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Man Claiming Facebook Ownership Arrested on Fraud Charges
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, October 26 2012 @ 05:17 PM EDT

Quote from the article:

Dressing up a fraud as a lawsuit does not immunize you from prosecution.
I sure wish that had been explained to Mr. Darl McBride!

RAS

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  • Ah, but... - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, October 26 2012 @ 07:34 PM EDT
    • Ah, but... - Authored by: RichardB on Saturday, October 27 2012 @ 06:34 AM EDT
      • You mean... - Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, October 27 2012 @ 01:01 PM EDT
Statement of the Librarian of Congress
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, October 26 2012 @ 08:13 PM EDT
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(3) Computer programs, in the form of firmware or software, that enable used wireless telephone handsets to connect to a wireless telecommunications network, when circumvention is initiated by the owner of the copy of the computer program solely in order to connect to a wireless telecommunications network and access to the network is authorized by the operator of the network. [emphasis added]
I guess it's paranoia setting in if I start to wonder when the first case hits the court because an owner will claim the user is only licensed to use said program under conditions which do not allow this exemption ...

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US: Slow legal proceedings are Megaupload's fault, don't unfreeze assets
Authored by: jbb on Saturday, October 27 2012 @ 11:28 PM EDT
link
But the government blames Megaupload for the slow pace of the proceedings. The defendants, they say, "have challenged nearly every aspect of the New Zealand-based warrants and extradition proceedings in a variety of courts, including bail, the restraint of assets, the searches and seizures planned and executed by New Zealand law enforcement." They're entitled to do so, the government concedes. But they can hardly complain if raising every available legal objection causes the case to drag on for years.
From what I've heard, the government did bungle many of the aspects the defendants are challenging. Given this reality, the government's statement above is therefore a claim that they have the right to deny anyone their Constitutional rights. All the government need do is start violating the person's rights early on in the process. If the person complains about these violations then the government can detain them indefinitely and blame it on the person complaining. If the person complains, their rights are violated and if they don't complain their rights are violated. What a country!

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Our job is to remind ourselves that there are more contexts
than the one we’re in now — the one that we think is reality.
-- Alan Kay

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Microsoft annoys developers with Windows Phone 8 secrecy
Authored by: Gringo_ on Monday, October 29 2012 @ 01:12 AM EDT

"Our goal is to generate as much Windows Phone 8 excitement as possible to attract new customers when phones go on sale. This is one of many steps we're taking to help give you what you (and we) want most."

I'm so excited I could wet myself - not!

In fact, I am underwhelmed. The "secrecy" is to hide the fact that the phone is just not ready yet. They are undoubtedly having problems with it like they had trying to get Vista out the door. Secrecy makes no sence when you are so far behind in the market, because above all else, you want lots of apps. If the vast majority of developers don't get the SDK until launch day, it is launching without the vast majority of apps.

It is so obvious it's pathetic how much Microsoft is trying to imitate Apple. It's stupid - there is only one Apple. Nobody is suddenly going to think Microsoft is "cool". What next, we are going to see Steve Ballmer in a turtle neck?

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Steve Jobs' Yacht, 'Venus,' Sets Sail
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, October 29 2012 @ 01:34 AM EDT
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He shoulda stuck to electronic gadgets. Aluminum and glass is nice in its place, but a boat design influenced by Mississippi casino meets civil war ironclad won't find much market appeal...

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"Climate change" chicken little stories now? Really?
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, October 29 2012 @ 03:42 AM EDT
And actual climatologists sigh, since the "record" didn't start with
the invention of the mercury thermometer.

Historically - properly historically - we're in a global cool period. Actually,
we're in an interglacial stage of an ice age.

What's next, cold fusion stories?

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Microsoft’s Pivot — A Plan to Dominate “Devices and Services”
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, October 29 2012 @ 12:35 PM EDT

Interesting article.

One particular statement has me quite curious:

A-la Apple, consumers will have no choice but to use Microsoft own services when using a Microsoft mobile device and competition authorities will be powerless to prevent it.
Question to the FTC:
    Give that you apparently have power to question Google's "forcing a search engine" when people - like myself - easily recognize we have the very easy choice to make a change and use a different search engine:
    How do you feel about the claim that Microsoft is going to deliberately lock consumers in to Microsoft's services and you'll be powerless to prevent it?
And a far more important question that's been asked lately:
    Why are you spending so much more time listening to the allegations of Companies like Microsoft and Apple with regards Google's alleged anti-competition behavior and apparently ignoring what both Microsoft and Apple are doing so openly in the Market?
I certainly hope that once you're done with Google, you turn your sites back to Microsoft and Apple!

I do look positively on the in-depth examination into Google believe it or not. So long as that examination is conducted fairly - I'm absolutely positive Google will be found to be behaving within the Law. I don't doubt the FTC is responding to a flood of claims. Much like the police getting a flood of complaints that a given house is a Drug House - they have a responsibility to respond. But somehow I think the "positive" spin being placed on it by most news is just that: spin that comes from the anti-android crowd. And so, I watch with positive anticipation to the actual finding that FTC eventually presents.

RAS

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