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Authored by: SilverWave on Tuesday, March 12 2013 @ 08:27 AM EDT |
Disappearing wall
at Coombe Trenchard Manor in
Devon --- 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
3 publish modified versions
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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. --- The following program contains immature subject matter.
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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.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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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.--- The following program
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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[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: SilverWave on Tuesday, March 12 2013 @ 03:31 PM EDT |
Why Microsoft Is Like The GOP --- 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
3 publish modified versions
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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
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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.”`[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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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 --- 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
3 publish modified versions
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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 [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: TiddlyPom on Wednesday, March 13 2013 @ 09:32 AM EDT |
Anyone seen this tribute on DeviantAr
t (worksafe)?
--- Support Software Freedom - use GPL licenced
software like Linux and LibreOffice instead of proprietary software like
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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[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, March 13 2013 @ 01:17 PM EDT |
Link - extremetech.com [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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