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Off Topic
Authored by: JamesK on Tuesday, December 11 2012 @ 04:27 PM EST
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Even if they've only gone a little off.
}

That would describe some of the stuff in my fridge. ;-)


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Going boldly: Behind the scenes at NASA's hallowed Mission Control Center
Authored by: JamesK on Tuesday, December 11 2012 @ 04:30 PM EST
Apollo vet Sy Liebergot shows Ars how NASA got men safely to the Moon and back.

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Apollo 13, We Have a Solution
Authored by: JamesK on Tuesday, December 11 2012 @ 04:32 PM EST
Rather than hurried improvisation, saving the crew of Apollo 13 took years of preparation

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UnXis (ex-SCO) now with Belgium COO
Authored by: stats_for_all on Tuesday, December 11 2012 @ 05:41 PM EST
UnXis has recently appointed Sean Snyder as "Acting Chief Operating Officer and Chief Marketing Officer" (per Snyder's Linked In and Facebook pages, datelined Dec. 2, 2012).

On the same day, Snyder registered a new domain - Xinuos.com
Xinuos landing page
Administrative Contact, Technical Contact:
Snyder, Sean

The Avenue de Messidor address used in the whois for the Snyder sites is the very same one used by Thomas Charles Snyder to register shares of Stratos Renewable stock. Readers may remember that Stratos was a small bio-fuel company that supposedly was starting a a methanol plant in Peru. Stephen L. Norris got involved with the stock, (and appointed acquaintance Tom Snyder to run the company). Stratos got a large PIPE investment from a hedge run by Russian emigre Oil Billionaires (ex-CFO of Yukos Oil). The company delisted and vanished with no good accounting of the money from stock sales or the Russian Billionaire loans.

Sean Snyder is an acquaintance of Eric Le Blan. He is based out of Brussels, Belgium (he attended St John's International Prep school there). Snyder was previously involved in LevelSea -- a internet "social media" design company based in Belgium. It appears that LevelSea has high design values but a very limited client base, the whoi on its website lists Snyder as its admin. Snyder was also involved in TechCorps -- a Belgium based out-sourced IT firm for small businesses.

I have no idea how Bolandz fits into the new organization, or how William Broderick (sales) shares responsibility with Sean. My suspicion is that Bolandz has been left behind, and this new hire is Le Blan trying to impose some discipline on the rump of SCO.

Eric Le Blan has also appeared on the website of Techne.us Le Blan and Norris associate Leonard Brooks III are on the management page. Techne appears to be the brain child of Dennis Michaud. It original thrust was the integrated development of medical schools in Saudi Arabia and Dubai. The medical school aspect is de-emphasized in more recent web up-dates, and it now appears that Techne is promoting large scale satellite city development in Saudi Arabia.

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The looks of the iPhone, exact dimensions, etc, were considered in January 2007 to be a copy of
Authored by: SilverWave on Tuesday, December 11 2012 @ 06:38 PM EST
The looks of the iPhone, exact dimensions, etc, were considered in January 2007 to be a copy of an industrial design winning LG phone - from 2006. Apple designers cleverly copied an award-winning LG design to create the 'wow' factor in 2007, because LG had not brought this phone to the Western markets (we eventually saw the consumer version of it as the LG Chocolate, released in Europe before the iPhone launched in the USA in 2007). So LG knows fully well how to do this type of phones and form factors. They just haven't bothered to do that as a "smartphone" so far.

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1 study the source code and change it
2 make copies and distribute them
3 publish modified versions

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Linux 3.7 is now out
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, December 11 2012 @ 08:05 PM EST
https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/10/688

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Maybe Apple had a point
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, December 11 2012 @ 08:28 PM EST
My daughter yelled "Dad I'm taking your iPad, as she grabbed my PlayBook
and headed out the door". So some people can be confused by a shiny
rectangle.
Of course she's only 9.

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NHS bowel cancer test delayed by IT glitch
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, December 12 2012 @ 01:15 AM EST
"IT problems have led to a two-year delay in rolling out a bowel cancer test that could save thousands of lives, the Department of Health has admitted".

"BCSS bowel cancer screening system .. PCT Exeter System X 84 .. Open Exeter Database Server"

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Qualcomm attacks Apple, calls FRAND negotiations 'sham'
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, December 12 2012 @ 07:13 AM EST
<a
href="http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/12/11/filing.b
y.qualcomm.induced.by.call.for.comments.from.usitc/">Qualcom
m attacks Apple,
calls FRAND negotiations 'sham'</a>

<i>In response to some questions posed by the United States
International Trade Commission (USITC), wireless baseband
supplier Qualcomm has torn into Apple in a court filing,
saying that apple "should be embarassed" at the length and
depth of the iPad makers' patent infringement. The move is
curious, as Apple has been Qualcomm's largest customer for
three years. Qualcomm and other stakeholders were
encouraged, not required, to comment on a few questions the
ITC commission posed in an Apple versus Samsung complaint.
Submitters were asked to remark on the availability of
injunctive relief over standards-essential patents, and the
criteria for a fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory
(FRAND) royalty rate.</i>

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Frack this - UT retracts fracking study, author resigns
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, December 12 2012 @ 11:39 AM EST
“In studies of controversial topics, such as the impact on public health and the
environment potentially stemming from shale-gas hydraulic fracturing,
credibility hinges upon full disclosure of any potential conflicts of interest
by all participants and upon rigorous, independent reviews of findings.

This study failed in both regards”.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/fissures-appear-in-scientis
ts-assurances-about-safety-of-fracking/article6142857/

Kevin Connor, director of the Public Accountability Initiative said Dr. Groat’s
report, which the University of Texas has now withdrawn, is similar to a
fracking study at the State University of New York at Buffalo, which was also
recently withdrawn because of questions about its credibility.

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On software developers taking notes...
Authored by: Gringo_ on Wednesday, December 12 2012 @ 12:56 PM EST

Quite a bit off topic for a legal blog, but we certainly do have a lot of software developers here... Software Engineers should keep lab notebooks.

After 20 years of developing software, I wholeheartedly agree with the authors conclusions. He certainly knows what he is talking about.

To add a legal angle to my comment, more in keeping with the theme of this site, I would suggest taking notes is important for two other reasons not stated in the article. If there is ever any dispute over the authorship of the software (ie: if someone accuses you of "stealing" their code), your notes will go a long way toward proving your original authorship. Similarly if you are accused of "willful" infringement of somebody's software patent, your notes may help you disprove this hypotheses. Finally, notes are required for R&D tax credits that many countries allow. Often these credits are applied for as an afterthought.

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