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battle for the Python name
Authored by: SilverWave on Tuesday, March 19 2013 @ 05:12 PM EDT
Python Software Foundation wins a battle for the Python
name...

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I askedTim Poultney, CEO of POBox Hosting, if there was any
decisive factor in the change of heart. "There were many
different factors that were taken into consideration,
including the community to whom we would like to extend our
thanks for the many supportive emails we are now receiving,"
he said
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Yeah I would say the Vocal Emails he received explaining how
no one would do business with him were a factor.

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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
3 publish modified versions

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News Pick discussions here
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, March 19 2013 @ 06:35 PM EDT
Regarding "New European Commission Report Finds That ‘Piracy’ Doesn’t Hurt, And In Fact Helps, Music Sales" it's amazing what free advertising can do for sales. That's the message Guerrilla marketers have preached for years. You sample with a low-quality mp3 on a laptop's speakers, if you like the3 song you then pop for much higher quality sound on purchased CD (or mpeg video and DVD).

Now, if we just didn't have to deal with DRM! joef. May be back on my own system soon.

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f-secure gives weev little sympathy
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, March 19 2013 @ 08:52 PM EDT
http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00002527.html

The link to their previous story shows 77% of their readers
thought he deserved NO jail time.

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Lulz and Leg Irons: In the Courtroom with Weev
Authored by: 351-4V on Tuesday, March 19 2013 @ 09:58 PM EDT
Weeve may be a shining example of some of society's worst and richly deserve the 41 months of prison time for other things he has done in his lifetime. Accordingly, some may say "Karma, and all that".

But that is not how our justice system is supposed to work.

In this case, AT&T deliberately chose to publish the email addresses of customers that had registered iPhones. AT&T deliberately chose to leave those email address totally unsecured. One can only assume that they intended for the information to be accessed by the public. That is not a totally unimaginable circumstance.

Is your email address a "private" matter? I don't think so. You give it out freely to others. Sometimes it gets used by people who want to sell you little blue pills and such. How is your email address so different from your street address? Or is your street address supposed to be a private secret too?

Go to Google Earth, put in your street address, drop into Street View. Lo, and behold. Not only is there a picture of your home but your street address as well. Publicly available to anyone who might chose to use it, maybe even for nefarious reasons.

Anyone and I mean anyone, who for one moment thinks justice was served in this case really needs to take some time to reflect upon society and our laws.

Our laws and justice system are not designed to work for only the good people stout of heart. They are designed to work for us all. We can't just suspend justice because the defendant is Weeve or Jamie Thomas-Rassert and we think they maybe did something somewhere sometime that deserves the sentence anyway. That's just not how it is supposed to work.

Oh and P.S. Anyone who refers to any Gawker owned site as a "Media Outlet" gets a gentle slap up the back of the head and will be called DiNnozzo for the remainder of the day.

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Our Commitment to Compliance
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, March 20 2013 @ 03:37 AM EDT
blogs.technet.com

It's all very well for the US to have a law on its books dictating how US firms should behave in foreign markets. They should in the first instance behave in accordance with local laws and customs. In the absence of local law or custom some guidance from the US may be appropriate. What is a firm to do in a nation that has a three thousand year tradition of doing business with red envelopes? When that firm has shown by past behaviour it is not averse to working in such an environment? I have little confidence the proud words of the incoming Chinese regime will do much to change behaviour. Recent reports of provincial level cadres read like the epics of the Song dynasty. Microsoft can't change that. It looks like a lose - lose situation.

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Microsoft, Nokia, others lobby ICANN over Google gTLDs
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, March 20 2013 @ 07:53 AM EDT
Another anti-Google lobbying body

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Apple Is Sued on Patent-Infringement Claim
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, March 20 2013 @ 05:09 PM EDT
Wall Street Journal

DRM this time, and the plaintiff is 99% owned by Sony-Phillips. They seem to be quietly picking off their targets, HTC 2012, Samsung 2009, Microsoft 2004.

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New European Commission Report Finds That ‘Piracy’ Doesn’t Hurt, And In Fact Helps, Music Sales
Authored by: amster69 on Wednesday, March 20 2013 @ 06:50 PM EDT
Oh dear, that is going to cause a lot of burst blood vessels! :-)

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Bob

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