Mark Zuckerberg, Inventor
theodp writes “Move over, Thomas Edison. Here comes Mark Zuckerberg, inventor extraordinaire. Zuck’s still waiting for that elusive first patent to be issued, but take a gander at the Facebook founder’s patent application for Dynamically Generating a Privacy Summary to get an idea of what’s in the works. After you check boxes on a form to indicate that ‘Everyone from San Francisco, CA, Social Network Provider, and Harvard’ can see your profile, Zuckerberg’s ‘invention′ will miraculously display: ‘People from San Francisco, CA, Social Network Provider, and Harvard can see your profile.’ How dare Rolling Stone question his inventiveness!”
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Original post by kdawson