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Comment Re:car bandwidth needs (Score 2) 180

First all that have video transmission, as parking assistance, nightvision, review cameras. Infotainment. I don't think the same bus, but in the future using the same technology. One technology, one open standard might bake stuff overall easier to implement, and that lowers costs or increases quality, or features, or a mix of these.

Comment Re:A little late (Score 1) 180

You have any idea how much cable would be need ed in a car of today with that kind of wirering. How that would make the car a bit heavier. and how that would make the car work? I heard numbers form Volvo, moving form switches and relays to can busses made them remove about 200 kilos in the car. While adding functionality.

Comment Re:Imagine (Score 1) 180

The fibers are mostly, almost only used for the MOST bus, The most bus is either 25, 50 or 150 that is rought about he MBaud speed. the 25 and 150 can use fiber and the 50 and 150 uses electric contacts. I think most new cars with most uses electric connectors. At least that's the case with the newest Cadillacs. Using fibre have many problems they are expensive. For the next generations infotainment i think most, if not all automakers have been looking at using something simplar and more standard like ethernet for years. Because of the special environment i the car, it will probably be a modified ethernet. E.g. BroadR (http://www.opensig.org/). GM is part of the Open sig, prompters group, so they will probably also use this. And the starts will be in infotainment, as this need more bandwidth.

Comment Re:This just in (Score 1) 1017

No it's not strange.

First Sweden is not as liberal as you might think, we have maybe the most conservative laws against child pornography in the world, just recently a Swedish manga translator got sentenced for having child porn images. E.g. Manga images. We also need a web-filter to block out sites in the US and Japan. As both US and Japanese governments refuse to bring changes to the people behind these pages.

We classify more crimes as rape, that most other countries, what's sexual harassment in most western countries are rape in sweden.

From what i read in the swedish media including the statement by the girls, this was them having sex with Assange, they had some agreement on what was allowed in this act, Assange did this think anyhow. They both together went to the police to discuss this. The police and prosecutions decided to make a rape charge from it, based on there stories. As more info came in a higher ranked persecutor took away rape from the charge list. What really happened in the apartments of the two girls. I don't know, it's will sure be a hard to ever know for sure.

The Gimp

Submission + - GIMP Resynth vs Photoshop content aware (ultradownloads.com.br)

" rel="nofollow">aylons writes: "Just after Adobe releasing their videos showing off the content-aware feature of Photoshop CS5, the GIMP community answered (in /. comments also) showing the resynthesizer plugin, which is available for some time and can do a similar job. However, are they really comparable? This article (in portuguese, google translation here, but really, the images are pretty much self-explaining) compare then side by side removing the same objects from different kinds of images. Results do vary, but the most interesting part may be seeing the different results and trying to understand the logic of each algorithm."

Comment Re:GP was right, it's Bullshit (Score 1) 207

Not really, there are more limiations, some wordings in the new licence is not good, the intetions is this but that have some strange wording that implises stuff they problem didn't mean to get there. Like all creators of thridparty viewers have to follow GPL even if some make a BSD licence viewer from a different source base like libomv.

It also may limit how I as user send the gpl:ed software to an orther person. I think in practice this may wortk as intended and be little harm. even if to my reading the policy is well written.

"# You are responsible for all uses you make of Third-Party Viewers, and if you are a Developer, you are also responsible for all Third-Party Viewers that you develop or distribute."

Does that mean I as developer are resopsible for all users. as I'm resposnsible for all "Third-Party Viewers", and if some onbe just distribures and not develop?

Comment Re:Good article, trolling comment- (Score 2, Insightful) 165

All the bad press has been on it being MPA and IPFI, not on the FBI. FBI have been working with the swedish goverment for a long time. In both directions. The differece in the storied about MPA did at the scool from the MPA and the swedish police makes this an intersting story.

That the other speaker at the conference was the swedish version of RIAA that have tried to use scare tactice already, doesn't make it better. The only problem with FBI is that they are talking together with MPA at this occation.

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