Microsoft has patented what appears to be an equivalent to the venerable (as in dating back to 1980) Unix command sudo, which comes as only a mild surprise considering the recent stupidities of the USPTO.
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The International Olympic Committee, in a fit of money-grubbing suppression of free speech, banned Olympians from publishing online journals of their Olympic experiences at the 2004 Athens Olympic Games. (Ooh! Don’t tell them I *gasp* linked to their site! Get bent, you morons.)
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