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News of the Weird: 1st Canadian SHARK ATTACK - ya, really
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, July 25 2012 @ 04:14 AM EDT
.
or not
.

A Vancouver Island woman is missing part of her fingers after a bizarre surfing accident in Tofino that may have involved a shark.

After one fall into the water she went to grab her board to get back on, only to notice there was quite a bit of blood.

She was rushed to Tofino hospital where a doctor directed her to a surgeon in Campbell River [270km, 170 miles away]. Both physicians said that the cuts had to be from a very sharp, very quick bite, especially since she didn't feel it ... the bite may have been from a Salmon shark.

Nick Dulvy, a professor at SFU who specializes in studying sharks and is the current Canada Research Chair in Marine Biodiversity and Conservation said that the woman may have been bitten by a seal.

The woman, who The Vancouver Sun has not yet been able to reach, has changed her profile picture on Facebook to a shark.

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Stand and Deliver (Moore Microprocessor Patent portfolio)
Authored by: betajet on Wednesday, July 25 2012 @ 10:58 AM EDT
From Geek Times:
Processor IP firms sue Amazon, Samsung, Huawei, ZTE, others

Alliacense LLC (Cupertino, Calif.), the adminstrator of the Moore Microprocessor Patent (MMP) portfolio, has announced that the co-owners of the portfolio are pursuing 13 companies with complaints alleging infringement being filed with the International Trade Commission and District Court for the Northern District of California.

...

Microprocessor technologist Charles H. Moore (Chuck Moore) whose name is the first M in MMP announced he had filed a law suit against TPL and Alliacense, alleging fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, and breach of contract in October 2010.

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Samsung: Apple wouldn’t have sold a single iPhone without stealing our tech
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, July 25 2012 @ 01:10 PM EDT
A highlight from Samsung’s trial brief:

Samsung has been researching and developing mobile telecommunications technology since at least as early as 1991 and invented much of the technology for today‘s smartphones. Indeed, Apple, which sold its first iPhone nearly twenty years after Samsung started developing mobile phone technology, could not have sold a single iPhone without the benefit of Samsung‘s patented technology.

Ashby Jones, The Wall Street Journal

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Gates reacts to M$'s first quarterly loss
Authored by: jplatt39 on Wednesday, July 25 2012 @ 02:12 PM EDT
Clicky

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MacOS 10.8 released, and ...
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, July 25 2012 @ 03:51 PM EDT
... a version/security update to Safari for older versions of the OS, including
Impact: Visiting a maliciously crafted website may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution

Description: [105] memory corruption issues existed in WebKit. These issues are addressed through improved memory handling.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5400

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Microsoft inks patent deal with service provider using Linux servers
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, July 25 2012 @ 04:32 PM EDT
Today's patent agreement announced between Microsoft and Amdocs provides "mutual access to each company’s patent portfolio, including a license under Microsoft’s patent portfolio covering Amdocs’ use of Linux-based servers in its data centers," according to Microsoft's press release.
Microsoft inks patent deal with service provider using Linux servers on ZDNet

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NTP extracts more danegeld
Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Wednesday, July 25 2012 @ 06:24 PM EDT
Link

PATENT HOLDING COMPANY NTP has reached a patent licensing agreement with 13 technology companies, including Apple, Google and Microsoft, that will let them use its eight patents for the transmission of email over wireless networks.

The firm announced in a press release on Monday that it has made a "mutual resolution" with wireless carriers AT&T, Verizon Wireless, Sprint Nextel and T-Mobile, smartphone manufacturers Apple, Samsung, HTC, Motorola, Palm and LG, and software providers Google, Microsoft and Yahoo.

"As a result, all pending litigation between NTP and these companies will be dismissed," NTP said. "The signed agreement provides broad coverage under NTP's patent portfolio to all of the companies."

NTP added that the contents of the agreement have not been disclosed.

Yet another secret agreement.

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Windows 8 driving Valve to Linux
Authored by: Gringo_ on Wednesday, July 25 2012 @ 07:04 PM EDT

This is exciting! Valve can't be the only company looking at Windows 8 with alarm. Suppose more companies follow Valve's example? link

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Remove the barriers to innovation with an Open Source Tool Chain for MSP430™ MCUs
Authored by: tiger99 on Wednesday, July 25 2012 @ 07:18 PM EDT
Link

Now it will not mean a lot to many people here, because you probably don't get involved directly with microcontrollers, (some do, I know, but we are nearly all end users, whether you know it or not), but Texas are one of the large mainstream semiconductor manufacturers, and the MSP430 family is at the leading edge where low power consumption is concerned. The point is that, more and more, mainstream semiconductor manufacturers are appreciating the true advantages of OSS or FOSS, and indeed pushing it quite hard to their customers. This was in one of the regular emails that they send me about new products.

The toolchain for the MSP430 family involves GCC and GDB, well known to almost every FOSS developer. It is far from being new, the change is that it is being pushed harder. Texas may initially lose money over this, because they also have proprietary tools with which this competes directly, but clearly they see a bigger long term market for their semiconductors, their actual money earner, as a result.

The main competitors, PIC and AVR (Arduino etc) also have free toolchains, and although they are not always advertised so well by the manufacturers, practically every developer who uses these devices knows about them.

Nvidia has been in the news recently, for the opposite reason. Why, why, why can't they see the point?

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2 Raspberry Pi or not 2 Raspberry Pi?
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, July 25 2012 @ 11:16 PM EDT

In reference to my previous comments about Raspberry Pi, Previous Comment,
The Raspberry Pi arrived yesterday and it looks good but as I wasn't expecting delivery for another two weeks I haven't got the OS ready on card to try it out. That will have to wait for a few days as otherwise busy.

I still have not had any reply to my query about being blocked from site forum. Tried sending from the original "blocked?" email and another.

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Old Prophet Jefferson
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 26 2012 @ 12:28 AM EDT
Came across this piece of insight from Thomas Jefferson, a most remarkable
American...

"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of
their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and
corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all
property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers
conquered...I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our
liberties than standing armies... The issuing power should be taken from the
banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs."

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Rambus loses ITC case against chip makers
Authored by: betajet on Thursday, July 26 2012 @ 12:44 AM EDT
From Geek Times:
Wednesday's ruling affirmed a March ruling by the ITC administrative law judge presiding over the case. The ITC found no violation by the group of chip makers, including Broadcom Corp., LSI Corp., Mediatek Inc., Nvidia Corp. and STMicroelectronics NV.

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What is that Windwos EULA again?
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 26 2012 @ 03:57 AM EDT
Using Windwos for critical systems in a power plant?

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Samsung removes local search function
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 26 2012 @ 04:06 AM EDT
from Galaxy phones due to a patent dispute. Yet software isn't even patentable
where I live. Why should the rest of the world be made to suffer because America
has a broken legal system and stupid laws. Fix it already! This is getting
beyond a joke.

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regarding at&t
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 26 2012 @ 11:32 AM EDT
bell canada as an example put out an iptv offering that was
n effect the same as a 25/7megabit un limited account for tv
only however and it went for 9.99 and they showed quite some
profit....

texting costs 10 million times that....
WHOSE the bonehead for using any texting me that doesn't do
it except via on line chatting OR YOU for buying not the
propoganda of media companies..

P.S. our dollar is literally above yours at the time of that
offering buy as much as 10 cents so do your math ( ranked 32
americans)

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RIP Andre Hedrick: The engineer who kept the PC open
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 26 2012 @ 11:43 AM EDT
Kernel expert stood up to mandatory hard disk DRM

Obit Andre Hedrick, a principal engineer and operating system architect at Cisco Systems and a Linux kernel contributor, has died. He leaves behind a wife, four young children and many friends.

Andre made a significant contribution to personal computing history in a way few people fully realise.

[...]

It was his human ability to pursue a workable compromise that most impressed me, and really ensured that the personal computer remains an open system - a marked contrast to today's dogmatic and self-aggrandising copyfighters, who shun consensus and rational settlements, preferring both the limelight and the dubious glory of defeat. If Andre had adopted such a strategy, personal computing history would probably be very different.

Andrew Orlowski, The Register

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Gnet - $70/month for Gigabit service
Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Thursday, July 26 2012 @ 01:08 PM EDT
Or free slow broadband Internet after $300 install fee.

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