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Father pays teen not to use Facebook ... I see CFAA issue coming
Authored by: Tolerance on Thursday, February 07 2013 @ 08:56 PM EST
Hmmm....
F ather pays teen not to use Facebook.
Actually there's a problem with the contract, which grants the Dad access to the teen's Facebook password etc.

Giving the password would violate Facebook's terms of service, which in turn would subject the teen (not the Dad) to civil penalties. (The Dad would be on the hook for CRIMINAL prosecution by the same team which made Aaron Swartz commit suicide).

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Yandex search engine pushs Microsoft’s Bing aside ..
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, February 08 2013 @ 12:34 AM EST
"Russia’s Yandex search engine has pushed Microsoft’s Bing aside in global search statistics, climbing to fourth place after Google, Baidu and Yahoo!" link

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What is Groklaw?
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, February 08 2013 @ 12:37 AM EST
'Groklaw is a blog that was started May 16 2003 by Pamela Jones` .. link

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Ubuntu Smartphone Shipping in October ..
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, February 08 2013 @ 01:35 AM EST
"Smartphones running the open source Ubuntu operating system will be available to customers beginning in October 2013 .. Application developers will have access to the smaartphone operating system, which is optimized for the Galaxy Nexus handset manufactured by Samsung Electronics Co. , in late February." link

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What is "Justice"?
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, February 08 2013 @ 04:32 AM EST
Here's a deep question for the weekend:

What is "Justice"?

I see it as a conglomeration of revenge and discouragement, along with a tiny
nudge of rehabilitation.

What's everyone else's opinion?

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Apple sued by David Einhorn over cash pile
Authored by: tiger99 on Friday, February 08 2013 @ 04:35 AM EST
BBC

It seems that he has previously tried to get rid of Ballmer. I am glad that he failed, as Ballmer is continuing to destroy M$. and I wish him every success in that.

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Shergar
Authored by: Nick_UK on Friday, February 08 2013 @ 06:54 AM EST
I remember Shergar being kidnapped (at the time, the Irish police acted like the Keystone Kops :D ), and here is a fascinating account from 30 years ago on the BBC:

The Shergar Story

Nick

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New LibreOffice seems to be good.
Authored by: LocoYokel on Friday, February 08 2013 @ 08:09 AM EST
http://www.infoworld.com/t/open-source-software/new-libreoffice-turns-the-heat-m icrosoft-212494?source=IFWNLE_nlt_wrapup_2013-02-07

I have not tried it yet, but from the article it sounds to be a serious competitor for full MSOffice replacement even in a heavy MS environment. I did notice the link claiming MS is now using open standards in MSOffice but haven't followed it. We all pretty much know the story behind that anyway.

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Dell buy-out may be in trouble
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, February 08 2013 @ 08:27 AM EST
Ho-Hum what do we want

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article on the CLS Bank issue
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, February 08 2013 @ 09:55 AM EST
article on the CLS Bank issue, with a link to Groklaw!
http://www.infoworld.com/d/open-source-software/federal-hearing-today-mark s-turning-point-in-war-software-patents-212445?source=IFWNLE_nlt_daily_am_2013-0 2-08

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New XKCD - Perl Problems
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, February 08 2013 @ 10:17 AM EST

Perl Problems

Rather reminds me of the old classic 'How to shoot yourself in the foot' with various programming languages joke.

Wayne
http://madhatter.ca

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Lowering The Bar - How to Start a Brief
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, February 08 2013 @ 10:23 AM EST

According to 'Lowering the Bar' a rather annoyed Judge Steven Merryday decided to give a lawyer instructions on how to start a brief.

How to Start a Brief

I know from writing reports how tempting it can be to cut and paste to save time.

Wayne
http://madhatter.ca

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people quoting Florian again
Authored by: designerfx on Friday, February 08 2013 @ 12:04 PM EST
you'd think they'd learn by now.

http://www.techspot.com/news/51574-judge-invalidates-13-
motorola-patent-claims-against-microsoft.html

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The largest prime number yet discovered – all 17 million digits of it
Authored by: JamesK on Friday, February 08 2013 @ 12:27 PM EST
Ever since Euclid proved there were an infinite number of prime numbers, mathematicians have been on a quest to find higher and higher examples

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Canadian business wants out of antispam regulations
Authored by: JamesK on Friday, February 08 2013 @ 01:29 PM EST
Proposed changes to Canada's draft antispam regulations could legalize installation of spyware, says privacy advocate Michael Geist

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Aaron Swartz wanted to save the world. Why couldn’t he save himself?
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, February 08 2013 @ 02:15 PM EST
When he lived in Massachusetts, Swartz would compete in the MIT Mystery Hunt, an annual weekend-long puzzle-solving marathon.

Exactly one week after Swartz died, on the day the 2013 Mystery Hunt kicked off, his old team hosted an ice cream social in his memory. A large banner was spread out on a table, on which friends and admirers wrote a long list of personalized messages: funny memories, words of condolence.

Near the end of the night, a slender boy in a plain sweatshirt who looked too young to be there came over to the table. He uncapped a marker. He wrote, simply, “We will continue.”

Justin Peters, Slate

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Given that Apple has $135B in cash and Intel has a market cap of $105B: should Apple buy Intel ?
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, February 08 2013 @ 03:03 PM EST
Michael Dell's buyout of his namesake company and the shareholder suit against
Apple to increase its cash buyout inspired this.

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The DEA Wants to Use a $37 Pot Sale to Seize a $1.5 Million Anaheim Building
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, February 08 2013 @ 04:55 PM EST
On Dec. 2, 2011, an undercover officer posing as a patient with a legitimate doctor's recommendation for cannabis—something required of all entrants to the collective—"purchased 4.2 net grams of marijuana for $37."

The investigation ended there, but the single sale—and a sale it was, since most pot goes for $50 or $60 per eighth of an ounce—was enough evidence for the DEA to argue that the otherwise-harmless computer engineer and dentist should lose their retirement-investment property. On Aug. 20, 2012, the agency filed its lawsuit.

Nick Schou, OC Weekly

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