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Way Off Topic - Disappearing wall at Coombe Trenchard Manor in Devon (BBC)
Authored by: SilverWave on Tuesday, March 12 2013 @ 08:27 AM EDT
Disappearing wall at Coombe Trenchard Manor in Devon

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RMS: The 4 Freedoms
0 run the program for any purpose
1 study the source code and change it
2 make copies and distribute them
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Google Explains How Search Actually Works
Authored by: JamesK on Tuesday, March 12 2013 @ 10:05 AM EDT
Google creates a new Website to let the users know what's really happening when we type a query into the Google Search box.

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Dow at record high -- not Microsoft
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, March 12 2013 @ 11:35 AM EDT
Always interesting to see which Dow stocks have a disconnect with the overall
average. Dow up about 10-1/4 percent this year. Microsoft up about 3.7 percent.
And Microsoft is down today while the Dow is at another new high.

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Connect LibreOffice with your Google Docs account by using OOo2gd
Authored by: JamesK on Tuesday, March 12 2013 @ 12:13 PM EDT
If you use LibreOffice and Google Docs, you can merge the two by using the OOo2gd extension. You can also use OOo2gd to import/export to Zoho and export with WebDAV.

Curious thing, it works well with LibreOffice on Linux and Windows, but not with OpenOffice on Linux.

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Cory Doctorow: What I wish Tim Berners-Lee understood about DRM
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, March 12 2013 @ 02:43 PM EDT
Adding DRM to the HTML standard will have far-reaching effects, incompatible with the W3C's most important policies

[...]

The W3C has a duty to send the DRM-peddlers packing, just as the US courts did in the case of digital TV. There is no market for DRM, no public purpose served by granting a veto to unaccountable, shortsighted media giants who dream of a world where your mouse rings a cash-register with every click and disruption is something that happens to other people, not them.

Cory Doctorow, The Guardian

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Why Microsoft Is Like The GOP... interesting
Authored by: SilverWave on Tuesday, March 12 2013 @ 03:31 PM EDT
Why Microsoft Is Like The GOP

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1 study the source code and change it
2 make copies and distribute them
3 publish modified versions

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An open letter from bunnie, author of Hacking the Xbox:
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, March 12 2013 @ 03:50 PM EDT
Dear Reader,

No Starch Press and I have decided to release this free ebook version of Hacking the Xbox in honor of Aaron Swartz. As you read this book, I hope that you’ll be reminded of how important freedom is to the hacking community and that you’ll be inclined to support the causes that Aaron believed in.

I agreed to release this book for free in part because Aaron’s treatment by MIT is not unfamiliar to me. In this book, you will find the story of when I was an MIT graduate student, extracting security keys from the original Microsoft Xbox. You’ll also read about the crushing disappointment of receiving a letter from MIT legal repudiating any association with my work, effectively leaving me on my own to face Microsoft.

The difference was that the faculty of my lab, the AI laboratory, were outraged by this treatment. They openly defied MIT legal and vowed to publish my work as an official “AI Lab Memo,” thereby granting me greater negotiating leverage with Microsoft. Microsoft, mindful of the potential backlash from the court of public opinion over suing a legitimate academic researcher, came to a civil understanding with me over the issue.

It saddens me that America’s so-called government for the people, by the people, and of the people has less compassion and enlightenment toward their fellow man than a corporation.

[...]

While Aaron's story came to a tragic end, I hope that in this book you will find an encouraging story with a happy ending. Without the right to tinker and explore, we risk becoming enslaved by technology; and the more we exercise the right to hack, the harder it will be to take that right away.

bunnie [Andrew Huang]
Singapore, March 2013

http://nostarch.com/xboxfree

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US sues Ireland trading platform ..
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, March 12 2013 @ 04:34 PM EDT
'For Americans, the Ireland-based trading platform always existed on tenuous legal ground. It was part online gambling site and part unregulated futures market, neither of which are legal in the United States.

That’s why in November, after the Commodities Futures Trading Commission sued, Intrade closed all U.S. accounts. It is unclear what led to its shutting down over the weekend, except that its board of directors said there “may be financial irregularities.”
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Acer’s new $279 C7 Chromebook runs for 6 hours has 4GB RAM
Authored by: SilverWave on Tuesday, March 12 2013 @ 05:03 PM EDT
Acer’s new $279 C7 Chromebook runs for 6 hours, doubles down on memory

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Dell pays Red Hat, SUSE Linux, and Canonical?
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, March 13 2013 @ 07:12 AM EDT
"If Dell wasn't so distracted with taking itself private, it might think about buying Canonical and having its own Linux business instead of giving all the software support money to Red Hat, SUSE Linux, and Canonical. The wonder is why Dell didn't do this a long time ago, really." link

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Groklaw Art Tribute
Authored by: TiddlyPom on Wednesday, March 13 2013 @ 09:32 AM EDT
Anyone seen this tribute on DeviantAr t (worksafe)?

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March 16, 2013 - United States Transitions To A 'First-Inventor-To-File' Patent System
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, March 13 2013 @ 09:59 AM EDT
The United States has long had a “first-to-invent” patent system in which the date of invention could trump the date of filing a patent application in determining patent rights. However, that is set to change due to the America Invents Act (AIA), a sweeping patent reform bill signed into law by President Obama in September 2011.

For patent applications with an effective filing date of March 16, 2013 or later, the United States shifts to what is often – and only partially accurately – called a “first-inventor-to-file” or “first-to-file” system. The reality is more complex than those designations imply, as patent rights in the United States under the first-to-file system will depend on the interplay between the dates of filing and of any pre-filing disclosures of the invention.

John Villasenor, Forbes

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Microsoft cuts OEM price of windows 8 and office 2013 to spur slow adoption
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, March 13 2013 @ 01:17 PM EDT
Link - extremetech.com

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