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Allen v. World and Dog - First Amended Complaint
Paul Allen's Interval Licensing has met the deadline to file an amended complaint [PDF] with specificity. If you can read it without passing out laughing and/or having your head explode with disgust, I'd like to know what happened to you as a child that blunted your normal emotions.
No wonder he didn't want to be specific. This document is Exhibit A for why software patents are an oozing pimple on the nose of the US legal system. Interval is suing because it can, and it would like to be paid by anyone using the Internet in a normal way, and it can because the US Patent Office thought it was good policy to rubber stamp stupid software patents right and left, with the idea that they could be vetted in litigation.
And vetted they will be. But at what cost to the US economy? I can't believe any of these patents will survive intact. Normally, I'd ask you to look for prior art, but I see other, easier ways to toss them in the dumpster, so even if I weren't busy doing Comes v. Microsoft exhibits, I still wouldn't ask you to bother. Post any that you happen to know about, but I'm not asking unless one of the defendants specifically asks for us to do it.

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PDF::API2::Basic::PDF::Dict(3pm)			User Contributed Perl Documentation			  PDF::API2::Basic::PDF::Dict(3pm)

NAME

       PDF::API2::Basic::PDF::Dict - PDF Dictionaries and Streams. Inherits from PDF::Objind

INSTANCE VARIABLES

       There are various special instance variables which are used to look after, particularly, streams. Each begins with a space:

       stream
	   Holds the stream contents for output

       streamfile
	   Holds the stream contents in an external file rather than in memory. This is not the same as a PDF file stream. The data is stored in
	   its unfiltered form.

       streamloc
	   If both ' stream' and ' streamfile' are empty, this indicates where in the source PDF the stream starts.

METHODS

   $d->outobjdeep($fh)
       Outputs the contents of the dictionary to a PDF file. This is a recursive call.

       It also outputs a stream if the dictionary has a stream element. If this occurs then this method will calculate the length of the stream
       and insert it into the stream's dictionary.

   $d->read_stream($force_memory)
       Reads in a stream from a PDF file. If the stream is greater than "PDF::Dict::mincache" (defaults to 32768) bytes to be stored, then the
       default action is to create a file for it somewhere and to use that file as a data cache. If $force_memory is set, this caching will not
       occur and the data will all be stored in the $self->{' stream'} variable.

   $d->val
       Returns the dictionary, which is itself.

perl v5.14.2							    2014-03-09					  PDF::API2::Basic::PDF::Dict(3pm)