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Old October 22nd 04, 12:37 AM
Le plume de ma taunt
 
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The dingbat wants your ID so that he can send you a laughable (but annoying)
threatening legaleze mumbo-jumbo e-mail. It is much more relaxing to taunt
the lunacy from a slightly more annonymous position.

The dingbat has one valid point. There are nearly infinitely more 'fractal'
shapes than simple shapes. This means, as he says, that the solution space
is vastly increased by using fractal-shaped antennas to provide some weird
combination of parameters.

What he won't acknowledge is that there are *infinitely again* more
non-fractal squiggly shapes than pure fractal shapes (turtles upon turtles
all the way down). Therefore, his patents are apparently worthless because,
even if there were some applications that happened to 'allow' a fractal
antenna solution, anyone could take the fractal antenna solution and
randomize it a bit (loop until better) to make it slightly nonfractal (and
better at the same time!) and off you go.

It must be annoying to have spent the entire bundle on this and only now
realize that it is absolutely trivial to walk around the patents.

That would be if, big if, anyone cared to.

I hereby place all slightly non-fractal squiggly antennas into the public
domain.