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| Authored by: SilverWave on Saturday, February 02 2013 @ 11:16 AM EST |
| Google Creates €60 Million, $82
Million
Charity for French Newspapers ---
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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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, February 02 2013 @ 12:12 PM EST |
If CBS had simply played the “unbiased middleman” card in this case,
there’s very little Coke and Pepsi could have done. They certainly would not
have pulled their Super
Bowl ads. Instead, Coke and Pepsi would have been forced to retrench and
figure out a marketing way to solve this
SodaStream problem and not a mafia way (I mean that
metaphorically, of course).
Now, CBS has essentially opened the
door for its biggest advertisers to forever complain about those “annoying
little competitors” that are trying to steal share.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, February 02 2013 @ 12:18 PM EST |
The most recent two indictments—the threatening of an FBI officer
in a YouTube video and the concealing of evidence—do not seem worthy of such
a harsh sentence, considering a man in
Houston recieved only 42 months for threatening to blow up an FBI building,
and a former dentist got 18 months for threatening to
kill an FBI agent. The third, however, pertains to Barrett Brown's pasting of a
link in an Anonymous IRC chat room to a document full of credit card numbers and
their authentication codes that was stolen from the security company Stratfor,
in the midst of a hack that released over five million internal emails. Those
emails were published to Wikileaks. Some writers have
rightfully raised their concerns about the legalities behind sharing a link that
points to stolen material (which is why I have not linked to those five million
emails) and whether or not that should be an indictable
offense.
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| Authored by: JamesK on Saturday, February 02 2013 @ 03:23 PM EST |
| Wizard
of Id ---
The following program contains immature subject matter.
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| Authored by: Wol on Saturday, February 02 2013 @ 06:55 PM EST |
Don't remember seeing this mentioned since voting closed, but the votes are back
up.
Groklaw had 338 votes, followed by "Legal as she is spoke" with 310.
These are the only two with 300+ votes.
WELL DONE PJ!
Cheers,
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, February 02 2013 @ 11:45 PM EST |
More than half of the roughly 125 Harvard University students
investigated by the college’s disciplinary board for cheating on a take-home
exam last spring were forced to temporarily withdraw, school officials announced
Friday.
The disclosure, communicated in an e-mail to the Harvard
community from Michael D. Smith, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, was
the most extensive accounting of what is being called the Ivy League’s largest
cheating scandal in recent times.
Smith said the inquiry, which concluded
in December, resulted in about half of the students implicated in the
high-profile case being asked to leave the college for “a period of time.”
Affected students have said that it amounted to two academic semesters for most.
The rest of the students were evenly split between those who received
disciplinary probation or had their cases dismissed, he said.
“We, as a
faculty, must redouble our efforts to communicate clearly and unambiguously to
our undergraduates about academic integrity,” Smith wrote. “While the fall cases
are complete, our work on academic integrity is far from done.”
Martine Powers and
Katherine Landergan, The Boston Globe
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Academic Dishonesty
http://handbook.fas.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k88702&pageid=icb.page516
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, February 03 2013 @ 01:48 AM EST |
Austin Meyer, creator of the popular and ultra-realistic flight
sim X-Plane is
facing a potentially destructive lawsuit by an East Texas patent troll, Uniloc. Meyer, who has worked on the simulator
since 1995, isn’t dealing with a claim against his simulator or the game
mechanics within. Instead, he’s being sued for using a simple
copy-protection system found in almost all Android programs.
You can
read the whole story here,
but last September Meyer received word that he was being sued for failing to
license a patent for “code for verifying the license data stored on the
licensing medium by communicating with a registration authority having
verification data.”
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- Tell Google.. - Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, February 03 2013 @ 05:12 AM EST
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, February 03 2013 @ 06:38 AM EST |
Followers of this war might like to study the books "Management and
Machiavelli" by Anthony Jay, as well as the
first half of "Renaissance Diplomacy" by Garrett Mattingley. The
present struggles are like two mediaeval countries
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, February 03 2013 @ 11:07 AM EST |
Aaron Swartz was determined to free up access to academic articles.
He perceived an injustice in which scientific research lies behind expensive
paywalls despite being funded by the taxpayer. The taxpayer ends up paying twice
for the same research: once to fund it and a second time to read it.
The
heart of the problem lies in the reputation system, which encourages scientists
to put their work behind paywalls. The way out of this mess is to build new
reputation metrics.
Richard Price, TechCrunch
Richard Price is founder and CEO of
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, February 03 2013 @ 12:26 PM EST |
| Haven't even heard about this until the day before the event in the local
paper... how big a yawn is that?
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, February 03 2013 @ 02:41 PM EST |
| Pwnium - Google Inc (GOOG)
Paying Out Millions to Hackers - Insider
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