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. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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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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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[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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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 [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: eamacnaghten on Thursday, June 07 2012 @ 04:25 AM EDT |
.... congrats to pj... :-)
7 More
Heroes of Linux
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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
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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 [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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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[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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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[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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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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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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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. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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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[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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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[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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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?[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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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.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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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[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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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[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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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[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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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 [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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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[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 11 2012 @ 01:31 PM EDT |
Here's the link [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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