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Paul Thurrott: Windows 7 was a lie. Netbooks [...] destroyed it from within
Authored by: SilverWave on Wednesday, January 09 2013 @ 02:39 AM EST
Windows 7 was a lie.

In a privately distributed report, NPD concludes that “netbooks did an incalculable amount of damage to the PC market,” driving average selling prices down at an unsustainable rate.
Long-time Windows watcher Paul Thurrott, however, sees a different picture in NPD's data. Thurrott argues that Microsoft looked to the lowly netbook to prop up its sagging Windows franchise, back with Windows 7, and is paying the price now:

It’s not pat to say that the Windows PC market went for volume over quality, because it did: Many of those 20 million Windows 7 licenses each month—too many, I think—went to machines that are basically throwaway, plastic crap. Netbooks didn’t just rejuvenate the market just as Windows 7 appeared, they also destroyed it from within: Now consumers expect to pay next to nothing for a Windows PC. Most of them simply refuse to pay for more expensive Windows PCs.
'Not even Santa could save Microsoft's Windows 8'

Explaining Windows 8 PC Sales Over the Holidays It's time to stop denying that Windows 8 is off to a slow start by Paul Thurrott

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RMS: The 4 Freedoms
0 run the program for any purpose
1 study the source code and change it
2 make copies and distribute them
3 publish modified versions

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UPDATE: No, You Can't Carpool With a Corporation
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, January 09 2013 @ 08:30 AM EST

Think this falls under 'Really Off-Topic'

Lowering the Bar

He does have a point of sorts. Should be interesting to watch his appeals.

Wayne
http://madhatter.ca

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Linguistics Identifies Anonymous Users
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, January 09 2013 @ 08:45 AM EST

Looks like it is time for a Free Software Anonimizer Project, the idea being to scrub documents and posts of identifiable words.

Linguistics Identifies Anonymous Users

I'm not being facetious. On-line Anonimity is important. If you can be identified by word choice, you aren't anonymous.

Wayne
http://madhatter.ca

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Steubenville Rape Crew Are Outraged That Their Character is Being Questioned
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, January 09 2013 @ 12:57 PM EST

Totally off-topic, but I know women who were raped, and too terrified to report it. So I tend to believe the girl's side (note that she was unconsious the entire evening, and only learned what happened when shown the images posted to Twitter and Instagram).

Yes, it is important that the accused get a fair trial. It is also important to let other potential victims what happened. Rape and/or Sexual Assault is a widely under-reported crime. Some studies have indicated that nearly 50% of all women will undergo an assault in their life time.

And that's really horrible.

Ste ubenville Rape Crew Are Outraged That Their Character is Being Questioned

So rather than 'questioning their character, I look at it as asking more victims to come forward. Rapists rarely have only one victim.

Wayne
http://madhatter.ca

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Patent trolls want $1,000—for using scanners
Authored by: rcsteiner on Wednesday, January 09 2013 @ 02:22 PM EST
Ars Technica - Patent trolls want $1,000—for using scanners Fascinating. :-(

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-Rich Steiner >>>---> Mableton, GA USA
The Theorem Theorem: If If, Then Then.

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Linux Powered Rifle Integrates with iPad for accurate shots
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, January 09 2013 @ 06:37 PM EST

Looks super hi-tech, but where's the challenge?

$17,000 Linux-powered rifle brings “auto-aim” to the real world

Wayne
http://madhatter.ca

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Anonymous petitions U.S. to see DDoS attacks as legal protest
Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Wednesday, January 09 2013 @ 11:47 PM EST
Link

The loose-knit group of hackers submitted a petition to President Obama this week asking that distributed denial-of-service attacks be recognized as a legal form of protest.

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$99 iPhone - not spam, yet
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, January 10 2013 @ 12:17 AM EST
Bloomberg   WSJ   arstechnica

New candidates for the MacRumors list?

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Must be Nice to have absolutely no ethics
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, January 10 2013 @ 02:00 AM EST
Guess who's rearing their head in the shareholder lawsuit against the government for bailing out AIG, and asking for too much in exchange for keeping the shareholders from have ZERO return? Mr. David Boies. He and the shareholders of AIG are, get this, suing the U.S. Government for bailing out AIG and saving their investments from being worth nothing and instead insisting on high interest rates to repay the bailout.

I guess having 0 ethics get's you quite a bit of cash in the bank at least. Disgusts me though.

AIG declines to sue government for saving them from non-existence

MDT - Not logged in, on the road

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  • The pattern - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, January 10 2013 @ 12:15 PM EST
OLPC announces XO Tablet and XO 4.0 touch screen laptop
Authored by: tiger99 on Thursday, January 10 2013 @ 12:08 PM EST
The H

Nice to see that despite competition from cheap Chinese trash, they have still been beavering away at designing new and better products.

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Nokia's Q4 Results: A Last Moment Of Hope... Before It All Collapses?
Authored by: SilverWave on Thursday, January 10 2013 @ 01:11 PM EST
Nokia's Q4 Results: A Last Moment Of Hope... Before It All Collapses?

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RMS: The 4 Freedoms
0 run the program for any purpose
1 study the source code and change it
2 make copies and distribute them
3 publish modified versions

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US says that any packet that crosses US territory gives the US jurisdiction regardless of source
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, January 10 2013 @ 02:30 PM EST
In a world where data now moves effortlessly between computers on the Internet without regard for geographic borders, is the appearance of a website on a computer screen sufficient for a court to claim that a trademark has been used in the country? Is the use of a computer server enough to assert jurisdiction over a non-resident?

Two recent cross-border cases -- one Canadian and one U.S. which both pitted a U.S. company against a Canadian individual -- found that it is.

Michael Geist, The Tyee

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Text Book Manufacturers sue Open Text Book Company for Copyright Infringement
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, January 10 2013 @ 02:58 PM EST

The allegation according to Slate, isn't that they copied the books, or any text from the books, but that they copied the chapter titles and order.

Article on Slate

I haven't read the full article, haven't had time yet, but since it is a copyright lawsuit, I thought I'd post it quick.

Wayne
http://madhatter.ca

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We seem to have lost a thread...
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, January 11 2013 @ 07:00 AM EST
What happened to the "legally armed citizenry leads to less violent
crime" thread?

Did someone manage to answer my question about finding somewhere with high crime
rates and a high proportion of legal gun owners? I really do want to see an
example of that, it might change my opinion on the whole issue.

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Beta for Chrome on Android now available, plus......
Authored by: tiger99 on Friday, January 11 2013 @ 08:13 AM EST
The H

That is the beta version 25. But it gets even better. Stable Chrome 24 supports MathML and closes security holes, and gains a flash player too, so it seems that Chrome is going to be the browser of choice for many.

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VM Depot brings more open source to Microsoft's Azure
Authored by: tiger99 on Friday, January 11 2013 @ 08:26 AM EST
The H

This I do not like at all. Why does anyone need to run OSS on a bug-infested, closed Monopolistic cloud? The usual spin says it all:

"VM Depot is another illustration of how the Azure platform is effectively open," said Gianugo Rabellino, Senior Director for Open Source Communities at Microsoft Open Technologies.
Oh, and someone who understands Azure, please re-write the Wikipedia entry, as it currently has the warning:
This article appears to be written like an advertisement. Please help improve it by rewriting promotional content from a neutral point of view and removing any inappropriate external links. (November 2012)
That is of course because it has been written to be an advert, by either M$ or the fanbois. I hate to see something potentially good like Wikipedia polluted by stuff like that.

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'Oldest fossils' found in Pilbara (3.49Gyr)
Authored by: hardmath on Friday, January 11 2013 @ 11:59 AM EST

'Oldest fossils' found in Pilbara

Ridges that crisscross the rocks like strands in a spider web hint that primitive bacteria linked up in sprawling networks. Like their modern counterparts, they may have lived in the equivalent of microbial cities that hosted thousands of kinds of bacteria, each specialised for a different task and communicating with the others via chemical signals.

The discovery pushes back by 90Myr the previous record for oldest fossil life, also found at Pilbara last year.

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Recursion is the opprobrium of the mathists.

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The Hotter It Gets ...
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, January 11 2013 @ 06:37 PM EST
Solar variability is back on the global warming table

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CBS blocks CNet praise for legal foe Dish
Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Saturday, January 12 2013 @ 02:24 AM EST
Link

A representative for the Consumer Electronics Association, which runs CES, said the organization is "extremely disappointed" in CBS's move.

"CBS has decided to censor CNet, and CBS has always been a strong defender of the First Amendment," said Jeff Joseph, senior vice president of communications for CEA. "It's sad to see them not applying the same standards to a site that they own."

What is being ignored, is the elephant in the room, which is that advertising does not really work as the marketing people would have the network execs believe.

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Alexis Wineman, Miss Montana, Is Miss America Pageant's First Contestant With Autism
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, January 12 2013 @ 05:17 PM EST

This is kind of on-topic from one point of view. A lot of us, me included, have Autism related issues. Even now Autism isn't all that well understood. Anything that brings it into mainstream discussion is wonderful.

So, hot woman who would understand my hey look at that chicken....

Coverage at E Online

Wayne
http://madhatter.ca

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Vulnerability Note VU#625617 Java 7 fails to restrict access to privileged code
Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, January 13 2013 @ 11:16 AM EST


The Vulnerability Notes Database entry is here.

At which point I have some questions that I'm not in shape to research myself, as I'm in massive pain today.

1) The article mentions Linux & OSX as vulnerable.
2) It doesn't mention IOS, BB-OS, Android, Windows for ARM, BSD, or Symbian as vulnerable.
3) All of examples are Windows X86/AMD64

Is anyone capable of digging out details on this, and checking if it really capable of damaging anything other than Windows? I strongly suspect it can't, but I'm in bad shape today, and would probably mess up the tests if I tried to do them.

Wayne
http://madhatter.ca

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China censors chat users outside China
Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, January 13 2013 @ 11:27 AM EST
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/01/11/china_censors_beyond_borders/

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Be careful of "news" from social media
Authored by: JamesK on Sunday, January 13 2013 @ 12:03 PM EST
False reports of Toronto sex assault, murder-suicide go viral in Korean media

I'm surprised the newspapers and TV would run this without a bit of fact checking.

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The following program contains immature subject matter.
Viewer discretion is advised.

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There may be people on Mars by 2023
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, January 14 2013 @ 09:14 AM EST
<p>...if <a href="http://mars-one.com/en/">the MarsOne
project</a> delivers on what it plans.</p>

<p>On the bright side, the plans do seem reasonably thorough...</p>

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iPhone not Selling Well?
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, January 14 2013 @ 12:18 PM EST
There are a number of news reports today that Apple has drastically cut back
component orders for their new iPhone 5 because of inventory build up due to low
sales. On the other hand, the major Android vendors are reporting increased
sales.

Their major problem is being attributed to their policy of having a single
product at a single price (or at least one price per country), while Android
devices are available at multiple price points.

It looks like the shine has come off the Apple.

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