Your Monday morning lulz

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MYK:

--- Quote from: JimIvey on 06-06-11 at 10:56 am ---Please don't file patent applications for that stuff. The profession is still reeling from the dufus that thought swinging sideways was novel and non-obvious and the examiner that agreed.
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I think it's much more similar to the "uncrustables" patent, myself. Although IIRC that one was also later invalidated.

--- Quote from: JimIvey on 06-06-11 at 10:56 am ---I myself performed the claimed method in public more than 40 years ago and observed others doing it in public at the same time. I did not sign any NDA at the time and, as far as I know, neither did anyone else at the performance -- and none of us had capacity to sign any contracts at the time.

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Oh, you're just jealous because you didn't think of patenting it first. :P

ETA: You see? You see?!??! This is what happens when you keep something a trade secret!!! ;D

MYK:
Incidentally, I ran into a really interesting one in the processed foods field a few months ago. My hard drive just crashed (FUUUUUUUUUUUUU....jpg), so I've lost all of that data YET AGAIN (FUUUUUUUUUUUUU....jpg), but it had something to do with a high-calorie nut-based food brick that was useful for disaster relief. The really weird thing is that the patentee deliberately restricts production of the stuff to well below a level that would maximize profits.

And I was *ONE* *@#&$ing* *DAY* away from getting my new computer with a RAID-1 array up and running, so that I could back everything up. No sh*t.

JimIvey:

--- Quote from: MYK on 06-06-11 at 10:51 pm ---And I was *ONE* *@#&$ing* *DAY* away from getting my new computer with a RAID-1 array up and running, so that I could back everything up. No sh*t.

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Sorry to hear that.

Just a note re RAID. It's not a panacea. I had a Buffalo RAID 1 NAS die on me during a power outage. Yeah, I had UPS as well, but the battery was old and didn't last long enough.

And, I had automated incremental backups every 4 hours of the RAID NAS. However, I hadn't noticed that disk space had run out for the RAID NAS backups and some things were not getting backed up. Luckily, I didn't lose any work. I only lost all digital photos from about 1999 on and other personal stuff.

I'm still hoping to pull the drives and to try to recover data when I have time.

Good luck.

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