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| Authored by: SilverWave on Saturday, October 20 2012 @ 12:46 PM EDT |
Xubuntu to the rescue: I used Unity for years but decided it degrades my Linux
experience and that I need to move on...
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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: SilverWave on Saturday, October 20 2012 @ 12:49 PM EDT |
Install Xfce (Xubuntu) on Ubuntu Linux
sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop
Log back in under Xubuntu...
Sorted :-)
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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, October 20 2012 @ 01:17 PM EDT |
The court said an individual’s Internet browsing history alone is
capable of exposing his or her most intimate likes, dislikes, activities and
thoughts.
“Canadians may therefore reasonably expect privacy in the
information contained on these computers, at least where personal use is
permitted or reasonably expected,” Mr. Justice Morris Fish said, writing for the
majority.
Notwithstanding that privacy interest, the court ruled that nude
photos of an underaged students can be used to prosecute an Ontario high-school
teacher who had them on his laptop.
It said that in some cases, the
seriousness of an offence and workplace computer policies are sufficient to
override the right to privacy.
Kirk Makin, The
Globe and Mail
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Decision
Citation: R. v. Cole, 2012 SCC 53
Date:
20121019
Docket: 34268 [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: JamesK on Saturday, October 20 2012 @ 02:12 PM EDT |
| Non
Sequiter ---
The following program contains immature subject matter.
Viewer discretion is advised. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: JamesK on Saturday, October 20 2012 @ 02:53 PM EDT |
| NASA
e-Books ---
The following program contains immature subject matter.
Viewer discretion is advised. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, October 20 2012 @ 05:14 PM EDT |
The self-organizing computer course
Shimon Schocken and
Noam Nisan developed a curriculum for their students to build a computer, piece
by piece. When they put the course online -- giving away the tools, simulators,
chip specifications and other building blocks -- they were surprised that
thousands jumped at the opportunity to learn, working independently as well as
organizing their own classes in the first Massive Open Online Course (MOOC). A
call to forget about grades and tap into the self-motivation to
learn.
TED[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, October 20 2012 @ 08:10 PM EDT |
Victor Palau, the Commercial Engineering Director at Canonical,
uploaded a video on Friday of Ubuntu on the Nexus 7.
The Nexus 7 was
developed by Google in conjunction with ASUS as an Android tablet, but Canonical
found it to fit well for Ubuntu.
Michael
Larabel, Phoronix
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21" video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2tGHfmM-TU [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, October 20 2012 @ 09:56 PM EDT |
| In fairness it should be mentioned that MagicJack sued Net
Talk a while back.
I nearly laughed when I read a news
article about MagicJack stating the
company's founders
"founders invented the
technology used for making phone
calls over the Internet".
Like IP Phones didn't exist before MagicJack. FYI,
that was
sarcasm.
scribd.com [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, October 21 2012 @ 06:57 AM EDT |
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/video/2012/oct/18/basejumper-survives-cliff-vide
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"Surving a fall from a 4,000 ft cliff"
http://www.zdnet.com/sco-is-finally-dead-parrot-dead-7000002357/
"Even now, believe it or not, SCO still has delusions that the court will
rule that its IBM lawsuit will somehow be resumed and that a miracle will happen
and that they'll win the lawsuit. That's about as likely as a certain deceased
Norwegian Blue parrot getting up from his rest to voom through his cage's
bars."
From that article one gets the feeling that SCO isn't entirely dead after all,
they still can pursue their IBM dream. Did they actually survive that 4,000 ft
fall?
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, October 21 2012 @ 08:43 AM EDT |
My last Ubuntu desktop was the one with the clear text password mashup.
MY IMPRESSION'S SO FAR
No proper firewall.You better check your coverage. for example in a WAR zone
army boots and a bathing suit instead of an armored tank.
A Hidden terminal.
A Pay to play con. MUSIC AMAZON ???
A quick run to the forum to read the complaints about unity, and to find where
they hid the terminal.
Shades of METRO it is hidden in the upper left hand corner.
Apt-get install synaptic. Does very little good in unity.
In a terminal sudo synaptic does wonders.
Why did they make it so funky to use.
All better now but not unity anymore.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, October 21 2012 @ 10:19 AM EDT |
Following the French phone bill for a quadrillion dollars or so, I got around to
wondering what the full economic impact of music theft is. We know that the
USA statue is a fine of $750 - $250,000 per song, and they prefer to extradite
and sue in USA rather than use local laws.
<a href="http://http://www.riaa.com/faq.php">RIAA
statistics</a> suggest
30 billion unlicensed downloads in the years 2004-2009. It does not indicate
an inclusive or exclusive range, so we will assume that is six years.
Total world economic output (GDP) over that period is around $320trillion,
averaging just over $50trillion, but closer to $40trillion in 2004, which
appears to be the music industry high, with a gross worldwide income of
around $180billion for the 6 year period, if 2004 sales rates held.
Recouping fines at the minimum rate, we see 2.25 quadrillion would be raised
for unlicensed downloads over the same period, boosting income more than
10-fold. However, we know that courts are reasonable, and will not grant
minimal fines to repeat offenders. Let's take the case of Jamie Thomas
Rasset, who downloaded 24 songs, and so (after appeals) was given the
reasonable warning of a $220k fine, just over $9k per song. Given few
download a single song if they cross that line into crime, this may be a
reasonable warning. On this basis, the court would like to offer the music
industry $275 trillion in recompense - which is still below the world GDP for
that period of $320 trillion so probably still affordable. If we look at a more
serious offender such as Joel Tenenbaum, who is now downloading 30 songs,
we need to send a clearer message. The court here awarded $22.5k per song,
still a long way below the big stick maximum, but I hope this will send a clear
message that we will not tolerate such civil offenses. This would correspond
to a global compensation level of $trillion, or over twice the world GDP over
this period. We better get saving, and truly be in awe of an industry that is
so
valuable it can survive such a scale of theft. Of course, we reserve the big
stick for the grand offenders, and hold it in reserve as a thread so we
understand how seriously copying other people's bits is held. At the maximal
fine, we believe it reasonable to offer the music industry 3 centuries of world
GDP at the 2004 rate - although GDP 3 centuries ago was clearly less than
today so we are probably backdating to real worldwide GDP before the birth
of christ that starts our calendar, and probably back before the dawn of man.
Let that be a warning! <strike>Crime</strike>Civil tort does not
pay!
30,000,000,000 downloads 2004-2009
30,000,000,000 total value of music sold worldwide, 2004
180,000,000,000 music industry gross income @2004 rates for 6 years
2,250,000,000,000 minimum fine
70,000,000,000,000 World GDP for 2011
275,000,000,000,000 at Jamie Thomas Rasset rate
320,000,000,000,000 World GDP 2004-2009
750,000,000,000,000 at Joel Tenenbaum rate
7,500,000,000,000,000 maximum fine
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- But, you forget - Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, October 21 2012 @ 01:11 PM EDT
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, October 21 2012 @ 01:43 PM EDT |
| 'Hart InterCivic is a national provider of election voting systems .. Private
equity firm H.I.G. Capital, LLC bought out a “significant” portion of Hart in
July of 2011 .. H.I.G., in turn, has ties to Bain & Co. and Mitt Romney
directly:', link [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, October 21 2012 @ 02:19 PM EDT |
| 9'21"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gciegyiLYtY
"Complete with quotes from
old "Not the Nine'O'Clock News" scripts, comedian Rowan Atkinson explains why he
supports Reform Section 5. (Full speech.)" [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, October 21 2012 @ 04:36 PM EDT |
http://www.fairsearcheurope.eu/
Microsoft, Oracle, Nokia, Tripadvisor, Kayak, Hotwire, Expedia, SideStep Logo,
Level, Foundem, Shop City, Twenga, AdMarketPlace, TravelTech, buscape, The Find,
Allegro
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, October 21 2012 @ 09:55 PM EDT |
The wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_patent_debate has a
bunch of arguments for and against software patents, someone who is a better
writer then me should update it with why softare is mathematics and therefore
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, October 22 2012 @ 01:00 AM EDT |
CCI [The Center for Copyright Information] is headed by someone
from a PR firm used by the RIAA. The review of their tech was done by Stroz
Friedberg, a lobbyist given money by the... RIAA. Federal Judges have ruled that
an IP address doesn't equal a person, but IP address alone (which can be spoofed) is enough for
this system to send notices and even throttle paying customers' connections. And
the only recourse is arbitration, because this isn't a real legal system. This
is private corporate law.
Maybe its time for some AG's to look into this
cushy deal and wonder why the system costs the accused money to challenge claims
with no real independent review.
Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, October 22 2012 @ 06:34 AM EDT |
Technology journalist finally seems to come up with a
possible answer to
pj's
question about who did he think might have
started the "smartphone
patent wars"? In a long, if very selective, newspaper
article
attempting to
explain patents to the more non-technical,
he writes:.
For example, you could
argue that Nokia kicked
off the "smartphone patent wars" when it sued Apple in
2009,
claiming Apple was using a number of its SEPs without paying
royalties. Although, he does go on to admit:
Apple
denied it, but in June 2011 eventually
coughed up hundreds of millions of euros
in back payments.
Nokia however never sought to injunct Apple from selling the
iPhone. It just let the sales - and future royalties - mount
up. The price
seems to have been a few euros per handset
sold. This seems to go
against his own
explanation of SEPs - including a one-sided 'pointed'
warning
of
the dangers of using these to get
injunctions but ... never mind. The lack
of certain crucial
facts and arguments sway towards "brand" bias in obvious
ways in, sadly, too many traditional print organizations and
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- Sad conclusion - Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, October 22 2012 @ 07:58 PM EDT
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