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Scientific fraud is rife: it's time to stand up for good science
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, November 02 2012 @ 01:16 PM EDT
The way we fund and publish science encourages fraud. A forum about academic misconduct aims to find practical solutions

Pete Etchells is a biological psychologist and Suzi Gage is a translational epidemiology PhD student. Both are at the University of Bristol

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2012/nov/02/scientific-fraud-good-science ?commentpage=all#start-of-comments

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Re:Bloomberg News article about Samsung/Apple
Authored by: squib on Friday, November 02 2012 @ 01:41 PM EDT
The reporter that first broke the news of yesterday Samsung UK (EU) court's Apple for Direction is a British legal reporter with an impressive CV (i.e., better than mine). Link

I presume he was actually in attendance from the way his articles were written and so quickly posted on two sites – long before any other news organisation picked up on the out-come (they may too have all relied on Bloomburg's syndication of his report).

As Bloomberg invites people to contact him and give his email address at the bottom of the article. I would think he might be persuaded to post here on GL with fuller account of Samsung's Appeal for Direction.

This may contrast the difference modus operandi from the US system – if any. Also, he could describe the body language, facial expressions and things, that other highly edited accounts of Thursdays proceedings left out. In a British court (EU community court), it was likely a short exchange of minutes rather than hours.

What do others think. Would you like a fuller picture of EU court proceedings? Email address here at bottom of article:
Bloomburge page. Link

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Federal Agencies to Tighten Internet Access During Elections
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, November 02 2012 @ 02:23 PM EDT
No, not the US. But in China they have different ways of doing things.
A spokesman at China's Ministry of Information and Industry Technology last week denied rumors that officials planned to shut down Internet access during the congress, though he added they would be conducting maintenance during that time. "You can't really say it's 'closing down the Internet,' " spokesman Zhang Feng said at a news conference. "But to guarantee the safety and speed of Internet communication during the 18th Party Congress, it's true that we've started doing some work to ensure things run smoothly."
WSJ

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Valve: Linux is more viable than Windows 8 for gaming
Authored by: kuroshima on Friday, November 02 2012 @ 02:48 PM EDT

source

Maybe it's because they expect to lose a lot of money from the build in Windows Store, but Valve has been moving a lot to help Linux gaming. Even if you don't game, you're getting the benefits from this, since they're putting pressure on the GPU manufacturers to get their drivers up to speed, and many Linux desktop environments are composited and use 3D acceleration (not sure about the lightweight ones, but KDE/GNOME/Unity are quite 3d heavy)

If Valve manages to make the big studios start releasing their games for Linux (and if they already release them for MacOSX, they should not have to do that much more work to get them working on Linux), Microsoft will start loosing revenue in a rapid fashion.

Desura will be the greatest looser here, because right now they are the only game in town for Linux gaming, but even they will benefit from more people using Linux to game, and from improved drivers.

By the way, the Unity 3d engine (not to be confused with the Unity desktop environment) already works under Linux, making porting to Linux much easier for those using it.

If Valve can make Linux the go to platform for high performance gaming (because the Linux kernel is superior when it comes to memory management, etc etc), then the Linux desktop will get a lot of new blood that will also use it for everyday tasks, thus reducing the monopoly hold on the younger generations. Linux has already won in embeded and server spaces. Once gaming falls our way (and I know more than one game that runs smoother on WinE than it does on Windows), <bright eyed wild hope>it will only be a matter of time until home desktop also goes that way. From there, Enterprise will eventually follow. After all, Enterprise already has all the tools it needs.</bright eyed wild hope>

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Off topic discussions
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, November 02 2012 @ 03:53 PM EDT
Saw a TV ad for a Canon DSLR this evening. It featured an 'in camera' zoom facility driven by a touch screen and finger and thumb gesture.

Have they licensed from Apple I wonder or is it a new patent because it's used in a camera !!!

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The Fun Starts
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, November 02 2012 @ 04:49 PM EDT
What's the price of a new Windows 8 zero-day vulnerability?
French security company Vupen is selling a vulnerability
in Microsoft's latest operation system and browser - Computerworld

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UK Gov - Open Standards
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, November 02 2012 @ 05:30 PM EDT
UK Gov moves towards open standards


Heres hoping this gains traction and the various depts, listen.

Especially the royalty free component.

rgds

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Groklaw themes
Authored by: kuroshima on Friday, November 02 2012 @ 06:34 PM EDT
What theme are you guys using? I had not noticed that the
website supported multiple themes until I saw some complaints
that some post broke some of the themes. I'm currently using
grokporate, but the less people say about my aesthetics
tastes the better ;)

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Linus tries KDE again
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, November 02 2012 @ 06:38 PM EDT
I just saw this on google+
Linu s Torvalds

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Over 60K electrical workers sent for Sandy relief
Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Friday, November 02 2012 @ 07:53 PM EDT
They are not all directly dealing with lines
or transmission equipment, but it does show
the level of effort and commitment from
the utilities outside of the directly affected
area hardest hit in the NJ/NY area.



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You are being MICROattacked, from various angles, in a SOFT manner.

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Photographer Sues Apple For Stealing Her Eye
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, November 02 2012 @ 07:55 PM EDT

http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/10/photographer-sues-apple-for-stealing-her-eye/

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Finding Legacy UnixWare Installation Media? - Buhahaha!
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, November 03 2012 @ 02:57 AM EDT

There is a story on Slashdot that is rather funny. It's called Ask Slashdot: Finding Legacy UnixWare Installation Media? .

"We have an old (ancient) Unisys server in production that hosts a legacy system and are attempting to virtualize it. Unfortunately we don't have a generic UnixWare (2.1.2) installation CD, just a Unisys-specific one, and given the recent unpleasantness (see Groklaw for details), SCO isn't much of an option. We're not looking at pirating it (as above, we do still have the Unisys-specific media), but do need a generic copy of UnixWare. What options, if any, are available?"

I'm now thinking of all those people in similar straights, who have Unixware or SCO Openserver systems, who had their heads in the sand for (how many?) years, and who don't have an escape plan. It's a very good lesson in vendor lock-in, and why every long-lived software system needs to have a migration strategy.

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