User: Srin Tuar

Re:Perhaps someone would care about my .01 opinion

On: The Digital Millennium Copyright Act: Part Two

You dont really think its any different here in the USA, do you?

Re:Playstation2 Woes

On: PSX2 Memory Card Recall Ordered

Yet you still get to watch your ps2 games through a blurry old television. Even on a relatively old computer- the graphics are much better.

Re:It's very simple

On: John Carmack Enforcing the GPL on Quake Source

who taught you speak, the meaning is Very clear

Re:Where are the other two?

On: Jon Johansen's Answers to Your DeCSS Questions

So what are you?
An MPAA paid lawyer or investigater who's having trouble finding them on your own?
Enough time and money spent and you may well find someone to "Make an example of".

Re:Unbiased

On: Survey Says 63% of Americans Like MS the Way It Is

I was at a Kmart recently- they have these new
touch-screen shopping terminals where customers
can browse through the store's merchandise etc
Going to try one out i noticed it was non-responsive
as if it had frozen up. i asked a clerk-lady and
she advised me to hit CTRL-ALT-DELETE

needless to say i declined and moved on.
all the false statistics and hype and whatnot can hardly hope to save Microsoft or Sun. both are doomed unless they change their ways soon.
calling the fs/oss community biased is not accurate. barring a few ignorant extremists they are mainly very logical and fair. those who dont see the threat of microsofts domination or suns aspirations of replacing microsoft, really are not interested in progress.

Re:Software isn't Expression?

On: DeCSS Injunction Ruling

there is code that does just that its not perfect, but it works: look up http://personal.sip.fi/~lm/c2txt2c/

F*cking awesome idea

On: Author Unknown

A few groundrule/guidlines for an English prose Anonymizer:

• All spelling errors must be eliminated. No word not present in a standard dictionary may be used. Overuse of explicitly quoted phrases will generate warnings.
• All words are reduced to their simplest direct synonyms. A specialized thesaurus must be availble to prevent any confusing changes of meaning.
• All sentences must pass a restricted grammer check. Any sentence that does not will be reordered into simplest grammar.
• Any prose output once by the anonymizer must equal itself when passed through it again.
• Input whitespace will be used only to break words and paragraphs. In the output, all white space will be generated.
• Parapraph discipline must be enforced. A paragraph must not exceed 8 sentences or be less than 3. Paragraphs will be broken and recombined as needed.
• Decimal numbers of 2 or fewer digits will be spelled out. Those of 3 or more will be converted to digits. Warnings will be generated if a lot of spelled out numbers are adjacent to another but cannot be converted to a proper decimal number.

Another good idea would be a code anonymizer. It would reformat and rename variables, Restructure logic to simplest form etc.