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SWF Tools
www.swftools.org/, posted 2008 by peter in development flash free linux software windows
SWF Tools is a collection of SWF manipulation and creation utilities written by Rainer Böhme and Matthias Kramm. It is released under the GPL.
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If Intellectual Property Is Neither Intellectual, Nor Property, What Is It?
techdirt.com/articles/20080306/003240458.shtml, posted 2008 by peter in copyright politics
It's become common language to call it intellectual property, but that leads to various problems -- most notably the idea that it's just like regular property.
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Out of the Blue
www.seedmagazine.com/news/2008/03/out_of_the_blue.php?page=all, posted 2008 by peter in ai science
The behavior of the computer replicates, with shocking precision, the cellular events unfolding inside a mind. "This is the first model of the brain that has been built from the bottom-up," says Henry Markram, a neuroscientist at Ecole Polytechnique Féd
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History suggests copyright crusade is a lost cause
arstechnica.com/articles/culture/copyright-crusade.ars, posted 2008 by peter in copyright history politics
Sooner or later, Congress will have to do for the copyright system what it did for property rights in the 19th century: change the law to bring it back into line with peoples' moral intuitions.
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30 Fonts That ALL Designers Must Own
justcreativedesign.com/2008/03/02/30-best-font-downloads-for-designers/, posted 2008 by peter in design font inspiration list typography webdesign
There are 15 serif fonts and 15 sans-serif fonts. These fonts will last you your whole career!
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Moses was high on drugs: Israeli researcher
www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080304120710.ad7gm7i6, posted 2008 by peter in history religion
Moses was probably also on drugs when he saw the "burning bush," suggested Shanon, who said he himself has dabbled with such substances.
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Windows passwords easily bypassed over Firewire
www.engadget.com/2008/03/04/windows-passwords-easily-bypassed-over-firewire/, posted 2008 by peter in mac security windows
Unlike those disk encryption attacks we saw that required a reboot, Boileu's attack works while the target computer is running, tricking Windows into allowing full write access to RAM and then corrupting the password protection code.
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Languages Racing to Extinction in 5 Global "Hotspots"
news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/09/070918-languages-extinct.html, posted 2008 by peter in language news science
The research has revealed five hotspots where languages are vanishing most rapidly: eastern Siberia, northern Australia, central South America, Oklahoma, and the U.S. Pacific Northwest.
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Japanese robots enter daily life
www.usatoday.com/tech/news/robotics/2008-03-01-robots_N.htm, posted 2008 by peter in ai japan msm news robotics science
While robots are a long way from matching human emotional complexity, the country is perhaps the closest to a future — once the stuff of science fiction — where humans and intelligent robots routinely live side by side and interact socially.
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The Alternative Swedish Dictionary
www.alternative-dictionaries.net/dictionary/Swedish/, posted 2008 by peter in language list
A (very small) dictionary of Swedish slang, seemingly compiled by someone obsessed with reproduction and scatology. Also has a few links to slang dictionaries for other languages.
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