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Comment Re:"Minority Report" strikes again (Score 2, Interesting) 238

by seidojohn on Friday January 30, 2009 @08:59PM (#26673745) Attached to: New Ads That Watch You

Actually, the people who made Minority Report (the movie, not the story) got their idea for the way it would look and be used from an actual project:
http://oblong.com

From the page:

The similarity is no coincidence: one of Oblong's founders served as science advisor to Minority Report and based the design of those scenes directly on his earlier work at MIT.

Comment Re:Uhh... huh. (Score 2, Funny) 232

by seidojohn on Wednesday January 28, 2009 @03:25PM (#26642877) Attached to: Video Game Conditioning Spills Over Into Real Life

I've always wondered where rave culture came from.

Comment Re:This is microsoft trying to help kill open sour (Score 2, Insightful) 383

by seidojohn on Saturday October 04, 2008 @07:48PM (#25257199) Attached to: Microsoft Treating "Windows-Only" As Open Source

Isn't this pretty much why RMS argues against using the phrase "open source"?

IIRC, his point was basically that "free software" allows you to study, modify, and use the software. Open source, on the other hand, means just that; the source is there for you to look at, but different licenses have different restrictions on the use and modification of the code.

In RMS's own words: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html

OSI's definition of Open Source: http://opensource.org/docs/osd

Submission + - Creationists Launch Peer-Reviewed Journal

Submitted by oostevo on Thursday May 10, 2007 @08:23PM

oostevo writes: CNet is reporting that the Institute for Creation Research has started to solicit papers for the International Journal for Creation Research, which is, in effect, a peer-reviewed scientific journal, where all papers must support the idea of a young-earth. Says the call for papers, the IJCR is "a professional peer-reviewed online technical journal ... for the publication of interdisciplinary scientific research from the perspective of a recent Creation and a global Flood within a biblical framework." It also states that papers "must be from a young-earth perspective and aim to assist the development of the Creation Model of Origins."

Their call for papers can be found here, their instructions for authors can be found here, and their review "process" is here (all PDFs).

Submission + - 2007 U of Chicago Scav Hunt underway!

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 10, 2007 @08:23PM

An anonymous reader writes: The University of Chicago has just announced its 2007 Scavenger Hunt.

330 Items grace this years list and rage from the strange (198. The most disgusting ice cream flavor on the market — 3 points) to the frightening (219. Build the Internet as described by Ted Stevens — 60 points) to the seemingly impossible (252. While at Carhenge, drive the earth into the sun! 1,000,000,000 points).

Would you have what it takes?

Submission + - Red Hat Releases Liberation Fonts Under GPL

Submitted by

Espectr0

on Thursday May 10, 2007 @08:05PM

Espectr0 writes: "On May 9, 2007, Red Hat announced the public release of a set of high-quality fonts under the trademark LIBERATION at the Red Hat Summit. There are three sets: Sans (a substitute for Arial, Albany, Helvetica, Nimbus Sans L, and Bitstream Vera Sans), Serif (a substitute for Times New Roman, Thorndale, Nimbus Roman, and Bitstream Vera Serif) and Mono (a substitute for Courier New, Cumberland, Courier, Nimbus Mono L, and Bitstream Vera Sans Mono). The press release covers the details."

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