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NSA Built Stuxnet, but Real Trick Is Building Crew of Hackers
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, June 13 2012 @ 07:07 AM EDT

Main article link.

Here's the irony behind that and what P.J. stated:

Well, when the DMCA was being debated, folks warned that this would be the result, that research would be hobbled. But no one would listen to anyone but Hollywood.
Unfortunately I can't find the incident - my Googling skills are currently insufficient. Perhaps someone else will remember and post a link from the description.

I remember a distinct episode a couple years ago where a company held a hackathon as a challenge to see if anyone could break their encryption. I also distinctly remember the winner being sued by the company not to disclose how the encryption was broken.

Is it really any wonder that no one wants to "take up the opportunity to hack legally" when successful individuals are actually being sued for their involvement in such activities in some cases?

RAS

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Apple and a patent troll shut down a child's ability to speak
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, June 13 2012 @ 01:25 PM EDT

The human cost of patent law and Apple's iron-fisted grip on the app store: shutting down a child's ability to speak: http://ni ederfamily.blogspot.be/2012/06/silencing - of-maya.html

Apple Steps Into Patent Fight To Unnecessarily Silence A Little Girl: http://www.techdirt.com /articles/20120613/015119 19297/apple-steps-into-patent-fight-to-unnecessarily- silence-little-girl.shtml

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DVD vs. "digital"
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, June 13 2012 @ 01:57 PM EDT
Am I the only one who winces to see DVD packaging that says
you get *both* the DVD and a "digital" copy of the movie
(via the proprietary movie cyberlocker, forget what it is
called). Does the public really not understand that a
Digital Video Disc is itself digital?

Maybe it isn't such a big deal in the greater scope of
things, but just when I think society can't get any more
dumbed-down, society gets even more dumbed-down.

DSB

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IE zero day attack
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, June 13 2012 @ 02:13 PM EDT
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/state-sponsored-attackers-using-ie-zero-day-t
o-hijack-gmail-accounts/12462?tag=main;carousel

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3 cheaters to play only against each other
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, June 13 2012 @ 08:19 PM EDT
[Rockstar condemns Max Payne 3 cheaters to play only against each other]

"The games might end up as an unwatchable mess, but they'd likely attract
plenty of fans and players who want to see just how far the "baseball"
experience can go."

Makes me think of the movie Real Steel.

--

Bondfire

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First-sale doctrine & SCOTUS
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, June 14 2012 @ 05:29 AM EDT
This article highlights the fact that SCOTUS will soon bring down a ruling on whether the first sale doctrine is applicable to items manufactured outside the USA and imported into that country.

If all goes pair shaped, it may turn many that decide to sell some of the stuff they legally purchased via the internet or while traveling abroad into copyright criminals.

So much for the removal of trade barriers. Seems double take and double standards are the vocabulary of multinationals. The world is nuts!

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'647 patent
Authored by: pem on Thursday, June 14 2012 @ 11:21 AM EDT
I just read Apple's '647 Patent: What It Is and Why it's Bad for the Mobile Ecosystem and looked at the patent itself.

Spoiler alert: I'm going to discuss the first claim, so look away if you need to.

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The first claim requires:

an input device for receiving data. This could be a USB port.

an output device for presenting the data. A screen.

a memory storing information including program routines including yeah, yeah. Everybody has one of those.

an analyzer server for detecting structures in the data, and for linking actions to the detected structures; Hmm, the USB stick I insert into the USB port has directory data, which the computer can analyze and link actions to (like file associations in Windows since 3.x).

a user interface enabling the selection of a detected structure and a linked action; Yeah, when I double-click the file, it selects it and performs the linked action based on the filetype.

an action processor for performing the selected action linked to the selected structure; This would be the text editor, photo editor, etc. based on filetype.

a processing unit coupled to the input device, the output device, and the memory for controlling the execution of the program routines. And this is just the standard magical pixie dust of adding a CPU to make it a real device.

So there is nothing described by the first claim of the patent that wasn't happening in Windows 3.x

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Microsoft is now offering Nokia's NAVTEQ for Bing maps
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, June 14 2012 @ 03:27 PM EDT
Look at the lower right corner. 2012 NAVTEQ copyright 2012 Microsoft Corporation. The Looting of Nokia is well underway. Click here RIP NOKIA!

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