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Steganography - Blizzard is secretly watermarking WOW screenshots
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, September 11 2012 @ 01:44 PM EDT
The secret watermark which is being intentionally embedded inside WoW generated screenshots below top quality, DOES NOT CONTAIN the account password, the IP address of the user or any personal information like name/surname etc.

It does contain the account ID, a timestamp and the IP address of the current realm. It can be used by hackers to link alt. characters to accounts and target specific spam or scam attacks, and it can be used by Blizzard to track down private WoW servers.

http://www.ownedcore.com/forums/world-of-warcraft/world-of-warcraft-general/3755 73-looking-inside-your-screenshots.html

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Former Apple exec: ‘Apple haven’t invented anything’
Authored by: feldegast on Tuesday, September 11 2012 @ 01:50 PM EDT
http://www.bgr.com/2012/09/11/apple-criticism-ipad-iphone-
gassee/

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IANAL
My posts are ©2004-2012 and released under the Creative Commons License
Attribution-Noncommercial 2.0
P.J. has permission for commercial use.

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Samsung will seek to ban Apple's Iphone 5
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, September 11 2012 @ 01:53 PM EDT
Mean while, in unrelated news:
KOREAN PHONE GIANT Samsung is reportedly planning to sue Apple for infringing its 4G LTE patents in the Iphone 5, which could see the smartphone banned in several countries.

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Google Glass moves beyond photography: details on heads-up display emerge
Authored by: SilverWave on Tuesday, September 11 2012 @ 02:56 PM EDT
Google Glass moves beyond photography: details on heads-up display emerge

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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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BBC Reith Lectures
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, September 11 2012 @ 03:54 PM EDT
I've just caught up with the 2012 series by economic historian
Professor Niall Ferguson, titled "The Rule of Law and Its Enemies"
Highly recommended.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/reith

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IETF standardizes the Opus audio codec as RFC 6716
Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Tuesday, September 11 2012 @ 07:30 PM EDT
Link

Mozilla and the Xiph.Org Foundation are pleased to announce the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has standardized Opus as RFC 6716. Opus is the first state-of-the-art, fully Free and Open audio codec ratified by a major standards organization.

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You are being MICROattacked, from various angles, in a SOFT manner.

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GOOG: We Didn't Know You Could Patent Round Corners
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, September 11 2012 @ 08:44 PM EDT
Google appears to have been blindsided by the fact that Apple won its lawsuit against Samsung.

In an interview with Bloomberg TV, David Lawee, VP of corporate development, says, "We didn't believe rounded corners were patentable."

He's taking a small swipe at Apple, but he's also talking about Google's failings.

Jay Yarow, Business Insider

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  • Hmmm a warning? - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, September 12 2012 @ 01:34 PM EDT
Thank you thread - 9/11 and beyond
Authored by: myNym on Tuesday, September 11 2012 @ 10:38 PM EDT
Thank you PJ for your tireless elucidations of the
subtleties of law, and for your continued fight against the
paid trolls, fuddites, flamers, and shills.

Thank you Firefighters, of the type of courageousness,
selflessness, and strength of will that, of your own
volition, walked _up_ into the World Trade Centers on
9/11/2001. And for those who paid the ultimate price on
that day, thank you to their survived-bys, for _your_
ultimate price paid.

Thank you to all of the rescue workers and news-bringers for
bringing help to, and news from, that horrific event.

Thank you to the soldiers, families of, survivors of, ad
infinitum, for the continued sacrifices to keep the enemies
of free will at bay.

Words cannot encompass what I want to say, but this is a
start.

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Hot Rods and Kustom Kars are part of America's soul - alas, no more
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, September 12 2012 @ 12:42 AM EDT
It seems that the Italian overlords are holding their little black boxes tight.
A petition has been started to free the hostages.
MOPAR drivers are a proud bunch. Since the 50's we have prided ourselves on driving the best performing cars available from Detroit.

That all came to a screeching halt with the release of the 2011 model year MOPARs. The use of military grade 128 bit rolling code encryption on the ECUs has essentially neutered the MOPAR world. Now we are stuck with the horsepower the Chrysler engineers deemed sufficient.

We are now embarrassed on a daily basis by Ford and GM drivers who have access to handheld tuners. It is absolutely pathetic that we have the best looking muscle cars on the road, but we aren't allowed to make the performance match the style. When a guy with a base Mustang GT can embarrass a Challenger SRT/8 simply by throwing a few hundred worth of performance parts on it and tuning using a handheld tuner, there is a problem. We MOPAR fans are a loyal bunch, but if we keep getting told we can't tune our cars, we may not remain loyal for long.

So please, release the codes to the aftermarket tuning companies so we can continue the tradition of MOPAR dominance on the street.

http://www.change.org/petitions/ralph-gilles-president-srt-division-chrysler-llc -allow-tuning-on-2011-mopars#

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Florian Sighting
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, September 12 2012 @ 02:37 AM EDT
I got him to address some criticisms. See the comments. Pretty sure this is the

real guy this is the real guy, because the author of the article is completely
annoyed with me for continually questioning Florian's appropriateness as a
source for anything ;-).

http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/apple-galaxy-tab-10.1-prelim-
injunction-must-remain/?cachebuster=50502944bb873

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Google: 500 million Android devices activated globally
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, September 12 2012 @ 06:04 AM EDT
Google: 500 million Android devices activated globally

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September 12, 1962 - "We choose to go to the moon."
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, September 12 2012 @ 10:49 AM EDT
We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.
President John F. Kennedy

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