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Mozilla Admits Firefox EULA Is Flawed 312

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday September 16, 2008 @02:25PM from the sudden-outbreak dept.

darthcamaro writes "Mozilla has now come around and is taking seriously the concerns of Ubuntu and others about the Firefox EULA, which we discussed vigorously the other day. In fact Mozilla told InternetNews.com that the EULA itself is flawed and will be replaced with something else. Quoting Mozilla Chairperson Mitchell Baker from the article: 'There is a need for something, something to explain the license[.] I'm not sure I would call it a EULA because that has a meaning to many people of adding restrictions to software and we won't be doing that. We'll be having a license agreement much as Red Hat has a license agreement that says the software is available under the GPL and don't use our trademarks et cetera. So we'll have a license agreement but we won't think of it as a EULA.'"

Theorists Make Quantum Communications Breakthrough 155

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday August 05, 2008 @10:43PM from the shannon's-cat dept.

KentuckyFC writes "One of the cornerstones of modern physics is Claude Shannon's theory of communication, which he published in 1948. If you've ever made a phone call, watched TV, or used a computer, you've got Shannon to thank for describing how information can be moved from one place in the universe to another using an idea called the channel capacity. But nobody has been able to develop a quantum version of this theory. So physicists have no idea how much quantum information can be sent from one point to another. Now two American physicists have made an important breakthrough by proving that two quantum channels with zero capacity can carry information when used together. That's interesting because it indicates that physicists may have been barking up the wrong tree with this problem: it implies that the quantum capacity of a channel does not uniquely specify its ability for transmitting quantum information (abstract). And that could be the idea that breaks the logjam in this area."

Online Colleges Could Spy On Students – By Law 307

Posted by timothy on Thursday July 24, 2008 @02:15PM from the pay-for-your-papers-please dept.

skeazer writes "Tucked away in a 1,200-page bill now in Congress is a small paragraph that could lead distance-education institutions to require spy cameras in their students' homes. It sounds Orwellian, but the paragraph — part of legislation renewing the Higher Education Act — is all but assured of becoming law by the fall. No one in Congress objects to it."

Comment Too many shopping hits? Have you seen the web? (Score 2, Interesting) 644

by cgc on Tuesday July 22, 2003 @11:42AM (#6499842) Attached to: Digging Holes in Google

Honestly, think about it. A very significant portion of websites out there are trying to sell you something. (Just check out that banner at the top of this page.) So if you estimate (low, probably) that 50% of all websites are shopping sites, then its a good chance that for a search on any given topic, you'll probably end up with around 50% of the results trying to sell you what you're looking for.

This isn't Google's fault; it's the nature of the web today.

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