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Submission + - Renter Sued By Landlord For Complaining On Twitter (brainhandles.com) 1

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gbulmash

on Tuesday July 28, 2009 @04:22AM

gbulmash writes: "When Amanda Bonnen posted an angry tweet about her moldy apartment, she probably thought she was blowing off steam. But the Sun Times News Group reports her Twitter feed was public, her tweet was indexed, her landlord found it, and they claim it has so damaged their reputation they're suing her for $50,000+ in damages. Looks like another sue-happy company is going to discover the Streisand Effect."

Submission + - Microsoft's XO Laptop Strategy... Huh? 2

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gbulmash

on Thursday October 25, 2007 @10:57PM

gbulmash writes: "Microsoft is spending a "non-trivial" amount of money to get Windows XP working on the OLPC project's XO laptop. But why? Despite the conjecture that the Linux-based XO could convince millions of people in the developing world that they don't need Windows and build a huge base of developers for Linux, there still remains the question of how Microsoft would convince owners of XO laptops to buy and install Windows XP over the functional Linux-based OS already on it. It's doublful that Microsoft could encourage or coerce Negroponte to put XP on the machine, so whose arms will they twist?"

Submission + - MySpace Gets False Positive In Sex Offender Search

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gbulmash

on Tuesday May 29, 2007 @11:27PM

gbulmash writes: "In its eagerness to clear sex offenders off its site and publish their identities, MySpace identified an innocent woman as a sex offender. She shares a name and birth month with a sex offender who lives in a neighboring state and that was apparently enough to get MySpace to wrongly brand her and completely ignore her protests."

Submission + - Open Source Supporter = Copyright Supporter?

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gbulmash

on Sunday May 06, 2007 @02:47PM

gbulmash writes: "This essay claims that without copyright granting an author the right to set licensing terms for his/her work, the GPL could not be enforced. It says that those who support the GPL while calling for the abolishment of copyright are being unintentionally ironic, because they're calling for the abolishment of the exact thing that makes possible the alternative they're supporting. It concludes that if you support the GPL or any open source license (other than public domain), your argument is not whether to abolish copyright, but how to reform copyright."

Submission + - Decent Multi-Format SVG Converter?

Submitted by on Thursday August 24, 2006 @07:09PM

gbulmash writes: So, I've been messing with the graphics in the Open Clipart Library and it feels as if SVG is a standard like "meatball" is a standard. Most of the graphics render just fine in Inkscape, but you'll get 5 different renders in 5 different applications. For example, one of the Baby Tux drawings renders differently in Firefox, Corel Draw X3, Illustrator, and Inkscape, and generates error messages from Batik's rasterizer.

If I use Inkscape to export to EPS, the EPS opens in Illustrator pretty much like the SVG does, but (and this may be a problem with Corel) doesn't import into Corel Draw X3 well. I'd like to convert some of these SVGs to EPS, and some to SWF (Flash format), and generate bitmaps of all the ones I converted as well. Some of the more simple drawings convert into all three formats beautifully. Others... well, I can get a nice PNG out of Inkscape, but that's it.

Is there an application that can render the images as well as Inkscape, but also produce an output to EPS & SWF that looks like the render? Or even just an output to a more normalized SVG that will render more faithfully in Illustrator or Corel for the sake of conversion to EPS and SWF?

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