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Comment Re:Doesn't really matter what WE think, does it? (Score 2, Interesting) 412

by adamfranco on Wednesday December 31, 2008 @02:24PM (#26282687) Attached to: Wikipedia Almost Reaches $6 Million Target

No billboards here in Vermont either.

As well, all business signs must be less than 1-story tall. No gas station signs or golden arches on giant towers here.

To make up for the lack of billboards all businesses can get standardized road-sign-sized directional markers just before their turn off the main road. These have the same font as road signs, an arrow, and an optional miniature business logo. I personally find these directional markers very useful for finding and discovering businesses. Its wonderful to have timely and consistent directional information without being constantly bludgeoned with it.

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Comment Re:Expert sex change, again? (Score 1) 187

by adamfranco on Wednesday September 17, 2008 @03:53PM (#25044007) Attached to: Spolsky's Software Q-and-A Site

Hmmm.... Doesn't seem to work for me. Just hides the adverts. Oh well.

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Submission + - Blackboard awarded $3million patent judgement (desire2learn.com)

Submitted by

Adam Franco

on Friday February 22, 2008 @11:28PM

Adam Franco writes: "Today Blackboard's patent suit against Desire2Learn has been concluded in Blackboard's favor.

From John Baker, President and CEO of Desire2Learn:

I am writing to update you on the current status of the Blackboard v. Desire2Learn Patent Infringement lawsuit. Earlier today the jury handed down its verdict that the patent is valid and that Blackboard should be awarded damages of approximately $3 million.

As you know, Blackboard filed a patent infringement suit against Desire2Learn on July 26, 2006. Blackboard claimed that Desire2Learn was infringing all 44 claims of patent number 6,988,138. Last summer, the Court eliminated the first 35 claims of the suit.
"

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Pirate Radio Stations Challenge Feds 348

Posted by Zonk on Monday September 25, 2006 @03:44AM from the arr-sailing-the-airwaves-and-flogging-the-listeners dept.

Thundgelmir writes "Yahoo news has an article about how pirate radio is taking on the FCC. It describes the growing trend of low-power FM stations, and their crusade to be heard across the country and around the internet." From the article: "Over four days, a dozen men and women shyly bumped shoulders as they studied schematics and tinkered with romex connectors, resistors, microphone cords, meters, sockets and capacitors — the stuff of illegal radio stations. 'We're not stealing anything. We're claiming something that's rightfully ours,' he says. His goal is to create FM radio stations faster than the FCC can shut them down ... 'It's always been our position that if enough people go on the air with their stations, the FCC will be overwhelmed and unable to respond.'"

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Maryland Governor Wants Paper Ballots 433

Posted by kdawson on Thursday September 21, 2006 @12:15PM from the republicans-for-paper-trails dept.

supabeast! writes, "Fed up with all the problems in the state's electronic voting system, Maryland Governor Robert Erlich wants the state to scrap the entire system and return to paper ballots. He's threatened to call a special session of the legislature to change the law to allow paper ballots. What makes this particularly interesting is that Erlich is a Republican — the party often maligned for exploiting flaws in electronic systems — and his attempts to clean up Maryland's voting problems are being opposed by Democrats, the party that is usually complaining about electronic voting!"

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