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  1. Re:Adbode pdf browser plugin on Adobe Launches Sandboxed Reader X · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's trivial to set Adobe Reader to open outside the browser. Just clear the "Display PDF in browser" check box on the "Internet" panel of the preferences.

  2. Re:Solution: on Google Releases New Image Format Called WebP · · Score: 1

    Multiple resolutions in one file was one of the features of the FlashPix format that was introduced way back in 1995. There was a complete ecosystem offered by major tech companies, including free browser plugins that provided zooming and as-needed download. FlashPix failed to gain a significant foothold and is rarely used today. There's a little bit of information on the format at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flashpix, and a format specification at http://graphcomp.com/info/specs/livepicture/fpx.pdf.

  3. Re:What about Delaware? on Borders Closes the Books on Amazon · · Score: 1

    While Deleware and Orgeon may not have a state sales tax, there are probably other sales taxes that Borders will collect from at least some residents of those states.

    U.S. sales taxes are levied by states, counties, cities, and other entities. For example, in the Dallas, Texas area there's typically a state sales tax (~6%), a city sales tax (~1%), and a sales tax for regional mass transportation (another ~1%). The overlay of all these different taxes results in many, many different tax rates across the country.

    The difficulty of correctly calculating these taxes and transferring the funds to the taxing entities used to be one of the arguments against mandating the collection of taxes by mail-order and on-line retailers. It seems like people have since figured out how to do that.

  4. U.S. Government requires accessible software on OpenDocument Plans Questioned by Disabled · · Score: 2, Informative

    A U.S. law requires that most software used by the U.S. Government be accessible. (http://www.section508.gov/ has the details.) A government-focused, open-source group may want to develop these capabilities, rather than expecting the disabled people themselves to do so.

  5. Re:Supply chain management on RFID Production to Increase 25 fold by 2010 · · Score: 1
    You could easily read the tag on a box of RFID tags by using the tag selection capabilites of the latest "air" protocol -- EPCglobal Class 1, Generation 2 (usually called just "Gen 2".) Only the addressed tags would transmit. This is the type of tag that's expected to be used in most supply chain operations.

    See the Gen 2 standard for the (incredibly complex) details.

  6. Anybody else still have the T-shirt? on Large File Problems in Modern Unices · · Score: 1
    Way back in January of 1995 a group called the Large File Summit was formed to standardize large file access in Unix systems.

    This group produced three notable results:

    • A specification, which was ultimately submitted to X/Open,
    • A declaration that 2**64 bytes is a "bubbabyte", and
    • A really cool T-shirt.

    I still have my T-shirt -- how about you?