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  1. Re:Photographer Copyright gets to choose. on Ask Slashdot: Dividing Digital Assets In Divorce? · · Score: 2

    In most western jurisdictions e.g. UK and US, all assets aquired during a marriage are jointly held, unless there is some form of agreement stating otherwise.

  2. Going North on Decision Time For SKA Telescope Bids · · Score: 1

    Well there is the Very Large Array in the US, which could perhaps be used as a baseline.
    One would also have thought that areas of Montana/Dakota or somewhere in Canada (Manitoba?) would provide a good area with low population density for the central core

  3. Location, location, location on Decision Time For SKA Telescope Bids · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Why is this thing not located near the equator, or alternatively perhaps with northern and southern hemisphere arrays?

  4. I am surprised on Zynga Sues Brazilian Dev For Copying Its Games · · Score: 1

    that Vostu agreed that it produced games very similar to those produced by Zynga, but said that Zynga could not sue as it had unclean hands and had done exactly the same with reference to its own products.

  5. I think on Microsoft's Antivirus Briefly Flags Google.com As Malicious · · Score: 3, Funny

    Microsoft simply confused Valentines Day with April Fools Day

  6. Implemented the wrong connector on TMS9918A Retro Video Chip Reimplemented In FPGA, With VGA Out · · Score: 2

    he'd better do an HDMI version quick as VGA seems to be on the way out as a connector :-P

  7. Probably not an easy process on Wikipedia Hasn't Forgiven GoDaddy · · Score: 1

    I presume that if Wikipedia moves its domain name registrations, it is probably also doing some due diligence to assure itself that any company it does work with can provide both the level of service and also has policies that are roughly in line with its views.

    I'm not sure what the technical difficulty is, because GoDaddy only appears to provide its domain name registrations, not provide the Wikimedia servers themselves, which appear to be in colocation facilities. Maybe someone can explain if there are any such issues??

    Maybe Wikipedia could establish its own domain name registrar? The fixed cost seems to be only about $4000.....

  8. Does iTunes sell you a digital file on Sale Or License? Sister Sledge Sues Over ITunes · · Score: 1

    ...or license it to you?

    That would be one question. I thought it was a sale as it came up in the ReDigi case recently

  9. Re:Sister Who?? on Sale Or License? Sister Sledge Sues Over ITunes · · Score: 1

    Whatever money these sisters have left over from their drug abuse won't even tickle Warner.

    I think you're confusing Sister Sledge with the Pointer Sisters (June and Bonnie Pointer to be more specific).

  10. Safes not totally safe on Defendant Ordered To Decrypt Laptop Claims She Had Forgotten Password · · Score: 1

    If you had a safe and there were reasonable grounds for believing it held incriminating information, then yes, the court could order that it be forced open. If you claim you've lost the key, then no harm has been done to your property as the safe is useless without the key, so you could not claim compensation. Of course, if the other side has evidence that your claim to have lost the key is a false one, then you are going inside for contempt or perjury.

  11. 5th Amendment doesn't apply on Defendant Ordered To Decrypt Laptop Claims She Had Forgotten Password · · Score: 0

    Production of documents under subpeona is a legitimate legal process, as is a search warrant to obtain relevant documents. For example, most companies have their documents on an encrypted database; they are still expected to produce relevant documents during discovery if a court orders them to.

  12. If I was American on How the GOP (and the Tea Party) Helped Kill SOPA · · Score: 1

    I now have a problem who to vote for. I mean the Republican Right and Tea Party are as mad as a box of frogs and seem to want to oppose freedoms on issues like abortion, whereas the Democrats seem to be the Pro Hollywood party. May as well flip a coin now.

  13. This seems bizarre on Dutch Supreme Court Sees Game Objects As Goods · · Score: 2

    The knife threat and kicking were obviously a form of assault/ bodily harm and should have easily swamped in terms of sentencing any charges for a very minor act of theft.

    I am very surprised that the Supreme Court simply didn't say that the issue of whether virtual items are real property or not was moot in view of the more serious offences committed by the defendants.

  14. It is obvious on Zynga Accused of Cloning Hit Indie iPhone Game Tiny Tower · · Score: 1

    ..that the Zynga game is more polished, with better graphical presentation. Maybe they had more drones to work on it.

    Many games boast similar ideas and the original game looks so like Theme xxxxxxx or Sim xxxxxx played on a PC, they can hardly claim originality.

  15. Ruling is likely to stand on US Judge Rules Defendant Can Be Forced To Decrypt Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    Companies routinely encrypt and password protect their documents and email systems, yet are required to produce the specific documents contained in such systems, rather than provide passwords to the entire system. I notice the judge has recognised this and doesn't require production of the password itself, but access to the documents protected by the system. Of course having a sooper sekret encrypted volume would have got round this....

  16. Re:Yeah...but on How the US Lost Out On iPhone Work · · Score: 1

    American companies don't usually have dormitories and everyone is up to their eyes in mortgage because for the past few decades having a big mortgage was the thing to do.

    The question then arises: would the US would accept a factory with working conditions similar to China, with dormitories and where people were expected to work (say) long shifts for a period before going back home to their expensively mortgaged house whereever it is located?

  17. How to destroy system on Supercomputer Cools Off Using Groundwater · · Score: 1

    1) Locate nearest source of geothermally heated water
    2) run pipe from hotwater into "cooling" system water
    3) smile and give evil Muhahaha laugh as computers in building boil alive....

  18. King V CBS was unfortunate on A Copyright Nightmare · · Score: 1

    It seems this fight was between one money grabbing organisation and the family. A judicial decision may have ended up with CBS owning the copyright to the recording, with them claiming the royalties instead of the King family.

    All in all though, it is a prime example of why copyright should be a reasonably short length of time such as 20 years or so to ensure that memorable events like this enter the public domain.

  19. Re:GPS Accuracy on New Mexico Is Stretching, GPS Reveals · · Score: 3, Informative

    I was working for a company on differential GPS back in 1992 and we were obtaining precision of less than a centimetre for differential GPS even then, real time. Admittedly "real time" was only about 1 update every 5 seconds or so but that was good enough for surveying purposes. Also we were generating an atomic reference clock using GPS to correct the receiver oscillator. If the resulting time signal was good enough for radio astronomy at Jodrell Bank, I presume it was good enough for anyone.... We were using 68000 processors (later 68020) backed up by custom ASICs; Clock speeds and power have come a long way since then.

  20. Re:Seconded on Looking Back At the Commodore 64 · · Score: 1

    Nail clippers, with the attached file. The multitool of choice.

    Indeed; I still use them as wire strippers and cutters....

    But, being slashdot, not as nail clippers, right? :-)

    No but the file is useful for keeping my teeth pointy..... :-)

  21. Seconded on Looking Back At the Commodore 64 · · Score: 1

    Nail clippers, with the attached file. The multitool of choice.

    Indeed; I still use them as wire strippers and cutters....

  22. Re:No bionic man yet on Instead of a Wheel Chair, How About an Exoskeleton? · · Score: 1

    but don't expect anything as bad ass as Starship Troopers power armor.

    Can we at least get the micronukes?

    We already have the micronukes. Proper exoskeletons are much more complicated.

  23. Not the entire story on NYT: IBM PC Division Sold To Advance China's Goals · · Score: 1

    I suspect that whilst he gave the Chinese a relatively good deal, he was probably mindful of the narrow profit margins and intense competition in the field and decided to kill two birds with one stone...

  24. Re:webos developer here - the "insider" has no ide on Insiders Call HP's WebOS Software Fatally Flawed · · Score: 1

    One wonders how many developers were made aware of this or whether they produced apps through the WebKit interface because they weren't aware of an alternative.

  25. Re:Sir Jonathan Ive is ABOVE Paul McCartney on Arise SIR Jonathan Ive · · Score: 1

    The entire idea of a royal family is, to put it lightly, a bit silly. Perhaps you guys should come out of the middle ages...

    It seems that the US has its own set of "Royal" families - Bush, Kennedy....