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  1. Re:So... Java... standard APIs... WebKit... on Google's Android Cellphone SDK Released · · Score: 1

    Maybe, if they release the source to their Java based but non-standard Dalvik VM under an open license.

  2. Re:As a Veteran... on Google Honors Veterans Day, Finally · · Score: 1

    I'm British so I cant really comment on American wars but if the next draft is for another Falklands or Iraq I'm not fighting.

    So if it was Gibraltar or Iran instead, it would be OK?

  3. Re:In Defense of Google on Google Honors Veterans Day, Finally · · Score: 1

    If I had to design logos for my company based on holiday themes, what do you think I would do when I came across Veteran's Day?

    The Poppy is a universal symbol for Veterans/Rememberence/Armistice Day.

  4. Re:I generally ignore them on Non-Compete Agreement Beyond Term of Employment? · · Score: 1

    If its the first employment contract you are presented with at that job, then you may be implicitly accepting it by your inaction.

  5. Re:Time to... on FBI May Have Datamined Grocery Stores With Help From Credit Companies · · Score: 1

    If the FBI are really smart, they'll track who's buying compasses so they can slaughter their animals facing Mecca. All those Boy Scouts out there better prepare for when the squat team comes to smash their door in and fill their houses with tear gas.

  6. Re:What do you think "loyalty cards" are used for? on FBI May Have Datamined Grocery Stores With Help From Credit Companies · · Score: 1

    What's more interesting is if this kind of stuff actually helps them find real terrorists or if the hit/miss ratio is more akin to just identifying Muslims or Mid-easter people.

    I was just cross checking the chocolate egg purchases from the loyalty program database with attacks on abortion clinics, and realised what a problem we have with Mid-Easter fundamentalist Christian terrorists in this country.

  7. Product release Monday on Ballmer Calls Android a "Press Release" · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yes it's a press release, made 7 days before the SDK is released on Monday. How long was Vista a press release for?

  8. Re:Still moronic. on Google's Open Source Mobile Platform · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Symbian and Windows Mobile are already "open" enough platforms to expose companies to the theoretical threats this journalist brings up. Open source has nothing to do with this at all, it is an open to developers issue.

  9. Re:Trademarks on Is a Domain Name an Automatic Trademark? · · Score: 1

    The other guy is probably doing this because he believes it is what he has to do to protect his trademark.

    My opinion is that the other guy is doing it to gain another domain name for his link farm. If the letter is from the guy himself, and not his lawyer, then I'd just file it in the trashcan and get on with my life.

  10. Re:Who's missing? on 22 Companies Sued Over Wi-Fi Patents · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Actually, these guys seem to have genuinely invented the work they hold the patents for, though they were working for the University of Calgary at the time - does the University allow its employees to hold the IP for inventions made in the course of their University funded research through private holding companies? If I was a Canadian taxpayer, I'm not sure I'd be happy about that.

  11. Re:Who's missing? on 22 Companies Sued Over Wi-Fi Patents · · Score: 1

    Patent trolls need to buy their patents off somebody.

  12. Re:What the Story Submission Should Have Said on The Uncertain Future of BitTorrent · · Score: 1

    Well he did say "drug". Pot is not a drug, it's a leaf, so there shouldn't be any confusion.

  13. Re:"Destroyed the Music Business?" WTF??! OMG Poni on NBC Chief Slamming Apple · · Score: 4, Interesting

    charging that the digital download service was undermining the ability of traditional media companies to set profitable rates for their content online

    Basically, in other words his statement reads: Competition undermines the ability of the media cartel to engage in price-fixing. Over the last 150 years, America's love of the free market has made America into the most powerful economy on earth. Now the media cartel wants to drag us into the 19th century, and up to now, our politicians are doing their best to help them for the most part.

  14. Useful? on Looking for gPhone Clues in Google Patents · · Score: 1

    The invention would allow an English speaker, for example, to use the keypad of any mobile phone to enter Chinese characters

    Babelfish must be purchased separately.

  15. Re:Cows don't walk much on OLPC Experiments With Cow-Powered Laptops · · Score: 1

    The article just says that cows "are being used in the fields". It doesn't say anything about waterpumps or getting them to walk in a circle.

  16. Cows don't walk much on OLPC Experiments With Cow-Powered Laptops · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Whenever I see a herd of cows, they are either standing still eating, or walking to the milking shed to be milked. Getting one to walk on a conveyer belt with no useful purpose for the cow is not going to be easy. They might get a more consistent supply hooking up a dynamo to the cow's jaw, chewing is something they do a lot of.

  17. Re:If memory serves on Investment Firm Bids to Buy SCOs UNIX Operations · · Score: 1

    I wonder how long it will take for the FOSS community to find the links between YCM and Microsoft?

    See groklaw (search the comments for Acacia to see the full set of links in this triangle). It took less than the time it took for the story to be posted to slashdot.

  18. Re:What about... on GIMP 2.4 Released · · Score: 1

    Thank you for confirming that the designers are not using either RGB or CMYK but Pantone colors. Now can you enlighten me on how CMYK support is so important to this process?

  19. Re:What about... on GIMP 2.4 Released · · Score: 1

    I asked a simple question. If you have the answer, please tell. Responding with unrelated speculation about the mindset of Gimp developers is not constructive.

  20. Re:What about... on GIMP 2.4 Released · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Are these designers for whom RGB is inadequate using CYMK monitors, or are they designing outside the range they can see on screen?

  21. Re:mod_rewrite on Amazon Patents Including a String at End of a URL · · Score: 1

    You don't need mod_rewrite, just map your CGI to a URL with a wildcard at the end, and get your parameters from PATH_INFO instead of QUERY_STRING. Here's a paper from 1999 describing its use.

  22. Re:Elevator Garage? on Very High Tech - Elevator Garages in an NYC Hi-Rise · · Score: 1

    The counterweight cancels out the weight of the lift, so the electric motors only have to lift the weight of the car, not the car+lift.

  23. Re:Wow, so soon! on Very High Tech - Elevator Garages in an NYC Hi-Rise · · Score: 1

    5? More like 20+. They had elevator equiped parking garages when I lived there in 1989, and they weren't new then.

  24. Re:To state it explicitely: There Is No Story on Standard Web Fonts 'Updated' In Vista · · Score: 1

    The standard web fonts are serif, sans-serif and monospaced. They look different on every platform I've ever seen, but that's OK, because HTML is not a precise page layout language, but an information markup language.

  25. Re:MS has a history of "skipping" for parity's sak on First Details of Windows 7 Emerge · · Score: 1

    NT started at version 3 (maybe even 3.5)

    It was 3.1, the same as the version of DOS based Windows that was current at the time. 3.5 came next, then 3.51, before the Windows 95 UI upgrade which was NT 4.