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Apple seeks U.S. Samsung sales ban, $707 million more in damages
Authored by: kh on Saturday, September 22 2012 @ 07:53 PM EDT
Apple seeks U.S. Samsung sales ban, $707 million more in damages

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The President Reads His Daily Brief on an iPad
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, September 22 2012 @ 10:44 PM EDT
The president is getting his daily intelligence briefing on an iPad. Ten years ago we wouldn’t have done that, but that’s what the president wants, so that’s what he gets. Now, that iPad is neutered—it has no connectivity. It gets plugged into a docking station. We can do that for the president, but can we can’t scale that. So the question is, can we use commercial products that are secure?
aclu.org discussing some trends in the NSA.

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NASA gets it (pic)
Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, September 23 2012 @ 01:55 AM EDT
http://i.imgur.com/mpHhv.png

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patented license server?
Authored by: kattemann on Sunday, September 23 2012 @ 12:07 PM EDT
ISTR that there was mentioned on Groklaw a patent concerning distribution of
program licenses from a network server?
Was US patent 5,023,907 mentioned in it as prior art?
I came across it while idly browsing a computer history site.
"The network license server protects software vendors from unauthorized use
of their software while permitting software programs and users to reside
anywhere on the network."

Issued 1991, owned by Apollo computers - I used some of those way back when.

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OLDSCO was such a cool place to work
Authored by: Maple Syrup on Sunday, September 23 2012 @ 03:15 PM EDT

OLD-SCO had a reunion yesterday. I was there ..

Santa Cruz Sentinel Article

and

The SCOhemian Rhapsody

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High Frequency Trading fundementally Unstable ..
Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, September 23 2012 @ 05:34 PM EDT
"The Chicago Federal Reserve paper, How to Keep Markets Safe in the Era of High-Speed Trading, prattled off a laundry list of the most recent high frequency trading debacles including Knight Capital as well as others.

Yet in spite of these increasingly frequent stock market disasters, even basic risk controls are not implemented. Why? They claim it would slow down their trading systems." link

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Honduras - Model city to use laws of Texas
Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, September 23 2012 @ 07:08 PM EDT
It turns out the backers of the first city to win government approval want to create a "little Texas" on the country's Caribbean coast.

[...]

The notion is that the private cities would be a chance to start from scratch, with the rules made by technocrats and the investors. Instead of fixing Honduras' problems, you create new states within the country with different laws, policing, education and health systems and tax structures. Crime and corruption would be banished. The constitution would apply, but basically the owners would have something close to their own country to run.

Paul Willcocks, Paying attention

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Senior haredi rabbi to followers: Burn your iPhones
Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, September 23 2012 @ 08:00 PM EDT
Kanievsky said it was forbidden to own an iPhone, comparing the device to weapons of war in its potential to cause harm.

Senior haredi rabbi to followers: Burn your iPhones

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY Firefox -- phoenix-0.1-win32.zip 23-Sep-2002 13:10
Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, September 23 2012 @ 10:40 PM EDT
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/phoenix/releases/0.1/

http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/releases/0.1.html#new

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The Register:Apple scrambled to hire iOS 6 maps engineers DAYS before launch
Authored by: macrorodent on Monday, September 24 2012 @ 12:27 AM EDT

The Register: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/09/21/apple_hiring_ios_maps_engineers/

Sounds like a panic realization the map software is not yet up to the expected quality. But this will not help them, at least not quickly. In the "Mythical Man-month", the classic text on the problems of large-scale software engineering, Fred Brooks notes that adding more man-power to a late software project makes it more late. Apple will get bitten by this.

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Kim Dotcom - more illegal activity by Authorities
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, September 24 2012 @ 01:56 AM EDT

Radio New Zealand is reporting that the Government Communications Security Bureau is being investigated for illegally monitoring Mr. Dotcom. linky

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Off Topic thread
Authored by: Torinir on Monday, September 24 2012 @ 03:26 AM EDT
<a
href="http://www.engadget.com/2012/09/23/foxconn-taiyuan-riot/">Rio
t breaks out at Foxconn's Taiyuan plant</a>

I wonder how bad this will hurt Apple, since that plant makes the back of the
iPhone 5.

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Gaming like it's going out of style.
West/Zampella vs Activision should be covered on Groklaw. :o

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