Authored by: kh on Saturday, September 22 2012 @ 07:53 PM EDT |
Apple seeks U.S. Samsung sales ban,
$707 million more in damages [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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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
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, September 23 2012 @ 01:55 AM EDT |
http://i.imgur.com/mpHhv.png
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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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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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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[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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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[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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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 [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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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 [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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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. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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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 [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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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[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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