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  1. Re:US POLITICAL PRESSURE FOR THIS LAW on Spain's Proposed Internet Law Sparks Protest, Change · · Score: 1
  2. Re:Duh. on Spain's Proposed Internet Law Sparks Protest, Change · · Score: 1
    "And contrary to pirate's popular myth, its not always multinational, multi billion dollar companies. Many photographers, artists, writers, and developers are as small as one man shops".

    In the later case, their main problem is not piracy, but amateurs and copyleft/CC authors who freely distribute their creations on the net. In the days of digital cameras, blogs, e-books and social networks, almost *everybody is an author*, who compete for attention.

  3. Re:US POLITICAL PRESSURE FOR THIS LAW on Spain's Proposed Internet Law Sparks Protest, Change · · Score: 1

    It's been already twitted and RT'd. Thanks, it's very interesting.

  4. TypePad AntiSpam on Smart Spam Filtering For Forums and Blogs? · · Score: 1

    TypePad Antispam is an open source project and a commercial (but free) service. The core is released as open source (GPL2) so you can install your own instance of TypePad Antispam in your servers. It has an Akismet compatible API and plugins already exist for Movable Type, WordPress and other CMSs. The free service is what TypePad uses, and has some extensions not released in the open source version, so has some advantages to a single installation.

  5. News at eleven on Microsoft Plans Flickr Competitor · · Score: 3, Funny

    Microsoft Plans *.* Competitor

  6. Re:You Too Can Get Lucky. on Sharpest Images With "Lucky" Telescope · · Score: 2, Informative

    This is indeed no news to amateur astronomers. This technique has been used extensively by planetary imagers in recent years to take amazing photos of Jupiter, Mars and Saturn. The basic tools are a good webcam to take AVI files and Registax to proccess the frames. Take a look to Damien Peach's best images.

    As for pro, there is even an article in Wikipedia about it: Lucky imaging: "Lucky imaging was first used in the middle 20th century, and became popular for imaging planets in the 1950s and 1960s (using cine cameras or image intensifiers). The first numerical calculation of the probability of obtaining lucky exposures was an article by David L. Fried in 1978."

    In order to throw away many frames and retain only those of high quality, better have a bright object or a big telescope. In this case, the astronomers had been able to image a faint nebula.

  7. Re:I'm shocked! on Spanish TV Channels Vandalize Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    In Barrapunto we have our own ecosystem of trolls ;)

  8. #exec on Torvalds Dubbed Most Influential Executive of 2004 · · Score: 1

    bush: /bin/laden: Command not found

  9. Slashdot also blocks Telefonica Spanish users on Spanish Internet Provider's SMTP traffic Blocked · · Score: 1

    Telefonica installed transparent proxy-cache servers, so when Slashdot bans one of this servers (and this happens often), it is really banning thousands of computers: entire regions are blocked.

  10. Ancient star? on Quadrantids Source Discovered · · Score: 5, Informative

    In Jennisken's paper 2003 EH1 is the Quadrantid shower parent comet is is stated that the source of the meteor shower is a comet... and cannot be different, because the debris nature of meteors. Ancient star cores are very compact and dense objects, with a higher mass than Jupiter.

  11. Re:First what? Please, check your notes on First Image Of Planet-Like Body Orbiting A Star · · Score: 1
    orbiting a brown dwarf on Gliese 229B [stsci.edu].


    It should be read as "...imaged a brown dwarf, Gliese 229B, orbiting a star".

  12. First what? Please, check your notes on First Image Of Planet-Like Body Orbiting A Star · · Score: 2, Informative

    As you can read, as far as 1995, the Hubble Space Telescope imaged a brown dwarf orbiting a brown dwarf on Gliese 229B. Indeed, some of the US media call it "the first discovered brown-dwarf" although the discoverer was Rafael Rebolo et al at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (he and his colleagues proposed the "Lithium test" method to actually detect this substellar objetcts). You can read a short report about brown dwarf findings at American Scientist.

  13. Re:Tiananmen Square on Space War 2017: US v. China · · Score: 1

    Remember all the days US is killing people on electric chairs? Or police men killing black boys? Or US attacking a country on Africa becouse you think is right at your own desire? Or occuping a central american country to quit a president US politicians dont like. Or giving support to dictators on South America for political and economical reasons. So, can we send a bomb to US, please? US cant give at this moment *any* moral, ethical or democratic lesson. The *only* real protection is trust. Wars *always* are a lost. And whatever you think about perfect shields, people sure will die for millions in a global conflict. "There is not a way for peace. Peace is the way".

    --
    Víctor R. Ruiz

  14. Will win the OS or its philosophy? on Impact of Windows Programmer Hordes on Linux? · · Score: 1

    I think Linux can easily success in being a broadly used operating system. But whe can see soon also a lot of those "shareware" programs to fullfill the entire Linux panorama.

    Linux is not only a good operating system, but also a philosophy. I think we must begin doing more *open source* evangelism, than *linux* evangelism.

    Where the users are, the money will be (and the propietary or comercial programs). Think on Internet four years ago, do you remember Mosaic and the flash raising of Netscape?