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Story: Amazon patents gender stereotyping

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Posted by: Anonymous (Wednesday 9 March 2005, 7:03 PM)

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What strikes me most about these "inventions" is that
when a real human being performs the described actions it is totally obvious, while once you translate it into software it suddenly is worth a patent.

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