[WildUtah]

In the Bilski decision the Supreme Court drew a distinction between routine logical and mathematical operations that have existed for thousands of years and complicated technical operations like linear programming, encryption, and compression that truly change the operation of hardware and go far beyond mere logic and math. [0]

Only Judge Scalia noticed the idiocy in time to stop those specific examples from being binding precedent, though the principle still is. [1]

That's the level of understanding you can expect from the courts.

0 http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/09pdf/08-964.pdf

1 http://boingboing.net/2015/07/08/tom-the-dancing-bug-judge-s...