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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, February 26 2013 @ 06:53 AM EST |
| November Tango [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: cricketjeff on Tuesday, February 26 2013 @ 07:23 AM EST |
| Dilbert on Patent cases
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| Authored by: JamesK on Tuesday, February 26 2013 @ 07:59 AM EST |
| Dilbert ;-) ---
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, February 26 2013 @ 08:18 AM EST |
I created the melody for
this song by taking pi and
assigning each number
to a note on the A
harmonic minor scale.
I
added harmonies with the left hand.
2'22"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMq9he-5HUU
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, February 26 2013 @ 08:19 AM EST |
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Playing to Your Strengths
I have to admit, this is one solution
that hadn't occurred to me
:)
Waynehttp://madhatter.ca
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| Authored by: JamesK on Tuesday, February 26 2013 @ 08:27 AM EST |
The EU continues to fall behind
the U.S. on broadband infrastructure modernization because the EU’s
broadband-industrial-policy discourages private investment while America’s
competition policy encourages private investment.
However, there is
an error in this article:
"As the world leader in promoting
facilities-based communications competition, America is the only nation in the
world with a second ubiquitous national competitive broadband infrastructure –
cable."
Canada also has cable, which provides Internet access and
more.
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| Authored by: TiddlyPom on Tuesday, February 26 2013 @ 09:05 AM EST |
Interesting article by The Inquirer which references the Microsoft Annual Report.
I guess this is the first real evidence
we have (from their own sources) that open source is starting to have a real
impact on them.
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Support Software Freedom - use GPL licenced
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, February 26 2013 @ 09:14 AM EST |
JPMorgan Chase & Co. overrode an independent analysis of home
loan portfolios by buying and selling defective loans to create a sanitized
version of the pool, which was then securitized and sold, a court was
told.
FSA Asset Management LLC, which bought the residential mortgage-backed
securities that later collapsed in value, and its parent Franco-Belgian bank
Dexia SA filed hundreds of e- mails and transcripts of employee interviews in
federal court in Manhattan on Feb. 4, urging a judge not to throw out their
lawsuit over the collateralized securities.
JPMorgan received reports from
independent mortgage loan underwriters showing that 20 percent to 80 percent of
the loans in samples used for testing didn’t meet the underwriting guidelines,
including fraudulent home appraisals or missing documentation, FSA Asset
Management, or FSAM, said in the filing.
Joe Schneider, Bloomberg
The case is Dexia
SA v. Bear Stearns & Co. 12-cv-04761. U.S. District Court Southern District
of New York (Manhattan). [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, February 26 2013 @ 02:03 PM EST |
It started innocently enough. Red
Hat software engineer David Howells asked Linus Torvalds, Linux's founder,
to move on code that would let Microsoft-signed binary keys be added
dynamically to a kernel while running in secure-boot mode on the Linux Kernel Mailing List (LKML). Torvalds wasn't
having it. "Quite frankly, this is
f*cking moronic."
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| Authored by: Gringo_ on Tuesday, February 26 2013 @ 02:24 PM EST |
A high court majority concluded that, because the
eavesdropping is done
secretly, the American Civil
Liberties Union, journalists and human-rights
groups that
sued to nullify the law have no legal standing to sue —
because
they have no evidence they are being targeted by
the FISA Amendments
Act.
Bizarre turn of events!
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, February 26 2013 @ 03:36 PM EST |
| "Last year, 70,000 attended MWC in the Spanish city, so it was moved to a new
venue with twice the floor space and moving walkways between the eight cavernous
halls. Unfortunately, it has fewer catering facilities than it did at Cannes.
Start queuing today to get your hot dog mañana .. corporate vanity doesn’t
diminish and given the money exhibitors spend, they're expected to make a big
splash. So what we’re left with are enormous sets and only a few people ghosting
about on them – a very JG Ballard picture - and some very desperate launches".
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, February 26 2013 @ 06:12 PM EST |
No, not p2p filesharing.
9th Cct defines Sea Shepherd anti-whaling group:
pirates
seattlepi
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, February 26 2013 @ 09:13 PM EST |
| Apparently, if the RIAA or MPAA claims to your ISP that you are infringing their
copyrights, the ISP will warn you, and after six of those warnings they will
throttle or even disconnect those users.
Slashdot is nerd-raging about it.
If you think you're innocent,
you can pay them $35 and then try to prove it (to a panel of people selected
by the same groups that pushed for this law?). If you succeed, you can get your
$35 back and they stop throttling you.
For myself, I'm just glad I
live in a civilized country where this kind of pandering to greedy corporations
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, February 27 2013 @ 12:04 AM EST |
isc.sans.edu run a subjective reader poll.
Note the things that need
either java or ActiveX :(
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, February 27 2013 @ 08:22 AM EST |
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Tim
ing is Everything
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, February 27 2013 @ 08:27 AM EST |
The dispute centered around Power Hour, a boozy 60-minute drinking
game in which participants throw back a specified number of alcoholic
beverages—usually 60 small shots of beer—at one-minute intervals.
[...]
After three years and thirty grand out of pocket, Ali finally got
a welcome call from her lawyer on New Year’s Eve, 2012. In trademark law, marks
fall along a continuum from “distinctive"–and thus enforceable–to
“generic"–uneforceable. The TTAB found that Power Hour fell in the middle, but
closer to generic than distinctive. Based on the mountain of evidence Ali
supplied, the TTAB determined that Steve’s Power Hour mark “is descriptive and
lacks acquired distinctiveness.”
In other words, Spagnola won
big.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, February 27 2013 @ 08:48 AM EST |
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ISO
8601
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The High Court decision, published on Wednesday morning, said the
co-accused had allegedly sent letters (and in one case a recorded message) to
the relatives of Australian soldiers killed in action in Afghanistan and to the
mother of an Austrade official killed in Indonesia.
''The communications
criticised Australia's military involvement in Afghanistan. They opened with
expressions of sympathy for the grieving relatives but then proceeded to
criticise and condemn the deceased person,'' the decision read.
The High
Court was divided 50-50 on whether the constitution prohibits the postal service
being used to deliver ''seriously offensive material''.
Under the Judiciary
Act, when the High Court is equally divided, the decision that is being appealed
is upheld.
Bianca Hall, The Sydney Morning
Herald
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Decision - Monis v The Queen [2013] HCA 4 (27 February 2013)
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| Authored by: JamesK on Wednesday, February 27 2013 @ 11:57 AM EST |
M
ensys BV, the developer for eComStation, is all set to launch the next major
release for their operating system.
BTW, I first started running
OS/2 in April 1992 and in the late '90s worked at IBM Canada, providing 3rd
level OS/2 support. There were a lot of things in OS/2 that were far ahead of
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