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Comment: Tiny Toon Adventures (Score 1) 188

by jonoton on Friday September 30, @12:03PM (#37569098) Attached to: Ask <em>They Might Be Giants</em> About Almost 30 Years of Music

How did you get involved with this? And why wasn't this the official video for Particle man?

Comment: Obligatory xkcd (Score 4, Funny) 606

by jonoton on Wednesday October 14 2009, @09:07AM (#29744173) Attached to: Do You Provide Tech Support To Friends and Family?

http://xkcd.com/627/

Toshiba sues over DVD patents-> 0

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angry tapir

on Tuesday May 19 2009, @01:17AM

angry tapir writes "Toshiba has filed suit in a US court against Imation and several manufacturers and distributors of recordable DVD media for the alleged infringement of its patents. Imation and the other defendant companies named in the complaint do not have license agreements covering recordable DVD media with Toshiba or the DVD6C Licensing Group (DVD6C), and have engaged in the import and sale of recordable DVD media in the US without permission, according to Toshiba."
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Comment: Re:Quality? (Score 1) 95

by jonoton on Friday May 15 2009, @01:22PM (#27970449) Attached to: New Science Books To Be Available Free Online

If they're being edited by John then they will be of the highest quality.

I work in the institute that he founded and know the high regard that he is held in the scientific community.

Comment: .god (Score 1) 198

by jonoton on Wednesday October 29 2008, @02:44PM (#25559901) Attached to: ICANN Proposes New Way To Buy Top-Level Domains

Judging by the amount of money raised for the atheistbus the Humanist Society should by .god to stop the godsquad getting it.

BBC Trust backs Linux iPlayer-> 0

Submitted by jonoton on Wednesday July 25 2007, @08:33AM

jonoton writes "The register is reporting on the meeting between the OSC and the BBC Trust.

From the article:

The BBC Trust had a useful and constructive meeting with the Open Source Consortium. The meeting provided an opportunity to hear the OSC's concerns and explain what action the trust has taken to ensure that the new BBC iPlayer becomes platform neutral as soon as possible.

Officials reiterated that the BBC Trust is fully committed to users of both the Linux and Mac operating systems having full use of the BBC iPlayer. However, the trust is aware that achieving this is dependent on the actions of third parties outside the BBC's control. It was a condition of approval for the BBC's on-demand services that platform neutrality be achieved within a reasonable period.

It remains to be seen how they will deal with the DRM issue..."
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