Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, October 05 2012 @ 10:43 AM EDT |
Brought forward, for those who only read top article and OT there? What if?
Are Human's DNA-Genes changing
dynamically, not static (like bees & monkeys) Where memory binary stored in
"encryption-like" format, unlock, read, write, same storage space
What
if? Food for thought.
Oh - Prior art (has millions of years maybe)? [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: sciamiko on Friday, October 05 2012 @ 10:51 AM EDT |
More research shows
(Techdirt) that copying with family and friends is thought to be normal.
Commercial copying far less so.
Mike Masnick quotes a preview of new figures
from US and Germany, with this comment about the MPAA strategy:
No
matter what sort of "education" campaign you create, you're not going to
convince most people that constructing a shared culture is somehow immoral.
Furthermore, the generation gap issue is significant, especially given that much
of the "education" efforts are aimed at the younger generation who seems a lot
less willing to buy the argument.
s.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, October 05 2012 @ 12:58 PM EDT |
The potentially-devastating consequences of HIV-AIDS demand that it
remain a grave criminal offence to have sex with a partner who is unaware that
he or she could realistically become infected, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled
this morning.
In a pair of decisions, the court said that the duty for an
individual with HIV to disclose can be dispensed only when a condom is used and
the individual also has a low viral load.
[...]
The court said that its
new legal standard will finally permit those with HIV to know clearly what is
required of them in situations involving consent to sex.
Kirk Makin, The Globe
and Mail
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The decisions
Citation: R. v. D.C., 2012
SCC 48
Date: 20121005
Docket: 34094
and
Citation:
R. v. Mabior,
2012 SCC 47
Date: 20121005
Docket: 33976 [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: JamesK on Friday, October 05 2012 @ 01:13 PM EDT |
Here --- The
following program contains immature subject matter. Viewer discretion is
advised. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Friday, October 05 2012 @ 05:26 PM EDT |
Link
The company had claimed that Bowman was growing
more soybeans than his seed purchases could generate.
Bowman countered that
he had bought the seeds as part of an undifferentiated mix of "commodity" seeds,
and that farmers have used such seeds for planting, and created so-called
"second generation" seeds, for decades.
In his appeal, Bowman said the
Federal Circuit erred in finding that his use of the seeds for a natural and
foreseeable purpose - planting - created new seeds that infringed Monsanto's
rights. He said earlier court decisions suggested that Monsanto had no rights
after it made an initial sale.
Prior Art, First Sale
issues.
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You are being MICROattacked, from various angles, in a SOFT manner. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: artp on Friday, October 05 2012 @ 10:40 PM EDT |
A follow-up on a previous article on TechDirt -
backpedaling is in!
The
article.
Google: That Thing We Said About Manually
Reviewing
Borderline YouTube Takedowns? We Didn't Mean It That
Way
Earlier this week, YouTube made some news for
changing the
way its ContentID program works, including
improving the appeals process. Among
the improvements was
one in which more "borderline" cases that ContentID
matched,
but without as high confidence that it was definitely
infringing,
would go through a slightly different process:
It turns out
that the content OWNER will do the manual
review. And of course we can expect
them to be 100%
accurate, can't we? --- Userfriendly on WGA server
outage:
When you're chained to an oar you don't think you should go down when the galley
sinks ? [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, October 06 2012 @ 06:51 AM EDT |
The Ninth Circuit has upheld
the preliminary injunction issued against
Motorola in
Microsoft v. Motorola. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: IMANAL_TOO on Saturday, October 06 2012 @ 06:56 AM EDT |
Abu Hamza vs. Julian Assange?
Assange claims he is afraid of being
extradited to the US from Sweden.
Still, he chose to flee to the UK,
which does extradite to the US. Now, the terrorist suspect Abu
Hamza will be extradited
from the UK to the US:
"Abu Hamza, Adel Abdul Bary and
Khaled al-Fawwaz are due in federal court in New York while Babar Ahmad and
Tahla Ahsan will face a judge in Connecticut. Home Secretary Theresa May said
she was looking to speed up the extradition process after the long legal battle.
On Friday judges ruled the five men had not shown "new and compelling" reasons
to stay in the UK. Their decision came after the European Court of Human Rights
backed successive UK courts in ruling for the extraditions after a process
lasting more than eight years."
So, the extradiction was even
backed by the European Court of Human Rights.
Who would believe Julian
Assange that he has more reasons to fear a Swedish extradiction?
No, he
has no credibility any longer. It is clear to me he wants to avoid the hearing
in Sweden about his alleged sexual molestation.
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IMANAL
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Authored by: Gringo_ on Saturday, October 06 2012 @ 10:03 AM EDT |
Sure, you could keep using Windows, although
Windows 8
looks
worse every time you look at it; or you could buy a
Mac for big bucks; or you
could buy a Samsung Series 5 550
Chromebook starting at $449 and have a
great Linux-based
desktop that you already know how to use.
I’m here to
report to you today that yes, yes, you can use the
Chromebook for a
Windows or a Mac desktop replacement.
I write my stories in Google Docs;
check my e-mail with
Gmail; IM, talk and video-conference to my friends and
co-
workers with Google Talk; track my personal bills with
Quicken Online;
manage my business expenses with QuickBooks
Online; play music from Google
Play; and tinker with my
photos in Picasa. I can also, unlike any other version
of
Linux, watch Netflix movies as well as Google Play videos.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, October 06 2012 @ 11:55 AM EDT |
Nokia to write off 1 million lumia 800 900
units says analyst [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, October 06 2012 @ 02:12 PM EDT |
Attorney General Eric Holder announced the winners of a new federal
grant that will send hundreds of thousands of dollars to 13 agencies in an
effort to step up enforcement of copyright and trademark laws.
The
Intellectual Property Law Enforcement Grant Award, which became available in
January 2012, was given to a wide variety of local law enforcement groups,
including the City of Austin, the City of Orlando, the County of Sacramento, the
Virginia State Police, and most oddly, the City of Central Point, Oregon
(population: 13,000).
Liam Cooke, ars technica[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, October 06 2012 @ 06:04 PM EDT |
http://www.reddit.com/r/law/comments/110ckw/charlie_brown_v_lucy_van_pelt/c6icgj
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Authored by: Gringo_ on Saturday, October 06 2012 @ 11:50 PM EDT |
The new Radio-Astronomy Observatory in the Australian
outback is now on-
line.
I was very happy to be there
filming
Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) radio
telescope
under the night sky just before the official
opening of the telescope. I
captured 19960 images using
three cameras during five nights and lots of
computer time
went into processing the video to showcase ASKAP under the
dark
Western Australian skies. This footage may be quite
unique because after the
telescope testing phase is
completed, any electronic equipment, including
cameras, may
not be used near the
telescope.
During its operation the telescope
will
generate enormous amount of data -- 72 Terabit per second,
enough to fill
120 million Blu-ray discs each day. To deal
with such data volumes, the high
speed optical fibre network
was built connecting the telescope in the remote
Murchison
shire with the $21 million Cray supercomputer in
Perth.
"120 million Blu-ray discs each day" Hmm - How many
Libraries of Congress would that be? [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, October 07 2012 @ 05:31 AM EDT |
Tucked into the U.S. Supreme Court’s busy agenda
this fall is a
little-known case that could upend your
ability to resell everything from your
grandmother’s antique
furniture to your iPhone 4.
At issue in Kirtsaeng v.
John Wiley & Sons is the first-sale
doctrine in copyright law, which allows
you to buy and then
sell things like electronics, books, artwork and furniture
as well as CDs and DVDs, without getting permission from the
copyright holder
of those products.
[...]
That’s being challenged now for products that
are made
abroad and if the Supreme Court upholds an appellate court
ruling it
would mean that the copyright holders of anything
you own that has been made in
China, Japan or Europe, for
example, would have to give you permission to sell
it.
Jennifer Waters, MarketWatch[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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