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  1. Re:Conservative justices are not to blame on Supreme Court Rules Private Property Can be Seized · · Score: 1
    Being generally liberal, especially on social issues is not compatible with strongly respecting private property rights (and such).

    So it is doubtful your suggestion will be followed.

    Stephan

  2. "hotmail" does that already on Hotmail To Junk Non-Sender-ID Mail · · Score: 1

    "hotmail" does that already with my emails from stephan ((((at)))) space-time.net. They land in the junk folder, right away. I tested this a year ago. Stephan

  3. The intractable brains of an Inventor on Apple Sued Over iTunes UI · · Score: 2, Informative
    I find only one patent for the Inventor David Contois in the uspto.gov patent database. Additionally, this is at http://campus.champlain.edu/vitc/LeahyeBusinesspdf 031504.pdf :
    Music eBusiness expert David Contois will share the success story of how he transformed his family's Essex Junction piano and organ business into eMusicGear.com, one of America's top e-commerce retailers of Yamaha Music Products and other popular brands.
    eMusicGear.com says they are a family business.
    eMusicGear.com is a division of Contois Music & Technology, LLC. Established in 1971, Contois Music & Technology has always been on the forefront of Music, Education, and Technology. Since launching our Internet Business in 1996, we are now able to provide our National Customers with the same high-quality customer sales and service that we've provided our local customers for over 34 years!
    Here is the family photo: http://www.emusicgear.com/images/mmr.gif On their website I can't find a similar GUI to ITunes. Mostly electrical piano's.
  4. Re:No Infringement Here on Apple Sued Over iTunes UI · · Score: 1
    But it is about ITunes, not the IPod.

    From the article

    Contois Music Technology last week asked a Federal Court to stop the iPod maker from distributing its iTunes jukebox software and is seeking damages over an alleged patent violation by the iTunes software.

    Apple is referred to as the "IPod maker", but the issue is with ITunes. ITunes can be used without the IPod.

    Stephan

  5. Lynx on Command Line for the Web · · Score: 1

    This is called lynx. I did this ten years ago. (Time flies)

    Try this

    alias YubNub lynx

    Stephan

  6. The Google Trap on Microsoft Wants P2P Avalanche to Crush BitTorrent · · Score: 1

    It seems Microsoft is falling into the Google trap by expanding their product line (e.g., this and Acrylic). That now has become a boring avenue.

    Google was avoiding the fight, but Microsoft failed to see the advantage.

    So they are doomed.

    Just kidding.

  7. publicfile on HTTP Request Smuggling · · Score: 3, Insightful

    http://cr.yp.to/publicfile.html, publicfiloe, is not mentioned.

  8. Improve on The Formula for a Successful Sitcom · · Score: 1

    Next step: determine the formulas for different countries, then compare.

  9. Wrong. on Dvorak Says Apple Move to Intel Will Harm Linux · · Score: 1
    I think he's wrong.
    And then there are the numerous developers who simply do not subscribe to the notions of the Open Source Foundation and its rigid licensing requirements . They will quickly see profit opportunities for OS-X/86 development without having to worry about what has to be shared and what can be sold for profit.
    What rigid licensing requirements? No, no, no he is just wrong. How many developers write platform specific code??
  10. Re:Yawn. on EU Deadline Approaching for Microsoft · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Here we go again, the free-market zealots who don't care that the assumptions of a free market are secured. Yawn, indeed. Stephan

  11. Re:Why now? on Winelib Hobbled by Exception-Handling Patent · · Score: 1

    This patent is referenced by these:

    Patent Number / Title
    1 6,892,379 Methods and apparatus for use in aiding stack unwinding
    2 6,883,165 Apparatus and method for avoiding deadlocks in a multithreaded environment
    3 6,848,111 Zero overhead exception handling
    4 6,834,357 Establishing a pointer at a valid address location that is representative of a valid entry point of a communication routine
    5 6,826,748 Profiling program execution into registers of a computer
    6 6,799,262 Apparatus and method for creating instruction groups for explicity parallel architectures
    7 6,789,211 Storing in a reserved memory location data indicative of a stack location which stores the entry point of a dynamically loaded file
    8 6,789,181 Safety net paradigm for managing two computer execution modes
    9 6,779,107 Computer execution by opportunistic adaptation
    10 6,763,452 Modifying program execution based on profiling
    11 6,738,927 Target debugging application on digital signal processor validating link connection to host computer
    12 6,691,098 System and method for explaining exceptions in data
    13 6,654,952 Region based optimizations using data dependence graphs
    14 6,594,774 Method and apparatus for monitoring computer system objects to improve system reliability
    15 6,550,058 Stack clearing device and method
    16 6,421,740 Dynamic error lookup handler hierarchy
    17 6,412,109 Method for optimizing java bytecodes in the presence of try-catch blocks
    18 6,314,513 Method and apparatus for transferring data between a register stack and a memory resource
    19 6,311,323 Computer programming language statement building and information tool
    20 6,293,712 Method and apparatus for constructing a stack unwind data structure
    21 6,292,843 Quick loading of run time dynamic link library for OS/2
    22 6,289,446 Exception handling utilizing call instruction with context information
    23 6,263,401 Method and apparatus for transferring data between a register stack and a memory resource
    24 6,247,169 Structured exception-handling methods, apparatus, and computer program products
    25 6,205,491 Method and apparatus for deferred throwing of exceptions in C++
    26 6,189,141 Control path evaluating trace designator with dynamically adjustable thresholds for activation of tracing for high (hot) activity and low (cold) activity of flow control
    27 6,173,421 Centrally handling runtime errors
    28 6,164,841 Method, apparatus, and product for dynamic software code translation system
    29 6,148,437 System and method for jump-evaluated trace designation
    30 6,131,187 Method and system for translating exception handling semantics of a bytecode class file
    31 6,113,651 Compile method, a compiler, an exception handler, and a program recording medium
    32 6,104,873 Use of language instructions and functions across multiple processing sub-environments
    33 6,014,515 Enhanced stack unwind facility
    34 5,995,752 Use of language instructions and functions across multiple processing sub-environments
    35 5,963,737 Interupt vectoring for trace exception facility in computer systems
    36 5,948,113 System and method for centrally handling runtime errors
    37 5,946,492 Compiler that reduces call stack size through identification of stackless variables
    38 5,911,073 Method and apparatus for dynamic process monitoring through an ancillary control code system
    39 5,815,708 Method and apparatus for dynamically loading method call exception code in response to a software method exception generated in a client/server computer system
    40 5,815,702 Method and software products for continued application execution after generation of fatal exceptions
    41 5,812,759 Fault handling with loaded functions
    42 5,778,369 Method and apparatus for managing exceptions
    43 5,761,513 System and method for exception handling in dynamically linked programs

    What a mess!

    Stephan

  12. Why now? on Winelib Hobbled by Exception-Handling Patent · · Score: 2, Informative

    The patent is at

    http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PT O1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm &r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=5,628,016.WKU.&OS=PN/5,628,016&RS =PN/5,628,016

    The Patent Number is 5,628,016

    There are two dates:

    May 6, 1997

    and

    Filed: June 15, 1994

    I assume the 1997 date is the "granted" date. Why is this problem surfacing now, almost ten years later??

    Stephan

  13. Re:Checkpoint ahead! Better "save game"... on Copy-and-Paste Reveals Classified U.S. Documents · · Score: 1
    Listen to Naomi Klein:

    One of the things that we keep hearing is that she was fired on on the road to the airport, which is a notoriously dangerous road. In fact, it's often described as the most dangerous road in the world. So this is treated as a fairly common and understandable incident that there would be a shooting like this on that road. And I was on that road myself, and it is a really treacherous place with explosions going off all the time and a lot of checkpoints.

    What Giuliana told me that I had not realized before is that she wasn't on that road at all. She was on a completely different road that I actually didn't know existed. It's a secured road that you can only enter through the Green Zone and is reserved exclusively for ambassadors and top military officials. So, when Calipari, the Italian security intelligence officer, released her from captivity, they drove directly to the Green Zone, went through the elaborate checkpoint process which everyone must go through to enter the Green Zone, which involves checking in obviously with U.S. forces, and then they drove onto this secured road.

    See

    http://rigorousintuition.blogspot.com/2005/03/naom i-klein-sgrenas-car-shot-from.html

    and

    http://cyberjournal.org/cj/show_archives/?id='939' &batch='16'&lists='cj'

    Stephan

  14. Re:Easy to remember strong passwords on Enforcing Crytographically Strong Passwords · · Score: 1

    You say, "Using this method, you get cryptographically fairly strong passwords" -- how would that be? Looks more like a "quadratic" increase to me: The cracker checks all pairs of those words that they would have checked before.

    Stephan

  15. Re:The ignorance is astounding on FBI Demands Logs From Radical Website · · Score: 1

    Reading your post, a question popped into my mind -- you're "white"?

    Stephan

  16. Priority on New Photovoltaics Made with Titanium Foil · · Score: 3, Insightful

    At http://www.daystartech.com/govrelease.htm:

    "DayStar Technologies Unveils LightFoil Photovoltaic Product for Military and Homeland Security Applications"

    Ok, photo voltaics for "Homeland Security". What kind of priority is this? Easier to get "funding" this way?

    Stephan

  17. The land of Turing on UK Officially The Most Hacked Country · · Score: 1

    This is the land of Turing. He wouldn't have allowed this!

    Stephan

  18. Re:My successful startup on Paul Graham Explains How to Start a Startup · · Score: 1

    You wrote

    (Posting anonymously because some of my competitors would turn this kind of post against us.)

    I can't see the vulnerability. Could you explain?

    Stephan

  19. Re:I think this passage from Wikipedia is fitting. on 100,000 Domains Sold for $164 Million · · Score: 1
    What do you say to these graphs
    1 year comparison, or
    http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=BRK-A&t=1y&l=off &z=l&q=l&c=brkb,%5EGSPC,%5EIXIC,%5EDJI

    Stephan

  20. Re:The Economist -- Insightful? on The Economist On The Economics of Sharing · · Score: 1

    Thanks will take a look.

    Stephan

  21. The Economist -- Insightful? on The Economist On The Economics of Sharing · · Score: 1
    From the header:
    [the] Economist, reliably the most insightful English-language news publication ...
    You are being ironic??

    I read the Guardian Weekly. Quite basic news. Real insights are in the Z - Magazine If you're up for a subscription, subscribe here. The Economist mostly offers straightforward right-wing myths and propaganda. Quite easy to spot, so Hemos surprise me.

    Stephan

  22. P vs. NP Connection on DRM Tinkering with Intel's PXA270? · · Score: 1

    So all of this DRM stuff will go away if P=NP with a sufficiently fast algorithm? Sounds like a huge bet to me.

    Stephan

  23. Re:Anti-Military? on Defining Google · · Score: 1
    Thanks for the added explanations. Interviews are seldom satisfactory, as far as I can tell. Of course, some things hurt more than others.

    I guess I'm taking away from this and the whole Google thread that Google is not that special after all.

    Stephan

  24. Re:Anti-Military? on Defining Google · · Score: 1
    "[They] started asking pointed questions about how I could possibly work for them when I was this horrible warmonger."

    This sounds too stereotypical to be true -- or elaborate, please.

    Stephan

  25. Re:In the Google Labs Tests there are mistakes on Defining Google · · Score: 1
    In addition, shouldn't it be
    ... find yourself in a wholly different world.
    and not whole different ??

    Stephan