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  1. Summary available at Yahoo on Danish Court Rules Deep Linking Illegal · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Read a summary here. The real issue was that the company doing the deep linking was deemed to be in direct competition with the site it was linking to.
    Copenhagen's lower bailiff's court ruled Friday that Newsbooster.com was in direct competition with the newspapers and that the links it provided to specific news articles damaged the value of the newspapers' advertisements.
  2. The point of testing is to FIND the bugs on Properly Testing Your Code? · · Score: 2

    If you're not finding the bugs, then you're not doing a good job testing.

  3. You agreed to it, so abide by it on Selling Your (MMORPG) Soul · · Score: 2
    I don't see what the problem is. You did accept the EULA, whether you read it or not. If the EULA prohibits the selling of game items for real cash, then don't do it. We're not talking about items not listed in the EULA, or an EULA you don't see until you've already installed the product.

    caveat emptor

  4. Not necessarily personally identifiable on Hong Kong's Octopus · · Score: 2
    The recent article is basically a summary of the first. They both say that the smart cards are used for micropayments and that some people choose to have their identification information stored.

    What is interesting is that it is so wide spread throughout Hong Kong and rapidly growing in Asia. Areas where mass transportation due to overcrowding provide the perfect opportunity. Keep in mind, however, that while your money is sitting on that pre-paid card, its not accruing interest in your bank account.

  5. Already in use on Unique ID Codes for CD / DVD Manufacturers · · Score: 2

    "This would not allow us to track users," she said, "just the business where the disk was replicated." Peets noted that many disc manufacturers already use the codes, citing a figure of 80 percent. And remember, the EU has strict privacy laws.

  6. Asians left out in the cold on Sometimes, Microsoft is Right... · · Score: 2, Redundant

    Unfortunately, this leaves Asian character set as URLs out in the cold. The Register talks about how RealNames allowed for Internationalized Domain Names, something not currently supported otherwise. The "Internet Engineering Task Force group working on a technical standard for addressing non-ASCII IDNs in the DNS" is doing just that, working. Its not set yet. So don't just slam RealNames for the ASCII keywords.

  7. Re:$20/m == free? -- Free Now Pay Later on Pittsburgh Launches Large, Free, Public WiFi Network · · Score: 2
    Obvious the title and blurb are misleading. But a quick glance at the article shows that:
    The network, which became available for public use on Monday, is free to use for now. Organizers envision charging $20 a month for access once the network
  8. Re:This is absolutely not part of the Java Runtime on Sun Java Runtime Uploads Usage Data to RedSheriff? · · Score: 1

    If you've been reading Slashdot, you should know better than to ask that question. They don't validate links and they don't know how to spell. And no, they don't check to see if a story is true.

    You're basically saying that guy has been trojan'd.

  9. Flashback on The Lone Gunmen Aren't Dead? · · Score: 2

    Its called a flashback. You know, one of those sequences showing something that has occurred at a previous point in time.

  10. Re:Does it respect proxies yet? on Mozilla 1.0 RC2 is out · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Make sure you properly configure Mozilla to use http 1.0 instead of 1.1. 1.1 is not compatible with Junkbuster. There's a release note about it.

  11. Sneakemail can't even save you on The Story of "Nadine" · · Score: 2

    I'm a firm believer in Sneakemail and customizing email addresses for each site you visit. This shows that, unfortunately, even non-existant email addresses still get spammed. That drags down their resources. What we need to do is get rid of the open relays and the like. Its obvious that MAPS and RBL will only be able to do a certain amount of blocking. Spammers are very creative and have minimal costs.

  12. Simpsons may go soon too on Matt Groening on Futurama, Simpsons and Fox · · Score: 4, Informative

    Yahoo News carries an interview with Groening. My favorite quote it "Although what happens generally if we win the Emmy for best animation show is that that gives us another couple of years to run it into the ground," he said.

  13. More coverage by PC World on Tech Support Getting Even Worse · · Score: 2
    PCWorld.com has an article here.

    "In fact, of the thousands of readers who said that they had e-mailed questions to manufacturers about their malfunctioning computers, only 25 percent reported that the answer they got back actually solved their problem."

  14. PCWorld does monthly rankings on Comparative Laptop Reviews? · · Score: 2

    PCWorld has a Top 15 list broken down into Power and Value categories. They also cover the pros and cons of each.

  15. Some already have it on IEEE Building Automotive Black-Box Standard · · Score: 5, Informative
    "Eleven of the 45 companies that build passenger cars worldwide already use some kind of black-box technology, according to representatives of the IEEE. The best-known of those is General Motors Corp., which said three years ago that it includes the device, known as a sensing and diagnostics module, as part of its airbag sensing systems on most GM vehicles. The module can store such information as engine speed, vehicle speed, airbag deployment, seat belt deployment and the state of the brakes before and during an accident. "

    Its just not a standard yet.

  16. Java on Seeking Multi-Platform I/O Libraries? · · Score: 2

    Ok, so Java isn't the greatest at performance, but it is cross-platform.

  17. Speedometer? on Camera Meets Speedometer, Travel Across Country Together · · Score: 2

    Speedometer measures speed. Odometer measures distance. I don't even have to read the article to see that detail.

  18. VNC will be consistent on The State of Remote Desktops? · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Well, you can run VNC and you'll have access to the same exact desktop no matter which machine. There are native viewers, as well as the Java one. Its small, platform independent, and GPL'd.

  19. Gnutella clients already do this on Finally Real P2P With Brains · · Score: 2

    The latest BearShare and LimeWire both allow you to "swarm" gnutella downloads.

  20. Stop bombarding me with cookies on Sites Wary of Adopting P3P · · Score: 2

    I'm so sick of being bombarded with third-party persistent cookies. Damn right I want to maintain my privacy. Ok, so if their privacy statement fully notifies me they're going to put a thousand cookies on my machine its alright? Uh, no.

  21. X-Windows? on Questions over the Windows Trademark · · Score: 2, Interesting

    How old is X-Windows? Is it prior art?

  22. Cygwin is free on Cheap Software Languages for NT? · · Score: 2

    Not only can you use Cygwin for the command line, but you have access to most of the things available under linux. For example, you can build X apps.

  23. Compression requires two ends on Modem Accelerators? · · Score: 2

    In order for your modem to receive the data in a compressed format, whatever is sending the data has to compress it using the same algorithm. Thus mod_gzip works. But it will only work on things that are compressible in the first place. Will your mp3s come down the pipe any faster? Of course not. Compressing a compressed file with a different algorithm will get you minimal gains. The short answer: no, other than tweaking the packets a bit (ie MTU, etc), you can't 'accellerate' your downloads.

  24. Quell the Riot by Breaking Bones on Slippery Slime Developed to Control Crowds · · Score: 2

    Did I read that right? Its so slippery that they could have seriously injured themselves? What a great way to stop a riot, but them all in the hospital.

  25. Not all ISPs offer them on Are Public NNTP Servers a Thing of the Past? · · Score: 2

    You said yourself that AOL doesn't. @Home put a limit on downloading once they declared bankruptcy. Comcast.net hasn't decided what its going to do, but suggested that if they do offer a news server, it will be limited. The only places that seem to have a news server are universities and commercial sites. With the heavy loads of all the binaries, it can't be cheap to run one.