{"id":3621,"date":"2016-05-15T18:02:42","date_gmt":"2016-05-15T23:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=3621"},"modified":"2016-05-15T18:02:42","modified_gmt":"2016-05-15T23:02:42","slug":"makes-me-laugh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/05\/15\/makes-me-laugh\/","title":{"rendered":"Makes Me Laugh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em><strong>NewScientist<\/strong><\/em> (30 April 2016) comes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg23030713-400-computer-generates-all-possible-ideas-to-beat-patent-trolls\/\" target=\"_blank\">news<\/a> of a boomerang for use on patent trolls:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>ALEX REBEN came up with 2.5 million ideas in just three days. Nearly all of them were terrible \u2013 but he doesn\u2019t mind. He thinks he has found a way to thwart patent trolls by putting their speculative ideas in the public domain before they can make a claim.<\/p>\n<p>Reben, an artist and engineer, trawls the US patent database with software that splices existing sentences into phrases describing new inventions. His project, called <a href=\"http:\/\/allpriorart.com\/\">All Prior Art<\/a>, has come up with some odd contrivances: a robotic phone book; 3D-printed soap that kills pests on strawberry plants; and a temperature-regulating adult nappy with a hood.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Although I am forced to wonder if this is also damaging to legitimate companies and individuals who have a good idea, only to find it shot down by Reben&#8217;s quixotic project. And, yes, this approach may not work, according to lawyers noted later in the article &#8211; but I&#8217;m still giggling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From NewScientist (30 April 2016) comes news of a boomerang for use on patent trolls: ALEX REBEN came up with 2.5 million ideas in just three days. Nearly all of them were terrible \u2013 but he doesn\u2019t mind. He thinks he has found a way to thwart patent trolls by \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/05\/15\/makes-me-laugh\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3621"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3622,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3621\/revisions\/3622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}