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Another Reason Google Reader Died: Increased Concern About Privacy and Compliance
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, March 25 2013 @ 07:19 AM EDT
Another Reason Google Reader Died: Increased Concern About Privacy and Compliance

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'Monsanto Protection Act' Sneaks through Senate
Authored by: hardmath on Monday, March 25 2013 @ 11:01 AM EDT

Link

This is really disturbing and worth drilling down to find out who is responsible for attaching such a rider to the Continuing Resolution bill.

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Recursion is the opprobrium of the mathists.

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"Rather Than Fix The CFAA, House Judiciary Committee Planning To Make It Worse... Way Worse"
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, March 25 2013 @ 03:21 PM EDT
Looks like all of us who try to remove M$ from our computers
will become criminals. If you buy a computer that has M$
pre-installed and it doesn't call home periodically, the
Feds will come looking. And no, I WILL not dual boot.
It's Linux or nothing.

You must use M$.
You must watch TV.
You must do this.
You must not do that.

Sounds like "1984"

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WebRTC Codec patent? We've been here before.
Authored by: symbolset on Tuesday, March 26 2013 @ 12:28 AM EDT
Not really a newspick yet, and not off topic either. Thom Holwerda in an insightful guest article over at OSNews notes: "We've been here before." This sort of patent bluster has been seen before with Opus, the now-mandatory audio codec for WebRTC. The IETF is not unfamiliar with this sort of shenanigans, and they don't let them hold things up.

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Ad industry threatens Firefox users
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, March 26 2013 @ 01:01 AM EDT
Ad industry threatens Firefox users
But both Mozilla and Brookman pointed out that Mozilla's Firefox plans are no different than what Apple's Safari browser already does. By default, Safari blocks third-party cookies, and has since its 2003 debut. The iOS version of Safari has done the same since its 2007 inception.
Oh, Really? I have used Safari since its 2003 debut, and still use it. Sure there's a button in the settings to "Block Cookies from third party sites and advertisers", but I've had suspicions for some years what that actually does. It blocks some, but not all third party cookies. I have never seen a total of zero third party cookies as claimed in the other newspick on this subject. I suspect it is caused by both Apple's incompetence, and some really clever guys in the ad industry. I have resorted to Safari Cookies to purge non-white-listed cookies at the end of each session.

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Chromebook and the low cost of being accessible
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, March 26 2013 @ 04:51 AM EDT
Chromebook and the low cost of being accessible

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ogooglebart (Eng. ungoogleable)
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, March 26 2013 @ 12:41 PM EDT
http://www.svd.se/nyheter/inrikes/englund-google-far-garna-rulla-fram-kanonerna_
8033524.svd

Think Streisand effect!

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Lawsuit claiming MMS services are like Napster finally fails
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, March 26 2013 @ 01:02 PM EDT

Article link.

All I can say is: Wow!

It's a service that is specifically targetting marketing in which a "greeting card" was sent. In other words:

    Marketing via referrals
The whole idea of that is to get as many people to refer your product/service to as many of their friends as possible. This would indicate - if marketing referrals was the true business plan - that a person forwarding the "greeting card" to more people is desirable and wanted.

Yet the company initiated a lawsuit because people didn't stop at referring just one person????

That seems to me to indicate the company wanted a claim of copyright infringement (no matter how poor) - another potential means of acquiring a source of income outside their normal income that they don't actuall deserve. This appears to be supported in the article:

Luvdarts should actually get a cut of the massive revenues cell phone companies generate
Only this time instead of Google being the target, it was the cell phone companies.

RAS

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Beijing Takes Another Bite at Apple
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, March 26 2013 @ 05:25 PM EDT
A whole page of Apple bashing, and one para for Google. I guess the "front page article" the WSJ referred to was in the print edition of People's Daily, because the online versions are not showing what they quote, English or Chinese. There is some modest criticism in People's Daily Online, Tuesday. The Android critical whitepaper quoted by WSJ is available from the Telecommunications Research Institute of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology PDF, Chinese, and there's discussion at techcrunch.
[WSJ Newspick, last para] Beijing late last year notified the World Trade Organization that China plans to require additional smartphone testing and require that companies notify the government ahead of software upgrades. The country also has drafted standards that, if passed, could force companies to help China's government identify users and track their application use.
I'm trying to refrain from commenting on which countries currently have the most user friendly tracking ability.

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Windows 'Blue' shows desktop's days are numbered
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, March 26 2013 @ 05:34 PM EDT
Link

Call it Metro. Call it Modern UI. Call it whatever you like.
Who the f*** would want a 22.5" monitor (or a bigger one) without a proper wallpaper and completely taken by those flat rectangles?
Maybe Win8 is twice as fast as Win7, maybe not. Boot time is not THAT important to me.

I wouldn't use something that I don't like. I find these primary colored tiles very ugly and distasteful.
If you like them then use them, I'm fine with that. Just don't try to force them on me, that's not gonna work.

I can't help thinking of this photo every time I see a windows 8 ad:

windows8 teletubbies (The interface formerly known as Metro)

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CNet: Google-Nokia face off in video codec dispute
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, March 29 2013 @ 02:21 PM EDT
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57577006-93/google-nokia-
face-off-in-video-codec-dispute/

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