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Bill Gates Dodges Questions on Why He Owns 500,000 Shares of Monsanto
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, February 15 2013 @ 12:15 PM EST

Article link.

It's not really a surprise to myself Gates dodged the question. He's worked rather hard at cultivating an image he's a philanthropist and the Gates Foundation is a charitable organization.

Given it's all a smokescreen for investments - it's not a surprise that:

    A: he's (whether personally or through the Gates foundation) invested in Monstanto
and
    B: he's avoiding any discussion that would point to the fact all his "philanthropic" efforts are nothing more then investment opportunities
Just my humble opinion of course.

RAS

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Opera, Skyfire, Cnet story lost
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, February 15 2013 @ 03:36 PM EST
Cnet returns a 404 on the Newspick. Using Cnet's internal search shows the story as top of the list but their link is the same and still returns 404. In the meantime the story is covered at

Opera   androidcentral   pcmag   thenextweb

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Facebook "Hacked" -- Correct URL
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, February 16 2013 @ 02:25 AM EST
The URL given in News Picks is not working.

The following link *is* working -- at least for now ...

(The title of the article is different but the text matches the blurb in News Picks.)

Link

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Why Breach of Contract Should Never Be A Crime - What is TORT here ?
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, February 16 2013 @ 02:55 AM EST
"Punitive damages are not recoverable for a breach of contract unless the
conduct constituting the breach is also a tort for which punitive damages are
recoverable."

ianal - what does tort mean? what are some examples where punitive damages are
recoverable for a contract breech? - tia

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Why Almost Everyone in Russia Has a Dash Cam
Authored by: JamesK on Sunday, February 17 2013 @ 08:05 AM EST
Those dash cams are why there were so many videos of that meteor in Russia.

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The following program contains immature subject matter.
Viewer discretion is advised.

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Why it's time to stop using open source licenses
Authored by: hardmath on Sunday, February 17 2013 @ 11:44 AM EST

Link

For the most part Glyn Moody (The H) is quoting from a study by Clark Asay (brother of Matt), though Glyn leaves little doubt that he agrees with public domain donation as a ripe and viable alternative.

The argumentation is so poor that I wonder if Clark is being fairly quoted. There seems little appreciation of the success of copyleft as a legal strategy in a highly litigious industry, except as quaint historical affect.

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Recursion is the opprobrium of the mathists.

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Samsung ditches Bada for Rex smart 'feature' phones
Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, February 17 2013 @ 11:41 PM EST
The Newspick omits that the release is in India.
Originally developed for the Intel 80186 [REX] was then ported to ARM and x86 architectures are no longer supported. REX is not POSIX compliant or open source and requires a license from Qualcomm for use.
Wikipedia

More detail from the mobile indian,   eweek, and GSMarena

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Re: FM v. Google: Means-plus-Function Indefiniteness and O2 Micro Challenges
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, February 18 2013 @ 12:34 PM EST
Did anyone else see that headline and wonder if a certain so-called patent
consultant, surnamed for an obstinate animal, was broadening his attack
methodology?

John Macdonald

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Monsanto: What Would Woody Guthrie Think?
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, February 18 2013 @ 05:48 PM EST
the atlantic

The more I look at this, the more I think Monsanto is trying to take the easy way. A company with Monsanto's smarts should have been able to make a weedkiller that killed everything except soybeans; or in the same league, they should have made their Roundup-Resistant™ gene non- inheritable. Or as Woodie might have said Monsanto have plowed their furrow too short and curvy.

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Hyperlinking Is Not Copyright Infringement
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, February 18 2013 @ 06:02 PM EST
Torrentfreak appears to have omitted a link to the ECS opinion. It is a PDF obtainable from a link at the University of Amsterdam Institute for Information Law

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EU privacy regulators take aim at Google privacy policy
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, February 19 2013 @ 08:30 AM EST
The problem for Google is that various EU privacy directives and laws give us
Europeans a right (which must be honored) to opt out of such things. US
corporate policy does not trump EU law.

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Bill Gates 'not satisfied' with Microsoft's innovations
Authored by: albert on Tuesday, February 19 2013 @ 02:22 PM EST
Link

Now you know how the po' folk feel, being satisfied with nothing.

That's our Bill! The scales finally fell from his eyes, and it only took 13 years! Bill, I gotta tell ya, 'Microsoft innovation' is an oxymoron. I know Charlie is your buddy, but you shouldn't criticize your CEO in public like that. It's bad form. Oh wait, you _innovated_ that management style, didn't you? That said, I like Steve, and I hope you keep him for another 13 years. That should be long enough....

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Ubuntu tablets unveiled - Shuttleworth video.
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, February 19 2013 @ 02:47 PM EST
Ubuntu on tablets | Ubuntu

OMG! Ubuntu! | Everything Ubuntu. Daily.
has it's own take on this, plus more on the phone download due next week.

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