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Microsoft Patents Forgetful Memory

lot49.com — Microsoft has applied for a patent for volatile portable memory, circuitry "wherein the timed erasure mechanism destroys data stored in the storage circuitry after a predetermined amount of time has elapsed from an initiating event."

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  • sammyleigh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Lame... the author ('Thomas Claburn') is currently trying to pay $0.09 to Mechanical Turk workers to digg this story. He says, "I've posted a story on Digg and I am looking to see whether Mechanic Turk can be used to influence story popularity. As a journalist, I intend to report the results."

    You can see the HIT here (for now):
    http://www.mturk.com/mturk/preview?groupId=GWZ8ZGZAJXQYS8YV58D0

    Been tried before, too, though at least the pay's gone up:
    http://digg.com/tech_news/Experiment:_Can_mTurk_Defeat_the_Digg_System_
  • i440, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I think Microsoft should patent “software intended to interact with the users hardware,” as well as the concept of “running programs on a computer”

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