Russian hopes to cash in on ;-) A Russian businessman trademarks the emoticon, a combination of punctuation marks used to convey a wink in text messages.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/2/hi/europe/7778767.stm Amusing, but also points out the differences between patent (local versus global, time limited versus open-ended), copyright (expression versus idea) and trademark. (Maybe VANOC would like to hire him ...) ====================== (quote inserted randomly by Pegasus Mailer) [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] It was much better to imagine men in some smoky room somewhere, made mad and cynical by privilege and power, plotting over the brandy. You had to cling to this sort of image, because if you didn't then you might have to face the fact that bad things happened because ordinary people, the kind who brushed the dog and told their children bedtime stories, were capable of then going out and doing terrible things to other ordinary people. - `Jingo,' Terry Pratchett victoria.tc.ca/techrev/rms.htm blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/author/p1/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
