{"id":53,"date":"2003-10-02T18:49:36","date_gmt":"2003-10-02T17:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/blog\/archives\/2003\/10\/02\/patently-obvious\/"},"modified":"2003-10-02T18:49:36","modified_gmt":"2003-10-02T17:49:36","slug":"patently-obvious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/blog\/archives\/2003\/10\/02\/patently-obvious\/","title":{"rendered":"Patently obvious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swpat.ffii.org\/news\/03\/epet0929\/index.en.html\">Europe retains its sanity<\/a> over software patents.  The <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.europarl.eu.int\/omk\/sipade2?SAME_LEVEL=1&#038;LEVEL=3&#038;NAV=S&#038;PUBREF=-\/\/EP\/\/TEXT+PRESS+DN-20030923-1+0+DOC+XML+V0\/\/EN#SECTION1\">proceedings<\/a> make fun reading.  I wrote to my local MEP about this back in June.  However, my local MEP was firmly sticking to his party line and said &#8220;thanks but no thanks&#8221; to my viewpoint and said that they would be supporting the move.  Grr!  So much for representative democracy!   &#8220;Sorry, you had your vote three years ago .. why are you bothering me with your viewpoint, puny citizen?&#8221;.  Still, all&#8217;s well that ends well.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been looking for a decent hardware ebook reader for a while.  I want something which is the size and weight of a paperback book, with a highres greyscale screen.  I haven&#8217;t found such a beast, and I&#8217;m starting to plot how I&#8217;d build one of them myself.  <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/www-bcs.mit.edu\/people\/adelson\/checkershadow_illusion.html\">optical illusion<\/a>.  The human visual system rocks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Europe retains its sanity over software patents. The proceedings make fun reading. I wrote to my local MEP about this back in June. However, my local MEP was firmly sticking to his party line and said &#8220;thanks but no thanks&#8221; to my viewpoint and said that they would be supporting the move. Grr! So much [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}