Corydon76 - Slashdot User

Comment: Re:Typical jumping to conclusions (Score 1) 271

by Corydon76 on Tuesday May 24 2011, @11:59PM (#36235986) Attached to: Microsoft Kills Skype For Asterisk

Skype for Asterisk is far from a third party hack. It was designed around the Skype Engine API, at a time when Skype was not providing access to that API to the general public (I think they still aren't providing that level of access). In fact, Skype approached Mark Spencer (original programmer of Asterisk), not the other way around. So while the integration was largely written by Digium programmers, the Skype connector has always been a direct project of Skype's.

As far as Google's communication protocols are concerned, they use all freely and openly licensed protocols, and support for them has long been integrated in Asterisk. (Yes, you can use Google Voice with Asterisk.)

Your comparison fails.

Atari Loses Copyright Suit Against RapidShare 198

Posted by Soulskill on Friday January 07 2011, @07:28AM
from the game-over-play-again? dept.

dotarray writes "Online copyright lawsuits aren't all about music. Video game publisher Atari Europe recently became concerned that copies of its game Alone in the Dark were floating around one-click file-hosting service RapidShare, so it took the hosting company to court. While they won the initial case, the decision was overturned on appeal, finding that RapidShare is doing nothing wrong."

Comment: Re:Safe Harbor Limits for Fair Use (Score 3, Insightful) 335

by Corydon76 on Monday January 25 2010, @06:26PM (#30897014) Attached to: Universal, Pay Those EFFing Lawyers

Now lets say you have a huge catalog of songs you'd like to defend. You're a big mega corporation so what you do is you hire developers to analyze songs for fingerprints and -- funny how pedantic algorithms get to be -- submit anything over the 'safe harbor' limit to Control Gate C (that being the legal arm which churns out thousands of take down notices).

If I am the CEO of a mega corporation, then I know the value of good will to generate goodwill and I will put some kind of human at Control Gate C who will put a stopper on the mindless sharks in my legal department who would sully my business' positive reputation by suing dancing toddlers.

As would I, which is probably why neither of us are (or ever will be) CEO of a mega corp.

Actually, there's a very well-known CEO who considers exactly that, and he has been, at one time or another, considered the richest man in the world: Warren Buffett. He famously once said, "It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently."

Does SPF really work?

Submitted by

Intelopment

on Tuesday May 29 2007, @12:08AM

Intelopment writes "My Domain name has recently been used a lot as the REPLY field by some inconsiderate spammer and my ISP has suggested that I consider using the Open SPF service (http://openspf.org/) as a way to stop spammers from using my domain name for their REPLY field. From what I can tell it requires the receiving mail server to actually participate in the SPF service, which is where I get my doubts. Does anyone have any experience with this service? Does it work? Are many ISPs using openSFP?"

Saltwater (+RF) as fuel?

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 28 2007, @11:40PM

An anonymous reader writes "This video is about John Kanzius, a retired television station owner / broadcast engineer who has discovered that his RF generator split saltwater into hydrogen and oxygen which can then be burned as fuel."

BlackBerry Developer Community announced

Submitted by

Anonymous Coward

on Monday May 28 2007, @11:34PM

Anonymous Coward writes "The folks at the BlackBerry Developer Community have launched a new community site today. If you've ever been interested in creating application for BlackBerry, wander over and help get things going. http://blackberry.developercommunity.com/"

Lawmakers Push for Big Subsidies for Coal Process

Submitted by

gollum123

on Monday May 28 2007, @11:28PM

gollum123 writes "Even as Congressional leaders draft legislation to reduce greenhouse gases linked to global warming, a powerful roster of Democrats and Republicans is pushing to subsidize coal as the king of alternative fuels ( http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/29/business/29coal. html?_r=1&hp&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin ). Prodded by intense lobbying from the coal industry, lawmakers from coal states are proposing that taxpayers guarantee billions of dollars in construction loans for coal-to-liquid production plants, guarantee minimum prices for the new fuel, and guarantee big government purchases for the next 25 years. Among the proposed inducements winding through House and Senate committees: loan guarantees for six to 10 major coal-to-liquid plants, each likely to cost at least $3 billion; a tax credit of 51 cents for every gallon of coal-based fuel sold through 2020; automatic subsidies if oil prices drop below $40 a barrel; and permission for the Air Force to sign 25-year contracts for almost a billion gallons a year of coal-based jet fuel. The political momentum to subsidize coal fuels is in odd juxtaposition to simultaneous efforts by Democrats to draft global-warming bills that would place new restrictions on coal-fired electric power plants. The move reflects a tension, which many lawmakers gloss over, between slowing global warming and reducing dependence on foreign oil."

Microsoft Ordered Off New Zealand School Macs.

Submitted by

BiggerIsBetter

on Monday May 28 2007, @10:49PM

BiggerIsBetter writes "The New Zealand Education Ministry has ordered the removal of Microsoft Office software from 25,000 Apple Macintoshes used in schools around New Zealand. The reason being that Microsoft wanted machines to be licensed whether they used the software or not. "The ministry could not justify the extra $2.7 million being given to Microsoft for software that would not be used," Education Minister Steve Maharey is quoted as saying."

Triple Amputee Graduates Medical School

Submitted by

karvind

on Monday May 28 2007, @10:35PM

karvind writes "Hats off to Kellie Lim, who became a triple amputee at age 8 because of bacterial meningitis, is to from UCLA's medical school on Friday. She plans to focus on childhood allergies and infectious disease. Lim, whose legs were amputated six inches below the knee, walks so normally that those who don't know her history can't tell she's walking on artificial limbs. When she lost her right forearm, Lim learned to use her left hand, minus three fingertips. Today, she can take blood and give injections one-handed."

Bloggers Code of Conduct

Submitted by

itsonlybarney

on Monday May 28 2007, @10:15PM

itsonlybarney writes "Glenda Kwek from the Sydney Morning Herald, has written a compelling article about whether a Bloggers Code of Conduct is necessary and whether it would 'facilitate a better environment for debate'.

This is not a new topic of course. It provoked furious debate across the blogosphere and in the media last month after an American blogger, Kathy Sierra, received what some people called death threats from an anonymous poster. Tim O'Reilly, the person said to have coined the term Web 2.0, and Wikipedia creator Jimmy Wales recently proposed a draft bloggers' code of conduct that they hope will serve as a guideline for blogging.
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