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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, October 25 2012 @ 01:31 AM EDT |
Today we have some really big news, which is going to mean a
lot to many programmers in our community who have been
asking about it ever since launch. This is one of those
announcements that has been in the pipeline for quite some
time, but we haven’t been able to talk about it until now.
As of right now, all of the VideoCore driver code which runs
on the ARM is available under a FOSS license (3-Clause BSD
to be precise).
http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/2221[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, October 25 2012 @ 03:30 AM EDT |
Have they appealed the recent ruling? Has SCOTUS considered certiorari?
Mouse THe Lucky Dog[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: jmc on Thursday, October 25 2012 @ 04:35 AM EDT |
Despite the order affirmed last week on appeal, I see Apple don't have anything
yet about the non-infringement by Samsung.
Do I feel a contempt motion coming on?
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, October 25 2012 @ 10:56 AM EDT |
Four of the Supreme Court judges restored 59 of the 79 votes that a
lower court judge threw out, preserving Opitz's narrow 2011 election
victory.
Former Liberal MP Borys Wrzesnewskyj had challenged the results
based on apparent voting irregularities at several polling stations on election
day and an Ontario court judge ruled in his favour last May. Wrzesnewskyj lost
to Opitz by 26 votes.
But the Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the
entitlement to vote cannot be annulled due to procedural errors and that there
was a lack of evidence that most of the discarded ballots came from voters who
were not qualified to vote.
CBC News
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Decision
Citation: Opitz v. Wrzesnewskyj, 2012 SCC 55
Date:
20121025
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, October 25 2012 @ 04:43 PM EDT |
Or rather
The
Register's version
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| Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Thursday, October 25 2012 @ 06:32 PM EDT |
| Link
"Apple's undisclosed five-year exclusivity
agreement with [AT&T Mobility], however, effectively locked iPhone users
into using [AT&T Mobility] for five years, contrary to those users'
knowledge, wishes and expectations," the lawsuit states.
The complaint
mirrors another federal antitrust lawsuit filed against Apple in early January.
Apple allegedly enforced the exclusive contract by programming and
installing locks on each iPhone that prevented customers from switching to a
competing carrier.
Under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998,
cell phone consumers "have an absolute legal right to modify their phones to use
the network of their carrier of choice," according to the
lawsuit.
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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: Anonymous on Thursday, October 25 2012 @ 06:58 PM EDT |
"Today, we’re seeing the last apple fall from that treet, as the Canadian
IP Office has just disclosed that the Beatles’ iconic recording label is now
Apple, Inc. registered trademark."
http://www.cultofmac.com/198055/apple-officially-granted-registered-trademark-fo
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, October 25 2012 @ 08:36 PM EDT |
"I recently sat down with Bryan to hear the story of his harrowing journey
through the criminal justice system link
Brooks crosses the bar and
assaults Smith with a glass (getting "glassed" as they refer to it round here),
and he gets acquitted? I wonder did the jury ever get to see the photos
..
"SCARRED: Chaka Smith bears a huge scar on his face where a
fellow bar patron allegedly slashed him with a broken glass in a fight". link[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, October 25 2012 @ 10:40 PM EDT |
"This is why we are proposing a cyber security evaluation center,
where all equipment implemented into major or critical
Australian networks can
be subjected to the same thorough security assessment,” [Huawei Australia
Chairman John Lord] said.
Huawei made the same proposal to US lawmakers
during the Committee on Intelligence's investigation of the company. But the
committee's report rejected the proposal, saying that the complexity of
hardware and software would make it impossible to fully
assure that products
from the company were not vulnerable to manipulation.
arstechnica
The narrow configuration specification used during
testing almost ensures that an evaluated device will be deployed in
a way not
specifically covered by a formal evaluation. A security evaluation of a complex
device is useless if the device is not deployed
precisely in the same
configuration as it was tested.
USHR Permanent Select
Committee on Intelligence PDF
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, October 26 2012 @ 02:56 AM EDT |
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20091505
Samsung 3 mo to September: net profit was 6.5tn won ($5.9bn; £3.7bn), a 91% jump
from a year earlier.
vs
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20091054
Apple's fourth quarter profits missed Wall Street forecasts ... profits in the
last three months were $8.2bn (£5bn), up from $6.6bn last year (+27%)
Interesting trajectories ...[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, October 26 2012 @ 04:20 AM EDT |
a Samsung
/ Apple UK
judgment
So while the U.K. court did not find Samsung
guilty
of infringement, other courts have recognized that in
the course of creating
its Galaxy tablet, Samsung willfully
copied Apple's far more popular
iPad.
The quote is the only thing that is NOT complete
"whataboutery".[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: tiger99 on Friday, October 26 2012 @ 04:51 AM EDT |
| Samsung posts record
profits on Galaxy phone sales Apple profits miss
expectations on slower iPad sales Next quarter will be even more
interesting, I think. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, October 26 2012 @ 06:28 AM EDT |
| You can start here in 1961 with 'The Tokens' singing The Lion
Sleeps Tonight,
but the real story begins more than
twenty years before that recording was
cut.
Once upon a time, a long time ago, a Zulu man
stepped
up to a microphone and improvised a melody that
earned in the region of $15
million. That Solomon Linda got
almost none of it was probably inevitable. He
was a black
man in white-ruled South Africa, but his American peers
fared
little better.
[...]
All musicians were minnows in the pop-music food
chain, but
blacks were most vulnerable, and Solomon Linda, an
illiterate
tribesman from a wild valley where lions roamed,
was totally defenseless
against sophisticated predators.
Which is not to say that he was
cheated.
[...]
Linda was legally entitled to nothing. The fact that he
got
anything at all seemed to show that the bosses were not
without conscience
or pity.
Where does the lion sleep tonight?
Rian
Malan, 3rd Ear
Music
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What was the copyright law in South Africa in the
1930s?
Was the original Solomon Linda contract/sale to Eric Gallo
for ten
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| Authored by: jmc on Friday, October 26 2012 @ 07:49 AM EDT |
Apple finally put a microscopic link at the bottom of their UK website to a
kind of "acknowledgement" that they lost in Europe - but still claim victory in
Germany although they have undertaken to reverse this.
Here is a link to an article as I'm sure the UK Apple site
can't be read outside the UK.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, October 26 2012 @ 03:02 PM EDT |
Have made a ton of money shorting AAPL of late...
Not yet sure when to close the trade, but it's looking good for me...
We traders could help the world, along with ourselves if we all did this. AAPL
is the major holding of gawd, 168 hedge funds and most mutual funds. It's a
"crowded trade" and they are all trying to squeeze out of a skinny
exit - classic recipe for a big drop.
DCFusor, forgot to log in.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, October 26 2012 @ 03:04 PM EDT |
Have made a ton of money shorting AAPL of late...
Not yet sure when to close the trade, but it's looking good for me...
We traders could help the world, along with ourselves if we all did this. AAPL
is the major holding of gawd, 168 hedge funds and most mutual funds. It's a
"crowded trade" and they are all trying to squeeze out of a skinny
exit - classic recipe for a big drop.
DCFusor, forgot to log in.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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