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Letters of The Law: The Year In Tech Law and Policy
Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, December 30 2012 @ 09:23 AM EST
From the remarkable battle over the Stop Online Piracy Act to the massive public backlash against Internet surveillance in Canada, law and technology issues garnered headlines all year long. A look back at 2012 from A to Z

by Michael Geist

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Is it a watch, is it a phone, or
Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, December 30 2012 @ 07:22 PM EST
is it just a mp3 player. The article can't make up its mind, other than
to speculate it's not simply a bluetooth controller for something
bigger you carry in your pocket. And I never seem to take away
anything substantial from the discussions here as to whether
Dick Tracy would be prior art.

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Something Doesn't Add Up - Too much medicine relies on fatally flawed research
Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, December 30 2012 @ 09:33 PM EST
Prompted by soaring health-care costs and increasingly sophisticated analytical tools, more and more medical treatments are taking their turn under the microscope. One driving force is John P.A. Ioannidis, chief of the Stanford Prevention Research Center. He works with colleagues around the globe to scrutinize treatments that account for huge chunks of the health- care tab but that are, he says, virtually worthless and sometimes harmful.

Ioannidis says financial influence is one of several factors that can, deliberately or unintentionally, skew study design and methodology and undermine the validity of published research findings.

Joan O'Connell Hamilton, Stanford Magazine

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    The NewsCorp spying network ..
    Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, December 30 2012 @ 09:49 PM EST
    "One of the lesser known features of the ring of agents that former Scotland Yard Commander Ray Adams ran for NewsCorp/NDS was that he had an informant placed at Cambridge University to spy on its cryptology work". link

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    Wrist watch phone (Apple) but it's been done already
    Authored by: complex_number on Monday, December 31 2012 @ 01:55 AM EST
    You ask if Apple will try to patent the device.

    I think that is unlikely.

    however they might apply for some patents on the UI. I am sure that they will
    have a huge number of problems to solve to make something that is at least half
    decently usable. This is where there might be a lot of things to patent.

    Remember that just because you might have seen some ham fisted actor in a 'B'
    movie using a prop that looks like a watch or mentioned in an SF story does not
    mean that parts of the interface can't be patened because of this so called
    prior-art.
    Neither the prop nor the SF story would describe the detail of the interface in
    such a way as to preclude anyone else from applying for a patent on improvements
    to the device.

    Actually making a device also won't stop someone else from making one as long as
    it is sufficiently different they are home free. Please read the story of how
    the Boulton & Watt patents on the steam condenser were circumvented by the
    Cornish (and others)


    ---
    Ubuntu & 'apt-get' are not the answer to Life, The Universe & Everything which
    is of course, "42" or is it 1.618?

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    2012: The year Irish newspapers tried to destroy the web
    Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, December 31 2012 @ 10:53 AM EST
    Not sure if this has been covered before but this is from the law firm involved on the accused's side :

    2012: The year Irish newspapers tried to destroy the web

    It makes the actions against Google in Belgium and Germany look small in comparison

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    Except ...
    Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, December 31 2012 @ 02:30 PM EST
    I looked at this a while back and found to my horror and disgust,
    the only officially sanctioned way to make a USB bootable stick
    is on a Windows machine. unetbootin didn't want to do it for me.
    Also I wonder how they've treated the version with Adobe Reader...

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    US Navy buys Linux to guide drone fleet
    Authored by: myNym on Monday, December 31 2012 @ 03:53 PM EST
    I apologize that this is oldish news (8th June 2012), but I just came across this and had to smile. :-)

    The US Navy has signed off on a $27,883,883 contract from military contractor Raytheon to install Linux ground control software for its fleet of vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) drones.
    While the US military has been a growing user of Linux, the contract might also have something to do with the swabbies learning from the mistakes made by the flyboys and girls in the US Air Force. After a malware attack on the Air Force's Windows-based drone-control system last year, there has been a wholesale move to Linux for security reasons.
    Link < p> "Warms the cockles of my heart." :-)

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    Microsoft finishes just 45 cents from 52-week low
    Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, January 01 2013 @ 01:36 AM EST
    MS had a strong first few months last year. We'll see if it happens again.

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    European Commission attacks Open Source ..
    Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, January 01 2013 @ 01:35 PM EST
    "the EU has actually gone backwards on open standards in recent times. Again, as long-suffering readers may recall, the original European Interoperability Framework also required royalty-free licensing, but what was doubtless a pretty intense wave of lobbying in Brussels overturned that, and EIF v2 ended up pushing FRAND, which effectively locks out open source - the whole point of the exercise. link

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    And now for something pressing
    Authored by: PJ on Tuesday, January 01 2013 @ 01:54 PM EST
    BJ left a comment that might have a url that needed to be split. A member is saying the page is scrolling, so I'm trying to delete any such comments and tell you what they said. Here's BJ's comment: FSF Campaigning to Stop UEFI.

    [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]

    • Observations - Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, January 01 2013 @ 03:01 PM EST
    Off topic here please
    Authored by: PJ on Tuesday, January 01 2013 @ 02:15 PM EST
    Wrist watch phone (Apple) but it's been done already
    Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, December 30 2012 @ 05:04 PM EST
    See here:-

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/
    apple/9771472/Apple-iWatch-latest-
    rumours-
    suggest-a-wearable-revolution.html

    But you can already buy such things and they've been on sale in Asia for some
    time. Are they going to try to claim 'patent/copyrights' on that too?

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    F Lee Bailey has been denied the ability to practice law in Maine
    Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, January 02 2013 @ 01:48 AM EST
    Not even worth a clicky.
    Bailey passed the Maine bar exam last winter. He was previously licensed in
    Massachusetts and Florida but was disbarred in those states for mishandling $6
    million

    http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/01/01/oj-simpson-patty-hearst-attorney-denied-to-
    practice-law-in-maine/

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