Authored by: JamesK on Friday, March 15 2013 @ 04:49 PM EDT |
Google's settlement with MPEG-LA is a fresh
development in a decades-old story of software patents. Will it finally open
video codec technology to open source developers? --- The following
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Authored by: SilverWave on Friday, March 15 2013 @ 08:07 PM EDT |
Google actually did me a favour with the brouhaha over its
closure of Google
Reader…it introduced me to Feedly.
Feedly Is A Revelation, somewhat like the
first time you
used Gmail, this is a fantastic RSS reader, really
fantastic.
It is a big change to the way I normally consume RSS
content, something more like a constantly updating
newspaper… but not really,
because it is its own thing.
And you have fantastic opportunities for
customisation, and
you can use it in various different ways depending on how
much time you have.
How the heck have I missed this for so
long?!?
Feedly
Is A Revelation! – But a quick introduction
is useful.
Notes:
I set-up a dedicated Google Account just
for Feedly, this is
to be used at home (Linux), at work (Windows) and on my
phone (Android).
This thinking here was that I don't want to
compromise the
security of my main account by using it to sign in at a work
machine just to use Feedly.--- 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: SilverWave on Saturday, March 16 2013 @ 05:13 AM EDT |
Full Text
RSS Feed Builder Rids You of Truncated RSS
Feeds Forever --- 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 Saturday, March 16 2013 @ 01:21 PM EDT |
Ultra-secret national security letters that come with a gag order on
the recipient are an unconstitutional impingement on free speech, a federal
judge in California ruled in a decision released Friday.
U.S. District
Judge Susan Illston ordered the government to stop issuing so-called NSLs across
the board, in a stunning defeat for the Obama administration’s surveillance
practices. She also ordered the government to cease enforcing the gag provision
in any other cases. However, she stayed her order for 90 days to give the
government a chance to appeal to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
“We
are very pleased that the Court recognized the fatal constitutional shortcomings
of the NSL statute,” said Matt Zimmerman, senior staff attorney for the
Electronic Frontier Foundation, which filed a challenge to NSLs on behalf of an
unknown telecom that received an NSL in 2011.
Kim
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Authored by: TiddlyPom on Saturday, March 16 2013 @ 03:12 PM EDT |
This is just amazing and wonderful news. The UK government has stated that open
source software should
be used for all future projects in preference to proprietary or closed
source alternatives! The manual itself is being held on Github!
Now
what we need is to break the stranglehold on Microsoft software in government
offices and schools...
--- Support Software Freedom - use GPL
licenced software like Linux and LibreOffice instead of proprietary software
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- Looks good, but ... - Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, March 16 2013 @ 03:31 PM EDT
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