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Comment Re:digital fingerprinting can save a lot of work (Score 1) 557
Spiders can check every image referenced from any myspace.com html against a fingerprint match with a blacklist of images.
Someone's still got to generate that blacklist...
Comment Re:Not Stallman! Not ever! (Score 1) 737
Comment Re:Piracy is not the real target : used video game (Score 1) 1027
and every time a customer gets it their shop to resell his game, it's the occasion to sell him goodies, accessories and useless insurances.
Or other, sometimes even new, games...
Comment Re:Geese and golden eggs (Score 1) 406
Are you nuts?
Comment Re:Geese and golden eggs (Score 1) 406
It is absolutely absurd to suggest that Microsoft and its shareholders should profit from their employees use of the public infrastructure (not to mention the direct business uses of the roads; shipping CDs, etc.) without paying for it's upkeep.
Comment Re:So what? (Score 1) 174
Comment Re:So what? (Score 5, Interesting) 174
Regardless, Amazon is absolutely right to negotiate with the price-gouging publishers any way they see fit, using any leverage they can. The publishers are trying to use their exclusive rights to the books; why shouldn't Amazon use their exclusive rights to their store? They are not harming the market, or keeping anything from being sold.
Submission + - Israeli ISPs caught interfering P2P traffic (ynetnews.com)
Since 2007 Ynet has received complaints according to which Israeli ISPs block P2P traffic. Those were brought to the media and were dismissed by the ISPs.
Our findings were that there is direct and deliberate interference in P2P traffic by at least two out of the three major ISPs and that this interference exists by both P2P caching and P2P blocking.
Submission + - Office 2003 Bug Locks Owners Out (techflash.com)
Submission + - 'Nexus One' Is First Google's Android Phone (wiseandroid.com)
Comment Re:like trying to offer proof to a Birther (Score 1) 1093
because their objections are based on ideology, not science.
From where I sit, it's the people putting arbitrary "corrections" into the programs to make them come out the way they want and refusing to accept any articles that don't toe the party line into their "peer reviewed journals" who look like religious zealots, and the soi-disant "deniers" are the ones who are trying to do things in a proper scientific manner..
Except that the corrections aren't arbitrary, and you don't know what you're talking about.
Do you even know what flux correction or parametrization is?
Submission + - Facebook Founder's Pictures Go Public (yahoo.com) 2
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