Tim May wrote:
A Patent Falls, and the Internet Dances
By Peter Wayner
From the beginning, though, patent 4,200,770 was different. This Saturday night a group of computer scientists, Internet fanatics and Beltway politicos will gather in Washington, D.C.; Silicon Valley; and Boston to celebrate the end of the patent granted to Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman for a way to encrypt data.
Sounds to me like this reporter helped manufacture the news.....
The more things change, the more they remain the same.
And puppets still dance....
Tim, I told Peter Wayner about your plans to commit suicide tonight. He's already written a story for tomorrow, and he wants to know if you're going to do it, or let him down and make him look like an idiot. The 1/2MONGER