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Court trying to justify software patents again
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, August 01 2012 @ 06:58 AM EDT
No car can go anywhere a human can't go. The only reason we
use cars for travel is speed.

I'm certainly not pro software patents. I'm not even sure
patents are generally beneficial at all, software or not.

But these kinds of arguments aren't going to convince those
that believe in the benefit of patents, software or not.

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Court trying to justify software patents again
Authored by: tknarr on Wednesday, August 01 2012 @ 04:50 PM EDT

In theory, yes. In practice, no. A human can for instance do the arithmetic to balance a checkbook feasibly. A computer can do it faster, but a human isn't so slow as to make doing it by hand infeasible. By comparison, yes humans can factor large numbers by hand. In theory. But in practice the math takes so long to do that by the time you get up into the hundreds of bits no single human lifetime's long enough to finish the job. So while in theory humans can factor large number by hand, in practice only computers can do it quickly enough to be feasible.

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