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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, January 09 2013 @ 12:13 PM EST |
I have been wondering about a variation on this this for some time. I'm sure a
good number of people have either been physically injured or have died because
of the actions of a corporation. A good number of real people are in our
prisons after they are found guilty of these types of crimes. As far as I can
tell a no reasonably proportionate number of corporate directors/officers
(any?) are serving time for similar crimes.
Here's another take on
this...
"Case in point: The recent mine disaster in Montcoal, West Virginia.
An explosion in the Upper Big Branch mine caused twenty-nine deaths. The mine
had been cited eight times for "substantial" violations, according to the New
York Times, so one could very easily argue that the corporation that owns the
Upper Big Branch mine, Massey Energy, could be considered guilty of murder, or
at least manslaughter, especially since they were already issued civil penalties
in 2008 for a fire at the Aracoma Alma coal mine, which left two miners dead.
But this isn't going to happen. They'll be forced to pay criminal fines, and
there will probably end up being a class action lawsuit filed against them, but
the corporation itself will escape any serious punishment. If this mine were
owned as a sole proprietorship, and the owner were equally as negligent, could
that individual be charged with manslaughter? If so, why can't a corporation?"
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Authored by: albert on Wednesday, January 09 2013 @ 01:12 PM EST |
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Good! Although I don't think the suit stands a snowballs
chance, (like the Carpool Lane suit), kudos for filing it anyway.
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Authored by: TiddlyPom on Wednesday, January 09 2013 @ 04:24 PM EST |
I have just bought a ChromeBook - Acer
C7.
It's an absolutely wonderful little laptop and the keypad,
although a little different to what I am used to (two fingers together give
'right click') as fantastic value for money - about £195 in the UK (and it comes
with 2GB of RAM and a 320GB hard drive).
I did try ChromeOS for a short
while and was amazed at the speed of start up but that's not why I bought it of
course!
- It has CoreBoot Open Source BIOS instead of UEFI
- No preloaded Windows or forced buying
of Windows 8 and being forced to accept the agreement
- Has 2x DDR3 slots that will take up to 16GB RAM - although
you have to void the warranty :(
- The hard disk is a standard 2.5" SATA
drive (although low profile) and you can swap it for (say) as SSD (as I have
done)
- Most importantly - it runs Linux beautifully!
With a 240GB SSD and
8GB of RAM it boots from BIOS (pressing CTRL-D) to a fully initialized Ubuntu
Desktop in 12 seconds! If only I could get the CoreBoot shim working properly
(with a 'signed kernel') then I could get a desktop from OFF in about the same
time!
I'm really sorry Google that I am not running ChromeOS (which does
seem very good if a bit limited) but this little Netbook is wonderful! The only
downside is that I can get Bluetooth to run up but it doesn't find any devices
which is weird.
Need to do a bit more digging.
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Authored by: OpenSourceFTW on Thursday, January 10 2013 @ 02:16 AM EST |
Linky
I despise JSTOR. They locked up so
many articles I needed back in school, and tried to charge an arm and a leg for
them. And you can't simply "subscribe," you have to pay through the
nose.
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- "public domain" - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, January 10 2013 @ 09:53 AM EST
- "public domain" - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, January 10 2013 @ 10:23 AM EST
- JSTOR: Who benefits? - Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, January 12 2013 @ 11:28 PM EST
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Authored by: albert on Thursday, January 10 2013 @ 05:15 PM EST |
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As usual, lots of noise, no details. In the US, she could
sue for any number of reasons. She could sue Facebook and the poster. It's
unfortunate that the damage has to be done before any recompense to the victim.
It's only a matter of time before FB gets hit by a Big One, then it will be too
late.
The 'article' mentions an "anti-woman" FB page. Really? Is it
satire, or a joke? How about an anti-Jew FB page? Or an anti-Muslim page? How
long would those last?
Maybe FB needs a generic 'hate' page to keep up the
appearance of 'free-speech'.
-Not a FB user.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, January 10 2013 @ 11:45 PM EST |
Maybe they decided that it was more profitable to simply make and sell more
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, January 11 2013 @ 03:49 AM EST |
Makes me grin... That's called:
- release early
- release often
(ReRo)
See also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Release_early,_release_often
Where would those google-guys have gotten that idea would'yea
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Authored by: JamesK on Friday, January 11 2013 @ 10:07 AM EST |
"To paraphrase: we decrypt your data, but trust us, we don’t peek."
Well, there's another reason to not buy a Nokia phone. They must have a death
wish. With Microsoft having so much influence at Nokia, there's no way I'd
trust them now.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, January 11 2013 @ 12:29 PM EST |
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/01/11/veterans_affairs_open_source_contest/
"VistA is still considered one of the health care industry's best
electronic health record (EHR) systems. The fact that it powers the VA's 152
hospitals and 971 outpatient clinics – the largest health care network in the US
– is testament to its quality.
But VistA is long in the tooth, and years of government bureaucracy have caused
its development to stagnate."
How 'bad' is VistA now ?
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, January 11 2013 @ 01:11 PM EST |
I do not know enough about Java to understand the report.
I hope Larry is enjoying his yacht.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, January 11 2013 @ 02:20 PM EST |
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security urged computer users to disable Oracle
Corp's Java software, amplifying security experts' prior warnings to hundreds of
millions of consumers and businesses that use it to surf the Web.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, January 11 2013 @ 03:55 PM EST |
Article link.
I would suggest a different line of
thinking:
Simply apply the existing Law!
What I mean by
that:
Software - what software really is - has been so thoroughly obfuscated
via Legal arguments that the Law can not recognize it for what it really
is!
The Supremes have made it clear on numerous occasions that abstract
concepts are not patentable subject matter.
That's all software is: an
abstract concept! The name is just another name that is under the umbrella
concept of:
Language!
In it's physical embodiment (if you want to call
it that, which would be wrong):
Software to the electronic (whether that's
just a single transistor or a billion interacting transistors or some other form
of electronic) is the telegraph signal to the telegraph key!
It's a stream
of either:
existing flow of electricity
or
the flow of electricity
has stopped
The particular pattern:
.... . .-.. .-.. ---
.-- ---
.-. .-.. -..
... is either recognizable to someone who knows how to
interpret the pattern - or it's meaningless. For those that don't reconize the
pattern above, that's the "on paper" version of the sound that a telegraph key
makes when the particular language of "Morse" is passed through it. The most
common was that a "." was a short sound while "-" was a longer sound. There was
a flow to the pattern such that a pause between sounds signaled the space
between letters.
The electricity was not the physical form of the Morse
language. The pattern of the electrical flow was what was interpreted as the
Morse language.
The interpretation of a particular pattern to the flow of
electricity so that it has meaning is the abstract - Language! Nothing more.
Software has zero difference with the morse Language with the exception of how
it's interpreted. How it's understood. What meaning is applied.
For
anyone that ever challenges this truth, one only need ask a simple
question:
Please point to the direct physical embodiment of
Software!
If the person has to point to something else that's physical,
then draw a correlation of that with software in order to try to prove software
exists:
Then they have failed to point to the direct physical embodiment of
software!
And if they can't point to the direct physical embodiment: then
it doesn't exist except in the abstract!
The Law honestly wants to fix
the situation? Then:
1) Recognize software will never be anything but
abstract!
2) Make it clear that since software is abstract and abstract
concepts can not be patented, software can not be patented!
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, January 11 2013 @ 04:31 PM EST |
It looks as if they got an extra serving of brandy sauce with the christmas
pudding. News Picks on Steroids. Yes dear Editor, I'm complaining that
you're putting so many, so good stories, that I find less time to browse
my own favorite corners of the intarwebs.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, January 11 2013 @ 04:56 PM EST |
Corrected link (maybe PJ has a copy @GL? maybe Geeklog just munched the long
url?)
http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/sectors/ict/standards/extended/event_open_source_
en.htm
This page contains the report, the agenda and all
presentations as pdfs.
Note also a related subject EU report on
business adaption to change PDF
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, January 12 2013 @ 10:29 AM EST |
Actually that isn't what the FTC said. The FTC doesn't know if Google
lobbied to the White House,and that is what was said.
I hate it when they make simple mistakes like that in an article.
Wayne
http://madhatter.ca
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, January 12 2013 @ 02:29 PM EST |
Leo Laporte, The Tech Guy, made Aaron Swartz his
lead story on today's broadcast. His program is carried in over 170 cities and
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