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  1. Re:Restaurants with ridiculous pricing structures on How Delivery Apps May Put Your Favorite Restaurant Out of Business (newyorker.com) · · Score: 1

    > Food can't (yet...) be DRMed, so no ink cartridge refill schemes. https://news.nationalgeographi...

  2. They should use the Creative Commons Zero copyright waiver, as it is designed for releasing copyright without regard to specific jurisdiction. The full legal text of the license (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode) contains both a copyright waiver and a fully-permissive license. This way, in case the copyright waiver is found legally unenforceable or invalid, the fully-permissive license kicks in and protects the Affirmer (person who applied the license to the work) and licensee (person using the work). (It protects the Affirmer by ensuring the work stays in the public domain (his successors can't have all rights to the work restored, as has happened in several cases before), and it protects the licensee from the same potential problem.

  3. Re: It is beautiful on Cuba's Nationwide Sneakernet: a Model For Developing Nations? · · Score: 1

    Ah, bad kerning strikes again.

  4. Re:40 watt PC battery vs. 3 watt LED on Using Discarded Laptop Batteries To Power Lights · · Score: 1

    I just can't believe he's getting so defensive and angry about lightbulbs, of all things.

  5. Re:Wifi what about the poor saps on NYC To Replace Most of Its Payphones With Free Gigabit WiFi In 2015 · · Score: 2

    You didn't even read the *summary*, did you? The boxes will support free calls to anywhere in the US.

  6. Re:Wha? on Is HTML5 the Future of Book Authorship? · · Score: 1

    HTML5 on the other hand, is a bit of a bitch if you want to embed resources in a single file for distribution.

    It's not impossible. You can use the data: URI scheme to embed Base64-encoded files. It increases the filesize considerably, though.

  7. Re:Slashdot changing too... on 45% of U.S. Jobs Vulnerable To Automation · · Score: 3, Interesting
  8. Re:Lilypond on Can There Be Open Source Music? · · Score: 1

    I have to disagree. I'm able to put together musical ideas very quickly using LilyPond and a text editor. It's way faster for me to use the text editor than it is to use a GUI-based entry system.

    As for publishing, I agree; LilyPond is excellent. However, I think most publishers use SCORE for publishing.

  9. Re:Why QT over GTK 3 ? on LXDE Previews Port From Gtk+ 2 to Qt · · Score: 3, Informative

    PCMan is the original author of LXDE.

  10. Get your speakers out, everyone... on Mystery Intergalactic Radio Bursts Detected · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's time to start playing Indian Love Call.

  11. Re:why? on ICANN Set To Broaden World of Domain Names · · Score: 4, Informative

    .tv is the ccTLD for Tuvalu. But they're a small island, so they sell those domains to anyone who wants to build video-related websites.

  12. Re:Dual licensing on MySQL Man Pages Silently Relicensed Away From GPL · · Score: 1

    If a threatening company buys out the main devs for a project. the community can always maintain and actively develop a fork under the GPL or other free software license. It worked for LibreOffice.

  13. Been Windows-free at home for a couple years on What Keeps You On (or Off) Windows in 2013? · · Score: 1

    Installed Arch in 2011 at an installfest. Wiped the preinstalled Windows 7 partition a few months later. Never looked back.

    Linux does everything I need it to do, and it's so damn flexible and customizable. Not to mention FAST. Boot and shutdown times are 1/3 of what they were on Windows.

    Installed Lubuntu on the family computer. No one has any complaints about it. It does lag sometimes, but that's the fault of the shitty P4 it's running on.

  14. "Uses an X86 Processor" on Sony Announces the PS4 · · Score: 1, Insightful

    So what exactly is gonna differentiate this from a mid-level to high-end gaming rig? And does it run Linux (and will Linux not be snatched away as if it's their right to tell us what we can use our own hardware for)?

  15. Re:Youtube is more a number 2 on Google Now Boasts World's No. 2 and No. 3 Social Networks · · Score: 3, Funny

    Normally this would be spam, but the irony of this comment is not lost on me. :-)

  16. Re:time to transcode again on ITU Approves H.264 Video Standard Successor H.265 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Whoooosh...

  17. Re:Portable gaming handhelds are so '90's on Open Source Gaming Handheld Project Wants Your Money · · Score: 1

    So you've never herad of Angry Birds...?

  18. Re:I want a touch monitor... on Touchscreen Laptops, Whether You Like Them Or Not · · Score: 1

    Stop hugging me!

  19. Hm... on Movie Studios Ask Google To Censor Links To Legal Copies of Their Own Films · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm thinking Google should just remove any and all links to anything that even just has the movie studios' name on it. Including their own websites.

  20. Don't forget the others! on Is It Time For the US To Ditch the Dollar Bill? · · Score: 1

    The US $2 bill would become a LOT more popular than it is now. Many people still mistakenly think they're collectible. Plus, we could consider printing our banknotes on polymers instead of paper. Polymer banknotes last longer than paper banknotes, which would mean less printing.

  21. Re:It all depends which Star Trek on Black Sheep Blackberry Blackballed By Business · · Score: 1

    *whoooosh*

  22. Re:This is what Benjamin Frankin warned us about.. on Shut Up and Play Nice: How the Western World Is Limiting Free Speech · · Score: 2

    spoken like an anonymous coward.

    FTFY.

  23. Re:...Why? on Galileo: Europe's Version of GPS Reaches Key Phase · · Score: 4, Informative

    Well, the US did have selective availability enabled for a while. Perhaps European civilians don't want to be affected by US decisions.

  24. Re:10,000 feet limitation on Apple Quietly Releases New iPods · · Score: 4, Funny

    Actually, the altitude might be affecting the Reality Distortion Field...

  25. Re:First sentence is a doozy. on Study: Kids Under 3 Should Be Banned From Watching TV · · Score: 2