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  1. Re:Missing satellite view on Why We Need OpenStreetMap (Video) · · Score: 1

    Could you be more specific about how one gets "the data about a street and what other streets intersect it" from the Google Maps API Web Services? I'm not seeing it.

  2. High contrast sucks for overlays on Why the World Needs OpenStreetMap · · Score: 1

    Many online maps are low contrast so that overlays (e.g. tracks in different colors, polygonal areas, markers) will stand out. With the OpenStreetMap data, one can set up their own rendering styles; here are some examples.

  3. Re:My Places on Why the World Needs OpenStreetMap · · Score: 1

    In addition to uMap, you might look into MapBBCode.

  4. Re:Won't Work on Why the World Needs OpenStreetMap · · Score: 1

    Really? OpenStreetMap can have speed limits and turn restrictions, and also where restrictions are enforced. I'm wondering how you concluded that "obsolete by design" and "lack of planning" applied to OpenStreetMap.

  5. Re:Need to know. on Why the World Needs OpenStreetMap · · Score: 1

    Can said bike lane exposure be verifiably tagged?

  6. Re:It generally works on Why the World Needs OpenStreetMap · · Score: 1

    Unlike Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap doesn't allow anonymous edits. So vandalism is rare.

  7. Re:For the sake of saving time, on Snowden: NSA Spying On EU Diplomats and Administrators · · Score: 1

    Your summary of the the purported border width says 100 km (62 miles), but the actual claim is 161 km (100 miles), as seen in your excerpt. Watch those units!

  8. Re:Doesn't work with HTTPS Everywhere on OpenStreetMap Launches a New Easy To Use HTML5 Editor · · Score: 1

    Tracking tickets: iD@GitHub, EFF-HTTPS Everywhere@Tor

  9. Slashdot's misleading threading :( on Microsoft Taking Aggressive Steps Against Linux On ARM · · Score: 1

    Grr, I'm back from years gone, and I see that sill Slashdot decided to nest your comment #38697312 under drinkypoo's #38697710. Hmph.

  10. Re:Sounds anti-competitve to me on Microsoft Taking Aggressive Steps Against Linux On ARM · · Score: 1

    You're missing drinkypoo's point. Having the Feds "get involved" sets only an expectation of theatrics (e.g. hearings). Involvement without producing action (and action, as drinkypoo implied, in terms of negative consequences, didn't occur previously; they instead got a sort of probation) would be a waste of time/money.

  11. Phelan: a change in the customer is sufficient on Canada's Federal Court of Appeal To Rule On Business Methods · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Something enabling the typing of your thoughts would be patentable according to Phelan:

    Tangibility is not an issue. The “physical effect”, transformation or change of character resides in the customer manipulating their computer and creating an order. It matters not that the “goods” ordered are not physically changed.

    Per Phelan, you are changed.

  12. Re:How do I comply? on SFLC Sues 14 Companies For BusyBox GPL Violations · · Score: 1

    For GPL v3, one is obliged to provide the source only to those who have the binary code (6b). However, for GPL v2, the offer must be valid for any third party (3b). And it doesn't necessarily apply anyway for v3, due to the termination section (v3 section 8 has taken effect).

  13. Re:yeah, openstreetmap on Smooth Open Street Maps For the iPhone · · Score: 1

    A GPS receiver is less expensive than a GPS navigation system, but could be paired with your phone/PDA/laptop.

  14. Re:Code Reviews? on Would You Add Easter Eggs To Software Produced At Work? · · Score: 1

    A true Easter Egg is a piece of code that is meant to be found, but was put there without management knowledge. A hidden feature that was put there on purpose as part of the product's design is not really an Easter Egg, it's just a hidden feature.

    If you have knowledge of a historical basis for such a distinction, the Undocumented feature article on Wikipedia could use the citation(s). And if you don't know of any...

  15. Re:This will just make tivo look bad on TiVo Patent Victory Over Dish Network Upheld · · Score: 1

    But in any case, Tivos are buggy, ad-laden pieces of crap. Fast forwarding through a show? Ads will pop up. Finish watching a show? Ad on the screen. Bringing up the Tivo menu? Up to three ads on that one! Looking through the list of recorded shows? Ads.
    There are no additional ads that pop up when fast forwarding through a show this year, although some time ago there was a month or two in which a small selected subset of TiVo subscribers did see an ad during fast forward. While I'll concede on a possibility of up to three ads on the Tivo menu, any list of recorded shows has one or zero ad, and it's at the end of the list.

    Then there's the bugs. I've had to routinely reboot my Tivo to get minor things like audio and video playback to start working again. (Thankfully recording was still working in the background.)
    Are you claiming that recording operated through a reboot? I hope not. It sounds like an issue with your output device, not with TiVo.

    With regard to the menus being slow to update (including occasional appearances of "no longer necessary" or "empty", which I'll concede, supposedly this will be improved in 9.3 (currently in release candidate testing).

    The "record new showings" feature is amazingly broken. I've given up and now have a total of four "manual recording" slots to get Tivo to record only first-run Daily Shows and not the massive number of repeats that Comedy Central shows.
    You should blame Comedy Central for LYING to TiVo (actually Zap2it/Tribune) about which shows are first-run.
  16. Re:dear god! on Microsoft Told to Pay Tax on License Fee · · Score: 1

    While the creation date may indeed be less-than-most relevant, the date IE development was arrested is highly relevant.
    No, not really. Because it is what was available to the majority of people. You are insane if you think the majority of people use fire fox or opera when IE6 was available. You mom's home network just isn't representative of the Internet as a whole.
    You misspelled "bundled".

    I'm wondering: if a band reunited after several years, played their original songs, but didn't play any new ones, would you say that their original songs were current and up to date?

  17. Shorting stock? on Creative Goes After Driver Modder · · Score: 1

    Watch that stock price (CREAF.PK)... I wouldn't be surprised if the VP or other executives had sold some stock earlier in the week. If only the 5 day graphs were available. Already down 3.25% for Friday.

  18. Re:You should be able to send all the spam you lik on Court Finds Spamming Not Protected By Constitution · · Score: 1
    Fascinating. Over here in King County, WA, garbage collection has been once a week for at least three decades. Over the last decade, recycling has also been collected once a week -- I'm a bit surprised that "physical spam (flyers, etc)" is tossed rather than recycled, but perhaps your location isn't very "green" yet.

    The bulk of my garbage seems to be cat litter... most of the other stuff is recyclable.

  19. Re:acid2_v8_auto_noinherit.xml checked in, so mayb on IE 8 Passes Acid2 Test · · Score: 1

    Ah, thanks. I did read the blog posting, but only up until the postscript. Oops!

  20. acid2_v8_auto_noinherit.xml checked in, so maybe on IE 8 Passes Acid2 Test · · Score: 1
    One of the checked in files is:

    //depot/longhorn_ie8/Inetcore/mshtml/src/f3/drt/samples/layout/standards/displaytree/acid2_v8_auto_noinherit.xml
    so maybe there is something there.

    Am I the only one that noticed that?

  21. Re:Right idea, bad execution. on Man Arrested for Refusing to Show Drivers License · · Score: 1

    The store (er, the manager of the store) seemingly wasn't willing to contact authorities -- Righi had to do that to resolve the stand-off. If they truly suspected shoplifting, the manager or the Loss Prevention Associate should've made the call.

  22. Re:I work at this circuit city on Man Arrested for Refusing to Show Drivers License · · Score: 1

    In our store there are registers all throughout the building. There is no way to know if someone actually purchased an item without checking the receipt.

    Isn't there an obvious answer: don't have registers all throughout the building! All grocery stores I've visited (in memory) have the cash registers near the exits.

    Is there some tactical advantage to having multiple registers strewn about? I'm only guessing that it's designed to discourage impulse buys, as the customer must either go through multiple payment transactions or rebel against the system by holding out for another register.

  23. Re:Define "copies" on RIAA's "Making Available" Theory Is Tested · · Score: 1

    You're right, there were so many responses to the parent post that I hadn't connected yours to it and thus the term "copies" wasn't ambiguous. My apologies.

  24. Define "copies" on RIAA's "Making Available" Theory Is Tested · · Score: 1
    Hopefully, as you're replying to these postings, you're keeping in mind the fact that the 17 USC definition of copies:

    "Copies" are material objects, other than phonorecords, in which a work is fixed...
    differs from the more contemporary computer definition of copies (which includes bitstreams). Yes, they show up as alterings of a hard disk's or CD's bits, but bit alterations aren't what are "made available".
  25. Re:DVR on The Trouble With TiVo · · Score: 1

    No warning is issued when disk space is about to run out, and there is no way to check how much is left.
    I'm sure you've been informed endlessly that Suggestions are a half-decent way to track available space for those models that don't have the Recently Deleted folder, but perhaps you have a fear of them.