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Well the editor, Frank Salvato, seems to be a content thief. The flying pig logo he uses on his "The Fifth Column", looks awful familiar to me.

But maybe Salvato is just a dupe and got the graphic from the talentless - Propagandizing PhotoHacktress - thieving - disrespecter of a Navy Corpsman, Linda Eddy, who has No Shame, and is listed as a contributor on the site.

(yeah, it's personsal, i was a lotterywinner_and_conscriptDoc)

Mr. Jobs: I have to admit it. We wrote a big AppleScript and it's running the company. Isn't this awesome?

So THAT's the secret...

I do. This isn't microsoft's first try at this. I expect similar results

If *I* looked like that, I'm not sure I'd plaster my face all over the Internet!

This is from 1998.

http://www.seyboldreports.com/SRIP/wavelet/

steveha

Here is an earlier article discussing the Intertrust patents, and their apparent broadness. There are links to the actual patents themselves.

As other posters have noted, this settlement gives Intertrust a leg up on the competition (which they probably will sue now).

It would be an interesting exercise to see if there are any publications that discuss "trusted computing" prior to the Intertrust patents.

Also, Intel announced a mobile cpu that has a DRM coprocessor in the same package. Intel could head this direction with all their chips.

Given all the evils of DRM, I would rather see a chip from Intel with DRM succeed, rather than using Microsoft palladium, Phoenix DRM bios, or other software component. Having it in hardware makes it a level playing field for every developer, commercial or open source. I am not saying any of it is good, only what the lesser of evils would be.

Preferably their would be an open source competitive solution.

IBM has had "QBIC", Query By Image Content, for some time now. From what I read, this allows the user to specify some overall image-processing attributes of desired images, and hopefully the database will find images that meet the description. However, this applies to the domain of flat images, and not 3D shapes. Still, it's informative to know that this concept is not new, and has been around since at least 1996 or so.

http://wwwqbic.almaden.ibm.com/
http://www.seyboldreports.com/SRDP/0dp9/D0901006.H TM

Don't forget the earlier examples of footshooting involving WordPerfect. Novell paid $1 billion (or was it $850 million?) for WordPerfect Corporation and sold it to Corel for $186 million about 18 months later. That's a pity, because for $50 I could have told them that WordPerfect Corporation was not a good fit for Novell.

Little-discussed facts about WordPerfect for DOS: There were plenty of menus that were 7 levels deep. It was like a video game. There may have been a pot of gold in there somewhere that no one ever discovered.

It always seemed to me that the old WP Corp. was like a Ponzi scheme. They had excellent free technical support to tell you how to find things in the forest of menus. But that could only work if they had steadily increasing sales.

That was not the end of footshooting. Corel President Michael Cowpland (I once talked to him on the phone, briefly.) was married to a woman who had a habit of dressing seductively... some described it as going about in public half-naked. Here's a quote, one of many: (Sorry, I couldn't find any of the really seductive photos.)

Most Likely to Be Talked About Behind Her Back

Marlen Cowpland: The wife of former Corel Corp. CEO Michael Cowpland and the Marie Antoinette of the Canadian rich, she appeared at the computer software company's 1999 Ottawa gala draped in a million-dollar dress following a quarter when Corel stock had lost more than half its value and the firm had bled almost $15 million. She later hosted Talk TV's Celebrity Pets. A release for Cowpland's show gives no year of birth, but did say she was born in "Quebec, Canada." The release added, "Cowpland believes that to fully experience life, you must create your own party."

According to this ancient Seybold report, Dataglyphs can achieve densities of a kilobyte per square inch.

DataGlyphs were featured in this /. article about chess playing scanners.

...eBooks want to be locked up. Apparently. At any rate, with regard to fonts, Cynthia Hollandsworth, a VP at Simon and Schuster, in this article, is quoted as saying

âoeWhat is absolutely clear to me (working for the largest e-book publisher in the industry) is that there is not any business left for font makers who want to play in this e-world. We use fonts in our e-books, of course, but the font companies have a very skewed view about what these products are worth in this environment. It is likely that a market will come up for renamed and redigitized fonts tuned for e-books and other screen technologies that are sold with unlimited rights to reproduce. In a paperless world, itâ(TM)s impossible to manage the rights of these products with royalties and permissions.â

In other words, Simon and Schuster doesn't want to PAY bloated prices for locked-up intellectual property. I wonder whether they will ever realize that book readers feel just the same way about eBooks as they do about fonts?

By the mid-90s, Xerox had written what was basically a SmallTalk interpreter using GhostScript. It was called DocuScript.

With that, Xerox wrote all sorts of applications for hallway copiers, including web browsers, hang-man games, and image processing/manipulation applications.

Take a piece of paper with an image you want to copy. Circle the image. Scan it. Take a piece of paper that you want the image on. Mark where the image goes. Scan the paper. Output: new piece of paper with the image from the first on it and the other elements from the second piece.

Ooops, you dropped 200 pages of a paper on the floor, and you have gathered it up in the wrong order. Circle the page number on the first page of the paper. Scan the entire paper in. Output: your paper now resorted according page number.

Go to a hospital and triage yourself by taking a printed image of the human body and circling on the image where you hurt and scanning it in to the hallway copier.

Take your 100 page paper and scan it into the hallway copier. Get a one page token in return (containing, basically, an encoded URL) Fly across country to a conference holding only that one page token. At the conference scan in your token. Output your 100 page paper.

And then, being Xerox, they found they couldn't/wouldn't/didn't want to sell it. Talk about the Game of Life!