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Storm Damage
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, July 02 2012 @ 03:39 PM EDT
isc.sans.edu

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Rio+20 killed by IP
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, July 02 2012 @ 04:00 PM EDT
Here's a new problem to blame on Intellectual Property interests! Slashdot has
a story asserting that Rio+20 was killed because the parties could not come up
with an agreement about technology transfer that protected the interests/profits
of IP owners.

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/07/02/1738214/intellectual-property-rights-the-
quiet-killer-of-rio20

Well, I suppose it 'could' have happened that way.

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FunnyJunk lawyer aims to halt distribution of "BearLove" money
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, July 02 2012 @ 06:01 PM EDT
July 1 2012

On Saturday, Charles Carreon updated his federal lawsuit against Matthew Inman
(creator of the humor website The Oatmeal). Carreon's suit now calls for a
temporary restraining order, asking the court to mandate IndieGoGo not transfer
any of the more than $220,000 raised as of Monday, June 25. If the court sides
with Carreon, funds would not go to Inman or to the target charities, the
National Wildlife Foundation (NWF) and the American Cancer Society (ACS).

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/07/funnyjunk-lawyer-aims-to-halt-distrib
ution-of-bearlove-money/

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The Oatmeal fights back, snaps photo of cash, sends money to charity - July 2
2012

As for Charles Carreon, he's been making his anti-Inman arguments in legal
filings. His wife, however, continues to crusade publicly on his behalf. When
the Carreons' hometown Tucson Weekly put up a couple paragraphs on the case and
concluded, "I generally like to cheer for Tucsonans, but in this case, I'm
going to side with The Oatmeal instead of a guy suing the American Cancer
Society." Tara Carreon responded:

"There is now plenty of proof that Matt Inman is one of a gang of people
who promote the same type of ideas that inspired Jared Loughner to try and kill
Gabrielle Giffords," she wrote.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/07/the-oatmeal-fights-backs-snaps-photo-
of-cash-sends-money-to-charity/

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Can WIPO help get us out of the IP mess?
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, July 02 2012 @ 07:35 PM EDT

I sent a note to WIPO. Maybe they have a response? Or maybe someone else has a better letter to send to WIPO?


Question: Hello. I suspect most people are aware of IP and patents. A lot of people assume patents have to always be applied for.

Have you considered the converse? Can you lead the converse? Can WIPO form an umbrella organization whereby people who do NOT want to patent an invention, can submit "something" to this new part of WIPO, to forever keep this knowledge in the public domain, and hence never encumbered by patents?

Perhaps such an entity already exists? Who are they?

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Cisco/Linksys Router Fiasco
Authored by: sk43 on Monday, July 02 2012 @ 08:30 PM EDT
Found on Slashdot.

Apparently some of the new Linksys routers have backdoors that allow Cisco to
automatically download new firmware that locks users out of administrative
functions until they create a new account in "Cisco Connect Cloud".

http://homecommunity.cisco.com/t5/Wireless-Routers/EA4500-weird-login-screen-can
-t-login/td-p/535846

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/132142-ciscos-cloud-vision-mandatory-moneti
zed-and-killed-at-their-discretion

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/07/02/1743253/ciscos-cloud-vision-mandatory-an
d-killed-at-their-discretion

Reminiscent of the TurboTax fiasco several years ago.

Yet another reason not to trust closed source/proprietary software.

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Higgs boson: CERN researchers to announce evidence of ‘God particle’
Authored by: JamesK on Tuesday, July 03 2012 @ 10:06 AM EDT
Physicists say they have all but proven that the “God particle” exists. They have a footprint and a shadow, and the only thing left is to see for themselves the elusive subatomic particle believed to give all matter in the universe size and shape.

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Blizzard Banning Diablo III Linux Users
Authored by: mcinsand on Tuesday, July 03 2012 @ 10:36 AM EDT
Reddit has a posting about Blizzard banning thousands of people playing D3 with
WINE/Linux, and then I have seen reports suggesting that this was unsubstaniated
rumors. Any word from anyone here?

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Linux blamed for 'leap second' that humbled Internet
Authored by: JamesK on Tuesday, July 03 2012 @ 01:17 PM EDT
The company behind the Amadeus Altea airline reservation system used across the world has blamed problems with Linux for the one-second pause that derailed its servers on Sunday and left passengers to check in using old-fashioned manual systems.

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Might be wise to remove the Facebook phone app for a while
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, July 03 2012 @ 01:53 PM EDT
Only for those who can survive without continuous mobile FB connection. Wouldn't want to impose. And only just long enough for ever-vigilant FB engineers to get things properly sotted .

Ed L (not logged in)

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Oracle loses as ECJ confirms a software buyer's (or licensee's) right
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, July 03 2012 @ 03:42 PM EDT
The European Court of Justice confirmed 3 July that when you buy a copy of a computer program in Europe, the copy is yours to re-sell -- even if it was an internet download and the copyright owner tried to bind you to a licence agreement prohibiting resale or onward transfer.

Usedsoft vs Oracle

Case C-128/11 decided 3 July 2012

From the press release:

"Where the copyright holder makes available to his customer a copy - tangible or intangible - and at the same time concludes, in return for payment of a fee, a licence agreement granting the customer the right to use that copy for an unlimited period, that rightholder sells the copy to the customer and thus exhausts his exclusive distribution right.

Such a transaction involves a transfer of the right of ownership of the copy.

Therefore, even if the licence agreement prohibits a further transfer, the rightholder can no longer oppose the resale of that copy."

The full judgment is at curia.europa.eu

-ts-

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Leaked Video Appears to Accidentally Announce Higgs Boson Discovery
Authored by: Gringo_ on Tuesday, July 03 2012 @ 06:10 PM EDT

A leaked video published on CERN’s website earlier today appears to have accidentally announced the discovery of the Higgs boson ahead of the rumored official announcement scheduled for early tomorrow morning. You can watch the announcement live on Wired.com beginning at 11 p.m. PT tonight (2 a.m. ET tomorrow morning).

The video features an awed and earnest Joseph Incandela, who was elected to head CMS Experiment at Large Hadron Collider.

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How do you find a Higgs boson? A crash course.
Authored by: Gringo_ on Tuesday, July 03 2012 @ 11:15 PM EDT

I found this brief article in the CS Monitor very interesting and stimulating. Combined with watching the video in the post above, I am better prepared for tomorrow's announcement from CERN.

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Gnome developers making love with Microsoft
Authored by: IMANAL_TOO on Wednesday, July 04 2012 @ 03:05 AM EDT
From www.phoro nix.com/scan.php%3fpage=news_item&px=MTEzMjM
The "GNOME and Mono Festival of Love 2012" has now ended in Boston, which was taking place at one of Microsoft's research and development centers.

Last month I wrote about Microsoft hosting the GNOME & Mono Festival of Love, a week-long hack-fest described by Microsoft Cambridge as an "event to work on Open Source .NET integration with the GNOME platform and improve .NET powered Open Source applications."
What are the Gnome developers doing? Really?!

Has the "free" thinking of former Gnome people been lost forever?



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"tacit authorization" for snooping
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, July 04 2012 @ 03:31 AM EDT
Forgetting to log off your email ... arstechnica

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EU REJECTS ACTA !!!!!!!
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, July 04 2012 @ 07:39 AM EDT
478 against vs 39 for

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Can Finland nationalize Nokia?
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, July 04 2012 @ 11:22 AM EDT
Keep wondering if the government of Finland can just stand by and watch
Microsoft destroy the country's largest private employer. Any discussion in
Finland for doing this?

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