Authored by: hardmath on Wednesday, November 07 2012 @ 02:37 PM EST |
A place to bounce ideas and questions off the convoluted gray matter of fellow
Groklawthers.
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Recursion is the opiate of the mathists. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Wednesday, November 07 2012 @ 03:08 PM EST |
How's that ROI working out for you?
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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 Wednesday, November 07 2012 @ 03:09 PM EST |
Stories around the net tell how Dotcom's newest venture has
had cold water
poured on it by the Gabon domain name hosts.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, November 07 2012 @ 03:19 PM EST |
All the usual suspects, plus Toomas Hendrik Ilves and Tiago Peixoto.
techcrunch.com
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Authored by: Gringo_ on Wednesday, November 07 2012 @ 05:57 PM EST |
Couldn't happen to a more
deserving company!
Stock in the
world's most valuable technology
company has dropped more than 20 percent from
a record high
in September, entering what the market recognizes as bearish
ground. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, November 07 2012 @ 10:00 PM EST |
"The jury, which had sat through the five-day trial, ruled
that Apple infringed
two patents: one for a method of
creating a virtual private network (VPN)
between computers,
and another for solving DNS security issues" link [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, November 07 2012 @ 10:57 PM EST |
Case against dead man dismissed . Monty
Python Parrot defence. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: macrorodent on Wednesday, November 07 2012 @ 11:52 PM EST |
Apart from taking DRM (Digital Restrictions Management) to a whole new level,
it makes real the "telescreen" spying on you from Orwell's "1984":
http://
www.theregister.co.uk/2012/11/07/microsoft_drm_spy_patent/
The "The
Register" writer notes that "But El Reg pities the marketing team at Microsoft
that gets the task of selling this to the public". I would say probably the only
way this can make appearance in real life is if Microsoft + the entertainment
industry manages somehow to make it a mandatory feature. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Winter on Thursday, November 08 2012 @ 04:33 AM EST |
I suspect that this ought to be in the Newspicks: Windows 8 takes over Android in web traffic in
under 10 days only, iOS next?
It’s been just 10 days since
the launch of Windows 8 and the OS by Microsoft has already overtaken the
best-selling mobile OS, Android in web traffic. According to a new report,
Windows 8 users now comprise more web traffic as compared to Android which was
suggested to be the most used OS after Apple’s iOS.
This is
too weird for words. What does this measure?
Rob
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say the sun rises in the east, some say it rises in the west; the truth lies
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- FutureWeird: Windows 8 takes over Android in web traffic - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, November 08 2012 @ 05:06 AM EST
- FutureWeird: Windows 8 takes over Android in web traffic - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, November 08 2012 @ 07:50 AM EST
- Usual MS pr (vapour?) spin? - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, November 08 2012 @ 08:43 AM EST
- *IF* true, it means that Windows8 has a few big corporate customers, and they update hourly!! - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, November 08 2012 @ 10:54 AM EST
- Oh, they have that problem again. - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, November 08 2012 @ 11:27 AM EST
- FutureWeird: Windows 8 takes over Android in web traffic - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, November 08 2012 @ 12:13 PM EST
- FutureWeird: possibly this - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, November 08 2012 @ 12:35 PM EST
- FutureWeird: Windows 8 takes over Android in web traffic - Authored by: PJ on Thursday, November 08 2012 @ 01:09 PM EST
- Newspick? - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, November 08 2012 @ 01:35 PM EST
- FutureWeird: Windows 8 takes over Android in web traffic - Authored by: AntiFUD on Thursday, November 08 2012 @ 02:00 PM EST
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, November 08 2012 @ 06:39 AM EST |
Yes it is finally happening. Woo hoo!
Apparently they sought 1000 volunteers for the beta testing and got 60,000
applications in less than a week. The demand is there.
The Valve guys claim to have significantly improved linux video drivers in the
process. Games run faster on linux than on windows.
They are rolling it out initially for ubuntu, but what will work on one linux
flavour can quickly be made to work on others.
Have not been able to play steam games since my last windows machine died.
Seriously looking forward to this. Might finally get the kids to stop nagging me
about wanting windows so they can play games. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, November 08 2012 @ 12:20 PM EST |
From Reuters (link below): "Canada's Supreme Court on Thursday struck down
the patent on global pharmaceuticals giant Pfizer Inc's [redacted] erectile
dysfunction drug and opened the door to generic competition.
The court backed an appeal by Israeli-based Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd -
the world's largest generic drug maker - which argued Pfizer had been too vague
when filing its patent, which runs out in 2014 in Canada.
In a unanimous 7-0 verdict, the court said Pfizer had not provided enough
details to identify the active ingredient in [redacted]."
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/11/08/us-[redacted]-idUKBRE8A70XG20121108
They said "Too vague"... if only that kind of reality stick would hit
all the patent case judges out there!
BTW the Groklaw filters cause the Reuters link to fail unless
"[redacted]" is replaced with the proper name of the well known
pharmaceutical brand. :)[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, November 08 2012 @ 12:20 PM EST |
http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/story/2012/11/08/supreme-court-[redacted]-pfizer
.html
Simple disclosure technicality. Pfizer failed to sufficiently describe in the
patent. So bad paper work.
Patent would have expired in 2014 anyways. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: artp on Thursday, November 08 2012 @ 01:53 PM EST |
Police Chief's Custom Spam Filter Blocks Occupy
Protestors, Brutality
Complaints And (Oops) Federal Monitors
People who don't understand tech
should get help instead of
messing it up themselves.
This just in on
Techdirt: Police
Chief's Custom Spam Filter Blocks Occupy Protestors,
Brutality Complaints And (Oops) Federal
Monitors
Henderson [The federal judge] will
hear
arguments in December about whether to place the Police
Department into
the hands of a federal receiver, which
Oakland officials believe is
unprecedented.
When you've mismanaged your post so badly that
the police
department ends up in receivership via a court order, you've
probably done more than filter out anything resembling bad
news. A year of
unread email certainly didn't improve the
ongoing compliance issue. The
handling of "Occupy Oakland"
didn't instill any confidence in the public that
their law
enforcement officials were there to serve and protect.
Henderson's
willful rerouting of email pertaining to
allegations of excessive force and
brutality shows a very
ugly contempt for the citizens under his
protection.
Speaking of people who don't understand tech: Maybe
I'm just
cranky because I asked someone for a flyer
for an event, and they
directed me to the web page for that
event. Unfortunately, someone got so
creative on the
formatting that it is unreadable, it takes minutes to load
and
the links don't work. I suspect that there are things
that I am not seeing on
the page, too. So I sent a cranky
technical analysis back, quoted W3C and asked
them to email
me a copy of the flyer. Sheesh! But this brightened up my
day!
--- Userfriendly on WGA server outage:
When you're chained to an oar you don't think you should go down when the galley
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Authored by: designerfx on Thursday, November 08 2012 @ 02:25 PM EST |
So now instead of a javascript that resizes the image to hide
it, they just set the image at full resolution so that no
matter the resolution of your monitor, the samsung apology is
hidden.
http://apple.slashdot.org/story/12/11/08/190259/apple-stops-
hiding-samsung-apology-on-its-uk-site
Yep, comedy. From "hiding evidence" to "hiding evidence"[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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