Authored by: BobinAlaska on Sunday, November 11 2012 @ 02:01 PM EST |
One article I read said that the main reason Cook decided to settle is the
strength of HTC's LTE patents. Since Samsung's LTE patents seem to be stronger
than HTC's I wonder what Apple will do when Samsungs sues because of the LTE in
the iPhone 5. Hope Samsung really hammers them.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, November 11 2012 @ 03:47 PM EST |
Please advise as to whether or not I may use either Faulkner or Joyce as
authorial models for the penalty paragraph.
"William Faulkner"
(Wikipedia article)
"James Joyce"
(Wikipedia article)
P.S. The above was triggered in part by
the teapot tempest in the news picks ( "Famed quotation isn't dead -- and could even
prove costly" [CNN.com article, 11 Nov. 2012]).
P.P.S.
"Brevity is the sole of wit" may seem rather fishy to some. :-)
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, November 11 2012 @ 05:08 PM EST |
SemiAccurate
Missed this when it was posted. The
logic is solid, to which I'll add a
comment. I've dealt with Korean companies.
They have a solid sense of
honor, which being sued would
offend.
Wayne
http://madhatter.ca
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, November 11 2012 @ 07:38 PM EST |
Good old TechEye :)
It's a real Red Top.
Wayne
http://madhatter.ca
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Authored by: squib on Monday, November 12 2012 @ 07:23 AM EST |
I've noticed a lot of uncertainty about software patents in Europe.
For
those that would like a couple of 'authoritative' bookmarks for future
reference, please see below:
Patents for software? Law
and practice at the European Patent Office. PDF (2.11 MB) For those
short of time, page 21 puts it all in a nut-shell.
For more information,
one can enter search terms here at the top of the European Patent Office website
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Authored by: tiger99 on Monday, November 12 2012 @ 07:45 AM EST |
BBC A class action
suit over the need to use an authenticator costing £8.99 in order to play a game
has to be just plain stupid, regardless of whether you think that you should be
able to play games freely or not. Even supposing he gets 10,000 users to join
his suit, and gets the £8.99 refunded, which is about all that he could
reasonably expect, he will come nowhere near to covering the legal fees. Small
fry suing an entity bigger than himself, and potentially risking being
countersued for false accusations, which is where I see a resemblance to the SCO
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, November 12 2012 @ 12:16 PM EST |
Every iPhone or iPad or iPod touch that you see in the wild, they
all have processors inside that were manufactured by Samsung. Samsung, knowing
that Apple simply can’t call another company and ask them to make their chips,
raised the prices of said chips by 20% according to MarketWatch. There’s not
much Apple can do, and the report confirms that, saying Apple accepted the price
bump. It also goes on to say that Samsung made roughly 130 million processors
for Apple in 2011. This year that number is expected to surpass 200 million. And
the contract that Apple and Samsung have, it doesn’t expire until
2014.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, November 12 2012 @ 01:12 PM EST |
The price of Apple's clock knock-off has emerged -
href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/11/12/apple_payout_swiss_railways/">21M<
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, November 12 2012 @ 03:37 PM EST |
These two stories may seem to come from unlikely sources, just the first showing
online, but the authors are well respected, and
both appeared in my
morning
print edition. First via the Philadelphia Inquirer a suggestion the Beeb has got
just too big for its own good,
Cassandra Vinograd
Some observers say the BBC's massive size and rapid growth
have resulted in a
decentralized structure
without clear lines of
responsibility, leaving the door open for shoddy journalism. But while today the
BBC is a global
brand, it started out with a simple mission in November 1922:
to inform, educate and entertain.
and
second via the
Kashmir Times a suggestion that a thick (read that how you like)
layer of
middle management has got in the way of common sense, Gwynne Dyer
The BBC “suits”, who do think that they are at the centre of
everything, weren’t having any of that. If there
are aliens out there, and they
find out we are here, their first reaction will probably be to come here and eat
our children.
And then the BBC will get blamed for it. Sorry, Brian. Drop the
radio telescope and step away from it slowly.
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Authored by: Gringo_ on Monday, November 12 2012 @ 07:07 PM EST |
The new BlackBerry 10 will launch sooner than expected,
and now
we have our first look
courtesy of PCMag. In spite of problems, RIM is
still
hanging in there with 9.5% US market share - well ahead of
the
WinPhones. Their new OS is based on the venerable real
time OS QNX, and should
be pretty snappy. I just hope they
don't do something stupid and blow it, like
by making Bing
the default search, like they did with the failed PlayBook.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, November 12 2012 @ 07:31 PM EST |
"Oracle has set up a new service that allows Red Hat
Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
customers to more easily browse the
source code of changes Red Hat has made to
its version of
the Linux kernel".
"Red Hat itself used to distribute
its patches in a similar
fashion, but in early 2011 it changed its policy. It
now
distributes all of its modifications for each new version of
its kernel as
a single, giant patch file, making it harder
for RHEL users to identify
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Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Monday, November 12 2012 @ 09:33 PM EST |
Steven Sinofsky no longer at MS.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, November 12 2012 @ 09:43 PM EST |
Is there any unbiased and sufficiently knowledgeable
individual here who can
tell what this is really about?
ref: "The UK faces a
"firestorm" of international litigation
if the government's
copyright land-grab goes ahead, American artists and
photographers have warned".
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Authored by: UncleVom on Monday, November 12 2012 @ 10:23 PM EST |
http://appleinsider.com/articles/12/11/12/apples-top-
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, November 12 2012 @ 10:31 PM EST |
The president of Microsoft Windows and Windows Live operations is leaving.
http://news.yahoo.com/microsoft-says-windows-head-sinofsky-leaving-020337266--fi
nance.html
Sinofsky has several times been mentioned as the heir to Ballmer and it was he,
not Ballmer, that did the Windows 8 unveiling IIRC.
Any connection with the "modest" Win8 numbers...?
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Authored by: jbb on Monday, November 12 2012 @ 11:01 PM EST |
A while back I switched all my email over to Gmail. Now I have problems sending
a small attachment. I was trying to send a 17K tarball but it kept bouncing
with the message:
Our system detected an illegal attachment on
your message. Please [sic]
I'm not the first person to run
into this problem. This is not acceptable to me. I don't want to play Russian
Roulette with my attachments. I was trying to send Linux distro development
stuff from one Linux system to another. If a 17K tarball triggers their virus
filter then the situation seems hopeless to me. My guess is the problem was due
to executable scripts in the tarball although I've been sending tarballs like
this for years without problem. My sentiments to Google about this would
grossly violate the Groklaw posting rules.
I think I need to switch email
providers yet again. ***sigh***
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ourselves that there are more contexts
than the one we’re in now — the one that we think is reality.
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Authored by: Tim on Tuesday, November 13 2012 @ 01:37 AM EST |
"AUSTRALIAN business owners have accused Facebook of holding them to
ransom by
effectively forcing them to pay to communicate with their
followers."
Businesses have reported a dramatic decline in the
number of people
viewing their posts since the US social media giant last month
began
pushing its paid promoted posts service, in which users pay up to
$400 to have each status update appear prominently in their audience's
newsfeed.
Chris Cassella, managing director of Science Alert, said Facebook
informed him recently that unless he signed up for the service, there was
only
a very small chance his posts would reach all of his two million
fans.
"Facebook said in their marketing press release that there was a 15
per
cent chance my audience would see my posts show up in their newsfeed,''
Mr
Cassella said. "It's ugly. It is an ugly business tactic.''
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, November 13 2012 @ 03:33 AM EST |
Arstechnica
asks the question , since it seems a lot of their popular apps
are not taking advantage of
the extra screen area. Or maybe the devs are simply
waiting for the
iPhone 5S.
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Authored by: tiger99 on Tuesday, November 13 2012 @ 04:53 AM EST |
BBC Not surprising,
I think, with Windoze 8 doomed to complete failure, in the workplace at least. I
do know that a few less knowledgeable people are actually buying systems for
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, November 13 2012 @ 10:03 AM EST |
How do you register on this site? It seems to have been shut off
temporarily. I even sent an email in. Not sure how else one
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, November 13 2012 @ 11:37 AM EST |
The article actually posits that the government has made some people
so fearful of being arrested that they won't do any downloading from
legitimate sources any more -- just in case it's tainted. So even if they
can cut out piracy (doubtful) there's little evidence to suggest much increase
in commerce as a result.
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Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Tuesday, November 13 2012 @ 03:01 PM EST |
The judge commented on it.
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