vpaul - Slashdot User

Comment If you don't want the world to know... (Score 2) 191

by vpaul on Friday October 21, 2011 @08:32AM (#37789760) Attached to: How To Stop the Next WikiLeaks

...that you are a murderer, stop murdering.

Comment Some examples (Score 1) 314

by vpaul on Tuesday September 27, 2011 @12:09PM (#37527488) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Successful Software From Academia?

Hugin (well, at least parts of it), Postgres (at least its origins),
Emacs and other GNU software (RMS worked for an university then,
afaik), LISP from MIT, Pascal from ETH Zürich,
Python (at least originated) from CWI, ...

Comment It IS acceptable to copy CDs etc. (Score 1) 204

by vpaul on Saturday April 02, 2011 @01:48PM (#35694468) Attached to: CD Ripper 'Incites Law Breaking,' Says British Regulator

That's fair use AFAIK. Anyway, that's what users have been doing for decades now.

Comment Try Unibas (www.unibas.org) (Score 1) 361

by vpaul on Monday March 21, 2011 @12:51PM (#35561114) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Huge Digital Media Libraries

Unibas has been written to manage large collections of documents
(text, audio, video, images, ...) and their metadata.

Disclaimer: I am its author, and it's alpha.
It has been tested on Debian and Ubuntu only.

Comment You have a right to be forgotten, as long as... (Score 1) 210

by vpaul on Tuesday March 15, 2011 @03:22AM (#35488624) Attached to: Should We Have a Right To Be Forgotten Online?

I have a right to remember and publish what I know.

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