Jesus... so I shall not make my own home made power supplies with automatic fan regulation because IBM has a patent?

Will those idiots from the patent office ever consider NOT granting a patent to _anyone_ for things which are so simple and obvious that a 3 year old could "invent" them?

Seriously, some alien race should come by, bring a couple of huge hydrogen bombs, and nuke this stupid planet and its stupid population out of existence.

Oh wait, someone has patented hydrogen bombs... D'oh!