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Comment Foil envelope? (Score 1) 288

by pilot-programmer on Thursday September 18, 2008 @12:59PM (#25057215) Attached to: New York Issues RFID-Encoded Drivers Licenses

Earlier this year I renewed my passport book and also requested a passport card. The book has a shielded cover so it can't be read when closed, and the card came with a foil envelope that effectively shields the RFID chip from being read. I wonder if the NY and WA licenses come with something similar.

Submission + - iPhone gives rise to Mainstream Embedded Linux Cel

Submitted by

warcriminal

on Monday March 19, 2007 @12:00PM

warcriminal writes: "Linux based cell phones are getting a second look and the source of this look by the industry is a stranger than fiction story — the iPhone. The iPhone is driving the resurgence of the Embedded Linux Cell Phone and PDA as a viable alternative. http://www.goitexpert.com/entry.cfm?entry=iPhone-g ives-rise-to-Mainstream-Embedded-Linux-Cell-Phones "

Journal Journal: I, for one,

Journal by iminplaya on Monday March 19, 2007 @11:55AM

consider this to be a good thing. For the very reason:

Peter Leyden, director of the New Politics Institute political and new media think tank, said that YouTube video represents "a new era, a new wave of politics ... because it's not about Obama. It's about the end of the broadcast era."

Submission + - Best Example of SCO's Absurd Claims

Submitted by

UnknowingFool

on Monday March 19, 2007 @11:47AM

UnknowingFool writes: "Groklaw has posted IBM's explanation of SCO's claims about control of derivatives. For those who haven't been paying attention, SCO claims that IBM had no right to put their original code like JFS and RCU into Linux because IBM had access to and used SysV code, methods, and concepts in AIX and Dynix. For SCO, all of Dynix and AIX are derivatives and thus under the control of SCO regardless of who actually wrote the code. IBM's addendum illustrates that if the court accepts that argument, then SCO could claim that they own all internet devices like Blackberry's and satellites because TCP/IP (while developed independently by BSD) was included at one time in the past with AT&T Unix code."

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