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An interesting Court opinion on Constitutionality
Authored by: celtic_hackr on Wednesday, June 06 2012 @ 10:00 PM EDT
While the subject matter may be political the court's reasoning and discussion is very enlightening. I thought it was very pertinent to grokking the law, so here it is, a ruling on the DOMA by the NY Federal Court. This is the second Federal court to make such a ruling.

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Typo in Court Transcript
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, June 07 2012 @ 01:34 AM EDT
</br>This is an unusual one - a typo in a court transcript has caused
problems for a woman <a
href="http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/1206554--will-disclosure-
of-typo-in-court-transcript-fully-clear-name-of-peterborough-mom-brenda-
waudby-wrongly-accused-of-killing-baby">The Toronto Star</a>
</br></br>

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"MEN invented the Internet"
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, June 07 2012 @ 02:18 AM EDT
Over the weekend, the Ne w York Times published four words that pissed a bunch of people off, including me. I responded with a little rant here on Boing Boing, and shared stories about women in the history of computers and the internet.
Xeni Jardin, Boing Boing

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David MacKay: A reality check on renewables
Authored by: jbb on Thursday, June 07 2012 @ 03:21 AM EDT
TED Talk

He has also written some very good books: Sustainable Energy - without the hot air and Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms.

---
Our job is to remind ourselves that there are more contexts
than the one we’re in now — the one that we think is reality.
-- Alan Kay

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One of the 7 more heroes of Linux...
Authored by: eamacnaghten on Thursday, June 07 2012 @ 04:25 AM EDT

.... congrats to pj... :-)

7 More Heroes of Linux

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Apple has a patent on Federated Search
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, June 07 2012 @ 06:36 AM EDT
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?
Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchn
um.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=8086604.PN.&OS=PN/8086604&RS=PN/8
086604

Good grief.

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Why can't Apple just damned well compete fairly - i.e. on merit of products
Authored by: TiddlyPom on Thursday, June 07 2012 @ 09:53 AM EDT
Both HTC and Samsung are producing products which as as good (if not better IMHO) than Apple's products. In the past - companies would compete on the strengths of their products. Now with the utterly broken USA patent system being as it is and even worse - as set of unfair trade agreements to try and enforce USA laws on the rest of the work (probably unconstitutional in many of the countries concerned) - big companies like Apple and Microsoft do not compete any more - they try and drive any competition out of business so they cannot have their monopolies (or potential monopolies) challenged.

This is EXACTLY what Apple is doing to Samsung at the moment - trying to prevent competition (which must be the exact opposite from what copyrights and patents were originally for - i.e. promoting competition). There must be some way that Apple and/or Microsoft can be 'punished' for monopolistic business practices - isn't this illegal?

What is needed is a major long ban on iPhones/iPads to show this bully that there are consequences in using using anti-competitive practices. I for one will never buy another Apple or Microsoft product (yes really)!

---
Support Software Freedom - use GPL licenced software like Linux and LibreOffice instead of proprietary software like Microsoft Windows/Office or Apple OS/X

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Sith Lord shows self at Microsoft
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, June 07 2012 @ 10:52 AM EDT
IE 10′s ‘Do-Not-Track’ default dies quick death
Well, that didn’t take long.

The latest proposed draft of the Do Not Track specification published Wednesday requires that users must choose to turn on the anti-behavioral tracking feature in their browsers and software.

That means that Microsoft IE 10, which the company announced last week will have Do Not Track turned on by default, won’t be compliant with the official spec.

Ryan Singel, ars technica / Wired

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On Piracy....
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, June 07 2012 @ 11:50 AM EDT

I'll leave you guessing which piracy till you click the link.

RAS

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Oracle told by judge to cover for Google’s legal expenses
Authored by: Tim on Thursday, June 07 2012 @ 12:05 PM EDT
The smackdown against Oracle in the courtroom continues. It was only last week that victory sided with Google, after the judge who presided over the case didn’t find Google guilty of infringing Oracle’s patents. What the public didn’t know is that the same judge apparently had ordered Oracle to pay for Google’s legal fees!
Link Here - Android Authority

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Europe's telcos throttling the net
Authored by: sciamiko on Thursday, June 07 2012 @ 02:13 PM EDT
How Europe's telcos are throttling the net (Iptegrity)

By their own admission, Europe’s telecom operators - mobile and fixed – are guilty of blocking traffic. That is the obvious conclusion to draw from a report by the new European regulatory body known as BEREC. The worst are the mobile operators, who block or throttle peer-to-peer and voice over IP, as well as other applications. The fixed operators block peer-to-peer, but are more generous with voice over IP. A worrying development is that both fixed and mobile are beginning to give preferential treatment to certain applications. What will the European Commission do about it?
The "regulator" BEREC has issued a report based on numbers the telcos themselves produced to show how much they are throttling the internet as seen by mobile and fixed line customers.

s.

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German Gov. Wants Google To Pay To Show News Snippets
Authored by: Gringo_ on Thursday, June 07 2012 @ 02:22 PM EDT

Article in Techdirt...

Last year, the Belgian courts decided that Google was infringing on newspapers' copyrights just by linking to stories. Google was ordered to remove those links, at which point the newspapers started whining about "harsh retaliation" -- even though it was the court's decision, not Google's, and it was the newspapers' legal action that brought this about.

Sadly, the German government doesn't seem to have been paying attention to that rather ridiculous saga -- or maybe simply doesn't care -- and has just announced that it will bring in a compulsory licensing scheme for the use of even "small parts" of journalistic articles on commercial sites (original German).

Why would these governments even be poking their noses into this business? It should be up to the market place.

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Romney email and dropbox accounts hacked.
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, June 07 2012 @ 02:43 PM EDT
http://www.pcworld.com/article/257068/mitt_romney_email_and_dropbox_accounts_rep
ortedly_hacked.html#tk.nl_dnx_h_crawl

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Off-Topic Posts - Apple vs Motorola order
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, June 07 2012 @ 08:46 PM EDT
Wow, this is an odd order from Judge Posner.

http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/1171131/apple_moto_order.pdf

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Superspeed vs. Google Drive
Authored by: Chromatix on Friday, June 08 2012 @ 07:45 AM EDT
So Google is getting sued because one of it's products implement client-side
caching for a network filesystem.

This sounds exactly like most halfway competent implementations of NFS. Prior
art anyone?

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Intellectual Ventures patents
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 08 2012 @ 09:36 AM EDT
Intellectual Ventures has had a lot of criticism for software patents. Their
statements make it sound like they fund research and have hardware patents. I
thought I would check. The USPTO has a nice search function. I searched for
Intellectual Ventures as the Asignee. I only went back to April 1. In that
time IV had 14 software patents and 12 hardware patents. Six of the hardware
patents were for CMOS image sensors by Korean inventors.

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Now there's an interesting thought for patent protection via pre-publication
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 08 2012 @ 09:43 AM EDT

Not only post it in a publicly accessibly means which Google crawls, but also:

Explicitly digitally send it to the Library Of Congress in a publicly available format. In other words, make sure they get a copy of it for their records.

RAS

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Microsoft pulling Heise Online reviews from Google:
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 08 2012 @ 02:04 PM EDT
This is in German and my keyboard isn't working well enough try posting it as a
clicky.

http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Microsoft-liess-Heise-Meldung-aus-Google-
Suchergebnissen-loeschen-1614082.html?mrw_channel=ho;mrw_channel%3Dho;from-mobi%
3D1

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'Facebook tax' could make web companies pay for usage outside the US
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 08 2012 @ 03:03 PM EDT
Leaked documents purportedly from the ITU reveal that the body is considering a levy on content-heavy services like Fac ebook and Netflix to pay for the bandwidth they use outside of the US.

Tabled by lobbyists representing Europe's biggest cellphone networks, the proposal suggests that Google and others should shoulder some of the cost of bringing their services to customers in the rest of the world.

Daniel Cooper, Engadget

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Insanity = Apple receives ornamental design patent on MacBook Air's wedge shape
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 08 2012 @ 03:31 PM EDT
http://www.theverge.com/policy/2012/6/7/3068355/Apple-design-patent-macbook-air- wedge-ultrabook

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Canada to encourage full US warrantless, wholesale surveillance of their private data
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 08 2012 @ 04:29 PM EDT
Bill C30, the sweeping Canadian warrantless Internet surveillance bill, is back from the dead. Public Safety Minister Vic Toews (who declared that opposition to his bill was tantamount to support for pedophiles) has been working behind the scenes to resurrect his legislation, joining forces with the US government in the name of "perimeter security."
Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing

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No more Habeas Corpus?
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 11 2012 @ 01:31 PM EDT
Here's the link

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