On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 11:52:40 +0100, Hadron wrote:
> Tim Smith <reply_in_group@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> In article <cko285-cf7.ln1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>> Mark Kent <mark.kent@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> >| Electronic Data Systems of Plano claims it holds the rights to U.S. Patent
>>> >| Nos. 7,156,300 and 7,255,268 which generally relate to a system and method
>>> >| for electronic purchase of prepaid telephone services. The plaintiff's
>> ...
>>> Telephone cards were first used in the 1980s in large numbers, before
>>> the explosion of the mobile market in Europe and Asia. We still have
>>> some card-phones around, but as pretty much everyone has a mobile, there
>>> are few call-boxes left.
>>>
>>> Cards are now more frequently used in mobile pre-pay services, where
>>> codes are entered and verified, so we're already on the 3rd generation
>>> of these things.
>>
>> That's nice, Mark. But what does it have to do with those patents?
>
> It's astonishing isn't it what Mark Kent will waffle on about thinking
> he is educating the great unwashed. I just *know* he's a pompous, pumped
> up jackass of a teacher who is used to boring small children to death
> about his holidays and the death defying feats of derring do he
> committed during his National Service. Yawn.
Could you imagine having Mark Kent as your teacher?
I'll bet he sounds supercilious and boring like Roy Schestowitz does.
--
Moshe Goldfarb
Collector of soaps from around the globe.
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