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Company Awarded "The Patent For Podcasting" 202

Chris Albrecht writes "VoloMedia announced today that it has been awarded what it called the 'patent for podcasting.' According to the press announcement, patent number 7,568,213, titled 'Method for Providing Episodic Media,' covers: '...the fundamental mechanisms of podcasting, including providing consumer subscription to a show, automatically downloading media to a computer, prioritizing downloads, providing users with status indication, deleting episodes, and synchronizing episodes to a portable media device.'"
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Are Women Getting More Beautiful? 834

FelxH writes "Scientists have found that evolution is driving women to become ever more beautiful, while men remain as aesthetically unappealing as their caveman ancestors. The researchers have found beautiful women have more children than their plainer counterparts and that a higher proportion of those children are female. Those daughters, once adult, also tend to be attractive and so repeat the pattern." I just thought my standards were changing as I got older, but it turns out it's just science!

Comment Re:Basically... (Score 1) 223

ISO isn't corrupt. If anything, it's the members. There are too many people who have a say who shouldn't. The problem I see here is that many nations don't want to force people into a document format anymore, and will take any new document format proposal thrown out. Especially one by a big name like MS, no matter how crappy and impossible to implement it may be. My proposed solution: Let Google decide. Google, albeit a large corporation itself, is generally kind and considerate toward the needs of the people (developer or not). Google's position on OOXML (PDF) is well thought out and logical, unlike ISO's likely decision.

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