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RIAA Hammers Google With DMCA Takedowns In Six Strikes Prelude
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, November 19 2012 @ 10:00 PM EST
Very soon the six strikes anti-piracy program will kick off in the United States but the RIAA isn’t just sitting back and presuming that it will be an anti-piracy cure-all. Since early November the recording industry group has massively upped the number of DMCA notices it issues to make content harder to find. From an average of between 200,000 and 240,000 URL requests sent every week to Google, the RIAA has just posted 463,000 and 666,000 in successive weeks.
enigmax, TorrentFreak

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Congrats Inuss...
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, November 19 2012 @ 10:51 PM EST
A perfect four-of-four. Awesome.

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Oprah Tweets Love for Surface, from an iPad
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, November 20 2012 @ 02:22 AM EST
The Register

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Microsoft wants to denigrate your iPhone and Android again
Authored by: Gringo_ on Tuesday, November 20 2012 @ 02:44 AM EST

The phony "Smoked By Windows Phone" challenge was broadly panned after it was learned that it was rigged. Now M$FT is back at it again...

Microsoft, over recent times, has been keen to humiliate [] people in public. First, there was the "Smoked By Windows Phone" challenge, in which Redmond's indefatigable Ben Rudolph proved that Microsoft's phones were so much faster than iPhones or Samsungs.

With the advent of Windows Phone 8, you are invited to a new challenge. This is called "Meet Your Match." It is similar to the "Smoked By Windows Phone" challenge in that Rudolph and friends will prove that your iPhone 5s and Androids are mere lumps of plastic.

There are link to the new Microsoft ads, which are in the typical distasteful, nauseating Microsoft style. Microsoft just have no class at all. Remember when Nokia was found out photo-shopping an image that was supposed to be a real photo from its new camera? Maybe some good sleuth out there can similarly expose Microsoft's latest scam. I suspect the trick was slight of hand - or rather, a slight change in angle to make a worse image, at least in the first case.

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China Tightens Copyright Law
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, November 20 2012 @ 03:23 AM EST
For Orphan Works, which in China also includes popular works
written anonymously. Now the anonymous authors can be paid
via their writers collective....

People's Daily

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Is Webkit the new IE6?
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, November 20 2012 @ 03:39 AM EST
Redmond hopes not.

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Jacob Nielsen: Windows 8 — Disappointing Usability for Both Novice and Power Users
Authored by: macrorodent on Tuesday, November 20 2012 @ 05:56 AM EST

A very critical review of Windows 8 usability here:

http://www.useit.com/alertbo x/windows-8.html

(Nielsen is not just any flamer, but a recognized usability expert).

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My new laptop is a Samsung
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, November 20 2012 @ 08:27 AM EST
Not because I think it's best, or because I like it
especially, but because of Apple.

While I was shopping around, I overheard a salesman telling
another customer not to buy Apple products because of Apple
v. Samsung, and explaining about rounded corners. They
wanted a tablet and were diverted from buying Apple.

Apple, Microsoft got on the wrong side of the public. Take
the lesson. You can't make money from people who oppose or
dislike your company.

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Why Google 'vertical' search shouldn't face antitrust action
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, November 20 2012 @ 12:22 PM EST
commentary-One of the areas where Google has attracted antitrust attention is "vertical" search. There are good reasons why it shouldn't be hindered from offering this.

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WikiLeaks: EU orders new legislation to regulate credit card companies ability to refuse service
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, November 20 2012 @ 01:58 PM EST
This regulation follows the unilateral and rightless cutoff of donations to
WikiLeaks, as well as similar trampling on small entrepreneurs. The Pirate Party
took the initiative to the new regulation.

It has become an increasingly large problem that Visa, MasterCard, and Paypal
control the valve to any money flow on the planet. Today, the European
Parliament established this as a clear problem, and initiated regulation of the
companies, limiting and strictly regulating their right to refuse service.

The Pirate Party was the initiator of this regulation, following the damaging
cutoff of donations to WikiLeaks after said organization had performed
journalism that was embarrassing to certain governments.

http://falkvinge.net/2012/11/20/europarliament-scolds-visa-mastercard-paypal-for
-killing-wikileaks-donations-initiates-regulation/

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Analysts turn negative on Windows 8 prospects
Authored by: Gringo_ on Tuesday, November 20 2012 @ 02:04 PM EST

The tide is turning. Just a few days ago, it seems, though there were plenty of criticisms of Window8, most analysts were saying "...but it's still too soon to call Windows8 DOA". Now doubt has been replaced by resignation - Win8 is DOA, and will impact negatively on PC sales.

The first reason Deutsche Bank listed today for cutting its PC estimates this quarter was a "lackluster initial uptake of Windows 8," in a research note from analyst Chris Whitmore.

After citing the impact of amorphous factors like "macro weakness" and the "fiscal cliff," Whitmore continues. As in past cycles we expect the introduction of a new Microsoft OS to spur an increase in PC demand. However...we believe Win8 will have a more muted impact than prior cycles for a several reasons: 1) Win8 reviews are mixed due to a confusing UI; 2) there is a lack of Enterprise interest in Window 8; 3) tablet form factor complicates positioning (Win8 vs. Windows RT), 4) continued substitution of PCs by iPads/tablets 4).

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If you are not paying for it, you're not the customer; you're the product being sold
Authored by: IMANAL_TOO on Tuesday, November 20 2012 @ 03:59 PM EST
www.metafil ter.com/95152/Userdriven-discontent#3256046:
If you are not paying for it, you're not the customer; you're the product being sold.
posted by blue_beetle at 1:41 PM on August 26, 2010
While catchy put, I don't think blue_beetle knew about Linux, or the GPL.



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Question for gibus about streaming the Santa Clara conference
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, November 20 2012 @ 06:44 PM EST
The previous message was:
> Another stream is available
> Authored by: gibus on Friday, November 16 2012 @ 03:59 PM > EST
> You can watch the conference with Free software (mplayer, > vlc...) on
> mms://ammsmedia.scu.edu/mobile2

I was at the conference and took notes about which I am supposed to report. I
would not mind all if I can also have this resource available for comparison.
But, ...

Here is what I get. Perhaps I am not following the instructions correctly, so
further advice would be appreciated:

kilgota@khayyam:~$ mplayer mms://ammsmedia.scu.edu/mobile2
MPlayer 1.1-4.7.1 (C) 2000-2012 MPlayer Team

Playing mms://ammsmedia.scu.edu/mobile2.
STREAM_ASF, URL: mms://ammsmedia.scu.edu/mobile2
Resolving ammsmedia.scu.edu for AF_INET6...

Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: ammsmedia.scu.edu
Resolving ammsmedia.scu.edu for AF_INET...
Connecting to server ammsmedia.scu.edu[129.210.252.69]: 1755...

Connected
read error:: Operation now in progress
pre-header read failed
Resolving ammsmedia.scu.edu for AF_INET6...

Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: ammsmedia.scu.edu
Resolving ammsmedia.scu.edu for AF_INET...
Connecting to server ammsmedia.scu.edu[129.210.252.69]: 80...

Server returned 500:Internal Server Error
Failed to parse header.
Failed, exiting.
Resolving ammsmedia.scu.edu for AF_INET6...

Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: ammsmedia.scu.edu
Resolving ammsmedia.scu.edu for AF_INET...
Connecting to server ammsmedia.scu.edu[129.210.252.69]: 80...

Cache size set to 320 KBytes
Cache fill: 0.04% (117 bytes)



Exiting... (End of file)
kilgota@khayyam:~$

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Look Who Works For Apple!
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, November 20 2012 @ 11:13 PM EST
Truth is stranger than fiction:

http://imgur.com/gallery/Swtc9

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