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  1. Re:What I see on French Response to Google is Microsoft · · Score: 1
    BNF digital library (Gallica) contains only public domain books and documents. They are freely available and printable.

    It's true that these documents are only pictures : no full text searches, and no text selections. That's why you can't select and copy from PDF. You can copy and select as image.

    The original goal of Gallica was to make available precious and old books that are not available to everybody.

  2. Re:Pay 'em and Cut 'em Off on Google Ruled a Trademark Infringer · · Score: 1
    We don't particularily need or like Louis Vitton company or their rich parasitic customers.
    Those customers are mostly American...

    ( See last year sales report)

  3. Re:What do you expect on Google Ruled a Trademark Infringer · · Score: 1
    Where have you seen that asymmetric cryptography was prohibited in France ?

    It's widely in use, for private, commercial or administrative purpose.

    It's true that some restrictions exists: export restrictions (not for all countries) and symmetric key length restrictions (for the last, a great tolerance exists).

    A last word : free speech exists in France, even if not written in the constitution. But in France, we have a proverb: 'La liberté des uns s'arrête là où commence celle des autres' (Someone freedom stops where otherone freedom starts).

  4. Re:Rotary Dialing - Reality on Build Your Own Rotary-Dial Cell Phone · · Score: 1
    It was the same in France, if I remember well.

    Maybe I should find that old bakelite phone buried deeply in the attic. (buried in the attic ??)

    Not so long ago (about 4 years, before Euro), some public phones still were RBT (in countryside), but they were modified to accomodate a modern coiner.

  5. Re:News? on Bill Gates Proclaims End of Passwords · · Score: 1
    All Smartcards have an OS. Smartcards have a file system, application management, customized code, it's not only communication and authentication.

    One of the most common OS for smartcard is MULTOS.

    ISO norm ISO 7816-4 defines a standard for the basic functions of a smartcard OS.

  6. Re:News? on Bill Gates Proclaims End of Passwords · · Score: 1
    It seems that a CSIL interpreter is not embedded on the card: article says that a tool allow the transformation from CSIL to card-specific binary. It's a kind of compiler isn't it ?

    The same way is used with Javacard.

    In fact, it's only a card programmed in C# instead of C or assembly language.

    Nothing really new, except maybe a pretty dotNet style API.

  7. Re:About the license... on MySQL Uses Microsoft's Open Source Software · · Score: 2, Informative
    WiX is not an installer. It's a tool to help producing MSI files. I think it doesn't even produce MSI file by itself and needs other MS SDK tools.

    The installer itself is a closed-source service for Windows only.

  8. IBM TCPA Rebuttal Faq on IBM Shipping More PCs with Trust Chips · · Score: 3, Informative
    IBM published http://www.research.ibm.com/gsal/tcpa/tcpa_rebutta l.pdf this FAQ about TCPA two years ago.

    It aims to describe the difference between TCPA, MS Palladium and DRM, and explains what TCPA is usable for (crypt personnal data, store passwords,etc.), and what TCP is unusable for (restrain software execution).

  9. Re:Wait wait wait.... on CeCILL: La Licence Francaise Du Logiciel Libre · · Score: 1
    Most French developper write source code in Franglais (in English, you will say frenglish), where French and English words are mixed.

    A piece of code like that:

    int somme=0;
    for (int my_i=0;my_i<count_sujet;my_i++)
    somme+=compte_array[my_i].valeur;
    is very common here in France...
  10. Re:Gender on CeCILL: La Licence Francaise Du Logiciel Libre · · Score: 1

    Actually, if overlord were a french word, you should write 'le nouvel overlord', because overlord start by a vowel.

  11. Re:American bashing? on Our Friend, The Meter · · Score: 2, Informative

    Official SI mass unit is kilogram (kg), not gram (g).

  12. Re:Timmmmmberrrr... on Highest Bridge in the World Nearing Completion · · Score: 5, Informative

    Well, in fact, they are the same folks... 2E airport terminal was built by Vinci and Eiffage. Millau viaduc is built by Eiffage alone.

  13. Re:isnt that... on Fusion Plasma Plant in The Future · · Score: 1

    In fact, Canada left negotiation on December 23rd.
    More info about Iter on Iter Web Site with pretty cool drawings.

  14. Re:Fatal Error on Google Updates Its Face · · Score: 1
    That's extremely doubtful. In almost all cases, the stylesheet will not come from Google's servers. They are a popular website and the stylesheet rarely changes, so the chances of it being in somebody's browser cache are high, the chances of it being in their ISP's cache is high, the chance of it being in neither is extremely low.

    Except that they use an inline stylesheet !
    See source from typical result page.
    In fact, it may reduce bandwidth usage because no .css file has to be fetched from server.
    <style><!--
    body,td,div,.p,a{font-family:arial,sa ns-serif }
    div,td{color:#000}
    .f,.fl:link{color:#6f6f6f}
    a:link,.w,a.w:link,.w a:link{color:#00c}
    a:visited,.fl:visited{color:#5 51a8b}
    a:active,.fl:active{color:#f00}
    .t a:link,.t a:active,.t a:visited,.t{color:#000}
    .t{background-color:#e5e cf9}
    .k{background-color:#36c}
    .j{width:33em}
    . h{color:#36c}
    .i,.i:link{color:#a90a08}
    .a,.a:li nk{color:#008000}
    .z{display:none}
    div.n {margin-top: 1ex}
    .n a{font-size:10pt; color:#000}
    .n .i{font-size:10pt; font-weight:bold}
    .q a:visited,.q a:link,.q a:active,.q {color: #00c; }
    .b{font-size: 12pt; color:#00c; font-weight:bold}
    .ch{cursor:pointer;cursor:hand}
    .e{margin-top: .75em; margin-bottom: .75em}
    .g{margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em}
    //-->
    </style>