Authored by: N_au on Friday, September 14 2012 @ 08:20 AM EDT |
This is hilarious how the apple fanboys just follow blindly when told something
is new.
jimmy kimmel live show
Originally found it on an Australian news
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, September 14 2012 @ 09:01 AM EDT |
http://www.digitopoly.org/2012/09/13/piracy-harm/
"Applying this
standard to the academic literature on
piracy
one finds paper after paper
examining different datasets
from
different industries in different timeframes
all reaching
the
same conclusion: piracy harms sales." [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, September 14 2012 @ 06:06 PM EDT |
Judge Michael Davis in his decision:
For more
than forty years, the United States courts have recognized that students do not
check their First Amendment rights at the schoolhouse
door.
"Safety" does not trump rights, just as surely as
"policy" does not trump (or at least, shouldn't) trump common sense and
proportionate responses.
Tim
Cushing, Techdirt[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, September 14 2012 @ 06:25 PM EDT |
The story of the Acer phone that got stomped on is making sense after reading
arstechnica's analysis. - Android is free,
anyone can run it, many do, there is no requirement
to engage with Google;
- Aliyun is a fork of Android, it appears that Alibaba
expects(requires?) vendors to ally with its services;
- Some Android
vendors are Google "partners" and receive preferential treatment in source code
releases and development support, and carry Google branding.
Acer
seems to be in this third category. These vendors take out a license from Google
to enable them to
include the "Play Store" in their base install. Don't ask me
why, because any Android device user can browse
to play.google.com, download
and install the Play Store app. This third group of vendors seem also to be
expected not to sell devices running Google's competitors' services. i.e.
there's nothing wrong with
Aliyun the OS, but Google objects to the tie-in that
takes Aliyun users to Alibaba's search, ads, and cloud
services. Acer could
continue to sell devices running both Aliyun and Android but would lose Most
Favored
Nation status with Google.
Huawei are also in this third
category, carrying Google branded phones with the full suite of Google apps and
services.
Huawei also sell identical hardware with the same version of Android
stripped of all Google apps and services, but the
suite of chinese apps
installed has no ties that I have found to Alibaba. Users must install those
themselves. AFAICT
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Authored by: nsomos on Friday, September 14 2012 @ 10:34 PM EDT |
"One of the country's oldest lawsuits may finally be at the end of the line
after 43 years.
A federal judge awarded $14.7 million last month to a group of Cleveland
railroad workers in a dispute over benefits."
http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2012/09/judge_rules_in_43-year-old_civ.
html
Might be ... but don't count on it
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Authored by: Gringo_ on Friday, September 14 2012 @ 10:54 PM EDT |
Deploying 10,000 tiny antennas makes no
technical sense—but the
law demands it.
An in depth look at engineering your way
around convoluted
copyright law: Arstechnica. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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