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| Authored by: JamesK on Monday, April 16 2012 @ 11:05 AM EDT |
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ave you ever wondered why a supercomputer is called a supercomputer? Is it the
number of processors or the amount of RAM? Must a supercomputer occupy a certain
amount of space, or consume a specific amount of power? ---
The
following program contains immature subject matter. Viewer discretion is
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, April 16 2012 @ 11:17 AM EDT |
Turns out his boats aren't quite fast enough either - at least in the America's
cup this year ;-)[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: kattemann on Monday, April 16 2012 @ 02:05 PM EDT |
I'll be spending some time on the criminal case against Anders Behring Breivik
here in Oslo - thankful that I'm not one of the lay judges. Ten weeks![ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: symbolset on Monday, April 16 2012 @ 02:06 PM EDT |
| There are times when I wish Groklaw had streaming audio and/or video. Like now. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: mbouckaert on Monday, April 16 2012 @ 03:44 PM EDT |
Looks like we have a disconnect in high places.
Like
here.
The good news is that this
only praises the general concepts
of IP (whatever these may be, there are more
than one), not
the [expletive deleted] way the current definition works. I
sure hope that the additional monies funneled to USPTO do
not result is
flooding us with even more low-quality
nonsense.
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| Authored by: hAckz0r on Monday, April 16 2012 @ 04:23 PM EDT |
| Isn't this [Yahoo News] just a case of the first sale
doctrine? If they had not been printed and sold by J Wiley & Sons then
there might be a Copyright issue with importing them, but in this case they are
authentic Wiley books bought by family and resold on eBay in the US.
Food
for thought; The mark-up on these books in the US is high enough to ship the
books Internationally and still make a hansom profit on eBay? Somehow I feel
cheated.
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DRM - As a "solution", it solves the wrong problem; As a
"technology" its only 'logically' infeasible. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Monday, April 16 2012 @ 05:48 PM EDT |
| Link
I have a hunch they will get some good data
during
this trial.
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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: Gringo_ on Monday, April 16 2012 @ 06:52 PM EDT |
See
Oracle Opens Up Fight With Google Over
Java
They have a beautiful
photo of Oracle's headquarters.
Jacobs also made a point to
highlight the
nimble nature of Java’s language, at one point even
comparing it
to “Esperanto”, an imaginary universal
language. One of the big hurdles Google
faced, he said, was
in pushing updates on the Android platform. Sun
Microsystems
had a “read once, write anywhere” update system that Oracle
now
claims Google copied — without proper license — into
Android. Jacobs made a
point of playing an audio recording
of former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and
reading additional
emails from Andy Rubin, Google’s senior vice president of
mobile. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: PJ on Monday, April 16 2012 @ 06:54 PM EDT |
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| Authored by: Gringo_ on Monday, April 16 2012 @ 07:54 PM EDT |
An excellent article on Forbes: ACTA Faces Another
Setback In Europe by Ed Black, Tech
association CEO.
More than anything, the Internet has turned
out to be a great enabler of creative works and their
distribution. Without
dismissing efforts to mitigate online
piracy, the study urges policymakers to
think about the
proportionality of enforcement measures to the scale of the
problem. In this light, measures like ACTA lose much of
their policy
rationale in the minds of many critics.
Notwithstanding that certain
revisions were made to
ameliorate some of the worst excesses of ACTA, the
agreement
appears indelibly stained with the mark of having been
conceived and
developed behind closed doors, and for failing
to respond meaningfully to
concerns voiced by public
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| Authored by: LocoYokel on Monday, April 16 2012 @ 08:18 PM EDT |
| I was just thinking about the case where MS got a court order in the US to
prevent Motorola getting an injunction against them in Germany in the patent
dispute there.
Link
http://www.techinvestorne
ws.com/Tech-News/Latest-Tech-News/u.s.-judge-blocks-motorolas-german-microsoft-i
njunction
Honestly, were I the judge hearing about that, I would probably
immediately issue the injunction (possibly even an harsher one) on my own under
whatever they use for contempt of court in Germany. Then I would call the local
head of MS GmbH in my court and have him contact the corporate office in the US
and inform them and the US judge behind this order that US courts have no
jurisdiction in Germany and that I did not appreciate their attempt to influence
my court in that manner. If the US judge cared to object in any way he would be
free to come to Germany and discuss it in person and spend a year or so
examining German jails from the inside.
Even as a US citizen, the imperial
attitude behind this upsets me in a way I am not able to express properly
without skirting and possibly violating PJ's comments policy. Someone really
needs to smack US companies and judges that try this hard. ---
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correctness is an effort to abrogate the First
Amendment under the assumption that there exists a right to
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