Excellent article by Bruce Perens outling a little known danger looming over open standards. Once again US Patent law stands in the way of progress, this time by allowing patent applications to remain secret for many years. As open source developers work to build ne Internet standards they have no way of knowing if the [...]
Well if you are silly enough to still be using a Microsoft mail program and even sillier to be using it in conjunction with an version of IE older than 6.0 that hasn’t been patched, and you are too lazy or too stupid to get a decent anti-virus program and keep it up to date, [...]
Well at least this time it’s in the best interest of consumers (that wasn’t MS’ motivation). MS is going to leave it up to video producers to control consumer copy protection. See this article David Coursey, MS apologist extraordinaire, in today’s Anchordesk
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@somuchmusicsolittletime remember this one? your comments made me laugh [high five, sir.] Indeed I do sir and the same to you :) I graduated 1967 ♫ Spoonful – Cream
#10 Top 100 1968 - I don't remember this one though ♫ Tighten Up (Pt. 1) – Archie Bell & the Drells
#9 top 100 1968 - such a 'naughty" picture ♫ Mrs. Robinson – Simon and Garfunkel
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