A corporation is considered to be a legal person who is not alive. (Note a normal person is considered to be a natural person) It seems like a corporation could use the software legally under this license. Just making an observation. This is not legal advice, IANAL yet
Comment Emergency Comunication (Score 1) 435
Why are so many of you worried about emergency communication? If you were really concerned you would get ham radios and learn how to use radio nets. During Katrina I was sending and receiving messages and in some cases even directly talking to my relatives in the affected area over the 20 and 60 meter bands. Land lines are not good in emergencies, they are pretty much a waste of copper and a hold over from the days before fiber. We use it because its there, we use it because there are no install costs, when the install costs of fiber come down, copper and POTS will go the way of the BBS. Some people may still use them, and they are novelty, but they waste time when compared to the new technology. We should embrace progress. Also one more note, The vo-coders are the problem with the cellphones, the land line is still digital its just got a higher quality vo-coder. Soon we will have more cellphone bandwidth and we can use more pipe per call for voice, we just have to demand better sound quality in our phones and let our dollars speak. If we keep buying mediocre products there is no incentive to change them.
Submission + - YouTube video-fingerprinting due in September (theregister.co.uk)
Tech.Luver writes: "theRegister reports," a company lawyer told the presiding judge that its YouTube video-sharing site would unveil a long-delayed video recognition system this fall, "hopefully in September." According to the lawyer, Philip Beck, the system will be as sophisticated as fingerprinting technology used by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, The Associated Press reports.
Google's Philip Beck said the system would require help from copyright holders. Once a holder provides a particular piece of content, the system will generate a fingerprint capable of identifying it. Then, if anyone tries to upload the content to YouTube, the site will shutdown "within a minute or so" on the user's machine. ""
Journal SPAM: Do You Still Believe the Boxcutter Fairytale? 22
This guy had guns.
A fast-thinking pilot, with the help of passengers, fooled a gunman who had hijacked a jetliner flying from Africa to the Canary Islands, braking hard upon landing then quickly accelerating to knock the man down so travellers could pounce on him, Spanish officials said Friday.
The Future of Packaging Software in Linux 595
michuk writes "There are currently at least five popular ways of installing software in GNU/Linux. None of them are widely accepted throughout the popular distributions. This situation is not a problem for experienced users — they can make decisions for themselves. However, for a newcomer in the GNU/Linux world, installing new software is always pretty confusing. The article tries to sum up some of the recent efforts to fix this problem and examine the possible future of packaging software in GNU/Linux."
Feed While Others Struggle, Norwegian Newspaper Publisher Thrives on the Web (nytimes.com)
Schibsted, which owns the biggest-selling tabloid in Norway, is now the biggest player on the Internet in Norway and neighboring Sweden.
Feed Madrid Bombing Trial Opened to Streaming Video (nytimes.com)
A live video stream is chronicling the trial of 29 men accused of the 2004 terrorist bombing in Madrid.
Feed Canadian Company Offers Nude Photos via Cellphone (nytimes.com)
Telus, the Canadian telephone company, included a new “adults only” section last month on a list of items its wireless customers could download from it.
Feed E-Commerce Report: From Clipouts to the Web, Coupons Transition Slowly (nytimes.com)
Online coupons have always been a bargain-hunter’s diversion, which may be precisely why the market has grown so slowly.
Feed New Weapon in Web War Over Piracy (nytimes.com)
Content-recognition software could address a major entertainment industry concern— songs and videos being posted on the Web without permission.
Feed Music Labels Offer Teasers to Download (nytimes.com)
The expansion of the online marketplace is now all but forcing the music companies to tread on ground they once viewed as off limits.
World's Largest Tropical Glacier Vanishing 462
Socguy wrote with a link to a CBC article about the rapidly disappearing Peruvian glacier known as the Quelccaya ice cap. The world's largest tropical glacier was a hot topic this past Thursday at the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Glaciologist Lonnie Thompson, and a team of Ohio state scientists, produced the stunning news that Quelccaya and similar formations are melting at a rate of some 60 metres per year. While polar ice caps have commanded attention in the discussion of global warming to date, these tropical caps are crucial to the well-being of ecosystems relying on an influx of mountain stream fresh water.
Journal Journal: I Love John Gruber 8
Translation From Pundit-Speak to English of Selected Portions of John Gruber's "Translation From PR-Speak to English of Selected Portions of Macrovision CEO Fred Amoroso's Response to Steve Jobs's 'Thoughts on Music,'" Intended In All Good Humour
Comment TAG Slip up (Score 1) 1000
To show you how good advertising is, I thought this was about banning TAG body spray untill I read the article. =)