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   lol..

   

   Anonymous Coward, Aug 21st, 2006 @ 3:00am

   
   

   ahh... im bots... it brings back memories to the days of aol and prodigy... i guess it's time to enforce my patents, damn army :P
   
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   IM Bots

   

   Old Guy, Aug 21st, 2006 @ 4:33am

   
   

   Shame we cant send IM troops...

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   Re: IM Bots

   

   ForkBoySpam, Aug 21st, 2006 @ 5:59am

   
   

   Maybe we could find these IM Cyber Bullies and recruit them....
   
   http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20060817/1659225.shtml

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   IM bots are probably smarter than army recuriters

   

   chris (profile), Aug 21st, 2006 @ 6:04am

   
   

   unless the bots are programmed to lie as well :-)

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   So has..

   

   Sanguine Dream, Aug 21st, 2006 @ 6:12am

   
   

   the Army started sending recruiters door to door like vaccum cleaner salesmen yet?

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   Anonymous Coward, Aug 21st, 2006 @ 6:13am

   
   

   Shouldn't violate any patents since people have been doing this since the days of IRC (yes, I know its still around). Bots are pretty common there and have been for a while. Since so many people are able to come up with it then its obvious and not patentable. Same with bots pre-existing any kind of patent.

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   absurd

   

   Daniel (profile), Aug 21st, 2006 @ 6:51am

   
   

   its absurd that this article linked another dated 2002 ... of course its a crazy idea, but in 2002 patenting an IM bot was a *little* more feasible (although still slightly stupid)

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   Re: IM bots are probably smarter than army recurit

   

   Anonymous Coward, Aug 21st, 2006 @ 7:09am

   
   

   IM bots are obviously smarter than YOU...bet they can spell "recruiters" correctly...

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   Re: Re: IM bots are probably smarter than army rec

   

   wolff000, Aug 21st, 2006 @ 7:30am

   
   

   Since when does spelling have anything to do with smarts? I know a few absolutely brilliant physicists that can hardly spelll thier own names much less anything else. Numbers they shine with words not so good. Anyways with army recruitment #s at an all time low I'm surprised this didn't happen sooner.

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    Re: Re: Re: IM bots are probably smarter than army

    

    The Mighty Buzzard, Aug 21st, 2006 @ 12:39pm

    
    

    I might agree except that saying recruitment numbers are at an all-time low is absurd at best. This nation has been around for over two hundred thirty years and for a good few of those barely had an active military at all. Oh, wait, you probably just had your hyperbole-lock key on.

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    Re: Re: Re: Re: IM bots are probably smarter than

    

    Anonymous Coward, Aug 21st, 2006 @ 1:19pm

    
    

    Perhaps you could enlighten us with some examples on how this isn't true instead of slamming postes with equalivant hyperbole responses. Doesn't anyone remember what they learned in school (citing references) or are all of you living up to the American art of non-education? It would be nice to see intelligent discussion... waiting

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