Optical Code Recognition Still Struggling With Handwriting Ian Lamont recently asked Google if they planned to extend their transcription of books and other printed media to include public records, many of which were handwritten before word processors became

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Optical Character Recognition Still Struggling With Handwriting Ian Lamont recently asked Google if they planned to extend their transcription of books and other printed media to include public records, many of which were handwritten before word processors became

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Gov't Database Errors Leading to Unconstitutional Searches? Wired is running a story about a case the Supreme Court will be hearing on Tuesday that relates to searches based on erroneous information in government databases. In the case of Herring vs. US 07-513

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Getting Paid To Abandon an Open Source Project? darkeye writes "I'm facing a difficult dilemma and looking for opinions. I've been contributing heavily to an open source project, making considerable changes to code organization and quality, but the

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Netbook Return Rates Much Higher for Linux Than Windows ivoras writes "An interview with MSI's director of US Sales, Andy Tung, contains this interesting snippet: "We have done a lot of studies on the return rates and haven't really talked about it much un

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Venture Capitalism To the Rescue theodp writes "Al Gore, Bill Joy, and a Norwegian cutie — a TH!NK open electric car — grace the cover of the latest NYT Magazine, which asks: Can the venture capitalists at Kleiner Perkins

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Report Says China Will Demand Source Code An anonymous reader alerts us to a two-week-old story that hasn't gotten much traction in the press to date. A Japanese newspaper and the AP report that China plans to demand source code from hardware

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Steve Fossett's Unfinished Project MazzThePianoman writes "Steve Fossett left behind a secret vessel project called the Deep Space Challenger. Fossett was funding the development of a winged submersible being designed by Hawkes Ocean T

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"Iron Man" Release Brings Down Paramount's Servers secmartin writes "Shortly after the release of Iron Man on Blu-ray on October 1, people started complaining of defective discs; the problem turned out to be that all the Blu-ray players downloading ad

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Computer Detection Effective In Spotting Cancer Anti-Globalism notes a large study out of the UK indicating that computer-aided detection can be as effective at spotting breast cancer as two experts reading the x-rays. Mammograms in Britain are rou

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