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| Authored by: SilverWave on Saturday, April 14 2012 @ 06:43 PM EDT |
| The Nokia Lumia 900: A
good phone at a great price that you probably shouldn't buy By Peter
Bright ---
RMS: The 4 Freedoms
0 run the program for any purpose
1 study the source code and change it
2 make copies and distribute them
3 publish modified versions
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, April 14 2012 @ 07:12 PM EDT |
Seems like nobody knows how to run this case, the attorneys for all the parties
behaving as one might expect in an adversarial system, the
judge recusing
himself from Solomon's certitude, and the press picking what they like from
it.
A U.S. judge on Friday came up short trying to find anyone to
take possession of more than 1,100 computer servers that were
used by
Megaupload, the now-shuttered online service that has been charged with massive
copyright infringement.
Reuters
Lawyers for Megaupload, the U.S.
Department of Justice (DOJ), Web hosting provider Carpathia Hosting and other
groups
fighting over who should maintain 1,100 servers formerly used by
Megaupload should sit down and work out an arrangement, a U.S. judge
said
Friday.
PC
World
U.S. District Judge Liam O’Grady, at a hearing
today in Alexandria, Virginia, told federal prosecutors they have two weeks to
work out an agreement with parties claiming an interest in the massive cache of
data that became inaccessible when law enforcement agents
shut down Megaupload
in January.
Bloomberg
MegaUpload's
lawyers got much of what they asked for today from a federal district court
regarding what should be done with
the company's servers and user
data.
cnet
Anyone else notice the oddity between
the name of the hosting company and a shipping incident centenary?
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, April 15 2012 @ 07:10 AM EDT |
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/13/apple-push-email-
notifications_n_1423573.html?ref=technology
How the heck can a patent be valid for push email... prior art,
obvious, just plain any kid from birth knows this trick (a baby
certainly "pushes" communication). Because the analog is now
done on a computer (digital trickery) then what makes it an
invention?
Anything done by any human before computers, just because someone
wrote a software application, does not make it a non-obvious,
new, method or concept (just do the math, no pun intended,
because we all know that math you can not patent).
For all those who think that encyryption should be worthy of
being granted a monopoly/patent, just think back to how long
messages (done by hand, or what you would call analog messages)
were mixed up in a hidden code. I bet this was done by armies
for thousands of years... no new method or concept (or even a new
idea).
This patent mess, has gotten way out of control. The elected
representatives, lawyers, and the judges of the world, are really
making themselves look stupid.
Are they really that stupid, or are they just plain ignorant?
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| Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Sunday, April 15 2012 @ 01:11 PM EDT |
| Link
Apologies if this is
construed as being on topic.
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You are being MICROattacked, from various angles, in a SOFT manner. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, April 15 2012 @ 04:31 PM EDT |
| `In 1991, Myhrvold predicted the emergence of the iPhone
down to the
smallest detail, describing a “digital wallet”
that would consolidate all
personal communication —
telephone, schedule manager, notepad, contacts, and a
library
of music and books, all in one. It would record and archive
everything
you asked it to, he surmised.' link [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Sunday, April 15 2012 @ 06:02 PM EDT |
Link
Oracle offers Java SE for Embedded products to meet
your specific Java Technology needs. Below you will find several Java SE for
Embedded solutions that are available today. These include using the standard
version of Java SE as well as solutions that are footprint reduced. For these
offerings, development is free, but royalties are required upon deployment on
anything other than general purpose systems. In all cases, these products are
fully Java SE compliant -- which enables you to reuse any Java code from other
platforms or products without having to go through porting, recoding and test
cycles.
I think an ARM system is 'General Purpose'.
I do
not care if it has some extra hardware that
allows it to function as a
phone.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, April 15 2012 @ 08:56 PM EDT |
Missing source code can allow bad science to slip
through the cracks and means extra headaches for scientists who want to closely
follow up on new studies or check for errors
Modern science relies
upon researchers sharing their work so that their peers can check and verify
success or failure. But most scientists still don't share one crucial piece of
information — the source codes of the computer programs driving much of today's
scientific progress.
Such secrecy comes at a time when many researchers
write their own source codes — human-readable instructions for how computer
programs do their work — to run simulations and analyze experimental results.
Now, a group of scientists is arguing for new standards that require newly
published studies to make their source codes available.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, April 16 2012 @ 02:47 AM EDT |
The United States government has adopted a take-no-prisoners attitude in its
prosecution of Megaupload, seeming to raise every conceivable objection to
Megaupload's efforts to defend itself. We've already covered the government's
attempts to block Megaupload from spending money to preserve servers that the
company says contains data needed for its defense.
Now, the government has adopted a new tactic: making it as difficult as possible
for Megaupload to obtain legal counsel.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/04/government-trying-to-deny-megaup
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, April 16 2012 @ 08:52 AM EDT |
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