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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, September 18 2012 @ 10:09 AM EDT |
Wasn't "Through the Looking Glass" the sequel to "Alice in
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, September 18 2012 @ 10:23 AM EDT |
Posner believes judging, especially at the Supreme Court level, is
about values and discretion, he urges the Court to defer to the elected branches
absent a clear conflict between a law and constitutional text. Scalia does not
apply such deference, though he often claims he does.
Eric Segall, Huffington Post [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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- my translation - Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, September 18 2012 @ 10:59 AM EDT
- News flash - Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, September 18 2012 @ 07:46 PM EDT
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, September 18 2012 @ 10:33 AM EDT |
SourceForge is an online place for technology professionals and fans
to develop, download, review and publish open source software. About 80 percent
of its about 40 million monthly unique visitors are outside the U.S.
The
acquisition also includes Freecode, one of the largest indexes of Linux, Unix
and cross-platform software, as well as mobile applications, and generates
nearly 500,000 unique visitors each month.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/dice-holdings-buys-geeknet-websites-125531940.html
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| Authored by: SilverWave on Tuesday, September 18 2012 @ 01:56 PM EDT |
Pocket for Android update adds text-to-speech feature.
Very very cool
feature :-)
This will help me keep up with the latest science stories
from
here:
http://news.softpedia.com/newsRSS/Science-2.xml
"Ppcket"
the article from Firefox address bar then have my Samsung Note read them out to
me on the way to work :-D
Super Cool :-)
And wow is Googles,
Text to Speech app, good or what!?! ---
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: feldegast on Tuesday, September 18 2012 @ 02:36 PM EDT |
This is wrong!
http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/18/patent-complaint-filed-
a
gainst-rackspace-for-hosting-github/ ---
IANAL
My posts are ©2004-2012 and released under the Creative Commons License
Attribution-Noncommercial 2.0
P.J. has permission for commercial use. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, September 18 2012 @ 03:19 PM EDT |
use IE 7, 8, or 9. There's just too many undiscovered holes.
isc.sans.edu
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, September 18 2012 @ 05:14 PM EDT |
Apple recently stopped apps thru its AppStore from using the device IMEI as an
identifier. No problem said the
Whatsapp people, we'll just use the MAC address, twice to pad out the string , MD5 and
no salt please. This is a follow on from
last week's discovery that the Android
version of Whatsapp just uses the IMEI, MD5
with the same dietary salt restriction
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, September 18 2012 @ 05:19 PM EDT |
/. is reporting that Win 8 pricing is waaay out of line, noting that an Android
machine with better specs and performance is $200 less.
Elop is probably already planning his move back to Redmond.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, September 18 2012 @ 07:40 PM EDT |
c/net: German government tells public to stop
using
Internet Explorer
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-57515312-75/german-
government-tells-publ
ic-to-stop-using-internet-explorer/[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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- IE user share: 33% - Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, September 18 2012 @ 10:34 PM EDT
- IE user share: 33% - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, September 19 2012 @ 04:02 AM EDT
- Safe behind bars - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, September 19 2012 @ 10:33 AM EDT
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, September 19 2012 @ 12:48 AM EDT |
Free Press, Public Knowledge, and the New America Foundation's Open
Technology Institute have announced plans to file a formal complaint with the
FCC over AT&T's decision to block FaceTime for some
customers.
[...]
AT&T's initial response to the claims was
unapologetic and confident: the company said that advocacy groups "rushed to
judgement" regarding possible infringement of the FCC's rules, and boasted that
"customers will continue to be able to use FaceTime over Wi-FI irrespective of
the data plan they choose." AT&T went further, suggesting that net
neutrality rules only apply to downloaded apps, and that "the rules do not
require that providers make available any preloaded apps."
T.C. Sottek, The Verge[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, September 19 2012 @ 05:11 AM EDT |
Let's see what is going to happen. Bloomberg reports too:
Due to an european antitrust decision (and for not obeying
an order to share data and allow a choice of the browser)
Microsoft has already been fined with a 1.680.000.000 euros
penalty.
MS declared in december 2011 to fully comply with the orders
set by EU regulators.
Nevertheless in July 2012 MS had to admit that the browser
choice in Windows was not available as demanded due to an
'technical error'. Hmmm.
The whistles are blown, the field is sprangled with yellow
flags and we're waiting for the call on this play. Referee
in this game is the European Commission. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, September 19 2012 @ 09:04 AM EDT |
For the past 15 months, p0rn firms have been using an archaic
Sunshine State legal maneuver called a "pure bill of discovery" to obtain the
names, addresses, and phone numbers of illegal downloaders across the
nation.
The law traces back to 15th-century England, when barristers
ambushed one another with evidence in court. Bills of discovery were a step
toward order and transparency. The Florida Supreme Court upheld the local
version of this measure in 1882.
[...]
Since June 2011, he [attorney
Keith Lipscomb] has filed pure bills of discovery against as many as 7,500
people. He is able to obtain names and numbers for only roughly half of them, he
admits. But an average Malibu Media settlement weighs in at a hefty $7,500.
At that rate, if even half of the people named end up settling, Lipscomb will
have made $14 million for his clients in just 15 months.
Michael E. Miller, Miami New Times[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, September 19 2012 @ 10:28 AM EDT |
| Reviewed by Jeffrey Rosen - a law professor at George Washington University and
the legal affairs editor of the New Republic. He is a co-editor, with Benjamin
Wittes, of “Constitution 3.0: Freedom and Technological Change.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/the-oath-the-obama-white-house
-and-the-supreme-court-by-jeffrey-toobin/2012/09/14/ff9d4c54-fb56-11e1-8adc-4996
61afe377_print.html “One believed in change; the other in
stability; one looked forward; the other harkened back.” Then the punch line:
Contrary to expectations, Toobin suggests, “it was John Roberts who wanted to
use his position as chief justice as an apostle of change” and Obama who was the
constitutional conservative.
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| Authored by: JamesK on Wednesday, September 19 2012 @ 11:38 AM EDT |
| The Joy of
Tech ;-) ---
The following program contains immature subject matter.
Viewer discretion is advised. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, September 19 2012 @ 12:07 PM EDT |
The Raspberry Pi sparked a bi-weekly embedded interest
group at my hackerspace in Chicago, Pumping Station: One. At our last meeting, Eric Stein presented how
he and the other members of our hackerspace brew brewing
group have used the Raspberry Pi to automate chilling
http://www.element14.com/community/groups/raspberry-pi/blog/2012/09/19/brewing-b
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| Authored by: MDT on Wednesday, September 19 2012 @ 12:58 PM EDT |
| ArsTechnica Story
Looks like Motorola's going
for the jugular on this one, although it's a long shot. Not standards critical
patents though, so that at least makes it a bit more likely. ---
MDT [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, September 19 2012 @ 02:36 PM EDT |
| http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/09/19/win8_rootkit/ [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, September 19 2012 @ 02:44 PM EDT |
After 32-month wait, independent ad-free newspaper
finally receives charitable status, paving way for several similar nonprofit
news startups
[...]
"The San Francisco Public Press is
100 percent focused on the mission to inform and educate the community in order
to foster a vibrant democracy," Kevin Davis, CEO and executive director of the
Investigative News Network said. “We hope that this is the start of a phase
where the IRS not only grants 501(c)(3) status to the other equally qualified
organizations that have been waiting patiently for their turn, but also brings
clarity to the process so new organizations can help fill the gap left by
commercial media.”
http://sfpublicpress.org/blog/2012-09/irs-awards-501c3-status-to-san-francisco-p
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, September 19 2012 @ 03:22 PM EDT |
| Not sure how new this is, but, of course, it was to me. Welcoming all tin-foil
hats to my parlor to discuss this.
HTC's Windows Phone 8X, the next Microsoft superphone
Which,
of course, begs the question: What was the Microsoft superphone before this one?
What will be the one after this one? [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, September 19 2012 @ 04:24 PM EDT |
| The Arctic's Record
Breaking Ice Melt [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Gringo_ on Wednesday, September 19 2012 @ 07:44 PM EDT |
This
thing is amazing, and for only $2,199. It would be so
much fun. "Tea, Earl Grey,
hot!" [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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