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    Samsung Hits Out at Apple with Galaxy Note Super Bowl Ad

    jaquithI thought the 'pen' was dead.I had a 'pen' back in the Pocket PC day, and it was a love/hate thing. Fundamentally, all I care about is does the phone work, how easy is it to work, and the information I need. My wife loves her Droid 3 (keyboard + nails = must), and my daughter and I the...
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    Skype Protocol Reverse Engineered

    hixbotI think you missed the part that they didn't legitimately reverse engineer the code. No, I didn't. What he is privately doing to learn about the protocols is none of their business (as long he uses publicly available information). Legally, that's just a rumor. As far as copyright goes, it...
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    Skype Protocol Reverse Engineered

    hixbotWhy even bother? It's just some VOIP code and an interface. If you want an open source program with similar features just start from scratch, and make it GNU.Stealing has never been the open source way. Even with the Skype source code you still don't have the copyrights to it. You're...
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    Stephen Hawking: Hey Stupid, Let's Go Into Space

    Well, Mr.Hawking's new book is actually full of religious statements. M-theory, for example, is as much provable as any other religious story. Fitting mathematical constructs to some arbitrary ideas doesn't sound too scientific.