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Comment Re:Proxy wars (Score 3, Insightful) 342

This all started because Google decided they needed to crush iOS by giving away Android for free.

I'm sorry, I guess I missed the part where Apple was trying to sell iOS to other manufacturers.

People still need to _buy_ hardware before there is any competition here.

Comment Re:Where to begin? (Score 1) 440

If DRM enables products to be sold for a price that is cheap to users and fair to developers,

I may be wrong (I haven't looked into it, but hey - this is /.) but doesn't the DRM also cost someone money on the developer's side? It may be insignificant, but it's going to put up prices somewhere along the line.

Comment DNS (Score 1) 668

Just in case anyone's interested, if you're not using their DNS servers, there seems to be no block.
Demon's DNS server is currently resolving en.wikipedia.org to 193.195.3.33 (RDNS iwfwebfilter.thus.net). Using OpenDNS I get the real Wikipedia IP and the page is not blocked.

It's funny.  Laugh.

Unix Dict/grep Solves Left-Side-of-Keyboard Puzzle 423

destinyland writes "For decades, people have been asking this brain teaser: 'What's the longest word you can type with only the left-hand letters on a keyboard?' The answer is supposed to be 'stewardesses,' but grepping the standard dictionary that ships with Unix reveals a much better answer. There's nearly 2,000 shorter words that can typed with only the left hand — including one word that's even longer. (The article also quotes a failed novel attempt using nothing but words typed on the keyboard's left side.)"
The Courts

MySpace Suicide Charges Threaten Free Speech 687

Naturalist recommends a piece up at Ars about a friend-of-the-court brief filed by the EFF, CDT, Public Citizen, and a group of 14 law professors in the case of Lori Drew, who posed as a teenage boy to harass another teen online, eventually driving her to suicide. (We've discussed the case a few times.) "[The amicus brief argues] that violating MySpace's Terms of Service agreement shouldn't be considered criminal offense under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. The groups believe that if the mother, Lori Drew, is prosecuted using CFAA charges, the case could have significant ramifications for the free speech rights of US citizens using the Internet."

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