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Apple Intentionally Tries to Hide Samsung Statement on U.K. Homepage Using JavaScript
Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, November 04 2012 @ 01:14 AM EST

The courts insisted that Apple issue a revised statement on their U.K. website within 48 hours, and they’ve certainly complied. That’s not all they’ve done, though. Apple’s also included a bit of JavaScript that intentionally tries to hide it.

http://www.geekosyst em.com/apple-samsung-javascript/
http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/12kcpo/appl es_new_clarification_on_samsung_copyright/
Apologies for double post

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EFF asks for help with Oracle-Google API copyrightability appeal
Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, November 04 2012 @ 07:12 AM EST
Techcrunch

Sorry for the repost from the last article, but didn't want this to get missed as I'm pretty sure it would be of interest here. If anyone with an account could post a thread / article on this it might get better visibility. (I understand anonymous posts often get filtered out.)

Seems very important that oracle's appeal does not succeed

Stevos

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Skype hands 16-year-old's personal information to IT company
Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, November 04 2012 @ 07:43 AM EST
AMSTERDAM - Skype illegally distributed a user's personal information to a private company during a police investigation into Anonymous-sanctioned cyberattacks on PayPal.

 

Source: http://www.nu.nl/internet/2950158/skype-hands- 16-ye ar-olds-personal-information-to-it-company.html

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Ethiopian kids hack OLPCs in 5 months with zero instruction
Authored by: Alan(UK) on Sunday, November 04 2012 @ 08:11 AM EST
Ethiopian kids hack OLPCs in 5 months with zero instruction

Will Nicholas Negroponte please send one to Michael Gove MP, Secretary of State for Education.

He will probably complain that the kids only did so well because the course was 'dumbed down' and does not count towards the schools' [what schools!] league tables.

He does, of course, approve of the course being taught by unqualified teachers. [Not to be confused with his policy of making entrance requirements higher for qualified teachers.]

He might just decide to sack all the teachers and replace them with this 'latest idea from America' - if he can get the box open.

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Microsoft is nailing up its own coffin from the inside.

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U.S. says Kim DotCom swore not to recreate MegaUpload
Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, November 04 2012 @ 04:26 PM EST
cnet.com

So he proposes another variation of the business model,
domiciled in another jurisdiction. I guess Dotcom doesn't
fancy himself as a modern day Compte de Monte Cristo,
waiting while procedural delay and case mismanagement
substitute for properly found penalties.

Putting his servers at the remotest corner of the internet
is an interesting solution. But local response to his ploy
to drag his own cable across the Pacific to the US is
Good Luck With That.

msn.money    gizmodo.au

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Politics vs the Court (short term judgments wanted by special interests).
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, November 05 2012 @ 09:22 AM EST
Politics vs the Court (short term judgments wanted by
special interests).

There has been a general decay of the EDUCATION needed for
the US system to survive. John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
agreed that the survival of the democratic republic depended
on one thing.

Education. So, now the courts are under attack because:
A: Society has a lack of understanding of them
B: The courts have brought this on themselves by being
invaded by lawyers with their own special interests (who
favor those special interests when they get to become a
judge). Society is not blind to these failings of what
needs to be an impartial judge for a FAIR TRIAL. Part of
this is the judge need to be EDUCATED and experienced OR
else able to learn.. for example - learn about tech. If
they are clueless they are guessing, and those in the know,
KNOW the judges are guessing. It's not just about tech
where the bench is making historic mistakes.

For example: I know of a case where an old man was in an
accident where the other ran a stop sign, the other was hurt
bad, the other also had not insurance and the vehicle was
not even registered. The other sued the old man for 5
million dollars. The old man had not even close to what is
needed to cover such a suit if it went against him (stress
for the old man for three years that the case took to come
to trial as the old man's insurance company defended this
claim against the old man - they could have just paid what
the limits of the policy was and walked away). The RULING
from the court was that the old man was not at fault, so
owed nothing to the other party = ZERO. However, in the
final ruling from the judge... the JUDGE REQUIRED the old
man's insurance company to PAY all the legal bills of the
other party to the tune of $80,000. If the insurance
company's lawyers cost as much, then the insurance company
paid out $160,000 (well about the policy limits that the old
man carried, but defense costs are built into the policy and
are not part of the limits). SO - THE JUDGE TOOK CARE
THAT THE OTHER LAWYER WAS PAID, however, the claimant, got
nothing. THAT is why we need tort reform. And until the
lawyers understand that the public is fed up with the short
self serving parts of the judicial system, then you will see
attacks continue on the court system.

It's time the courts also did their part to clean up their
house. If they don't, then we all will continue to suffer.

These software patent cases are just a continuing example of
how bad things at the courts have become (judges guessing
should not be allowed).

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Windows RT takes up 16gb of bloat on a surface tablet
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, November 05 2012 @ 01:44 PM EST

Meaning that a 32gb tablet has only 16gb free by the time the user turns it on for the first time.

The register

It seems the future of windows is massive scale bloatware. I never saw that one coming...

Stevos

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Federal judge tosses Apple patent lawsuit against Motorola
Authored by: DannyB on Monday, November 05 2012 @ 03:40 PM EST
Federal judge tosses Apple patent lawsuit against Motorola

Forget about that trial in Apple's patent case against Google's Motorola. The judge just threw the case out in a big setback for Apple.

A U.S. district court judge in Wisconsin has just dismissed Apple's patent case against Motorola Mobility, now a Google unit.

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Peter Thiel, Bill Gates, Khosla Get Behind Energy Storage Start-Up LightSail in $37M Deal
Authored by: tiger99 on Monday, November 05 2012 @ 03:49 PM EST
Link

This has as much credibility as the other energy idea in which Gates is involved, the travelling wave nuclear reactor for which, apparently, no nuclear safety regulator in the entire world is prepared to allow a prototype. I believe they have very good reasons indeed, as the technology has been known since the early 1950s but none of the experts in the field have been foolish enough to build one.

There are plenty of other energy storage methods which work well. Of course, none of them are patentable, being mostly very old and requiring no novel technology, so he can't get a monopoly on any of them. As it happens, simple gravitational pumped storage is very efficient where the terrain permits, and compressed air storage in old mine workings is also very good, and that is before we start thinking about batteries, reversible fuel cells, flywheels, and many more.

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Kim Dotcom now plans to give New Zealand free broadband pipe
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, November 05 2012 @ 04:27 PM EST
Arstechnica has a pretty picture of a cable landing at Los Angeles, but I've trimmed the subject line in anticipation of the cable eventually going via Nicaragua, or somesuch. The previous plan of Pacific Fibre failed for, among other reasons, Huawei being a major equipment supplier to New Zealand's internal fibre upgrade, and other Chinese investors were behind the ocean cable, thus provoking the US government to warn off potential US investors and operators of the US cable termination. Now comes Mr Dotcom with money of unknown cleanliness, and besides he's a bogeyman for at least this season. Telegeography haven't received much press in New Zealand, and conventional wisdom is that the existing Southern Cross cable has sufficient bandwidth for a while yet. What we do need, and this has not been raised in any of the arguments I have read, is network redundancy in the form of another physical connection.

It would be yet another bizarre twist in geopolitics if the South Pacific is to be denied network robustness to satisfy US jingoism towards Chinese telecomms companies, and to prevent US citizens violating US copyright laws uploading media files to offshore servers.

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