Authored by: Wol on Wednesday, August 29 2012 @ 06:44 PM EDT |
Just watching the opening ceremony of the Paralympic games - currently about
Newton and gravity.
Cheers,
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- Apples everywhere - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, August 29 2012 @ 07:03 PM EDT
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, August 29 2012 @ 07:29 PM EDT |
Apple's tantrum at last year's IFA has got everybody twitchy...
SF Gate
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, August 29 2012 @ 07:35 PM EDT |
NZ Herald
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Authored by: SilverWave on Wednesday, August 29 2012 @ 07:39 PM EDT |
My sister has a new Samsung Galaxcy III and I needed to research how to move
Authenticator over to it from her old phone... thought it may be useful info so
the quick instructions are below and there are details and screen shots on my
blog:
Google Authenticator and a New Phone – Changing
Devices.
Under Security, click on Edit in 2-step
verification.
Under How to receive codes and Mobile application, click on
Remove/Replace and follow the instructions.
You will be issued with a
new QR code and the sequence for the verification code will be reset. Your
Application-specific passwords (if any) will remain unchanged.Remove/Replace and
follow the instructions.
Via theverge.com--- 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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Authored by: calris74 on Wednesday, August 29 2012 @ 11:19 PM EDT |
One problem that has been highlighted in the Samsung/Apple
saga is how patents make it through the application process
and get approved despite the existence of prior art. Here's
a novel approach to solve that problem:
- When applying for a patent, the applicant provides a
'Prior Art Bond' - Let's say that it is set at $100k
- When reviewing a patent, the patent office conducts an
extensive prior art search
- If prior art is found by the patent office, the applicant
is informed and given two options:
- Withdraw the patent and get a percentage of the bond
refunded
- Argue the legitimacy of the prior art found by the
patent office. If the argument fails, none of the bond is
refunded
- If no prior art is found (or any that is found is
successfully argued to be invalid), 100% of the bond is
returned
- When the patent office reviews the performance of it's
examiners, they can look at the amount of prior art that the
examiner has uncovered and how many patent applications got
rejected because of that prior art (i.e. how many times that
examiner raised $100k in revenue for the patent office)
- The prior art searches could even be subcontracted out
- Any patent application that fails the prior art test goes
on public record and, thus, becomes prior art itself
One big problem I forsee is the cost to backyard inventors
that don't have the resources to front-up a $100k bond -
haven't figured out how to deal with that...[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, August 30 2012 @ 12:09 AM EDT |
Mikko Hypponen of f-secure gives the keynote at Hack in Paris
and says a few
other things about cyber-security: Youtube
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Authored by: UncleVom on Thursday, August 30 2012 @ 07:41 AM EDT |
htc_ready_to_fight_apple
Maybe not so clear
sailing for the purveyor of bitten fruit [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Gringo_ on Thursday, August 30 2012 @ 10:52 AM EDT |
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols at ZDNet reports that
for the first time, Google has
revealed some details about
its desktop of choice:
Ubuntu...
Goobuntu is simply a light skin over standard
Ubuntu. In
particular, Google uses the latest long term support (LTS)
of
Ubuntu. That means that if you download a copy of the
latest version of Ubuntu,
12.04.1, you will, for most
practical purposes, be running
Goobuntu.
Goobuntu use is encouraged and "All our development tools
are
for Ubuntu." Googlers must ask to use Windows because
"Windows is harder
because it has 'special' security
problems so it requires high-level permission
before someone
can use it." In addition, "Windows tools tend to be heavy
and
inflexible."
Google doesn't just use Ubuntu and contribute to its
development, Google is a paying customer for Canonical's
Ubuntu Advantage
support program.
"Our desktop users are all over the map when it comes
to
their interfaces. Some use GNOME, some use KDE, some use X-
Window and
X-Terms. Some want Unity because it reminds them
of the Mac. We see Mac lovers
moving to Unity." There is no
default Goobuntu interface.
There are
"tens-of-thousands of Goobuntu users. This
includes graphic designers,
engineers, management, and sales
people. It's a very diverse
community".
Put it all together: the need for top-of-the-line
security,
high-end PC performance, and the flexibility to
meet the desktop needs of both
genius developers and newly-
hired sales representatives, and it's no wonder
that Google
uses Ubuntu for its desktop operating system of choice. To
quote,
Bushnell, "You'd be a fool to use anything but
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, August 30 2012 @ 11:31 AM EDT |
As we have seen in the failed attempts of SOPA/PIPA, and
the floundering Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement,
intellectual property (“IP”) laws are often poorly constructed, hastily proposed
and ultimately both ineffective and potentially abusive.
Now, the latest
threat to free speech in guise of IP reform is a multilateral trade agreement
currently being negotiated (in secret) by the Office of the United States Trade Representative
(“USTR”). That agreement—the Trans-Pacific Partnership, or “TPP”—would
reportedly include dramatic changes to intellectual property laws, changes that
could potentially permit the patenting to plants, animals, and medical
procedures.
And, while some of the proposed changes run contrary to
enacted federal law, the USTR is not only pushing for TPP, it is doing its best
to avoid congressional oversight.
Sandra Fulton, ACLU[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, August 30 2012 @ 11:49 AM EDT |
Has anyone looked at jury foreman's software patent, to see if it has
"prior art" exposure?
If someone has examined the software patent, then please provide a link to the
patent, and explain how it could be challenged by prior art, etc?[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: BJ on Thursday, August 30 2012 @ 04:20 PM EDT |
Story here.
bjd
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Authored by: calris74 on Thursday, August 30 2012 @ 07:12 PM EDT |
The design of the iPhone / iPad casing is an artistic
expression.
Imagine design patents / trade dress were applied to the
following:
- Art Deco
- Impressionism Art
- Surrealism Art
- Psychedelic Music
- Electronic Music
- Dub Step Music
- Trance Music
- Blues Music
- Rock Music
- Heavy Metal[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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- Oh yes! - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, August 30 2012 @ 10:37 PM EDT
- Oh No! - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, August 31 2012 @ 08:49 AM EDT
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, August 30 2012 @ 09:16 PM EDT |
The Verge has a clarifying story:
Link [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, August 30 2012 @ 11:21 PM EDT |
Doesn't Samsung have a lot of LTE patents? Are they waiting to see if iPhone 5
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, August 31 2012 @ 01:18 AM EDT |
Quebec police are on the hunt for a sticky-fingered thief
after millions of dollars of maple syrup vanished from a
Quebec warehouse.
The theft was discovered during a routine inventory check
last week at the St-Louis-de-Blandford warehouse, where the
syrup is being held temporarily. The Federation of Quebec
Maple Syrup Producers, which is responsible for the global
strategic maple syrup reserve [Quebec produces between 70
and 80 per cent of the world’s maple syrup], initially kept
the news quiet, hoping it would help police solve the crime
quickly.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/article4510740.
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Authored by: eamacnaghten on Friday, August 31 2012 @ 04:05 AM EDT |
Sorry if this has been posted before. On the BBC:
Jury
foreman justifies
$1bn verdict [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Gringo_ on Friday, August 31 2012 @ 12:30 PM EDT |
Nokia's Day of Reckoning is fast upon us. Their big
launch of the new
Windows 8 phones is just 5 days away. I
predict all smoke and no fire, as
Microsoft ramps up the
campaign with the media it controls. We will hear all
kinds
of wonderful news about how the new Nokias are taking the
world by
storm, maybe in far off places where we can't
easily verify, but in the end
when the smoke clears, the
statistics will show flat, uninspired
sales.
I make that prediction without even having seen their
latest
phones, because whatever they are, they run an
unlovely OS, and they are too
late. People have already
invested in apps and content for their iPhones and
Androids.
They are not going to switch now.
Below I paste quotes from
the Reuter's story in a
shameless mashup that tells the story I
want to tell
instead...
Nokia is expected to launch two new
Lumia
phones on September 5, on the same day that phone maker
Motorola, now
owned by Google, also unveils a new product.
It kicks off a busy
fortnight for mobile devices, with
Amazon.com Inc expected to introduce new
Kindle tablets on
September 6. Apple is seen unveiling the newest iPhone on
September 12.
Windows phones have only captured 3.7 percent of the
global smartphone market, according to Strategy Analytics.
Android phones have
68 percent, while Apple has 17 percent.
If the new Lumia phones do not
appeal to consumers when
they are unveiled next Wednesday, it could mean the
end for
Nokia, and a serious blow to Microsoft's attempts to regain
its
footing in the mobile market, analysts and investors
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, August 31 2012 @ 06:25 PM EDT |
The "hot yoga" kingpin isn't in the yoga business or the money
business, he's in the empire business, and he's suing his former apprentice and
right-hand-dude Greg Gumucio for intellectual property infringement.
But
now, the US Copyright office says it may have issued all protection related to
yoga sequences in error, including the one Choudhury's suing over.
Random tech world connection: Choudhury was introduced to his now-nemesis by
John McAfee, the software billionaire turned yoga teacher.
Xeni
Jardin, Boing Boing[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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