Authored by: Gringo_ on Friday, February 08 2013 @ 11:50 PM EST |
The numbers are in for the last quarter and show that
Windows Phone 8 is a
fail, just like the Kin before it.
The arrival of Windows
Phone 8 actually saw
Microsoft's share of the smartphone market
fall.
Pretty bad when you launch a new product and see
your
market share fall!
Whether Windows Phone 8 is really
much good
isn't the question. The simple fact is that Microsoft hasn't
been
successful in making people believe that smartphones
with Windows Phone 8 are
better than Android phones or Apple
iPhones.
As for Windows 8 Phone,
stick a fork in it, it's done.
Link
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Authored by: Gringo_ on Friday, February 08 2013 @ 11:54 PM EST |
This appears to be a very serious situation, and could mean
the end of the
Internet as we know it.
"The bottom line," McDowell said, "is
89
countries have given the ITU jurisdiction over the
Internet’s operations
and content."
McDowell stated in no uncertain terms that the U.S. must
take action to stop the U.N. agency from gaining further
governance power over
the Internet as it intends to do at
the ITU's upcoming 2014 plenipotentiary
meeting. He says
that, "Internet freedom's foes around the globe are working
hard to exploit a treaty negotiation that dwarfs the
importance of the WCIT by
orders of magnitude."
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, February 08 2013 @ 11:57 PM EST |
This time it's not just Windows, also MacOS, and in an
abundance of caution
updates available for Linux & Android
Adobe
Security Bulletin APSB13-04,
CVE-2013-0633, CVE-2013-0634
Note the
credits at bottom.
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Authored by: Gringo_ on Saturday, February 09 2013 @ 12:01 AM EST |
I did a double take when I saw the unprecedented number
of patches - 57. It
seems Microsoft's software is getting
worse. The exploits even affect
Microsoft's latest Surface
tablets. So the user can't run his own software on
the
Surface RT, and has endless problems trying to get Linux to
run on it, but
malware? No problem!
Link
The company's pre-release
bulletin warns of
two major vulnerabilities for Internet Explorer, which will
patch a flaw allowing hackers to run remotely executed code
on vulnerable
machines. All versions from IE6 to IE10 are
affected, including Windows
RT-based Surface tablets, which
will also need to be updated.
With
this in mind, users are advised to switch to another
browser for the next few
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, February 09 2013 @ 02:17 AM EST |
Haaa haaaa ...
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, February 09 2013 @ 02:59 AM EST |
"Three of veteran broadcaster's shows identified in a new study as
perpetuating the notion that animal relationships are predominantly
heterosexual" li
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, February 09 2013 @ 06:37 AM EST |
`The DHS, which secures the nation’s border, in 2009 announced that it would
conduct a “Civil Liberties Impact Assessment” of its suspicionless
search-and-seizure policy pertaining to electronic devices “within 120 days.”
More than three years later, the DHS office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
published a two-page executive summary of its findings.' lin
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Authored by: jjs on Saturday, February 09 2013 @ 09:32 AM EST |
Innovation Nation at
War
“I decided it would be
fun to do patent trials,” said
Richard
Posner.
“When you are dealing with products that
have very short
lives, you often don’t need patents because by the time
competitors wise up, you’ve moved on,” Posner says. Indeed,
in such
industries, patents — which are primarily intended
to encourage innovation —
have the exact opposite effect:
they discourage innovation.
Reminds me of ESR's comments in one of his books - (as I
remember) you WANT the other guy to be copying you. Because
if he's copying
you, he's NOT innovating around you. They
key is to be the leader, not the
follower --- (Note IANAL, I don't play one on TV, etc, consult a
practicing attorney, etc, etc)
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, February 09 2013 @ 09:46 AM EST |
Just think what the US power and transport infrastructure could be like if the
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Authored by: sciamiko on Saturday, February 09 2013 @ 10:37 AM EST |
Glyn Moody at Techdirt, Canada Denies Patent For Drug, So US Pharma Company Demands $100
Million As Compensation For 'Expropriation' . Some free trade agreements
allow a company to challenge a state on the same level, thus raising the status
of a company to that of the state.
Basically Eli Lilly failed to
deliver its side of the bargain, since the drug doesn't work very well, so
Canada refused to allow the company to retain a patent that was contingent on it
being effective. What's worrying is that the drug company's present action is
not just challenging that decision, but the whole approach that requires drugs
to work well enough to deserve a patent -- not unreasonably.
[...]
The
central problem with these investor-state provisions is that they elevate
companies to the level of entire countries. Secret, unaccountable and biased
tribunals with unlimited powers then enable them to overturn democratic
decisions and legislation passed to preserve things like public health or the
environment, simply because they would reduce corporate profits. And yet few
people are even aware that such investor-state provisions exist, despite their
massive impact on the lives of millions. That's a hugely troubling combination
for the future.
s.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, February 09 2013 @ 11:22 AM EST |
Nexus One to boldly
go
where no phone has gone before | News | TechRadar
and/or +
video:
Androids in space:
Nexus One blasts into orbit this month |
ZDNet
... looks complicated maybe someone should patent it
...
"General purpose computer Phone as
part of a
system to control a satellite."
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, February 09 2013 @ 01:19 PM EST |
As promised, here is the Linux Foundation UEFI secure boot
system. This was actually released to us by Microsoft on Wednesday 6
February, but with travel, conferences and meetings I didn’t really get time to
validate it all until today. The files are here
http://blog.hansenpartnership.com/linux-foundation-secure-boot-system-released/<
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, February 09 2013 @ 02:39 PM EST |
In his State of the Judiciary address, Utah Supreme Court Chief Justice Matthew
B. Durrant said, "The high cost of legal services has become a barrier not just
to the poor, but the middle class as well." ("Chief justice: Courts at the
limit, need help," Tribune, Jan. 29).
Recently, my brother-in-law, a
California resident, hired a paralegal to help him probate his deceased mother’s
estate. He didn’t have to use a lawyer; since 1998, California has allowed
non-lawyer "legal document assistants" to open their own offices and perform
many routine legal services, including uncontested probates.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, February 09 2013 @ 05:05 PM EST |
Astronaut Chris Hadfield has been a busy boy. He's demonstrated nail
clipping in Zero Gee. He's demonstrated hand washing in Zero Gee. He
dropped
the puck from orbit for the first Maple Leafs game of the
season.
Yesterday he played a live concert, from the ISS, with the
Bare Naked
Ladies. Enjoy.
YouTube
FYI, in
another video he explains that chording a guitar in Zero Gee takes a
bit of
getting used to.
Waynehttp://madhatter.ca
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, February 09 2013 @ 10:04 PM EST |
Use
Tide
detergent.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, February 10 2013 @ 01:50 AM EST |
`I bricked a Samsung laptop today. Unlike most of the
reported cases of Samsung
laptops refusing to boot, I never
booted Linux on it - all experimentation was
performed under
Windows. It seems that the bug we've been seeing is
simultaneously simpler in some ways and more complicated in
others than we'd
previously realised'. link
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, February 10 2013 @ 01:35 PM EST |
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie—deliberate,
contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of
thought. - JFK
Izabella Laba
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Izabella Laba is a Professor of Mathematics
at the University of British Columbia. She received her Ph.D. in 1994 from the
University of Toronto, and held positions at UCLA and Princeton University
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, February 10 2013 @ 01:58 PM EST |
The news pick "Russia, in adding to new blacklist, blocks site used by
dissidents" mentions a website called ljrossia.org. This website has
nothing but spam on it: "Russian wife", "Mail order brides",
etc. Arstechnica should be more careful checking their sources. I'm based in
the US, so I shouldn't have problems accessing the site.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, February 10 2013 @ 03:29 PM EST |
http://sven-ola.dyndns.org/repo/debian-kit-en.html [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, February 10 2013 @ 05:16 PM EST |
Timothy B Lee has a gripping and
thorough account of the work to tear down the PACER paywall, which requires that
Americans pay $0.10 per page to access court files, which are necessary to
understanding and interpreting the law. Aaron Swartz was investigated by the FBI
for his part in extracting millions of these public domain documents from behind
their paywall and making them public, but that's just the tip of the iceberg.
The whole story includes some pretty shocking truth about the privacy trainwreck
within PACER, which has not fulfilled its duty to redact personal information
from public files; and PACER's illegal profit-making rate-hikes that go far
beyond recouping the cost of running the service.
Cory
Doctorow, Boing Boing
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Cory Doctorow on Aaron Swartz, Tor/Forge's Blog - February 4, 2013 [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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