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Calif Prop 8 judge: Moving the Strike Zone | 481 comments | Create New Account
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Calif Prop 8 judge: Moving the Strike Zone
Authored by: YurtGuppy on Tuesday, August 28 2012 @ 12:23 PM EDT
Retired judge Vaughn Walker paper: "Moving the Strike Zone: How Judges
Sometimes Make Law"

http://illinoislawreview.org/wp-content/ilr-content/articles/2012/4/Walker.pdf

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a small fish in an even smaller pond

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Perfect window for Jolla to introduce MeeGo phones
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, August 28 2012 @ 01:43 PM EDT
This mess won't be over by Christmas. I hope Jolla keeps it's promises. Anyway I
can wait for half a year and believe those who doubt Android or despise Apple
after this farce can wait too.

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Use 3 fingers to pinch/zoom
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, August 28 2012 @ 01:47 PM EDT
<sarcasm> or maybe not, depends if I can patent the 3, 4 and 5 finger
combinations to cover all the possibilities.

If the patent explicitly says "2 fingers" then it doesn't cover more
than that.

And, is a thumb a finger? Maybe a specialized, opposing finger, but could the
patent be considered as meaning two of the four fingers and not the thumb?
Time to patent the use of 1 thumb and 1 finger <grin>.

</sarcasm> off now (or maybe not...

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Java 0-day not just Windows, cross-platform
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, August 28 2012 @ 05:48 PM EDT
isc.sans.edu

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Helferich Patent Licensing
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, August 28 2012 @ 07:20 PM EDT
The Noise:Signal ratio has been so high lately a lot of nonsense is slipping thru the filters. e.g. embedding an html link in a TXT message belongs to a troll. Or so he thinks. The New York Times is leading the fight to prove him wrong.

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Status Symbol
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, August 28 2012 @ 11:08 PM EDT
Apple products have become status symbols especially in emerging markets such as India and China.
A lot of money has been made in China and India very quickly. These newly rich Chinese and Indians are no different than the newly rich in the western world.
The newly rich feel insecure or feel the need to display the fact that they have arrived. One of the means in China to fulfill this need is buying Apple products.
The difference from the western world is that in China and India there are a lot more newly rich than in the western world.
This verdict strengthens Appleā€™s brand image.
Why I Think Apple's $1 Billion Jury Award May Really Be Worth $450 Billion forbes.com

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Dotcom Finds Petty Cash
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, August 29 2012 @ 01:34 AM EDT
NZ Herald

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Hearing Dates
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, August 29 2012 @ 05:42 AM EDT
BBC stating that Samsung's motion will be considered next month and Apple's
injunction request will be heard in December.

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Finance analysis of jury's decision
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, August 29 2012 @ 08:22 AM EDT
Not good for Apple

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The History of the Floppy Disk
Authored by: Gringo_ on Wednesday, August 29 2012 @ 08:49 AM EDT

When is the last time you even remember using a floppy disk? Technology moves so fast, we have already forgotten about them. Let us take a moment to remember...

It was the floppy disk that turned microcomputers into personal computers. The floppy disk seems so simple now, but it changed everything.

Perhaps the greatest impact of the floppy wasn't on individuals, but on the nature and structure of the IT industry. Up until the late 1970s, most software applications for tasks such as word processing and accounting were written by the personal computer owners themselves. But thanks to the floppy, companies could write programs, put them on the disks, and sell them through the mail or in stores. 'It made it possible to have a software industry'

Today, you can still buy new 1.44MB floppy drives and floppy disks but, as they disappear even from memory, we should strive to remember just how vitally important floppy disks were in their day. Without them, our current computer world simply could not exist. Before the Internet was open to the public, it was floppy disks that let us create and trade programs and files. They really were what put the personal in "personal computing."

My first computer technology class had a CP/M server with an old Winchester drive that sat in the corner. It connected to individual Z80 powered terminals. We used 8" floppies to back up our work. I still have one today, and on it sits my first program, written in Z80 assembler. However, of course I have no way to read that disk, even if the data is still viable after all these years.

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Juror Using iPhone To Look Up Definition Of 'Prudence' Leads To Mistrial
Authored by: jsoulejr on Wednesday, August 29 2012 @ 10:27 AM EDT
article Not really off topic. Wouldn't what the jury foreman did be like bringing a dictionary to the jury room? It's a big NO NO.

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