to be no honor, even among thieves anymore. Best of luck. look forward to a future post about the outcome.

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/30/trolling-for-patents-to-fight-patent-trolls/

7 minute abs. "What if someone comes out with 6 minute abs?"

7 MINUTE ABS.

This is the stupidest thing I have ever heard or seen. This will go down as one of the most inane things the MS has done, and they've done a lot.

Dibs on the hack for this coming out before 7 is released.