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Legal. No copies were made in a jurisdiction in which it was illegal. Selling it may be another matter though

Yes, that jurisdiction's law applies, although NZ companies can apply for US patents too. Further, I would presume that web software hosted outside the US could avoid having the server component covered by the US jurisdiction. It could be just patents on client-side tech.

Great Ape personhood, or at least granting them the right to not have cruel tests done, has been done by several other nations not just New Zealand: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_ape_personhood

I can't remember the exact wording but one provision was about how they couldn't be exported unless it was in their best interests. E.g. you can't sell them a circus overseas in which they would likely receive cruel treatment.

So it's not about calling them people, it's about giving them some rights because they have sentience.

"in order to achieve a particular layout, we had to delete the doctype"

Hmm... must have been trying to invoke quirks mode.

But you can't (reliably) run JavaScript in RSS which means no AdWords and no profile/context advertising. That's the stuff advertisers love, not one-size-fits-all banners

Also you probably broke the law

http://www.google.com/patents/US7730419

http://www.google.com/patents/US7426699

(ok they're for cookies but you get the idea)

What does this mean for the WebRTC developers who made Opus and are now looking at making a video codec?

It would have been nice to have examples of video that didn't step on MPEGLA's patents.

Yeah it's not a developer feature but I'd love this too. It's just a good way of managing lots of tabs and developers do have lots of tabs open.

Tree tabs are the more conventional way of understanding lots of items (and tabs are hierarchical -- parent tabs are where you opened the current tab from).

Ah it arrives 30 minutes later

Signed up twice and received nothing, and there's nothing in my spam folder.

Yeah bad keming is a real problem

I did this mockup a while ago... the list of buttons for the directory hierarchy looks a bit weird and I thought something like this would be better,

http://holloway.co.nz/gnome-nautilus/

And when it comes to monitor layout within Gnome I thought something like this would be good,

http://holloway.co.nz/gnome-display-properties/mockup2.png

By increasing ISP liability they're trying to make the business of an ISP inherently risky and unprofitable unless they purchase content licenses.

So it's effectively a transfer of wealth from anyone who handles online content to the MPAA/RIAA.

The MPAA/RIAA donate to politicians who make their views the foreign policy of the US.

These politicians include Lamar Smith and former-politicians like Chris Dodd but there are dozens more.

Thanks for your support cesther!