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Comment I sometimes joke... (Score 1) 462

about the fact that vaccinated children indeed have a slightly higher risk of having autism... because those that aren't vaccinated have a higher risk of dying before they're even old enough to be diagnosed with autism.

Comment Re:Compatibility (Score 4, Funny) 62

So is this backwards compatible with my existing Monster Cables or do I have to buy new ones?

You will just need to update the firmware on your cables if you want to maintain optimal RDF (reality distortion field).

Submission + - OPUS 1.1 released

rvalles writes: Xiph.org just released a major update to their OPUS codec. OPUS 1.1 offers major improvements over last year's 1.0 release.

OPUS is a general-purpose, very flexible, open and royalty-free audio codec that offers low-latency and high quality/bitrate, incorporating technology from Skype's SILK codec and Xiph.Org's CELT codec. Its first release beat everything else last year at 64kbit/s in a listening test held at HydrogenAudio.

Comment Re:Won't fly (Score 1) 641

The folks who push "personhood" for a fetus would probably vehemently oppose granting the same designation to a chimpanzee (fundamentalists see man as on a whole different level than other animals). Likewise, the people pushing personhood for chimps would be some of the more liberal types and would probably be very "pro-choice".

Now... what about a chimpanzee fetus?

Comment Re:No, but the Age of Information will. (Score 1) 90

How, exactly, in your utopia do I get paid for my work? Who pays me?

People were saying the same thing about free software ~15 years ago. If software is free, how will developers ever get paid? Turns out there's now a lot of people that get paid for writing free software. I don't know what the model will be, but I'm pretty sure the same will happen for book/documentation authors at some point.

Comment Re:Misconceptions (Score 2) 95

Right now, the site has neither binaries nor source, but I'm pretty sure both will be available at the same time. The only point of the binaries there is that since they are served by Cisco, then Cisco can handle the patent licensing. The license is non-transferable (this is not something Cisco controls), so you can't download once and put it into your product, each product has to downloading it on its own for the license to apply. Since it's open source, anyone can also just build it themselves, then then obviously they're also not covered by the license.

Comment Re:Good luck with that... (Score 3, Informative) 95

Legally, there's a reasonable limit on how long you can wait (6 years under some theories). That being said, indeed can can never prove non-infringement, and it's equally valid for free codecs than it is for encumbered codecs. Paying the MPEG LA tax does not shield you from trolls, or even from companies that participated in the standard and aren't part of the patent pool (usually, not all declared IPR holders are represented in a pool).

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