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| Authored by: IMANAL_TOO on Tuesday, March 05 2013 @ 01:00 AM EST |
Linux Torvalds recently slammed Red Hat for their wish
to accept Microsoft as a
trusted partner signing
certificates. This was part of discussions regarding
the
UEFI debacle. The on-line discussion was filled with words
unsuitable,
even for the Internet; I am sure you'll find it
anyway.
Now,
Microsoft has shown its true competence. Microsoft
cannot handle certificates
or be trusted with sharp objects.
In an article at
www.techweekeurope.co.uk it is
said:
Microsoft has published a detailed explanation for
the major
failure of its cloud service, Windows Azure, just over a
week ago,
when users lost the the storage service,
apparently because a security
certificate wasn’t renewed.
Microsoft has assured users that the certificate
was in fact
updated – more or less.
Let us hope Red Hat sees this
and that their enthusiasm for
letting Microsoft handle anything as significant
as
certificates is cooled off.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, March 05 2013 @ 07:16 AM EST |
| To cell phone
builders, “Android” isn’t a feature At MWC, some
brands are
vanishing—as are major hardware announcements. by Peter
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, March 05 2013 @ 10:12 AM EST |
India’s patent appeals office has rejected Bayer AG’s plea to stop
the production of a cheaper generic version of a patented cancer drug in a
ruling that health groups say is an important precedent for getting inexpensive
lifesaving medicines to the poor.
Last year, India’s patent office allowed
local drug manufacturer Natco Pharma Ltd. to produce a generic version of
Bayer’s kidney and liver cancer drug Nexavar on the grounds it would make the
drug available to the public at a reasonably affordable price. It was the first
use of compulsory licensing under Indian patent laws passed in 2005.
The
Intellectual Property Appellate Board rejected the German drug maker’s appeal of
the 2012 ruling on Monday. It also ruled that under the license Natco must pay 7
percent in royalties on net sales to Bayer.
Bayer sells a one month supply
of the drug for about $5,600. Natco’s version would cost Indian patients
$175 a month, less than 1/30th as much.
[...]
Under World Trade
Organization rules, governments have the right to issue compulsory licenses to
overcome barriers to access to cheaper versions of a patented drug without the
consent of the company that invented the drug.
[...]
Meanwhile, Swiss drug
maker Novartis AG is awaiting a decision by India’s Supreme Court on the
rejection of patents for its cancer drug Gleevec. That case revolves around a
different legal provision allowing India to block “evergreening” — extensions of
patents based on minor changes to existing treatments.
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| Authored by: Gringo_ on Tuesday, March 05 2013 @ 10:26 AM EST |
Windows 8's pathetic user adoption numbers
can't even keep up
with Vista's lousy numbers. Vista,
universally acknowledged as a failure,
actually had
significantly better adoption numbers than Windows 8. At
similar
points in their roll-outs, Vista had a desktop
market share of 4.52%
compared to Windows 8's share of
2.67%. Underlining just how poorly Windows
8's adoption
has gone, Vista didn't even have the advantage of holiday
season
sales to boost its numbers.
Windows 8's failure is actually greater than
it appears.
The tablet and phone markets in 2007 were next to non-
existent.
Now, in a market where NPD expects tablets to out
sell notebooks by year's end,
neither Windows 8 nor its
cousins Windows RT and Windows Phone 8 even appear on
NetApplication's mobile and tablet reports for February
2013. How bad is that?
Android 1.6, with is tiny 0.02% of
the market, does make the
list.
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| Authored by: Gringo_ on Tuesday, March 05 2013 @ 11:00 AM EST |
This fact alone may explain the low sales of
the Surface RT
tablet, but it is an even more likely
explanation for the reports of very high
return volumes on
the Surface RT. The fact is, when a customer shells out six
hundred bucks for a slick new tablet, only to find out that
they can’t use it
for email, there’s a very high likelihood
that they’ll pack it back into the
box, head for the
Microsoft store and ask for their money back. The customer’s
next stop could very well be to the Apple store to buy an
iPad, which does
work with POP3 Internet email.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, March 05 2013 @ 12:29 PM EST |
Cerf argued that current name policy, which allows for some users to
display pseudonyms, offers adequate "choice" in how users choose to represent
themselves.
Over the past year, the company has strongly encouraged users to
merge their accounts on YouTube, Gmail and other Google properties into a single
Google+ identity, the company's social network offering that asks users to use
the "common name" they are known by in the real world.
"Using real names is
useful," Cerf said. "But I don't think it should be forced on people, and I
don't think we do."
Gerry Shih, Reuters
Vint Cerf is Vice President and Chief
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| Authored by: hardmath on Tuesday, March 05 2013 @ 01:04 PM EST |
MirSpec
The good folks at
Canonical have announced a project spec
"Mir" to replace X-Windows with
something that will port and
scale across hardware platforms.
To describe
X-Windows as venerable is an understatement.
Other graphics UI services
projects have come and gone, but
the time may well have come (touchscreen) to
rethink the
whole architecture.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, March 05 2013 @ 07:35 PM EST |
computerworld
Since the last one seven years ago I've got
faster
hardware and network, so answering 23 of 48 questions
snapped
thru as quick as a purchase from Amazon.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, March 05 2013 @ 10:35 PM EST |
A short (6 min) video on the distribution of wealth in the US.
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