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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, August 10 2012 @ 06:16 PM EDT |
It'll start generally downranking sites that receive a high volume
of copyright infringement notices from copyright holders.
Google says the
move is designed to "help users find legitimate, quality sources of content more
easily" — meaning that it's trying to direct people who search for movies, TV
shows, and music to sites like Hulu and Spotify, not torrent sites or data
lockers like the infamous MegaUpload.
It's a clear concession to the movie
and music industries.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, August 11 2012 @ 03:25 PM EDT |
I like learning about odd connections between disparate things. This
probably is the oddest example that I know.
Broadly speaking, mathematicians
can be divided into those who like analysis, and those who like algebra. The
distinction between the two types runs throughout math. Even those who work in
areas that are far from analysis or algebra are very aware of the difference
between them, and usually are very clear on which their preference is. I'll
delve into this in more depth soon, but for now let's just take it for granted
that this is a well-known distinction, and it has meaning for
mathematicians.
Back when I was in grad school there was a department lunch
with corn on the cob. Partway through the meal one of the analysts looked around
the room and remarked, "That's odd, all of the analysts are eating corn one
way and the algebraists are eating corn another!" Everyone looked around. In
fact everyone was eating the corn in one of two ways. One way was to munch over
the length of the corn in a straight line, back up, turn slightly, and do
another row across. Kind of like how an old typewriter goes. The other way was
to go around in a spiral. All of the analysts were eating in spirals, and the
algebraists in rows.
There were a number of mathematicians present whose
fields of study didn't make it clear whether they were on the analysis or
algebra side of things. We went around and asked, and in every case the way they
ate corn matched their preference.
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Authored by: celtic_hackr on Saturday, August 11 2012 @ 07:57 PM EDT |
I'm sorry, but Apple has gone bye-bye. The patent system is completely
inadequate to handle approving software patents EVEN if you buy the mistaken
idea that software should be patentable.
Here's the ultimate
proof:
Apple has a patent on an object-oriented multitasking Operating
system, filed in 1993. I'm sorry, but they are about 30 years too late for that
one. LISP was the first OO OS. It was definitely multitasking by the
1980s.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, August 11 2012 @ 08:50 PM EDT |
Spy vs. Spy,
f-secure ,
wired.com
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