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| Authored by: tiger99 on Monday, February 25 2013 @ 07:59 AM EST |
| BBC FM is involved
and the BBC still seem to think that his opinions have some credibility, which
of course they do not. Patent consultant Florian Muller, who was
first to report the Mannheim Court's decision, questioned Samsung's
tactics.
"If Samsung had only requested monetary compensation in this
action, it would have made a much better choice than by trying to achieve,
through the pursuit of an injunction, the deactivation or (more realistically)
degradation of the voiceover functionality Apple provides to its German
customers," he wrote on his blog. Samsung is being made to look bad
by various people, who don't seem to realise that Samsung are only defending
themselves against Apple, and the root cause id software patents, which should
never have been allowed in the first place.
The British Computer
Association of the Blind said it was worried such an important feature might be
threatened.
"A lack of access to information is arguably the biggest
potential barrier to inclusion in society for blind and partially-sighted
people," a spokesman told the BBC.
"If something as important as access
to telephone technology had been blocked by the actions of one company over
another the consequences for blind people everywhere would be regrettable in the
extreme."
The Wall Street Journal's AllThingsD tech site was more
damning.
"Leaving aside the ethics of asserting a patent against a
feature designed to help the blind, this is unwise," wrote John
Paczkowski.
"It's the PR equivalent of punching yourself in the face.
Samsung has now identified itself as a company willing to accept the loss of
accessibility for the vision-impaired as collateral damage in its battle with
Apple." This reminds me how the Vile Monopoly dragged the disabled
into the battle in Massuchussets some years back, by trying to insinuate that
they would be disadvantaged because none of their special needs would be met by
FOSS, only be expensive solutions which required M$ software.Congress
needs to urgently solve this, and a thousand other, problems by getting rid of
software patents, fully, completely and unambiguously. The BBC seems to have
failed to see the root cause of the problem. By the way, what Apple are, or
are not, allowed to run on their hardware due to patents is rapidly becoming
irrelevant. The leading M$ and Apple fanboy, and Linux hater, at work has
turned up with a brand new Samsung Note 2 4G this morning. I think the battle is
being won more rapidly than some have imagined.
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| Authored by: OpenSourceFTW on Monday, February 25 2013 @ 12:00 PM EST |
I may have missed the ending of it, but looking back at some old articles
reminded me that IBM was being painted as anti-FOSS incorrectly (with our
friendly neighborhood FM holding the brush).
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, February 25 2013 @ 01:59 PM EST |
| Apple can't patent this
one (now !!) [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, February 25 2013 @ 02:35 PM EST |
| This is sounding like the patent office... just file, and guess what the chances
of approval are?
So, to not be listed on the box, all the FDA has to do is
approve (if requested)?
Just so that more kids will like it - and can use
Milk as a sugar free drink in schools? Go figure?
Aspartame in Milk Without a Label? Big Dairy
Petitions FDA For Approval
...it's pending anyway, comment period seems
to be open...
Washington DC and it's lobbiest's have gone crazy!
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, February 25 2013 @ 04:43 PM EST |
isc.sans.edu point out another peril of
Facebook.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, February 25 2013 @ 05:00 PM EST |
hack seems to involve
libkeyutils.so.1.9
reddit
redhat[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, February 25 2013 @ 05:07 PM EST |
I want to create a website to advertise my skills and expertise, my previous
research papers, and interesting projects that I have completed. My current
goal is to land a job. However, it would be nice to have a portfolio of
projects for the future.
What is the best platform for doing something like
this? Facebook? Linked-In? My own wordpress site? Google sites?
I would
like something easy to maintain. Something where I could direct people when they
as questions. (I get a great many hardware questions.) Something that allows
me to feature my favorite activities.
If I do go the Facebook route, should I
have a dedicated professional Facebook account? [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, February 25 2013 @ 11:37 PM EST |
[Deutsche Bank’s] DB Research — shocked that high food prices had at
least in part triggered social unrest in a number of countries in Latin America,
Asia, and Africa — admitted that “in some instances speculation might have added
to the price movement.”
Two months later, DB Research acknowledged that in
developing countries where “consumers spend over 50% of their income on food,”
price increases can be devastating and “hollow out the right to food.” While
there was no consensus on the role of derivatives, the study nevertheless
fingered speculation: “When speculation drives prices to a level that is no
longer consistent with fundamental data, this can have serious consequences for
farmers and consumers.”
Hence another scandal: large banks have known for
years that commodities speculation and related products that they sold to their
clients caused immense damage to people in developing countries and hurt people
even in rich countries.
Wolf Richter,, Business Insider[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, February 26 2013 @ 12:43 AM EST |
| "The sophisticated dissemination of computer viruses can disrupt the military
industrial assets of rivals .. Some states are also experimenting with more
comprehensive cyber warfare designed to disrupt the operational infrastructure
of targeted states, as in the case of the assault on Estonia and its banking
institutions in 2007. A rogue but technologically sophisticated state can now
gain the capacity to launch a non-lethal but paralysing cyber attack on the
socioeconomic system and the most important state institutions of a target
country."
link [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: hardmath on Tuesday, February 26 2013 @ 12:06 PM EST |
Herein post topics you'd like collective Groklaw expertise
with!
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