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  1. first on Appeals Court Overturns 2007 Unix Copyright Decision · · Score: 0

    Damn, well more of these schenagigians

  2. Red Hat? on Leaving the GPL Behind · · Score: 1

    Umm... Red Hat (NYSE:RHT) is in the S&P 500 and has a business based largely on GPL licenced code. I smell bullshit.

  3. patch on Bell Starts Hijacking NX Domain Queries · · Score: 1

    dnsmasq supports specifying bogus NX domains, and rewriting/fixing them.

  4. Re:No problem on Feds May Soon Be Allowed To Use Cookies · · Score: 1

    Strict online security in connection with login-protected content is simply not possible without a cookie*.

    Perhaps you havn't heard of simple http authentication. Its widely used in web applications from big provider APIs, twitter, google, facebook, etc.

    I guess you have you head in a hole with MSFT stuff, and havn't taken the time to understand the underlying technologies.

  5. Re:Ballots and ballets on Opera CTO Thinks IE Will Be Forced To Support SVG · · Score: 1

    Konquorer

    ie
    Netscape Navigator
    Internet Explorer
    Konquorer
    .
    a rational progression

  6. Suggestions on Feds Seek Input On Cookie Policy For Government Web Sites · · Score: 2, Interesting

    1. Tracking MUST be in aggregate. Any categories of users SHOULD come only from self descriptions fcrom the user. (ie clicking "i run a small business")
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    2. Preferences MUST be stored client-side in cookies, not server-side. Sites MAY use hashing to prevent tampering where appropriate. Preferences SHOULD be stored as plain text so that they can be read and perhaps changed directly by the user.

    3. Users SHOULD NOT have unique ids tagged to them, and MUST not have unique id's tagged to them over more than one session without an opt-in.

    4. Analytics of users/preferences and locations/IP addresses MUST be done in a way as to minimize the ability to specificly track people who do not opt-in and are unaware of tracking.

  7. They do have such a thing on Google Wave Reviewed · · Score: 1

    If you locally host it, and there are no Google members in the communication, then it never goes to Google's servers.Somewhere in the last 10 minutes

  8. Re:How long will peak rates be around for? on Consumers May Find Smart Appliances a Dumb Idea · · Score: 1

    Here in the pacific northwest these demand grids seem pointless because we have hydroelectric dams that can turn on and off according to demand, choosing when to use their (limited) supply of water/energy. This is renewable and non-carbon energy too. The Grand Coolee dam would regularly have one of its three sections turn on and off in lock step with the hours of the aluminum refinery on the other side of the state.

  9. Re:I don't know... on YouTube Phasing Out Support For IE6 · · Score: 1

    I applaud you for keeping with the car metaphor.

  10. Re:Not without merit. on Integrating Wikipedia With a Local Intranet Wiki · · Score: 1

    That would essentially be the way it would happen. You would hot pull down the mediawiki source, apply local changes, and locally render to pages with active diffs. You would add have pages that only exist locally. Due to limitations in the platform you would have to custom design any way to have changes that people make go either to public or private system, this would be difficult under the current system constraints, where the documents structure is not kept track of.

  11. Not without merit. on Integrating Wikipedia With a Local Intranet Wiki · · Score: 1

    This is something the Google Wave protocol and platform completely anticipates.

    Its based on a tree structure and source code management. People who edit from the synergized wiki could add to either the private or public versions, and patches to public versions or additional documents could be changed and maintained internally.

  12. Re:Support? What do you mean, support? on YouTube Phasing Out Support For IE6 · · Score: 1

    hell yeah, video tag support is lynx

  13. Re:I don't know... on YouTube Phasing Out Support For IE6 · · Score: 1

    IE8 is your your new car. It runs smooth, and there are no real complaints about the reliability. The seats are little on the hard side, and you'd like more leg room.

    What cool-aid are you smoking? With no support for canvas, video, audo; slow javascript; horrible security, privacy; and completely ineptitude still for standards--epic fail for acid3; IE8 was obsolete before it was ever released.

  14. Re:Now? on US Postal Service Moves To GNU/Linux · · Score: 1

    I'm sure the libertarians will chime in that they could do that much cheaper if the (subsidized) USPS weren't in the way,

    The USPS isn't subsidized at all. All operational costs are payed directly by fees, yet they are still able to maintain the bargain deals they have due to smart decisions like this one.

  15. Re:Technically true, but really ... on Facebook Sued Over Data Access · · Score: 1

    I dont think you understand TFA. Facebook _did_ share data with the company, but then Facebook sued them saying that they where not allowed to get that data. There was no practical barrier, and never was one, however Facebook wishes to impose a legal barrier onf entry, and propritary control over its users data (to which the user, and not Facebook, holds any available rights)

  16. DNS servers on Comcast DNS Redirection Launched In Trial Markets · · Score: 1

    level3 runs 4.2.2.3 4.2.2.4 4.2.2.5

    No funny stuff.

  17. Clearly not fair use. on Of Catty Rants and Copyrights · · Score: 1

    Fair use requires a transformation, the copies the newspaper published have the exact same use as the one posted on myspace, and therefor fair use defense of the entire work is quite difficult. It was this transformation of use that was the central point in both the Google Images fair use verdict as well as in Betamax, two places in which the entire work was copied (albeit in low res re Google), however the use was transformational and served a differnt purpose from the origional published copies.

  18. Hypocritical? on Anonymous Newspaper Commenters Subpoenaed In Tax Case · · Score: 1

    So now if I pay a debt to a store in quarters I only have to pay sales tax on 13% of the face value as the quarter melt value is only 3.25c?

    http://www.coinflation.com/coins/1965-2007-Washington-Quarter-Value.html

  19. Microsoft? on HTML 5 Takes Aim At Flash and Silverlight · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Microsoft might be part of the w3 organization, but none of their browsers support any of the HTML5 specs, i dont call that being involved, instead they have specifically decided not to support these standards, and try to slow down, and break apart the web.

  20. Re:700 pounds -- goodbye safety standards! on Open Source Car — 20 Year Lease, Free Fuel For Life · · Score: 1

    Your promoting Car size inflation. This car makes everybody else safer. The more SUVs on the highways the less safe everyone is. The current idea are broken. What makes everybody safer is lighter, stronger vehicles; not massive steel SUVs.

  21. Re:Getting Firefox? on Microsoft Will Ship Windows 7 in Europe With IE Unbundled · · Score: 1

    Wait till the EU finds out they are shipping an FTP client!!!

    strings c:\windows\system32\ftp.exe

    @(#) Copyright (c) 1983 The Regents of the University of California.
      All rights reserved.

  22. BING Is Not Google on Microsoft Bing Search Launches Early Preview · · Score: 1
  23. Re:What's all this license crap anyway? on Google Chrome's Inclusion of FFMpeg Vs. the LGPL · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Exactly.

    It should be realized that the party who would enforce any such breach of copyright would be the people who hold copyright: its writers, whereby any suit on a breach of that clause would have to argue that there exist valid, applicable patents that apply to the capabilities GPL licenced code,. a stance copyright holders have not taken. [1]

    http://www.ffmpeg.org/legal.html

  24. Re:Not much different than mail in ballots on Is Arizona's Internet Voting System Safe Enough? · · Score: 1

    We have an identical mail-in system here in washington state, and i have to agree its excellent. Here all voting is mail-in.

  25. Re:thumb drive linux on Solution For College's Bad Network Policy? · · Score: 1

    That doesn't have any real stats, like what class the flash is, 2MB/s, 4Mb/s, 15MB/s. It really matters.