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Comment Dear northcountrygazette (Score 1) 549

You may not have noticed, but my HTTP request encapsuled a link to my EPLA (End-Provider Licence Agreement) that resides on my HDD under c: (or /home/$user, for you linux geeks)

This EPLA describes the rules governing the sending of your IP packets to MY computer and gives a formula to account for eyeball time allowed to your packets and the just compensation I should receive for your use of eyeball and brain time (standard time-sharing agreement).

It grants you a non exclusive right to my eyeballs, and excludes any right you might think you have to present me with advertisement without proper compensation for my eyeball/brain time.

To make it simple there is a mandatory 50/50 share for any advertisement revenue derived from my eyeball time, plus a one-off, annual fee of 5000$ for non exclusive access to my eyeball.

Another 5000$ fee is mandatory for the implementation and maintenance of the eyeball-to-brain connection, and has to be paid in full before sending me any IP packets and / or advertising.

We are currently gathering IPs and computer info on persistent intruders who refuse to buy subscription to my eyeball and eyeball-brain connection, and are engaging in a theft of eyeball and brain services. We have engaged an attorney who will be doing a bulk subpoena demand on each ISP involved,..

If you want to stop the legal proceeding, please kindly forward your money to me.

Regards,
Da5id

Comment "average family can afford 6 iPads" (Score 1) 780

Maybe an average family cannot, but a poor AND dishonest one can for sure lift 6 of them from a delivery truck 8)

(disclaimer : SarcMarc / Yes, it is a form of Humor, albeit an almost deceised one / Yes, not all poor families are poor / Oh, Just shut up, not my fault if you have no sense of humor. Choose the one applying to your specific condition 8p)

Comment Re:As I said in the earlier story on porn... (Score 1) 321

" our offices did not have naked porn stars running about, no free blow jobs"

First it was Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy...
Among the years some more desillusions...
Then there was that sad story with the flying cars...
And Duke Nukem Forever...
And now this !!!!

ALL MY DREAMS ARE GONE NOW !!!

8p

Open Source

Open Source OCR That Makes Searchable PDFs 133

An anonymous reader writes "In my job all of our multifunction copiers scan to PDF but many of our users want and expect those PDFs to be text searchable. I looked around for software that would create text searchable pdfs but most are very expensive and I couldn't find any that were open source (free). I did find some open source packages like CuneiForm and Exactimage that could in theory do the job, but they were hard to install and difficult to set up and use over a network. Then I stumbled upon WatchOCR. This is a Live CD distro that can easily create a server on your network that provides an OCR service using watched folders. Now all my scanners scan to a watched folder, WatchOCR picks up those files and OCRs them, and then spits them out into another folder. It uses CuneiForm and ExactImage but it is all configured and ready to deploy. It can even be remotely managed via the Web interface. Hope this proves helpful to someone else who has this same situation."

Comment the irony ... (Score 0, Flamebait) 298

"I particularly enjoyed the way you seem to know much more about what is good for the company than the trained accountants whose job it is to know these things better than anyone else."

FYI, trained accountants knows what is better for the ACCOUNTS.
If they knew what was good for the company they would be ... managers ? on the Board ? not at accounting...

BTW, how often do you consult your own accountant about your morale ?

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