Comment Re:Slashdot achievements (Score 1) 1582
really
Authors Guild President Wants To End Royalty-Free TTS On Kindle 539
An anonymous reader writes "The president of the Authors Guild has launched a rant in the NY Times about how the Kindle 2 provides Text-to-Speech capabilities that, oh the horror, allow the user to have any text on the Kindle read to her. Roy Blunt, Jr. moans that this is copyright infringement of audio books, and that Kindle users should be forced to pay royalties on audio even though they've already paid for the text version of a book! Amazingly he harps on about how TTS technology has become so good that it may replace humans — and then uses this to argue that it's unfair for Kindle to provide TTS! I think the Authors Guild need a new president — someone less of a Luddite, and more familiar with copyright law." (See also the Guild's executive director's similar claims that reading aloud, royalty-free, is an illegal function of software.)
Comment Re:that's nice... (Score 1) 231
I think they're just trying this out as a "more thorough" program:
From the article:
The current two-fingerprint arrival system is being used in 115 airports, 15 seaports and 154 land border checks. About 100 million fingerprints have been taken so far, and more than 34,000 people whose names showed up on U.S. watch lists were denied entry, Wright said.
They'll probably expand the program later on. Yes, I don't see the value either...
From the article:
The current two-fingerprint arrival system is being used in 115 airports, 15 seaports and 154 land border checks. About 100 million fingerprints have been taken so far, and more than 34,000 people whose names showed up on U.S. watch lists were denied entry, Wright said.
They'll probably expand the program later on. Yes, I don't see the value either...
Comment Re:Um... (Score 1) 214
That doesn't make any sense. SSL assumes you know VeriSign's public key and it is incorruptible. The bank's certificate would be signed with VeriSign's key. The whole point of SSL is that VeriSign is the weak point, and you have to assume that they are unspoofable.
