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Comment Re:Sorry, what you're asking for is too easy to ab (Score 1) 197

by jsm300 on Sunday November 08, 2009 @11:06PM (#30028182) Attached to: Reusing Old TiVo Hardware?

The digital TV standard allows for providing up to 16 days of guide data. However, the FCC only mandates that a station provide 12 hours of guide data, and many stations only provide the minimum. In many cases the station is just going with the default settings and can be convinced to change them; however, the most guide data I've seen, at least in the Denver area, is 7 days of guide data.

Submission + - Legal summits to tackle Linux (builderau.com.au)

Submitted by on Wednesday September 12, 2007 @03:17AM

An anonymous reader writes: BuilderAU has the story that the Linux Foundation, custodians of the Linux trademark, have announced that they will host two summits to deal with legal issues surrounding Linux and open-source software. Attendance at the first summit will be restricted to members of the Linux Foundation and their legal counsel. The second summit — an open meeting — will be held in Autumn 2008 where legal experts from any background will be able to attend.

Submission + - Free Hackers Defeat Commercial iPhone Unlocking (gizmodo.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 11, 2007 @11:52PM

An anonymous reader writes: Gizmodo had exclusive live coverage on the first free iPhone Software Unlock. They broke the news of the first free unlock at 7:10PM EST, when the iPhone Dev Team tried it for the first time. This marks the beginning of the end for iPhone Sim Free, the company who used the hackers' tools to develop their own commercial unlock. Their software was in the market for barely 24 hours before the free unlock hit. Absolutely beautiful and bitch-slapping poetic justice. The software and the source code is available directly from the article and other mirrors.

Submission + - EU abandons plans to convert UK to metric

Submitted by SeeSchloss on Tuesday September 11, 2007 @05:24PM

SeeSchloss writes: After years of trying to get Britain to switch to the metric system the EU has finally decided to give up the fight. Conversion was initially a precondition for UK's membership of the European Union, in 1973, and the deadline had been regularly extended since then. Should we add back the UK to the list of the three countries in the world which do not use the metric system (Myanmar, Liberia and the United States)? It looks like the more a country waits before switching to the metric system, the more difficult it is, most countries did it while their litteracy rate was low and avoided most of the problems the UK or the US would be facing now. Do you think it is realistic to expect the UK or the US to switch to the metric system now? Do you think such a conversion is even useful outside of technical fields (I hope we all agree that it is needed in space research, for example)?

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