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Windows Phone 8 drops MS market share
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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U.N.'s ITU Internet plans 'must be stopped'
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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Flash Player - again
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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Patch Tuesday: IE at risk of malware attacks; 57 flaws in total
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 days until the updates are released.

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Microsoft's Scroogled attack adverts
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, February 09 2013 @ 02:17 AM EST
Haaa haaaa ... link

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Where are all the gay animals?
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 nk

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DHS we own all your device ...
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 k

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Joe Nocera in NYT on Judge Posner & Patents
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

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(Note IANAL, I don't play one on TV, etc, consult a practicing attorney, etc, etc)

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Patent wars and consequences
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
drains caused by expensive patent wars were invested there instead.

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Drug does not work -> patent invalid -> Pharma sues government
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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Nexus Phone controls satellite - patent it quick!
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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Linux Foundation Secure Boot System Released
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/< /a>

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Unleash paralegals
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.

Unleash paralegals

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Astronaut Chris Hadfield & The Bare Naked Ladies perform
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.

Wayne
http://madhatter.ca

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Money Laundering
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, February 09 2013 @ 10:04 PM EST
Use Tide detergent.

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Windows bricks Samsung laptop ..
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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Gender Bias 101 For Mathematicians
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 before coming to UBC.

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ljrossia.org - spam website. PJ be aware
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.

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Debian Kit for Android
Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, February 10 2013 @ 03:29 PM EST
http://sven-ola.dyndns.org/repo/debian-kit-en.html

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PACER capers: the sordid story of America's for-pay lawbooks - Doctorow
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

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