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Authored by: N_au on Wednesday, March 13 2013 @ 10:13 PM EDT |
I don't know what this guy was smoking or is he just believing what some apple
fanbois are saying. To quote: the out-of-the-box experience of using
an Android device is far inferior with the consumer having to log into nine
different systems to begin using the device fully
I have 4
different Android devices and on not one have I had to setup more than ONE
account to use it. That is my Google account and I can use it fully. Now if you
buy a Samsung which I don't own but have setup a friends Galaxy 2 10.1 all you
need is setup your Gmail account. But there is a lot of software added by
Samsung and other manufacturers that may need you to setup an account. eg.
facebook, twitter, and other email accounts, which you would have to do on a
apple as well.
The link to story
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- how could apple use less? - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, March 13 2013 @ 11:09 PM EDT
- Whaddaya mean "log in"? - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, March 14 2013 @ 02:11 AM EDT
- Apple's Schiller LOOKS WORRIED :-D - Authored by: SilverWave on Thursday, March 14 2013 @ 03:38 AM EDT
- Apple's Schiller & Apple distortion field - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, March 14 2013 @ 08:10 AM EDT
- Apple's Schiller blasts Android, Samsung on Galaxy's eve - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, March 14 2013 @ 08:16 AM EDT
- he's crossed a line - Authored by: mcinsand on Thursday, March 14 2013 @ 12:00 PM EDT
- he's crossed a line - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, March 14 2013 @ 06:56 PM EDT
- nope - Authored by: mcinsand on Friday, March 15 2013 @ 11:28 AM EDT
- straight up denial by apple - Authored by: designerfx on Thursday, March 14 2013 @ 12:06 PM EDT
- Apple's Schiller blasts Android, Samsung on Galaxy's eve - Authored by: JamesK on Thursday, March 14 2013 @ 12:16 PM EDT
- Apple's Schiller anti-Android campaign - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, March 14 2013 @ 01:18 PM EDT
- Apple's Schiller blasts Android, Samsung on Galaxy's eve - Authored by: DannyB on Thursday, March 14 2013 @ 01:32 PM EDT
- I use 2 accounts... - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, March 14 2013 @ 01:57 PM EDT
- I have an Android device - and Zero accounts - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, March 14 2013 @ 02:17 PM EDT
- Very good answer to Mr. Schiller's comments - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, March 14 2013 @ 03:46 PM EDT
- In other news, S(c)hiller (probably) blasts google single sign-in - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, March 15 2013 @ 04:09 AM EDT
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, March 13 2013 @ 10:28 PM EDT |
Justia.com Opinion Summary: In this copyright
infringement suit,
SOFA claimed that Dodger infringed its
copyright in using a seven-second clip
of Ed Sullivan's
introduction of the Four Seasons on "The Ed Sullivan Show"
and could not justify its unlicensed use of the clip as
"fair use." The clip
was used in Dodger's musical about the
Four Seasons, "Jersey Boys," to mark a
historical point in
the band's career. The court held that, by using the clip
for its biographical significance, Dodger has imbued it with
new meaning and
did so without usurping whatever demand
there was for the original clip. Dodger
was entitled to
prevail on its fair use defense as a mater of law and to
retain the attorney's fees award granted by the district
court.
SOFA
Entertainment, Inc. v. Dodger
Productions, Inc., et
al, (9th Cir., March 11, 2013).
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, March 14 2013 @ 12:13 AM EDT |
MBB
PDF (appearently only in french...)
Case with
PDF
http://hudoc.echr.coe.int/sites/eng-press/Pages/search.aspx#{"sort":["kpdate
Descending"],"itemid":["003-4288978-5121730"]}"
Google tranlate
quote:
The Court said that the sharing or the act of facilitating the
sharing of such files
Internet, even data protected by copyright and for
profit, is the
right to "receive and impart information" within the meaning
of Article 10 (freedom
expression). However, it considers that the courts
have made a fair
balancing of competing interests - namely the
applicants' right to
receive and impart information and the need to protect
copyright -
when they convicted the applicants and, therefore, dismissed
the motion for
manifestly unfounded.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, March 14 2013 @ 01:47 AM EDT |
In a suit filed recently in federal court in Chicago[1], a top
Sherlock Holmes scholar alleged that many licensing fees paid to the Arthur
Conan Doyle estate have been unnecessary, since the main characters and elements
of their story derive from materials in the public domain. The suit was brought
by Leslie S. Klinger, the editor of the 3,000-page “Annotated Sherlock Holmes”
and other Sherlock Holmes-related books. It stems from his book “In the Company
of Sherlock Holmes,” a collection of new Sherlock Holmes stories by various
authors, edited by Klinger and his co-editor Laurie King to be published by
Pegasus Books.
[...]
According to the lawsuit all the Sherlock Holmes
stories entered the public domain under the laws of the United Kingdom and
Canada in 1980. However, with the passage of the U. S. Copyright Act of 1976 the
author of a work that had passed into the public domain in the United States, or
his heirs, were entitled to restore the work to copyright in the United States
under certain conditions. In 1981, Dame Jean Conan Doyle, the last surviving
child of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, applied for registration of the copyright to
“The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes,” a collection of stories. This work is
comprised of 12 stories that were first published in various periodicals between
1921 and 1927, and the collection was first published as a book in the United
States in 1927.
The complaint asserts that the Doyle estate sent a letter to
Pegasus Books threatening to prevent publication of “In the Company of Sherlock
Holmes” unless it was paid a license fee.
Mark Litwak, Independent Filmmaker Project
Mark Litwak is a
veteran entertainment attorney
h/t
Boing Boing [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: JamesK on Thursday, March 14 2013 @ 07:48 AM EDT |
Today is Pi Day! Get out
there and celebrate!!! ;-) --- The following program contains immature
subject matter.
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Authored by: JamesK on Thursday, March 14 2013 @ 07:56 AM EDT |
Analysis of the tracks of an elementary particle found in the Large Hadron
Collider last year "strongly indicates" that it is the long-sought Higgs boson,
the CERN physics research centre said on Thursday. --- The following
program contains immature subject matter.
Viewer discretion is advised. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, March 14 2013 @ 12:19 PM EDT |
Assume boys and girls are identical, except: there's something in
the water at high schools that causes boys to do worse than girls; and there's
something in the water at universities that causes boys to do worse than
girls.
Suppose you had a data set for all university students, that told
you for each student i: that student's performance at university Ui; that
student's performance at high school Hi; and that student's sex Si (Si=1 for
male, Si=0 for female).
Suppose you ran a multiple regression of Ui on Hi
and Si:
Ui = a + bHi + cSi + ei
What would you expect to
find?
Nick Rowe, Worthwhile Canadian
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, March 14 2013 @ 01:27 PM EDT |
Bill C-56 seems natural to support on surface but hides dangerous
measures
With only limited fanfare, earlier this month Industry Minister
Christian Paradis introduced Bill C-56, the Combating Counterfeit Products Act.
Since no one supports counterfeit products -- there are legitimate concerns
associated with health and safety -- measures designed to address the issue
would presumably enjoy public and all-party support. Yet within days of its
introduction, the bill was the target of attacks from both opposition parties
and the public.
[...]
With Europe and Switzerland both out of the
agreement, there are only nine countries left. The U.S. apparently sees Canada
as an easy target for support, leading to mounting pressure to implement the
bill.
That leaves Canadians with Bill C-56, which may be characterized as a
counterfeiting bill, but whose primary objective appears to be to satisfy U.S.
pressure to implement an agreement that the majority of our major trading
partners have either never signed or flatly rejected.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, March 14 2013 @ 02:03 PM EDT |
An honest mistake. I suppose they will have to exempt some code that may
possibly resemble a characteristic or two of trojan like software.
http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/AVG-anti-virus-software-mistakes-Wind
ows-system-file-for-a-trojan-1823171.html
The above is deliberately not click-able. You can copy and paste in your
browser.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, March 14 2013 @ 05:11 PM EDT |
It looks like Judge Wright has provided Prenda with one last chance before he starts
infering...
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, March 14 2013 @ 07:13 PM EDT |
Okay, admittedly at OT goes, this one is pretty far off. And the issue is
singular. Nonetheless, it does illustrate the importance of vocally supporting
those one might otherwise oppose when they get one thing absolutely right: T
op Anti-Gay Attorney Insults Chief Justice Roberts And Justice Thomas’ Decisions
To Adopt Children. Good on Ian Millhiser and editors at Think
Progess.
Ed L (not logged in) [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, March 14 2013 @ 07:38 PM EDT |
Bloomberg's explanation implies it was
relatively simple engineering, not some complex crack, and Krebs on Security tells us that it
was made easier by a legal
requirement to provide this info to the people it referred to. Should we be
praising the Russian
under-web for providing this data cheaper than the credit
agencies' cartel?
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, March 14 2013 @ 08:03 PM EDT |
This post describes the results of a comprehensive global Internet
scan for the
command and control servers of FinFisher’s surveillance software.
It also details the discovery
of a campaign using FinFisher in Ethiopia used to
target individuals linked to an opposition
group. Additionally, it provides
examination of a FinSpy Mobile sample found in the wild,
which appears to have
been used in Vietnam.
citizenlab.orgM
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Authored by: OpenSourceFTW on Thursday, March 14 2013 @ 08:44 PM EDT |
I'm currently setting up to switch from Win 7 home premium to Linux on my Dell
lappy.
I have used Mint Linux in the past, but I'm a bit of a linux noob (I want to
learn).
I'm leaning towards Fedora 18.
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- I vote for Mageia - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, March 14 2013 @ 09:03 PM EDT
- Mint - Authored by: cassini2006 on Thursday, March 14 2013 @ 09:54 PM EDT
- The usual reply - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, March 14 2013 @ 09:58 PM EDT
- Which Linux Distro? - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, March 14 2013 @ 10:56 PM EDT
- The unhelpful answer - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, March 14 2013 @ 11:46 PM EDT
- Which Linux Distro? - Authored by: Wol on Friday, March 15 2013 @ 04:55 AM EDT
- Which Linux Distro? - Authored by: PJ on Friday, March 15 2013 @ 05:03 AM EDT
- Virtualbox images - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, March 15 2013 @ 07:06 AM EDT
- Which Linux Distro? - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, March 15 2013 @ 08:12 AM EDT
- Which Linux Distro? - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, March 15 2013 @ 08:24 AM EDT
- Crunchbang is neat, also try something with XFCE - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, March 15 2013 @ 10:20 AM EDT
- Which Linux Distro? - Authored by: JamesK on Friday, March 15 2013 @ 11:27 AM EDT
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, March 14 2013 @ 08:57 PM EDT |
If
Schiller was worried, well, he should be...
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Authored by: UncleVom on Thursday, March 14 2013 @ 11:28 PM EDT |
I can watch Netflix on my Android TV USB dongle so I know this isn't a case of
Microsoft Silverlight only.
But there seems to be a resistance to enabling
you usual Linux distros. I'm a Debian user.
Yes I know there are Wine
hacks and virtual machine hacks.
I have heard that it is because there are
important people involved with large numbers of Microsoft shares and I've also
heard the excuse that Linux users are pirates.
I have also read that Linux
support is coming soon......forever.
Now on The Register I read this...
Here
It makes me upset that they can benefit from
Linux
and open source without supporting its end users.
Am I over reacting?
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, March 14 2013 @ 11:28 PM EDT |
At the Moriond Conference today, the ATLAS and CMS collaborations at
CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) presented preliminary new results that
further elucidate the particle discovered last year.
Having analysed two and
a half times more data than was available for the discovery announcement in
July, they find that the new particle is looking more and more like a Higgs
boson, the particle linked to the mechanism that gives mass to elementary
particles. It remains an open question, however, whether this is the Higgs boson
of the Standard Model of particle physics, or possibly the lightest of several
bosons predicted in some theories that go beyond the Standard Model. Finding the
answer to this question will take time.
Whether or not it is a Higgs boson
is demonstrated by how it interacts with other particles, and its quantum
properties.
http://home.web.cern.ch/about/updates/2013/03/new-results-indicate-new-particle-
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, March 15 2013 @ 10:16 AM EDT |
I was looking at the ADTI entry on Wikipedia, and it is pitiful.
Does anyone have a list of citations they could add? This call out also goes
for any article regarding Tech, including Groklaw's. Wikipedia needs
citations, and you are the people who know how to find them.
Wayne
http://madhatter.ca
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, March 15 2013 @ 10:30 AM EDT |
The Interactive Advertising Bureau strongly opposes the scheme by
Mozilla to block third-party cookies by default in upcoming releases of its
Firefox browser, and we vigorously encourage both the non-profit Mozilla
Foundation and its for-profit subsidiary the Mozilla Corporation, which is
reconfiguring the Firefox browser, to abandon this proposed change.
This
move will not put the interest of users first. Nor does it promote transparency
or “move the web forward,” as Mozilla claims in its announcement. It will not
advance Mozilla’s objective, as stated in its bylaws, of “promoting choice and
innovation on the Internet,” but will, instead, impede both. If Mozilla follows
through on its plan to block all third-party cookies, the disruption will
disenfranchise every single internet user.
All of us will lose the freedom
to choose our own online experiences; we will lose the opportunity to monitor
and protect our privacy; and we will lose the chance to benefit from independent
sites like RightWingNews.com LiberalOasis.com, MotherhoodWTF.com, and
SuburbanDaddy.com because thousands of small businesses that make up the
diversity of content and services online will be forced to close their
doors.
Finally, as a journalist for most of my professional life and a
reader for 53 years, I object—as I hope all journalists and readers would
object—to any move like this, which empowers a handful of giant technology
companies to control and impede the flow of news, information, and entertainment
that characterizes the richness and openness of the ad-supported
Internet.
Randall
Rothenberg, President & CEO, Interactive Advertising Bureau
not
surprised to see Microsoft on the board, Yahoo too, but Google? really? [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Gringo_ on Friday, March 15 2013 @ 12:49 PM EDT |
Hackers play Space Invaders on Belgrade
billboard, get
rewarded with iPads
In the wake of hackers getting prosecuted, it's
nice to
hear some good news.
by Cyrus Farivar - ars
technica
Sadly, far too often we hear about hackers getting
punished for
their exploits—even when the hack doesn’t
really damage anyone. (RIP Aaron
Swartz.)
Today, however, two people are being rewarded for a fun,
harmless hack. After taking over a prominent electronic
billboard in Belgrade,
installing Space Invaders on it, and
playing it via their iPhones for 20
minutes, two Serbian
students were rewarded by the billboard's owner with two
iPad mini 4Gs.
Link (includes video) [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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