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  1. Re:RIAA: Tunes Gestapo? on CMU Cuts off Net Access for 71 Students Over MP3s · · Score: 1

    Right. My problem with this is not the violation of the "divine right to distribute bootleg mp3s," which doesn't exist. It's the ability of the RIAA to force entities to crack down proactively under threat of lawsuit -- and then sort out any mistakes later. "Innocent until proven guilty" does not exist to protect the guilty!

  2. This looks like a bad CS project. on Revolution in Graphics? · · Score: 1

    It's kind of interesting that the guy who is slated to revolutionize the 3D graphics industry hasn't yet mastered the perspective transform and made a viewer which resembles a plate tectonics demo as you zoom out. Maybe the guy ran out of hallucinogens and tried to make a virtual substitute.

  3. Re:why GIFs and not ZIP-files? on Unisys Enforcing GIF Patents · · Score: 1

    Not quite. Zip's deflate algorithm is LZH (Lempel-Ziv-Huffman). They're quite different. LZW dynamically builds a string table, while LZH explicitly includes the huffman tree and uses a sliding window (LZ).