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Comment Re:You don't need a browser to download (Score 1) 593

by Door in Cart on Sunday January 18, 2009 @03:01AM (#26503969) Attached to: EU Antitrust Troubles Continue For Microsoft

You must have missed the original question by cobraR478:

How is the average computer illiterate going to download a browser if Microsoft is not allowed to bundle one? Buy a disc?

Of course you don't need a browser to download a file, nor do you need a browser to use HTTP. But if typical computer "users" were competent enough to make use of such knowlegde, then MSIE would not be much of a contender, anyway -- so it's a moot point.

Comment Re:How does a cube... (Score 2, Funny) 265

by Door in Cart on Thursday August 28, 2008 @07:25AM (#24766199) Attached to: Space Cube – the World's Smallest Linux PC

If you RTFA, you'd learn that it's actually each edge that measures about 2 inches. And some of us don't need a calculator to figure out that 2 * 2 * 2 = 2.

Journal Journal: What is your favorite 20th-century OS? 1

Journal by davidwr on Friday April 13, 2007 @02:47PM

What is your favorite 20th-century OS version or distribution? Mainframe OSes are fair game.

The main rule is has to be officially unsupported as of January 1, 2000. Rule #2 is you had to actually USE it at least once. No "I heard the Amiga was cool."

I like the Commodore 64 and MacOS 2.0.

Submission + - Females Outnumber Males Online

Submitted by westcoaster004 on Friday April 13, 2007 @01:50PM

westcoaster004 writes: In news which may surprise some Slashdot users, females have been found to outnumber males online in the U.S. according to a report, and for some time. The statistics for Canadians show a slightly greater number of male users.

Journal Journal: FTC official: Let's imprison spyware distributors 126

Journal by PoliTech on Tuesday April 10, 2007 @07:40PM

FTC official (William Kovacic) says "Let's imprison spyware distributors"

Steep fines are nice, but one of the best weapons against spyware purveyors is locking them up, a federal regulator told senators on Tuesday.

Submission + - Google Pushes Open Source OCR

Submitted by

SocialWorm

on Tuesday April 10, 2007 @01:35AM

SocialWorm writes: "Google has just announced work on OCRopus, which it says it hopes will "advance the state of the art in optical character recognition and related technologies." OCRopus will be available under the Apache 2.0 License. Obviously, there may be search and image search implications from OCRopus."

Submission + - Internet Radio May Stream North to Canada

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 10, 2007 @12:13AM

An anonymous reader writes: With U.S. copyright royalties threatening to kill Internet radio in the U.S., Michael Geist explains why webcasters considering a move to Canada will find that the legal framework for Internet radio trades costs for complexity. There are two main areas of concern from a Canadian perspective — broadcast regulation and copyright fees. The broadcast side is surprisingly regulation-free, but there are at least three Canadian copyright collectives lining up to collect from Internet radio stations.

Submission + - Kremlin Seeks to Control Online Media

Submitted by

reporter

on Tuesday April 10, 2007 @12:11AM

reporter writes: "According to a disturbing report just published by Bloomberg, "As the Kremlin gears up for the election of Putin's successor next March, Soviet-style controls are being extended to online news after a presidential decree last month set up a new agency to supervise both mass media and the Web." However, unless the Kremlin pursues Chinese-style/Turkish-style blocking of the Internet-Protocol addresses of web sites like SlashDot or "The Economist", even the Kremlin cannot control the online media. If Putin pulled the plug on an anti-Putin web site inside Russia, the anti-Putin web site could simply be migrated offshore to a server in, say, the United States."

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