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Microsoft's Surface Pro has far less open storage than advertised
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, January 30 2013 @ 02:27 AM EST
Even in 1982/83 when Sinclair launched the 48K Spectrum in the UK, it was
advertised as '48K RAM (32K usable)'.

This was due to 16K being reserved for the screen memory (16384b, if I remember
correctly).

Anything written to this location would be writing to the screen (TV in those
days) as a bit map of the value. I used to spend hours messing with assembler
loading arbitrary code (prime number generators etc.) and then watch the screen
as the program ran. It was amazing watching all the bits of data being moved
around at breakneck speed.

So Microsoft have no excuse here at all (deliberately misleading is my guess).

Nick

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"Open Sourcers Drop Software Religion for Common Sense" (PJ: Puh lease)
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, January 30 2013 @ 07:14 AM EST
http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/02/cloudera-and-apache/all/

And PJ has this one pretty much summed up. The GPL makes everyone have equal
power over the code. BSD/MIT/Apache-style lisences let it be stolen (hey, two
can play games with meanings) easily. That's the whole point of them.

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Computers can model judge's decision
Authored by: davenewman on Wednesday, January 30 2013 @ 08:25 AM EST

In the comment to Designing access to justice PJ said that, so far as I know, no computer is capable of weighing all the elements to the degree a human brain can.

In fact, over a decade ago, John Zeleznikow at Monash University built a neural network trained on the Victoria family court judgements on how to split assets after a divorce. It was extremely accurate in predicting such decisions. It took into account all the subtleties of when the judges paid more attention to need, and, when both parties were well off, how much they contributed to the marriage.

But because few lawyers understand probabilities, he had to built in code to generate logical arguments for the outcomes. It wasn't necessary, just a concession to a mathematically-challenged profession.

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For Rent: The New Microsoft Office
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, January 30 2013 @ 01:01 PM EST

Article link.

I still opt for the same I've always opted for - and quite frankly, Microsoft has no say in the matter.

I opt for: I'll pass on MS Office. Thanks for the offer though!

RAS

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web inventor warns about dangers of government snooping
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, January 30 2013 @ 02:19 PM EST
The beauty of the internet was that it was limitless, so people should be able to put anything on the web, he said.
...
‘‘There’s someone out there who next week is going to produce something you could never imagine. And that’s not about technology, that’s humanity.’’
stuff.co.nz

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Apple trademarks its Stores to deter copycats
Authored by: albert on Wednesday, January 30 2013 @ 02:28 PM EST
Link

Subtitle: From sublime to ridiculous.

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Micron Slide to Unlock Patent
Authored by: kawabago on Wednesday, January 30 2013 @ 05:05 PM EST
How many different companies can patent slide-to-unlock
before it ceases to be original? So far Apple and Micron that
I know of but there must be others. If we collect all the
slide to unlock patents and line them up side by side for the
Patent Office, maybe they can explain how all of them can be
original inventions and not obvious?

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NZ Copyright Tribunal: Accusations Are Presumed Infringement
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, January 30 2013 @ 05:54 PM EST
techdirt
The Tribunal basically ignores all that and says that, under the law, an accusation is as good as guilt unless you provide evidence of innocence -- and then says she failed to do so. Think about that for a second. You need to prove a negative here -- which seems close to impossible, but that's what the law apparently requires.
Ah, no. The defendant admitted one charge of downloading, and admitted to incompetence in controlling the uTorrent client, being a partial admission of the second charge. The defendant denied downloading the song in the third charge, but note that all three charges were for "communicating the work to the public", i.e. uploading. Funny techdirt didn't pick that up while the NZ Herald did. Another thing techdirt seems to have missed is this defendant was not hammered with $60,000 per track as happens in another jurisdiction I won't name.

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Ballmer doesn't fear dropbox
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, January 30 2013 @ 08:03 PM EST
The reality disconnect is becoming more and more apparent.

I'm not a fan of reality TV, but Microsoft...? Now that's entertainment!

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Firefox to block content based on Java, Reader, and Silverlight
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, January 31 2013 @ 04:15 AM EST
Firefox blocking everything except latest Adobe Flash?

Why do I expect Oracle Java wil get it's latest unblocked by default if Oracle
make a big enough "donation" to the Mozilla Foundation?

<sigh>

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