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  1. Re:But will IE accept the new font files? on Font Foundries Opening Up To the Web · · Score: 1

    How is selling a derivative work that adds further restrictions to my rights a perfect embodiment of free software principles?

    Or are you saying it is not a derivative work? Is the font original because of the way it is now encoded digitally? I guess ebooks are actually original works as well then, because of the way their content is encoded. Who new Amazon has so many great in house writers?

  2. Re:Why does it all have to be either pro or anti? on Is Apple's Attack On Flash Really About Video? · · Score: 1

    You are incorrect, and are mixing patents and copyright

    SCO was a copyright claim. Firstly they claimed that Linux was copied from Unix, then they claimed that they owned UNIX copyright.

    MPEG-LA is not claiming any copyright over anyone. They are not claiming ownership of x264. However, they WILL claim that any open source implementation of h263 encoder or decoder infringes on their held patents.

    One Linux company has already lost a patent case. Tom Tom lost to Microsoft because of FAT patents.

  3. Re:Games too on Is Apple's Attack On Flash Really About Video? · · Score: 1

    Wait, so you're saying Apple is keeping Flash off the iPhone to actually protect FLASH developers?

    *head explodes*

  4. Re:But will IE accept the new font files? on Font Foundries Opening Up To the Web · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Font files are essentially code executed by a rasterizer, and the code is copyrighted by Adobe.

    So far not Project Gutenburg or Mutopia for typefaces just yet.

  5. Re:I've been playing with Markov models lately on Rest In Peas — the Death of Speech Recognition · · Score: 1

    I should rephrase. Nothing is gained by using IPA instead of audio signatures because they represent the same context. Think of an IPA character as essentially an audio signature.

    Translating to IPA doesn't move you any closer to translating to your target script.

  6. Re:This is a very difficult problem on Rest In Peas — the Death of Speech Recognition · · Score: 1

    Concepts != language

    You do not use any language structures (syntactic, phonological,semantic) in your life that an average 5-7 yr child has not already acquired. This is established in pretty much all literature on language acquisition.

    After all, there is a lot that biomedical scientists talk about that I don't understand at all. Still, my language faculty remains intact.

  7. Re:But will IE accept the new font files? on Font Foundries Opening Up To the Web · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but I can distribute the copies I buy off him any way I like.

    I can't do with Adobe fonts.

  8. Potential on Pressure Mounts On ICANN To Approve .xxx Domain · · Score: 1

    slashdot.xxx - Babes of Slashdot

    Think of the possibilities (or don't)

  9. Re:Opens the door to censorship on Pressure Mounts On ICANN To Approve .xxx Domain · · Score: 1

    Well Soccer Mom's should care what other countries do if other countries don't enforce the .xxx domain.

    Hiding away good old Apple Pie American porn while letting the dirty Eurotrash variety pass through seems a bit stupid, doesn't it?

  10. Re:Opens the door to censorship on Pressure Mounts On ICANN To Approve .xxx Domain · · Score: 1

    That's because those sites have a self-motivated reason to attach to those domains.

    The rules around .edu and .mil etc concern keeping unwanted sites OUT of the domain, not forcing certain site in.

  11. Re:Opens the door to censorship on Pressure Mounts On ICANN To Approve .xxx Domain · · Score: 1

    Cool, so if you put it up for free, you don't need the .xxx domain?

  12. Re:Yay ignorance. on Pressure Mounts On ICANN To Approve .xxx Domain · · Score: 1

    Only the uneducated parent.

    There are responsible porn sites that play nice with filters and have entry pages without explicit conent. Then there are other sites which are not so charitable. The sites that play nice will always play nice, and the sites that don't will still be sneaky.

    Anyway, when was the last time you randomly stumbled upon some porn? You have more of a chance seeing boobs at a football game than through Googling for your class assignment.

  13. Re:Performance? on Font Foundries Opening Up To the Web · · Score: 1

    Except that before the web there WERE a variety of fonts.

    There wasn't one particular font called "newspaper". And newspapers and books all used different fonts for various reasons.

  14. Re:But will IE accept the new font files? on Font Foundries Opening Up To the Web · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What's a amazing is that so many of the fonts are basically just re-creations of typefaces that are certainly out of copyright.

    The original "Calson" font mentioned in the article is at least 200 hundred years old, yet there are a number of Calson offering, like from Adobe, costing some $45 bucks.

  15. Re:Just what I want. More external crap the user h on Font Foundries Opening Up To the Web · · Score: 1

    Sounds like the "open source software is just for hobbyist" argument.

    If free fonts are crap, that just means that the "free-model" hasn't yet taken hold in font design, or that no one is really that interested in fonts.

    There are plenty of free things of high quality that are ridiculously more complex than fonts. An operating system kernel for one.

  16. Re:Yay for Google on Looking At Google's Flashified Chrome · · Score: 1

    It's amazing how you can take someone out of context even while providing the full quotation.

    Is it so hard to comprehend that if you really need serious privacy, NO major search engine provider in the world will give you that?

    And this doesn't refute anything. Just because they may be forced into handing over data doesn't mean they won't put up a fight. Which is exactly what Google does, and exactly the opposite of Yahoo and MS, who are very pliable in their dealings with governments.

  17. Re:Yet another rant on hollywood computers, huh? on Top 10 Things Hollywood Thinks Computers Can Do · · Score: 1

    Watch a medical show with doctors or legal shows with lawyers. Hell, thing of the cop shows and how reflective they are OF THE COPS.

    It's entertainment, and it plays to a certain expectation of how certain things functions.

    *Execptions made for the Wire/Oz etc.

  18. Re:Must be controlled with a keyboard... on Top 10 Things Hollywood Thinks Computers Can Do · · Score: 1

    High throughput doesn't imply high random seek times.

    In fact, a device with high sequential throughput will often suffer from poor random access performance.

  19. Re:Oh please on Top 10 Things Hollywood Thinks Computers Can Do · · Score: 1

    If someone breaks your system, that doesn't imply that you can break their system.

  20. Re:Oh please on Top 10 Things Hollywood Thinks Computers Can Do · · Score: 1

    I thought Aliens used IPX ?

  21. Re:Hollywood is partially right on Top 10 Things Hollywood Thinks Computers Can Do · · Score: 1

    Linux is a filesystem?

  22. Re:Hardware: "Digital Universe" Enters the Zettaby on "Digital Universe" Enters the Zettabyte Era · · Score: 1

    No it means he bought a camcorder sometime in the last 5 years.

  23. Re:Who cares? on "Digital Universe" Enters the Zettabyte Era · · Score: 1

    Umm, the article is pretty much about the fact that we did generate it in our lifetime

  24. Re:Server technology? on Intel Shows Off First Light Peak Laptop · · Score: 1

    Why would one life form tell another life form to be more efficient, when that one life form benefits from the other being inefficient?

    That is a very inefficient way to go about things.

  25. Re:Chicago on Mac OS X Problem Puts Up a Block To IPv6 · · Score: 1

    5) Claim to own patents covering all implementations.