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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, March 21 2013 @ 07:38 AM EDT |
Samsung vs. Google: an Interview with
Rafael Barbosa
Barifouse of Redacao Epoca
Google is
not dependent on Samsung because it’s not
dependent on Android. Samsung is not
dependent on Google
because Samsung is not dependent on Android. Android is
valuable in theory but in practice its value is hard to
identify. Historically
it was planned as a defense against
the hegemony of Windows, BlackBerry and
iOS. In that respect
it has succeeded. But playing defense is not enough to win
a
game. For Google to truly succeed in mobile it needs to
define a better
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, March 21 2013 @ 08:21 AM EDT |
Preventing
Regulatory Capture:
Special Interest Influence and How to Limit It | The Tobin
Project
Free version of a 'draft' of a multi-discipline, academic
book,
scheduled to be published in late 2013. Use the link
above to look at the
contributions from different
perspectives on this interesting idea.
If you
want to just go straight to Judge Richard Posner's
contribution it is:
Posner: The
Concept of Regulatory
Capture: A Short, Inglorious History - "pdf"
(Not
being too familiar with Posner, I did not find this
too informative about or
immediately relevant to his views
about patent law - maybe other interested
parties can read
some significance?) [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: attila_the_pun on Thursday, March 21 2013 @ 08:23 AM EDT |
I don't have the strength to read the patent right now, but did
Twitter just patent the Observer Pattern? [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, March 21 2013 @ 09:53 AM EDT |
I gave up and tried ALL the possible short cuts.
Just looking for a open page in Background now (v opens it in
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, March 21 2013 @ 09:55 AM EDT |
New keyboard shortcuts: View
original
in *background* tab, Preview [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: JamesK on Thursday, March 21 2013 @ 12:08 PM EDT |
New results from looking at the
split-second after the big bang indicate the universe is 80 million years older
than previously thought, but core concepts in physics about the cosmos — how it
began, what it's made of and where it's going — seem to be on the right
track. --- The following program contains immature subject matter.
Viewer discretion is advised. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: JamesK on Thursday, March 21 2013 @ 12:12 PM EDT |
Sens
ors record a dramatic fall in radiation more than 11bn miles from the sun as
galactic cosmic rays soar --- The following program contains immature
subject matter.
Viewer discretion is advised. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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- Today's XKCD - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, March 22 2013 @ 01:13 PM EDT
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, March 21 2013 @ 01:12 PM EDT |
http://wolf.house.gov/press-releases/wolf-chinese-national-potentially-involved-
in-nasa-langley-security-violations/
http://www.spacepolicyonline.com/news/bolden-reassures-wolf-on-china-talks-budge
t-realities
ntrs.nasa.gov
So political games have closed a very large online library. For those who don't
know, the NTRS is (was) the repository for NASA video, images, engineering
reports, and other media. Over 1 million records. The documents contained in the
library were paid for by US taxpayer money, and released to the public.
Its not clear what is going to happen at this point, if the library opens with
no changes, if certain papers are taken down due to ITAR, or if the library
remains closed indefinitely.
Definitely not a good day for anyone in the sciences or history researcher. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: tiger99 on Thursday, March 21 2013 @ 01:55 PM EDT |
BBC Well, they get
what they deserve. Owners and abusers of software patents, that is. Every one a
loser, one way or another. The answer is obvious. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, March 21 2013 @ 02:39 PM EDT |
What entered the public domain in the US in 2013? It’s not a long
answer, because the answer is …. nothing.
Now here’s a question that
yields a longer answer. What books would have entered the public domain if we
were still operating under reasonable, pre-1978 copyright laws?
Here’s a
little list that comes from Duke
University’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain:
- Winston
Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples
- Philip K.
Dick, Minority Report
- Ian Fleming, Diamonds are Forever
(a James Bond novel)
- Fred Gibson, Old Yeller
- Billie
Holiday, Lady Sings the Blues
- Alan Lerner, My Fair
Lady
- Eugene O’Neill, Long Day’s Journey into
Night
- John Osborne, Look Back in Anger
- Dodie Smith,
101 Dalmatians
You can also add films to the list,
like:
http://www.openculture.com/2013/03/what_didnt_enter_the_public_domain_in_2013.ht
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- Not a surprise - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, March 21 2013 @ 03:26 PM EDT
- Not a surprise - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, March 21 2013 @ 04:42 PM EDT
- You lost me - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, March 21 2013 @ 06:08 PM EDT
- Not a surprise - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, March 22 2013 @ 05:35 AM EDT
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, March 21 2013 @ 05:32 PM EDT |
“History is much decried; it is a tissue of errors, we are told, no
doubt correctly; and rival historians
expose each other’s blunders with
gratification. Yet the worst historian has a clearer view of the period he
studies than
the best of us can hope to form of that in which we live. The
obscurest epoch is today; and that for a thousand reasons
of incohate[sic]
tendency, conflicting report, and sheer mass and multiplicity of experience; but
chiefly, perhaps, by reason
of an insidious shifting of landmarks.” – Robert
Louis Stevenson
That is so On Topic for almost everything that
crosses GL's pages, but was posted in additional material for Brian Krebs'
latest
problems.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, March 21 2013 @ 09:08 PM EDT |
An Australian parliamentary committee is looking into price gouging by software suppliers - where downloaded content
and software is surcharged when delivered to Australian addresses through the
internet ... see the justifications! [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: lnuss on Thursday, March 21 2013 @ 09:30 PM EDT |
According to what's in this Slashdot article, and the ArsTechnica article it
points to, GoPro doesn't understand the law about DMCA itself, among other
problems: http://news.slashdot.org/story/13/03/21/2151248/gopro-iss
ues-dmca-takedown-over-negative-review
I've been looking at those sport
cameras, but GoPro is now at the bottom of my list (or
lower).
--- Larry N. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, March 21 2013 @ 09:39 PM EDT |
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http://butyoureagirl.com/14015/forking-and-dongle-jokes-dont-belong-at-tech-conf
erences/
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http://www.dailycamera.com/business/ci_22841379/boulders-sendgrid-fires-adria-ri
chards-after-online-firestorm
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https://twitter.com/adriarichards
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Adria+Richards%22 [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Friday, March 22 2013 @ 12:50 AM EDT |
Link
DRM software is nothing to do with protecting
software companies from piracy, a Google engineer has claimed.
Writing in
his
blog,
Ian Hickson said that discussions about DRM focus on the fact that it does not
work. However, this discussion focuses on faulty logic which claims that the
purpose of DRM is to prevent people from copying content while allowing people
to view it.
Hickson claims that the purpose of DRM is not to prevent
copyright violations but to give content providers leverage against creators of
playback devices.
Now, mix in the faulty logic that
software is patentable,
when it is tied to a machine, and you can see how the
darkside is attacking GPL.
The darkside is trying their best to kill off
free software
by manipulating the hardware vendors, because that is
their only
way to attack.
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You are being MICROattacked, from various angles, in a SOFT manner. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, March 22 2013 @ 01:30 AM EDT |
Microsoft said it received more than 11,000 U.S. law enforcement requests for
information or content data of users of its products in 2012, according to a
report issued Thursday.
Microsoft Releases Law Enforcement
Disclosure Report On Cloud Data [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Friday, March 22 2013 @ 01:48 AM EDT |
Link
The malware consisted of four files, including one
called AgentBase.exe that triggered the wiping. Contained within that file was a
hex string (4DAD4678) indicating the date and time the attack was to begin —
March 20, 2013 at 2pm local time (2013-3-20 14:00:00). As soon as the internal
clock on the machine hit 14:00:01, the wiper was triggered to overwrite the hard
drive and master boot record on Microsoft Windows machines and then reboot the
system.
Once the machine rebooted, users saw a message on their screens that
read, “Boot device not found. Please install an operating system on your hard
disk.”
The malware also included a module for
deleting data from remote Linux machines. The malware
searched for remote connections and used stored credentials to access Linux
servers and wipe their master boot record.
Note the
vector: Windows machines.
And from the second link:
The
dropper for Trojan.Jokra parses this XML file for any connection with root
privileges using the SSH protocol. It then extracts the parameters used in the
connection.
In other words, never SSH into a linux machine as
root
using Putty. Never. The password you enter in Putty
is definitely not
safe being entered on a Windows machine.
Well, you should never do direct
ssh over the net as root
in the first place, you should first login as
non-root,
and then su to root if needed, but the point is, even
if you do that,
you are still entering your root password
into Putty as cleartext, and Windows
can see it.
A better option if you have to do such, is to boot a live
linux
OS from CD or USB key to do what you have to do.
Never trust Windows with
Linux root passwords. Never.
Just don't do it, even if it is
convenient.
Just say NO to Windows.
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You are being MICROattacked, from various angles, in a SOFT manner. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, March 22 2013 @ 12:23 PM EDT |
Popehat has just posted an update on Prenda Law. It makes very
interesting, if
somewhat confusing reading.
Alan Cooper Strikes
Back, Files
Counterclaim Against Prenda Law and Paul Duffy
This is better
than watching hockey. Well, maybe not. But better than watching
cricket.
Waynehttp://madhatter.ca
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, March 22 2013 @ 01:57 PM EDT |
http://flowingdata.com/2013/03/22/a-visualization-of-pi-for-high-school-math-stu
dents/ [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Friday, March 22 2013 @ 05:14 PM EDT |
Link
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, March 22 2013 @ 07:47 PM EDT |
There is a government enquiry going on regarding the price gouging of
Australian consumers and businesses (nicknamed the 'Australia tax') being
undertaken by the likes of Microsoft, Apple, and Adobe to name but a few.
The issue in not just packaged software, but even downloads.
Not surprisingly, the usual excuses have emerged such as 'don't blame us -
it's the content owners' (Apple), 'it costs so much more to set up a custom
web site in Australia' (Adobe), and 'if you don't like it, buy from someone
else' (Microsoft).
In response, consumer group Choice is advocating the use of anonymous
proxies and so on to bypass the geocoding to get a better deal. They did
describe it as a legal grey area.
My question is how grey is it? Putting the injustice of the 'Australia tax' to
one side for the moment, what is the risk of some US zealot doing an
'Aaron Shwartz' on some Aussie consumer taking Choice's advice?[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, March 23 2013 @ 01:16 PM EDT |
In yet another technology patent battle, Microsoft has come out on
top against Google and its subsidiary Motorola Mobility in a case related to the
Xbox gaming console.
In this particular case, Motorola filed a suit in
2010 with the U.S. International Trade Commission charging that the Redmond,
Wash.-based corporation violated its patents related to communication between
devices and video decoding.
But ITC Judge David P. Shaw issued a brief
but succinct ruling on Friday clearing Microsoft -- at least at this level in
the case. ---
It
is
held
that
a
violation
of section
337
of
the
Tariff
Act,
asamended, has not
occurred
in
the
importation
into
the
United
States,
the
sale
for
importation,
or
the
sale
within
the
United
States
after
importation,
of
certain gaming and
entertainment consoles,relatedsoftware,or componentsthereofthat are alleged
to
infringe
asserted
claims
1
and
12
of
U.S.
Patent
No.
6,069,896.
Rachel King, ZDNet[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, March 23 2013 @ 04:12 PM EDT |
this could turn into a France v. EU v. US jurisdictional battle
royale
In January, a French court ruled that Twitter must hand
over the details of people who had tweeted racist and anti-semitic remarks, and
set up a system that would alert the police to any further such posts as they
happen. Twitter has ignored that ruling, and now the Union of French Jewish
Students (UEJF) is suing it for €38.5m (£32.8m) for its failure.
The case
revolves around a hashtag -- #unbonjuif ("a good Jew") -- which became the
third-most popular on the site in October 2012. The UEJF took Twitter to court,
demanding that those who had tweeted anti-semitic remarks using the hashtag be
named by Twitter so the police could prosecute them for hate speech.
Twitter
refused, arguing it was based in the United States and thus protected by the 1st
Amendment's freedom of speech guarantees. A Parisian circuit court ruled against
the social network, giving it two weeks to comply or face a fine of up to €1,000
(£849) for every day it doesn't.
Ian Steadman, Wired UK[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, March 23 2013 @ 11:33 PM EDT |
A wonderful site called "Grandma Got STEM" profiles grandmothers who
have accomplished marvellous feats of technology, and aims to drive a stake
through the heart of stupid, thoughtless phrases like "How would you explain
that to your grandmother?" or "So simple my grandma could do
it."
Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, March 23 2013 @ 11:37 PM EDT |
CISPA is a bill before Congress that will radically increase the
ease with which the government and police can spy on people without any
particular suspicion. It is being rammed through by people like Rep. Mike Rogers
(R-MI), who received a small fortune in funding from the companies that stand to
get rich building the surveillance tech CISPA will make possible.
What's
more, Rogers admits it, and even tweets about it!
Cory
Doctorow, Boing Boing[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, March 24 2013 @ 03:28 AM EDT |
Seems Google's Glass is not welcome
everywhere
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