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The astonishing amount of personal data police can extract from your smartphone
Authored by: JamesK on Wednesday, February 27 2013 @ 02:01 PM EST
A Michigan search warrant details all of the information police were able to extract from one woman’s iPhone seized from her bedroom last September.

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

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Sentence parsing
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, February 27 2013 @ 02:45 PM EST
My brain fizzled and briefly interpreted the string of words ending with
"wordperfect" as a standalone phrase:

"Novell Files Its Reply Brief ... in WordPerfect."

Sorry counselor, you're going to have to open that .wpd if you want to read the
plaintiff's reply.

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Canada - Supreme court strikes down part of Sask. hate speech prohibition
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, February 27 2013 @ 03:01 PM EST
The Supreme Court of Canada has upheld provisions against hate speech in the Saskatchewan Human Rights Code, but struck down some of the code's wording in a case prompted by flyers handed out by a religious anti-gay activist, William Whatcott.

The court found that most of the code is constitutional. Although the legislation infringes the rights to free expression and free religion, the court is allowing most of it as reasonable limits.

Laura Payton, CBC

Decision - Saskatchewan (Human Rights Commission) v. Whatcott
http://scc.lexum.org/decisia-scc-csc/scc-csc/scc-csc/en/item/12876/index.do

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Apple patents asserted against Samsung - Posner, and CAFC
Authored by: macliam on Wednesday, February 27 2013 @ 05:54 PM EST

I have appended a comment to the Groklaw thread on the recen t Markman hearing in Apple v. Samsung.

In summary, the '647 patent was included in the Apple v. Motorola litigation that Judge Posner famously dismissed with prejudice last year. Judge Posner thought that (with his claim construction) Motorola could invent around the patent relatively easily, and therefore damages would have been modest.

And the wording of the '959 patent claim 1 has the same features as that of the 8086604 patent claim 6 - where the CAFC determined that Apple had little likelihood of success.

I would add that, in view of the previous Groklaw article, there is a lot of stuff in both the Posner and the CAFC opinions explaining why injunctive relief is inappropriate (for Apple as well as for Motorola).

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Power Point on a phone
Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Thursday, February 28 2013 @ 12:54 AM EST
Link

The insanity continues.

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Pandora Insanity - Waiting for Godot
Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Thursday, February 28 2013 @ 12:58 AM EST
Link

Against this backdrop, Pandora has pressed for federal legislation that could help ease its burden. Mr. Westergren has touted the Internet Radio Fairness Act, which could change the way Internet radio royalty rates are set, as a way to level the playing field with other industries like satellite radio.

The legislation is pending reintroduction in Congress, the Pandora spokeswoman said.

And pending, and pending, and pending.

With a leaderless House, whose leader is probably going to play golf tomorrow, instead of leading.

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Samsung controversy, SlashGear reads Groklaw
Authored by: Gringo_ on Thursday, February 28 2013 @ 09:45 AM EST

Nonetheless, some industry observers are questioning whether Samsung’s perfectly legal decision to retain the former judge is a road to PR problems, with FOSS Patents’ Florian Mueller suggesting there is potential for allegations that the Korean firm is somehow “rewarding” Sir Jacob for his earlier decision. Given that the tensions between the Apple and Samsung camps seldom run quiet, it’s likely to be further grist for the controversy mill. That’s not least because Mueller is himself a point of contention, since he has previously been retained by both Oracle and Microsoft, Groklaw reported back in August 2012, while still commenting regularly on cases involving each company.

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Here’s How AT&T Is Planning to Rob Americans of an Open Public Telco Network
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, February 28 2013 @ 01:29 PM EST
AT&T has a sneaky plan.

It wants to exploit a loophole in the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)’s rules to kill what remains of the public telecommunications network — and all of the consumer protections that go with it. It’s the final step in AT&T’s decade-long effort to end all telecommunications regulation, and the simplicity of the plan highlights a dysfunction unique to the American regulatory system.

AT&T and other big telecom carriers want to replace the portions of their networks that still use circuit-switching technology with equipment that uses Internet Protocol (IP) to route voice and data traffic. But because the FCC previously decided that it has no direct authority over communications networks that use IP, this otherwise routine technological upgrade could lead to a state of total deregulation.

Derek Turner, Wired

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UK Judge Who Chastised Apple Over Samsung 'Apology' Now Consulting as Patent Expert for Samsung
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, February 28 2013 @ 01:47 PM EST
Something smelly going on here ...


http://www.macrumors.com/2013/02/28/uk-judge-who-chastised-apple-
over-samsung-apology-now-consulting-as-patent-expert-for-samsung/


A UK judge who was involved in a case in which Apple was ordered to publish
a notice on its website saying that Samsung's Galaxy Tab did not copy the
registered design for the iPad has been hired by Samsung as a patent expert
in a separate legal battle with Ericsson, reports software patent blog FOSS
Patents.

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EU finalizing on MS fines
Authored by: designerfx on Thursday, February 28 2013 @ 02:25 PM EST
so much for their Google fines, huh.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/28/us-eu-microsoft-
idUSBRE91R18720130228

also, what the heck is up with this? original link (clicked
from RSS) says this:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/28/us-eu-microsoft-
idUSBRE91R18720130228?
feedType=RSS&feedName=technologyNews&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_
medium=twitter&dlvrit=56505

so I'v enever heard of dlvr.it before, and why does google
reader = twitter? is this how people drive "Twitter
traffic"?

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    "Aiding the public is not aiding the enemy."
    Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Thursday, February 28 2013 @ 02:49 PM EST
    Link

    So true. So true.

    And Linus gets it too, when it comes to Microsoft and UEFI.

    And when the public gets it regarding software patents, the world will be a better place.

    If you don't get it, and allow the attacks to continue,
    then *YOU* are aiding the enemy.

    Pogo was right.

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    Facebook buying Atlas ad business from Microsoft
    Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, February 28 2013 @ 07:44 PM EST
    Microsoft is out as a heavyweight contender in online advertising – and Facebook continues its efforts to go all in.

    That's the upshot of Microsoft selling Atlas Advertising Suite to Facebook; the widely expected deal was announced Thursday afternoon. The price was undisclosed. But Advertising Age has estimated its value at $30 million to $50 million.

    Thus Microsoft completely sheds its costly, ill-fated acquisition of online advertising company aQuantive, of which the Atlas tools were a part. Microsoft snapped up aQuantive for $6.3 billion in 2007, paying more than twice what Google did for rival agency DoubleClick just a few weeks earlier.

    Facebook buying Atlas ad business from Microsoft

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    “... Just Ship It”: Felony Prosecution for Salmonella-Peanut Executives
    Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, February 28 2013 @ 11:36 PM EST
    If you want to read more about this, the most detailed coverage is in the publication Food Safety News, which has been covering the PCA situation since the beginning. (NB: FSN’s operations are backed by the food-safety attorney Bill Marler, but its reporters are independent.) This weekend, they have put together a long analysis of the charges in the indictment, a comprehensive timeline, and an essay by editor Dan Flynn, recalling how he crept up a disused rail line to report on the plant in 2009 because local sheriffs were protecting the company’s front door.

    If you care about food safety, this is an important case to watch. First, because the existence of the case is so unusual; second, because (according to the indictment), the behavior that prompted it was so egregious. As presented by the feds, this was not accidental contamination, or sales of a product in which contamination could not have been controlled. It was, in their 52-page telling, deliberate and repeated, and apparently indifferent to the harm it might cause. If behavior such as they describe can’t be called to account, it would be worth asking why we have food-safety laws at all.

    Maryn McKenna, Wired

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