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Comment Reverse Engineering (Score 1) 158

by Ignis Flatus on Friday February 27, 2009 @07:29AM (#27010087) Attached to: Doctorow Suggests Simple EULA Solution

Isn't Reverse Engineering the real thing that EULAs don't protect against? In any case, people really do buy software outright, and the fact that we have EULAs is a pretty good indication that without the agreement, outright purchase is implied. So if you leave out the EULA, maybe you are implicitly giving permission to copy.

Submission + - Dark Energy not necessary after all? (abc.net.au) 1

Submitted by ttnuagmada on Friday December 28, 2007 @11:33PM

ttnuagmada writes: 'Dark energy', which researchers have spent years trying to fathom, isn't necessary to explain our universe after all, according to a new solution to Einstein's theory of general relativity. This challenges the notion that dark energy makes up 76% of our universe, as many cosmologists believe.

Journal Journal: Is Google Falsely Flagging Harmless Sites?

Journal by dare567k on Thursday January 11, 2007 @05:54PM

Some Web site operators are complaining that Google is flagging their sites as containing malicious software when they believe their sites are harmless. At issue is an interstitial page that Google presents when a user clicks on a search result link to a site that Google believes contains malware. The page cautions users with the words "Warning - visiting this web site may harm your computer!" Google does not block access to the site, but a user must manually type in the Web site address to con

Journal Journal: You have been... Goatsed?

Journal by Noryungi on Thursday January 11, 2007 @09:07AM

About 2,500 people have had a (very) nasty surprise recently when they looked at their MySpace page. Let's just say a small image was replaced by... another small image. Only, the second one was from the infamous "Goatse.cx" (You remember THAT one, don't you?). But what exactly happened? Jason Scott, the owner of textfiles.com explains all -- or is it confesses all?. The email received are hilarious. Well worth a read and a chuckle

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