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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, September 06 2012 @ 09:29 PM EDT |
Michael Anti, TED Talk via
Youtube
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| Authored by: SilverWave on Thursday, September 06 2012 @ 09:34 PM EDT |
| Where oh where is Windows Phone 8? The hardware appears to be ready. What's
going on with the software? ---
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: Anonymous on Thursday, September 06 2012 @ 10:44 PM EDT |
| Enter Goophone I5, Looking a Lot Like Apple’s iPhone
5
Ever hear of the Goophone I5? Apparently a Chinese company is
manufacturing an Android phone that looks a lot like people think the iPhone 5
will look like. They were awarded a patent in China and may sue when Apple
introduces the iPhone 5.
What will be Apple's defense? Prior art?
According to a certain jury foreman that can only be applicable if the software
is interchangeable.
This is really getting insane, but the late Jobs and
Apple brought it on themselves.
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| Authored by: Tufty on Friday, September 07 2012 @ 12:53 AM EDT |
Was at the vet's today. His computer turned up its diodes and is off for repair.
He can't run his patient database on another machine and was complaining about
the cost of repair. I talked to him about Linux and how free and open it was, no
need to rebuy software for a replacement machine. He liked the idea. Anyone
suggest a good live CD to drop off for his line of work?
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, September 07 2012 @ 03:23 AM EDT |
The year 2008 marks the 10th Anniversary of the
iMac, the computer
that changed everything at Apple, hailing
a new design era spearheaded by
design genius Jonathan Ive.
What most people don't know is that there's another
man
whose products are at the heart of Ive's design philosophy,
an influence
that permeates every single product at Apple,
from hardware to user-interface
design.
That man is Dieter Rams, and his old designs for Braun
during the
'50s and '60s hold all the clues not only for
past and present Apple products,
but their future as well:
When you look at the Braun products by Dieter
Rams—many of
them at New York's MoMA—and compare them to Ive's work at
Apple,
you can clearly see the similarities in their
philosophies way beyond the
sparse use of color, the
selection of materials and how the products are shaped
around the function with no artificial design, keeping the
design
"honest."
Jesus Diaz, Gizmodo
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, September 07 2012 @ 05:07 AM EDT |
| "A newly-granted Google patent on Dynamic Pricing of
Electronic Content
describes how information gleaned from
your search history and social
networking activity can be
used against you by providing tell-tale clues for
your
propensity to pay jacked-up prices to 'reconsume' electronic
content,
such as 'watching a video recording, reading an
electronic book, playing a
game, or listening to an audio
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| Authored by: David Gerard on Friday, September 07 2012 @ 08:54 AM EDT |
| Internet Brands is the company that bought Wikitravel.org and proceeded to
neglect it utterly (except the ad-serving bits). When the community decided to
get up and leave, forking it under CC by-sa and starting work again on a
Wikimedia-hosted version, IB responded by suing two of the (unpaid, volunteer) contributors for
conspiracy to damage their brand (i.e., telling people they were forking and
suggesting they come along). The suit itself is approximately nuts.
The Wikimedia Foundation
has asked for
declaratory judgement that you can in fact fork free content, which
is pretty much essential to freedom of content and software. The Wikimedia legal brief is a cracking good read, in the
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| Authored by: IMANAL_TOO on Friday, September 07 2012 @ 10:27 AM EDT |
Are Mac users more like cattle than both Linux and Windows users?
A decade ago and more, the typical Mac user was an illustrator, an architect or
a hairdresser.
Anyone arguing for Mac would talk about its simplicity, ease of use, viral
immunity, or its aesthetics. They claimed Windows is bad because it is so hard
to use, etc. It is my impression this has changed somewhat with the masses from
iPhone tuning in, but the archetypes are still around.
I have to admit it, I have become a Mac user. It was force fed to me by my
pointy haired boss since a week... It is the first time in perhaps fifteen years
that I use a Mac, a MacBook Air.
Yes, it is fairly easy to use, yes they are good looking, but not more so than
Linux or Windows boxes. So, what is the fuzz about Macs? Beats me. I have no
idea.
The one thing that strikes me is the moving of icons. You install a program by
moving icons. Huh? Yes, I'm not kidding. But, if I fill up one harddisk and need
to install a program on another device? I have no idea, yet.
Has this week been worth it? Hmmm... I wash my hands after using it, so I don't
infect other machines, with Windows or my beloved Debian; there are Mac virus
roaming the cyberspace, I've heard. Do I feel like a cow or a bull? Right now my
empty eyes stare at wall as any righteous cattle would do.
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IMANAL
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, September 07 2012 @ 06:14 PM EDT |
"A rare, hereditary form of autism has been found — and
it may be treatable
with protein supplements. Genome
sequencing of six children with autism has
revealed
mutations in a gene that stops several essential amino acids
being
depleted.
Mice lacking this gene developed neurological problems
related to autism that were reversed by dietary changes
(abstract). According
to Joseph Gleeson, a child neurologist
at the University of California, San
Diego, who led the
study,
'This might represent the first
treatable form of
autism.' It is possible that some other forms of autism may
also be linked to uncommon metabolic disorders — and so
treatable through
dietary changes, according to the
scientists quoted in the piece". link[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, September 07 2012 @ 06:22 PM EDT |
Dear Wikipedia,
'I am Philip Roth. I had reason recently to read for
the
first time the Wikipedia entry discussing my novel
“The Human
Stain”. The entry contains
a serious misstatement that I would
like to ask to have
removed. This item entered Wikipedia not from the world of
truthfulness but from the babble of literary gossip—there is
no truth in it at
all'. link[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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- Great example - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, September 07 2012 @ 08:16 PM EDT
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, September 07 2012 @ 07:01 PM EDT |
A federal judge in Illinois has ruled that intercepting traffic on
unencrypted WiFi networks is not wiretapping.
The decision runs counter to a
2011 decision that suggested Google may have violated the law when its Street
View cars intercepted fragments of traffic from open WiFi networks around the
country.
The ruling is a preliminary step in a larger patent trolling case.
A company called Innovatio IP Ventures has accused various "hotels, coffee
shops, restaurants, supermarkets," and other businesses that offer WiFi service
to the public of infringing 17 of its patents. Innovatio wanted to use packet
sniffing gear to gather WiFi traffic for use as evidence in the case. It planned
to immediately delete the contents of the packets, only keeping the headers.
Still, the firm was concerned that doing so might violate federal privacy laws,
so it sought a preliminary ruling on the question.
Federal law makes it
illegal to intercept electronic communications, but it includes an important
exception.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, September 08 2012 @ 12:12 AM EDT |
Fluent German, clean security record,
software
developer
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, September 08 2012 @ 01:42 AM EDT |
How Astronauts Used a Toothbrush to Fix Space
Station
Decades after Apollo 13, NASA engineers and
astronauts
can still improvise solutions for sticky situations in
space
Denise Chow,
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| Authored by: knarf on Saturday, September 08 2012 @ 07:03 AM EDT |
| Who should be suing Apple now? AT&T 'invented' the grid of icons on a
mobile device in 2002.
Well, invented... it might just have something to do
with the width of a finger vs. the width of the screen but let such simple facts
not stand in the way of a $billion dollar claim...
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[ "Omnis
enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur
et non datur, nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est." ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, September 08 2012 @ 10:41 AM EDT |
“I don’t think we should have a fraction of the drug laws that we
have. I think it’s really absurd to be criminalizing possession or use or
distribution of marijuana,” he said. “I can’t see any difference between that
and cigarettes.”
[..]
“But also I’m skeptical about the other drug
laws,” Judge Posner added. “The notion of using the criminal law as the primary
means of dealing with a problem of addiction, of misuse, of ingesting dangerous
drugs — I don’t think that’s sensible at all.”
He said drug laws are
“responsible for a high percentage of our prisoners. And these punishments are
often very, very severe. It’s all very expensive.” Judge Posner has po
inted out that legalizing marijuana and other drugs would save federal,
state and local governments $41.3 billion per year.
He said drug laws
are, “…a waste of a lot of high quality legal minds, and it’s also a waste of
people’s lives who could be as least moderately productive with having to spend
year after year in prison. That is a serious problem.”
The entire speech
can be found on YouTube.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, September 08 2012 @ 11:19 AM EDT |
| Microsoft: 'Update your security certs this month – or else'
...Applications and ActiveX controls that were signed with less than 1024
bit signatures may not install correctly, either, among other potential
problems....
So, you won't be able to install your old copy of Office 2007 or
Office 2003 if you upgrade your system. You have to also buy an office upgrade.
Now your documents are incompatible with the people you share with so everyone
else has to upgrade to.
They say with a straight face that they are doing this
in the name of security. Why didn't they do this a year ago or two years ago?
Why now when they have to push another unpopular OS onto the public? Have they
no shame at all?
They are deliberately breaking your systems to compel you to
upgrade all in the name of protecting you. Sounds like a protection racket to
me.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, September 08 2012 @ 11:20 AM EDT |
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, September 09 2012 @ 08:49 PM EDT |
Hi all,
In a lot of these patent and copyright cases regarding open source, it seems
like judges routinely slap lawyers hands for overstepping.
The extent of my knowledge of law is a bunch of hours at oyez listening to
supreme court cases, and I don't recall lawyers being admonished nearly as much
as seems to happen in these cases.
So my question, posed to those with court room experience, is this -- How common
is it for judges to admonish lawyers like this?
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