Comment Re:The solution is a simple 5 steps: (Score 2) 181
The problem is some DRM restricts printing (either no printing, or there's a page limit). This could be circumvented using Print Screen.
Comment Re:Life is more robust than that... (Score 1) 223
"If not for XXX, life would not exist on Earth."
If not for hardcore?
If not for hardcore?
Comment Re:"The Estate Of" (Score 1) 337
Well, Thomas Jefferson has something like that. There's a foundation that's in charge of the historical site (Monticello) that handles all the IP nonsense surrounding the house. Then, a few years ago, his descendants made a huge scandal over whether they were going to recognize the children of Sally Hemmings as "legitimate" descendants. Maybe it isn't exactly the same, but it doesn't seem to be too much of a stretch.
Comment Sony? Standard? (Score 2) 118
If it's coming from Sony, I'm not sure it would be particularly suitable for a standard. There's probably half a dozen potential patents there.
Submission + - iPad archaeology - the design was out there (reghardware.com)
brindafella writes: The Register has found the origin of the iPad, in the sci-fi children's TV show The Tomorrow People from UK TV in the early 1970s. The telepathic teens also use what appears to be an iPad-like portable computer. The Register notes that Apple's British-born stylist, Jonathan Ive, was a sub-teen and part of the show's target audience at the time of the series being aired. Enter, the future.
Submission + - MPAA Threatens To Disconnect Google From Internet 1
An anonymous reader writes: Over the last few months, Google has received more than 100 copyright infringement warnings from MPAA-affiliated movies studios: most are directed at users of Google's public Wi-Fi service but others are meant for Google employees. The MPAA is thus warning the search giant that it might get disconnected from the Internet. Although the copyright holders use strong language, these notices are nothing simply warnings, and typically do not lead to legal action.
Submission + - Spinach Could Be Used for Hydrogen Fuel (inhabitat.com)
An anonymous reader writes: If Popeye had made alternative fuels, he’d have probably come up with something like this. Researchers from Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have developed a system that converts solar energy directly into hydrogen using the common spinach plant.
Submission + - Obama calling for 53B$ for High Speed Rail (google.com)
Antisyzygy writes: President Obama is calling for 53B dollars to be appropriated for the construction of high-speed rail in the United States over the next 6 years. Assuming Congress approves this plan, the funding would be spent on developing and/or improving trains that travel at approximately 250 miles/hour, as well as spent on connecting existing rail lines to new developed high speed lines.
Comment Slightly Misleading (Score 2, Insightful) 139
If you're really serious about putting Mary Kate and Ashley's head on Lindsay Lohan and Amy Winehouse's bodies, like it says in TFS, you'd use RAW. Then, you can compress everything together. Besides, if you upload that to photo sharing websites (especially Facebook) there's a high chance your picture would be recompressed, so it would have the compression artifacts whether it's been altered or not.
Fail.
Fail.
Comment That means... (Score 1) 218
No playing hookie to get out of school. Do not want.
Comment Re:That Microsoft Icon (Score 1, Funny) 331
"I wonder if anybody over 20 even understand the references to it."
I'm 21 and I understand it just fine. Now get off my lawn!
Comment Re:Awesome! (Score 1) 22
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Did you click on the wrong link, or is this the work of a /. port of the Android SMS messaging bug?
Comment Re:5f4dcc3b5aa765d61d8327deb882cf99 (Score 1) 159
Not anymore!
Comment Blame the video games (Score 5, Funny) 91
Blaming video games for this type of violence is like blaming spoons for making Rosie O'Donnell fat.
Comment Re:Locked in Already (Score 1) 317
Technically, you can read OOXML in the latest OpenOffice. However, they probably are just assuming that since it's a Microsoft-backed standard, Microsoft Office actually produces valid OOXML files. Unfortunately, that just isn't true, so if they ever make an attempt at interacting with another program, it won't work very well, which will result in this lock in.
