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Windows Phone 8 sucker punches Windows Phone fans
Authored by: SilverWave on Saturday, June 23 2012 @ 02:50 AM EDT
Windows Phone 8 sucker punches Windows Phone fans

Quote: The Windows Phone 8 schism is also very bad news for Nokia -- which is desperately trying to shift existing Lumias, having killed the Symbian cash-cow by giving Windows Phone a bear-hug. Who's going to buy a Lumia 900 or Lumia 800 now -- knowing full well these phones are being cut off from the platform's future? Nokia has said it will be bringing some "visual enhancements" to Lumia owners, but you can practically hear Stephen Elop scrabbling around for loose change to fling in their direction.

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RMS: The 4 Freedoms
0 run the program for any purpose
1 study the source code and change it
2 make copies and distribute them
3 publish modified versions

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Nokia's Windows Phone "bear hug" is choking the Mighty Finn
Authored by: SilverWave on Saturday, June 23 2012 @ 03:05 AM EDT
Nokia's Windows Phone "bear hug" is choking the Mighty Finn

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RMS: The 4 Freedoms
0 run the program for any purpose
1 study the source code and change it
2 make copies and distribute them
3 publish modified versions

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Samsung and Orange show MS how a successful mobile platform handles a big update
Authored by: SilverWave on Saturday, June 23 2012 @ 03:56 AM EDT
Last Sunday my Samsung Galaxy Note informed me that the 4.0.3 Android update,
AKA "Ice Cream Sandwich" was available.

I had bought the Note because of its fantastic screen, but also the promise from
Samsung to upgrade to ISC asap, and I was so pleased that they had delivered so
promptly.

The update was OTA and a huge 350mb but worked flawlessly.

Fantastic! Also tip of the hat to Orange as well, well done to all involved,
well done indeed.

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RMS: The 4 Freedoms
0 run the program for any purpose
1 study the source code and change it
2 make copies and distribute them
3 publish modified versions

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Apple / Motorola Case Tossed
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, June 23 2012 @ 06:36 AM EDT
With prejudice.

"Apple is complaining that Motorola's phones as a whole
ripped off the iPhone as a whole," Posner wrote. "But
Motorola's desire to sell products that compete with the
iPhone is a separate harm -— and a perfectly legal one -— from

any harm caused by patent infringement."
...

Posner also said that Apple had not clearly demonstrated
that Motorola phones caused a loss of consumer goodwill
significant enough for an injunction.

"To suggest that it has suffered loss of market share, brand
recognition, or customer goodwill as a result of Motorola's
alleged infringement of the patent claims still in play in
this case is wild conjecture," Posner wrote.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/technology/ct-biz-
apple-motorola-suit,0,2544954.story

Hopefully an outbreak of sanity is upon us.

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Turing, the Google Doodle
Authored by: hardmath on Saturday, June 23 2012 @ 08:40 AM EDT
Have you noticed the Google Doodle celebrating Turing's 100th birth
anniversary?

Initially it displays a counter, i.e. a visual depiction of a Turing machine
"tape" with symbols 0,1 and blank programmed to increment. It times
out after a bit if the mouse is not moved, but you can apparently get it to
count aribtrarily high (in binary).

However geekier types will enjoy the puzzles this Doodle offers. Click on the
green arrow under the tape at left and you'll be presented with a
"target" binary value at top, initialization of the Turing machine
tape to a slightly different value, and a "visual program" underneath
of icons that loop, shift, jump conditionally, and write cells.

The yellow icons are ones that you can alter (by clicking on them) to rewrite
the program. Clicking the green arrow executes the program, and when it
terminates, the tape is checked against the target to see if you succeeded in
matching it.

Solving a sequence of such puzzles fills in color of the Google logo, and when
all six letters are filled, your solutions are replayed and it jumps to the
usual search page, in this case for Alan Turing's 100th birth anniversary.

But if you go back to the Google Doodle, the problems do not repeat: they get
more complicated!

Help me before I completely turing doodle!


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Microsoft simply abandoning Nokia et al to have market to itself?
Authored by: Gringo_ on Saturday, June 23 2012 @ 09:48 AM EDT

Here is an article that suggests to me something I hadn't considered, and hadn't seen previous speculation on...

The steps taken by Microsoft are rumored to suggest that the company will soon be manufacturing its own mobile phones, something that seems to be certain, following its launch of Windows Surface tablets. This will mean dislodging itself from reliance on partnerships with other companies like Espoo, Finland-based Nokia, said the Nomura analysts.

It makes sense to speculate that Microsoft might want the market for the Win8 ecosystem to itself. Undoubtedly Microsoft has been burning with envy at the sight of the munificent margins Apple's total control of their product line has given them. I never held much to the theory that Microsoft wants to take over Nokia. Why take on that baggage? Nokia's glory days are over, and Nokia is now known for making phones for losers suckered in to serve as beta testers for Microsoft. The Nokia brand name is now forever tarnished. Now Microsoft has Win8 and they don't want to share, so they sucker punch Nokia and leave them to bleed to death.

Nokia wasn't the only company blindsided by Microsoft's recent announcements. All their partners were equally snubbed, and Microsoft isn't rushing out with press releases trying to patch things up. It's as if they don't care, and I would suggest that in fact they really don't. I think they have grandiose visions of competing head to head with Apple, and the only way they can do that is with full control of the market and the product line.

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Intel releases 2,468 pages of technical details on their latest-generation graphics
Authored by: IMANAL_TOO on Saturday, June 23 2012 @ 02:57 PM EDT
Intel releases 2,468 pages of technical details on their latest-generation graphics. Phoronix.c om writes:
"These documents cover the key registers for their hardware and other information to benefit anyone wishing to get into low-level graphics driver programming or just wanting to better understand how Intel's latest graphics core works"
Is this substantially different from some other actors? nVidia, how much have they released? What kind of measures do we measure these measures with? Pages of code? Pages of specifications? Number of free code, open source code, GPL code? Applications?


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Surface vs. iPad: Microsoft's Getting Rusty Stealing from Apple
Authored by: Gringo_ on Saturday, June 23 2012 @ 03:11 PM EDT

Found this fun video that illustrates how Microsoft shamelessly plagiarized Apple's iPad presentation style. I think Microsoft went so far as to hire stooges to whoop and applaud wildly on cue during their Surface presentation. As if Steve Ballmer could ever have the charisma that Steve Jobs had, or Microsoft would ever have the adoring fans that Apple has...

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SOPA - “Netizens poisoned the well, and as a result the reliability of the internet is at risk”
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, June 23 2012 @ 03:25 PM EDT
[Moore = Congressional staffer Stephanie Moore, the "Democrat's chief counsel on the House Judiciary Committee"]
Think about that for a second. That entire sentence is so incredibly insulting. Millions of people spoke out against bad legislation. The public spoke out, and Moore is so against the basic concept of democracy that she has to claim that millions of people expressing their political opinion is "poisoning the well." And how in the hell is "the reliability of the internet at risk" because Congress failed to pass a horrifically bad piece of legislation aimed at censoring sites one industry didn't like? Please.

The report goes on to a bunch of additional insulting comments from Moore towards the public, including the claim that "We don't know what the numbers mean," regarding the number of people who contacted Congress on January 18th.

Mike Masnick, Techdirt

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Negative radiation pressure and negative effective refractive index via dielectric birefringence
Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, June 24 2012 @ 02:24 AM EDT
tractor beams !
Abstract
We show that light guided in a planar dielectric slab geometry incorporating a biaxial medium has lossless modes with group and phase velocities in opposite directions. Particles in a vacuum gap inserted into the structure experience negative radiation pressure: the particles are pulled by light rather than pushed by it.

This effectively one-dimensional dielectric structure represents a new geometry for achieving negative radiation pressure in a wide range of frequencies with minimal loss. Moreover, this geometry provides a straightforward platform for experimentally resolving the Abrahams-Minkowski dilemma.

Jonathan Nemirovsky, Mikael C. Rechtsman, and Mordechai Segev, Optics InfoBase

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  • Prior Art? - Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, June 24 2012 @ 03:26 AM EDT
Ubuntu's Plan For UEFI Secure Boot
Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Sunday, June 24 2012 @ 11:12 AM EDT
Link

In order to deal with UEFI, Ubuntu is dropping Grub 2 and plans to use Intel's efilinux loader with some modifications to add a relatively simple menu interface.

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You are being MICROattacked, from various angles, in a SOFT manner.

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Megaupload Motion Hearing
Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, June 24 2012 @ 05:02 PM EDT
It has been reported on local radio that a hearing will be held in the US District Court Alexandria "later this week" on several motions pending in this case. I don't have PACER access so can't tell exactly what's happening. However, elsewhere
Retired Judge Joins Fight Against DOJ’s ‘Outrageous’ Seizures in Megaupload Case
wired.com

The FBI has been ordered to start copying 150 terabytes of data - including 10 million emails - contained on the seized computers belonging to internet mogul Kim Dotcom.

In her ruling released [June 15], chief High Court judge Justice Helen Winkelmann ordered that the copying process begin as soon as possible.
FBI agents sent cloned copies of computers seized from Kim Dotcom and his Megaupload colleagues offshore just days after a judge said a court needed to decide if the agents were allowed to take the material, a court heard.

Dotcom's lawyer Willy Akel said the FBI agents committed an "illegal act" when they sent the 18 cloned computers and other items to the United States by the courier company Fedex.
NZ Herald and also

[PROPOSED] MOTION TO CHALLENGE THE SCOPE OF PRETRIAL RESTRAINT OF ASSETS OF DEFENDANTS MEGAUPLOAD LIMITED, KIM DOTCOM, MATHIAS ORTMANN, BRAM VAN DER KOLK & FINN BATATO AND MEMORANDUM OF LAW IN SUPPORT THEREOF
Case 1:12-cr-00003-LO Document 96-2 pdf 45pp.

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Are you smarter than a chimp?
Authored by: Gringo_ on Sunday, June 24 2012 @ 06:31 PM EDT

Are you smarter than a chimp?

Ayumu is a 7-year-old chimpanzee... Can you beat Ayumu in this memory test?

Inoue and Matsuzawa from Kyoto University used the 'limited-hold memory task' to show that their chimps can out-perform college students. Watch Ayumu, then take the test below to see if your memory is as good as a chimp's!

I'm afraid I was thoroughly defeated by the chimp.

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fedora.org dubious says MS Reputation Service
Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, June 24 2012 @ 09:33 PM EDT
link

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