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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, September 28 2012 @ 07:53 PM EDT |
Only M$ can take bad, make it worse, and brag about it.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, September 28 2012 @ 09:01 PM EDT |
This is the difference between English and German law. Under English law that
which is not forbidden is permitted. Under German law that which is not
permitted is forbidden.
I think the framers of the US Constitution were of
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, September 28 2012 @ 09:20 PM EDT |
| Court:
Motorola can't enforce injunction
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, September 29 2012 @ 01:09 AM EDT |
[PJ: Ah. So Microsoft will pick experts. Like Florian Mueller I
suppose. A huge version of Microsoft's Get the Facts. What could possibly go
wrong?
I doubt it will involve manually picking "experts".
That method simply won't scale. It will most likely involve integrating "Klout"
scores into Bing search, so that blog posts by people who have high "Klout"
scores will get ranked higher in Bing searches.
The people won't be
"experts" in terms of actually knowing a lot about a subject. They'll just be
people who have a high "Klout" score for whatever reason (e.g. they have a lot
of Twitter followers). If you're an expert on Python programming and have a
public blog that other Python programmers recognize as the canonical source for
information, but you don't have Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, etc. accounts, then
according to Klout, you're not an "expert". If you're a celebrity and you have a
social media team busing Tweeting for you all day, then you're an "expert".
As for "Klout scores" for average people, I can't see the value to the
user. It might appeal to a few narcissists who could use "Klout scores" as a
substitute for having real friends, but beyond that who cares about "Klout"?
Wikipedia has this to say about "Klout":
The
business model is then based around connecting businesses with individuals of
high influence. Companies have paid to get in contact with individuals with high
Klout scores in hopes that free merchandise and other perks will influence them
to spread positive publicity for them. According to Klout CEO Joe Fernandez,
about 50 of these partnerships have been established as of November
2011.
I can't see this as being a viable business model. Klout
don't have their own social network. They're depending on Facebook, Twitter,
etc. for data. Klout will have to pay to get access to that data. The more
social networks they try to cover, the more each active Klout account will cost
them to maintain. They claim to be selling user profile data to advertisers, but
there's not much value they can add on top of whatever information Facebook
already sells. So, they're buying data and reselling it while adding marginal
value. Given the poor profits to be had in social networking, that sounds like a
recipe for bankruptcy.
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| Authored by: SilverWave on Saturday, September 29 2012 @ 05:44 PM EDT |
| Android control code issue affects almost
all manufacturers ---
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: Anonymous on Saturday, September 29 2012 @ 09:05 PM EDT |
Anyone ask Bruce about this?
http://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram-0411.html
http://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram-0404.html
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