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JPEG Committee On The Ball, Seeks Prior Art
Sangui5 writes: "It seems as if the JPEG Committee has noticed the recent patent fuss, and is working on the prior art angle. Good to know that even though there's a new standard, the committee is standing by their previous work."
First Post. prior first post art?
The approximation of mobile media to physical human body started with portable then wearable terminals, and finally settled to implantable terminals which ushered civilization into a new era where man and machine were no longer separate.
Such integration was realized by direct transplanting of communication terminals to the physical body, allowing the body and mind to interact immediately with standard computer and network technology. These implantables gradually took over the outdated portable/wearable technology, to be recognized as the prototype of "Cyberbrain."
After the ever-growing technology introduced the practical utility of micro-machines, cyberbrains became both safe and inexpensive. This caused rapid popularization of cyberbrains within countries that had little or no religion restrictions, such as Japan.
But the wide prevalence of cyberbrains caused social anxiety: people were exposed to risks of brain-hack because of their neural connection to the entire population using cyberbrains.
The most serious brain-hacking crime was "Ghost Hack", a case where total individuality including past memories and body discretion of a certain person became the subject of the hacker. Various countermeasures were taken, such as the development of numerous protective walls and barriers along with reinforcement of regulations, not to mention security intensification within the neural network system.
But they failed to abolish cyber-crimes, thus resulting in a rat race: further development of protective walls and barriers, and the emergence of more intelligent and original hackers.
I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Horror/Sci Fi writer Stephen King was found dead in his Maine home this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.
I am a muppet! For the love of god, kill me!
Back in the day porn used to be a whopping 16 colours! We don't need 256 colours, 16.7 million is just overkill.
I'm a loner Dottie, a Rebel.
"This is the second major IP bombshell to hit the computing community in the last few weeks..."
Ladies and gents, I give to you the author of the infamous "BSD is dying" posts!
Proof: "One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered *BSD community..."
http://goatse.cx
Fucking grow up, man.
This is the first time that's happened to you? Different authors (CmdrTaco, michael, chrisd, etc.) find different stories interesting.
Maybe michael saw your story on Friday and decided it wasn't quite newsworthy so removed it from the queue. Then today timothy sees the new one and he decides it is newsworthy, so he posts it.
It's nothing that worth getting pissy about. Hundreds of links a day get sent in. They aren't going to post them next time.
Better luck next time and stop whining. Thanks.
this is slashdot. they only publish dupes.