David, how can you say "this is not accurate" when the article simply says that OpenDNS (which I use and am a big advocate of) *may* not return good results, demonstrates circumstances where this is clearly the case and publishes code where people can reproduce the results themselves? I only wish more articles would do such things and be as accurate.

        It's generally true that these are "edge" conditions but the internet is one giant collection of edges once you get outside the USA and a few major countries. I reside in Bangkok presently, travel around SE Asia a good bit and have found circumstances where using OpenDNS make it impossible to get facebook or google mail working. The local DNS servers are often quite unreliable so a service like OpenDNS is a godsend when it works but, having an awareness of the potential problems as noted in the article has saved me hours of headaches when things get pathological on me.

        I'm glad to hear you're getting POPs in Asia - where the majority of internet users reside and is one heckuva huge "edge". I think it also shows to need for improvements to the protocols which can take a lot of time. I continue to use OpenDNS but now as a backup rather than a primary in locations where latency is increased as a result. Believe me I'm grateful to have it.

        I think you owe the author an apology though. He's trying to be fair and accurate as to the potential issues with services like OpenDNS, help people be aware that they are not a panacea, and explan why. I think that's a good thing that should be commended.

    -- Ben Scherrey

I process my own film and have always noticed, especially with TMAX B&W 120 rolls that - when I finish loading the film into the development spool - as I peel off the tape holding it onto the original film spool, I can see "stars" sparkle as it's peeled. Of course this is done in total darkness (no red light) and after my eyes have fully dilated in the pitch black. Also helps to not look directly at it but slightly to the side because highly sensitive rods in the eye are concentrated around the perimeter of the retina whereas colour-sensitive but not as light sensitive cones are concentrated in the middle. Haven't tried this with any other kind of tape.

    -- Ben

BTW - Ilford makes the sticky tape you lick when you finish shooting a roll of 120 film spearmint flavoured which I think is a nice touch. Wonder if THAT's radioactive too?

excellent - there are so many good cameras to choose from and many models over many manufacturers that it is impossible to keep up with. panasonic has just made life easier cause I can now eliminate their entire life from my list of options i have to follow. thanx guys!

Sounds like the guy's in Canada so my comments weren't necessarily relevant anyway. However, could you summarize the impact and terms of the "academic exception", please? I'd be curious to know.

IANAL but I've certainly paid a lot of money to a few of them so I have some experience in this area. You don't say explicitly but I'm going to assume you are in the USA.

Unless you have an explicit contract that states who owns the rights to any code you produce than the whole issue comes down to a determination as to whether the effort falls under "Work for Hire". By default the author owns all copy rights to any work produced. The exception (when there is not an explicit contract for rights in place), in the USA, occurs when a) you are a W-2 employee (1099 and contractors don't count) and b) the work falls directly under the efforts that you are being paid as part of your employment.

The odds are, if you were being paid as an employee under a W-2 where the employer withholds taxes, that your efforts are considered a work for hire since it appears that the code in question was developed to support the research that is the purpose of your employment.

If you are not a W2 employee (doesn't matter if its the Uni or another agency paying you - its the W2 that counts as another agency owning the rights probably assigns them to the Uni as part of their contract) then you own the rights unless there is a contract with you that states otherwise.

Now - you may find yourself rapidly unemployed (as I have been) once you point this fact out to the Uni who will then make continuation of your relationship with them dependent on you signing away said rights. In my case it was actually explicitly excluded from my employment when I signed on because it was based on my prior work so I declined to sign away my rights. You may not be in a position to do so...

Good luck.

...but you lost me at Windows.

Sorry guys... I sooooo wanted an OLPC and was gung-ho on the mission but with with Negroponte selling out the original concept and Krstic having left the project - it's soul is gone.

Don't get me wrong. I'm not some GNU zealot (I'd like to shoot some GNUs some time...), but I think so much of the educational mission is lost once the child who owns the machine hits that brick wall that is the closed OS. The whole idea is that you're supposed to be able to explore EVERYTHING about how this wonderful device works and learn what makes it tick - then change it!

I don't care if the software's "free", I just want it to be completely 100% open. That's a mission I can get behind and something that I know would have impacted me as a child. Otherwise, you've just got a glorified game machine for my pirated copy of whatever is popular these days. That's pretty cool from a kid's perspective (given its free) but not a charity I'm gonna support.

G. Harry Stein was my hero.

or play dough - both tasted good.

Those paste eating kids were weird though...