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IBM Wants Patent For Lotus Notes-Free Meetings 179

Posted by timothy on Sunday March 08, 2009 @11:17PM from the taketh-away-with-the-other dept.

theodp writes "Over at IBM, the Lotus Notes team has 'invented' preventing the use of their own product during meetings. Self-described patent reformer Big Blue has asked the USPTO for a patent covering Suppressing De-Focusing Activities During Selective Scheduled Meetings by forcing meeting attendees to 'submit to the computing system suspension requirements.' What's next — a patent for Verizon for blocking cellphone usage during movies?"

MTV Bleeps Filesharing Software Names In Weird Al Video 395

Posted by timothy on Thursday October 30, 2008 @07:40PM from the he-probably-kidnapped-himself dept.

An anonymous reader writes "We've all heard Weird Al Yankovic's 'Don't Download This Song,' which came out a couple years ago, but did you know that MTV is apparently so afraid that kids listening to the song will discover for the first time that file sharing offerings exist that in its video of the song, MTV bleeps out their names? There's a line in the song that lists out Morpheus, Grokster, Kazaa and Limewire (most of whom don't really exist any more), but for some reason MTV considers those names to be bleep worthy." Unless this is all one grand inside joke from Weird Al.

Comment Re:Chasing A Technological Chimera (Score 1) 362

by idadesub on Tuesday October 28, 2003 @08:39PM (#7334277) Attached to: House Asks NASA to Postpone Space Plane

well, one of the reasons I heard why "precise" landing is so desirable is that back in the days of Apollo and sea landings, NASA used an entire carrier group to cover the possible landing area, which was a huge expense.

Now, the Russians used landing, well, on the land, but because of, once again, inprecise landings, they had to outfit the crew with survival gear, such as food, and guns incase they ran into hostile capitalists :)

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