Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, October 26 2012 @ 03:14 PM EDT |
Canada's top court has overturned the impaired driving conviction of
a Quebec man who fell asleep in his truck, which was parked and
idling.
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In its decision, the court said trial judges "must examine
all of the relevant evidence ... including whether the accused took care to
arrange an alternate plan to ensure his safe transportation home."
The
court also said the judge who acquitted Boudreault "found as a fact that there
was no realistic risk of danger."
CBC News
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Decision
Citation: R. v. Boudreault, 2012 SCC 56
Date:
20121026
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, October 26 2012 @ 06:40 PM EDT |
Zareason at http://zareason.com/shop/zatab.html offers an "open and
hackable" Android tablet, with unlocked bootloader
and root access.
--Peter Traneus Anderson
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, October 26 2012 @ 10:24 PM EDT |
Public Knowledge requested an exemption that would allow people to
rip DVDs they already own in order to transfer the movie to a device that cannot
play DVDs (like a tablet).
That request was rejected. Furthermore, the
Register and the Librarian explained that they were unconvinced that space
shifting was fair use at all.
Michael Weinberg, Public Knowledge[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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- WRONG - Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, October 27 2012 @ 03:49 PM EDT
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Authored by: SilverWave on Saturday, October 27 2012 @ 02:37 AM EDT |
H-1B visa abuse limits wages and steals US jobs By Robert X.
Cringely --- 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 27 2012 @ 04:05 AM EDT |
My favourite investor's news sheet is recommending dumping any Apple shares you
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, October 27 2012 @ 04:43 AM EDT |
In many places, including the off topic section here on Groklaw, people have
been spreading FUD about the Italian justice system. They have been saying that
the scientists in the case were convicted for failing to predict an earth quake.
The New Scientist has an article clearly showing that this is not the
case. The article points out that the Scientists allowed communication they
were responsible for to be taken over by a non scientist who gave completely
incorrect information.
There are clearly open questions about the
conviction; six years for manslaughter seems excessive without further detailed
information about how this happened. However, this really brings up the
question: Why are so many English language sites spreading incorrect FUD about
this case? [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, October 27 2012 @ 10:48 AM EDT |
Anonymous commenters on news articles should be forced to identify
themselves
“This morning I read comments on a news story posted on
an electronic news publication, many of them could only be described as hateful
rants. The common denominator is that none of them identified the person that
wrote them; this strikes me as something that parliament should address.” -
Dean Del Mastro, Member of Parliament, Conservative Party of Canada [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, October 27 2012 @ 01:22 PM EDT |
Unusual lawsuits - Man sues wife for being ugly and wins lawsuit! Incredible!
http://myfox8.com/2012/10/26/chinese-man-sues-wife-for-being-ugly-wins-lawsuit/
"Jian Feng said his issues with his wife’s looks only began after the
couple’s daughter was born. Feng was appalled by the child’s appearance,
calling her “incredibly ugly” and saying she resembled neither one of her
parents."
Read for the most unhealthy story of the day
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Authored by: Jamis on Saturday, October 27 2012 @ 06:07 PM EDT |
If this article is true, I'd be very concerned. Someone tell me I'm wrong.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57541481-83/millions-of-ssns-lifted-from-south-
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- Grrrr... Why!?!? - Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, October 28 2012 @ 12:44 AM EDT
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, October 27 2012 @ 11:25 PM EDT |
"What happens when one of the biggest media groups in the world sets up its
own private security force? What happens when part of this operation goes
rogue?" ref
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How Ray Adams’ hard drive disappeared
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- Echostar vs NDS - Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, October 28 2012 @ 03:23 PM EDT
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, October 28 2012 @ 01:59 AM EDT |
The suit's major claims seem to turn on trademark (though there are
copyright claims in there, too): the Faulkner estate claims that a movie that
quotes Faulkner and has a character who meets various historical people
(including Faulkner) "is likely to cause confusion, to cause mistake, and/or to
deceive the infringing film's viewers as to a perceived affiliation, connection
or association between William Faulkner and his works, on the one hand, and
Sony, on the other hand."
Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, October 28 2012 @ 02:31 AM EDT |
Well, looking at the Windows 8 ads this week, it seems Microsoft has written off
the enterprise market. Computers' only purpose is to have fun. Yo, Fortune 500,
nothing to see here. Move on, move on.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, October 28 2012 @ 09:10 AM EDT |
Prior
art invalidating
Apple's patents on rectangles and rounded
corners [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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- Mesopotamian? - Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, October 28 2012 @ 04:51 PM EDT
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, October 28 2012 @ 10:47 AM EDT |
Copyright Office Announces Exemptions to Mitigate DMCA
Harms
San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) won
renewal of critical exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) in
a ruling published today, including the upholding of jailbreaking rights for
smartphones as well as new and expanded legal protections for video
remixing.
"The DMCA creates a cloud of legal uncertainty over American
consumers – whether they are tinkerers, artists, or just looking to make their
gadgets work better," said EFF Intellectual Property Director Corynne McSherry.
"The ruling from the Copyright Office today goes a long way towards mitigating
some of the DMCA's most grievous harms."
EFF
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For the full
ruling from the copyright office:
https://www.eff.org/node/72131 [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, October 28 2012 @ 10:56 AM EDT |
When they ask if it violates the laws of physics by being both bigger and
smaller. How do they do it.
They start by removing user rights, just trimming away a little at a time.
They then remove a little user choice restricting the selection of apps.
If they start to restrict the content they can make the iphone 6 even thinner.
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Authored by: sumzero on Sunday, October 28 2012 @ 01:54 PM EDT |
parent should probably be deleted.
sum.zero
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48. The best book on programming for the layman is "alice in wonderland"; but
that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman.
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Authored by: Gringo_ on Sunday, October 28 2012 @ 02:05 PM EDT |
The phone survey of nearly 1,200 adults in
the U.S. found 52
percent hadn't even heard of Windows 8
leading up to Friday's release of the
redesigned software.
Among the people who knew something about the new
operating
system, 61 percent had little or no interest in buying a new
laptop
or desktop computer running on Windows 8, according
to the poll. And only about
a third of people who've heard
about the new system believe it will be an
improvement (35
percent).
Interestingly most survey
respondents had equally
unfavourable opinions about Apple and Microsoft. 41%
percent
said they had an unfavorable or negative impression of Apple
versus
42% for Microsoft (I am turning the statistics given
around, reinterpreting
them). Link. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Tufty on Sunday, October 28 2012 @ 05:10 PM EDT |
Our local supermarket has a display stand with a new tablet, an iTab. Can't
imagine that lasting long. Android operating system, wireless keyboard/game
control available, HDMI interface.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, October 28 2012 @ 11:18 PM EDT |
First to file might have worked 100 years ago, or maybe even 50. It can't work
today.
All we have to do, is look at the stock market. You buy market access with some
time lag. Less lag, higher cost.
Someone writes a spider looking for patent applications, and on noticing a
particular application is new (to it), it proceeds to apply for this patent
everywhere in the world. Yes, every application costs money. But as there is no
requirement to prove that this is new knowledge (in mankind) and an applicant
doesn't have to reduce it to practice any more, this is just a money machine.
Trolls will look for new applications, and then try to register them worldwide
under their own name. Nobody will (easily) get a worldwide patent on anything.
And most of the money will flow to the trolls.
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Authored by: eric76 on Monday, October 29 2012 @ 05:55 AM EDT |
I'm puzzled as to why the idiotic story about the Hurricane got included here.
Is someone suing God over the hurricane?[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Gringo_ on Monday, October 29 2012 @ 11:31 AM EDT |
They have really blown this one. People
are upset.
Pre-ordered a
Microsoft Surface? So SORRY
it's late, have a voucher... Microsoft is dishing
out
vouchers to disgruntled Surface customers burned by delays
and confusion
over shipments of their pre-ordered
fondletops. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, October 29 2012 @ 04:16 PM EDT |
Microsoft has a new language that can be compiled into JavaScript. As a web
developer, my initial reaction is that one would be insane to purposely adopt a
new Microsoft browser technology. However it is supposedly open source and, from
a technical point of view, it is actually pretty nice.
I'm hoping the
fine folks of Groklaw might have some thoughts about how likely it is that this
is a bad idea, e.g. a patent or other trojan horse.
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