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Cook's Magazine Claims Web Is Public Domain 565

Isarian writes with a story, as reported on Gawker and many other places, that "Cooks Source Magazine is being raked over the coals today as word spreads about its theft of a recipe from Monica Gaudio, a recipe author who discovered her recipe has been published without her knowledge. When confronting the publisher of the offending magazine, she was told, 'But honestly Monica, the web is considered "public domain" and you should be happy we just didn't "lift" your whole article and put someone else's name on it!' In addition to the story passing around online, Cooks Source Magazine's Facebook page is being overwhelmed with posts by users glad to explain copyright law to the wayward publisher."

Comment Re:Captcha correction? (Score 2, Informative) 76

I am pretty sure that with recatpcha only one of the two words you type in is unknown.
So if I have some text that looks like 'first known) p0sh bi4ches'.
Captcha user one will get "first p0sh".
If they correctly identify first, then I will accept their reading of posh, say "post".
User 2 gets "p0sh b14ches"
If they correctly identify "p0sh" as post, then I will accept their reading of "bi4ches".

Obviously the guys at recaptcha has done a better job than my simplified & poor explanation. You need "some" knowledge of what the text actually is, but only some.

Comment Re:Step 4 -- the software on the PC (Score 2, Interesting) 218

gphoto2
Set it up as a cron job.
I have had an old 4Mp nikon taking a photo of our fish tank every 10 minutes for several years now.
Oh, you will need a power adapter for your camera, the batteries don't last that long. Ebay.
like so...
rm fish.jpg
gphoto2 --delete-all-files
gphoto2 --set-config flash=2 #No flash - pisses off the fish.
gphoto2 --capture-image
gphoto2 --get-all-files

mv *.JPG fish.jpg
mogrify -size 800x600 fish.jpg
upload to server.
Not live like a webcam, but depends on your needs.

Comment Re:It was brilliantly parried! (Score 1) 874

And it should be pointed out, that if you loved Red Dwarf, you should immediately rush out and buy this DVD. And then put it in the microwave for fear that some innocent may hear "Red Dwarf is great" and rather than buying series 1, buy the revival and think that the rest of it was like that. The revival sucked. Hard. Just thought I would get that info out as a public service for all of the people who like me thought "more red dwarf, cool".

Comment Re:Journalist? (Score 1) 1204

That may be so, but he is a whole pile more of a journalist than many "real" journalists. His area of journalism may be limited in scope, but is is really any less relevant than the sports pages, or the local news in bf, nowhere? When you live in a time that satirists are distinguishable from journalists because of research and balance on the part of the satirist you need to reassess what a journalist actually is.

Comment Re:Time to think (Score 2, Insightful) 821

Might want to think about traveling THROUGH the US.

Even if you are just transiting from one international flight to another, you need to clear US immigration and customs.

That is right, US immigration just to get back on a plane which is immediately leaving the country. And of course as you are not a US citizen you have NO rights at all. But the friendly attitude of the border staff more than makes up for the slight inconvenience.

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