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  1. If you don't want the world to know... on How To Stop the Next WikiLeaks · · Score: 2

    ...that you are a murderer, stop murdering.

  2. Some examples on Ask Slashdot: Successful Software From Academia? · · Score: 1

    Hugin (well, at least parts of it), Postgres (at least its origins),
    Emacs and other GNU software (RMS worked for an university then,
    afaik), LISP from MIT, Pascal from ETH Zürich,
    Python (at least originated) from CWI, ...

  3. It IS acceptable to copy CDs etc. on CD Ripper 'Incites Law Breaking,' Says British Regulator · · Score: 1

    That's fair use AFAIK. Anyway, that's what users have been doing for decades now.

  4. Try Unibas (www.unibas.org) on Ask Slashdot: Huge Digital Media Libraries · · Score: 1

    Unibas has been written to manage large collections of documents
    (text, audio, video, images, ...) and their metadata.

    Disclaimer: I am its author, and it's alpha.
    It has been tested on Debian and Ubuntu only.

  5. You have a right to be forgotten, as long as... on Should We Have a Right To Be Forgotten Online? · · Score: 1

    I have a right to remember and publish what I know.

  6. He posted under his (almost) real name on Google Assists In Arrest Of Indian Man · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Did anybody notice he circulated the message
    under an email address that contains his name
    ("It was known that the vulgar message about Sonia Gandhi was circulated through an email address â" Rahulvaidindia@gmail.com").
    Does someone want to stay anonymous if he
    uses such an email address?

  7. Re:Hmm on Physicist Calculates Trajectory of Tiger At SF Zoo · · Score: 1

    You mean there was no single measuring tape in the whole zoo?

  8. Re:What's that sound? on Warner Backs Blu-Ray. End Times For HD-DVD? · · Score: 1

    ... and
    3: DeAACS to get as common as DeCSS is.
    People want to backup and place-shift their disks.

  9. worst-case example on Only 2 in 500 College Students Believe in IP · · Score: 1

    No, that's not the worst-case example.
    Worst-case example would be something like
    "Make thousands of perfect countefeit copies of a DVD
    and make heavy dollars selling them."
    I think a lot of students would have raised hands here.

    But he didn't ask that question.
    He just wanted to show how immoral today's youth is,
    and that question would have spoiled this.

  10. Re:hidden volumes - wrong analogy on UK Government Can Demand You Hand Over Encryption Keys · · Score: 1

    A computer is not a house, but rather like an enhancement of your brain.
    You cannot be forced to tell what you think and what you know,
    and giving them a key means telling what you know
    and the computer (your brain 2.0) knows.

  11. Re:What orbit? on China to Have Over 100 Eyes in the Sky · · Score: 1

    Just China, but Greater China,
    including Taiwan, Singapore,
    Japan (which once payed tribute to China), ...

  12. Experiment confirmed on Beer-Coated CDs are Optical Biocomputers · · Score: 1

    I can confirm that music sounds distorted
    when too much beer is involved...