Comment Re:Strangely Relevant to Oracle vs. Google? (Score 1) 215
You are correct
(I am a lawyer)
Comment Re:Raise money by giving up a couple of lattes (Score 2) 360
Because the executives at Hulu are such nice people with great attitudes :P
Comment Re:What a difference an 'F' makes. (Score 1) 186
Actually you already have 24 hours for a refund on the Android market [...]
they changed it a month or so ago. Now you only have 15 minutes to get a refund
Submission + - Open source hardware hacker on WIRED cover (makezine.com) 1
ptorrone writes: "Limor "Ladyada" Fried appears on the cover of April's WIRED. Her open source hardware projects have been featured on /. many times throughout the years, this is an exciting milestone for open source, hardware hacking and she is the first female engineer on WIRED's cover."
Submission + - Who's Behind The Google-Linux License Ruckus? (itworld.com)
jfruhlinger writes: "Yesterday, news broke that Android might have a Linux copyright problem, which would be big trouble for Google, already locked in an IP struggle with Oracle over the mobile platform. Blogger Brian Proffitt looks deeper into the alleged violations. He notes that, while it's possible that Google's on shaky ground, the motivations behind the news release are murky: the lawyer who outlined the violation is an ex-Microsoft hand, and the news was widely propogated by gadfly Florian Mueller, who's tangled with Google over patent issues in the past. Moreover, the alleged violations are in header files, and it's not clear that those are copyrightable; if they are, no actual copyright holders have come forward to complain."
Comment Re:This won't change much in the "big picture" ... (Score 1) 336
This would have MUCH more impact if FireFox was going to pull support for it, instead of Chrome doing so.
Firefox never had support for H.264 in the first place
Comment Re:Bad Slashdot summary (Score 1) 555
Yeah because there is no way parent was joking...
If only he had done something to make it clear, maybe adding a smiley to his post somewhere?
"Stayin Alive" Helps You Stay Alive 31
In a small study conducted at the University of Illinois medical school, doctors and students maintained close to the ideal number of chest compressions doing CPR while listening to the Bee Gees hit, "Stayin' Alive." At 103 beats per minute, the old disco song has almost the perfect rhythm to help keep accurate time while doing chest compressions. The study showed the song helped people who already know how to do CPR, and the results were promising enough to warrant larger, more definitive studies with real patients or untrained people. I wonder what intrinsic power is contained in "How Can You Mend A Broken Heart?"
