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Comment Re:That's really funny (Score 1) 386

by Xlucid (#19530909) Attached to: Linspire Signs Patent Pact With MS
In the USA, the glyph shapes of physical (cast metal) fonts is not protected IP.

However, the same shape in a digital font *is* protected IP.

I've always wondered what the legal situation would be if you cloned the appearance of a given font available digitally in metal, then digitised your metal font.

Feed Runners -- Let Thirst Be Your Guide (sciencedaily.com)

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Many people are drinking too much water, including sports drinks, when exercising, a practice that could put some individuals engaging in prolonged types of endurance exercise at risk of potentially lethal water intoxication, say international experts who study disorders of water metabolism.
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Submission + - First ever scramjet reaches Mach 10

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stjobe writes: Sydney Morning Herald reports:

Australian and US scientists successfully launched a supersonic scramjet engine at an Outback test range Friday, as they work on a device that could revolutionise air travel.
The researchers said a rocket carrying the scramjet reached speeds of mach 10 — ten times the speed of sound — after blasting off at the Woomera range in South Australia Friday.
They said it reached an altitude of 530 kilometres (330 miles) before the scramjet was successfully deployed following re-entry to the Earth's atmosphere.
Australia's Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO) said it was believed to be the first time a scramjet had been ignited within the Earth's atmosphere.

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Feed Nixstaller and the inconvenience of do-it-yourself (linux.com)

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Nixstaller 0.2.2 is a command-line tool for creating graphical installers for archived files on Unix-like systems. If that sounds paradoxical, it is. Although Nixstaller is easy enough to learn that you can produce your first installer within half an hour of installing it, much of the process is sufficiently painstaking that it cries out for the automation usually associated with a graphical interface.

Feed Torvalds on GPLv3 final draft (linux.com)

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The GPLv3 debates are drawing to a close. By the end of the year, it may have become reality. Whether or not the Linux kernel team will adopt the new license, however is still up for debate. Linus Torvalds is not as fervently anti-GPLv3 as he was in earlier renditions of the license, but he still isn't ready to support a wholesale move to it, either.

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