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| Authored by: PolR on Thursday, February 07 2013 @ 08:52 PM EST |
Just wondering.
Do we have a volunteer scheduled to attend the hearing tomorrow? This is CLS
Bank vs Alice, the big case where the Federal Circuit wants to find a
"definition" of abstract idea for software patents.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: LuYu on Friday, February 08 2013 @ 01:18 AM EST |
I saw that article about "Linux apps" being worked on by the usually
useless Gnome team, and it brings to mind something I have been
wondering
recently:
Why is the Dalvik engine, and by extension all Android
apps,
unavailable on the Linux desktop?
Aside from the dfference
between i386 and ARM, I can imagine no good
reason for this. Considering that
Java was always billed as "write once
run everwhere" and Dalvik is supposed to
be at least "open source", I am
doubly baffled.
Question number
two: If Linux gains this app capability, how will
developers be prevented from
flooding our Free Software world with
closed source lock-ware like that found
on Android?
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If you believe in "intellectual property,"
you are an enemy of Free Speech and
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| Authored by: Nick_UK on Friday, February 08 2013 @ 03:59 AM EST |
Sort of connected, but on my notebook, I was getting fed up with so many pages
loading slow, and taking a look at what goes on, a lot now have a myriad of
buttons etc. facebook, twitter, reddit, likeme etc. etc. - all taking ages to
load their cookies and bloody whatnot.
So of them take at least twice as long to load (whatever they do) their stuff as
it takes for the page to load.
So after trying to block via hosts (I gave up on that idea, as sometimes it
makes firefox do funny things), I turned OFF javascript.
What a breathe of fresh air! Pages now load instantly without all the clutter!
Also I found a FF addon that places a small button on the toolbar, so I can
toggle JS on/off as required.
Recommended!
Nick [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, February 08 2013 @ 05:53 AM EST |
"SHUT UP AND DON'T TALK TO THE GOVERNMENT. They are not your friend."
Is anyone else distinctly worried about this?[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: OpenSourceFTW on Friday, February 08 2013 @ 01:21 PM EST |
http://mcahogarth.org/?p=10593
Nice article from the Ubersoft Guy about this here: Linky
My gut feeling is that someone has done "space
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, February 08 2013 @ 03:15 PM EST |
There's a nice little gem in the article:
if a human mind is capable of carrying out the
steps in a method, that method is not patent-eligible
Now we only
need to wait for the Judiciary to realize software consists of nothing more then
steps that a human mind is capable of carrying out.
RAS[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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