They were going to sue everyone on the planet, but they couldn't find their websites.

And by the way, what constitutes "customized" when its open source software?

404'd! [homestarrunner.com]

I guess I can't use that directive in apache anymore.

What error is displayed when the error server is not found?

The problem is though that who's really at fault at the end of the day, Amazon for trying to apply for the Patent or the Patent office for allowing it?

It's like the loophole I found when I was in Game a few months ago:

"£9.99 please"
"But it says it's half price"
"No, it's only half price when bought with something else"
"Oh... so if I buy two of these then I get them both for less than the price of just one of them?"
(Realising the problem) "...yeah... yeah you would actually"
"OK, I'll be back in a minute"

What article?

A system that embeds a CAPTCHA in an obscure place in TFA, then requires users to enter it on the comment pages before commenting to ensure they actually RTFA...

Reminds me of Marvin:

The requested patent is totally fake.
No patent here.
Even tried multi.
Nothing helped.
I'm really depressed about this.
You see, I'm just a web server...
-- here I am, brain the size of the universe,
trying to serve you a simple patent,
and then it doesn't even exist!
Where does that leave me?!

Why:
Error Displaying Error Message, of course...

Drat, can't find the pic I wanted...

Its not all the patent offices fault. They have to follow the rules, and those rules were not set up for the torrent of patents they receive these days.

They should use Comcast, then. That should slow the torrents down a bit...

*cower (Rank 8)*

Cheers for clearing that up, Jeff.

An Australian man has been issued with an innovation patent for the wheel after setting out to test the workability of a new national patent system.

John Keogh was issued the innovation patent for a "circular transportation facilitation device" under a patent system introduced in May 2001.

(read the rest...) [newscientist.com]

:-)

- Jesper

"Additionally, a 404 error was detected in displaying this error page"

Error 404: Please pay Amazon 2 cents to see what caused the error.

Awesome! That's the best 404 page I have ever seen!

Any strongbad related post deserves +6 awesomeness!

Given the average software quality out there, the plugin would probably detect that it can't connect to a server (ignoring that it failed on the error server) and contact the error server "instead".

The most probable error message would be something in the spirit of "You just transfered huge amounts of data on your non-flatrate account. Your account has been suspended."

Obviously a second error server will be contacted, to find out what sort of error should be displayed. You are not thinking Web 2.0 enough.

Ideally, there would be a body out there to whom you could assign "obvious" patents so that they can't be used for evil. That seems like such a good idea that I'm sure it must exist.

You'd think so, but I have a patent on the idea and I'm just waiting someone to infringe on it.