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News Pick Thread
Authored by: ore on Thursday, June 07 2012 @ 05:14 AM EDT
"Major sites turn on IPv6"

But not Groklaw, I see.

---
Oliver Elphick

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ShopCity and friends
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, June 07 2012 @ 06:11 AM EDT
I had a glance around ShopCity's site; it's cluttered and a lot to read through
if you just want to find a local place to do X (the purported use of the site).
Now, in theory, that's a good idea - but the execution is poor (I got better
results for my search query by taking it to Google and putting in "type of
shop" "suburb name"; this may have to do with my not being in
America, a lot of sites have poor databases in my part of the world) and it's
got all sorts of neat little UI tweaks that look very neat without actually
saying anything (in other words, wastes of bandwidth). It's also not all that
simple to navigate.

I visited Twenga as well. I still have no idea what that site's supposed to be.

AdMarketPlace didn't display the video properly (I don't have flash installed)
and since I don't run ads either, I wasn't particularly interested.

FairSearch was really the biggest disappointment in the whole thing. It's a
Google-bashing blog thinly disguised as a search engine, which would have been
one thing if the search engine part actually bothered to search anything outside
the FairSearch site. Since it only searches itself, though, it's useless as a
search engine (I am not particularly interested in anything I saw on the site).

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UEFI - Boot (is this so companies can not switch to Google Chrome OS quickly)?
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, June 07 2012 @ 06:28 AM EDT
UEFI - Boot (is this so companies can not switch to Google
Chrome OS quickly)?

From what I have seen of Google Chrome OS so far, is that it
is far easier (and cheaper) to admin a huge number of
machines in an enterprise than anything Microsoft has made
complex to do (MS needs complex so folks have to pay for
their many layers of licenses along the way).

By having UEFI - Boot then, if hardware would not be
compatible, then a quick switch over, would require buying
new hardware (a financial hurdle to switching to any other
option).

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More patent nonsense superspeed v google.
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, June 07 2012 @ 11:44 AM EDT
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/google-hit-with-cloud-patent-claim-over-docs-drive
/79467?tag=main;top-stories

Google Drive accused of cache abuse. Patent 918244 (1999).

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Oracle told to pay Googles legal expenses.
Authored by: frankieh on Thursday, June 07 2012 @ 09:11 PM EDT
yay
Pay Google!

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7 More Heroes of Linux... drum roll, please
Authored by: mirrorslap on Thursday, June 07 2012 @ 11:21 PM EDT
Why, it's Pamela Jones of Groklaw!
Far out, and well-deserved!

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Patent trolls beware: app makers partnering up with legal community
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 08 2012 @ 02:22 AM EDT
Sounds more like a innovation disincentive program, and a treble damages trap
for application makers, than a legal defence method, to me.

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Google hit with patent claim over Google Drive
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 08 2012 @ 08:02 AM EDT
And the patent office issued a patent for that?

It is the USPTO that is causing this mess (in part) by
issuing the most insane patents, on OBVIOUS stuff that has
more prior art than you can shake a stick at.

I'll bet that if we piled up the bogus insane patents that
the USPTO has issued, that we would not need rockets for
space travel we would just clamor up the pile into space.

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Apple vs Motorola on the way to dismissal
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 08 2012 @ 09:51 AM EDT
If only the rest of the smart-phone patent cases could go the way of this order. Neither party could prove actual damages resulting from the patent, so there is not actual dispute, case dismissed.

Any possibility the judge watched Google/Oracle and decided he wasn't going to waste his court's time on patents on small parts of the phone experience, and found a nice way of wrapping up the case in front of him? It will make it harder to get companies to agree that injunctions aren't necessary. But, I can't see judges granting injunctions when no one can prove any monetary damages. If only the ITC would stop granting injunctions on software patents, and make them duke it out in Federal Court.

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Microsoft buys Ubuntu
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 08 2012 @ 10:25 AM EDT
Microsoft buys Ubuntu, in a way - www.phoronix.com/sca n.php%3fpage=news_item&px=MTExNTU
Canonical is promoting today its new partnership with Microsoft that allows Ubuntu Linux to run on Windows Azure.


So, suicidal Canonical will go the same way as Nokia? Down, down, down?


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Samsung sues Australia's patent commissioner over Apple row
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 08 2012 @ 06:16 PM EDT
about time too

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Bret Victor - Inventing on Principle
Authored by: greed on Friday, June 08 2012 @ 09:45 PM EDT

Wow, PJ's right, that's a beyond-fascinating presentation.

It gets to be the Very First Video played through my Roku's connection to Vimeo.

I'm not sure what was better: the philosophical part (how should we think about things), the history (how we got to think the way we do) or the technology.

I definitely want that technology. It's got "Sorting out Sorting", SPICE and rapid design all in one handy box.

And I definitely agree with him about making sure ideas don't get lost. That's what I like my role to be: I run the infrastructure plant so that the creative folks can do their creative bit. Be it code, music, animation, graphics, stories, whatever.

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